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<font size="+1"><i>March 9, 2018<br>
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[BBC Report]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43294221">Climate
change 'impacts women more than men'</a></b><br>
By Mary Halton BBC News, science reporter<br>
<b>Women are more likely than men to be affected by climate change,
studies show.</b><br>
UN figures indicate that 80% of people displaced by climate change
are women.<br>
Roles as primary caregivers and providers of food and fuel make them
more vulnerable when flooding and drought occur.<br>
The 2015 Paris Agreement has made specific provision for the
empowerment of women, recognising that they are disproportionately
impacted...<br>
Twenty-five percent of those nominated to participate in the next
report are women. "IPCC has been very receptive to this and is
actually discussing how they can support women better," explains
Liverman.<br>
"Women are half the world. It's important they participate in all
major decisions,"<br>
"Climate change is not a fight for power," points out Hindou Oumarou
Ibrahim, "it's a fight for survival."<br>
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[USA TODAY]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/03/08/high-tide-floods-expected-get-even-worse-could-become-daily-weekly-events-some-coastal-cities-end-ce/407616002/">Global
warming is already fueling 'high-tide' floods — and it's only
going to get worse</a></b><br>
And now, thanks partly to global warming, it doesn't even take a
storm to inundate the coast with ruinous floodwaters. So-called
"nuisance" or "sunny day" high-tide flooding is becoming more
commonplace across the U.S., and a new federal report released this
week warns that such flooding will only worsen in the decades to
come...<br>
As the Earth's temperature warms, so do the seas. Heat-trapping
greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane cause more land
ice (glaciers and ice sheets) to melt and water to expand. Warmer
water simply takes up more room than cooler water.<br>
Scientists say global warming will be the primary cause of future
sea-level rise. Their greatest uncertainty is how quickly the
massive West Antarctic ice sheet will melt.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/03/08/high-tide-floods-expected-get-even-worse-could-become-daily-weekly-events-some-coastal-cities-end-ce/407616002/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/03/08/high-tide-floods-expected-get-even-worse-could-become-daily-weekly-events-some-coastal-cities-end-ce/407616002/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[James Hansen - Optimistic]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://columbia.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ebaeb14fdbf5dc65289113c1&id=26707a1c8a&e=c4e20a3850">Some
Basis for Optimism</a></b><br>
Some Basis for Optimism is available <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://columbia.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ebaeb14fdbf5dc65289113c1&id=26707a1c8a&e=c4e20a3850">here
in pdf format</a> and on <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://columbia.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ebaeb14fdbf5dc65289113c1&id=cf82eee262&e=c4e20a3850">my
web site</a>.<br>
~Jim<br>
08 March 2018<br>
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href="https://columbia.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ebaeb14fdbf5dc65289113c1&id=26707a1c8a&e=c4e20a3850">https://columbia.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ebaeb14fdbf5dc65289113c1&id=26707a1c8a&e=c4e20a3850</a><br>
However, optimism also has plenty of basis, mostly related to young
people. <br>
Some examples:<br>
<b>(1) The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco </b>rejected the
Trump Administration's attempt to block the lawsuit of Our
Children's Trust demanding a plan by the United States government to
reduce fossil fuel emissions. The trial will proceed in the U.S.
District Court in Oregon, likely in the fourth quarter of this
year...<br>
<b>(2) Young Republicans are showing that they will not accept
politics as usual</b>, they understand climate change is real, and
a substantial number of them advocate exactly the conservative
policy that could address the matter successfully: carbon fee with
100% dividend uniformly distributed to the public.<br>
<b>(3) Another basis for optimism is the rapid progress of Michael
Shellenberger</b> as an Independent candidate for California
Governor....<br>
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href="https://columbia.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ebaeb14fdbf5dc65289113c1&id=26707a1c8a&e=c4e20a3850">https://columbia.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ebaeb14fdbf5dc65289113c1&id=26707a1c8a&e=c4e20a3850</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thebulletin.org/blog/whats-new-bulletin/resilience-and-climate-threat-guest-edited-alice-c-hill">Resilience
and the climate threat</a></b><br>
In early February, the Trump administration unveiled a <a
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href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=72211899&msgid=2597856&act=6B6D&c=946851&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fthebulletin.org%2Ftrumps-infrastructure-plan-may-ignore-climate-change-it-could-be-costly11503">$1.5-trillion
infrastructure plan</a> that has received criticism on several
fronts. Chief among the complaints is a lack of planning for civil
and infrastructure disruptions resulting from extreme weather and a
changing climate. But the Trump administration isn't unique in this
regard: studies indicate that governments around the world
underinvest in infrastructure resilience by at least 70 percent. But
what do we mean when we say "resilience?" And who benefits from
efforts that do exist?<br>
The March/April issue of our digital journal explores resilience and
the climate threat and is guest-edited by Alice C. Hill, research
fellow at the Stanford University Hoover Institution and former
senior director for resilience policy for the National Security
Council. Hill's work focuses on building resilience to destabilizing
catastrophic events, including the impacts of climate change, and
she brings her considerable expertise to this special issue.<br>
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community is one that includes
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style="color: rgb(0, 104,
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systems amid a changing
climate</span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br>
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[Article]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.2018.1436810">Resilience
for power systems amid a changing climate</a></b><br>
ABSTRACT<br>
The US electric power system faces an urgent need for policies that
address climate vulnerabilities. Extreme weather events, sea level
rise, water availability issues, and changing temperatures can
result in acute disruptions to and persistent economic impacts upon
electric power generation. In the United States, extreme weather
events affecting power systems already cost the country's economy
tens of billions of dollars each year. Policies to improve power
systems' resilience to climate change impacts will produce important
co-benefits that apply to other disruptions, such as cyber attacks,
earthquakes, and tsunamis.<br>
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[Solar]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-06/tesla-losing-top-spot-in-solar-to-sunrun-as-musk-shifts-gears">Tesla
Loses Top Spot in Residential Solar to Sunrun</a></b><br>
Elon Musk is no longer leading the charge in residential solar.<br>
<a itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="StoryLink"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/TSLA:US" title="Price Chart"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color:
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inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height:
inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(60, 60, 60); text-decoration: none;">Tesla Inc.</a><span> </span>installed<span> </span><a
itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="StoryLink"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-07/tesla-may-be-about-to-lose-its-throne-as-king-of-rooftop-solar"
title="Tesla May Be About to Lose Its Throne as King of Rooftop
Solar" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent;
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inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height:
inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(60, 60, 60); text-decoration: none;">87 megawatts</a><span> </span>of
commercial and residential solar in the fourth quarter, including
about 50 megawatts at homes, according to a GTM Research estimate.
Rival<span> </span><a itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="StoryLink"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/RUN:US" title="Price Chart"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color:
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inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(60, 60, 60); text-decoration: none;">Sunrun Inc.</a><span> </span>added
85 megawatts of residential systems in the same period, according to
a<span> </span><a itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="StoryLink"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/terminal/P56T3F3RXUKG"
title="Sunrun Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2017 Financial
Results" class="terminal-news-story" target="_blank" rel="nofollow
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text-decoration: none;">statement</a><span> </span>Tuesday.
Counting only that part of Tesla's operation, Sunrun took the lead
in the third quarter.<br>
The changing of the guard comes more than a year after Tesla bought
Musk's debt-burdened SolarCity for<span> </span><a
itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="StoryLink"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-17/tesla-seals-2-billion-solarcity-deal-set-to-test-musk-s-vision"
title="Tesla’s Move Beyond Cars Official With $2 Billion SolarCity
Deal" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent;
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inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height:
inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(60, 60, 60); text-decoration: none;">$2 billion</a>. Tesla has
since prioritized profitability in solar over growth-at-all-costs as
the company seeks to transform itself into a solar and battery giant
to complement its electric vehicles. Tesla has ceded solar
market-share in most quarters since that deal, and without SolarCity
trumpeting solar, the U.S. residential market contracted in 2017
after at least 16 consecutive<span> </span><a itemscope="itemscope"
itemprop="StoryLink"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-01/u-s-residential-solar-declining-as-industry-faces-retooling"
title="U.S. Residential Solar Slides for the First Time in 16
Years (1)" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent;
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inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height:
inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color:
rgb(60, 60, 60); text-decoration: none;">years of growth</a>.<br>
"SolarCity was the marketing and lobbying machine for the entire
industry, and everyone is struggling in its absence," said Hugh
Bromley, a New York-based analyst at Bloomberg New Energy
Finance....<br>
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href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-06/tesla-losing-top-spot-in-solar-to-sunrun-as-musk-shifts-gears">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-06/tesla-losing-top-spot-in-solar-to-sunrun-as-musk-shifts-gears</a><br>
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[Doctors: medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/members-in-action/opposition-repeal-clean-power-plan/">Doctors
Speak at EPA Hearing</a></b><br>
In Kansas City, we see significant amounts lung disease, COPD
chronic obstructive lung disease most commonly in adults, and asthma
in children. Both of these disease processes are largely affected
by air quality and environmental pollution.<br>
<blockquote>The literature reveals that air pollution stunts the
lung capacity of growing children, making them more vulnerable to
respiratory problems later in their lives, and that there is a
negative effect on pregnancy as well leading to higher rates of
prematurity and low birthweight. For older adults, poor air
quality exacerbates heart and lung problems. When air pollution
intensifies, people with these conditions are more likely to end
up in emergency rooms or a hospital. This is costly,
time-consuming, and sometimes life-threatening for the affected
individual and their family; but it is also a strain on the larger
community. Due to all these heart and lung health problems, there
are missed days from school and work, lower productivity, and a
high price paid by the patient and society of emergency room
visits and hospitalizations. These health problems add
significantly to the nation's health costs. These problems do not
necessarily stop at hospitalization. Deaths do occur; this is the
ultimate tragedy for many families and for the health system. In
2015, almost 150,00 people died from chronic resp illnesses. It
is the 3rd leading cause of death. The annual economic cost of
asthma is more than $56 billion including medical costs and school
and work loss days.<br>
</blockquote>
In addition to the immediate air pollution effects, climate change
is directly harming our health through severe heat waves, extreme
storms and rainfall, the spread of disease carried by mosquitoes and
ticks, flooding due to rising sea levels, and reduced air quality.<br>
National Medical Association stands with the Medical Society
Consortium on Climate and Health, which represents over 550,000
physicians (more than half the nation's doctors), who have come
together to inform the public that combating climate change will
improve the health of Americans now and in the future. The Clean
Power Plan is a vital tool in reducing these health threats by
cutting the heat-trapping pollution that drives climate change.<br>
"...<b>repealing the Clean Power Plan is taking a step in the wrong
direction</b>."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/members-in-action/opposition-repeal-clean-power-plan/">https://medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/members-in-action/opposition-repeal-clean-power-plan/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Politics revealed]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://documentedinvestigations.org/2018/03/08/revealed-names-alec-lobbyist-legislator-members/">REVEALED:
NAMES OF ALEC LOBBYIST AND LEGISLATOR MEMBERS</a></b><br>
MARCH 8, 2018<br>
You can download <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4392657-2017-ALEC-AM-Members.html">the
full pdf list here.</a> (68 pages)...reveals hundreds of ALEC
members, including a long list of fossil fuel companies and their
trade associations. The list includes Marathon Petroleum (this is
new information), Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, Peabody Energy,
Chevron, Duke Energy, the Edison Electric Institute, American Fuel
& Petrochemical Manufacturers, American Gas Association, the
Nuclear Energy Institute, National Rural Electric Cooperative
Association, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.<br>
The names of hundreds of members of the American Legislative
Exchange Council ("ALEC"), details of which are closely guarded by
the group, are revealed in a document obtained by Documented through
a public records request.<br>
The list, made available below, includes hundreds of elected
officials, corporations, front groups, and industry trade
associations.<i>(children's names redacted)</i><br>
You can check out the post on our website at Documented:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://documentedinvestigations.org/2018/03/08/revealed-names-alec-lobbyist-legislator-members/">http://documentedinvestigations.org/2018/03/08/revealed-names-alec-lobbyist-legislator-members/</a><br>
And please help share via Twitter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/ItsDocumented/status/971744829423144962">https://twitter.com/ItsDocumented/status/971744829423144962</a><br>
Full PDF List
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4392657-2017-ALEC-AM-Members.html">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4392657-2017-ALEC-AM-Members.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[George Monbiot zings Steven Pinker]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/07/environmental-calamity-facts-steven-pinker">You
can deny environmental calamity – until you check the facts</a></b><i>
(clipped) </i><b><br>
Rosy worldviews that rely on avoiding inconvenient truths should
always set alarm bells ringing</b><br>
@GeorgeMonbiot <br>
<span style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian
Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(254, 249, 245); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;">One of the curiosities of our age is the
way in which celebrity culture comes to dominate every aspect of
public life. Even the review pages of the newspapers sometimes
look like a highfalutin version of gossip magazines. Were we to
judge them by the maxim "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds
discuss events; small minds discuss people", they would not emerge
well. Biography dominates. Ideas often seem to come last.
Brilliant writers such as Sylvia Plath are better known for their
lives than their work. Turning her into the Princess Diana of
literature does neither her nor her readers any favours...<br>
</span>Even when ideas are given prominence, they no longer have
standing in their own right. Their salience depends on their
authorship. Take, for example, the psychology professor Steven
Pinker, who attracts<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/11/steven-pinker-enlightenment-now-interview-inequality-consumption-environment"
title="" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(224, 94, 0); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">breathless adulation</a>.<br>
I am broadly sympathetic to his worldview. I agree with him that
scientific knowledge is a moral imperative, and that we must use it
to enhance human welfare. Like him, I'm enthusiastic about
technologies that horrify other people, such as<span> </span><a
href="http://www.monbiot.com/2011/12/05/a-waste-of-waste/"
title="" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(224, 94, 0); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">fourth-generation
nuclear reactors</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/11/mass-starvation-humanity-flogging-land-death-earth-food"
title="" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(224, 94, 0); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">artificial meat</a>. So
I began reading his new book,<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/14/enlightenment-now-steven-pinker-review"
title="" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(224, 94, 0); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Enlightenment Now</a>,
with excitement...<br>
<span style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian
Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(254, 249, 245); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;">Rather than using primary sources,
Pinker draws on anecdote, cherry-picking and discredited talking
points developed by anti-environmental thinktanks...<br>
</span>Pinker seems unaware of<span> </span><a
href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800997001778"
title="" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(224, 94, 0); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">the controversies
surrounding the Kuznets Curve</a>, and the large body of data<span> </span><a
href="http://www.isa.org.usyd.edu.au/about/16-00271_LW_GlobalMaterialFlowsUNE_SUMMARY_FINAL_160701.pdf"
title="" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(224, 94, 0); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">that appears to
undermine it</a>. The same applies to the other grand claims with
which he sweeps through this subject. He relies on highly
tendentious interlocutors to interpret this alien field for him. If
you are going to use people like<span> </span><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecomodernism" title=""
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(224, 94, 0); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">US ecomodernist</a><span> </span><a
href="http://www.monbiot.com/2010/11/06/correspondence-with-stewart-brand/"
title="" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(224, 94, 0); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Stewart Brand</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/may/31/state-market-nothern-rock-ridley"
title="" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(224, 94, 0); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">the former head of
Northern Rock Matt Ridley</a><span> </span>as your sources, you
need to<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/jun/18/matt-ridley-rational-optimist-errors"
title="" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(224, 94, 0); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">doublecheck their
assertions</a>.Pinker insults the Enlightenment principles he
claims to defend.<br>
Could he have succumbed to the<span> </span><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning" title=""
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(224, 94, 0); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">motivated reasoning</a><span> </span>these
principles are supposed to suppress? If the environmental crisis
cannot be so easily dismissed, it threatens his argument that life
is steadily improving. What looks like a relentless enhancement in
human welfare could emerge instead as an interlude between one form
of deprivation and the next.<br>
I doubt such poor scholarship will dim the adulation with which his
claims are received. While Pinker is lauded, far more interesting
and original books, such as<span> </span><a
href="http://www.monbiot.com/2018/01/31/stepping-back-from-the-brink/"
title="" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(224, 94, 0); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Jeremy Lent's The
Patterning Instinct</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/12/doughnut-growth-economics-book-economic-model"
title="" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(224, 94, 0); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Kate Raworth's Doughnut
Economics</a>, are scarcely reviewed. If there is one aspect of
modernity that owes nothing to the Enlightenment, it is surely the
worship of celebrities.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/07/environmental-calamity-facts-steven-pinker">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/07/environmental-calamity-facts-steven-pinker</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, video speech]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/videos/watch/time-to-wake-up-retrospective">TIME
TO WAKE UP: RETROSPECTIVE</a></b><br>
In this week's "Time to Wake Up" speech, Sen. Whitehouse reflects
back on the last six years of urging his Senate colleagues to wake
up to the threats of climate change.<br>
Also at YouTube <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/5MX5q7EX6lM">https://youtu.be/5MX5q7EX6lM</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/videos/watch/time-to-wake-up-retrospective">https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/videos/watch/time-to-wake-up-retrospective</a><br>
</font><br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b>BetsyRosenberg.com presents: This Day in Climate
History - March 9, 2013 <br>
</b></font>March 9, 2013: MSNBC's Chris Hayes discusses the
escalation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2012.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/up/51113853">http://video.msnbc.msn.com/up/51113853</a><br>
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