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<font size="+1"><i>January 25, 2018</i></font><br>
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[Davos Joke]<b><br>
</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/macron-trump-climate-denial-joke-davos-5a138dd7b8b5/">France's
Macron uses his Davos speech to roast Trump's climate denial</a></b><br>
Macron has tried to position himself as a leader on climate action
since taking office.<br>
Since taking office in 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron has
positioned himself as the antithesis to President Donald Trump's
climate denial. Throughout the last year, Macron has been one of the
Paris climate agreement's most outspoken proponents, hosted a
climate conference in Paris (to which Trump was not invited) and
even began offering United States climate scientists grants to come
and continue their work in France.<br>
On Wednesday, Macron brought his passion for upstaging Trump on
climate issues to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,
kicking off his speech with a joke about the U.S. president's
history of climate denial.<br>
Macron began his speech in Davos by talking about the irony that a
conference about globalization is taking place in a part of the
world cut off from its surroundings by snow, immediately
transitioning to a jab at President Donald Trump's climate denial.<br>
"For sure, with Davos, when you look outside, it could be hard to
believe in global warming," Macron siad. "Obviously, and
fortunately, you didn't invite anyone skeptical with global warming
this year."<br>
The comment was an apparent swipe at Trump, who tweeted in December
that the East Coast, which was suffering through a historic cold
snap at the time, could "use a little bit of that good old Global
Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay
TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/macron-trump-climate-denial-joke-davos-5a138dd7b8b5/">https://thinkprogress.org/macron-trump-climate-denial-joke-davos-5a138dd7b8b5/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[NPR]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/01/24/575220206/is-there-a-ticking-time-bomb-under-the-arctic">Is
There A Ticking Time Bomb Under The Arctic?</a></b><br>
A short drive north of Fairbanks, Alaska, there's a red shed stuck
right up against a hillside. The shed looks unremarkable, except for
the door. It looks like a door to a walk-in freezer, with thick
insulation and a heavy latch. Whatever is behind that door needs to
stay very cold.<br>
"Are you ready to go inside?" asks Dr. Thomas Douglas, a geochemist
at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=575220206">from
Transcript </a><br>
<blockquote> DOUCLEFF: You see, the thing is, basically anything
that's died in the Arctic over the past hundred-thousand years is
buried and preserved down here. The permafrost is packed with
plants, like this grass, and dead animals, like those woolly
mammoths we saw earlier. All this life is made of carbon. In fact,
there's a massive amount of carbon down here. There's more carbon
trapped in this permafrost than all the carbon humans have spewed
into the atmosphere, first with steam trains then with their cars,
planes, coal plants, everything we've done since the Industrial
Revolution.<br>
<br>
DOUGLAS: The permafrost contains twice as much carbon as is
currently in Earth's atmosphere, 1,600 billion metric tons.<br>
<br>
DOUCLEFF: Right now this carbon is trapped, frozen. So the big
question is what happens to this carbon as the permafrost thaws?
Because, you see, there's not just dead creatures in the
permafrost. Down here, we are also surrounded by something that's
coming back to life. ..<br>
<br>
DOUCLEFF: Once the bacteria warmed up, they were hungry, and they
started eating the dead plants and animals, turning their carbon
into gases.<br>
<br>
DOUGLAS: Both carbon dioxide and methane.<br>
<br>
DOUCLEFF: Those are the two main gases that cause climate change.
Now, that was in the lab. But imagine these bacteria waking up as
the permafrost thaws all around the Arctic - in Canada, Greenland,
Russia, here in Alaska. Charles Miller is a chemist at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory who studies permafrost. He says that in the
past few years they've started seeing the microbes here waking up,
warming up and releasing gases.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/01/24/575220206/is-there-a-ticking-time-bomb-under-the-arctic">https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/01/24/575220206/is-there-a-ticking-time-bomb-under-the-arctic</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2018/01/23/deadly-metro-phoenix-heat-requires-action-maricopa-county-supervisor-steve-chucri-says/1058557001/">Deadly
metro Phoenix heat demands action, Maricopa County official says</a></b><br>
Central Arizona must adapt to increasingly dangerous heat waves, a
top Maricopa County official says, and he's pledging to work with
Arizona State University to do it.<br>
Heat doesn't surprise anyone in a metro area that has always
weathered triple-digit temperatures in summers, but the triple-digit
death toll should, said Steve Chucri, who became chairman of the
County Board of Supervisors this month. He considers the lengthening
season for extreme heat a challenge to both public health and
economic development.<br>
"We have to start paying attention," said Chucri, a Paradise Valley
Republican.<br>
An Arizona Republic investigation last fall found that a combination
of global warming and urban growth's tendency to retain heat <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2017/10/18/deadly-heat-phoenix-getting-hotter-so-danger/694283001/">has
extended Phoenix's 100-degree season by six weeks over the past
century</a>. Last summer's 25 days at or above 110 degrees
represented about a doubling of the historical average.<br>
At least 150 people in Maricopa County died of heat-related causes
in 2016. For 2017, public health officials have confirmed 129
heat-associated deaths, with 51 still under investigation. <br>
MORE FROM OUR SPECIAL REPORT:<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://azc.cc/2ywaqA6">PART 1:
Phoenix's heat is rising — and so is the danger</a></b><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://azc.cc/2ikVe36">PART 2:
How heat discriminates</a></b><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://azc.cc/2x9EGxq">PART 3:
2016 was Phoenix's deadliest year for heat</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2018/01/23/deadly-metro-phoenix-heat-requires-action-maricopa-county-supervisor-steve-chucri-says/1058557001/">https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2018/01/23/deadly-metro-phoenix-heat-requires-action-maricopa-county-supervisor-steve-chucri-says/1058557001/</a></font><br>
-<br>
[Personal stories]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://static.azcentral.com/human-cost-heat/">The human
cost of heat: 30 stories</a></b><br>
In 2016, 150 people in Maricopa County died of heat. Here are the
stories of 30 of them. Click on a name or photo to read more.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://static.azcentral.com/human-cost-heat/">http://static.azcentral.com/human-cost-heat/</a><br>
-<br>
[UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/uoc--ris012418.php">Rise
in severity of hottest days outpaces global average temperature
increase</a></b><br>
UCI study also finds megacities affected most by uptick in
extreme-heat events<br>
Irvine, Calif., Jan. 24, 2018 - While our planet's average annual
temperature has increased at a steady pace in recent decades, there
has been an alarming jump in the severity of the hottest days of the
year during that same period, with the most lethal effects in the
world's largest cities.<br>
Engineers at the University of California, Irvine have learned that
urban centers with more than 5 million inhabitants and parts of
Eurasia and Australia have been hardest hit by the accelerated
growth in short-term, extreme-heat events, resulting in lost lives,
reduced agricultural productivity and damage to infrastructure.<br>
In a paper appearing in the American Geophysical Union journal
Earth's Future, the researchers report that their analysis of
temperature readings from the most recent 50- and 30-year periods
rules out the possibility that natural climate variability is to
blame for the mercury rising.<br>
The researchers, from UCI's Henry Samueli School of Engineering,
highlighted an urban phenomenon known as the "heat island effect."
In human-made environments dominated by asphalt, concrete, glass and
steel, hot air lingers and the sun's scorching rays scatter and
reflect off hard surfaces. While expanses of green vegetation and
water in nature help to absorb or dissipate heat, cities amplify it.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/uoc--ris012418.php">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/uoc--ris012418.php</a></font><br>
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<br>
[<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://antarcticsun.usap.gov/">The
Antarctic Sun</a>]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4341">Podcast:
The Lake Hoare Field Camp</a></b><br>
BY MICHAEL LUCIBELLA, ANTARCTIC SUN EDITOR<br>
The Antarctic Sun Podcast is taking a behind-the-scenes look at the
workers and what they do to make science at the bottom of the world
possible.<br>
This week: The Lake Hoare Field Camp<br>
Antarctica is a big continent, and often researchers need to work in
regions far away from the main research station. They'll stay up to
weeks at a time in small field camps, which can range from a couple
of temporary tents, to rigid structures with a kitchen and
laboratories that people return to each year....<br>
The Lake Hoare field camp is one of the busiest in the McMurdo Dry
Valleys. It's a hub for researchers who are coming in to study the
unique ecosystems around the valleys, one of the very few areas in
Antarctica not completely covered in snow. Camp staff like Rae Spain
and Renee Noffke keep the camp operating as helicopters land and
researchers cycle in and out.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4341">https://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4341</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://antarcticsun.usap.gov/">https://antarcticsun.usap.gov/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Conversation Earth - Audio ]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.conversationearth.org/nature-doesnt-negotiate-robert-jensen-112-encore/">NATURE
DOESN'T NEGOTIATE: ROBERT JENSEN </a></b><br>
#112 ENCORE<br>
<blockquote> "If there is to be a decent future, we have to give up
on the imperial fantasy of endless power, the capitalist fantasy
of endless growth, the technological fantasy of endless comfort…we
should mourn the world that these systems have created and search
for something better. Systems that celebrate domination are death
cults, not the basis for societies striving for justice and
sustainability."<br>
</blockquote>
Bob Jensen is not afraid to speak the truth. He has an impressive
body of work, all holding up a mirror to our society so we can see
what we have created. We'll undoubtedly want to circle back and talk
to him again, as we just scratched the surface in this interview
recorded in October of 2015.<br>
<blockquote>"This is the simple discovery which we must confront. We
were given a place in the creation, with a beauty beyond telling,
and we have failed to care for it. And as our collective contempt
for the non-human world has intensified, so has our contempt for
each other. We have failed to care for each other."<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.conversationearth.org/nature-doesnt-negotiate-robert-jensen-112-encore/">http://www.conversationearth.org/nature-doesnt-negotiate-robert-jensen-112-encore/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Climate Progress - Joe Romm]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-solar-tariff-backfires-36cb1c4f7fbc/">Trump's
solar tariff backfires: It hits red states and U.S. taxpayers
harder than China</a></b><br>
"Southern states like Texas, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina
among the most impacted."<br>
On Monday, President Donald Trump slapped a 30 percent tariff on
imported solar cells and panels.<br>
But while the White House said the goal was to punish China for an
industrial policy aimed at taking over the global solar market, the
harsh reality is that the president is going to end up punishing the
states that voted for him the most. On top of that, U.S. taxpayers
are actually going to end up paying for half of any tariff.<br>
Analysis provided to ThinkProgress by GTM Research concludes, "new
and emerging state markets are disproportionately affected [by the
new tariff], with southern states like Texas, Florida, Georgia, and
South Carolina amongst the most impacted by the tariffs." All of
those states voted for Trump in the 2016 election.<br>
MJ Shiao, GTM's head of Americas Research, explained in an interview
that the states hurt the most by the new tariff are the "hot markets
that are on the cusp of becoming economic for solar," or that just
became economic thanks to the steady and rapid price drops for solar
cells and panels. Those states are disproportionately found in the
South and Southeast.<br>
In addition to punishing emerging markets in several red states,
experts say the new tariff will also backfire for all U.S.
taxpayers. "The U.S. federal government will end up footing some of
the bill for Trump's decision," Hugh Bromley, a Bloomberg New Energy
Finance (BNEF) solar analyst, said in an email. "Half of any
increase in system costs will be offset through the tax code via the
Investment Tax Credit and depreciation."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-solar-tariff-backfires-36cb1c4f7fbc/">https://thinkprogress.org/trump-solar-tariff-backfires-36cb1c4f7fbc/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[commentary]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/24/betting-the-earth-on-a-game-of-wrap-cut-smash/">Betting
the Earth on a Game of Wrap-Cut-Smash</a></b><br>
by STAN COX<br>
The Earth is having to deal with continuous, largely unchecked
emissions of greenhouse gases, along with soil degradation, mass
extinction of species, destruction of ecosystems, and disruption of
nitrogen, phosphorous, and water cycles. Meanwhile, efforts to head
off the planet-wide ecological crisis remain trapped in a game of
rock-paper-scissors...<br>
Of all the difficult conundra facing humanity, the search for a way
out of this wrap-cut-smash game is the most urgent. A society has to
accept the need for an ecologically imposed, quantitative ceiling on
the production of capital, goods, and services. And it must devise a
system that will ensure material sufficiency, fairly and for all,
without breaking through that ecological ceiling. Only then can it
develop appropriate green-energy capacity and adopt other policies
and technologies that can ensure good quality of life for all while
keeping within the necessary ecological restraints....<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/24/betting-the-earth-on-a-game-of-wrap-cut-smash/">https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/24/betting-the-earth-on-a-game-of-wrap-cut-smash/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[video classic]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/wtDbfV5dsNs">What
Germany Can Teach Us About Home Energy</a></b><br>
<font size="-1">In this video, Ask This Old House plumbing and
heating expert Richard Trethewey takes host Kevin O'Connor on a
tour of Germany with an eye toward renewable energy and
sustainable home heating.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/wtDbfV5dsNs">https://youtu.be/wtDbfV5dsNs</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/TdMTTlpfNP4?t=21m52s">This Day in
Climate History January 25, 1984</a><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/TdMTTlpfNP4?t=21m52s"> </a> - from
D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
January 25, 1984: In his State of the Union Address, President
Ronald Reagan says something that would be considered highly
controversial by the right wing today:<br>
"..and as we develop the frontier of space let us remember our
responsibility to preserve our older<br>
resources here on earth preservation of our environment is not a
liberal or conservative challenge,<br>
It's common sense, though this is a time of budget constraints, I
have requested for EPA,<br>
one of the largest percentage budget increases of any agency we will
begin<br>
the long necessary effort to clean up a productive recreational area
and a special <br>
national resource, the Chesapeake Bay. <br>
To reduce the threat posed by abandoned hazardous waste dumps, EPA
will spend a<br>
four hundred and ten million dollars and I will request a
supplemental increase of <br>
50 million. And because the Superfund law expires in 1985 I've asked
Bill Ruckelshaus <br>
to develop a proposal for its extension so there will be additional
time to complete this <br>
important task on the question of acid rain which concerns people in
many areas of the United<br>
States and Canada. I'm proposing a research program that doubles
our current funding and <br>
will take additional action to restore our lakes and develop new
technology <br>
to reduce pollution that causes acid rain..."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/TdMTTlpfNP4?t=21m52s">https://youtu.be/TdMTTlpfNP4?t=21m52s</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=40205">http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=40205</a>
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