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<font size="+1"><i>December 13, 2017<br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12122017/exxon-climate-risk-disclosure-sec-shareholder-investigation-pressure">Exxon
Agrees to Disclose Climate Risks Under Pressure from Investors</a></b><br>
In an SEC filing, Exxon dropped its opposition to a shareholder
request and agreed to disclose risks it faces from climate change
and carbon emission regulations. The oil giant also faces climate
fraud investigations by attorneys general from New York and
Massachusetts. <br>
From the Dec 11th SEC filing: <br>
"...the Board has decided to...issue these disclosures in the near
future. <b>These enhancements will include energy demand
sensitivities, implications of two degree Celsius scenarios, and
positioning for a lower-carbon future."<br>
</b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34088/000003408817000057/r8k121117.htm">https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34088/000003408817000057/r8k121117.htm</a><font
size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12122017/exxon-climate-risk-disclosure-sec-shareholder-investigation-pressure">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12122017/exxon-climate-risk-disclosure-sec-shareholder-investigation-pressure</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://bluevirginia.us/2017/12/today-may-have-been-a-serious-setback-for-dominion-energy-va-deq-spokesperson-struggles-to-answer-questions-on-atlantic-coast-pipeline-video">...Serious
Setback for Dominion Energy; Va. DEQ Spokesperson Struggles to
Answer Questions on Atlantic Coast Pipeline (Video)</a></b><br>
Summary: Bowing to unprecedented opposition from landowners and
environmentalists, the Virginia State Water Control Board today
threw a wrench in the plans of Governor Terry McAuliffe and Dominion
Energy to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline for fracked gas. The
board voted 4-3 to approve the project under section 401 of the
Clean Water Act, but dependent on a final review of several
environmental studies. The vote delays Dominion's plan to begin
near-term construction of the 600-mile pipeline. The decision likely
means this issue will be delayed into 2018 and into the
administration of Governor-elect Ralph Northam, who has taken a less
openly supportive stance on the pipeline due to environmental
concerns.<font size="-1"><br>
</font><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/xpg28K_5mUc">Virginia
DEQ Spokesman Press Conference After ACP Hearing (12/12/17)</a><br>
Bill Hayden of the Virginia Dept. of Environmental Quality struggles
to answer questions from reporters on the status of the Atlantic
Coast Pipeline.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/xpg28K_5mUc">https://youtu.be/xpg28K_5mUc</a>
7:34 <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://bluevirginia.us/2017/12/today-may-have-been-a-serious-setback-for-dominion-energy-va-deq-spokesperson-struggles-to-answer-questions-on-atlantic-coast-pipeline-video">http://bluevirginia.us/2017/12/today-may-have-been-a-serious-setback-for-dominion-energy-va-deq-spokesperson-struggles-to-answer-questions-on-atlantic-coast-pipeline-video</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-skirball-fire-cause-20171212-story.html">Cooking
fire at a homeless encampment sparked Bel-Air blaze that
destroyed homes, officials say</a><br>
</b>Los Angeles has been struggling in recent years with a major
uptick in the homeless population, with encampments spreading out
from downtown L.A. into neighborhoods across the city. A report in
May put the homeless population in Los Angeles County at 58,000, a
23% increase over the last year.<b><br>
</b><font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-skirball-fire-cause-20171212-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-skirball-fire-cause-20171212-story.html</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://priceofoil.org/2017/12/12/reaction-world-bank-upstream-oil-gas-finance/">At
One Planet Summit, the World Bank steals the show by phasing out
upstream oil and gas finance</a></b><br>
Oil Change International statement:<br>
"It is hard to overstate the significance of this historic
announcement by the World Bank. Environmental, human rights, and
development campaigners have been amplifying the voices of frontline
communities for decades in calling for an end to World Bank
financing of upstream oil and gas projects. Today the World Bank has
raised the bar for climate leadership by recognizing the simple yet
inconvenient truth that achieving the Paris Agreement's climate
goals requires an end to the expansion of the fossil fuel industry.
We congratulate the World Bank, and we look forward to working with
them and other partners towards a managed decline of fossil fuel
production, and a just, equitable transition to a global clean
energy economy. It is time for all of the institutions, countries,
investors and individuals who are still in the Paris Agreement to
stop funding fossils – once and for all."...<br>
World Bank Group already has a policy in place that restricts
support for coal-fired power plants and for thermal coal mining.
With the addition of upstream oil and gas to thermal coal mining,
this commitment means that the World Bank will no longer finance
fossil fuel extraction after 2019, except in extreme cases....<br>
A briefing titled "Dirty Dozen," released by the Big Shift Global
campaign the day before the summit, highlights some examples of the
types of destructive fossil fuel projects that public finance
continues to prop up.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://priceofoil.org/2017/12/12/reaction-world-bank-upstream-oil-gas-finance/">http://priceofoil.org/2017/12/12/reaction-world-bank-upstream-oil-gas-finance/</a></font><br>
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[Oil Change International]<br>
<b><a href="http://priceofoil.org/2017/12/11/dirty-dozen-briefing/">Dirty
Dozen – How Public Finance Drives the Climate Crisis through
Oil, Gas, and Coal Expansion</a></b><br>
I want to draw your attention to two exciting releases today, on the
eve of the One Planet Summit in Paris. First, the Big Shift Global
campaign has released a new briefing called the "Dirty Dozen," which
examines 12 dirty fossil fuel projects being backed by public
finance institutions like The World Bank Group, despite their
rhetorical commitment to climate action. <br>
As heads of state and leading institutions gather on 12th December
in Paris to celebrate the second anniversary of the Paris Agreement
on climate change, a new briefing from the <a
href="http://bigshiftglobal.org/">Big Shift Global campaign</a>
profiles <b>twelve fossil fuel projects – the "Dirty Dozen" – that
exemplify the massive volumes of public finance still flowing to
fossil fuel projects</b>. These preferential fossil fuel finance
flows that benefit the oil, gas, and coal industries are slowing
down the energy transition in the global economy, and undermining
the spirit of the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development
Goals...<br>
...they are examples of the kinds of activity that communities and
concerned citizens across the world want public finance institutions
to stop supporting with taxpayer money. To have any hope of meeting
globally-agreed climate goals, global financial flows must rapidly
align with low-emission, climate-resilient development, and
government-backed public finance institutions like the World Bank
must signal this transition.<br>
<b>Multilateral development banks and G20 public finance
institutions provide almost four times as much finance to fossil
fuels than to clean energy in an average year.</b> This translates
to an average of $71.8 billion per year between 2013-15 in public
finance for fossil fuels, compared to just $18.7 billion for
renewable energy (without negative environmental and social
impacts), from the same institutions and world leaders that have
committed to achieving the aims of the Paris Agreement.<br>
<b>...the Big Shift Global campaign calls on public finance
institutions, and specifically the World Bank Group, to
immediately end finance for fossil fuel exploration and remaining
coal finance...</b><br>
Second, over 180 civil society groups have signed onto a letter
calling on G20 governments and multilateral development banks to
phase out fossil Here are the public links to the briefing and the
letter: <br>
Dirty Dozen Briefing: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://priceofoil.org/dirtydozen">http://priceofoil.org/dirtydozen</a><br>
Civil Society Letter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://priceofoil.org/one-planet-letter">http://priceofoil.org/one-planet-letter</a><br>
<a
href="http://priceofoil.org/content/uploads/2017/12/Dirty-Dozen-briefing.pdf">Download
the briefing</a><br>
<font size="-1">DIRTY PROJECT 1: SOUTHERN GAS CORRIDOR<br>
DIRTY PROJECT 2: ATIMONAN ONE COAL PROJECT IN QUEZON, PHILIPPINES<br>
DIRTY PROJECT 3: PETROBRAS OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT, BRAZIL<br>
DIRTY PROJECT 4: THABAMETSI COAL PLANT, SOUTH AFRICA<br>
DIRTY PROJECT 5: ADANI CARMICHAEL COAL MINE, AUSTRALIA<br>
DIRTY PROJECT 6: CIREBON 2 COAL PLANT, INDONESIA<br>
DIRTY PROJECT 7: NADOR WEST CARGO PORT, MOROCCO<br>
DIRTY PROJECT 8: CITLA ENERGY OIL EXPLORATIONAND PRODUCTION,
MEXICO<br>
DIRTY PROJECT 9: TAR SANDS DEVELOPMENT, CANADA<br>
DIRTY PROJECT 10: RAMPAL COAL PLANT, BANGLADESH<br>
DIRTY PROJECT 11: LAMU COAL PLANT, KENYA<br>
DIRTY PROJECT 12: GAS DEVELOPMENT AND LNG PROJECT, MOZAMBIQUE</font><br>
As highlighted in this briefing, the World Bank Group and other
public finance institutions still have much work to do in order to
align their activities with a truly climate-resilient, low-emissions
future.<br>
Partner Support Pack: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://bit.ly/OnePlanetShare">http://bit.ly/OnePlanetShare</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://priceofoil.org/2017/12/11/dirty-dozen-briefing/">http://priceofoil.org/2017/12/11/dirty-dozen-briefing/</a></font><br>
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[Yale Climate Change Communication]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/scientific-agreement-can-neutralize-politicization-facts/"><b>"Scientific
agreement can neutralize the politicization of facts"</b></a><br>
By Sander van der Linden, Anthony Leiserowitz and Edward Maibach in
the journal Nature Human Behaviour,<br>
In other words, we found that communicating a simple fact about the
scientific consensus on human-caused climate change did not
reinforce political polarization. Quite the opposite: communicating
the scientific consensus helped neutralize partisan motivated
reasoning and bridge the conservative-liberal divide, at least on
this key fact. These findings proved robust across ideology and
education levels and build on our prior work illustrating that
perceived scientific consensus acts as a "gateway" to other key
beliefs about climate change. Additional graphs, information, and
results can be found in the study's Supplementary Information.<br>
The article is available here to those with a subscription to Nature
Human Behaviour. If you would like to request a copy, please send an
email to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:climatechange@yale.edu">climatechange@yale.edu</a>,
with the Subject Line: Request Scientific Agreement Paper.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/scientific-agreement-can-neutralize-politicization-facts/">http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/scientific-agreement-can-neutralize-politicization-facts/</a><br>
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[theguardian]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/12/arctic-permafrost-sea-ice-thaw-climate-change-report">Arctic
permafrost thawing faster than ever, US climate study finds</a></b><br>
Sea ice also melting at fastest past in 1,500 years, US government
scientists find...<br>
'The Arctic is a very different place than it was even a decade ago'
– author...<br>
The annual report released on Tuesday by the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration showed slightly less warming in many
measurements than a record hot 2016. But scientists remain concerned
because the far northern region is warming twice as fast as the rest
of the globe and has reached a level of warming that’s unprecedented
in modern times....<br>
This isn't just a concern for the few people who live north of the
Arctic circle. Changes in the Arctic can alter fish supply. And more
ice-free Arctic summers can lead to countries competing to exploit
new areas for resources. Research also shows changes in Arctic sea
ice and temperature can alter the jet stream, which is a major
factor in US weather.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/12/arctic-permafrost-sea-ice-thaw-climate-change-report">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/12/arctic-permafrost-sea-ice-thaw-climate-change-report</a></font><br>
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[350Seattle.org]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://350seattle.org/2017/12/12/activists-arraigned-today-lockdown-crane-pses-lng-plant/">Activists
to be arraigned today for lockdown on crane at PSE's LNG plant</a></b><br>
Activists locked themselves to a crane for nine hours at the site of
the proposed Puget Sound Energy (PSE) liquefied "natural" gas (LNG)
facility at the Port of Tacoma yesterday—halting construction of an
8 million gallon storage tank all day.<br>
Though it lacks essential permits and has been issued a Notice of
Violation by the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency following a Work Stop
Request by the Puyallup Tribe in August, PSE has continued to build
the facility, which is adjacent to the Puyallup Tribe's reservation
boundaries.<br>
Way and Carlo Voli, 52, an activist with 350 Seattle, will be
arraigned today at 1pm PST.<br>
PSE touts the project as producing a cleaner shipping fuel (although
better alternatives exist, including low-sulfur diesel) and as a
source of jobs (though it will only create 18 jobs). The Puyallup
Tribe points to a litany of issues: it risks their waters, salmon,
and treaty fishing rights; an explosion would have a 3.5 mile
blast-zone range, endangering adjacent communities; and the Port of
Tacoma sits in a zone at risk for earthquakes, lahars and tsunamis.
Other Tacoma community members add that emissions from the
liquefaction process will worsen the already unhealthy air near the
Port; that there has not been proper regulatory process by the City
and Port of Tacoma; that over 40% of the price tag for the project
will be paid by PSE ratepayers; that PSE has created a shell company
in order to avoid liability in the event of a disaster; and that the
project would facilitate the poisoning of waters, land, and
communities at fracking well sites.<br>
"The time for talk is over—the planet is on fire and in dire need of
first responders," says Robert Satiacum, Puyallup Tribal member.
"Disregarding the Puyallup Tribe's objections is criminal: No means
no."<br>
Climate activists are also concerned that this project will lock the
region into "natural" gas use for decades to come; recent studies
indicate that fracked gas is as bad as coal in its climate impacts.
With the increase of extreme weather patterns, sea level rise,and
forest fires, they say we can no longer afford to build new fossil
fuel infrastructure....<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://350seattle.org/2017/12/12/activists-arraigned-today-lockdown-crane-pses-lng-plant/">http://350seattle.org/2017/12/12/activists-arraigned-today-lockdown-crane-pses-lng-plant/</a><br>
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[newsy video]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/PGpm6EOwOCc">France
awards grants to US climate scientists</a></b><br>
The "Make Our Planet Great Again" contest was announced after
President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate
accord.<br>
Learn more about this story at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.newsy.com/74326/">www.newsy.com/74326/</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/PGpm6EOwOCc">https://youtu.be/PGpm6EOwOCc</a></font><br>
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[Informed Comment]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.juancole.com/2017/12/scientists-beginning-education.html">Exodus
of Climate Scientists to France only the Beginning if GOP Guts
Grad Education</a></b><br>
By Juan Cole Dec. 12, 2017 <br>
French President Emmanuel Macron has a program he calls MAPA –
"Making the Planet Great Again." His government is offering funding
to climate scientists who are facing obstacles in their home
countries, to come and work in France. He just managed to lure away
18 high-powered scientists, one of whom shared a Nobel Prize and 12
of whom are Americans.<br>
France is after all a very pleasant place to live and work, with
state of the art labs and equipment for scientists. Macron's is the
first French government to take the challenge of climate change
seriously and to pursue renewable energy (French energy policy was
earlier tied to nuclear reactors, but these have been an
environmental disaster)...<br>
The US has all along had a streak of anti-intellectualism and
suspicion of high powered science. Now the worst elements in the GOP
plan to put it all into law and drag the country down to their
level.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.juancole.com/2017/12/scientists-beginning-education.html">https://www.juancole.com/2017/12/scientists-beginning-education.html</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/french-president-s-climate-talent-search-nabs-18-foreign-scientists">French
president’s climate talent search nabs 18 foreign scientists</a></b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/french-president-s-climate-talent-search-nabs-18-foreign-scientists">Here
is the list of the 18 winners: </a><br>
<font size="-1">Venkatramani Balaji, Moving from Princeton
University to the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences
in Saclay.<br>
Frédéric Bouchard, Moving from the University of Montreal in
Canada to the Geosciences Paris-Sud Laboratory in Saclay.<br>
Julien Boucharel, Moving from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu
to the Space Geophysics and Oceanography Studies Laboratory in
Toulouse.<br>
Virginie Guemas, Moving from Barcelona Supercomputing Center in
Spain to the National Centre for Meteorological Research in
Toulouse.<br>
Nuria Teixido, Moving from Stanford University in Palo Alto,
California, to the Villefranche Oceanographic Laboratory.<br>
Louis Derry, Moving from Cornell University to the Paris Institute
of Physics of the Globe.<br>
Barbara Ervens, Moving from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration in Boulder, Colorado, to the Institute of Chemistry
of Clermont Ferrand.<br>
Joost de Gouw, Moving from the University of Colorado in Boulder
to the Institute of research on catalysis and the environment of
Lyon.<br>
Delphine Renard, Moving from the University of California, Santa
Barbara, to the Centre of Functional and Evolutionary Biology in
Montpellier.<br>
Alessandra Giannini, Moving from Columbia University to the
Laboratory of Dynamic Meteorology in Paris.<br>
Thomas Lauvaux, Moving from Pennsylvania State University in State
College to the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences in
Saclay.<br>
Vincent Vadez, Moving from the Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research in New Delhi to the Plant Biodiversity and
Adaptation Research Group in Montpellier.<br>
Christopher Cantrell, Moving from the University Colorado in
Boulder to the Interuniversity Laboratory of Atmospheric Systems
in Créteil.<br>
Camille Parmesan, Moving from the University of Plymouth in the
United Kingdom to the Station for Theoretical and Experimental
Ecology in Moulis.<br>
Benjamin Sanderson, Moving from the National Center for
Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, to the Climate,
Environment, Couplings and Uncertainties Laboratory in Toulouse.<br>
Philip Schulz, Moving from the National Renewable Energy
Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, to the Research and Development
Institute for Photovoltaic Energy in Paris.<br>
Lorie Hamelin, Moving from the Institute of Soil Science and Plant
Cultivation in Pulawy, Poland, to the Biological Systems and
Processes Engineering Laboratory in Toulouse.<br>
Giuliano Giambastiani, Moving from the Italian National Resource
Council in Rome to the Institute of Chemistry and Processes for
Energy, Environment and Health in Strasbourg.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/french-president-s-climate-talent-search-nabs-18-foreign-scientists">http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/french-president-s-climate-talent-search-nabs-18-foreign-scientists</a></font><br>
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[KING5 News]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.king5.com/article/tech/microsoft-commits-50m-to-fighting-climate-change-with-ai/281-498635706">Microsoft
commits $50M to fighting climate change with AI</a></b><br>
Microsoft will devote $50 million in grants for organizations
seeking to use its artificial intelligence technology to fight
climate change.<br>
Microsoft's AI for Earth program allows organizations and
individuals to access the company's advanced artificial intelligence
technology, which has been used to improve operations, conserve
resources, and increase efficiency in industries vital to climate
change. <br>
In Norway, Microsoft's AI technology has been used by <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/cxKphN8iVHE">Agder
Energi</a>, to adapt to the vacillating energy needs that electric
vehicles, which increasingly tax Norway's grid, have placed upon
electrical grids.<br>
Microsoft claims that the AI technology has reduced the need for
expensive new projects to compensate for adoption of electric cars.<br>
From collecting data about the conditions of the air, water, land
and wellbeing of wildlife, the AI technology can also be trained to
turn raw data into readable information about how environmental
systems are changing at a global scale.<br>
Microsoft has already awarded 35 grants in more than 10 countries to
access Microsoft Azure and AI technology. Interested organizations
and individuals with training necessary to utilize the technology
can <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/azure-research-award-ai-earth/">apply
through the company website </a>for the grants. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.king5.com/article/tech/microsoft-commits-50m-to-fighting-climate-change-with-ai/281-498635706">http://www.king5.com/article/tech/microsoft-commits-50m-to-fighting-climate-change-with-ai/281-498635706</a><br>
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[Blogs.Microsoft.com]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/12/11/ai-for-earth-can-be-a-game-changer-for-our-planet/">AI
for Earth can be a game-changer for our planet</a></b><br>
Brad Smith - President and Chief Legal Officer<br>
...At Microsoft, we believe AI for Earth will be a force multiplier
for groups and individuals like these who are creating sustainable
solutions. That's why we're not just putting more resources into
this effort, but also coupling this with a long-term commitment to
applying AI to grow and scale in four key areas – climate, water,
agriculture and biodiversity...<br>
We'll do this in three ways. First, we'll expand seed grants around
the world to create and test new AI applications. Since our launch
of AI for Earth six months ago, Microsoft has awarded over 35 grants
in more than 10 countries for access to Microsoft Azure and AI
technology. We will also provide universities, nongovernmental
organizations and others with advanced training to put AI to its
best use. Already, we're seeing success around the world in projects
that are putting AI to work on climate, water, agriculture and
biodiversity...<br>
Next, as these projects and our work in this area matures, we will
identify the projects that show the most promise and make larger
investments to help bring them to scale. We'll do this not only by
providing greater resources for these projects, but also by
partnering closely and working in depth with a new
multi-disciplinary team at Microsoft that will bring together AI and
sustainability subject matter experts. As we help groups scale
promising AI technology solutions, we'll help them commercialize
these services, so they can have a global impact as quickly and
broadly as possible. These will be in addition to our existing
efforts: enabling real-time precision conservation and improving
land cover mapping, precision agriculture to increase yield with
fewer resources with FarmBeats and more efficient, effective
biodiversity tracking and protection approaches through Project
Premonition...<br>
... As we enter the world's Fourth Industrial Revolution, a
technology-fueled transformation, we must not only move technology
forward, but also use this era's technology to clean up the past and
create a better future.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/12/11/ai-for-earth-can-be-a-game-changer-for-our-planet/">https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/12/11/ai-for-earth-can-be-a-game-changer-for-our-planet/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[YouTube video discussion]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/VfZbYcLxQBI">The
Doomed Earth Controversy: David Wallace-Wells & Michael Mann
(November 2017)</a></b><br>
Understanding Climate Change Published on Dec 9, 2017<br>
The Doomed Earth Controversy: David Wallace Wells & Michael Mann
<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/VfZbYcLxQBI">https://youtu.be/VfZbYcLxQBI</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://oceana.org/blog/doomed-their-beauty-nautiluses-could-be-headed-toward-extinction#">Doomed
by their beauty, nautiluses could be headed toward extinction</a></b><br>
BY: Allison Guy Tuesday November 28, 2017<br>
If ever there was a timeless beauty, the nautilus is it. Boasting
elegant spiral shells, recognizably nautil-esque mollusks have
zipped through the ocean's depths for 500 million years... <br>
"It is climate change that is ultimately screwing all of the deep
reef. Cold water increases acidification. These guys spend a YEAR
in an egg and hatch with a shell 25mm in diameter. But I think the
higher acidity at the 300m deep, 15C temperatures they develop in
causes shell deformation before birth. Then they are over-fished
because of the loss of game fish in the tropics and much of that is
due to the disappearance of eel grass all over the planet."<br>
"Natural selection has a whole new game in town," said Peter Ward, a
nautilus expert at Seattle's University of Washington. And that game
is called: "if you are pretty to a human, you are probably going to
die."...<br>
Ward welcomed the possibility of a listing under the Endangered
Species Act, but explained that regulating the nautilus trade would
be just the tip of the iceberg. "The larger war," he said, "is
shutting down the tropical shell trade."...<br>
Ward said that it's up to wealthy consumers to stop killing these
creatures for their beauty. "Everyone who wants their own little
shell collection is adding to the decimation," he said. "All these
pretty things were not put on the planet so we could put them on our
bathroom shelves."...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://oceana.org/blog/doomed-their-beauty-nautiluses-could-be-headed-toward-extinction#">http://oceana.org/blog/doomed-their-beauty-nautiluses-could-be-headed-toward-extinction#</a></font><br>
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href="https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-and-rupert-murdoch-have-set-our-future-on-fire/">Donald
Trump and Rupert Murdoch Have Set Our Future on Fire</a></b><br>
The fires and storms ravaging the planet are only going to get
worse, especially if we don't end the power of climate deniers.<br>
By Mark Hertsgaard<br>
...The terrible truth is that we are running out of time faster all
the time, and this will remain true as long as Trump and his
Republican sponsors remain in power. Which is yet another reason why
this manifestly unfit president needs to be impeached as soon as
possible and Republicans routed in the 2018 elections and beyond.
None of this will be easy or without cost. But if we treasure life,
these are the fires that must burn next time, starting now.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-and-rupert-murdoch-have-set-our-future-on-fire/">https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-and-rupert-murdoch-have-set-our-future-on-fire/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/zcJ7vIB6XHQ">How
not to panic about Global Warming</a></b><br>
ClimateAdam<br>
Global warming can be pretty terrifying. But with these handy life
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again in no time. Maybe.<br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8092216.html">This Day
in Climate History December 13, 1988 </a>- from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
December 13, 1988: The Boston Globe runs a front-page story
entitled,<br>
"COASTAL REGIONS URGED TO PREPARE FOR RISING SEA LEVEL; PLANNERS
DECRY<br>
APATHY TOWARD GREENHOUSE EFFECT'S THREAT."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8092216.html">http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8092216.html</a><br>
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