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<font size="+1"><i>November 17, 2017<br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/11/16/climate-accountability-liability-ciel-cop-23/">Evidence
Strong Enough to Sue Fossil Fuel Companies for Climate Impacts,
Study Says</a></b><br>
Research has boosted the concepts of climate liability and corporate
accountability in recent years from pie-in-the-sky theories to
plausible underpinnings for litigation. Now, a new report
synthesizing this research concludes there is solid evidentiary
basis for holding fossil fuel companies accountable for climate
change.<br>
The report by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL),
released Thursday at the United Nations climate talks in Bonn,
Germany, pulls together the studies and research of climate
accountability and public deception and evaluates the evidence in
the context of legal liability standards. Titled Smoke and Fumes:
The Legal and Evidentiary Basis for Holding Big Oil Accountable for
the Climate Crisis, it details what the petroleum industry knew
about climate change, when it knew it, and what it did with this
knowledge.<br>
"The knowledge these companies had about the nature of their product
and what it would do to the climate is important for different
concepts of legal responsibility," said CIEL staff attorney Steven
Feit, a co-author of the report.<br>
Under tort and human rights law, the report explains, liability for
harm depends on the defendant's ability to foresee this harm, and
also having the opportunity to minimize or avoid the harm. The
report concludes that big oil and gas corporations satisfy both
conditions of liability.<br>
Petroleum companies were aware of the climate risk of their products
in the 1950s, and by the late 1960s, the entire industry was
unequivocally warned about the consequences of fossil fuel
combustion on the climate.<br>
Exxon and its oil industry allies have given us a decades-long
history of climate change, climate denial, and climate chaos," said
Carroll Muffett, CIEL president and report co-author. "This report
exposes that history and suggests that the future of these companies
will be marked by climate litigation and climate accountability."<br>
Exxon, whose climate research has been the subject of extensive
reporting, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<br>
Feit said he hopes that potential plaintiffs, attorneys, advocates
and others look at this report and see there is a case to be
brought. "We hope they look at this and say, here is the evidence,
we can pursue a claim."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/11/16/climate-accountability-liability-ciel-cop-23/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/11/16/climate-accountability-liability-ciel-cop-23/</a><br>
also:<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/09/07/global-warming-fossil-fuel-companies-study-ucs/">Half
of Modern Global Warming Caused by 90 Companies, New Study
Concludes</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/09/07/global-warming-fossil-fuel-companies-study-ucs/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/09/07/global-warming-fossil-fuel-companies-study-ucs/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ciel.org/reports/smoke-and-fumes/">Smoke and
Fumes: The Legal and Evidentiary Basis for Holding Big Oil
Accountable for the Climate Crisis</a></b><br>
presents a comprehensive synthesis of the available evidence on what
the oil industry knew about climate science, when they knew it, and
what they did with the information. It combines that synthesis with
an update on the latest developments in accountability research and
science, which have dramatically improved our ability to identify
the impacts of climate change on individuals and communities, the
corporate actors that contributed to those impacts, and the nature
of their contributions. The report presents this evidence in the
context of the core elements of legal responsibility in tort and
human rights law. It concludes that oil industry actors had early
knowledge of climate risks and important opportunities to act on
those risks, but repeatedly failed to do so. Those failures give
raise to potential legal responsibilities under an array of legal
theories.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ciel.org/reports/smoke-and-fumes/">http://www.ciel.org/reports/smoke-and-fumes/</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Smoke-Fumes-FINAL.pdf">http://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Smoke-Fumes-FINAL.pdf</a>
(pdf file)</font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkXcIu1USDk">(video)
Rockstrom: Earth System in 2050 - Carbon Law</a></b><br>
Johan Rockström from the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden
speaks about sustainable development goals. This talk is part of the
Impacts World 2017 conference, <br>
more at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wICG8eTcchM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wICG8eTcchM</a><br>
Rockström at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/jrockstrom">https://twitter.com/jrockstrom</a><br>
For more talks from Impacts 2017 visit / follow
youtube.com/user/PotsdamInstitute<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkXcIu1USDk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkXcIu1USDk</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/11/15/this-group-thinks-trump-hasnt-done-enough-to-unravel-environmental-rules-heres-its-wish-list/?utm_term=.a8c82f4e6965">This
group thinks Trump hasn't done enough to unravel environmental
rules. Here's its wish list.</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/11/15/this-group-thinks-trump-hasnt-done-enough-to-unravel-environmental-rules-heres-its-wish-list/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/11/15/this-group-thinks-trump-hasnt-done-enough-to-unravel-environmental-rules-heres-its-wish-list/</a></font><br>
<i>for example:</i><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.facebook.com/YearsOfLiving/videos/1547703445316708/?hc_ref=ARS9ny3CKwrz-DP5ZhjtCa78y6bMel9cNY9EMC7NqDh4uJR3xbInw0T37yuJPjCkbnU&pnref=story">(video)
Years of Living Dangerously</a></b><br>
The climate change denial movement didn't happen by accident. We
take you inside a secret meeting where powerful interests plan to
make the biggest issue of our time one that politicians are afraid
to talk about.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.facebook.com/YearsOfLiving/videos/1547703445316708/?hc_ref=ARS9ny3CKwrz-DP5ZhjtCa78y6bMel9cNY9EMC7NqDh4uJR3xbInw0T37yuJPjCkbnU&pnref=story">https://www.facebook.com/YearsOfLiving/videos/1547703445316708/?hc_ref=ARS9ny3CKwrz-DP5ZhjtCa78y6bMel9cNY9EMC7NqDh4uJR3xbInw0T37yuJPjCkbnU&pnref=story</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-11-index-human-induced-global-faster.html">New
index shows human-induced global warming is happening faster
than ever</a></b><br>
Human-induced global warming is happening faster than ever and
accelerating, according to a new measurement index developed by an
international team that includes the Director of Victoria University
of Wellington's New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute,
Professor Dave Frame.<br>
The researchers' real-time <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.globalwarmingindex.org/">Global Warming Index </a>will
be updated continuously on the website <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.globalwarmingindex.org">www.globalwarmingindex.org</a>
and provides improved scientific context for temperature
stabilisation targets, with the potential to reduce climate policy
volatility.<br>
The index and its data have been announced in a paper for the Nature
research journal Scientific Reports.<br>
Warming exceeded 1°C above mid-nineteenth-century levels in 2017 and
is increasing at a rate that leaves little time to achieve the goals
of the Paris Climate Agreement, say the researchers.<br>
"Global temperatures may be pushed up temporarily by El Niño events
or down by volcanic eruptions," says Dr Karsten Haustein from the
University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, lead author of the
paper. "We combine temperature observations with measurements of
drivers of climate change to provide an up-to-date estimate of the
contribution of human influence to global warming."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-11-index-human-induced-global-faster.html">https://phys.org/news/2017-11-index-human-induced-global-faster.html</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.globalwarmingindex.org/">Current Global Warming
Index Tracking progress to a safe climate</a></b><br>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
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240); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline ! important; float: none; color: rgb(51,
51, 51);">The<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.globalwarmingindex.org/" style="font-family:
Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;
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none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 240,
240);">globalwarmingindex.org</a><span style="font-family:
Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: -1px; text-align: left;
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background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !
important; float: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span> </span>website
shows an up-to-the-second index of human-induced warming relative
to the mid-19th century (1850-79) based on the standard "detection
and attribution" approach introduced by<span> </span></span><a
href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s003820050185"
style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
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0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
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background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Hasselmann (1997)</a><span
style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:
medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: -1px;
text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
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0px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !
important; float: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">, first
introduced in<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v5/n10/full/nclimate2716.html"
style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
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normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100;
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0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
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background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Otto et al. (2015)</a><span
style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:
medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: -1px;
text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
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0px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !
important; float: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span> </span>and
published with a comprehensive uncertainty analysis in<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-14828-5"
style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100;
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0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">Haustein et al. (2017)</a><span
style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:
medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: -1px;
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0px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !
important; float: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
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initial; display: inline ! important; float: none; color: rgb(51,
51, 51);"></span><span style="font-family:
Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: -1px; text-align: left;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
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important; float: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;
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display: inline !important; float: none;">A supplementary<span> </span></span><b
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
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background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">speadsheet</b><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;
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0px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);
text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;
display: inline !important; float: none;"><span> </span>to
calculate the monthly index with data up to the lastest months
is<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.globalwarmingindex.org/AWI/AWI_AR5_new_spreadsheet.xlsx"
style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
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0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
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background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">available for download
here.</a></span><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.globalwarmingindex.org/">http://www.globalwarmingindex.org/</a><br>
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<br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn9mYhFwTqw">(video)
Climate change warning from scientists</a></b><br>
CBC News<br>
More than 15,000 scientists issue a warning about climate change,
extreme weather and global warming.<br>
To read more: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://cbc.ca/1.4395767">http://cbc.ca/1.4395767</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn9mYhFwTqw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn9mYhFwTqw</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2017/11/16/uw-study-finds-carbon-emissions-increase-fromland-converted-into-crops-ethanol-boost-carbon-emission/864416001/">University
of Wisconsin study finds carbon emissions increase when land is
converted into crops for ethanol</a></b><br>
A University of Wisconsin-Madison study shows that the shift of more
than 7 million acres into cropland led to massive releases of carbon
emissions into the atmosphere after a 2007 federal law mandated
ethanol in gasoline. <br>
The increased carbon emissions is equivalent to 20 million new cars
driving down American roadways every year, according to the
researchers' estimates in the study released Wednesday. <br>
The findings show big changes in land use across the Midwest,
including Wisconsin, and other parts of the United States between
2008 and 2012. That coincided with a change in federal law that
required blending ethanol from crops like corn and soybeans into
gasoline.<br>
The federal Energy Information Agency reported that 10% of 143
billion gallons of gasoline came from ethanol in 2016. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2017/11/16/uw-study-finds-carbon-emissions-increase-fromland-converted-into-crops-ethanol-boost-carbon-emission/864416001/">http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2017/11/16/uw-study-finds-carbon-emissions-increase-fromland-converted-into-crops-ethanol-boost-carbon-emission/864416001/</a><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-american-mind-october-2017/">Climate
Change in the American Mind: October 2017</a></b><br>
Our most recent nationally representative survey finds that the
number of Americans "very worried" about global warming has reached
a record high (22%) since first measured in 2008. <b>A majority of
Americans (63%) say they are "very" or "somewhat" worried about
the issue.</b><br>
Likewise, Americans increasingly view global warming as a threat.
Since Spring 2015, more Americans think it will harm them personally
(50%, +14 points), their own family (54%, +13 points), people in the
U.S. (67%, +18 points), people in developing countries (71%, +18
points), and future generations (75%, +12 points).<br>
Other key findings include:<br>
<blockquote> - Seven in ten Americans (71%) think global warming
is happening, an increase of 8 percentage points since March 2015.
By contrast, only about one in eight Americans (13%) think global
warming is not happening. Americans who think global warming is
happening outnumber those who think it is not by more than 5 to 1.<br>
- Nearly two in three Americans (64%) think global warming is
affecting weather in the United States, and one in three think
weather is being affected "a lot" (33%), an increase of 8
percentage points since May 2017.<br>
- A majority of Americans think global warming made several
extreme events in 2017 worse, including the heat waves in
California (55%) and Arizona (51%), hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and
Maria (54%), and wildfires in the western U.S. (52%).<br>
- More than four in ten Americans (44%) say they have
personally experienced the effects of global warming, an increase
of 13 percentage points since March 2015.<br>
- Four in ten Americans (42%) think people in the United States
are being harmed by global warming "right now", an increase of 10
percentage points since March 2015.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1">This report is based on findings from a nationally
representative survey – Climate Change in the American Mind –
conducted by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
(climatecommunication.yale.edu) and the George Mason University
Center for Climate Change Communication
(climatechangecommunication.org), Interview dates: Oct. 20 – Nov.
1, 2017. Interviews: 1,304 Adults (18+). Average margin of error
+/- 3 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-american-mind-october-2017/">http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-american-mind-october-2017/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/plan-international-canada/while-the-adults-meet-on-climate-change-youth-are-acting_a_23275760/">While
The Adults Meet On Climate Change, Youth Are Acting</a></b><br>
"Everyone, even children like us, has a role to play. We have chosen
to take part and be part of the solution."<br>
For millions of people, climate change has already altered everyday
life in profoundly challenging ways.<br>
The impacts of climate change are global. We recently experienced
one of the worst hurricane seasons on record, causing<span> </span><a
href="http://time.com/money/4935684/hurricane-irma-harvey-economic-cost/"
rel="nofollow" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(13, 190, 152);
text-decoration: underline;">$300 billion in damage</a>. British
Columbia had its worst wildfire season<span> </span><strong
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font-weight: 700;">ever,</strong><span> </span>with more than<span> </span><a
href="https://globalnews.ca/news/3675434/2017-officially-b-c-s-worst-ever-wildfire-season/"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="list-style: none; margin:
0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color:
rgb(13, 190, 152); text-decoration: underline;">1000 fires
scorching 800,000 hectares, costing more than $300 million in
damages</a>. 40 million people have been affected by flooding in
South Asia, including the<span> </span><a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/30/mumbai-paralysed-by-floods-as-india-and-region-hit-by-worst-monsoon-rains-in-years"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="list-style: none; margin:
0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color:
rgb(13, 190, 152); text-decoration: underline;">displacement</a><span> </span>of
more than 500,000 people. Almost two million children were put out
of school.<br>
And these events all occurred within the last six months.<br>
While these disasters often get significant media airtime, the
everyday realities faced by people living through climate events are
rarely captured. As is too often the case, those who have
contributed least to the challenges facing our world bear the brunt
of their impacts.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: NotoNashkArabic,
"Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, "ヒラギノ角ゴ
Pro W3", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", Osaka, メイリオ,
Meiryo, "ＭＳ Ｐゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif;
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;">For example, the impact of climate
disasters disproportionately affects women and children from the
poorest communities who have the fewest resources to cope or
adapt. Over 500 million children live in areas of 'extremely high
risk' to flood and<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.unicef.org/publications/files/Unless_we_act_now_The_impact_of_climate_change_on_children.pdf"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="list-style: none; margin:
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rgb(13, 190, 152); text-decoration: underline; font-family:
NotoNashkArabic, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto,
Arial, "ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic
Pro", Osaka, メイリオ, Meiryo, "ＭＳ Ｐゴシック", "MS
PGothic", sans-serif; font-size: 15.9851px; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:
0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">nearly 160 million</a><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: NotoNashkArabic,
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normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><span> </span>live in areas at 'high' or
'extremely high' risk of drought. The World Health Organization
estimates that climate change could be causing more than<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.who.int/heli/risks/climate/climatechange/en/"
rel="nofollow" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
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text-decoration: underline; font-family: NotoNashkArabic,
"Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, "ヒラギノ角ゴ
Pro W3", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", Osaka, メイリオ,
Meiryo, "ＭＳ Ｐゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif;
font-size: 15.9851px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
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text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">150,000 deaths per year</a><span
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;">, of which more than<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.who.int/entity/ceh/publications/hehc_booklet_en.pdf?ua=1"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="list-style: none; margin:
0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color:
rgb(13, 190, 152); text-decoration: underline; font-family:
NotoNashkArabic, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto,
Arial, "ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic
Pro", Osaka, メイリオ, Meiryo, "ＭＳ Ｐゴシック", "MS
PGothic", sans-serif; font-size: 15.9851px; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:
0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">88 per cent occur</a><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: NotoNashkArabic,
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Meiryo, "ＭＳ Ｐゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif;
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><span> </span>in children less than five
years of age. That number<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/global-warming-and-health/"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="list-style: none; margin:
0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color:
rgb(13, 190, 152); text-decoration: underline; font-family:
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Arial, "ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic
Pro", Osaka, メイリオ, Meiryo, "ＭＳ Ｐゴシック", "MS
PGothic", sans-serif; font-size: 15.9851px; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:
0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">is expected to double</a><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: NotoNashkArabic,
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Pro W3", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", Osaka, メイリオ,
Meiryo, "ＭＳ Ｐゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif;
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><span> </span>by 2030.</span><br>
Children, and especially girls, are rarely cast as the heroes in our
sci-fi and post-apocalyptic movies, yet in the real world, youth are
fighting the effects of climate change head-on. For children living
in disaster-prone and vulnerable regions, climate change is not a
newspaper headline or an issue to be debated in political arenas. It
is their lived reality and they face the daunting task of regularly
finding local solutions and adapting to its impacts, all without
superpowers.<br>
Louisa and her group of friends decided to try to fight against the
effects of climate change after taking part in a number of
environmental training sessions run by Plan International as part of
our Child-Centered Climate Change Adaptation project.<br>
"We are doing coastal clean-ups and planting mangrove trees on the
beach and will soon be starting work on helping our barangay
(village) with solid-waste segregation this summer," says Louisa.
"We cannot stop climate change, but we can do something to lessen
its effects. Everyone, even children like us, has a role to play. We
have chosen to take part and be part of the solution."...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/plan-international-canada/while-the-adults-meet-on-climate-change-youth-are-acting_a_23275760/">http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/plan-international-canada/while-the-adults-meet-on-climate-change-youth-are-acting_a_23275760/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-16/fossil-fuels-fishy-new-friends">Fossil
Fuels' Fishy New Friends</a></b><br>
How public affairs firms engineered a "grass-roots" group defending
oil and coal investments.<br>
By Benjamin Elgin and Zachary Mider<br>
November 16, 2017, 2:00 AM PST<br>
James Short, a retired deputy fire chief, is the founder of an
organization called <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://helpprotectourpensions.org/">Protect Our Pensions</a>.
At least that's what it says on the group's website....<br>
Protect Our Pensions isn't what it appears to be. While Short's name
and those of other coalition members show up on letters to state
legislators and opinion pieces, much of the writing is actually done
by public affairs firms operating in the shadows, according to
documents and emails obtained by Bloomberg News. Instead of an
active group of public servants and pensioners eager to discuss an
important issue, most of the 41 people listed on the website didn't
respond to emails and phone calls. Some said they were proud to
support the cause, but a few couldn't remember signing up.<br>
"The disturbing thing about this is they pretend to be organic, like
it's just this one firefighter who started it," said Jim Griffith, a
city council member in Sunnyvale, California, who rejected a recent
request to join the group. "But it's not."<br>
Grass-roots lobbying - the creation of groups of ordinary citizens
to advocate for causes - has been around for decades. But when
corporations hide their involvement or recruit members indifferent
to the issue, tactics known as astroturfing, it can provide an
appearance of public support that doesn't actually exist.<br>
The internet only makes such subterfuge easier. Anyone can set up a
website and launch a social-media campaign while disguising who's
behind it. As Congress and federal investigators probe how such
tactics helped spread disinformation during the last U.S.
presidential election, Protect Our Pensions shows how similar
strategies can be used to create an artificial veneer of public
support for policies that stand to benefit corporations.<br>
"These campaigns generate a series of problems regarding how
political leaders and members of the mass public interact," said
Edward Walker, a University of California at Los Angeles sociology
professor who wrote a book about the grass-roots lobbying industry
in 2014. "When industry groups or wealthy donors masquerade this
way, it allows policymakers to take actions that primarily support
the well-heeled patrons funding the effort."...<br>
The funders behind Protect Our Pensions remain concealed. Six
fossil-fuel companies and industry associations, including Exxon
Mobil Corp. and the American Petroleum Institute, said they've
played no role.<br>
But there are clues pointing to the involvement of DCI Group LLC, a
Washington public affairs firm known for its work with the energy
industry and for building grass-roots coalitions that sometimes
obscure their funders.<br>
The group's website, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.helpprotectourpensions.org">www.helpprotectourpensions.org</a>,
is linked to the same internet protocol address as DCI's corporate
website, according to reverse IP lookup tools. Shared IP addresses
can sometimes be a coincidence, but of the 11 other sites connected
to that address, at least eight are for coalitions or projects
related to DCI clients.<br>
There's also this: Some of the earliest Protect Our Pensions blog
posts have web addresses that contain a string of random Latin
words. It's common practice for publishers and website developers to
use such strings as placeholders as they design pages. But the
combination of words used by Protect Our Pensions, such as "proin in
nulla condimentum diam mattis posuere," are extremely rare. Google,
which trawls hundreds of billions of web pages, shows this exact
phrase appears on only one other website–BuyingBias.org, which DCI
helped develop, according to a former DCI employee familiar with the
operation.<br>
Craig Stevens, vice president of media affairs at DCI, declined in
an email to either confirm or deny that his company did work on
behalf of Protect Our Pensions. But he said linking the campaign to
DCI through its IP address "seems like conjecture." He also said DCI
"would never work with someone without their express agreement" and
offered a general defense of the work his and other public affairs
firms do.<br>
"Our democracy is stronger," Stevens said, "when citizens act and
inform the government of how legislation, regulations, or judicial
rulings impact Americans' lives and provide policymakers with ways -
if necessary - to improve them."<br>
For a typical grass-roots coalition, a national firm like DCI will
manage the contract and hire regional public affairs specialists to
recruit members and place op-eds in newspapers. For Protect Our
Pensions, much of the group's work has been carried out by two such
firms - FSB Core Strategies in Sacramento, California, and Mac
Strategies Group Inc. in Chicago - both of which have worked with
DCI in the past.<br>
DCI's Stevens said his firm works with hundreds of professionals
around the world but that he couldn't comment on any specific
clients, projects or tactics.<br>
FSB, located a few blocks down a leafy lane from California's domed
state capitol, touts on its website the importance for corporations
to build grass-roots coalitions: In "political arenas, strength in
numbers isn't just a goal. Many times it's the difference between
success and failure."<br>
Mark Funkhouser, the publisher of Governing, said the article was
submitted by FSB, and he understood there was a good chance it had
corporate funding. But the magazine ran the article, he said,
because the "arguments were a reasonable counter to the
pro-divestment arguments."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-16/fossil-fuels-fishy-new-friends">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-16/fossil-fuels-fishy-new-friends</a><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15814614/ns/msnbc-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/t/worst-person-world-sen-james-inhofe/">This
Day in Climate History November 17, 2006</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
November 17, 2006: MSNBC's Keith Olbermann calls out Oklahoma
Senator James Inhofe for simultaneously trafficking in climate
denial and blasphemy:<br>
"But our winner, Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, who until January
will remain the chairman of the Senate Committee on the Environment
and Public Works. This morning he declared that any global warming
is owed to 'natural causes' and is 'due to the sun.'<br>
'God's still up there,' he added.<br>
"So, Senator, you're blaming global warming on God?<br>
"Senator James 'Is it just me or is it hot in here' Inhofe, Friday’s
'Worst Person in the World.'"<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15814614/ns/msnbc-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/t/worst-person-world-sen-james-inhofe/">http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15814614/ns/msnbc-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/t/worst-person-world-sen-james-inhofe/</a></font><br>
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