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<font size="+1"><i>October 25, 2017</i></font><br>
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</a><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/criminalize-pipeline-resistance-sessions-40828c2cb1e6/">Congressmen
push Jeff Sessions to call environmentalists terrorists</a><br>
</b>Four Democrats join 80 Republicans on letter asking the Attorney
General to treat pipeline sabotage as domestic terrorism.<br>
Environmental activists who sabotage oil and gas pipelines to
protect land, water, and the climate should be treated like
out-and-out terrorists, according to 84 members of Congress who sent
a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday.<br>
The letter asks Sessions if he currently has enough power to treat
pipeline sabotage as not only criminal but terrorist activity,
encourages him to treat interference with pipeline systems as an
assault on the United States' national security, and seeks to define
pipeline "terrorism" as any act that knowingly damages oil and gas
infrastructure.<br>
Such a broad definition could, if adopted, allow prosecutors to
treat people who chain themselves to pipelines or construction
equipment involved in pipeline projects as terrorists.<b><br>
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href="https://thinkprogress.org/criminalize-pipeline-resistance-sessions-40828c2cb1e6/">https://thinkprogress.org/criminalize-pipeline-resistance-sessions-40828c2cb1e6/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/new-york-city-could-face-damaing-floods-every-five-years-in-warmer-climate">New
York City could face damaging floods 'every five years' in a
warmer climate</a></b><br>
New York City could be struck by severe flooding up to every five
years by 2030-45 if no efforts are made to curb human-driven climate
change, new research finds.<br>
Floods that reach more 2.25m in height - enough to inundate the
first story of a building - could dramatically increase in frequency
as a result of future sea level rise and bigger storm surges, the
study suggests. Such severe floods would be expected only around
once in every 25 years during 1970-2005.<br>
The findings make it clear that "[flood] adaptation measures are
critical to protect lives and infrastructure in a changing climate",
the lead author tells Carbon Brief.<br>
Flooding threat<br>
Like many coastal cities in the US, New York is vulnerable to
flooding driven by storm surges from tropical cyclones, as well as
sea level rise. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy overwhelmed the city with
floodwater, killing 43 people and causing close to $50bn in damages.<br>
Storm surges occur when a storm weather system moves from the sea to
the land. As the weather system moves over the sea surface, its low
pressure centre pulls up the surface of the water. Then, as the
storm blows towards land, wind pushes the sea towards the coast,
hitting the shore with large waves.<br>
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href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/new-york-city-could-face-damaing-floods-every-five-years-in-warmer-climate">https://www.carbonbrief.org/new-york-city-could-face-damaing-floods-every-five-years-in-warmer-climate</a></font><br>
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Video - plain talking explaination <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/pYihQ01xi9w">Katharine
Hayhoe National Biodiversity Teach-In</a></b><br>
<i>(This is a wonderful, gentle video message. She thoughtfully
introduces the topic in ways suitable for anyone - even young
students. See it, save and share it. With low bar requirements,
viewers should be aware of how to see information on a simple
graph.) </i><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/pYihQ01xi9w">https://youtu.be/pYihQ01xi9w</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/24/us-companies-act-on-climate-despite-trump-survey.html">US
companies act on climate despite Trump: Survey</a></b><br>
CNBC<br>
Companies are still among the most ambitious in setting targets to
combat global warming despite President Donald Trump's plans to quit
the Paris climate agreement.<br>
U.S.-based firms made up a fifth of those in a 2017 "A list" of 159
companies judged to have ambitious policies on limiting climate
change and protecting water resources and forests.<br>
Overall, CDP said 89 percent of companies in a wider survey of more
than 1,000 companies had some form of carbon emissions targets, up
from 85 percent in 2016.<br>
And 14 percent were committed to aligning their goals with climate
science, which requires deep cuts in emissions to achieve Paris
agreement goals, up from 9 percent last year.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/24/us-companies-act-on-climate-despite-trump-survey.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/24/us-companies-act-on-climate-despite-trump-survey.html</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/24/disaster-capitalism-tiny-firm-lands-puerto-rico-power-contract/">Disaster
Capitalism: Tiny Firm Lands Puerto Rico Power Contract</a></b><br>
(Washington Post) For the sprawling effort to restore Puerto
Rico's crippled electrical grid, the territory's state-owned utility
has turned to a two-year-old company from Montana that had just two
full-time employees on the day Hurricane Maria made landfall...<br>
The company, Whitefish Energy, said last week that it had signed a
$300 million contract with the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority
to repair and reconstruct large portions of the island's electrical
infrastructure. The contract is the biggest yet issued in the
troubled relief effort.<br>
Whitefish Energy is based in Whitefish, Mont., the home town of
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Its chief executive, Andy Techmanski,
and Zinke acknowledge knowing one another - but only, Zinke's office
said in an email, because Whitefish is a small town where "everybody
knows everybody." One of Zinke's sons "joined a friend who worked a
summer job" at one of Techmanski's construction sites, the email
said. Whitefish said he worked as a "flagger."<br>
Zinke's office said he had no role in Whitefish securing the
contract for work in Puerto Rico. Techmanski also said Zinke was not
involved.<br>
The scale of the disaster in Puerto Rico is far larger than anything
Whitefish has handled. The company has won two contracts from the
Energy Department, including $172,000 to replace a metal pole
structure and splice in three miles of new conductor and overhead
ground wire in Arizona.<br>
Shortly before Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, Whitefish landed its
largest federal contract, a $1.3 million deal to replace and upgrade
parts of a 4.8-mile transmission line in Arizona. The company -
which was listed in procurement documents as having annual revenue
of $1 million - was given 11 months to complete the work, records
show.<br>
Under the contract, the hourly rate was set at $330 for a site
supervisor, and at $227.88 for a "journeyman lineman." The cost for
subcontractors, which make up the bulk of Whitefish's workforce, is
$462 per hour for a supervisor and $319.04 for a lineman. Whitefish
also charges nightly accommodation fees of $332 per worker and
almost $80 per day for food.<br>
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href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/small-montana-firm-lands-puerto-ricos-biggest-contract-to-get-the-power-back-on/2017/10/23/31cccc3e-b4d6-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/small-montana-firm-lands-puerto-ricos-biggest-contract-to-get-the-power-back-on/2017/10/23/31cccc3e-b4d6-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html</a></font><br>
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href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/24/disaster-capitalism-tiny-firm-lands-puerto-rico-power-contract/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/24/disaster-capitalism-tiny-firm-lands-puerto-rico-power-contract/</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/study-ending-extreme-poverty-limiting-warming-2c-still-possible">Study:
Ending extreme poverty and limiting warming to 2C still possible</a></b><br>
Bringing "extreme" poverty to an end will not jeopardise the chances
of limiting global warming to 2C above pre-industrial levels, a new
study says.<br>
Pulling the 770 million people around the world out of extreme
poverty - which is defined as living on less than $1.90 a day -
would add a mere 0.05C to global temperatures by 2100, the research
shows.<br>
However, eradicating poverty entirely by moving the world's poorest
into a "global middle class" income group, which earns a modest
$2.97-8.44 a day, could add 0.6C to global temperatures by 2100.<br>
In order to end all forms of poverty without driving up global
temperatures, world leaders will need to ramp up climate mitigation
efforts by 27%, the lead author tells Carbon Brief.<br>
'Climate-development conflict'<br>
Ending extreme poverty for "all people everywhere" is the first of
the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, an
internationally-agreed set of targets aimed to improve the global
standard of living by 2030.<br>
However, putting an end to extreme poverty could bring additional
challenges to meeting the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement,
which aims to limit global temperature rise to "well below" 2C.<br>
In order to end global poverty without causing significant
additional warming, global leaders will need to ramp up climate
mitigation efforts by 27%, the research finds.<br>
To do this, countries may need to adopt negative emissions
technologies on a large scale, Hubacek explains. However, many of
the negative emission techniques that were once hailed as "saviour
technologies" have failed to live up to expectation. He adds:<br>
"So far technology has not been able to keep up with additional
emissions and our scenarios would require even more technological
progress on top of what we would have otherwise."<br>
Instead, people in wealthier countries should consider adopting
"lifestyle and behavioural changes" to reduce the size of their
carbon footprints, he adds, in order to offset the extra carbon cost
of ending poverty.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/study-ending-extreme-poverty-limiting-warming-2c-still-possible">https://www.carbonbrief.org/study-ending-extreme-poverty-limiting-warming-2c-still-possible</a></font><br>
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</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/climate/olive-oil.html">How
Climate Change Is Playing Havoc With Olive Oil (and Farmers)</a></b><br>
Harvests have been bad three of the last five years, subject to what
Vito Martielli, an analyst with Rabobank, based in Utrecht, the
Netherlands, called weather-related "shocks." And with growing
demand, wholesale prices have gone up.<br>
No one will go hungry if there's not enough olive oil on the market.
But the impact of climate change on such a hardy and high-end
product is a measure of how global warming is beginning to challenge
how we grow food.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/climate/olive-oil.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/climate/olive-oil.html</a></font><br>
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</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19102017/christianity-evangelical-climate-change-flooding-west-virginia">Seeing
God's hand in the deadly floods, yet wondering about climate
change.</a></b><br>
<font size="-1">BY MEERA SUBRAMANIAN, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS</font><br>
An evangelical mountain town lost eight people to flooding from an
extreme rain storm. Many residents see the Biblical prophecy of the
apocalypse, and welcome it.<br>
Jake Dowdy is a police officer in White Sulphur Springs, West
Virginia, where he lived a block from Howard Creek, a stream so
inconsequential you could usually hop-skip across parts of it
without wetting your toes.<br>
It was the morning of June 23, 2016, and a heavy rain was falling as
Jake went to the gym for a workout. He wasn't thinking much about
the rain, other than that it'd be good for the garden. When he got
home around noon, he had lunch and kicked up his feet in the living
room, chilling out for a while before his 4 pm shift. He drifted off
to sleep on the couch and awoke when his wife texted, confusing him
for a moment; she was concerned about reports of flooding.<br>
His disorientation turned to panic when he set his feet on the
carpet and felt it squish soggily beneath his soles. He had just
enough time to grab the cat and wade through thigh-high rushing
water to his truck...<br>
Meanwhile Jake's neighbor, Kathy Glover, was at her office job on
Main Street. She was aware of the heavy rain but wasn't concerned
about the safety of her house, the home she'd lived in since she was
2 years old. It was two long blocks from Howard Creek. But in the
early afternoon, a neighbor called to tell her that water was
lapping at her front steps and she ought to get home. It wasn't
coming up from the creek, but pouring down from Greenbrier Mountain.<br>
While they differ in how safe they felt returning to their flooded
property, Kathy and Jake both speak of the White Sulphur Springs
flood, along with other extreme weather events around the world, in
terms of the Biblical prophecy of the apocalypse. Their religious
reasoning stands in stark contrast to what climate scientists offer
as explanation for record-breaking rain storms, but could anything
reconcile the divergent views?<br>
Between the renovated homes on the opposite side of Howard Creek are
freshly seeded parks bursting with colorful flowers that memorialize
the dead: The three members of the Nicely family who took refuge in
their attic, only to have the house tear from the foundation and
float away. Mykala Phillips, the 14-year-old girl whose father tried
to save her with an extension cord that wasn't strong enough to
serve as a lifeline; her body was found months later, miles down the
creek and in the next town. Belinda Scott, who was catapulted from
her home into a tree after a gas explosion, making it to the
hospital but with injuries too severe to survive.<br>
Eight people died in the town of 2,400, and there were 23 total
fatalities across the state, with hundreds of houses damaged.<br>
One narrative comes from scientists and large international
organizations with unwieldy names like the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC), who offer a lot of numbers and complicated
science about a warming planet, right down to the dueling
temperature markers of Fahrenheit and Celsius. There are also some
uncontroversial bits of data based on the physical fact that warmer
air holds more water...<br>
The other narrative turns to a single book filled with parables of
good versus evil and drama far more compelling than what the IPCC
reports offer. The Bible explains tragedy and human suffering and
redemption as being part of God's plan, giving meaning to natural
disasters.<br>
"It was astronomical compared to what we were used to, and totally
out of the norm," Kathy Glover said of the flood, which she sees as
a "sign of the times" as described in the Bible. <br>
"I'm a firm believer that God tells us in the Bible that he will
warn us through signs in the sky," Kathy told me when I visited her
earlier this fall. "It's fitting in with the Book of Revelation.
With the earthquakes and the devastation happening around the world,
it's a wake-up call."<br>
Sixty years old, Kathy has blond hair styled short and an easy smile
that brings out her dimples. In addition to her job as office
manager at Workers United Local 863, she sits on the city council as
the recorder.<br>
The flood is "a sign of the times," she said, and feels that her
primary duty since the storm is to "share God's word with more
people." In terms of actions to be taken in a post-flood town,
"There's nothing really I can encourage or discourage, other than to
encourage people to be ready for the Return."<br>
There is another narrative to be found in the story of scripture.
But it doesn't turn to the burning pages of Revelation at the end of
the Good Book and what has been called "escapism theology," with a
hyper focus on the world to come.<br>
Instead, it highlights the origin story of Genesis at the book's
beginning, when God created a world, this world, teeming with living
creatures and birds flying in an expansive sky. There was a garden
with rivers flowing from it, and the humans God had crafted were
placed there to work it and take care of it.<br>
Science is deepening our knowledge of the garden that is our planet,
with scientists seeking understanding as urgently as pastors pouring
over parables in the Bible, both hoping that come Sunday morning,
listeners are ready to receive the message.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19102017/christianity-evangelical-climate-change-flooding-west-virginia">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19102017/christianity-evangelical-climate-change-flooding-west-virginia</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://priceofoil.org/2017/10/24/expanding-subsidies-for-co2-enhanced-oil-recovery-analysis/">Expanding
Subsidies for CO2-Enhanced Oil Recovery: A Net Loss for
Communities, Taxpayers, and the Climate</a></b><br>
Janet Redman, October 24, 2017<br>
Expanding Subsidies for CO2-Enhanced Oil Recovery: A Net Loss for
Communities, Taxpayers, and the Climate Click to download the
analysis<br>
October 2017<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://priceofoil.org/content/uploads/2017/10/45q-analysis-oct-2017-final.pdf">Download
the analysis.</a><br>
Legislation recently introduced in the U.S. House and Senate
proposes to extend and expand the Section 45Q tax credit for carbon
capture and sequestration (CCS) and carbon dioxide (CO2)-enhanced
oil recovery (EOR).<br>
Generally speaking, this tax credit benefits coal- and gas-fired
power plants (and industrial facilities) that capture waste CO2
before it is emitted. The value of the tax credit that facilities
receive depends on whether they decide to directly sequester the CO2
underground (CCS) or sell it to oil companies that will pump the gas
into wells to recover hard-to-get oil (EOR). If the proposed bills
become law, the expansion of the existing 45Q tax credit could be
the largest subsidy given to the fossil fuel industry by the United
States government.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://priceofoil.org/2017/10/24/expanding-subsidies-for-co2-enhanced-oil-recovery-analysis/">http://priceofoil.org/2017/10/24/expanding-subsidies-for-co2-enhanced-oil-recovery-analysis/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/phoenix_s_heat_is_rising_and_so_is_the_danger?">PHOENIX'S
HEAT IS RISING - AND SO IS THE DANGER...</a></b><br>
By the first day of fall, Arizona's notorious heat had contributed
to more than 60 deaths in Maricopa County and was suspected in 119
more since the start of 2017.<br>
"There's going to be more extreme heat waves - and there already are
extreme heat waves," said Daniel Swain, a University of California,
Los Angeles, climate scientist.<br>
Unlike the intensity of any given hurricane or wildfire, he said,
there's no debating the nuances of climate change's effect on the
thermometer. Hotter is hotter.<br>
Slight changes in yearly average temperatures, like the 2 degrees
that the broader Southwest already has experienced, can lead to<br>
Arizona climate researchers expect Phoenix's all-time high of 122
degrees to look more like the typical yearly high later this
century, and they say the city could see a new record over 130
degrees to rival Death Valley's world mark.<br>
Already, the city's hot season - when temperatures exceed 100
degrees - starts an average of almost three weeks earlier than it
did 100 years ago and lasts two to three weeks longer in the fall.<br>
And heat kills the people the rest of the world tends to notice
least.<br>
Many of its victims live in poorer neighborhoods that lack shade and
cooling grasses. Some, lacking the money for an air-conditioner,
have only old-style evaporative coolers, or no home cooling at all.
Others have air-conditioners but not the cash to pay hundreds of
dollars a month to run them in summer.<br>
As temperatures rise, Phoenix's widening concrete expanses soak up
and hold heat into the night, heaping more stress on those same
vulnerable residents whose health and housing protect them the
least.<br>
The rest of the desert city, made livable in the summer by chilled
indoor air and lush outdoor landscaping, will watch the heat fade
into the cool of fall, largely without noticing that those who have
the least suffer the most.<br>
Emma Cordova lives on the other side of the divide, with no
air-conditioner.<br>
The 70-year-old neighborhood activist from Sherman Park has
complained for decades that Phoenix should plant and maintain more
than the few trees that grow in a park strip under the power-line
corridor that faces her home.<br>
Interstate 17 cooks the air at the west end of her block, and rock
cover at her end of the park strip absorbs heat, as do a row of
warehouses with asphalt lots a block to the north.<br>
Studies have shown that in neighborhoods like hers in south Phoenix,
with little tree cover, temperatures average as much as 8 degrees
hotter in summer than in lusher districts where residents with
bigger water bills enjoy 25 percent tree coverage<br>
Days spent at 110 or higher double the incidence of death in metro
Phoenix. Maricopa County averaged about 1.3 deaths per day at such
temperatures from 2010 to 2016, according to data from the county's
Department of Public Health. There were 0.6 deaths per day when the
high ranged from 100 to 109.<br>
As temperatures in Phoenix climb, so do the number of deadly days.
The city's all-time average is 12 days a year at 110 degrees or
hotter, but the National Weather Service says recent warming pushed
the 1981-2010 average to 18 days.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/phoenix_s_heat_is_rising_and_so_is_the_danger">http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/phoenix_s_heat_is_rising_and_so_is_the_danger</a><br>
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</font><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/unite-here-union-workers-at-sky-harbor-airport-protest-lack-of-a-c-in-delivery-trucks-and-low-wages-9800331">Union
Workers at Sky Harbor Protest Lack of A/C in Trucks and Low
Wages</a></b><br>
MOLLY LONGMAN<br>
We've all had that overly dramatic moment where we tell our moms or
spouses about all the "blood, sweat, and tears" we've put in at the
office.<br>
But Maria Barraza can confirm she's put in a lot of sweat.<br>
She's been working for the in-flight catering company LSG Sky Chefs
for 14 years, where she helps delivery truck drivers get food to
planes.<br>
But the mother of four says the company has cut air-conditioning to
their delivery trucks, making working all day in the heat with no
break a sweaty and tiring process, particularly in Phoenix's average
109 days over 100 degrees each summer.<br>
"It gets really hot," Barraza told Phoenix New Times with the help
of a translator. "You start falling asleep from the heat and you get
headaches."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/unite-here-union-workers-at-sky-harbor-airport-protest-lack-of-a-c-in-delivery-trucks-and-low-wages-9800331">http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/unite-here-union-workers-at-sky-harbor-airport-protest-lack-of-a-c-in-delivery-trucks-and-low-wages-9800331</a><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-climate-apartheid-how-global-warming-affects-the-rich-and-poor-w509956">The
Climate Apartheid: How Global Warming Affects the Rich and Poor</a></b><br>
A trip to Lagos, Nigeria to investigate the social consequences of
climate change<br>
Below excerpts from <u>The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking
Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World, to be published
by Little, Brown on Oct 24, 2017.</u><br>
Avlessi sat on the other side of the couch and his two-year-old son
crawled up into his lap, naked. Avlessi's 15-year-old daughter
joined us, wearing a beautiful green dress. Through the spaces
between the bamboo walls, I could see ripples of black water.<br>
e. The room we were in was large, maybe 12 feet by 12 feet, with a
seven-foot ceiling. There were other rooms above, and a workshop off
to the side. He told me that 19 people lived in this house,
including his wife and kids and apprentices. "Sometimes," he said,
"50 people live here."<br>
That was hard to imagine: The whole place, including his workshop
and the porch, was not much bigger than a fort I built in my
backyard as a kid.<br>
"We are very comfortable here," he said.<br>
"Did you build the house yourself?" I asked.<br>
He smiled and said, "Yes, with some help from my family."<br>
"How long does it take to build a house like this?"<br>
"If the materials are available, it takes about a week."<br>
Using hand motions, he pantomimed using a hammer to drive the poles
into the sandy bottom of the lagoon. The poles are driven about nine
feet into the sand, and he said they last about 15 years before they
rot and need to be replaced.<br>
"How high is your house above water?"<br>
"About four feet," he said.<br>
"Do you have any trouble with flooding?"<br>
He shook his head. "No trouble with water," he said.<br>
"Storms?"<br>
He shook his head. "No problem."<br>
Patrick pointed out that if a house was getting water in it, it was
easy to just raise it higher. "It is very simple to do," he
explained. "We can do it in a few days. We do it all the time."<br>
"We are all worried about our future here," Avlessi told me. "But
there is nothing we can do. In Lagos, after God, there is
government." He bounced his young son on his knee and looked off
into the distance. "If it were possible to take a boat to God, and
report Lagos state government to God, I would have done that."<br>
Avlessi looked grave when I asked him how he dealt with the threat
of eviction. I looked at the furniture, images of Jesus on the wall,
the white lace tablecloth one of his daughters had laid out on a
table before she served me a Coke. Makoko might be a black-water
slum, but it is also a blueprint for how to live in the age of
rapidly rising seas. In a rational world, the city of Lagos or the
government of Nigeria or some wealthy oil baron would see this,
would invest a few hundred thousand dollars in improving sanitation
for the people in Makoko and hold them up as model citizens of the
future. Instead, their houses will be chain-sawed or burned and they
will be forced to live on the streets or jam themselves into tiny
rooms in shabby concrete-block buildings, which, like virtually all
buildings in Lagos, have been built at sea level and are therefore
doomed in the coming years, creating a new generation of refugees
who may or may not turn to crime or terrorism, but who will surely
contribute to the political instability of our world and strengthen
the hand of authoritarian thugs like Nigerian President Mohammadu
Buhari or Donald Trump, who use fear of refugees and displaced
people to erect higher and higher walls.<br>
Three weeks after I left Nigeria, police entered a nearby slum and
burned it to the ground, leaving 30,000 people - mostly families
with young children - homeless. A few months later, thousands more
were displaced when police stormed another community, Otodo Gbame,
firing bullets and tear gas and forcing residents to flee on boats.
A 20-year-old man named Daniel Aya was shot in the neck while he
tried to rescue family belongings, and later died. The homes were
all burned to the ground.<br>
By the time you read this, Makoko will likely be gone too.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-climate-apartheid-how-global-warming-affects-the-rich-and-poor-w509956">http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-climate-apartheid-how-global-warming-affects-the-rich-and-poor-w509956</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/24/bbc-apologises-over-interview-climate-sceptic-lord-nigel-lawson">BBC
apologises over interview with climate sceptic Lord Lawson</a></b><br>
The BBC has apologised for an interview with the climate sceptic
Lord Lawson after admitting it had breached its own editorial
guidelines for allowing him to claim that global temperatures have
not risen in the past decade.<br>
BBC Radio 4's flagship news programme Today ran the item in August
in which Lawson, interviewed by presenter Justin Webb, made the
claim. The last three years have in fact seen successive global heat
records broken.<br>
The Today programme rejected initial complaints from listeners,
arguing that Lawson's stance was "reflected by the current US
administration" and that offering space to "dissenting voices" was
an important aspect of impartiality.<br>
However, some listeners escalated their complaint and, in a letter
seen by the Guardian, the BBC's executive complaints unit now
accepts the interview breached its guidelines on accuracy and
impartiality.<br>
"I really thought the climate change debate had finished and that
these voices of the very rich and well connected had lost relevance
in the whole argument," said Dr Tim Thornton, a recently retired GP
from Yorkshire who made one of the complaints. "It's fine that they
don't like the idea of climate change but they are on a par with
flat-earthers."<br>
Thornton highlighted the claim that global temperatures had not
risen: "Even a sixth-former would be able to tell you that wasn't
so. So the BBC interviewer, if they are talking about climate
change, should have done a little bit of homework."<br>
In his letter to Thornton, Colin Tregear, BBC complaints director,
said: "I hope you'll accept my apologies, on behalf of the BBC, for
the breach of editorial standards you identified."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/24/bbc-apologises-over-interview-climate-sceptic-lord-nigel-lawson">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/24/bbc-apologises-over-interview-climate-sceptic-lord-nigel-lawson</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climateandcapitalism.com/2017/10/24/sustainable-agriculture-versus-corporate-greed/">Sustainable
agriculture versus corporate greed</a></b><br>
by Ian Angus<br>
Fred Magdoff reviews a new book in which Australian activists
explain what's wrong with corporate profit-centred agriculture and
propose a manifesto for a people-centred alternative.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climateandcapitalism.com/2017/10/24/sustainable-agriculture-versus-corporate-greed/">http://climateandcapitalism.com/2017/10/24/sustainable-agriculture-versus-corporate-greed/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<b><a href="https://steppinguppodcast.org/clowning-around/">(Stepping
Up Podcast) Ep. 3 - Clowning Around</a></b><br>
Climate change is serious business. But some climate clowns are
donning red noses to get your attention. One seasoned street
performer has sung and danced his way from Los Angeles to London,
bringing a climate message through imaginative skits and wacky
antics. His gang of merry pranksters have slipped into corporate
board rooms and press conferences, posing as VPs and speaking truth
disguised as power. On the streets he may play the priest or the
pauper; with little regard to propriety. While the climate message
is clear, the delivery often comes with a pratfall. And passersby
who shirk from taking that political flier find themselves stopping
to listen, laugh and join the conversation.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://steppinguppodcast.org/clowning-around/">https://steppinguppodcast.org/clowning-around/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.msnbc.com/the-cycle/watch/hurricane-sandy-one-year-later-56848963789#">This
Day in Climate History October 25, 2013</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
October 25, 2013: On MSNBC's "The Cycle," writer David Gessner<br>
discusses the grotesque legacy of Superstorm Sandy.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.msnbc.com/the-cycle/watch/hurricane-sandy-one-year-later-56848963789#">http://www.msnbc.com/the-cycle/watch/hurricane-sandy-one-year-later-56848963789#</a><br>
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