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<font size="+1"><i>February 17, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[more methane]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16022018/methane-leaks-oil-natural-gas-data-global-warming-pennsylvania-edf-study">Far
More Methane Leaking at Oil, Gas Sites in Pennsylvania than
Reported</a></b><br>
An EDF comparison of company-reported data and research measurements
finds as much as 5 times more methane, a climate-warming greenhouse
gas, is leaking.<br>
By Neela Banerjee<br>
Leaks of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from oil and gas sites
in Pennsylvania could be five times greater than industry reports to
state regulators, according to a new analysis by the Environmental
Defense Fund... the EDF analysis estimates that the state's oil and
gas wells and infrastructure leak more than 520,000 tons of methane
annually, largely due to faulty equipment...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16022018/methane-leaks-oil-natural-gas-data-global-warming-pennsylvania-edf-study">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16022018/methane-leaks-oil-natural-gas-data-global-warming-pennsylvania-edf-study</a></font><br>
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<br>
[video for investors]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/53hQhSdCnL4">2018
Investor Summit - The Latest Science on Climate Change: Why it
is Relevant for Investors</a></b><br>
video about 26 mins. <br>
Speaker: Rosina Bierbaum, Professor of Natural Resources and
Environmental Policy, University of Michigan<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/53hQhSdCnL4">https://youtu.be/53hQhSdCnL4</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[video at COP23]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/LunmiEt5WC0">Scientific
Reticience is putting humanity at risk - with James Hansen</a></b><br>
Nick Breeze Published on Nov 12, 2017<br>
This video is about Scientific Reticence is putting humanity at risk
- with James Hansen<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/LunmiEt5WC0">https://youtu.be/LunmiEt5WC0</a></font><br>
-<br>
[Hansen - Carbon Majors, legal strategy video]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/vLuWNew3znU">James
Hansen and Daniel Galpern: Making the Carbon Majors Pay for
Climate Action</a></b><br>
UPFSI.org Published Nov 12, 2017<br>
Dr. James Hansen and his legal advisor, Daniel Galpern, Esq.,
discuss making the fossil fuel companies, the 'Carbon Majors', pay
for the damage they have done to society, not only in terms of
climate change and all of its impacts, but also health impacts.
This Climate Matters show, videotaped at COP-23 in Bonn, Germany,
furthers the idea that the polluters must pay for the damage their
pollution causes.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/vLuWNew3znU">https://youtu.be/vLuWNew3znU</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Joyful little video cartoon]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/B11kASPfYxY">The
History of Climate Change Negotiations in 83 seconds</a></b><br>
ciceroklima Published on Nov 19, 2012<br>
This video is released under a Creative Commons license: <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/B11kASPfYxY">https://youtu.be/B11kASPfYxY</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Reslilience]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-02-16/dr-adam-gazzaley-cognition-crisis-reverberates-across-crises/">Dr.
Adam Gazzaley:"The Cognition Crisis Reverberates Across all the
Crises we Have"</a></b><br>
By Rob Hopkins<br>
Yeah, you're in trouble. You're in trouble. The type of thinking
that's involved with wrapping your head around climate change is so
far beyond just having facts and information. We have plenty of
that. It involves really long time delayed thinking processes,
where you put your reality in a future, even a distant future
potentially, and then the type of connection with other people, and
the planet itself, which demands an incredible amount of both
empathy and compassion.<br>
Then complex high level decision making ability is about how you
manage all of those elements with the current reality, and the
practical challenges of changing something on a global scale. So
with all of those ingredients, it's a set up for disaster, not just
because it's hard to learn information about the climate, which it
is, but we have learned out a lot about that. That's turning out
not to be the major problem.<br>
The major problem is because of the cognition crisis, or the
Distracted Mind. It will be something that I do not have a lot of
confidence that we'll be able to effectively manage if we don't
first put the emphasis on improving how our minds function...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-02-16/dr-adam-gazzaley-cognition-crisis-reverberates-across-crises/">http://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-02-16/dr-adam-gazzaley-cognition-crisis-reverberates-across-crises/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Nov 2017]<br>
<b>COP23 Analysis: The Calm Before the Storm</b><br>
<a
href="https://wupperinst.org/fa/redaktion/downloads/publications/COP23-Report.pdf">A
detailed analysis of the 23rd world climate conference COP23 in
Bonn</a><br>
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy<br>
From 6 to 17 November, the 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP23) to
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
was held in Bonn under the presidency of Fiji. Researchers from the
Wuppertal Institute who attended the conference have now published
an in-depth analysis of the key results of the conference.<br>
The report starts by discussing developments regarding the
implementation of the Paris Agreement, in particular the
negotiations on the detailed 'rulebook' for implementing the
Agreement. Other key issues addressed at the conference were the
support for countries of the Global South in dealing with the
effects of climate change (adaptation and climate finance) and
preparation of the first global review of climate action that will
take place in December this year. In addition, the report discusses
recent developments in the wider world that have an impact on the
UNFCCC, in particular the rise of pioneer alliances at the
intergovernmental and civil society level.<br>
Although some progress was achieved regarding the rulebook for
implementation of the Paris Agreement, no real breakthrough was
made. Therefore, quite some diplomatic work and political leadership
will be needed this year to make the adoption of the rulebook at
COP24 in Katowice (Poland) possible. This will require quite some
tailwind from civil society and the media.<br>
The authors of the report emphasize that the full calendar of
climate diplomacy over the next years will hopefully contribute to
keeping climate protection in the news and high on the political
agenda. They conclude that for the success of COP24 in Katowice in
December this year, it will be essential that all countries
rediscover the central message of the Paris Agreement: that in the
face of the coming storms on a finite planet, we are all in the same
boat.<br>
"The Calm Before the Storm" <a
href="https://wupperinst.org/fa/redaktion/downloads/publications/COP23-Report.pdf">can
be downloaded</a> using the following link:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://wupperinst.org/fa/redaktion/downloads/publications/COP23-Report.pdf">https://wupperinst.org/fa/redaktion/downloads/publications/COP23-Report.pdf</a><br>
It will be published soon by Lawtext Publishers.<br>
Prof. Dr. Hermann E. Ott<br>
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy<br>
Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development<br>
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<br>
[Climate Migration and Refugees]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.civicus.org/icsw/index.php/climate-declaration">Download
the Climate Induced Displacement Declaration below:</a></b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.civicus.org/icsw/documents/Declaration-on-Climate-Induced-Displacement.pdf">English</a>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.civicus.org/icsw/documents/Declaration-on-Climate-Induced-Displacement_es.pdf">Spanish</a>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.civicus.org/icsw/documents/Declaration-on-Climate-Induced-Displacement_fr.pdf">French</a><br>
<b>Declaration on Climate Induced Displacement</b><br>
<b>Preamble</b><br>
We, the representatives of civil society gathered at International
Civil Society Week 2017 held in Suva, Fiji between 4-8 December
2017:<br>
<b>Acknowledging</b> that climate change is one of the most pressing
challenges our planet faces, which impacts people's ability to
realise human rights and sustainable development for current and
future generations<br>
Noting<b> the impacts of climate change are often felt first, and
hardest, by those countries and communities with the least </b>responsibility
for the crisis and with the least capacity to respond or adapt,
including small island states in the Pacific and other vulnerable
regions<br>
<b>Acknowledging </b>that these impacts fall most upon people in
vulnerable situations in our societies, indigenous peoples,
minorities, older persons, children, persons with disabilities,
women and persons whose basic economic necessities are unfulfilled,
and that there is a legal obligation and moral imperative to act in
a people centred and rights focused manner,<br>
<b>Reaffirming</b> the importance of the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Climate Agreement adopted
under the Convention, and calling on all Governments, International
Organisations, the private sector and Civil Society Organisations to
undertake ambitious action to achieve the goal to hold the increase
in the global average temperature to well below 2degrees C above
pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature
increase to 1.5degrees C above pre-industrial levels<br>
<b>Also noting</b> the leadership of many least developed countries
and small island states, particularly those in the Pacific and other
vulnerable regions in committing to deep and long-term cuts in
emissions<br>
Calling on developed countries to continue to take the lead in
mobilizing climate finance from a wide variety of sources,
instruments and channels, noting the significant role of public
funds, including through the provision of adequate, predictable and
stable climate finance<br>
<b>Reaffirming</b> that all human rights are universal, indivisible,
interdependent and interrelated and that climate change impacts,
directly and indirectly, the enjoyment of human rights. Conversely,
failure in ensuring the enjoyment of human rights, particularly
economic, social and cultural rights to the maximum of the available
resources of each nation, compounds and worsens the vulnerability of
communities to climate change impacts<br>
<b>Noting </b>that States have an obligation to take effective
measures to prevent and redress climate impacts, and therefore, to
mitigate climate change, without ignoring their obligation to also
ensure that all human beings have the necessary capacity to adapt to
climate crisis<br>
<b>Affirming</b> that climate justice requires that climate action<br>
<b>Recognising</b> that the impacts of climate change are a driver
of “human mobility” inclusive of migration, displacement and
(planned) relocation, and that displacement and migration will
continue and increase as climate impacts worsen. That climate change
represents an existential threat to some communities and countries,
particularly in small island states, the Pacific and other
vulnerable regions threatening their traditional livelihoods,
well-being, mobility and culture<br>
<b>Recognising</b> that communities that have their human rights
guaranteed and fulfilled at home are at a lower risk of needing to
move as a result of climate change impacts, and acknowledging that
internal or international migration as a response to climate change
is a policy of last resort. Where migration must occur 'migration
with dignity' represents best practice, being the provision of
skills, opportunities and community in host countries, or home
country if displacement is internal<br>
<b>Taking note </b>of the ongoing process for the development of
the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration due to be
adopted in 2018 which must address climate change as a driver of
migration if it is to be forward looking and robust. <b>Emphasizing
</b>that the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration
focuses on international migrants only, and that the needs of
persons internally displaced by climate change must also be
addressed in a rights-respecting manner<br>
<b>Calling </b>on States, and International Organisations to
recognise climate change as a key driver of migration in the global
compact for safe, orderly and regular migration, with affected
populations needing long-term solutions including expanded migration
channels. That the compact recognises that human rights obligations
must be respected regardless of an individual's migratory status,
and that the human rights of people migrating due to climate change
impacts should form a core component of policy responses to climate
displacement in compact<br>
<b>Further calling</b> on States negotiating the global compact for
safe, orderly and regular migration to engage and include the voices
of those impacted by climate displacement in the process of
negotiation to ensure that the policy response meets their needs and
new norms are developed to address policy gaps<br>
<b>Declaring </b>that we, the representatives of International
Civil Society Week 2017 in conjunction with the Pacific Islands
Development Forum call on the international community to include the
following in the global compact for safe, orderly and regular
migration:<br>
• Recognition that climate change is included as a driver of
internal and international displacement<br>
• Commitment to fulfill the objectives of the Paris Agreement, to
hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2
degrees C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit
the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees C, will significantly reduce
the number of people who are required to move due to climate change.<br>
• Reaffirmation that the UN human rights treaties and regional human
rights treaties provide an agreed-to legal basis for action for
States Parties, and acknowledgement that an explicit integration of
such instruments into the global compact will enhance its
effectiveness<br>
• A commitment that where people are compelled to move as a result
of the impacts of climate change, their rights under international
human rights law will be recognized and upheld, including
non-refoulement, self-determination, non-discrimination, and the
full range of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights
to which they are entitled<br>
• Recognition that building resilience is a critical aspect of
reducing climate driven migration and that countries and regional
organisations must ensure that communities at risk of slow onset and
rapid onset events have key human rights (such as the rights to
food, water, housing, health and work) protected to reduce the
likelihood of the creation of conditions that would necessitate
migration.<br>
• Commitment to consultation and engagement with impacted
communities where adaption and resilience programs cannot prevent
climate-induced displacement, forcing relocation. And, where return
is appropriate, how “Building Back Better”, in keeping with the
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, should be implemented.<br>
• Commitment to those who are most vulnerable to climate
displacement, including coastal and small island communities,
indigenous peoples, minorities, older persons, children, persons
with disabilities, women and persons whose basic economic
necessities are unfulfilled as people in need of particular
protection.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.civicus.org/icsw/index.php/climate-declaration">http://www.civicus.org/icsw/index.php/climate-declaration</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Video on Ethics]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTA24Dp2zhE">Ethics of
Climate Change and Climate Engineering</a></b><br>
University of California Television (UCTV) Published Jan 13, 2017<br>
Over the last 30 years predictions of climate change as a threat to
individuals, societies and nations have changed from possibilities
to realities. Ethical issues associated with which individuals,
companies, nations cause climate change, who might benefit from it,
and who will suffer from the impacts have been part of the
discussion from the beginning. How has thinking about the ethics of
climate change evolved during that time and how does this relate to
the ethics of extreme mitigation efforts like climate engineering?
Margaret Leinen, UC San Diego Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences,
Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Dean of the
School of Marine Sciences discusses what can be done, what is being
done, and the ethical implications of deploying solutions. Series:
"Exploring Ethics" <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTA24Dp2zhE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTA24Dp2zhE</a></font><br>
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<div id="gmail-publication-title"><font size="4"><font size="2">[This
is to alert you that a special issue "Achieving 1.5 degrees C
and Climate Justice," has just been published by INEA, </font></font><font
size="4"><font size="2">International Environmental Agreements:
Politics, Law and Economics. Please find the table of contents
below for your convenience.</font></font><font size="4"><font
size="2"><br>
</font></font></div>
<div id="gmail-publication-title"><font size="4"><font size="2">Best,
Christian Holz.]</font></font><b><font size="4"><br>
<a href="https://link.springer.com/journal/10784">International
Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics</a><br>
</font></b> </div>
Volume 18, Issue 1, February 2018<br>
Special Issue: Achieving 1.5 degrees C and Climate Justice<br>
<div class="editor-list"> Issue Editors:<br>
<a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Kate+Dooley%22">Kate
Dooley</a>,<br>
<a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Joyeeta+Gupta%22">Joyeeta
Gupta</a>,<br>
<a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Anand+Patwardhan%22">Anand
Patwardhan</a> </div>
<div id="gmail-issn"> ISSN: <span class="gmail-pissn">1567-9764
(Print) </span> <span class="eissn">1573-1553 (Online)</span>
</div>
<div class="gmail-toc"> In this issue <span>(9 articles)</span><br>
<ol>
<li>
<div class="gmail-toc-item"> Editorial Notes<br>
<b><a
href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10784-018-9389-x">INEA
editorial: Achieving 1.5 degrees C and climate justice</a></b>
<br>
<span class="gmail-authors"> <a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Kate+Dooley%22">Kate
Dooley</a>, <a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Joyeeta+Gupta%22">Joyeeta
Gupta</a>, <a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Anand+Patwardhan%22">Anand
Patwardhan</a></span> <small class="gmail-page-range">Pages
1-9</small>
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1.5 °C and climate justice"
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<div class="gmail-toc-item"> Original Paper<br>
<b><a
href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10784-017-9376-7">Achieving
the 1.5 degrees C objective: just implementation through
a right to (sustainable) development approach</a></b> <br>
<span class="gmail-authors"> <a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Joyeeta+Gupta%22">Joyeeta
Gupta</a>, <a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Karin+Arts%22">Karin
Arts</a></span> <small class="gmail-page-range">Pages
11-28</small>
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gmail-pdf-link" title="Achieving the 1.5 °C objective:
just implementation through a right to (sustainable)
development approach"
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title="Achieving the 1.5 °C objective: just
implementation through a right to (sustainable)
development approach"
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View Article </a> </span> </div>
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<div class="gmail-toc-item gmail-no-access"> Original Paper<br>
<b><a
href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10784-017-9375-8">In
the light of equity and science: scientific expertise
and climate justice after Paris</a></b> <br>
<span class="gmail-authors"> <a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22B%C3%A5rd+Lahn%22">Bard
Lahn</a></span> <small class="gmail-page-range">Pages
29-43</small>
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</li>
<li>
<div class="gmail-toc-item"> Original Paper<br>
<b><a
href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10784-017-9377-6">Evoking
equity as a rationale for solar geoengineering research?
Scrutinizing emerging expert visions of equity</a></b> <br>
<span class="gmail-authors"> <a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Jane+A.+Flegal%22">Jane
A. Flegal</a>, <a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Aarti+Gupta%22">Aarti
Gupta</a></span> <small class="gmail-page-range">Pages
45-61</small></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="gmail-toc-item"> Original Paper<br>
<b><a
href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10784-017-9383-8">Geoengineering:
neither economical, nor ethical—a risk–reward nexus
analysis of carbon dioxide removal</a></b> <br>
<span class="gmail-authors"> <a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Turaj+S.+Faran%22">Turaj
S. Faran</a>, <a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Lennart+Olsson%22">Lennart
Olsson</a></span> <small class="gmail-page-range">Pages
63-77</small></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="gmail-toc-item gmail-no-access"> Original Paper <br>
<b><a
href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10784-017-9382-9">Land-based
negative emissions: risks for climate mitigation and
impacts on sustainable development</a></b> <br>
<span class="gmail-authors"> <a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Kate+Dooley%22">Kate
Dooley</a>, <a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Sivan+Kartha%22">Sivan
Kartha</a></span> <small class="gmail-page-range">Pages
79-98</small>
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</li>
<li>
<div class="gmail-toc-item gmail-no-access"> Original Paper<br>
<b><a
href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10784-017-9381-x">Countries
start to explain how their climate contributions are
fair: more rigour needed</a></b> <br>
<span class="gmail-authors"> <a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Harald+Winkler%22">Harald
Winkler</a>, <a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Niklas+H%C3%B6hne%22">Niklas
Höhne</a>, <a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Guy+Cunliffe%22">Guy
Cunliffe</a><span title="Takeshi Kuramochi, Amanda
April, Maria Jose de Villafranca Casas">…</span></span>
<small class="gmail-page-range">Pages 99-115</small>
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</li>
<li>
<div class="gmail-toc-item gmail-no-access"> Original Paper<br>
<b><a
href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10784-017-9371-z">Fairly
sharing 1.5: national fair shares of a 1.5 degrees
C-compliant global mitigation effort</a></b> <br>
<span class="gmail-authors"> <a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Christian+Holz%22">Christian
Holz</a>, <a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Sivan+Kartha%22">Sivan
Kartha</a>, <a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Tom+Athanasiou%22">Tom
Athanasiou</a></span> <small class="gmail-page-range">Pages
117-134</small>
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<div class="gmail-toc-item"> Original Paper<br>
<b><a
href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10784-018-9384-2">Exploring
national and regional orchestration of non-state action
for a < 1.5 degrees C world</a></b> <br>
<span class="gmail-authors"> <a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Sander+Chan%22">Sander
Chan</a>, <a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Paula+Ellinger%22">Paula
Ellinger</a>, <a
href="https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Oscar+Widerberg%22">Oscar
Widerberg</a></span> <small class="gmail-page-range">Pages
135-152</small></div>
</li>
</ol>
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[radio interview]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/9dySLSqKs6w">Naomi
Klein Interview on the Crisis of Climate Change</a></b><br>
KXM Published on Feb 12, 2018<br>
From Radio New Zealand.<br>
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href="https://youtu.be/9dySLSqKs6w">https://youtu.be/9dySLSqKs6w</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=840MahAgJh0">This Day in
Climate History February 17, 1993 </a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
February 17, 1993: In an address to a joint session of Congress,
President Clinton, noting the "challenges to the health of our
global environment," declares, "Our plan does include a broad-based
tax on energy, and I want to tell you why I selected this and why I
think it's a good idea. I recommend that we adopt a BTU tax on the
heat content of energy as the best way to provide us with revenue to
lower the deficit because it also combats pollution, promotes energy
efficiency, promotes the independence, economically, of this country
as well as helping to reduce the debt, and because it does not
discriminate against any area. Unlike a carbon tax, that's not too
hard on the coal States; unlike a gas tax, that's not too tough on
people who drive a long way to work; unlike an ad valorem tax, it
doesn't increase just when the price of an energy source goes up.
And it is environmentally responsible. It will help us in the future
as well as in the present with the deficit."<br>
<i>(The effort to implement the BTU tax would ultimately fail,
thanks to aggressive attacks on the concept by
fossil-fuel-industry front groups such as the Koch
Industries-funded Citizens for a Sound Ecnomy, the forerunner to
Americans for Prosperity.)</i><br>
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