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<font size="+1"><i>December 19, 2017<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mailchi.mp/climatenexus/mining-giant-spars-with-trade-groups-over-climate-china-unveils-carbon-market-plans-more?e=95b355344d">[Pipelines]</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/franklin_county/second-court-challenge-filed-over-water-quality-certification-for-mountain/article_8f8612ae-c9f3-5e20-9a95-802675230a7c.html">Second
court challenge filed over water quality certification for
Mountain Valley Pipeline</a><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/franklin_county/second-court-challenge-filed-over-water-quality-certification-for-mountain/article_8f8612ae-c9f3-5e20-9a95-802675230a7c.html">
</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/franklin_county/second-court-challenge-filed-over-water-quality-certification-for-mountain/article_8f8612ae-c9f3-5e20-9a95-802675230a7c.html">(Roanoke
Times),</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/public-hearing-tuesday-on-natural-gas-pipeline-that-would-cross-the-potomac/2017/12/18/9c3e6a42-e419-11e7-833f-155031558ff4_story.html">Public
hearing Tuesday on natural gas pipeline that would cross the
Potomac </a><br>
(Washington Post $)<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-19/a-400-million-barbecue-after-mexican-protesters-dig-up-pipeline">Before
building a $400 million pipeline, make sure your neighbors are on
board</a><font size="-1"> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-19/a-400-million-barbecue-after-mexican-protesters-dig-up-pipeline">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-19/a-400-million-barbecue-after-mexican-protesters-dig-up-pipeline</a></font><br>
[Seattle TImes]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/puyallup-tribe-leads-protest-against-lng-plant-at-tacoma-port/">Puyallup
Tribe leads protest against liquefied-natural-gas plant at
Tacoma Port</a></b><br>
About 200 opponents sought to shut down access Monday to Puget Sound
Energy's (PSE) construction of a $310 million liquefied-natural-gas
(LNG) plant at the Port of Tacoma.<br>
Some workers made their way into the plant Monday morning, but
others had been turned away as self-described "protectors" blocked
access to a road to the construction site. The actions continued
into Monday afternoon, with no injuries or violence reported, said
Loretta Cool, spokeswoman for the Tacoma Police Department. Two
arrests were made for misdemeanor offenses, including blocking
traffic, she said...<br>
Opponents' concerns include the risks of an explosion. And they
argue against the utility's making new investments in natural gas at
a time of increased concerns about climate change and fossil-fuel
emissions.<br>
The "proposed LNG plant poses significant and potentially
catastrophic threats not just to our fishing rights and resources,
but to our homeland, people and neighbors," wrote Bill Sterud,
chairman of the Puyallup Tribal Council in a column published
earlier this month in The (Tacoma) News Tribune.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/puyallup-tribe-leads-protest-against-lng-plant-at-tacoma-port/">https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/puyallup-tribe-leads-protest-against-lng-plant-at-tacoma-port/</a></font><br>
[350 Seattle]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/350_Seattle/status/942794298814210049">https://twitter.com/350_Seattle/status/942794298814210049</a><br>
@350_Seattle #StandWithPuyallup #NoLNG<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.facebook.com/NativeDailyNetwork/videos/763637640495597/">https://www.facebook.com/NativeDailyNetwork/videos/763637640495597/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.facebook.com/nolngtacoma/photos/a.161754851241362.1073741828.160568274693353/164972117586302/">https://www.facebook.com/nolngtacoma/photos/a.161754851241362.1073741828.160568274693353/164972117586302/</a><br>
"This is the spirit of the people fighting back," Dakota Case,
Puyallup Nation. <br>
Right now activists are blocking all 3 entrances of a huge proposed
LNG (i.e: fracked gas) facility in Tacoma, WA, which is being built
without it's proper permits and against the wishes of the Puyallup
Nation-- whose treaty rights it violates. <br>
<br>
<br>
[Greenbiz]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.greenbiz.com/article/axa-4c-warming-makes-world-uninsurable">AXA:
4C warming makes the world uninsurable</a></b><br>
Insurance giant AXA has announced a quadrupling of its 2020 green
investment target from $3.53 billion to $14.13 billion as the
company's CEO warned more than 4 degrees Celsius of warming this
century would make the world "uninsurable."...<br>
In addition, the firm said it will increase its coal divestment
fivefold to reach $2.83 billion by moving its money away from
companies "which derive more than 30 percent of their revenues from
coal, have a coal-based energy mix that exceeds 30 percent, actively
build new coal plants, or produce more than 20 million tonnes of
coal per year."<br>
It also announced plans to divest more than $824 million from main
oil sands producers and associated pipelines, alongside the
"discontinuation of further investments in these businesses,"
reasoning that oil sands are "an extremely carbon-intensive form of
energy and a serious cause of environmental pollution."...<br>
"We realize that contributing to the Paris Agreement targets is also
about making clear choices in what we'll no longer finance,
especially when there are good alternatives available," said
Timmermans. "We are taking this decisive step as part of our overall
ambition to support the energy transition."...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.greenbiz.com/article/axa-4c-warming-makes-world-uninsurable">https://www.greenbiz.com/article/axa-4c-warming-makes-world-uninsurable</a></font><br>
-<br>
[Insurance broker]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ccinsb.com/world-without-insurance/">What Would
a World Without Insurance Look Like?</a></b><br>
[short term]Here are five likely realities:<br>
Homeownership would be for the wealthy <br>
Driving a car would be a financial risk <br>
Necessary and risky jobs would be desolate <br>
It would be near to impossible to start a business <br>
The economy would be weaker<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ccinsb.com/world-without-insurance/">http://www.ccinsb.com/world-without-insurance/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[theGuardian]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/18/trump-drop-climate-change-national-security-strategy">Trump
will drop climate change from US National Security Strategy</a></b><br>
President to outline new approach in unprecedented White House
speech<br>
Obama administration added climate to list of threats to US
interests<br>
Instead, Trump's NSS paper will emphasis the need for the US to
regain its economic competitiveness in the world.<br>
That stance represents a sharp change from the Obama
administration's NSS, which placed climate change as one of the main
dangers facing the nation and made building international consensus
on containing global warming a national security priority.<br>
The Federalist website, which first reported that Trump would drop
climate change from the NSS, quoted the draft document as suggesting
the Trump administration would actively oppose efforts to reduce the
burning of oil, gas and coal for energy.<br>
"US leadership is indispensable to countering an anti-growth energy
agenda that is detrimental to US economic and energy security
interests," the website quoted the document as saying.<br>
"Given future global energy demand, much of the developing world
will require fossil fuels, as well as other forms of energy, to
power their economies and lift their people out of poverty."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/18/trump-drop-climate-change-national-security-strategy">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/18/trump-drop-climate-change-national-security-strategy</a><br>
-<br>
[Whitehouse.gov]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-announces-national-security-strategy-advance-americas-interests/">President
Donald J. Trump Announces a National Security Strategy to
Advance America's Interests</a></b><br>
By: President Donald J. Trump<br>
A NEW NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY FOR A NEW ERA: Less than a year
after taking office, President Donald J. Trump is unveiling a new
National Security Strategy that sets a positive strategic direction
for the United States that will restore America's advantages in the
world and build upon our country's great strengths...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-announces-national-security-strategy-advance-americas-interests/">https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-announces-national-security-strategy-advance-americas-interests/</a></font><br>
- <br>
[Commentary from THE CENTER FOR CLIMATE & SECURITY]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/12/18/reaction-the-new-national-security-strategy-and-climate-change/">Reaction:
The New National Security Strategy and Climate Change</a></b><br>
In short, the NSS does not advance the bipartisan national security
consensus on climate change. Indeed, it demonstrates a step
backward. However, the document is vague enough, and the tide on the
issue in the U.S. has changed so significantly, that it will likely
have little effect on how the military and national security
communities, on both sides of the aisle (or no side of aisle),
address the threat. That said, here's to hoping that the next
version better captures this country's national security consensus
on the matter. Not least as the risks are growing with each passing
year.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/12/18/reaction-the-new-national-security-strategy-and-climate-change/">https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/12/18/reaction-the-new-national-security-strategy-and-climate-change/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[video Peter Sinclair's Climate Denial Crock of the Week]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/12/18/this-isnt-a-double-a-mate-aussies-debate-teslas-giant-battery/">"This
isn't a Double A Mate" Aussies Debate Tesla's Giant Battery</a></b><br>
News and comedy show from Australia displays humorous news take that
we need more of in the US.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/vgOgW0IEWeg">Is
Elon Musk's Huge Battery in South Australia A Waste of Money?
(2017)</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/vgOgW0IEWeg">https://youtu.be/vgOgW0IEWeg</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/12/18/this-isnt-a-double-a-mate-aussies-debate-teslas-giant-battery/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/12/18/this-isnt-a-double-a-mate-aussies-debate-teslas-giant-battery/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/east-antarctic-ice-retreat-global-warming/">East
Antarctic Ice Has a Wild Past. It May Be a Harbinger</a></b><br>
The East Antarctic ice sheet has fluctuated wildly in the past, a
study finds-adding to concerns of a dramatic meltback in the future.<br>
The ice covering East Antarctica, more than 12,000 feet thick in
many places, has long been considered more stable and permanent than
the West Antarctic Ice Sheet-and thus more likely to weather global
warming unscathed. But the new research, published this week in
Nature by Sean Gulick of the University of Texas and his colleagues,
reinforces a growing concern that large swaths of East Antarctica
are more vulnerable than once thought.<br>
In February 2014, the researchers steamed along the Sabrina Coast of
East Antarctica, picking their way among icebergs, in the icebreaker
Nathaniel B. Palmer. A low thud resounded in the air every few
seconds - the muffled burst of submerged air guns towed by the ship.
The sound waves penetrated as far as 1,500 feet into the seabed
before reflecting off internal boundaries in the sediments.
Detectors at the surface recorded those echoes.<br>
These seismic profiles, as they're called, revealed hundreds of
layers of mud, sand, and gravel that had been eroded off the
Antarctic continent over millions of years by the slow action of
glaciers, then carried out to sea. The deeper layers showed that
Antarctic ice first appeared around 50 million years ago-just 15
million years after the dinosaurs died off, and "a lot earlier than
we thought," says paleo-oceanographer Amelia Shevenell of the
University of South Florida, who was on the ship.<br>
The succession of layers allowed Shevenell and her colleagues to
reconstruct the ice sheet's alternating episodes of expansion and
retreat over the tens of millions of years that followed its initial
formation.<br>
During cold periods, the researchers found, the ice advanced 100
miles or more beyond its present-day edge, bulldozing out onto the
continental shelf. In warm times, it ice shrank to less than its
present-day size, retreating far into the Aurora Basin.<br>
But the team was most intrigued by deep scars they found buried
hundreds of feet beneath the seafloor. The V-shaped notches, cut
into underlying layers of sand and mud, looked like "tunnel
valleys": Grooves cut by meltwater flowing under the ice sheet while
it was sitting on the seafloor.<br>
At over half a mile wide and 500 feet deep, the largest of these
grooves could have carried as much water as the Mississippi River -
for a geologic instant. The researchers think they might have been
formed by catastrophic events, when vast lakes of melt water on the
glacier's surface suddenly drained through cracks in the ice.<br>
"For a short period of time you have a Niagara Falls amount of water
pouring down to the base of the ice sheet," says Slawek Tulaczyk, a
glaciologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was
not part of the research team but who studies the flow of water
beneath ice sheets. When that water hits soft sediments under the
ice, "it will just chew into that and erode a tunnel quite readily."<br>
One or more of these floods occurred during at least 11 episodes in
the period between 30 million and six million years ago, the new
study finds. The floods likely happened during periods of tumultuous
transition, when the ice sheet had expanded to well beyond its
present-day size. The ice was then hit by a rapidly warming climate,
with hot summers causing vast lakes of meltwater to form on its
surface-and it roared into retreat.<br>
The air above most of the East and West Antarctic ice sheets today
is too cold for them to melt at the surface. They are mainly
shrinking from the underside, in spots where the edge of the ice is
strafed by deep, warm ocean currents.<br>
During much of the time that Antarctica was repeatedly losing so
much ice off its topside, levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
were similar to what they are today - perhaps only a little higher.
By the end of the century, DeConto says, "we're going to be climbing
way outside of that range."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/east-antarctic-ice-retreat-global-warming/">https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/east-antarctic-ice-retreat-global-warming/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Naomi Klein]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2018-1-january-february/feature/hope-trumps-nope-blueprint-for-resistance">Hope
Trumps Nope: A Blueprint for Resistance</a></b><br>
To build the world we want, we must dare to dream big and out loud<br>
This may sound alarmist, but I have interviewed the leading
scientists in the world on this question, and their research shows
that it's simply a neutral description of reality. The window during
which there is time to lower emissions sufficiently to avoid truly
catastrophic warming is closing rapidly. Lots of social movements
have adopted Samuel Beckett's famous line "Try again. Fail again.
Fail better" as a lighthearted motto. I've always liked the
attitude; we can't be perfect, we won't always win, but we should
strive to improve. The trouble is, Beckett's dictum doesn't work for
climate-not at this stage in the game. If we keep failing to lower
emissions, if we keep failing to kick-start the transition in
earnest away from fossil fuels and to an economy based on
renewables, if we keep dodging the question of wasteful consumption
and the quest for more and more and bigger and bigger, there won't
be more opportunities to fail better. Nearly everything is moving
faster than the climate change modeling projected, including Arctic
sea-ice loss, ice sheet collapse, ocean warming, sea level rise, and
coral bleaching. The next time voters in countries around the world
go to the polls, more sea ice will have melted, more coastal land
will have been lost, more species will have disappeared for good.
The chance for us to keep temperatures below what it would take for
island nations such as, say, Tuvalu or the Maldives to be saved from
drowning becomes that much slimmer. These are irreversible
changes-we don't get a do-over on a drowned country.<br>
The latest peer-reviewed science tells us that if we want a good
shot at protecting coastal cities in my son's lifetime-including
metropolises like New York City and Mumbai-then we need to get off
fossil fuels with superhuman speed. A paper from Oxford University
that came out during the U.S. presidential campaign, published in
the Applied Energy journal, concluded that for humanity to have a
fifty-fifty chance of meeting the temperature targets set in the
climate accord negotiated in Paris at the end of 2015, every new
power plant would have to be zero-carbon starting in 2018. That's
the second year of the Trump presidency....<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2018-1-january-february/feature/hope-trumps-nope-blueprint-for-resistance">https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2018-1-january-february/feature/hope-trumps-nope-blueprint-for-resistance</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[theGuardian]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/dec/18/scientists-have-beaten-down-the-best-climate-denial-argument">Scientists
have beaten down the best climate denial argument</a></b><br>
Clouds don't act as a climate thermostat, and they're not going to
save us from global warming<br>
Climate deniers have come up with a lot of arguments about why we
shouldn't worry about global warming - about 200 of them - but most
are quite poor, contradictory, and easily debunked by consulting the
peer-reviewed scientific literature. The cleverest climate
contrarians settle on the least implausible argument - that
equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS - how much a doubling of the
amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will increase Earth's
surface temperature) is low, meaning that the planet will warm
relatively slowly in response to human carbon pollution.<br>
But they have to explain how that can be the case, because there are
a lot of factors that amplify global warming. For example, a warmer
atmosphere holds more water vapor, which is itself a greenhouse gas,
adding further warming. Warming also melts ice, leaving Earth's
surface less reflective, absorbing more sunlight. There are a number
of these amplifying 'feedbacks,' but few that would act to
significantly slow global warming.<br>
Clouds are one possible exception, because they both act to amplify
global warming (being made of water vapor) and dampen it (being
white and reflective). Which effect wins out depends on the type of
cloud, and so whether clouds act to accelerate or slow global
warming depends on exactly how the formation of different types of
clouds changes in a hotter world. That's hard to predict, so many
contrarians have wishfully argued that clouds will essentially act
as a thermostat to control global warming.<br>
Research suggests if anything, clouds amplify global warming<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/PatrickTBrown31/status/938470170103660546/photo/1">https://twitter.com/PatrickTBrown31/status/938470170103660546/photo/1</a><br>
A new study published in Nature by Stanford scientists Patrick Brown
and Ken Caldeira found that so far, the global climate models that
best simulate the Earth's global energy imbalance tend to predict
the most future global warming. These results suggest the ECS is
around 3.7°C. This is higher than the previous best estimate of
3.1°C, and if correct, would shrink our carbon budget by about 15%.<br>
The study found that the biggest contributor to the difference
between the accurate and inaccurate models was in how well they
simulated cloud changes. And while it's just one study, several
prior papers arrived at similar conclusions. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/dec/18/scientists-have-beaten-down-the-best-climate-denial-argument">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/dec/18/scientists-have-beaten-down-the-best-climate-denial-argument</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[NY Times]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/17/us/politics/epa-pruitt-media-monitoring.html">E.P.A.
Employees Spoke Out. Then Came Scrutiny of Their Email</a></b><br>
December 18, 2017:<br>
"One Environmental Protection Agency employee spoke up at a private<br>
lunch held near the agency headquarters, saying she feared the
nation<br>
might be headed toward an "environmental catastrophe." Another staff<br>
member, from Seattle, sent a letter to Scott Pruitt, the E.P.A.<br>
administrator, raising similar concerns about the direction of the<br>
agency. A third, from Philadelphia, went to a rally where he
protested<br>
against agency budget cuts.<br>
"Three different agency employees, in different jobs, from three<br>
different cities, but each encountered a similar outcome: Federal<br>
records show that within a matter of days, requests were submitted
for<br>
copies of emails written by them that mentioned either Mr. Pruitt or<br>
President Trump, or any communication with Democrats in Congress
that<br>
might have been critical of the agency.<br>
"The requests came from a Virginia-based lawyer working with America<br>
Rising, a Republican campaign research group that specializes in<br>
helping party candidates and conservative groups find damaging<br>
information on political rivals, and which, in this case, was
looking<br>
for information that could undermine employees who had criticized
the<br>
E.P.A.<br>
"Now a company affiliated with America Rising, named Definers Public<br>
Affairs, has been hired by the E.P.A. to provide 'media monitoring,'<br>
in a move the agency said was intended to keep better track of<br>
newspaper and video stories about E.P.A. operations nationwide.<br>
"But the sequence of events has created a wave of fear among<br>
employees, particularly those already subject to special scrutiny,
who<br>
said official assurances hardly put them at ease."..<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/17/us/politics/epa-pruitt-media-monitoring.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/17/us/politics/epa-pruitt-media-monitoring.html</a><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16122017/beach-erosion-sea-level-rise-property-rights-massachusetts-government-storm-nourishment-project">An
American Beach Story: When Property Rights Clash with the Rising
Sea</a></b><br>
The American ethos of individualism is clashing with efforts to
protect coastal communities against sea level rise, often to the
homeowners' detriment.<br>
By Nicholas Kusnetz<br>
Sixty years ago, Don Hourihan and his father laid the bricks for a
rustic home on the Humarock peninsula in southern Massachusetts.
Today, engineers warn that a storm could one day burst through this
narrow sandbar that separates the Atlantic Ocean and the South River
tidal marsh, right next to his house....<br>
This year, the town of Scituate, which includes Humarock, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.scituatema.gov/sites/scituatema/files/uploads/humarock_finalreport_20170630.pdf">proposed
building a $9.6 million artificial dune</a> and raised road to
protect the homes...<br>
As public officials at all levels of government try to protect the
nation's coasts from rising seas, they're confronting an American
ethos that champions individualism over central planning. The
federal government has no master plan for adapting to sea level
rise. States often leave critical decisions about coastal
infrastructure to local governments. And many people would prefer to
protect their own property...<br>
Coastal towns face a sobering reality: They've been losing land for
a century, and they'll lose even more in the decades ahead. To fight
this encroachment, states, towns and the federal government have
spent billions of dollars bolstering dunes and beaches with sand
pumped from the seafloor or imported from inland mines-more than
$3.1 billion from 2007-2016, according to data compiled by Western
Carolina University...<br>
Beach building is one of the more effective, environmentally
friendly measures against coastal erosion, according to geologists
and engineers. But some beachfront homeowners have resisted,
particularly when they've been obliged to sign easements that open
their property to public access...<br>
Without some form of protection, Humarock faces a grim future.<br>
"Because everything is storm driven here, it's not a 'how long',"
said Ramsey, the engineer. The worst-case scenario is a nor'easter
creating another inlet, destroying whatever is in the way and
turning part of Humarock into an island. A new breach could also
damage the marsh, magnifying the risk for many more homes and
businesses. "When it happens, it's just going to happen."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16122017/beach-erosion-sea-level-rise-property-rights-massachusetts-government-storm-nourishment-project">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16122017/beach-erosion-sea-level-rise-property-rights-massachusetts-government-storm-nourishment-project</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.npr.org/2017/12/17/571443704/researching-fighting-climate-change-with-geoengineering">Researching
How To Fight Climate Change With Geoengineering</a></b><br>
NPR's Lulu Garcia Navarro talks with Rep. Jerry McNerney, Democrat
of California, about his new bill to research the effects and risks
of "geoengineering" the planet as a way to fight climate change.<br>
MCNERNEY: (Laughter) Plenty could go wrong. But I think the biggest
thing is that we might change the climate patterns enough to disrupt
national production of wheat or food. It could cause severe flooding
and severe droughts in certain parts of the world. So I think the
risks are very, very high, and we need to have a clear understanding
of what the science tells us about these projects....<br>
We have to reduce carbon emissions first. That's our first priority.
That's the thing we have to do with all vigor. But, you know, it
takes years or decades for carbon buildup in the atmosphere to have
a noticeable impact. And so we're just on the leading edge of
climate change, and there's about 10 years of carbon emissions out
there that haven't even impacted us fully yet. So we may be in for
some truly catastrophic changes. We need to know what the
alternatives are....<br>
Isn't there an old saying that if you're in a hole, stop digging?
Well, we're clearly in a hole now. Climate change is becoming more
obvious, and if we don't stop emissions or reduce emissions, then
it's just going to accelerate. So we have to know what our options
are.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.npr.org/2017/12/17/571443704/researching-fighting-climate-change-with-geoengineering">https://www.npr.org/2017/12/17/571443704/researching-fighting-climate-change-with-geoengineering</a></font><br>
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<b>[</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.boell.de/sites/default/files/bigbadfix_a4_col4web.pdf?dimension1=division_iup">Free
PDF download</a></b><b>]</b><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.boell.de/en/2017/12/01/big-bad-fix-case-against-geoengineering">The
Big Bad Fix: The case against geoengineering</a></b><br>
Date of Publication: December 2017<br>
Number of Pages: 76<br>
Language of Publication: English<br>
The "Big Bad Fix" provides policy makers, journalists, NGO
activists, social movements, and other change agents with a
comprehensive overview of the key actors, technologies and fora
relevant in the geoengineering discourse. It delivers a sound
background analysis of the history of geoengineering, the various
vested interests shaping it, and case studies on some of the most
important technologies and experiments.<br>
It calls for an urgent and immediate ban on the deployment and
outdoor testing of Solar Radiation Management technologies for their
potential to suspend human rights, democracy, and international
peace. It argues for a governance of geoengineering that is
participatory and transparent, grounded in international law, built
on the precautionary principle and informed by a rigorous debate on
real, existing, transformative and just climate policies and
practices.<br>
It is a call to action for a movement of movements to come together
to oppose geoengineering as a technofix for climate change and as a
threat to world peace, democracy and human rights.<a
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/us/21drilling.html">This
Day in Climate History December 19, 2008 </a>- from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
December 19, 2008:<br>
Tim DeChristopher engages in civil disobedience during an (illegal)<br>
Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease auction in Salt Lake
City,<br>
Utah. He is later prosecuted for his activism and sentenced to two<br>
years in prison. <i>Tim DeChristopher, bidder #70</i><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/us/21drilling.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/us/21drilling.html</a>
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