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<font size="+1"><i>January 18, 2018</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/17/us-unilateralism-makes-tacking-climate-change-harder-wef-warns">US
unilateralism makes tacking climate change harder, WEF warns</a></b><br>
Donald Trump's time in office has coincided with huge increase to
all five eco risks surveyed<br>
The World Economic Forum delivered a strong warning about Donald
Trump's go-it-alone approach to tackling climate change as it
highlighted the growing threat of environmental collapse in its
annual assessment of the risks facing the international community.<br>
In the run-up to the US president's speech to its annual meeting in
Davos, Switzerland, next week, the WEF avoided mentioning Trump by
name but said "nation-state unilateralism" would make it harder to
tackle global warming and ecological damage.<br>
The WEF's global risks perception survey showed Trump's arrival in
the White House in 2017 had coincided with a marked increase in
concern about The environment among experts polled by the
Swiss-based organisation.<br>
It said all five environmental risks covered by the survey - extreme
weather events, natural disasters, failure of climate-change
mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse,
and human-made natural disasters - had become more prominent.<br>
"This follows a year characterised by high-impact hurricanes,
extreme temperatures and the first rise in CO2 emissions for four
years. We have been pushing our planet to the brink and the damage
is becoming increasingly clear.<br>
"Biodiversity is being lost at mass-extinction rates, agricultural
systems are under strain, and pollution of the air and sea has
become an increasingly pressing threat to human health."<br>
"We have to work together - that is the key to preventing crises and
making the world more resilient for current and future generations.
Humanity cannot successfully deal with the multiplicity of
challenges we face either sequentially or in isolation."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/17/us-unilateralism-makes-tacking-climate-change-harder-wef-warns">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/17/us-unilateralism-makes-tacking-climate-change-harder-wef-warns</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Not horrible - maybe]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jan/18/worst-case-global-warming-scenarios-not-credible-says-study">Worst-case
global warming scenarios not credible, says study</a></b><br>
Earth's surface will almost certainly not warm up four or five
degrees Celsius by 2100, according to a study which, if correct,
voids worst-case UN climate change predictions.<br>
A revised calculation of how greenhouse gases drive up the planet's
temperature reduces the range of possible end-of-century outcomes by
more than half, researchers said in the report, published in the
journal Nature.<br>
"Our study all but rules out very low and very high climate
sensitivities," said lead author Peter Cox, a professor at the
University of Exeter.<br>
How effectively the world slashes CO2 and methane emissions,
improves energy efficiency and develops technologies to remove CO2
from the air will determine whether climate change remains
manageable or unleashes a maelstrom of human misery.<br>
But uncertainty about how hot things will get also stems from the
inability of scientists to nail down a very simple question: By how
much will Earth's average surface temperature go up if the amount of
CO2 in the atmosphere is doubled?<br>
That "known unknown" is called equilibrium climate sensitivity, and
for the last 25 years the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change - the ultimate authority on climate science - has settled on
a range of 1.5C to 4.5C (2.7 to 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit).<br>
Cox and colleagues, using a new methodology, have come up with a far
narrower range: 2.2C to 3.4C, with a best estimate of 2.8C.<br>
If accurate, it precludes the most destructive doomsday scenarios.
"These scientists have produced a more accurate estimate of how the
planet will respond to increasing CO2 levels," said Piers Forster,
director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate at the
University of Leeds.<br>
Gabi Hegerl, a climate scientist at the University of Edinburgh who,
like Forster, did not take part in the research, added: "Having
lower probability for very high sensitivity is reassuring. Very high
sensitivity would have made it extremely hard to limit climate
change according to the Paris targets."...<br>
Findings should not be seen as taking pressure off need to tackle
climate change, authors warn<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jan/18/worst-case-global-warming-scenarios-not-credible-says-study">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jan/18/worst-case-global-warming-scenarios-not-credible-says-study</a></font><br>
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[3 Degrees C National Geographic]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/6rdLu7wiZOE">3
Degrees Warmer: Heat Wave Fatalities Video</a><br>
If the world warms by three degrees the Mediterranean and parts of
Europe will wither in the summer's heat. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/6rdLu7wiZOE">https://youtu.be/6rdLu7wiZOE</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Psych]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180117164010.htm">Researchers
explore psychological effects of climate change</a></b><br>
Wildfires, extreme storms and major weather events can seem like a
distant threat, but for those whose lives have been directly
impacted by these events, the threat hits much closer to home.<br>
As reports of such incidents continue to rise, researchers at the
University of Arizona set out to learn more about how people's
perception of the threat of global climate change affects their
mental health. They found that while some people have little anxiety
about the Earth's changing climate, others are experiencing high
levels of stress, and even depression, based on their perception of
the threat of global climate change.<br>
While significant research has explored the environmental impacts of
climate change, far fewer studies have considered its psychological
effect on humans, said UA researcher Sabrina Helm, an associate
professor of family and consumer science in the UA's Norton School
of Family and Consumer Sciences in the College of Agriculture and
Life Sciences.<br>
Helm and her colleagues found that psychological responses to
climate change seem to vary based on what type of concern people
show for the environment, with those highly concerned about the
planet's animals and plants experiencing the most stress.<br>
The researchers outline in a new study, which appears in the journal
Global Environmental Change, three distinct types of environmental
concern: Egoistic concern is concern about how what's happening in
the environment directly impacts the individual; for example, a
person might worry about how air pollution will affect their own
lungs and breathing. Altruistic concern refers to concern for
humanity in general, including future generations. Biospheric
concern refers to concern for nature, plants and animals...<font
size="-1"><br>
</font>"Climate change has evident physical and mental health
effects if you look at certain outcomes, such as the hurricanes we
had last year, but we also need to pay very close attention to the
mental health of people in everyday life, as we can see this,
potentially, as a creeping development," Helm said. "Understanding
that there are differences in how people are motivated is very
important for finding ways to address this, whether in the form of
intervention or prevention."<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180117164010.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180117164010.htm</a></font><br>
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[Environmental Melancholia]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://pincsf.org/civicrm/event/register?id=195&reset=1">Register
Now </a>- location: San Francisco<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://pincsf.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=195">Environmental
Melancholia: Psychoanalysis for a Warming Planet</a></b><br>
Renee Lertzman, Ph.D., Discussant Thomas Rosbrow, Ph.D.<br>
Thursday Jan. 25, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM<br>
Does psychoanalytic work hold a key for addressing some of the most
urgent survival issues facing our planet today? Is the primary
reason more of us are not acting on behalf of our environment
possibly due to an underlying "environmental melancholia," where
identifying opportunities for agency and repair are difficult? If
so, what can be done about this? Renee Lertzman, author of
Environmental Melancholia: Psychoanalytic Dimensions of
Environmental Engagement explores these questions and more. Dr.
Lertzman bridges psychoanalytic research and environmental work,
pioneering ideas regarding the the role that both psychoanalytic
thought and it's practitioners have in meeting our most severe
ecological crises. Through conversation with Dr. Thomas Rosbrow,
participants will learn about Lertzman's theory of environmental
melancholia, specific examples of how psychoanalytic insights can
actively be supporting those on the front lines of engagement, and
why the psychoanalytic community is needed now, more than ever, to
evolve our concepts of what it means to work both inside and outside
the consulting room.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://pincsf.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=195">https://pincsf.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=195</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Pass the mosquito repellent]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/scientists-race-kill-mosquitoes-they-kill-us">Scientists
Race to Kill Mosquitoes Before They Kill Us</a></b><br>
Three-fourths of the U.S. is now at risk for Zika, West Nile, and
other tropical diseases<br>
BY SARA NOVAK | JAN 9 2018<br>
Since West Nile virus made its debut in New York City over a decade
ago, outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases, especially West Nile
virus, have become increasingly commonplace. As temperatures reach
new highs as a result of global climate change, mosquitoes that once
called the tropics home find the United States just as habitable.
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Aedes
aegypti—which is capable of transmitting the Zika, dengue, and
chikungunya viruses—could find suitable breeding habitats in 75
percent of the contiguous United States. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/scientists-race-kill-mosquitoes-they-kill-us">https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/scientists-race-kill-mosquitoes-they-kill-us</a><br>
-</font><br>
[Zika Virus]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cdc.gov/zika/vector/range.html">Potential
Range in the US (Maps)</a></b><br>
Estimated range of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in the United
States, 2017*<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cdc.gov/zika/vector/range.html">https://www.cdc.gov/zika/vector/range.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
</font>[National Geographic]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/animals-snakes-climate-change-oceans/">Venomous
Sea Snake Found Off California—How'd It Get There?</a></b><br>
The yellow-bellied sea snake has the widest range of any snake on
the planet. And if the last few years are any indication, its range
might be getting even bigger—thanks to climate change.<br>
In January, one of the highly venomous, brightly colored serpents
washed up on southern California's Newport Beach—only the fifth such
snake ever recorded in the region.<br>
Native to the world's tropical oceans, the reptile was several
hundred miles north of its typical range, from southern Mexico north
to Baja California. It follows three others that washed up in the
winters of 2015 and 2016, and a fourth from 1972....<br>
he species is happiest in waters above 65 or 66 degrees Fahrenheit;
any colder and they're unable to digest food. Still, because ocean
currents largely dictate their movements, the reptiles sometimes
float outside of their preferred habitat, Lillywhite explains.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/animals-snakes-climate-change-oceans/">https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/animals-snakes-climate-change-oceans/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[The Guardian]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/17/qantas-worst-airline-operating-across-pacific-for-co2-emissions-analysis-reveals">Qantas
worst airline operating across Pacific for CO2 emissions,
analysis reveals</a></b><br>
Aviation currently accounts for about 2.5% of global carbon dioxide
emissions. But pollution from the industry is expected to increase
and, by 2050, use up a quarter of the allowable greenhouse gas
emissions if the world is to keep global warming at less than 1.5C -
the world's "carbon budget".<br>
Qantas used the two most fuel-intensive aircraft and carried the
most empty seats of any transpacific airline.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/17/qantas-worst-airline-operating-across-pacific-for-co2-emissions-analysis-reveals">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/17/qantas-worst-airline-operating-across-pacific-for-co2-emissions-analysis-reveals</a></font><br>
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<br>
[TED video]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/could_biodiversity_destruction_lead_to_a_global_tipping_point">COULD
BIODIVERSITY DESTRUCTION LEAD TO A GLOBAL TIPPING POINT?</a></b><br>
We are destroying the world's biodiversity. Yet debate has erupted
over just what this means for the planet - and us...<br>
Just over 250 million years ago, the planet suffered what may be
described as its greatest holocaust: ninety-six percent of marine
genera (plural of genus) and seventy percent of land vertebrate
vanished for good. Even insects suffered a mass extinction - the
only time before or since. Entire classes of animals - like
trilobites - went out like a match in the wind.<br>
But what's arguably most fascinating about this event - known as the
Permian-Triassic extinction or more poetically, the Great Dying - is
the fact that anything survived at all. Life, it seems, is so
ridiculously adaptable that not only did thousands of species make
it through whatever killed off nearly everything (no one knows for
certain though theories abound) but, somehow, after millions of
years life even recovered and went on to write new tales...<br>
<blockquote>TED Talk - August 2010<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/RgqtrlixYR4">Video:
Johan Rockstrom: Let the environment guide our development</a></b><br>
Human growth has strained the Earth's resources, but as Johan
Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to
recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine
"planetary boundaries" that can guide us in protecting our
planet's many overlapping ecosystems.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/RgqtrlixYR4">https://youtu.be/RgqtrlixYR4</a><br>
</blockquote>
According to Rockstrom, biodiversity is one of the pillars
supporting our planet - and if too much biodiversity is lost we risk
"triggering a tipping point" in our climate or oceans, which in turn
could risk pushing the planet into a new state.<br>
"Without biodiversity, no ecosystems. No ecosystems, no biomes. No
biomes, no living regulator of all the cycles of carbon, nitrogen,
oxygen, carbon dioxide and water," he added.<br>
Rockstrom says biodiversity loss could risk the "safe operating
space" for humans, leaving us in an alien world increasingly hostile
to our own survival. For example, life would still survive under
apocalyptic climate change - but we may not.<br>
While ecosystems may not fully collapse, scientists have found that
some ecosystems can undergo what they are called "regime shifts."
Coral reefs, overheated by climate change, will shift to a much less
productive, much less biodiverse algae-based ecosystem. Climate
change, or alternatively humans with chainsaws and fire, can shift
forest ecosystems to grasslands. While none of these ecosystems may
wholly collapse, they will look nothing like they did after the
shift occurs...<br>
Yes, life itself survived the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event
- but most species did not. Believe me, humans probably wouldn't
have survived the tens-of-millions of years that followed the Great
Dying: oxygen levels were dangerously low, food would have been
scarce, and the world would have looked largely barren and wasted
even as some species and ecosystems managed to survive. Outside the
moral dilemma of extinction, there is no question that if humans
push more-and-more species into oblivion there will be impacts on
our society - and they could become catastrophic.<br>
Humans evolved 248 million years later in an Earth that was far more
biodiverse and rich, a kind of Eden of abundance and diversity. But
our current actions risk all that - and perhaps ourselves.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/could_biodiversity_destruction_lead_to_a_global_tipping_point">http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/could_biodiversity_destruction_lead_to_a_global_tipping_point</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4)]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/front-matter-about/">Chapter
15: Potential Surprises: Compound Extremes and Tipping Elements</a></b><br>
<b>Key Finding 1</b><br>
Positive feedbacks (self-reinforcing cycles) within the climate
system have the potential to accelerate human-induced climate change
and even shift the Earth's climate system, in part or in whole, into
new states that are very different from those experienced in the
recent past (for example, ones with greatly diminished ice sheets or
different large-scale patterns of atmosphere or ocean circulation).
Some feedbacks and potential state shifts can be modeled and
quantified; others can be modeled or identified but not quantified;
and some are probably still unknown. (Very high confidence in the
potential for state shifts and in the incompleteness of knowledge
about feedbacks and potential state shifts).<br>
<b>Key Finding 2<br>
</b>The physical and socioeconomic impacts of compound extreme
events (such as simultaneous heat and drought, wildfires associated
with hot and dry conditions, or flooding associated with high
precipitation on top of snow or waterlogged ground) can be greater
than the sum of the parts (very high confidence). Few analyses
consider the spatial or temporal correlation between extreme events.<br>
<b>Key FInding 3<br>
</b>While climate models incorporate important climate processes
that can be well quantified, they do not include all of the
processes that can contribute to feedbacks, compound extreme events,
and abrupt and/or irreversible changes. For this reason, future
changes outside the range projected by climate models cannot be
ruled out (very high confidence). Moreover, the systematic tendency
of climate models to underestimate temperature change during warm
paleoclimates suggests that climate models are more likely to
underestimate than to overestimate the amount of long-term future
change (medium confidence).<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/front-matter-about/">https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/front-matter-about/</a><br>
USGCRP, 2017: Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National
Climate Assessment, Volume I [Wuebbles, D.J., D.W. Fahey, K.A.
Hibbard, D.J. Dokken, B.C. Stewart, and T.K. Maycock (eds.)]. U.S.
Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, 470 pp.</font><br>
<br>
<br>
[LALE DAVIDSON: Poem]<b><br>
</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://blog.timesunion.com/laledavidson/2018/01/16/requiem-for-a-dying-civilization/">Requiem
for a dying civilization</a></b><br>
<blockquote>After the hurricanes in the east <br>
and the fires in the west<br>
I'm still waiting for the small, quiet voice<br>
of sanity to return to our nation.<br>
As the camera moves slowly over incinerated<br>
neighborhoods, ash crescents<br>
on a nation's forehead,<br>
lone firs miraculously untouched<br>
as if nature spared its own,<br>
I keep waiting for that still, small voice<br>
to rise like the wind.<br>
<br>
It is lonely out here, in the real,<br>
though there are many of us of all colors arguing<br>
about the best way to proceed,<br>
while the rest of our nation is glued to the dark glass<br>
of Fox News, that solitary stream of conspiracy theory,<br>
that thinly veiled propaganda headset<br>
willingly donned by a third of our country,<br>
telling them that blue is red, and red is white,<br>
somehow inoculating the nation against<br>
legitimate outrage at collusion with foreign governments,<br>
to win an election, sexual molestation, affairs with porn stars,<br>
and profiteering from the White House.<br>
<br>
Seeing their denial is no longer working,<br>
their lies steadily disproved by Justice's inexorable advance,<br>
uncovering three bad actors, and searching for more,<br>
they seek to smear Justice's face<br>
with deep state theory,<br>
to stuff the ears of their listeners<br>
with tyranny's cotton.<br>
<br>
The watchers are as convinced of their truth as we are,<br>
though untruth's perpetrators are more sinister.<br>
Our truths are gleaned from many sources,<br>
hard fought, and hard won,<br>
tracking facts like bear and grouse through the woods.<br>
<br>
Our strength is our weakness.<br>
Precisely because we don't agree and are willing see many sides,<br>
we are unable to bar the door against those<br>
who round up brown skinned people, tear parents<br>
from children, deposit the starving to their deserts, block health
care,<br>
and call all of this the reclamation of greatness.<br>
<br>
How can there be any doubt that a day's labor should pay a living
wage?<br>
That the wealthy shouldn't be allowed to hoard while the poor
starve?<br>
That we must take steps to save the planet or perish, ourselves?<br>
Why doesn't the voice of compassion and sanity carry?<br>
<br>
At the Wild Center, near Lake Placid, I stood in a wood surrounded<br>
by voices of men and women singing,<br>
a chorale composed and reverberating through speakers affixed high
and low<br>
to trees. Humanity's genius for beauty encompassed us,<br>
lifted us, wove us into its fabric,<br>
as we walked waxen needle paths among<br>
trees who punctuate space with their rough bark and slow wisdom<br>
so that we can feel space more roundly,<br>
reminding us that when we choose kindness over fear,<br>
we all benefit.<br>
<br>
After civilization is long gone, and we are but brutal gangs
raiding each other,<br>
beauty and art will point the way back<br>
to the heaven we almost,<br>
and might once again,<br>
have on earth.<br>
</blockquote>
Lale Davidson, who teaches writing at SUNY Adirondack College, where
they still believe in free speech, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://blog.timesunion.com/laledavidson/2018/01/16/requiem-for-a-dying-civilization/">welcomes
your comments</a> whether you agree or disagree, as long as you
are motivated by a desire to promote greater understanding. If you
want your comment posted, please the observe civil speech guidelines
described in a previous post "<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://blog.timesunion.com/laledavidson/2016/02/02/why-argue/">Why
argue?</a></b> In short: be polite, substantiate your claims
with credible sources, and avoid logical fallacies such as personal
attacks, slippery slopes, red herrings and sweeping generalizations.
Belittling, insulting, inflammatory, flippant and off topic comments
will not see the light of day here. Words matter. Use them well. <br>
<br>
<br>
[Speaking Notes #9]<br>
OXFORD CHANGE AGENCY EVENT - REPORT<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/explorations/papers/257-oxford-change-agency-event-report">Agency
in individual and collective change</a></b><br>
Climate Psychology Alliance with Living Witness<br>
Written by Laurie Michaelis<br>
A day for psychological and social practitioners to share our
experiences of enabling positive<br>
responses to climate change. <br>
<b>Discussion group: psychosocial literacy for movements</b><br>
Reflection from Eva Schonveld<br>
In this group we were asking how insights from personal therapies,
analytic traditions and other inner<br>
models can be applied to climate and social justice to strengthen
their impact and effectiveness in<br>
changing the world.<br>
We agreed that many more or less unconscious issues run through our
social activism, from dealing<br>
with challenging interpersonal interactions, through the range of
social and cultural intolerances, to an<br>
understanding of the range of blocks and motivations that allow, or
stop people from taking action. On<br>
a movement level a lack of understanding of this level can weaken
groups' effectiveness. One example<br>
we spoke about was Stop Climate Chaos, which doesn't seem to have a
sophisticated psychosocial<br>
lens, either to develop its own internal workings, or in its framing
of issues to it's chosen audience and<br>
is subsequently much less effective than it could be.<br>
Emotional literacy can be supported through hands-on workshops, by
building practical, engaging<br>
tools that can be used by communities, by sharing existing knowledge
and experience within our<br>
movement and seeking out that of others. Unfortunately, even the
idea of working at a level that<br>
acknowledges our personal inner worlds can feel very threatening to
many. So the first task may have<br>
to be to persuade our movement that this is important and useful
work.<br>
The sense of urgency that we feel around our local and the wider
global situation is inherently<br>
stressful, which can also lead to a rejection of what can be seen as
'fluffy stuff'. Working with our<br>
perception of that sense of urgency may be supportive. It can be
re-framed as a sense of presentcentredness,<br>
where there is nothing else to do but what one is doing, and we
become more effective<br>
by allowing ourselves to be in the flow of the universe.<br>
<br>
<br>
[transparency]<b><br>
</b><b><a href="https://corporatepresidency.org/presidencyforsale/">Presidency
for Sale: 64 Trade Groups, Companies, Candidates, Foreign
Governments and Political Groups Spending Money at Trump's
Properties</a></b><br>
WHO'S HELD EVENTS AT TRUMP PROPERTIES? Public Citizen released a new
report documenting the political campaigns, trade group, nonprofits
and other groups that held events at Trump's properties during his
first year in office. Trade groups on the list include the <b>American
Petroleum Institute and the National Mining Association</b>.
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Day in Climate History January 18, 2017</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
The New York Times reports:<br>
<blockquote>"Representative Ryan Zinke, Republican of Montana,
pitched himself on<br>
Tuesday as a serious steward of federal resources in his
confirmation<br>
hearing for interior secretary, frequently bucking conservative<br>
orthodoxy on ownership of public lands, federal funding for<br>
preservation and even, briefly, climate change.<br>
"But Mr. Zinke also emphasized his support for drilling, mining
and<br>
logging on federal lands, activities strongly opposed by many<br>
environmental groups.<br>
"In wide-ranging testimony before a Senate panel that lasted
nearly<br>
four hours, Mr. Zinke, a former member of the Navy SEALs who just<br>
finished his first term in the House, tried to balance the
importance<br>
of preservation with use of the nation's public lands and waters.<br>
"Mr. Zinke broke with President-elect Donald J. Trump and even his
own<br>
past statements on climate change, disagreeing with Mr. Trump's<br>
assertion at one point that it is 'a hoax.' Having once said that<br>
climate change was 'not proven science,' Mr. Zinke said it was<br>
'indisputable' that the climate is changing and that humans are
having<br>
an effect on it."<br>
"'I think where there's debate is what that influence is, what we
can<br>
do about it,' Mr. Zinke said. 'I don't believe it's a hoax,' he
added.<br>
He later appeared to try to temper his statement, emphasizing the
need<br>
for 'objective science.'"<br>
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In a New York Times op-ed, former EPA official Eric Schaeffer
observes:<br>
<blockquote>"The president-elect's pick to run the Environmental
Protection Agency<br>
is the antithesis of what the nation should expect in the next<br>
administrator of the agency responsible for protecting human
health<br>
and the environment.<br>
"Attorney General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma has built his career
suing<br>
the agency he would oversee to roll back its protection of the<br>
nation's air and water, and challenging the very idea of federal<br>
action to control pollution."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/opinion/reject-scott-pruitt-for-the-epa.html?ref=opinion">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/opinion/reject-scott-pruitt-for-the-epa.html?ref=opinion</a><br>
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The New York Times reports:<br>
<blockquote>"Marking another milestone for a changing planet,
scientists reported<br>
on Wednesday that the Earth reached its highest temperature on
record<br>
in 2016 - trouncing a record set only a year earlier, which beat
one<br>
set in 2014. It is the first time in the modern era of global
warming<br>
data that temperatures have blown past the previous record three
years<br>
in a row."<br>
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