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<font size="+1"><i>November 2, 2017<br>
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(</b></i><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whitefish-energy-headquarters-montana-contract-puerto-rico/">photo)
Visiting the remote headquarters of Whitefish Energy, recipient
of controversial contract</a></b><br>
A contract worth $300 million was awarded to a tiny company called
Whitefish Energy in Whitefish, Montana, hometown of Interior
Secretary Ryan Zinke. <br>
In addition to Whitefish's connection to Zinke, one of the company's
top investors has given tens of thousands of dollars to Republicans,
including Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted
Cruz -- and Mr. Trump. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whitefish-energy-headquarters-montana-contract-puerto-rico/">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whitefish-energy-headquarters-montana-contract-puerto-rico/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyMaRx7gIGY">(video) Have
400 papers just DEBUNKED global warming?</a></b><br>
by potholer54 10:22<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyMaRx7gIGY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyMaRx7gIGY</a></font><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://psmag.com/environment/the-grassroots-social-network-documenting-real-time-climate-change"><br>
<b>The Grassroots Social Network Documenting Real-Time Climate
Change</b></a><br>
The LEO Network is bringing together scientists and citizens to
monitor climate change and spot trends.<br>
the slow march of climate change is still felt around the world in
the day-to-day developments of people who are connected to nature as
part of their jobs, lives, and survival. Indigenous groups in
particular have had a front-row seat to climate shifts over the
decades. Now, a group of scientists called the <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://leonetwork.org/">Local
Environmental Observer network</a>, is drawing from its roots in
indigenous communities, and harnessing and mapping the observations
of these people to get a real-time, holistic overview of climate
change...<br>
... the LEO network, which now boasts over 2,000 members reporting
from 488 communities, with almost 600 joining in 2017 alone. It
features hundreds of observations from across North America, as well
as throughout Australia, Africa, and Europe. Brubaker and the
scientists behind LEO hope this kind of boots-on-the-ground,
real-time monitoring can help them spot troubling trends in climate
change before they become crises...<br>
<br>
The methodology behind LEO is fairly simple. Anyone can join and
post observations to the network. Based on a series of prompted
questions, users can include a description of the observation,
pinpoint its location, categorize the event into a sub-group
("Land," "Ocean/Sea," "Ice/Snow," or "Sanitation"), and tack on any
pertinent background information. The process is purposely simple,
and observations don't have to be couched in technical jargon. The
point of the network, and the thought process behind how posts are
designed, is to allow anybody to contribute, entering in data that
experts can then build upon.<br>
In an atmosphere that's rapidly changing both politically and
literally, the ability to call upon the knowledge and observations
of citizens who care deeply about climate change represents an
attempt to develop new ways to combat climate change outside of
traditional methods. Indigenous peoples number around 370 million
across the globe, speak 4,000 different languages, and represent
5,000 different cultures.<br>
Utilizing a local knowledge network that crosses country borders,
and, indeed, spans the world, can be an important tool to help
document our changing climate. Where states and governments can't or
won't go when it comes to addressing, documenting, and monitoring
climate change, networks like LEO offer a way to do so.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://psmag.com/environment/the-grassroots-social-network-documenting-real-time-climate-change">https://psmag.com/environment/the-grassroots-social-network-documenting-real-time-climate-change</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.wired.com/story/what-weve-learned-about-climate-change-since-hurricane-sandy/">What
We've Learned About Climate Change Since Hurricane Sandy</a></b><br>
Starting in 2011, a year before Sandy, the Bulletin of the American
Meteorological Society began publishing an annual
state-of-the-science report titled "Attribution of Extreme Weather
Events in the Context of Climate Change." Last year, Heidi Cullen, a
chief scientist with Climate Central studying weather variability,
wrote that the annual work had the potential to have the same impact
on the conversation around weather and global warming as the surgeon
general's 1964 report on smoking and lung cancer.<br>
"Scientists are now able to assess, in some cases within days,
whether and how much the risk of such an extreme weather event has
changed compared to the past—that is, before heat-trapping
greenhouse gases altered our climate," she wrote in the New York
Times.<br>
Even if the science has become more precise in understanding the
nuances and connections between climate change and extreme weather,
many politicians aren't listening. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt
has said that to "have any kind of focus on the cause and effect of
the storm, versus helping people, or actually facing the effect of
the storm, is misplaced."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.wired.com/story/what-weve-learned-about-climate-change-since-hurricane-sandy/">https://www.wired.com/story/what-weve-learned-about-climate-change-since-hurricane-sandy/</a><br>
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<br>
The Community Resilience Reader<br>
<b><a
href="https://islandpress.org/books/community-resilience-reader">Essential
Resources for an Era of Upheaval</a></b><br>
<i>The Community Resilience Reader</i> offers a new vision for
creating resilience, through essays by leaders in such varied fields
as science, policy, community building, and urban design. The
Community Resilience Reader combines a fresh look at the challenges
humanity faces in the 21st century, the essential tools of
resilience science, and the wisdom of activists, scholars, and
analysts working with community issues on the ground.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://islandpress.org/books/community-resilience-reader">https://islandpress.org/books/community-resilience-reader</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv-Pm3tTpa8">(Video)
Richard Alley: The Big Picture on Energy and Climate (2017)</a></b><br>
Climate State Published on Oct 31, 2017<br>
Richard Alley gave this presentation on March 22, 2017, titled "The
big picture on energy and climate," discusses the dynamics of how
money, jobs, national security, ethics and the environment influence
perceptions and decisions about energy.<br>
The presentation was sponsored by several Lycoming College
organizations including: Clean Water Institute, Center for Energy
and the Future, Outdoor Leadership and Education program, and
Sustainability Committee.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv-Pm3tTpa8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv-Pm3tTpa8</a><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatenexus.org/climate-issues/science/national-climate-assessment/"><b>The
first volume of the 4th U.S. National Climate Assessment is
expected to be published Friday.</b></a><br>
Volume 1, entitled "Climate Science Special Report" (CSSR),
addresses the causes of climate change, the impacts on temperature,
extreme weather, and wildfires, the anticipated trends for the
future, and the broad requirements to meet current policy goals.<br>
We have put together a backgrounder on the report: <i><b>
(sections bolded by RP)</b></i><br>
+ Background: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatenexus.org/climate-issues/science/national-climate-assessment/">http://climatenexus.org/climate-issues/science/national-climate-assessment/</a><br>
Since the report is several hundred pages long, we also assembled an
advance summary of the report by combing through the copy of the
"final clearance draft" posted by the New York Times, to identify
the highlights. <br>
+ Notable findings: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatenexus.org/climate-news-archive/4th-u-s-national-climate-assessment-notable-findings/">http://climatenexus.org/climate-news-archive/4th-u-s-national-climate-assessment-notable-findings/</a><br>
<b>Below are selected highlights </b>and excerpts from the Final
Clearance Draft of the U.S. Climate Science Special Report, as
posted by the New York Times on August 7, 2017. NOAA led this
science assessment, and the report is expected to be published on
November 3, 2017, as Volume 1 of the 4th U.S. National Climate
Assessment by the U.S. Global Change Research Program.<br>
<b>Report Highlights</b><br>
+The draft finds "it is extremely likely that human influence has
been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th
century." The report further finds that greenhouse gas emissions,
deforestation, and other human factors are likely responsible for
all of the observed warming since 1951 and that these anthropogenic
factors are likely countering and overcoming natural factors that
would otherwise be cooling the climate.<br>
+Deforestation and agriculture have contributed heavily to the
warming observed to date.<br>
+The fingerprints of climate change are now widespread, and<b>
climate change is amplifying weather disasters and wildfires.</b><br>
+The language describing the impact of climate change on the
intensity of hurricanes is now much clearer. Decreases in sulfate
aerosols together with increases in GHG emissions are found to be
likely contributing to the intensity of hurricanes, however the
relative size of these contributions is still an active area of
research and debate.<br>
+<b>The top-end of the "plausible" range for global sea level rise
by 2100 has been lifted from 4 feet to 8 feet.</b><br>
+The U.S. is particularly vulnerable to rates of sea level rise,
ocean acidification, and ocean deoxygenation greater than global
rates.<br>
+<b>A disturbing warming feedback loop has begun in the thawing of
Alaskan permafrost.</b><br>
+The burning of fossil fuels is having an "unprecedented" impact on
the climate and there may be "surprises" with consequences much
harsher than currently projected.<br>
<b>+Limiting global warming to twice the total of warming to date
will require a sharp peak and sharp decline in total global carbon
pollution before 2040 with pollution from the burning of fossil
fuels eventually stopping entirely</b>.<br>
We understand that the version to be released Friday is virtually
the same as final clearance draft (above), though there a couple of
wording changes where the finding remains the same but the language
describing the finding is more complex.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatenexus.org/climate-issues/science/national-climate-assessment/">http://climatenexus.org/climate-issues/science/national-climate-assessment/</a></font><br>
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<br>
Climate Denial Crock of the Week with Peter Sinclair<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/11/01/trumprussia-big-carbons-last-monstrous-grasp/">Trump/Russia:
Big Carbon's Last Monstrous Grasp</a></b><br>
November 1, 2017<br>
I'm not a huge Chris Mathews fan, but he's the first "mainstream"
journalist I've heard put his finger on what I've been saying since
the election. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2727sZfHKCA"> Caught Chris
on Colbert's late show last night.</a> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2727sZfHKCA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2727sZfHKCA</a><br>
Last time I looked, the Russian mob-ocracy is overwhelmingly
dependent on fossil fuel extraction to maintain their wealth and
power...<br>
Trump/Russia scandal is about fossil fuels, the carbon bubble, and a
last monstrous grasp by the rotting dead hand of the global carbon
club. Readers know that I've been saying this for a year, and
managed to get thru to the Diane Rehm show days after the election a
year ago, to point out that Putin's election hack showed identical
MO to the "ClimateGate" email hacks of the last decade - updated and
rolled out on a global scale.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/11/01/trumprussia-big-carbons-last-monstrous-grasp/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/11/01/trumprussia-big-carbons-last-monstrous-grasp/</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/research-handbook-on-climate-change-migration-and-the-law">Research
Handbook on Climate Change, Migration and the Law</a></b><br>
Edited by Benoit Mayer, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Chinese
University of Hong Kong and Francois Crepeau, Hans & Tamar
Oppenheimer Professor in Public International Law, Faculty of Law,
McGill University, Canada<br>
This comprehensive Research Handbook provides an overview of the
debates on how the law does, and could, relate to migration
exacerbated by climate change. It contains conceptual chapters on
the relationship between climate change, migration and the law, as
well as doctrinal and prospective discussions regarding legal
developments in different domestic contexts and in international
governance.<br>
Concerns have arisen in recent decades about the impact of climate
change on human mobility. Many people affected by climate change are
forced or otherwise decide to migrate within or across international
borders. Despite its clear importance, many questions remain open
regarding the nature of the climate-migration nexus and its
implications for laws and institutions. In the face of such
uncertainty, this Research Handbook offers a comprehensive picture
of laws and institutions relevant to climate migration and the
multiple, often contradictory perspectives on the topic.<br>
Carefully edited chapters by leading scholars in the field provide a
cross section of the various debates on what laws do, can do and
should do in relation to the impacts of climate change on migration.
A first part analyses the relations between climate change and
migration. A second part explores how existing laws and institutions
address the climate-migration nexus. In the final part, the chapters
discuss possible ways forward.<br>
This timely Research Handbook provides much-needed insight into this
complex issue for graduate and post-graduate students in climate
change or migration law. It will also appeal to students and
scholars in political science, international relations,
environmental studies and migration studies, as well as policymakers
and advocates.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/research-handbook-on-climate-change-migration-and-the-law">http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/research-handbook-on-climate-change-migration-and-the-law</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/11/03/128002/gop-frosh-class/">This
Day in Climate History November 2, 2010</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
November 2, 2010: Republicans win control of the US House of
Representatives in the midterm elections, putting some of the
nation's most vehement climate-change deniers in control of that
body. Also, California voters reject a ballot initiative intended to
kill landmark climate-change legislation in that state.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/11/03/128002/gop-frosh-class/">http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/11/03/128002/gop-frosh-class/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/11/19/174837/climate-zombie-caucus/">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/11/19/174837/climate-zombie-caucus/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/11/voters-reject-prop-23-keeping-californias-global-warming-law-intact.html">http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/11/voters-reject-prop-23-keeping-californias-global-warming-law-intact.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/greenfront/2010/11/becky-bond-of-credo-action-group-how-prop-23-was-defeated.html">http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/greenfront/2010/11/becky-bond-of-credo-action-group-how-prop-23-was-defeated.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/greenfront/2010/11/adi-nochur-1sky-about-the-elections.html">http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/greenfront/2010/11/adi-nochur-1sky-about-the-elections.html</a><br>
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