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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/11/22/after-ditching-paris-trumps-team-has-another-big-international-climate-decision-to-make/?utm_term=.ffa41df563b6&wpisrc=nl_green&wpmm=1"><b>After
ditching Paris, Trump's team has another big international
climate decision to make</b></a><br>
By Chris Mooney <br>
While it's not the Paris climate agreement, hopes are rising that
the Trump administration will not walk away from another
international climate accord, one designed to limit emissions of
super-polluting gases from air conditioners and refrigerators that
could otherwise sharply warm the globe.<br>
In Montreal this week, countries have assembled for the 29th meeting
of the parties to the<b> 1987 Montreal Protocol</b>, a widely
celebrated treaty to protect the planet's ozone layer. And they're
welcoming an extension of the protocol, called the Kigali Amendment,
which was negotiated last year and late last week crossed a key
ratification threshold. Its formal acceptance now by 21 member
countries will trigger its going into force in early 2019.<br>
The amendment specifically targets a category of climate pollutants
called<b> hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, </b>which are far more
potent than leading greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide or
methane on a molecule per molecule basis. HFCs were originally a
substitute for the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that severely damage
the ozone layer, but they've since been recognized as coming with
their own significant problems.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/11/22/after-ditching-paris-trumps-team-has-another-big-international-climate-decision-to-make/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/11/22/after-ditching-paris-trumps-team-has-another-big-international-climate-decision-to-make/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/valve-turner-protest-pipeline-leonard-higgins_us_5a171e07e4b0d4906cade139">Anti-Pipeline
Activist Found Guilty After Being Barred From Mentioning Climate
Change</a></b><br>
Leonard Higgins, the "valve turner" who shut down a tar sands
pipeline in Montana last year, was found guilty of a felony charge
on Wednesday.<br>
After a short trial lasting just a day and a half, climate activist
and retiree Leonard Higgins was found guilty on Wednesday of a
serious felony charge for his role in the "valve turner" protest
last year that resulted in the brief shutdown of a tar sands
pipeline in Montana.<br>
The 65-year-old former state worker from Portland, Oregon, said he'd
carried out the protest to raise awareness about the dangers of
climate change. Higgins and his defense team, however, were barred
from referring to climate change during the trial.<br>
"It's my obligation to my kids," he told the Great Falls Tribune on
Tuesday.<br>
Higgins' defense attorney noted in court that Spectra had been
notified about 15 minutes in advance that the valve shutdown was
imminent. After turning off the valve, Higgins stayed onsite,
awaiting arrest.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/valve-turner-protest-pipeline-leonard-higgins_us_5a171e07e4b0d4906cade139">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/valve-turner-protest-pipeline-leonard-higgins_us_5a171e07e4b0d4906cade139</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq8Jo9QN0qA">(video)
Climate change, that's just a money grab by scientist... right?
</a></b><br>
Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe<br>
7:30 min Published on Nov 22, 2017<br>
Climate change - aren't you scientists just making the whole thing
up for the money, the fame, and to further the Antichrist's agenda?<br>
Find out in this all new episode of Global Weirding. <br>
Global Weirding is produced by KTTZ Texas Tech Public Media and
distributed by PBS Digital Studios. New episodes every other
Wednesday at 10 am central. Brought to you in part by: Bob and Linda
Herscher, Freese and Nichols, Inc, and the Texas Tech Climate
Science Center.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq8Jo9QN0qA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq8Jo9QN0qA</a></font><br>
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<b><a
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/11/22/climate-lawsuit-trump-administration-our-childrens-trust/">In
Climate Cases, Trump Administration Will Have to Argue Against
Its Own Evidence</a></b><br>
By Karen Savage<br>
Very few would accuse the Trump administration of actually accepting
the science on climate change. The administration has scrubbed
climate data from federal government websites, and worked to undo
most of President Obama's climate policies, including pulling out of
the Paris Climate Agreement. But government agencies also continue
to produce significant data that serves as proof for the "other"
side - including recently releasing the fourth National Climate
Assessment (NCA) that painstakingly outlines the urgency of climate
change.<br>
As a result, while facing at least two lawsuits over its failure to
act on climate change, the Department of Justice may find itself
representing a defendant that has both admitted and denied the
allegations leveled against it.<br>
In one of those cases, the landmark youth-led lawsuit Juliana v.
United States, the Obama administration complicated matters for its
successor by admitting to many of the plaintiffs' complaints in the
government's official response to the suit.<br>
"They made a lot of factual concessions that I doubt the Trump
administration would have agreed with," said Yale Law School Doug
Kysar. "That puts the DOJ lawyers in this uncomfortable position of
having made admissions in their answer that the president is kind of
openly disputing."<br>
This unprecedented flip with no regard to the science has
significant implications for the Trump administration's legal
strategy. Commenting on the difficulties facing justice Department
lawyers in these cases, Hui Chen, a former federal prosecutor and
most recently a consultant to the fraud section of the DOJ's
criminal division, said, "That was precisely the kind of thing that
makes it really difficult, especially I think for people in the
parts of Justice where it's more policy/politically sensitive," ...<br>
On top of the Obama administration filing, the NCA is particularly
damning. The report, compiled by scientists from 13 federal
departments and agencies, says, "It is extremely likely that human
activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases, are the
dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.
For the warming over the last century, there is no convincing
alternative explanation supported by the extent of the observational
evidence."<br>
In addition to mounting a legal defense, DOJ attorneys will also
have to consider the potential public relations fallout.<br>
"The one thing we learned from the tobacco litigation is that the
people might accept all kinds of harm," said Kysar. "But when they
think like you're lying about the harm, they feel very, very
differently about it."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/11/22/climate-lawsuit-trump-administration-our-childrens-trust/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/11/22/climate-lawsuit-trump-administration-our-childrens-trust/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171123095405.htm">Shrinking
glacier cover could lead to increased volcanic activity in
Iceland, warn scientists.</a></b><br>
A new study, led by the University of Leeds, has found that there
was less volcanic activity in Iceland when glacier cover was more
extensive and as the glaciers melted volcanic eruptions increased
due to subsequent changes in surface pressure.<br>
Dr Graeme Swindles, from the School of Geography at Leeds, said:
"Climate change caused by humans is creating rapid ice melt in
volcanically active regions. In Iceland, this has put us on a path
to more frequent volcanic eruptions."<br>
The study examined Icelandic volcanic ash preserved in peat deposits
and lake sediments and identified a period of significantly reduced
volcanic activity between 5,500 and 4,500 years ago. This period
came after a major decrease in global temperature, which caused
glacier growth in Iceland.<br>
The findings, published in the journal Geology, found there was a
time lag of roughly 600 years between the climate event and a
noticeable decrease in the number of volcanic eruptions. The study
suggests that perhaps a similar time lag can be expected following
the more recent shift to warmer temperatures.<br>
Study co-author, Dr Ivan Savov, from the School of Earth &
Environment at Leeds, explains: "When glaciers retreat there is less
pressure on Earth's surface. This can increase the amount of mantle
melt as well as affect magma flow and how much magma the crust can
hold.<font size="-1"><br>
</font>"Even small changes in surface pressure can alter the
likelihood of eruptions at ice-covered volcanos."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171123095405.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171123095405.htm</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a href="https://youtu.be/dncO50MYSKQ">(video news clips) Climate
& Extreme Weather News #81 (November 15th-20th 2017)</a></b><br>
Climate & Extreme Weather News #81 (November 15th-20th 2017) <br>
00:12 Greece: flash floods & Medicane Numa<br>
11:25 Indonesia: Bandung, Lombok & Bekasi floods<br>
19:23 Colombia: Cali, Cartagena & Cucuta floods<br>
23:10 Bolivia: Ivirgarzarma flood<br>
25:53 Paraguay: Ciudad del Este storm <br>
27:58 Australia: Kalgoorlie & Melbourne storms<br>
32:09 Vietnam: Storm Kirogi<br>
32:57 The USA: Storms & snowfall<br>
37:14 Turkey: Mersin hailstorm<br>
39:16 October temp update; November temp anomalies; COP23 report;
French Alpine glaciers report & new warning from scientists<br>
<font size="-2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/dncO50MYSKQ">https://youtu.be/dncO50MYSKQ</a></font><br>
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<b><a
href="http://getenergysmartnow.com/2017/11/22/how-are-trump-coal-the-same-both-pollute-the-commons-people-hate-them-and-want-them-gone/">How
are Trump & Coal the same? both pollute the commons, people
hate them, and vast majorities want them gone</a></b><br>
For the first time in history, green energy is now cheaper than
black energy. The world now has a unique opportunity to create a
world that runs entirely on green energy.<br>
With this reality in mind, Orsted (the Danish clean-energy firm
formerly known as DONG (Danish Oil & Natural Gas)), chartered
the largest global survey ever focused on clean energy issues
seeking to understand:<br>
if people also want a green transformation and how they see
challenges and benefits.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://getenergysmartnow.com/2017/11/22/how-are-trump-coal-the-same-both-pollute-the-commons-people-hate-them-and-want-them-gone/">http://getenergysmartnow.com/2017/11/22/how-are-trump-coal-the-same-both-pollute-the-commons-people-hate-them-and-want-them-gone/</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/pregnancy-heat-outcomes/546362/">Global
Warming Might Be Especially Dangerous for Pregnant Women</a></b><br>
Scientists are concerned that heat waves could be linked to more
premature births and stillbirths....<br>
A handful of researchers in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere
are methodically accumulating evidence suggesting that higher
temperatures could be linked to a higher risk of premature births,
stillbirths, or other negative pregnancy outcomes. The findings in
each case, while compelling, still raise as many questions as they
seem to answer, and all the researchers say that much more work
needs to be done. But they also suggest that enough evidence has
already surfaced to warrant increased scrutiny - particularly as
global warming is expected to drive average temperatures ever upward
over coming decades....<br>
The results were startling. Her research suggested that an increase
of 10 degrees Fahrenheit in weekly average "apparent" temperatures -
a combination of heat and humidity - corresponded to an 8.6 percent
increase in premature births. That association was independent of
air pollution...<br>
Nonetheless, McCormick would like to see pregnant women included in
public-health advisories about heat that currently target the
elderly. "I do think that we have enough research at this point to
be concerned about pregnant women as a vulnerable population," she
said. "We should be warning pregnant women about the risks of heat."
Unlike other sources of risk for stillbirth, heat is something
pregnant women can try to avoid or combat, such as by spending time
in air-conditioning and staying hydrated, the researchers say.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/pregnancy-heat-outcomes/546362/">https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/pregnancy-heat-outcomes/546362/</a><br>
</font><br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1by_QU5jrDE"><br>
(video) Schellnhuber: Unavoidable, Many have to Migrate (~1.4
Billion affected by rising Sea 2060)</a></b><b><br>
</b>Hans Joachim Schellnhuber from the Potsdam Institute for Climate
Impact Research in Germany speaks at the Impacts World 2017
conference. Title: Avoiding the Unmanageable, Managing the
Unavoidable: A Slogan Revisited <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1by_QU5jrDE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1by_QU5jrDE</a>
21 mins<br>
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TRAVEL<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/travel/global-warming-hit-travel-destinations-to-see-soon/article20640874.ece">Get
to these destinations before global warming does</a></b><br>
<b>Kiribati </b>is a drowning nation that is well aware of its
fate. Comprising 33 atolls in the Pacific Ocean, the country is at
the quietly determined forefront of the global climate change
battle. Already hit by destructive tidal surges, Kiribati is staring
at increasing erosion and eventual inundation of causeways and water
salination, according to a World Bank study. In an article titled 'A
Remote Pacific Nation, threatened by rising seas' The New York Times
journalist Mike Ives, says that Kiribati "has essentially been
drawing up plans for its demise", buying land in Fiji and preparing
for partial migration.<br>
While that eventuality may still be some decades away, the nation
has a diving fraternity that is active all year round, plenty of
clam fishing, coral reefs, marine parks and clear, deep blue seas.
The hub of all the fun is Christmas Island, part of the Line Islands
at one end of Kiribati. The Line Islands - through which the
International Date Line passes - include eight that are part of
Kiribati, and three that are United States territory. Here,
Millennium Atoll is a point of international pride as far as coral
reefs are concerned; no prizes for guessing which country it falls
under.<br>
"Our country spans four quadrants of the Earth. So it is pretty big,
but really small at the same time," says Mike Roman, environmental
worker, writer and one of the organisers of Humans of Kiribati, a
group of residents who do a dual job of documenting life on the
atolls and representing the country on climate change platforms like
COP23..<br>
When asked about tourism, Roman merely says, "Most people come here
to cover climate change nowadays."<br>
<b>Capital situation </b>In 2014, the Union of Concerned
Scientists (UCS) in the US published a study on rising sea levels,
sinking land and increasing frequency of tidal floods along the
country's east coast, and patterns for coming decades. Some of the
direst predictions were for Washington DC.<br>
The study estimates that the frequency of floods will rise "from
chronic to incessant" from 2030 to 2045. It says that Washington DC
can expect more than 150 tidal floods per year by 2030.<br>
<b>On Edge </b>In 2007, massive floods submerged one-third of
Indonesian capital Jakarta, prompting evacuation of around 3,00,000
[sic] people. According to The Guardian's article by Philip Sherwell
titled '$40bn to save Jakarta: the story of the Great Garuda', "Four
million people live in neighbourhoods that are now up to four metres
below sea level." Parts of the city now exist behind a seawall that
protects it from the waters of Jakarta Bay. The city is sinking by
25 centimetres every year. And yet, the city is on the global
tourism map. More than being a travel destination unto itself,
"Jakarta is mostly for transits," says the administrator of The
Packer Lodge, a backpackers' hostel in the Chinatown in Glodok,
"Most people here do a quick visit that lasts about three days."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/travel/global-warming-hit-travel-destinations-to-see-soon/article20640874.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/travel/global-warming-hit-travel-destinations-to-see-soon/article20640874.ece</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/blogs/how-do-we-decide-when-give-in-climate-change">Should
homeowners give in to climate change?</a></b><br>
When deciding whether to rebuild homes destroyed by fire or floods,
some homeowners are throwing in the towel.<br>
It's an intellectual and scientific question, but also one about
ethics and morality. Others questions should be: How comfortable are
we in putting first responders in harm's way to rescue people who
refuse to evacuate or insist upon rebuilding? Are we willing to ask
some people to give up their homes for the good of the community?
How do we best support those people who make this decision on their
own or are forced to? What is fair compensation for requiring people
to leave their homes due to disaster-avoidance?<br>
On Staten Island, Herrkind's hope is that in the next 10 years, the
rest of the homes in his old neighborhood of Ocean Breeze will let
their lots be cleared and the land will return to nature. "I hope
that they see the bigger picture," he said. "That climate change is
happening, and we need to take steps to help the communities stay
more resilient to the changing needs of climate change."<br>
We need to get better at addressing the practical and psychological
questions of climate change's impacts. It's only going to get more
intense as the decades pass, and the time to prepare has already
begun.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/blogs/how-do-we-decide-when-give-in-climate-change">https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/blogs/how-do-we-decide-when-give-in-climate-change</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2017/nov/23/could-octopus-dna-reveal-the-secrets-of-west-antarcticas-ice-sheet-collapse">Could
octopus DNA reveal the secrets of west Antarctica's ice sheet
collapse?</a></b><br>
Graham Readfearn<br>
About 120,000 years ago, the Earth was in an interglacial period
with temperatures comparable to the 2C of warming that countries who
are part of the UN's Paris agreement (everyone but the US) are all
trying to avoid.<br>
Strugnell writes that by examining the DNA of some bottom-dwelling
animals currently living around the entire Antarctic continent, you
can work out if the ancestors of those species were able to move
through that trans-Antarctic seaway.<br>
It sounds complicated – and it is.<br>
But in the paper Strugnell describes recent advances in genome
sequencing that can "provide powerful insight into the demographic
history of species including processes such as migration, population
divergence and changes in effective population size".<br>
"The genome of the species contains signatures of what happened to
populations in the past and different demographic changes – these
are all held within that DNA.<br>
"The DNA contains a record of those processes and so we can
investigate different hypothesis of what happened in the past – just
like your own human DNA contains a record of your ancestors.<br>
She has already used similar DNA techniques to understand the
evolution of octopus around Antarctica and now wants to push the
technology even further.<br>
"The future of the planet is tied up in that ice," says Dr Ceridwen
Fraser, of the Australian National University. Fraser also uses DNA
analysis to work out how populations of species have moved around
the plant, particularly in Antarctica.<br>
She says the techniques partly use what is known as the "molecular
clock" – an understanding of the way genes change, or mutate, in
different species.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2017/nov/23/could-octopus-dna-reveal-the-secrets-of-west-antarcticas-ice-sheet-collapse">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2017/nov/23/could-octopus-dna-reveal-the-secrets-of-west-antarcticas-ice-sheet-collapse</a><br>
</font><br>
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thejuicemedia<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/GNIYL5x1oy0">(video)
(satire) Honest Government Ad - If you look carefully...</a></b><br>
Published on Nov 22, 2017<br>
The Australien Government just released an ad warning us of people
who impersonate the Government, and it's surprisingly honest and
informative.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/GNIYL5x1oy0">https://youtu.be/GNIYL5x1oy0</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/144499">This Day in
Climate History November 24, 2008 </a>- from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
November 24, 2008: In an interview on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow<br>
Show," Robert Redford denounces the Bush administration's plan to
have<br>
the Bureau of Land Management hold an oil and gas lease auction in<br>
Salt Lake City, Utah on December 19, 2008. That auction would become<br>
famous for Tim DeChristopher's act of civil disobedience during the<br>
event, as well as the auction's illegality.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/fmgYX8gfxfs">http://youtu.be/fmgYX8gfxfs</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/144499">http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/144499</a><br>
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