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<font size="+1"><i>January 23, 2018</i></font><br>
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[Climate Liability News]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/01/23/richmond-california-climate-lawsuit-chevron/">Richmond
Becomes Latest California City to File Climate Lawsuit Vs. Big
Oil</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/01/23/richmond-california-climate-lawsuit-chevron/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/01/23/richmond-california-climate-lawsuit-chevron/</a><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sheredling.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/1.22.18-NEWS-RELEASE-City-Sues-Fossil-Fuel-Companies-for-Climate-Change-Damages.pdf">CITY
OF RICHMOND BECOMES NINTH COMMUNITY SEEKING TO HOLD FOSSIL FUEL
COMPANIES ACCOUNTABLE AND PROTECT ITS TAXPAYERS FROM COSTS AND
CONSEQUENCES OF CLIMATE CHANGE</a></b><br>
Oil, Gas, and Coal Companies Challenged for Knowingly Putting
Richmond, CA Families, Businesses and Infrastructure in Jeopardy<br>
RICHMOND, Calif., Faced with growing costs to protect its residents
and businesses from climate change-related damages, the City of
Richmond, California today joined the growing number of communities
that are suing fossil fuel companies for knowingly contributing to
climate change and to what an industry expert described as its
"potentially catastrophic" consequences. The lawsuit was filed in
California Superior Court in Contra Costa County.<br>
Richmond is surrounded by water on three sides and is one of the
poorest communities in the Bay Area, which makes the city both
uniquely vulnerable to rising seas and exceptionally challenged in
finding the resources to mitigate or adapt to the damage they
cause....<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sheredling.com/complaint-richmond/">https://www.sheredling.com/complaint-richmond/</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sheredling.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/1.22.18-NEWS-RELEASE-City-Sues-Fossil-Fuel-Companies-for-Climate-Change-Damages.pdf">The
complaint asserts:</a><br>
<blockquote>Sea level rise endangers City property and
infrastructure, causing coastal flooding of low-lying areas,
erosion, salinity intrusion, higher risk of liquefaction during
seismic events, and storm surges. Several critical City
facilities, existing roadways, wastewater treatment facilities,
residential neighborhoods, industrial areas including the Port of
Richmond and the Chevron Refinery, highways, rail lines, emergency
response facilities, and parks have suffered and/or will suffer
injuries due to sea level rise expected by the end of this
century...<br>
<br>
Defendants have known for nearly 50 years that greenhouse gas
pollution from their fossil fuel products has a significant impact
on the Earth's climate and sea levels….Instead of working to
reduce the use and combustion of fossil fuel products, lower the
rate of greenhouse gas emissions, minimize the damage associated
with continued high use and combustion of such products, and ease
the transition to a lower carbon economy, Defendants concealed the
dangers, sought to undermine public support for greenhouse gas
regulation, and engaged in massive campaigns to promote the
ever-increasing use of their products at ever greater
volumes….Defendants are directly responsible for 215.9 gigatons of
CO2 emissions between 1965 and 2015, representing 17.5% of total
emissions of that potent greenhouse gas during that period.<br>
</blockquote>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sheredling.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/1.22.18-NEWS-RELEASE-City-Sues-Fossil-Fuel-Companies-for-Climate-Change-Damages.pdf">Lawsuit
filling Jan 22, 2018:</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sheredling.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/1.22.18-NEWS-RELEASE-City-Sues-Fossil-Fuel-Companies-for-Climate-Change-Damages.pdf">https://www.sheredling.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/1.22.18-NEWS-RELEASE-City-Sues-Fossil-Fuel-Companies-for-Climate-Change-Damages.pdf</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[theGuardian]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/22/canada-climate-science-faces-looming-crisis">Canadian
climate science faces crisis that may be felt globally,
scientists warn</a></b><br>
In a letter to Justin Trudeau, 250 scientists highlight their
concern over the imminent end of a research program to better
understand climate change<br>
Canadian climate science is facing a looming crisis whose
repercussions could be felt far beyond the country's borders,
hundreds of scientists have warned, after the Canadian government
failed to renew the country's only dedicated funding program for
climate and atmospheric research. <br>
<a
href="https://evidencefordemocracy.ca/sites/default/files/international_climate_scientists_letter_to_trudeau_.pdf">In
an open letter addressed to Justin Trudeau</a>, more than 250
scientists from 22 countries highlight their concern over the
imminent end of the C$35m Climate Change and Atmospheric Research
program... <font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/22/canada-climate-science-faces-looming-crisis">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/22/canada-climate-science-faces-looming-crisis</a></font><br>
-<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://evidencefordemocracy.ca/sites/default/files/international_climate_scientists_letter_to_trudeau_.pdf">An
open letter from international scientists to Canadian Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau in support of climate science</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://evidencefordemocracy.ca/sites/default/files/international_climate_scientists_letter_to_trudeau_.pdf">https://evidencefordemocracy.ca/sites/default/files/international_climate_scientists_letter_to_trudeau_.pdf</a><br>
-<br>
[Arctic funding cut]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/climate-researchers-press-trudeau-renew-canadian-arctic-research-program">Climate
researchers press Trudeau to renew Canadian Arctic research
program</a></b><br>
Matt Jeneroux, a member of Parliament and the Shadow Minister for
Science of the opposition Conservative Party, reacted to today's
letter with a statement affirming his party's support for continuing
CCAR. The Conservative administration of former Prime Minister
Stephen Harper "created this fund in the 2011 budget," he noted.
"This government has had over two years in power, and plenty of
advanced warning, to come up with a solution when CCAR sunsets this
year." The Trudeau government's silence on the issue, he added, "is
disappointing from a government that claims to put a high value on
both science and climate change."<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/climate-researchers-press-trudeau-renew-canadian-arctic-research-program">http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/climate-researchers-press-trudeau-renew-canadian-arctic-research-program</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Trump blocks solar]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/business/trump-tariffs-washing-machines-solar-panels.html">Trump
Slaps Steep Tariffs on Foreign Washing Machines and Solar
Products</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/business/trump-tariffs-washing-machines-solar-panels.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/business/trump-tariffs-washing-machines-solar-panels.html</a></font><br>
[Reuters]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-tariffs-solar/trump-deals-blow-to-solar-makers-industry-to-focus-on-growth-away-from-u-s-idUSKBN1FC0EZ?il=0">Trump
deals blow to solar makers, industry to focus on growth away
from US</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-tariffs-solar/trump-deals-blow-to-solar-makers-industry-to-focus-on-growth-away-from-u-s-idUSKBN1FC0EZ?il=0">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-tariffs-solar/trump-deals-blow-to-solar-makers-industry-to-focus-on-growth-away-from-u-s-idUSKBN1FC0EZ?il=0</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Climate Liability News]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/01/22/climate-change-coal-leases-us/">Climate
Challenge to Federal Coal Leases Gets a Day in Court</a></b><br>
A federal appellate court will decide the fate of a lawsuit
challenging how the Department of Interior analyzes the
environmental impact of proposals to lease public land for coal
mining.<br>
The lawsuit contends that the U.S. government failed to update its
environmental review process to take into account how coal mining
contributes to climate change and threatens public health. A lower
court dismissed the suit in 2015, and the plaintiffs filed an
appeal. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said last week <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://blogs2.law.columbia.edu/climate-change-litigation/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/case-documents/2017/20170915_docket-15-5294_brief.pdf">it
would hear the appeal </a>on March 23.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/01/22/climate-change-coal-leases-us/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/01/22/climate-change-coal-leases-us/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[climate risk]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.acclimatise.uk.com/2018/01/22/new-guidance-document-for-investors-illustrates-climate-change-impacts-on-infrastructure/">NEW
GUIDANCE DOCUMENT FOR INVESTORS ILLUSTRATES CLIMATE CHANGE
IMPACTS ON INFRASTRUCTURE<br>
</a></b>Acclimatise, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatefinanceadvisors.com/">Climate Finance
Advisors (CFA)</a>, and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://427mt.com/">Four Twenty Seven</a> have released a new
guidance document to increase the climate resilience of large
infrastructure investments. The "Lenders' Guide for Considering
Climate Risk in Infrastructure Investments" clearly breaks down the
ways in which physical climate risks might affect key financial
aspects of prospective infrastructure investments. Ten sub-sectors,
including airports, marine ports, gas and oil transport and storage,
power transmission and distribution, wind-based power generation,
data centres, telecommunications, commercial real estate,
healthcare, and sports and entertainment, are analysed and
illustrated with topical examples.<br>
<blockquote>"...provides the first practical approach to assessing
the impact of climate change on infrastructure investments for
owners, developers, and lenders. For the first time, the guide
provides infrastructure investors and lenders with a concrete
approach to climate risks and opportunities,"<br>
</blockquote>
This guide provides a framework for questioning how revenues, costs,
and assets can be linked to potential project vulnerability arising
from climate hazards, such as increasing temperatures or sea-level
rise. A heightened frequency of extreme weather events may lead to
more disruptions of infrastructure service delivery resulting in
lower revenues and increased expenses. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.acclimatise.uk.com/2018/01/22/new-guidance-document-for-investors-illustrates-climate-change-impacts-on-infrastructure/">http://www.acclimatise.uk.com/2018/01/22/new-guidance-document-for-investors-illustrates-climate-change-impacts-on-infrastructure/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[TransitionNetwork]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://transitionnetwork.org/news-and-blog/value-values-talking-climate-not-mathematical-ones/">The
Value of Values in Talking Climate (and not mathematical ones)</a></b><br>
By Kate Heath<br>
<b> Everyone who's talking about talking about climate recommends,
fundamentally, taking a values-up approach – finding common ground
in deep values common to us all, and working upwards from there.</b>
This approach comes as nothing of a surprise - I understand it
reflects that taken by Transition in the early local visioning
stages, and I think is pulling in the same direction as the
perspective as shared in Rob Hopkins' post '<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://transitionnetwork.org/news-and-blog/the-transition-story-time-to-stop-talking-about-climate-change/">The
Transition Story</a><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://transitionnetwork.org/news-and-blog/the-transition-story-time-to-stop-talking-about-climate-change/">
- Time to stop talking about climate change</a>'. It also mirrors
the participatory approaches I learnt as a Water, Sanitation and
Hygiene worker for supporting communities to examine and address
hygiene behaviours linked to poor health. What perhaps differs is to
what extent people think it's useful/necessary to make the link back
to climate change explicitly. As <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/the-carbon-brief-interview-dr-katharine-hayhoe?utm_source=Weekly+Carbon+Briefing&utm_campaign=dc709265d2-Carbon_Brief_Weekly_24_11_2017&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3ff5ea836a-dc709265d2-303480253&ct=t%28Carbon_Brief_Weekl">Katherine
Hayhoe</a> (one of the leading climate change communicators in the
US) points out: it's not difficult to join the dots from people's
deep values back to climate change.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://transitionnetwork.org/news-and-blog/value-values-talking-climate-not-mathematical-ones/">https://transitionnetwork.org/news-and-blog/value-values-talking-climate-not-mathematical-ones/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[science suppression]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/resources/silencing-science-tracker/">The
Silencing Science Tracker </a></b><br>
The Silencing Science Tracker is a joint initiative of the Sabin
Center for Climate Change Law and the Climate Science Legal Defense
Fund. It is intended to record reports of government attempts to
"silence science" since the November 2016 election. At this time,
the tracker only includes actions taken by the federal government,
but we plan to add state-level actions in the future.<br>
We define "silencing science" to include any action that has the
effect of restricting or prohibiting scientific research, education
or discussion, or the publication or use of scientific information.
We divide such actions into 6 categories:<br>
<b>Government Censorship </b><b><br>
</b><b>Self-Censorship </b><b><br>
</b><b>Budget Cuts </b><b><br>
</b><b>Personnel Changes </b><b><br>
</b><b>Research Hindrance </b><b><br>
</b><b>Bias and Misrepresentation </b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/resources/silencing-science-tracker/">http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/resources/silencing-science-tracker/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Cartoon drawing]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/the_billionaire_s_guide_to_surviving_global_warming_with_ian_the_climate_denialist_potato">THE
BILLIONAIRE'S GUIDE TO SURVIVING GLOBAL WARMING - WITH IAN THE
CLIMATE DENIALIST POTATO...</a></b><br>
image:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://media.guim.co.uk/7868ef7e1a73e8280c8c911b5badb0932d7fcdf9/0_0_3508_5131/1367.jpg">https://media.guim.co.uk/7868ef7e1a73e8280c8c911b5badb0932d7fcdf9/0_0_3508_5131/1367.jpg</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/the_billionaire_s_guide_to_surviving_global_warming_with_ian_the_climate_denialist_potato">http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/the_billionaire_s_guide_to_surviving_global_warming_with_ian_the_climate_denialist_potato</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqoM1AgE9ig">This Day in
Climate History January 23, 2007</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
After six years, President George W. Bush finally addresses global
climate change in his State of the Union address. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqoM1AgE9ig">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqoM1AgE9ig</a> <br>
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