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<font size="+1"><i>January 29, 2018</i></font><br>
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[theGuardian]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/28/donald-trump-says-us-could-re-enter-paris-climate-deal-itv-interview">Donald
Trump says US could re-enter Paris climate deal</a></b><br>
In ITV interview US president also says he would take tougher stand
on Brexit than Theresa May<br>
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Donald Trump has said the United States could re-enter the Paris
climate change agreement - and that he would have taken a "tougher
stand" in Brexit negotiations than Theresa May.<br>
The US president said his country could join the international
accord if it had a "completely different deal" but called the
existing agreement a "terrible deal" and a "disaster" for the US.<font
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[Business Insider]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://nordic.businessinsider.com/why-marketer-seth-godin-thinks-storytelling--not-science--will-solve-climate-change--/">'Call
it atmosphere cancer' - How the world's best-known marketer
would tackle global warming</a></b><br>
Seth Godin is a marketer and bestselling author whose work centers
on spreading ideas and building communities.<br>
- Godin thinks action on global warming - "just like slavery or gay
rights" - depends on effective storytelling, which sparks a culture
of change.<br>
- "If they were to call it 'atmosphere cancer' instead, the
scientists would be off to a better footing," Godin said in an
interview with BI Nordic.<br>
- Much of Seth Godin's work - his famous blog; his books and TED
talks - convey the following: No product or idea will spread just
because of a brilliant technology or rock solid facts. In essence,
people will respond to stories that stand out, which creates
culture, changes behaviors, and leads to change. <br>
<blockquote>"For starters, global is a good thing and warming is a
good thing. If [the scientists] had called it 'Atmosphere Cancer',
they probably would have started on a better footing: because
atmosphere is scientific and cancer is a bad thing. There are no
cancer deniers. Everyone knows that cancer is a chronic and
degenerative disease, and you need to stop it soon. "<br>
</blockquote>
This applies to the big societal changes too, Godin told Business
Insider Nordic at the Nordic Business Forum in Oslo, when asked
about the role of storytelling in solving societal problems, like
climate change: "[Storytelling] is the only thing that's going to
solve it," he said.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://nordic.businessinsider.com/why-marketer-seth-godin-thinks-storytelling--not-science--will-solve-climate-change--/">https://nordic.businessinsider.com/why-marketer-seth-godin-thinks-storytelling--not-science--will-solve-climate-change--/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Haaretz]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/locals-relish-rare-snow-fall-in-saudi-arabia-1.5769084">Locals
Relish Rare Snow Fall in Saudi Arabia</a></b><br>
Social media users in Saudi Arabia shared videos of snow in Tabuk,
in the north of the kingdom on Saturday. One video shows a user
picking up fresh white snow and throwing it in excitement, while
others show near-deserted landscapes covered in flakes, with thick
mist and cars driving... <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/locals-relish-rare-snow-fall-in-saudi-arabia-1.5769084">https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/locals-relish-rare-snow-fall-in-saudi-arabia-1.5769084</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[RealClimate]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2018/01/the-global-co2-rise-the-facts-exxon-and-the-favorite-denial-tricks/">The
global CO2 rise: the facts, Exxon and the favorite denial tricks</a></b><br>
stefan @ 25 January 2018<br>
The basic facts about the global increase of CO2 in our atmosphere
are clear and established beyond reasonable doubt. Nevertheless,
I've recently seen some of the old myths peddled by "climate
skeptics" pop up again. Are the forests responsible for the CO2
increase? Or volcanoes? Or perhaps the oceans?<br>
Let's start with a brief overview of the most important data and
facts about the increase in the carbon dioxide concentration in the
atmosphere:<br>
<blockquote>1. Since the beginning of industrialization, the CO2
concentration has risen from 280 ppm (the value of the previous
millennia of the Holocene) to now 405 ppm.<br>
2. This increase by 45 percent (or 125 ppm) is completely caused
by humans.<br>
3. The CO2 concentration is thus now already higher than it has
been for several million years.<br>
4. The additional 125 ppm CO2 have a heating effect of 2 watts per
square meter of earth surface, due to the well-known greenhouse
effect - enough to raise the global temperature by around 1
degrees C until the present....<br>
</blockquote>
The system was almost exactly in equilibrium before humans
intervened. That is why the CO2 concentration in the air was almost
constant for several thousand years (Figure 2). This means that the
land ecosystems took up 120 GtC and returned 120 GtC (the exact
numbers don't matter here, what matters is that they are the same).
The increased uptake of CO2 by forests and oceans of about 2 GtC per
year each is already a result of the human emissions, which has
added enormous amounts of CO2 to the system. The ocean has started
to take up net CO2 from the atmosphere through gas exchange at the
sea surface: because the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is now
higher than in the surface ocean, there is net flux of CO2 into the
sea. And because trees take up CO2 by photosynthesis and can do this
more easily if you offer them more CO2 in the air, they have started
to photosynthesize more and thus take up a bit more CO2 than is
released by decomposing old biomass. (To what extent and for how
long the land biosphere will remain a carbon sink is open to debate,
however: this will depend on the extent to which the global
ecosystems come under stress by global warming, e.g. by increasing
drought and wildfires.)<br>
Filed under: Carbon cycle, Climate Science, Oceans, skeptics <font
size="-1"> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2018/01/the-global-co2-rise-the-facts-exxon-and-the-favorite-denial-tricks/">http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2018/01/the-global-co2-rise-the-facts-exxon-and-the-favorite-denial-tricks/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/1/27/16935382/climate-change-ugly-tradeoffs">[Vox
- Dave Roberts]<br>
<b>Reckoning with climate change will demand ugly tradeoffs from
environmentalists - and everyone else</b></a><br>
Being a climate hawk is not easy for anyone.<br>
First, it's fine if an individual or group chooses to prioritize
rivers in Quebec or the safety risks of existing nuclear power
plants over the threat of climate change. Sincerely: it's fine. I
don't personally agree with that ranking, but people are entitled to
their own values and priorities...<br>
When I first started covering climate change,..The only term
available to describe those concerned about climate change was
"environmentalists," and that just didn't work. Not all
environmentalists prioritize climate change and not everyone
concerned about climate change would self-identify as
environmentalist.<br>
Anyone who really digs in and follows the logic of climate change,
who understands both the risks and the extraordinary mobilization
required to avoid them, will eventually find that climate concern
bangs up against their other values and priorities...<br>
I have called this climate change's <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/everybody-needs-a-climate-thing/">"<b>totalizing
tendency</b>"</a> - the more you absorb it, the more it eclipses
everything else.<br>
It is genuinely difficult to wrap your head around the scale of
action needed to avoid catastrophic changes in the climate...<br>
Just about <b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.vox.com/2016/10/4/13118594/2-degrees-no-more-fossil-fuels">nobody
is taking climate change completely seriously</a></b> at
present, because, let's face it, doing so is traumatic. To absorb
the full implications of climate change is to realize that even a
level of action beyond what's reasonable to hope for can at best
avert the worst of the damage. Changes in ecosystems that are
effectively permanent and irreversible are already underway; within
the century, we will enter a range of climate conditions entirely
new to our species. There is no "safe" available any more...<br>
To take that seriously is to support massive, immediate carbon
reductions, not only at the level of theory, not only in statements
and proclamations and pledges, but in the sense of preferring the
lower carbon strategy in every local, city, state, or federal
decision, whether it's about land, housing, transportation,
infrastructure, agriculture, taxes, regulations, or lifestyle
habits.<br>
It means preferring the lower carbon strategy even if other things
you value must be sacrificed, even if the lower carbon strategy is
suboptimal in light of your other preferences and priorities.<br>
Judged by that harsh criteria, pure climate hawks are a rare species
indeed. None of us can claim purity on that front, so we <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/everybody-needs-a-climate-thing/">should
show one another compassion</a>. But we should also, at every
opportunity, drag our eyes back, unflinching, to the <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.vox.com/2015/5/15/8612113/truth-climate-change">terrible
truth</a>.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/1/27/16935382/climate-change-ugly-tradeoffs">https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/1/27/16935382/climate-change-ugly-tradeoffs</a></font><br>
<font size="-1">-</font><br>
[Dave Roberts - Vox 2015]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.vox.com/2015/5/15/8612113/truth-climate-change">The
awful truth about climate change no one wants to admit</a></b><br>
...The obvious truth about global warming is this: barring miracles,
humanity is in for some awful shit...<br>
Even as many climate experts are now arguing that 2 degrees C is an
inadequate target, that it already represents unacceptable harms, we
are facing a situation in which limiting temperature even to 3
degrees C requires heroic policy and technology changes.<br>
And yet ... the world doesn't appear to be ending; there's no big,
visible threat. Climate change moves so slowly that its pace is
evident primarily through graphs and statistics. It rarely rises
above the background noise.<br>
So people want to hear that there's hope of 2 degrees C. Politicians
want to say that there's hope of 2 degrees C. When asked, modelers
are still able to produce scenarios that show 2 degrees C. And
nobody wants to be the one to pee in the punch bowl.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.vox.com/2015/5/15/8612113/truth-climate-change">https://www.vox.com/2015/5/15/8612113/truth-climate-change</a></font><br>
-<br>
[Dave Roberts 2015]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/everybody-needs-a-climate-thing/">Everybody
needs a Climate Thing</a></b><br>
"...I want to approach the notion of Climate Things from another
angle. They are easy to mock, in many cases misleading or
distorting, but I actually think they are key to understanding the
sociopolitical challenges of climate mitigation. It may be that the
only road to widespread mitigation is through Climate Things...<br>
Climate is everything, which means everyone touches only a tiny
piece of it. Let people care about their birds or their pipelines or
their mountains or their tech startups or their research clusters or
their permaculture farms. Everybody needs a Climate Thing, a
close-by proxy through which they can express their climate concern
in a way that has local effects and tangible rewards. It is these
proxies, these rich anchors in our lived experience of nature and
culture, that inspire us. The important thing is that we're all
moving our pieces in the right direction."..<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/everybody-needs-a-climate-thing/">http://grist.org/climate-energy/everybody-needs-a-climate-thing/</a><br>
</font>-<br>
[Roberts - 2017]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.vox.com/2016/10/4/13118594/2-degrees-no-more-fossil-fuels">No
country on Earth is taking the 2 degree climate target seriously</a></b><br>
If we mean what we say, no more new fossil fuels, anywhere.<br>
One of the morbidly fascinating aspects of climate change is how
much cognitive dissonance it generates, in individuals and nations
alike.<br>
The more you understand the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://grist.org/climate-change/2011-12-05-the-brutal-logic-of-climate-change/">brutal
logic of climate change</a> - what it could mean, the effort
necessary to forestall it - the more the intensity of the situation
seems out of whack with the workaday routines of day-to-day life.
It's a species-level emergency, but almost no one is acting like it
is. And it's very, very difficult to be the only one acting like
there's an emergency, especially when the emergency is abstract and
science-derived, grasped primarily by the intellect.<br>
This <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://grist.org/article/why-climate-change-doesnt-spark-moral-outrage-and-how-it-could/">psychological
schism</a> is true for individuals, and it's true for nations.<font
size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.vox.com/2016/10/4/13118594/2-degrees-no-more-fossil-fuels">https://www.vox.com/2016/10/4/13118594/2-degrees-no-more-fossil-fuels</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Citizens-showing-leadership-in-climate-change-12531445.php">Citizens
showing leadership in climate change issues</a></b><br>
"The good news is that's already starting to happen, as voters all
over the country see storms growing stronger and more frequent, as
they see floods where they never had them before, and as they suffer
through droughts that are worse than they've ever experienced,"
Bloomberg writes. "Americans are a lot smarter than the elected
officials they send to Washington. Our country's citizens want to
avoid these disasters - and they know they can do something about
it."<br>
Stressing that sea level rise is expected to be gradual, "we have
time to plan," David Shafer said. "It's not a crisis. But it will
turn into a crisis if we don't plan."<br>
Sellers, an organizer of the Climate Justice Coalition, agrees that
if a community takes steps now it can at least reduce negative
impacts in the future.<br>
"You have to act," Sellers said. "Paralysis has a guaranteed
outcome."<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Citizens-showing-leadership-in-climate-change-12531445.php">http://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Citizens-showing-leadership-in-climate-change-12531445.php</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Age 80 Video on Democracy Now]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/9FlyPEvjXUI?t=5m03s">A Lifetime of
Activism: Jane Fonda on Gender Violence, Indigenous Rights &
Opposing War in Vietnam</a></b><br>
<blockquote><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/9FlyPEvjXUI?t=5m03s">What scares me...is
the degree to which average people are not getting news</a> <br>
the television stations, the radio stations are being bought up by
Sinclair and others<br>
And this is it's really scary and you know I think that
corporations are determining what people hear, but there are some
exceptions obviously you know you MSNBC at night and others. <br>
But that's why it's so important that people are on the ground
talking to people door-to- door.<br>
you know working with in real organizations that have experience
of doing this kind of door-to-door work ...how important is that
we find a way to keep real news reaching people and it can't come
from Hollywood or the Democratic Party for that matter<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/9FlyPEvjXUI?t=5m03s">https://youtu.be/9FlyPEvjXUI?t=5m03s</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/nasa-scientist-muzzled/">This
Day in Climate History January 29, 2006 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
January 29, 2006: The New York Times reports on the extensive effort<br>
by the George W. Bush administration to muzzle NASA scientist James<br>
Hansen. (The controversy would also be covered by Air America's<br>
"EcoTalk with Betsy Rosenberg" and the CBS program "60 Minutes.")<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/science/earth/29climate.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/science/earth/29climate.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2006/02/ecotalk_82.html">http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2006/02/ecotalk_82.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/x0i4Sx1edJE">http://youtu.be/x0i4Sx1edJE</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/nasa-scientist-muzzled/">http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/nasa-scientist-muzzled/</a></font><br>
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