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<font size="+1"><i>October 29 , 2017<br>
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</i></font><b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/10/the_bond_industry_isn_t_worried_about_climate_change.html">Why
Isn't the Bond Market More Worried About Climate Change?</a><br>
</b>Coastal towns destroyed by Sandy still have perfect credit
scores. Why?<br>
Business leaders are excited about the timing of the vote in part
because Miami currently has a double-A bond rating, meaning that the
city can borrow money at low rates. Amidst the dire predictions and
the full moon floods, that rating is a bulwark. It signifies that
the financial industry doesn't think sea level rise and storm risk
will prevent Miami from paying off its debts. In December, a report
issued by President Obama's budget office outlined a potential
virtuous cycle: Borrow money to build seawalls and the like while
your credit is good, and your credit will still be good when you
need to borrow in the future.<br>
The alternative: Flood-prone jurisdictions go into the financial
tailspin we recognize from cities like Detroit, unable to borrow
enough to protect the assets whose declining value makes it harder
to borrow.<br>
But there's another element that helps cement the bargain:
investors' confidence that coastal towns will pay back the money
they borrow. Homebuyers are irrational. Politicians are
self-interested. But lenders - and the ratings agencies that help
direct their investments - ought to have a more clinical view.
Evaluating long-term risk is exactly their business model. If they
thought environmental conditions threatened investments, they would
sound the alarm - or just vote with their wallets. They've done it
before - cities like New Orleans, Galveston, Texas, and Seaside
Heights, New Jersey were all downgraded by rating agencies after
damage from Hurricanes Katrina, Ike, and Sandy. But all have since
rebounded. There does not appear to be a single jurisdiction in the
United States that has suffered a credit downgrade related to sea
level rise or storm risk. Yet.<br>
...disasters tend to be good for credit, thanks to cash infusions
from FEMA's generous Disaster Relief Fund...<br>
...people still want to live on the shore. ...<br>
...Most jurisdictions are large. New Jersey's coastal counties also
contain thousands of inland homes whose risk exposure is much, much
lower. ...<br>
Generally, though, if you are looking for financial markets to start
enforcing the risks of climate change, don't look at towns on the
rebound. Those places - whether they're building seawalls or simply
enforcing building codes on reconstructed properties - are better
prepared. "The places you're going to see the biggest disasters,"
Muir-Wood predicts, "are the ones that haven't been hit."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/10/the_bond_industry_isn_t_worried_about_climate_change.html">http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/10/the_bond_industry_isn_t_worried_about_climate_change.html</a><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://microgridknowledge.com/islanded-microgrid-fires/">Microgrid
Kept Power On Even as the California Wildfires Caused Outages</a><br>
</b>When the islanded microgrid at Stone Edge Farm near Sonoma,
Calif., kept operating for 10 days in spite of the fires that caused
outages nearby, the operators seized the opportunity to learn as
much as possible from the surprises they encountered.<br>
The first surprise, of course, were the fires that struck suddenly,
stoked by high winds and dry conditions. While the fires didn't burn
the farm's property, they came within about five miles.<br>
"At 5 am I got a phone call from an employee who couldn't get into
work because everything was burning," said Craig Wooster, general
contractor for the microgrid project. "I reached for the light and
there was no light at my place, which instantly told me we needed to
get the microgrid into island mode."<br>
His son and an intern working at Stone Edge Farm put the microgrid
in island mode to ensure the farm's irrigation system continued
operating in case the power at the farm went out. The microgrid
powers pumps that run water from wells, explained Wooster.<br>
The microgrid, which includes a mix of solar, eight different types
of batteries, 10 different kinds of inverters, and a natural gas
microturbine, operated even though the power went out and officials
called for evacuations. In fact, after being evacuated, Wooster and
his associates operated the islanded microgrid remotely - for the
first time.<br>
This work makes Stone Edge Farm owner Mac McQuown happy, said
Wooster. "We move microgrids forward and do it around the school
district, and the long-term social and political good," he said.<b><br>
</b><font size="-1"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://microgridknowledge.com/islanded-microgrid-fires">https://microgridknowledge.com/islanded-microgrid-fires</a></font><b><br>
</b>- video<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/TEx4gm3523I"><b>The
UCSD Microgrid - Showing the Future of Electricity ... Today</b></a><br>
Rocky Mountain Institute visited the University of California, San
Diego to study and document the "microgrid" that controls and
integrates electricity supply and demand on the campus. UCSD's
microgrid is one of the best examples of an electricity network that
provides local control yet is interconnected with the larger
electricity grid.<br>
At UCSD, the microgrid provides the ability to manage 42 megawatts
of generating capacity, including a central cogeneration plant, an
array of solar photovoltaic installations and a fuel cell that
operates on natural gas reclaimed from a landfill site. The central
microgrid control allows operators to manage the diverse portfolio
of energy generation and storage resources on the campus to minimize
costs. In addition, the campus can "island" from the larger grid to
maintain power supply in an emergency, as in the case of the power
blackout that struck parts of Southern California, Arizona and
Mexico in September 2011.<br>
The microgrid at UCSD provides a living laboratory to experiment
with integration and management of local resources and to optimize
the use of these resources in interaction with market signals from
the larger grid. <br>
Learn how RMI is seeking to identify and amplify the kinds of
solutions that have the potential to transform the electricity
system by visiting <font size="-1"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/TEx4gm3523I">http://www.rmi.org/electricity</a></font><b><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/28/us-winter-has-shrunk-by-more-than-one-month-in-100-years">US
winter has shrunk by more than one month in 100 years</a><br>
</b>The length of the US winter is shortening, with the first frost
of the year arriving more than one later than it did 100 years ago,
according to more than a century of measurements from weather
stations nationwide.<br>
The trend of ever later first freezes appears to have started around
1980, according to data from 700 weather stations across the US
going back to 1895 and compiled by Ken Kunkel, a meteorologist at
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National
Centers for Environmental Information.<br>
Sea levels to rise 1.3m unless coal power ends by 2050, report says<br>
Kunkel compared the first freeze from each of the 700 stations to
the station's average for the 20th Century. Some parts of the
country experience earlier or later freezes every year, but on
average freezes are coming later.<br>
The average first freeze over the last 10 years, from 2007 to 2016,
is a week later than the average from 1971 to 1980.<br>
This year, about 40% of the Lower 48 states have had a freeze as of
23 October, compared to 65% in a normal year, according to Jeff
Masters, meteorology director of the private service Weather
Underground....<br>
Overall the United States freeze season of 2016 was more than a
month shorter than the freeze season of 1916. It was most extreme in
the Pacific Northwest. Oregon's freeze season was 61 days – two
months – shorter than normal...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/28/us-winter-has-shrunk-by-more-than-one-month-in-100-years">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/28/us-winter-has-shrunk-by-more-than-one-month-in-100-years</a></font><b><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/a-nonviolent-strategy-to-end-violence-and-avert-human-extinction-the-teachings-of-gandhi-and-martin-luther-king/5615391">A
Nonviolent Strategy to End Violence and Avert Human Extinction.
The Teachings of Gandhi and Martin Luther King</a><br>
</b><font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/a-nonviolent-strategy-to-end-violence-and-avert-human-extinction-the-teachings-of-gandhi-and-martin-luther-king/5615391">https://www.globalresearch.ca/a-nonviolent-strategy-to-end-violence-and-avert-human-extinction-the-teachings-of-gandhi-and-martin-luther-king/5615391</a></font><b><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/10/27/maritimes-softwood-trees-in-decline-due-to-global-warming-study-warns.html">Maritimes'
softwood trees in decline due to global warming, study warns</a></b><br>
HALIFAX - A new federal study says climate change in the Maritimes
may lead to a gradual reduction in the growth of softwood trees,
which are crucial to the region's pulp industry.<br>
Using computer models, the Natural Resources Canada study marks the
first regionwide assessment of the composition and growth of the
Acadian Forest to the end of this century.<br>
The forest is carefully watched in forestry circles, as it is a
unique mix temperate forests, with warmer weather trees like red
maples, and boreal forests that include fir and spruce....<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/10/27/maritimes-softwood-trees-in-decline-due-to-global-warming-study-warns.html">https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/10/27/maritimes-softwood-trees-in-decline-due-to-global-warming-study-warns.html</a><b><br>
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</b><b> </b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/in_antarctica_two_crucial_glaciers_accelerate_toward_the_sea">IN
ANTARCTICA, TWO CRUCIAL GLACIERS ACCELERATE TOWARD THE SEA...</a></b><br>
Two of the frozen continent's fastest-moving glaciers are shedding
an increasing amount of ice into the Amundsen Sea each year...<br>
The Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers are among the most critical in
the world. They are currently holding back ice that, if melted,
would raise the world's oceans by nearly four feet over centuries,
an amount that would put many coastal cities underwater.<br>
Glaciers are essentially long rivers of ice. Just as a river
collects water that drains from a specific area, Antarctica's
glaciers collect ice from parts of the great ice sheets that cover
the continent. The amount of ice that could flow into the Pine
Island glacier and then into the sea would eventually raise the
world's sea level by over a foot and a half.<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/SZc5U9saIHI">(video)
Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica Retreating Time Lapse </a></b> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/SZc5U9saIHI">https://youtu.be/SZc5U9saIHI</a><br>
The Pine Island's flow is accelerating rapidly. Its ice shelf, an
expanse of ice that floats on water where the glacier meets the sea,
has increased its speed by 75 percent from 1973 to 2010.<br>
"This is a result of the warmer waters in front of them," said Eric
Rignot, a climate scientist at the University of California, Irvine,
who has done extensive research on polar ice.<br>
"In some relatively colder years, we know the melt rate slowed down
and the glaciers slowed down. On warm ocean years, the glacier moves
really fast."<br>
About 100 miles southwest of Pine Island, Thwaites glacier is also
shedding more and more ice into the ocean.<br>
The amount of ice that could flow into it and then into the sea
would increase global sea level by more than two feet.<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/_5vT4SYPLd0">(video)
Thwaites Glacier Mass Balance History (1986-2016)</a></b> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/_5vT4SYPLd0">https://youtu.be/_5vT4SYPLd0</a><br>
"There isn't a glacier in Antarctica that comes close to the ice
discharge to Pine Island and Thwaites," Dr. Rignot said. "They are
the largest discharger of ice in the Antarctic right now."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/in_antarctica_two_crucial_glaciers_accelerate_toward_the_sea">http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/in_antarctica_two_crucial_glaciers_accelerate_toward_the_sea</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/26/climate/antarctica-glaciers-melt.html">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/26/climate/antarctica-glaciers-melt.html</a></font><br>
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</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/tr1vp23guOE">(Video)
Al Gore 2017, 10 yrs After An Inconvenient Truth</a></b><br>
Former Vice President, Al Gore joins Climate One, along with
filmmakers, Bonnie Cohen and Jon Shenk to discuss An Inconvenient
Sequel: Truth to Power. The film is a follow-up on the popular An
Inconvenient Truth which was release 10 years ago. The trio will
discuss the challenges the world still faces when it comes to
climate change.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/tr1vp23guOE">https://youtu.be/tr1vp23guOE</a></font><br>
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<b><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/10/25/jeff-flake-retires-climate-change-energy?">7
Reasons Why <i>US </i><i>Senator</i> Jeff Flake Is Awful on
Climate Change and Energy Justice</a></b><br>
By Steve Horn • Wednesday, October 25, 2017 <br>
This week, U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) made national headlines by
dramatically announcing his retirement on the U.S. Senate floor.
Flake focused his speech on the erratic behavior of President Donald
Trump and the nationalistic, anti-immigration turn taken by some
Republican Party politicians in recent years. <br>
Yet lost in the conversation, thus far, has been almost any
discussion of some of the major issues of our time: climate change,
energy, and the environment. And on that count, Flake has made a
career out of doing the bidding of his fossil fuel and mining
industry corporate campaign donors. <br>
Here are seven reasons why Jeff Flake has been awful on the issues
which, for humanity in the long run, arguably count the most.<br>
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">1. Climate Change Denier</strong><br>
Perhaps superseding all else, Flake is a climate change science
denier, claiming that no one "can say definitely" what has caused
global temperature increases.<br>
"Certainly, nobody can deny that we've had several years of warmer
temperatures. If that signals routine change that is manmade or not,
I don't think anybody can say definitely,"<span> </span><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn0AG36ef-s" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">Flake
said in 2014</a>.<br>
In 2015,<span> </span><a
href="https://www.wired.com/2015/01/senators-dont-believe-human-caused-climate-change/"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Flake also voted "nay"</a><span> </span>on an amendment
proposed by Democrats for a<span> </span><span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">GOP</span>-proposed bill in favor of the
Keystone<span> </span><span class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">XL</span><span> </span>pipeline
which asked if human activities led to climate change. Flake
introduced his own amendment during the voting process,<span> </span><a
href="https://www.congress.gov/amendment/114th-congress/senate-amendment/103"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">one which supported</a> "the evaluation and consolidation
of duplicative green building programs."<br>
For insight into his motivations, look to Flake's campaign backers
in the fossil fuel industry.<span> </span><a
href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/industries?cid=N00009573&cycle=CAREER"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">According to OpenSecrets.org</a>, Flake has taken $312,260
from the oil and gas industry and another $226,721 from the electric
utilities industry since his congressional career began in 2000.<br>
In the 2012 Senate race to represent Arizona, Flake took <a
href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/pacs?cat=E01&catlong=Oil+%26+Gas&cid=N00009573&cycle=2012&seclong=Energy+%26+Natural+Resources§or=E"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">$96,000</a><span> </span>from the oil and gas industry, <a
href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/pacs?cat=E08&catlong=Electric+Utilities&cid=N00009573&cycle=2012&seclong=Energy+%26+Natural+Resources§or=E"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">$32,500</a><span> </span>from electric utilities, and
$39,000 from the coal industry. That included taking money from
funders of climate change denial, such as<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/koch-industries-inc"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Koch Industries</a>,<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/06/13/court-documents-show-peabody-energy-funded-dozens-climate-change-denying-groups"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Peabody Energy</a>,<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/exxonmobil-funding-climate-science-denial"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">ExxonMobil</a>, and the<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/american-petroleum-institute"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">American Petroleum Institute</a>. <br>
On the same day he gave his retirement speech, Flake was one of 17
Senators to <a
href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/jeff-flake/"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">vote against</a><span> </span>a disaster relief aid package
for Puerto Rico and Hurricane Maria.<br>
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">2.) Opponent of Public Lands</strong><br>
Flake has also long been a proponent of "states' rights" for<span> </span><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">U.S.</span><span> </span>federal
lands, a colloquialism often used by conservatives and
corporate-financed groups to argue for transferring ownership of
federal lands to the states in order to make it easier for drilling
and mining companies to access public land for
extractive purposes... <br>
...The Center for American Progress has pigeonholed Flake as part of
the "<a
href="https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2016/04/11/135044/the-rise-to-power-of-the-congressional-anti-parks-caucus/"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Anti-Parks Caucus</a>" due to his anti-public lands
politicking. Likewise, the Center for Biological Diversity put Flake
on its<span> </span><a
href="https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/public_lands/pdfs/Public_Lands_Enemies.pdf"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">top 15 list of "public land enemies."</a><br>
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">3.) Rubberstamp for
Trump Nominees</strong><br>
Flake has voted "yes" on 23 out of 24 Trump federal agency nominees,
with the exception being a vote in which he didn't participate. He
voted "yes" for all of Trump's energy and environmental nominees,
including Secetary of the Interior<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/ryan-zinke" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">Ryan
Zinke</a>, Secretary of Energy<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/rick-perry" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">Rick
Perry</a>, Secretary of State<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/rex-tillerson" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">Rex
Tillerson</a>, and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/scott-pruitt" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">Scott
Pruitt</a>. <br>
<span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">"</span><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">EPA</span>'s litany of
overreaching regulations have strained Arizona's economic
competitiveness,"<span> </span><a
href="https://www.flake.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/2/flake-statement-on-the-confirmation-of-scott-pruitt-for-epa-administrator"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Flake said in a statement</a><span> </span>in response to
Pruitt's successful nomination to head the<span> </span><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">EPA</span>. "I was pleased
to vote to confirm Scott Pruitt as<span> </span><span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">EPA</span><span> </span>Administrator so
together we can get to work eliminating unnecessary economic
barriers and restoring regulatory certainty." <br>
Pruitt, like Flake, is a climate change denier.<br>
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">4.) Cheerleader for Fracking
and Coal</strong><br>
Flake has been supportive of the Pruitt-led<span> </span><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">EPA</span><span> </span>and
its deregulatory efforts, including the rollback of President
Obama's Clean Power Plan, which would have regulated greenhouse gas
emissions of coal-fired power plants. ..<br>
<span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">... </span>Additionally,<span> </span><a
href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll249.xml" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">Flake
voted "yes"</a><span> </span>for a bill, the <a
href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/00910"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011</a>, which would
block the<span> </span><span class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">EPA</span>'s
ability to use the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gases to
address climate change. It was<span> </span><a
href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/billsum.php?id=s482-112"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">lobbied for</a><span> </span>by Koch Industries,
ExxonMobil, Chevron, America's Natural Gas Alliance (<span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">ANGA</span>), Peabody
Energy, Edison Electric Institute, and a litany of other major
fossil fuel industry players.<br>
Flake and McCain also denounced the Clean Power Plan when proposed
in 2015 in a letter to then-<span class="caps" style="font-size:
0.9em;">EPA</span>Administrator Gina McCarthy. The two of them<span> </span><a
href="https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2015/7/senators-mccain-flake-urge-obama-administration-to-address-harmful-effects-of-proposed-clean-power-plan-regulations-on-arizona"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">described the plan</a><span> </span>as an "attempt to
bypass Congress and commandeer the state regulatory process to
impose unduly burdensome carbon-emissions regulations at existing
power plants." Flake even referred to Obama's regulatory plans as a
"war on coal."<br>
"There is a war on coal at the<span> </span><span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">EPA</span>. Let's call it for what it
is,"<span> </span><a
href="https://www.nhonews.com/news/2012/sep/11/jeff-flake-tells-page-residents-he-supports-navaj/"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Flake told an audience in 2012</a>. "And they're going to
use anything they can, it seems, to push forward that war
on coal."...<br>
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">5.) Opponent of Indigenous Rights</strong><br>
Perhaps most prominently in recent years, Flake and McCain also
co-sponsored and pushed a bill which was eventually inserted into
the National Defense Authorization Act of 2016 (<span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">NDAA</span>) calling for thousands of
acres of national parks land to be handed over to Rio Tinto and <span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">BHP</span><span> </span>Billiton
for copper mining purposes. The catch: It was located on land
considered holy by the San Carlos Apache tribe.<br>
"The land grab was sneakily anti-democratic even by congressional
standards,"<span> </span><a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/opinion/selling-off-apache-holy-land.html?_r=1"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">explained a New York Times op-ed</a> in May 2015. "[T]he
giveaway language was slipped onto the defense bill by Senators John
McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona at the 11th hour. The tactic was
successful only because, like most last-minute riders, it bypassed
public scrutiny … The deal is an impressive new low in congressional
corruption, unworthy of our country's ideals no matter what side of
the aisle you're on. It's exactly the kind of cynical maneuvering
that has taught the electorate to disrespect politicians - a
disdain for government that hurts everyone."... <br>
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">6.) Right-Wing Machine,
Apartheid Ties</strong><br>
Flake's rise to Congress started by many acounts during his time
spent as executive director of the<span> </span><a
href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Goldwater_Institute"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Goldwater Institute</a>, which is part of the right-wing<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/state-policy-network"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">State Policy Network</a>, itself<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2013/12/09/stink-tanks-historical-records-reveal-state-policy-network-created-alec"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">founded as an offshoot</a><span> </span>of the<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/american-legislative-exchange-council"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">American Legislative Exchange Council (<span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">ALEC</span>)</a>. In his recently
released book <em>Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of
Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle</em>, Flake's book
shares a title with that of the late Senator <a
href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Barry_Goldwater"
title="Barry Goldwater" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:
none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">Barry Goldwater</a>'s famous 1960
book,<span> </span><em>The Conscience of a Conservative</em>. Among
other things, Goldwater<span> </span><a
href="https://thinkprogress.org/goldwater-and-civil-rights-f776ce938115/"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">voted against</a>the Civil Rights Act of 1964.<br>
As Phoenix New Times reported back in 1999, Flake cut his teeth at
the Institute as<span> </span><a
href="http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/think-tank-warfare-6420757"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">an avid opponent of public schools</a><span> </span>and
proponent of a voucher, school-choice system.<br>
Before running the Goldwater Institute, Flake served as a lobbyist
for the mining company Rossing Uranium in Namibia, 68 percent owned
by mining giant Rio Tinto. Flake's official biography only mentions
his work abroad there as executive director of the Foundation for
Democracy, helping the country "<a
href="https://www.flake.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/about-jeff"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">usher in freedom and democracy</a>." At the time, Namibia
was run by the South African government, which imposed apartheid in
the country until it gained independence in 1990.<br>
<strong style="font-weight: bold;">7.) Koch Brothers Servant</strong><br>
In his 2012 Senate race, Flake's biggest donor by far was<a
href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Club_for_Growth"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);"><span> </span>Club for Growth</a>, a group co-founded by<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/stephen-moore" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">Stephen
Moore</a>, who was a senior economic adviser for the Trump
presidential campaign. Moore co-authored a book steeped in climate
change denial, <em>Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy,</em><span> </span>alongside<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/kathleen-hartnett-white"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Kathleen Hartnett White</a>, who was<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/10/13/trump-kathleen-hartnett-white-ceq"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204); outline: 0px;">recently named chair</a><span> </span>of the
Trump White House Council on Environmental Quality (<span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">CEQ</span>).<br>
That year Flake received<span> </span><a
href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cid=N00009573&cycle=2012&type=I"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">just over $1 million</a><span> </span>from the Club, which<span> </span><a
href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Club_for_Growth"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">receives funding</a><span> </span>from the Koch network and
other wealthy conservatives, and he was the biggest recipient of its
donations for that electoral cycle. Flake also served as a signatory
for<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/americans-for-prosperity"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Americans for Prosperity'</a>s (<span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">AFP</span>) <a
href="http://noclimatetax.com/the-pledge/" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">"No
Climate Tax" pledge</a>.<span> </span><span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">AFP</span><span> </span>is a front group
founded and created by the<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/koch-family-foundations"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Koch Family Foundations</a>.<br>
Flake also received a<span> </span><a
href="http://conservativetransparency.org/donor/koch-industries-pac/page/35/?order_by=year%20DESC&page=5"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">$2,000 campaign contribution</a> from Koch Industries for
his 2012 Senate race. In return, Flake has received a 98 percent
scorecard rating from<span> </span><span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">AFP</span><span> </span>and a 97 percent
rating from Club for Growth,<span> </span><a
href="https://www.flake.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/about-jeff"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">which he touts </a>on his official Senate biography page.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/10/25/jeff-flake-retires-climate-change-energy">https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/10/25/jeff-flake-retires-climate-change-energy</a>?</font><br>
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Day in Climate History October 29, 2012</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
October 29, 2012: Superstorm Sandy assaults the East Coast, killing
at<br>
least 117 people, leaving millions without power and causing at
least<br>
$65 billion in damage. Several days later, Bloomberg Businessweek<br>
publishes the now-famous cover story: "It's Global Warming, Stupid."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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