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<font size="+1"><i>February 24, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[keep laughing]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/375397-judge-dismisses-coal-moguls-defamation-lawsuit-against-john-oliver">Judge
dismisses coal mogul's defamation lawsuit against John Oliver</a></b><br>
A West Virginia judge dismissed a coal mogul's defamation lawsuit
this week against cable television host John Oliver and HBO.<br>
In a decision dated Wednesday, West Virginia Judge Jeffrey Cramer
accepted HBO's argument that Bob Murray, CEO of coal mining giant
Murray Energy Corp., failed to show that Oliver had defamed him
according to the law.<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw6RsUhw1Q8">See the
video: Coal: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)</a></b><b>
</b>24 minutes <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/aw6RsUhw1Q8">https://youtu.be/aw6RsUhw1Q8</a><br>
Oliver dedicated an <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw6RsUhw1Q8">extended
segment in June to criticizing the coal industry</a>, with a focus
on Murray, including his frequent criticisms of former President
Barack Obama's "evil agenda," his lawsuits challenging regulations
and his closeness with President Trump.<br>
"If you even appear to be on the same side as black lung, you're on
the wrong f---ing side," Oliver said about one of Murray's lawsuit
against a federal rule meant to reduce black lung disease among coal
miners.<br>
Murray sent Oliver a cease-and-desist letter before the show aired
and threatened to sue him, taking the case up to the Supreme Court.
Instead, Oliver dug in.<br>
"I'm not going to say, for instance, that Bob Murray looks like a
geriatric Dr. Evil, even though he clearly does," he said.<br>
Oliver made extensive use of Mr. Nutterbutter, a squirrel character
inspired by a report - which Murray denied - that Murray once said a
squirrel told him to start a coal mining company...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/375397-judge-dismisses-coal-moguls-defamation-lawsuit-against-john-oliver">http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/375397-judge-dismisses-coal-moguls-defamation-lawsuit-against-john-oliver</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[climate travel]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/23/climate-change-worries-push-travelers-to-these-last-chance-locales.html">3
'last chance' destinations drawing travelers worried about
climate change</a></b><br>
Some bucket-list trips may be more about anticipating the
destination's demise than yours.<br>
Certain countries susceptible to climate change have seen a spike in
travel interest over the past year, according to a new report from
travel insurance comparison web site <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.squaremouth.com/">Squaremouth</a>. People may be
advancing their plans to see these places in all their current
glory, they note.<br>
The report is based on data Squaremouth collects when people input
their destination and trip costs into the site to compare policies.<br>
<b>Maldives</b><br>
Travel interest boost: 68 percent<br>
The Maldives has seen the biggest spike in travel, as the island
nation uses mass tourism to raise the funds necessary to adapt to
climate change. That includes relocating thousands of people and
building the necessary infrastructure to accommodate them....<br>
<b>Australia</b><br>
Travel interest boost: 25 percent<br>
Tourists may be flocking down under to view the famously colorful
Great Barrier Reef before it bleaches further due to warming sea
temperatures. Last year marked the first year mass bleaching is
known to have happened to the 1,400-mile-long habitat two years in a
row...<br>
<b>Antarctica</b><br>
Travel interest boost: 17 percent<br>
Increased tourism has helped fund scientific expeditions to
Antarctica, where researchers study the effects of climate change.
Warming temperatures have been chipping away at the Antarctic ice
and contributing to sea level rise...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/23/climate-change-worries-push-travelers-to-these-last-chance-locales.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/23/climate-change-worries-push-travelers-to-these-last-chance-locales.html</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[increasing news]<br>
<b><a href="https://ensia.com/features/air-travel/">HOW CLIMATE
CHANGE IS ALTERING AIR TRAVEL</a></b><br>
Rising tides, icy air, melting permafrost and air that is too hot
for take-off are challenging aviation as the world warms.<font
size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://ensia.com/features/air-travel/">https://ensia.com/features/air-travel/</a><br>
</font><br>
<br>
[horse talk]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2018/02/24/horse-owners-climate-change/">Are
horse owners ready for climate change extremes?</a></b><br>
..writing in the journal Rural Society, reported on the outcome of
an online survey taken by 69 horse owners in Australia. The
questions sought to get an understanding of how they had been
affected by major weather events.<br>
Their responses suggest that while extreme weather has affected many
Australia horse owners, fewer are making preparations for next time.<br>
Ninety percent of respondents reported being affected by major
weather or climate events in the last 10-20 years. Four out of five
(78%) took action at the time of the event and a similar proportion
(80%) had taken actions for the longer term.<br>
Most (86%) had thought about preparations for future events, but had
not yet taken any action, due to lack of time, money, materials, or
storage.<br>
Thompson and her colleagues said the increasing recognition of
climate change meant that the concepts of sustainable horse-keeping
and sustainable equitation were becoming more commonplace.<br>
"However, there is a need, to foster equestrian cultures which are
sustainable not only for the environment, but for the economy,
humans, and horses."...<br>
However, 25 percent of participants were thinking about preparing
for future weather events in relation to land care, pasture
management and improvement. Nineteen percent were thinking about
improving their water management and 16% were considering improving
the infrastructure on their properties, including sheds to store
feed bought in bulk.<br>
Nine percent were considering changing their fodder and feeding
practices.<br>
Survey participants saw several areas where education, research, or
government policy could be of help. More than one in four thought
support for land care, pasture management and improvement would be
desirable.<br>
Some felt there was a need for better welfare legislation to protect
horses.<br>
"Over-rugging was mentioned, as was knowledge around riding in
heat," the researchers noted.<br>
There was also the potential changes in disease risk arising from an
altering climate...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2018/02/24/horse-owners-climate-change/">https://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2018/02/24/horse-owners-climate-change/</a><br>
[Rural Society study]<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10371656.2018.1441854">Too
hot to trot? How horse owners in Australia have responded to
major weather events</a></b><br>
Kirrilly Thompson<br>
<blockquote>ABSTRACT<br>
This article commences by outlining five perspectives on the
sustainability of equestrian cultures covering the environment,
the economy, human health, horse welfare, and social licence.
Next, it presents findings from an online survey developed to
understand how horse owners in Australia have been affected by
major weather and climate events, how they responded in the short
and long term, their considerations for the future, and the
support they might require. Sixty-nine horse owners participated.
Most (90%) reported being affected by major weather/climate
event(s) in the last 10-20 years, four out of five (78%) took
action at the time of the event and a similar proportion (80%) had
taken actions for the longer term. Most (86%) had thought about
preparations for future events, but had not yet taken any action,
due to lack of time, money, materials, or storage. Almost all
participants (93%) perceived a need for education, research,
government policy<b>. Since findings suggest horse owners may be
less likely to engage with climate adaptation and sustainable
horse keeping public education initiatives when they are related
specifically to "climate change", and more likely to engage when
they are related to "land care, pasture management and
improvement", and "horse health and welfare", an alternative
rhetoric is recommended</b>.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10371656.2018.1441854">http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10371656.2018.1441854</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[News release]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://westernlaw.org/blms-methane-waste-rule-back-force-following-court-decision/">BLM's
methane waste rule back in force following court decision</a></b><br>
Late last night, a U.S. District Court granted a preliminary
injunction striking down Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's attempt to
delay for one year implementation of the Bureau of Land Management's
methane waste rule. A coalition of government watchdog groups filed
a lawsuit in December 2017 to prevent Zinke from delaying
implementation of measures to reduce waste of methane by oil and gas
companies on federal public lands.<br>
This marks the fourth failure to scuttle the BLM methane waste
rule, which enjoys support from 75 percent of Westerners and in
principle from at least one oil and gas giant-ExxonMobil, since the
present administration took office. About $330 million worth of gas
is wasted every year, $100 million of that in New Mexico. Wasted gas
would rob taxpayers of $800 million in royalties over the next
decade, cause unacceptable damage to public health, and exacerbate
climate change...<br>
"The court's decision means the BLM Methane Waste Rule is again the
law of the land, representing yet another example of the courts
stopping this administration's clear agenda to aid oil and gas
industry at the expense of the public," said Darin Schroeder, an
attorney with Clean Air Task Force. "This significant decision also
sheds doubt on other attempts by the Trump administration to rescind
rules without any factual justification for the policy change," said
Schroeder.<br>
<blockquote> "This ruling shows the courts won't allow the Trump
administration to flout the law to reward the fossil fuel
industry," said Michael Saul, a senior attorney at the Center for
Biological Diversity. "Unchecked methane waste hurts our lungs,
rips off taxpayers and cooks the planet."<br>
</blockquote>
Before even receiving comment on the rule, Interior Secretary Ryan
Zinke represented to a federal court that he would delay the rule.
The BLM then conducted a go-through-the-motions notice-and-comment
process-featuring a lightning-fast comment period, next-to-no
stakeholder outreach, and blocked comment on key points, culminating
in a final rule that largely ignored citizen concerns. This is not
how the law is designed to work. The law requires a reasoned
give-and-take between the affected public and the agency that is
designed to infuse democratic legitimacy into agency rulemaking.
Here the court found that BLM failed to adhere to this required
interplay by failing to consider all of the comments it should have
and relying on "opinions untethered to evidence." BLM's 1-year delay
was therefore not grounded in a reasoned analysis as required by
law... <br>
Last week, BLM officially proposed rescinding the methane waste rule
permanently. The public comment period for this proposal is 60 days.
If Zinke and BLM ignore public input in support of the rule as
expected, those changes to the rule will by BLM's own admission
significantly reduce natural gas production, valued at up to $824
million, because so much waste will again be allowed, and reduce
federal royalties by up to $32.7 million. The proposal will also
return methane waste controls to a decades-old regime (called
NTL-4a) that BLM admits is ineffective and which led to the
development of the 2016 rule. And in New Mexico, the rollback will
let existing operations off the hook for cleaning up their emissions
and leave the state holding the bag for cleaning up the methane "hot
spot" in the San Juan Basin.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://westernlaw.org/blms-methane-waste-rule-back-force-following-court-decision/">https://westernlaw.org/blms-methane-waste-rule-back-force-following-court-decision/</a></font>
<br>
- [Background: ]<br>
The BLM waste rule, finalized in 2016, updates antiquated, 30-year
old regulations. It requires companies to fix leaky, faulty
equipment and reduce natural gas waste on public lands. Wasting
methane makes no sense, yet oil and gas companies routinely and
deliberately vent methane into the atmosphere, burn it as a waste
product from oil drilling, and allow it to leak from poorly
maintained equipment. According to the U.S. Government
Accountability Office, enough natural gas was unnecessarily wasted
and leaked between 2009 and 2015 to serve more than 6 million
households for a year. The updated waste rule requires companies to
perform leak detection and repair with affordable, off-the-shelf
technologies, and restricts methane venting (deliberately releasing
gas into the atmosphere), and flaring (burning off gas unused at the
wellhead). The Trump administration's decision to delay
implementation of the BLM waste rule would allow industry to avoid
these common-sense waste reduction measures, and continue to
unnecessarily waste our publicly owned resources while the
administration attempts to figure out how to kill the rule outright
as a gift to its oil and gas benefactors. Methane waste not only
shortchanges taxpayers, it harms public health and contributes
significantly to climate emissions. <br>
<blockquote><b>Waste:</b> According to Interior, in 2014, oil and
gas companies wasted more than 4 percent of the natural gas they
produced on federal lands, sufficient gas to supply nearly 1.5
million households with gas for a year.<br>
<b>Public health: </b>Methane released by the oil and gas
industry comes packaged with other toxic pollutants- benzene,
toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene - and smog-forming volatile organic
compounds that harm communities.<br>
<b>Climate: </b>Methane is a greenhouse gas 87 times more potent
than carbon dioxide during the time it remains in the atmosphere.<br>
<b>Taxpayers: </b>The BLM methane waste rule, if left in place,
would earn taxpayers about $800 million in royalties on publicly
owned methane resources over the next decade. Since 1980, lax
provisions have resulted in BLM rubber-stamping industry requests
to vent and flare natural gas and to avoid paying royalties. The
U.S. Government Accountability Office estimates lost royalties at
nearly $23 million annually under the antiquated regime.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://westernlaw.org/blms-methane-waste-rule-back-force-following-court-decision/">https://westernlaw.org/blms-methane-waste-rule-back-force-following-court-decision/</a><br>
<br>
</font><br>
<font size="-1">[LA study]<br>
</font><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sixdegreesnews.org/archives/22720/common-products-like-perfume-paint-and-printer-ink-are-polluting-the-atmosphere">Common
products, like perfume, paint and printer ink, are polluting the
atmosphere</a></b><br>
<font size="-1">JENNY FISHER AND KATHRYN EMMERSON</font><br>
RESEARCHERS FOUND THAT IGNORING VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS FROM
CHEMICAL PRODUCTS HAD SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS ON PREDICTIONS OF AIR
QUALITY. IN OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS, THEY FOUND THAT THESE PRODUCTS
COULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR AS MUCH AS 60% OF THE PARTICLES THAT FORMED
CHEMICALLY IN THE AIR ABOVE LOS ANGELES.<br>
Picture the causes of air pollution in a major city and you are
likely to visualise pollutants spewing out of cars, trucks and
buses.<br>
For some types of air pollutants, however, transportation is only
half as important as the chemicals in everyday consumer products
like cleaning agents, printer ink, and fragrances, according to a <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6377/760?utm_source=AusSMC%20mailing%20list&utm_campaign=9d3433ba95-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_90d9431cd5-9d3433ba95-137625618">study
published today in Science</a>...<br>
Air pollution is a serious health concern,<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://theconversation.com/air-pollution-causes-more-than-3-million-premature-deaths-a-year-worldwide-47639">
responsible for millions of premature deaths each year</a>, with
even<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://theconversation.com/climate-change-set-to-increase-air-pollution-deaths-by-hundreds-of-thousands-by-2100-81830">
more anticipated due to climate change</a>.<br>
Although we typically picture pollution as coming directly from cars
or power plants, a large fraction of air pollution actually comes
from chemical reactions that happen in the atmosphere. One necessary
starting point for that chemistry is a group of hundreds of
molecules collectively known as "volatile organic compounds" (VOCs).<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.sixdegreesnews.org/archives/22720/common-products-like-perfume-paint-and-printer-ink-are-polluting-the-atmosphere">http://www.sixdegreesnews.org/archives/22720/common-products-like-perfume-paint-and-printer-ink-are-polluting-the-atmosphere</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[tracking litigation]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/files/2017/05/Burger-Gundlach-2017-05-UN-Envt-CC-Litigation.pdf">THE
STATUS OF CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION A GLOBAL REVIEW</a></b><br>
The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University has <b><a
href="https://climateliabilitynews.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6242a34764fa77eef7d4d0262&id=43cfc7b43f&e=c9773beff6"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #859436;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">a handy roundup of the state of climate change
litigation</a></b> in year 1 of the Trump era.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/files/2017/05/Burger-Gundlach-2017-05-UN-Envt-CC-Litigation.pdf">PDF
41 page report document</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/files/2017/05/Burger-Gundlach-2017-05-UN-Envt-CC-Litigation.pdf">http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/files/2017/05/Burger-Gundlach-2017-05-UN-Envt-CC-Litigation.pdf</a><br>
<blockquote>This report provides judges, advocates, researchers, and
the international community with an of-themoment survey of global
climate change litigation, an overview of litigation trends, and
descriptions of key issues that courts must resolve in the course
of climate change cases. One purpose of this report is to assist
judges in understanding the nature and goals of different types of
climate change cases, issues that are common to these cases, and
how the particularities of political, legal, and environmental
settings factor in to their resolution. Another goal is to
contribute to a common language among practitioners around the
world working to address climate change through the courts.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/">http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Methane management]<br>
Stunning new research finds fracking a major source of carbon
pollution in Pennsylvania<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/stunning-new-research-finds-fracking-a-major-source-of-carbon-pollution-in-pennsylvania-9d2bdb63f2ec/">Methane
leaks in the state's oil and gas industry equal 11 coal-fired
power plants.</a></b><br>
JOE ROMM<br>
The evidence is now overwhelming that natural gas is not part of the
climate solution, it is part of the problem.<br>
A <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.edf.org/energy/explore-pennsylvanias-oil-and-gas-pollution">new
study</a> finds that the methane escaping from Pennsylvania's oil
and gas industry "causes the same near-term climate pollution as 11
coal-fired power plants." And that is "five times higher than what
oil and gas companies report" to the state, according to analysis
from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) based on <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.edf.org/energy/methodology-estimating-untracked-emissions">16
peer-reviewed studies</a>. <br>
Natural gas is mostly methane, a super-potent greenhouse gas, which
traps 86 times as much heat as CO2 over a 20-year period. So even a
small leakage rate from the natural gas supply chain (production to
delivery to combustion) can have a large climate impact - enough
to gut the entire benefit of switching from coal-fired power to gas
for a long, long time...<br>
Yet even though many earlier studies have found that natural gas
production spews out huge amounts of carbon pollution all across the
country, just last week, the Trump administration moved to undo an
Obama-era rule aimed at limiting the methane leakage from gas and
oil production on public lands...<br>
Methane emissions are responsible for about a quarter of the
human-caused global warming the world is experiencing today. <br>
Stunning new research finds fracking a major source of carbon
pollution in Pennsylvania: Methane leaks in the state's oil and gas
industry equal 11 coal-fired power plants. New Mexico's equate to
12 coal plants<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/stunning-new-research-finds-fracking-a-major-source-of-carbon-pollution-in-pennsylvania-9d2bdb63f2ec/">https://thinkprogress.org/stunning-new-research-finds-fracking-a-major-source-of-carbon-pollution-in-pennsylvania-9d2bdb63f2ec/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[press release]<br>
It is my pleasure to inform you that Winrock International has
recently developed guidance on how to carry out Monte Carlo
uncertainty analyses in greenhouse gas accounting. It is available
here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.winrock.org/document/guidance-on-applying-the-monte-carlo-approach-to-uncertainty-analyses-in-forestry-and-greenhouse-gas-accounting">https://www.winrock.org/document/guidance-on-applying-the-monte-carlo-approach-to-uncertainty-analyses-in-forestry-and-greenhouse-gas-accounting</a>.
For more information, please contact <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:anna.mcmcurray@winrock.org">anna.mcmcurray@winrock.org</a>.<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.winrock.org/document/guidance-on-applying-the-monte-carlo-approach-to-uncertainty-analyses-in-forestry-and-greenhouse-gas-accounting/">GUIDANCE
ON APPLYING THE MONTE CARLO APPROACH TO UNCERTAINTY ANALYSES IN
FORESTRY AND GREENHOUSE GAS ACCOUNTING (ENGLISH AND SPANISH)</a></b><br>
<blockquote><b>Summary</b><br>
When calculating greenhouse gas emissions, it is always necessary
to evaluate and quantify the uncertainties of the estimates.
Uncertainty analyses help analysts and decision-makers identify
how accurate the estimations are and the likely range in which the
true value of the emissions fall. This guidance is available in
English and in Spanish and serves as a technical guide for
analysts who desire to apply the Monte Carlo approach to quantify
uncertainty, filling information gaps that currently exist in
international literature on how to carry out uncertainty analyses
in forestry and greenhouse gas accounting. <br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.winrock.org/document/guidance-on-applying-the-monte-carlo-approach-to-uncertainty-analyses-in-forestry-and-greenhouse-gas-accounting/">https://www.winrock.org/document/guidance-on-applying-the-monte-carlo-approach-to-uncertainty-analyses-in-forestry-and-greenhouse-gas-accounting/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[opinion]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sixdegreesnews.org/archives/22875/lets-not-make-cape-town-face-of-our-water-future">Let's
not make Cape Town face of our water future</a><br>
RANJAN PANDA <br>
According to the United Nations, water scarcity already hits more
than 40 percent of the globe's population and is expected to
aggravate further due to global warming that will make one in four
people face chronic or recurring shortage of water by 2050. At Cape
City, this future has arrived, in much fiercer and scary way.<br>
Drought stricken Cape Town of about 4 million people is facing
severe shortage of water due to low rainfall for a consecutive
three-year period. The city is working on a war footing basis to
avoid a Day Zero that was to come in mid-April but now shifted to
11th May, thanks to water rationing both by domestic consumers and
agriculture. Looking at the disaster management plan of the City
authorities, that is being updated each day, one would realise how
terrifying it could be for the people of a city when a water
emergency stares at their face. The city administration say they are
prepared to move mountains to solve the crisis, but the question
lies, 'can they really'? The Day Zero is only about three months
away....<br>
Now the city authorities are desperately seeking from people to
reduce their water consumption to below 50 litres per person per
day. This will bring the collective consumption to 450 million
litres a day. People have so far cooperated as they are scared of
the Zero Day for which the city has made extensive arrangement of
police to prevent water riots....<br>
"Water inequality will also substantially grow as the city plans to
let rich people keep receiving normal water supply at household
levels by paying very high costs.<br>
Common people will also pay a higher monthly tariff but have to
fight for water in long queues. More than 400 years of water
planning and dam building has not really helped the city avoid such
a scary scenario...<br>
Water inequality will also substantially grow as the city plans to
let rich people keep receiving normal water supply at household
levels by paying very high costs.<br>
Common people will also pay a higher monthly tariff but have to
fight for water in long queues. More than 400 years of water
planning and dam building has not really helped the city avoid such
a scary scenario.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.sixdegreesnews.org/archives/22875/lets-not-make-cape-town-face-of-our-water-future">http://www.sixdegreesnews.org/archives/22875/lets-not-make-cape-town-face-of-our-water-future</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Climate Change Monsters]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/your-climate-change-monsters-revealed">Your
Climate Change Monsters, Revealed</a></b><br>
The face of climate change, as chosen by Atlas Obscura readers.<br>
BY NATASHA FROST<br>
CLIMATE CHANGE IS SCARY. Climate change monsters, it turns out, are
too. For decades, people have been inspired by dramatic
environmental changes when <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/climate-change-monsters-inspired-frankenstein">coming
up with creatures and horrorscapes</a>. One of the most famous is
Frankenstein's monster, who emerged from the mind of Mary Shelley
during what was known as The Year Without a Summer...<br>
Recently, we asked you to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/design-climate-change-monster">help
us design a climate change monster</a>-what beasts will emerge
from a world ravaged by rising temperatures and sea levels? Almost
100 Atlas Obscura readers reached out with creatures scaly and
slimy, humanoid and extraterrestrial. Some come from the top of the
planet, while others thrive at the bottom of the ocean. All of them
were inventive, and helped give a face or a name to a phenomenon
many people are still struggling to wrap their heads around...<br>
<blockquote>Females will reach 12 feet long, males only six feet
long, with heavy shields around their faces, long nose spikes, and
long spiked tails that make them look like ancient rhinoceros.
They will keep their short thin front legs for manual tasks and
will eventually develop an opposed thumb on their front feet. Due
to their weight, they will lose their ability to fly, but they
will not need to fly with such an abundance of food dead and dying
all around them.<br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030122161530/http://www.rep.org/opinions/op-eds/19.htm">This
Day in Climate History February 24, 2002 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
February 24, 2002: In the Denver Post, Bruce Smart of Republicans
for Environmental Protection rips President George W. Bush's
February 14, 2002 speech on climate change:<br>
<blockquote>"...President Bush reaffirmed the nation's commitment to
the U.N. Framework Convention's 1992 goal 'to stabilize greenhouse
gas concentrations at a level that will prevent dangerous human
interference with the climate,' and he outlined an environmental
path for the nation to follow. A number of the specifics he
proposed, if forcefully pursued, can be helpful.<br>
<br>
"But the medicine prescribed for the world's greatest
environmental threat—the malignant growth of atmospheric
concentrations of greenhouse gases—is only a well-packaged
placebo. It is no cure for global warming and the hazardous
changes in climate that a great majority of scientists believe it
is likely to cause."<br>
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