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<font size="+1"><i>February 16, 2018</i></font><br>
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[The Independent]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/arctic-sea-route-first-ship-no-icebreaker-winter-icebergs-ice-shelf-teekay-russia-a8208596.html">First
ship crosses Arctic in winter without an icebreaker as global
warming causes ice sheets to melt</a></b><br>
A ship has made a winter crossing of the Arctic without an
icebreaker for the first time as global warming causes the region's
ice sheets to melt. The tanker, containing liquefied natural gas, is
the first commercial vessel to make such a crossing alone during the
winter months. The voyage is a significant ...<br>
"Inevitably, this has caused massive changes, with most of the
Arctic ice having already disappeared. And so now, ironically, we
can deliver fossil fuels more quickly. It's like a heavy smoker
using his tracheotomy to smoke two cigarettes at once."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/arctic-sea-route-first-ship-no-icebreaker-winter-icebergs-ice-shelf-teekay-russia-a8208596.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/arctic-sea-route-first-ship-no-icebreaker-winter-icebergs-ice-shelf-teekay-russia-a8208596.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
[theGuardian] <br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/feb/15/news-network-climate-reporting-soared-in-2017-thanks-to-trump"><b>News
network climate reporting soared in 2017 thanks to Trump</b><b><br>
</b></a><b>But the networks need to improve reporting on climate
events unrelated to Trump</b><br>
In 2016,<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/mar/27/pbs-is-the-only-network-reporting-on-climate-change-trump-wants-to-cut-it"
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rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">US TV network news coverage of
climate change plummeted</a>. News coverage was focused on the
presidential election, but the corporate broadcast networks didn't
air a single segment informing viewers how a win by Trump or Hillary
Clinton could affect climate change or climate policy. That followed<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/mar/07/during-the-most-important-year-for-climate-news-tv-coverage-fell"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">a slight drop in news coverage of
climate change in 2015</a>, despite that year being full of
critical events like<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/dec/14/the-paris-agreement-signals-that-deniers-have-lost-the-climate-wars"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
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rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">the Paris climate accords</a>,<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/jun/25/climate-change-carbon-emissions-president-obama-epa"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Clean Power Plan</a>, and<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/jan/25/record-hot-2015-gave-us-a-glimpse-at-the-future-of-global-warming"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">record-breaking heat</a>.<br>
The good news is that<span> </span><a
href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2018/02/12/how-broadcast-tv-networks-covered-climate-change-2017/219277"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">the annual analysis done by Media
Matters for America</a> found that in 2017, network news coverage
of climate change soared. <i>(report not from a US-based news
outlet)</i><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/feb/15/news-network-climate-reporting-soared-in-2017-thanks-to-trump">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/feb/15/news-network-climate-reporting-soared-in-2017-thanks-to-trump</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Time magazine video]<b><br>
</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://time.com/5156775/climate-change-paris-agreement-research/">Scientists
Just Issued a Grim New Warning on Climate Change: 'We Are Not
Prepared'</a></b><br>
New research shows that countries around the world are falling short
of greenhouse gas goals in the Paris climate deal, and the
consequences will likely be unprecedented extreme weather.<br>
Published in the journal Science Advances this week, the study found
that the likelihood of extreme heat, dryness and precipitation will
increase across as much of 90% of North America, Europe and East
Asia if countries do not accelerate their efforts to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://time.com/5156775/climate-change-paris-agreement-research/">http://time.com/5156775/climate-change-paris-agreement-research/</a></font><br>
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[VOX]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/2/15/17016952/climate-change-security-threat-cia">Trump's
top spy just contradicted the White House's line on climate
change</a></b><br>
The director of national intelligence warned Congress that climate
change could cause "upheaval" this year.<br>
Umair Irfan Feb 15, 2018<br>
The top US intelligence official warned Congress this week about the
threat of "abrupt" climate change, contradicting the Trump
administration's efforts to drive climate out of national security
discussions.<br>
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, whose office oversees
17 intelligence agencies including the CIA and the NSA, submitted
written testimony this week to the Senate Intelligence Committee. In
addition to warnings about Russian interference in the upcoming
midterm election and the militarization of space, he identified
climate change as a significant concern.<br>
"The impacts of the long-term trends toward a warming climate, more
air pollution, biodiversity loss, and water scarcity are likely to
fuel economic and social discontent - and possibly upheaval -
through 2018," Coats wrote.<br>
He noted that the past 115 years were the warmest in modern
civilization and that the past few years were the warmest on record.
And there's a possibility of a sudden shift in the global climate
once it reaches a tipping point, he said.<br>
Coats also observed that worsening air pollution is causing unrest
in countries like India, water scarcity is driving tensions between
nations, and ecosystems threatened by rising temperatures could
jeopardize "critical human systems."<br>
This assessment follows testimony from Defense Secretary James
Mattis, who earlier this month told lawmakers that climate change is
an integral part of military planning.<br>
"This is a normal part of what the military does, and under any
strategy, it is part and parcel," he told the House Armed Services
Committee...<br>
Coats's remarks show that the practical realities of climate change
are impossible to ignore for those who have to contend with its
real-world consequences. And as temperatures rise, Trump, his
Cabinet, and the entire national security apparatus will
increasingly have to contend with rising seas, more intense weather,
and the devastation that ensues.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/2/15/17016952/climate-change-security-threat-cia">https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/2/15/17016952/climate-change-security-threat-cia</a></font><br>
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<br>
[GOP changes?]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/02/a-climate-caucus-has-turned-into-a-magnet-for-house-republicans-wait-what/">A
Climate Caucus Has Turned Into a Magnet for House Republicans.
Wait, What?</a></b><br>
"They are finding an easy action to get a green badge or a line on
their resumes."<br>
REBECCA LEBER AND MEGAN JULA<br>
It turns out, despite its name, the Climate Solutions Caucus is a
hospitable place for many members who do not seem especially
concerned about global warming. The two-year-old caucus has expanded
to 70 members, half of whom are Republican - and many of them have
brought controversial records and a questionable commitment to
advancing legislation in Congress that would protect the
environment.<br>
Its critics charge the caucus has expanded its size at the expense
of its credibility, providing Republicans who have been actively
hostile to government programs a low-stakes opportunity to
"greenwash" their climate credentials without backing meaningful
action - just in time for midterm elections. In fact, many members
may be vulnerable in the 2018 cycle; 24 of the 35 Republican
members' districts will be competitive races, according to an
analysis of The Cook Political Report. Republicans in these races
could benefit from distancing themselves from Trump's climate change
denial.<br>
"They are finding an easy action to get a green badge or a line on
their resumes," says Melinda Pierce, legislative director of the
Sierra Club.<br>
Sierra Club's Pierce says the formation of the caucus is a "baby
step" toward climate solutions. But she says caucus members haven't
taken enough actions to back up their words. "We just want to
encourage them to take off the training wheels and actually ride the
bike," she says.<br>
There's one more argument for Republicans to advance climate
legislation now - if Democrats retake Congress, especially by large
margins, they would have the opportunity to debate more liberal
climate policies. Lehrer thinks a price on carbon is inevitable, and
conservatives won't always be in the driver's seat. "I think in the
long term it's actually close to inevitable that it will pass one
way or another," he says. "It will be imposed in a way conservatives
like me will not like - by Democrats - or it will be done in a way
that forwards conservative goals. I like the latter<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/02/a-climate-caucus-has-turned-into-a-magnet-for-house-republicans-wait-what/https://twitter.com/A_Siegel/status/964156946529046528">https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/02/a-climate-caucus-has-turned-into-a-magnet-for-house-republicans-wait-what/https://twitter.com/A_Siegel/status/964156946529046528</a><br>
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[Wx]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-climate-change-extreme-weather-20180214-story.html">Even
with pledges to fight global warming, you'd better brace
yourself for more extreme weather</a></b><br>
Scientists have some sobering news about the future of our planet:
Even if humans manage to meet the temperature target set forth in
the Paris climate change agreement, record-breaking weather events
will become increasingly common around the world.<br>
And that's the good part.<br>
The Paris plan seeks to keep Earth's global average temperature
within 2 degrees Celsius of pre-industrial levels by getting people
to reduce their carbon emissions. According to the United Nations,
174 countries have signed on to the agreement.<br>
However, the actual commitments made by these countries would
probably allow the global average temperature to rise by as much as
3 degrees Celsius. In that case, extreme weather events would become
much more commonplace almost everywhere on the planet.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-climate-change-extreme-weather-20180214-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-climate-change-extreme-weather-20180214-story.html</a><br>
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<b><br>
</b>[Philanthropy]<b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thebulletin.org/what-bill-gates-doing-about-climate-change11509">What
is Bill Gates doing about climate change?</a></b><i> (answer:
adaptation, no mitigation)</i><br>
By Elisabeth Eaves<br>
Together with his wife, Bill Gates has given away some $27 billion,
much of it to global health causes through their Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation...<br>
The couple writes an annual letter to sum up their philanthropic
thinking, and this year's, published on Tuesday, is framed as "The
10 Toughest Questions We Get."...<br>
One of the tough questions they say they get is, "why don't you give
money to fight climate change?"<br>
<blockquote>"We do!" Bill says. As he and Melinda explain, they
tackle it in two ways. To address climate-change adaptation, they
pursue a traditional philanthropic approach. Melinda writes, "the
world needs to adapt to what's happening now and what we know is
coming. That's why our foundation's work, especially in global
agriculture, is increasingly focused on climate issues."<br>
</blockquote>
She goes on to point out: "Hundreds of millions of people in
developing countries depend on farming for their livelihoods. They
had almost nothing to do with causing climate change, but they will
suffer the most from it. When extreme weather ruins their harvest,
they won't have food to eat that year."<br>
One solution the Gates Foundation is pursuing is developing
varieties of "climate-smart crops" that are less susceptible to
extreme weather and resistant to drought, flood, and disease.<br>
For strategies to limit carbon emissions, though, the Gateses don't
go through the foundation but instead invest their own money in
technologies being developed by the private sector. Why this
approach?<br>
"In philanthropy," Bill writes, "you look for problems that can't be
fixed by the market or governments. The clean-energy problem can be
fixed by both - as long as governments fund basic research and
create incentives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and investors
are patient while companies turn that research into marketable
products."<br>
Those are some pretty important conditions, and with a US
administration intent on cutting research budgets and rolling back
environmental regulations, the government piece currently looks
insufficient. Proponents of renewable and nuclear energy have
pointed out for years that for non-fossil-fuel energy sources to
really find market success, <b>a carbon tax will be required.</b>
No US state has yet passed one.<br>
Which is why adaptation is required too. "Even breakthrough
technology can't stop the weather from changing," Melinda says.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thebulletin.org/what-bill-gates-doing-about-climate-change11509">https://thebulletin.org/what-bill-gates-doing-about-climate-change11509</a><br>
</font>-<br>
[2009 opinion and criticism]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.seattlepi.com/local/opinion/article/First-Person-Prodding-the-sacred-cow-1301367.php">First
Person: Prodding the sacred cow</a></b><br>
By RICHARD PAULI, GUEST COLUMNIST Published March 1, 2009 <br>
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest
philanthropy, has overlooked the biggest threat to human health and
human future - the increasing rate of climate destabilization from
global warming.<br>
Last year the Foundation co-chairman said about Global Warming:
"The fact of the matter is we don’t think about it". I urge you to
change that immediately to state: "Every individual, organization
and state should be thinking about climate change now".<br>
For too long the Gates Foundation ignored extensive research that
concludes global warming and climate destabilization has extended
and amplified disease and other human health problems . Your
science advisers can tell you that global warming is caused,
enhanced and accelerated by carbon dioxide released into the
atmosphere by industrial civilization. The biggest danger to our
future is that we may fail to regulate CO2 output Continued global
warming causes sea levels to rise which will increase disease vector
populations . <br>
If eradicating malaria is the goal then you must regard the
compelling data and devastating forces of a changing climate. All
of the awesomely great works by the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation can be undone by the horrible realities of Global Warming
to come. If you truly want to support human health and nurture
prosperity, then you need to refocus and modify priorities in a way
that respects climate change.<br>
The investment policy for the Foundation Trust forbids trading in
tobacco stock since that industry so obviously harms health.
Similarly, I ask you to halt investments in carbon fuel companies
and other polluting industries. You may derive revenue from over $1
billion invested in oil company stocks, but the resulting greenhouse
gas emissions will further increase the rate of warming. Until you
decide how best to be part of the solution, please don’t be part of
the problem. You should completely divest from any hydro-carbon
energy company stock holdings.<br>
We all praise the Gates Foundation for generosity and laudatory good
works saving lives and giving hope for the future. But gradually,
inexorably, everyone is beginning to feel the aggravation, pain and
real suffering from our destabilizing climate. To further ignore<i>
[mitigating]</i> the problem is misguided, shortsighted and
squanders the opportunity for change. <br>
At the very least, you should accept climate change as a real cause
of suffering, and include it when evaluating the global health
metrics that underlie your good works. With such an honest view,
others can share in your objective: for all people to have healthy
and productive lives.<br>
Failure to act is the biggest sin. Knowledgeable people of wealth
and power should take a stand - because it is right, because it is
needed and because inaction brings harm to us all<br>
<font size="-1">Richard Pauli February 2009<br>
Cross posted in the Seattle PI First Person opinion March 2, 2009
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.seattlepi.com/local/opinion/article/First-Person-Prodding-the-sacred-cow-1301367.php">https://www.seattlepi.com/local/opinion/article/First-Person-Prodding-the-sacred-cow-1301367.php</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Video report of current papers]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/NLpWUdx0rJ4">Climate
Restoration with Carbon Dioxide Removal</a></b><br>
Paul Beckwith<br>
Published on Feb 14, 2018<br>
Slashing global fossil fuel emissions is necessary, but no longer
sufficient to restore our climate to stability. The good news is
that we are not defenceless. To restore climate stability it is
essential that we also deploy CDR (carbon dioxide removal) to remove
CO2 from the atmosphere. Following up on my last video, I discuss
key technologies to achieve this, like enhanced weathering, DAC
(direct air capture), biochar, and ocean fertilization. Trying all
these makes sense, although my money is on the latter being the most
promising.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/NLpWUdx0rJ4">https://youtu.be/NLpWUdx0rJ4</a></font><br>
<b><br>
<br>
</b>[Iron stimulates photosynthesis]<b><br>
</b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180215105713.htm"><b>Key
to predicting climate change could be blowing in the wind</b></a><br>
Dust that blew into the North Pacific Ocean could help explain why
the Earth's climate cooled 2.7 million years ago, according to a new
study.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180215105713.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180215105713.htm</a></font><br>
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[climate migrations]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://us6.campaign-archive.com/?e=[UNIQID]&u=9283ff78aa53cccd2800739dc&id=21d82c41a6">The
two borderless challenges of our time: Migration and climate
change</a></b><br>
<b>Civil society response to the Zero Draft of the UN</b><b>'s
Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration</b><br>
There are over a quarter billion migrants and refugees in the world.
Over 5,000 died last year on their dangerous journeys. The United
Nations has been moved to act. <br>
Governments are currently negotiating a Global Compact on Safe,
Orderly and Regular Migration. The agreement is meant to protect the
rights of those displaced and help address the root economic,
environmental and social drivers that are compelling people to leave
their communities and countries. <br>
Last week, the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/sites/default/files/180205_gcm_zero_draft_final.pdf">UN
released its draft agreement</a> and will have until December to
negotiate the final details. A key area where the document falls
short is on commitments to tackle the primary causes of migration. A
stated aim of the Global Compact is to "mitigate the adverse drivers
and structural factors that hinder people from building and
maintaining sustainable livelihoods in their countries of origin".
However, the current text lacks actionable commitments to control
the numerous man-made forces underlying global mass migration. <br>
The reasons are different for every migrant and diaspora, but we
know that natural disasters are the number one cause of internal and
international displacement. With rising sea levels, desertification
and extreme weather events, climate action must be a part of any
meaningful agreement. <br>
"Climate induced displacement is upon us. Coastal communities are
being evacuated and relocated the world over." Said Emele
Duituturaga, Executive Director of the Pacific Islands Association
of Non Governmental Organisations. "Here in sea locked countries of
the Pacific Ocean, disappearance of our island homes is imminent". <br>
To protect the growing number of climate migrants, a necessary
starting place for the compact is to reaffirm the importance of the
Paris Climate Change Agreement and accelerate efforts to limit
global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C, instead of the
more conservative and ambiguous target to keep the world "well
below" 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels. Missing just one of
these targets will lead to millions of people being displaced. The
United Nations´ climate science panel (The Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change) gauges that the half a degree gap in warming
"amounts to a greater likelihood of drought, flooding, resource
depletion, conflict and forced migration". Climate models show us
that the additional 0.5 degrees C would further raise sea levels by
10 centimeters and cut crop yields by half across the tropics.<br>
From Fiji to Trinidad and Tobago, from Bangladesh to Morocco, civil
society groups are calling on their governments to make climate
mitigation a fundamental pillar of the Global Compact on Migration.
Over 400 civil society groups at International Civil Society Week
(Fiji, December) signed a<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.civicus.org/icsw/index.php/climate-declaration">
joint declaration on climate induced displacement</a>, outlining
key demands for the Global Compact. Among other recommendations, we
are urging the UN to address the causes and consequences of
migration, including:<br>
- Recognize that communities must have key human rights like food,
water, housing and health protected to reduce the necessity of
migration.<br>
- Commit to protect those who are most vulnerable to climate
displacement.<br>
- Ensure that those most vulnerable to climate displacement are able
to participate in the design and governance of the Global Compact.
<br>
The <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/multi-stakeholder-hearings-0">upcoming
multi-stakeholder consultations </a>on 21 February and 21 May at
UN Headquarters will provide civil society with the opportunity to
raise the ambition of the Global Compact and to help ensure
meaningful action is taken to reduce the man-made causes of
migration and incorporate key recommendations put forth in the joint
civil society declaration. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://us6.campaign-archive.com/?e=">https://us6.campaign-archive.com/?e=</a>[UNIQID]&u=9283ff78aa53cccd2800739dc&id=21d82c41a6</font><br>
Draft Agreement <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/sites/default/files/180205_gcm_zero_draft_final.pdf">https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/sites/default/files/180205_gcm_zero_draft_final.pdf</a><br>
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[Book Review]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.postandcourier.com/features/review-water-will-come-offers-compelling-view-of-climate-influenced/article_c2088558-05f4-11e8-a007-eb8713367246.html">Review:
'Water Will Come' offers compelling view of climate-influenced
future</a></b><br>
By Jeremy Rutledge<b><br>
</b><b>THE WATER WILL COME: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the
Remaking of the Civilized World. By Jeff Goodell. Little, Brown
and Company. 340 Pages. $28.</b><br>
In her 1951 book "The Sea Around Us" environmentalist Rachel Carson
wrote of how we all make our way back to the water from which we
came. We return "to mother sea only on her own terms." In the world
we have engineered and built, Carson wrote, we "often forget the
true nature of (our) planet and the vistas of its history, in which
the existence of (humankind) has occupied a mere moment of time."
Even so, all roads lead back the ocean, and a reminder of our place
in the order of things.<br>
This is the sense one gets while reading Jeff Goodell's new book,
"The Water Will Come." Not only do we return to the sea, as Carson
suggested, but the sea returns to us, rising faster as the effects
of climate change are felt on our shores...<br>
The climate change he warns us about is not projected onto some
distant future; it is happening here and now, and Goodell means to
show it to us...<br>
<blockquote>In perhaps the book's starkest passage, Goodell recounts
a conversation with the Miami developer and Democratic donor Jorge
Perez. His name now graces the stunning $118 million dollar Perez
Art Museum Miami, which sits elevated a few feet above Biscayne
Bay. When Goodell introduced himself as a journalist working on a
book about sea level rise, Perez turned cold toward him, the
author reports.<br>
Even so, Goodell managed to ask him a few questions: "How is
sea-level rise changing your thinking about the real estate
business in South Florida?" "Does it change the design of
buildings you're building?" "Did it influence the design of this
museum?" "Aren't you worried that increased flooding in the city
will impact the value of your real estate holdings?"<br>
Perez became increasingly annoyed by the questions, answering them
each with a curt dismissal, until finally he offered this
exasperating confession: "I believe that in 20 or 30 years someone
is going to find a solution. ... Besides, by that time, I'll be
dead, so what does it matter?"<br>
</blockquote>
Perez's words hang ominously over Goodell's storytelling because
they articulate the combination of blind faith, deep denial and
selfishness that prevent many of us from not only having a
substantive conversation about sea-level rise but taking meaningful
action in response.<br>
Perhaps what "The Water Will Come" does best of all is ask what we
will do to adapt to rising seas. The longer we bury our heads in the
sand, Goodell warns, the worse our suffering will be. Countries and
communities that plan now will fare better in a future that is
approaching faster than we can imagine.<br>
Herman Melville, our great American chronicler of the ocean, wrote,
"Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures
glide under water, unapparent for the most part … hidden beneath the
loveliest hints of azure." The beauty of what is and the danger of
what is close at hand yet hidden from view are the subject of
Goodell's work, which could hardly be timelier.<br>
To read it is to wonder about all the conversations we are not
having and all the work we are not doing here in our Lowcountry home
by the sea. Goodell reminds us that the water will rise whether we
have prepared for it or not. Much is hidden beneath the surface of
this moment.<br>
<font size="-1">Reviewer Jeremy Rutledge is the senior minister at
Circular Congregational Church in Charleston.</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.postandcourier.com/features/review-water-will-come-offers-compelling-view-of-climate-influenced/article_c2088558-05f4-11e8-a007-eb8713367246.html">https://www.postandcourier.com/features/review-water-will-come-offers-compelling-view-of-climate-influenced/article_c2088558-05f4-11e8-a007-eb8713367246.html</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/tbvUCrS5_5I">An
economic case for protecting the planet - Naoko Ishii</a></b><br>
TED - Published on Feb 14, 2018<br>
We all share one planet - we breathe the same air, drink the same
water and depend on the same oceans, forests and biodiversity.
Economist Naoko Ishii is on a mission to protect these shared
resources, known as the global commons, that are vital for our
survival. In an eye-opening talk about the wellness of the planet,
Ishii outlines four economic systems we need to change to safeguard
the global commons, making the case for a new kind of social
contract with the earth.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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<font size="+1"><b>This Day in Climate History February 16, 2002 -
from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
February 16, 2002: In response to President George W. Bush's
February<br>
14, 2002 speech on climate change, the New York Times editorial page<br>
declares:<br>
<blockquote>"The obvious conclusion to be drawn from President
Bush's latest<br>
global warming strategy, unveiled this week, is that he does not<br>
regard warming as a problem. There seems no other way to interpret
a<br>
policy that would actually increase the gases responsible for
heating<br>
the earth's atmosphere. That the policy demands little from the<br>
American people, while insulting allies who have agreed to take
tough<br>
steps to deal with the problem, only adds to one's sense of
dismay."<br>
</blockquote>
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