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<font size="+1"><i>March 12, 2018<br>
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[Ooops, may happen again]<br>
<b><a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09032018/dakota-access-oil-pipeline-leak-detection-technology-standing-rock-water-safety-energy-transfer-partners">Standing
Rock: Dakota Access Pipeline Leak Technology Can't Detect All
Spills</a></b><br>
The Standing Rock Tribe argues in a report that thousands of barrels
of oil a day could leak into the Missouri River and not be detected
by the company's equipment.<br>
By Phil McKenna<br>
Nine months after oil starting flowing through the Dakota Access
pipeline, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe continues to fight the
controversial project, which passes under the Missouri River just
upstream from their water supply.<br>
<br>
<br>
[$now falls]<br>
<a
href="http://theenergymix.com/2018/03/09/colorado-ski-operators-lose-billions-to-warmer-drier-winters/"><b>Snow
as currency: The economic impact of changing snow levels on
Colorado ski towns</b></a><br>
Climate change could devastate the economies of ski towns in the
Rockies and anywhere else where "snow is currency," according to a
new report by the Colorado-based climate advocacy non-profit,
Protect Our Winters (POW).<br>
In a study that compared snow levels with spending habits from 2001
to 2016, POW found that "a low-snow year can cost the ski resort
industry more than $1 billion and 17,400 jobs, compared to an
average season," reports Outside magazine.<br>
Read more in today's issue of The Energy Mix: <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://theenergymix.com/2018/03/09/colorado-ski-operators-lose-billions-to-warmer-drier-winters/">http://theenergymix.com/2018/03/09/colorado-ski-operators-lose-billions-to-warmer-drier-winters/</a>
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</font><br>
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[future]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/12/climate-change-is-a-disaster-foretold-just-like-the-first-world-war">Climate
change is a disaster foretold, just like the first world war</a><br>
</b>Jeff Sparrow<br>
The warnings about an unfolding climate catastrophe are getting more
desperate, yet the march to destruction continues<br>
"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit
again in our life-time."<br>
The mournful remark supposedly made by foreign secretary Sir Edward
Grey at dusk on 3 August 1914 referred to Britain's imminent entry
into the first world war. But the sentiment captures something of
our own moment, in the midst of an intensifying campaign against
nature...<br>
According to the<span> </span><a
href="http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/all_publications/lpr_2016/"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
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!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">World Wildlife Fund's
2016 Living Planet Report</a>, over the last four decades<span> </span><a
href="http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/the-mass-extinction-event-going-unnoticed-as-the-planets-biodiversity-dwindles/news-story/63c0ba483308cb4d73ef8d0a230459ab"
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 international animal
population was reduced by nearly 60%.</a>More<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/report-finds-north-american-skies-quieter-by-15-billion-fewer-birds/article31876053/"
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;">than a billion fewer
birds</a><span> </span>inhabit North America today compared to 40
years ago. In Britain, certain iconic species (grey partridges, tree
sparrows, etc) have<span> </span><a
href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/23/turtle-doves-nearing-uk-extinction-farming-practices/"
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;">fallen by 90%.</a><span> </span>In
Germany,<span> </span><a
href="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185809"
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;">flying insects have
declined by 76% over the past 27 years</a>.<span> </span><a
href="https://eventregistry.org/event/eng-3778104"
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;">Almost half of Borneo's
orangutans died or were removed between 1999 and 2015</a>.<span> </span><a
href="http://worldelephantday.org/about/elephants"
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;">Elephant numbers have
dropped by 62% in a decade</a>, with on average one adult killed
by poachers every 15 minutes.<br>
We inherited a planet of beauty and wonders - and we're saying
goodbye to all that.<br>
The cultural historian Paul Fussell once identified the catastrophe
of the first world war with the distinctive sensibility of
modernity, noting how 20th century history had "domesticate[d] the
fantastic and normalize[d] the unspeakable."<br>
Consider, then, the work of climate change.<br>
In February, for instance, scientists recorded<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/27/arctic-warming-scientists-alarmed-by-crazy-temperature-rises"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
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transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">temperatures 35 degrees
above the historical average in Siberia</a>, a phenomenon that<span> </span><a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/climate/polar-vortex-europe-cold.html"
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;">apparently corresponded
with the unprecedented cold snap across Europe</a>.<br>
As concentrated CO2 intensifies extreme events, a new and diabolical
weather will, we're told, become the norm for a generation already
accustomising itself to such everyday atrocities as about<span> </span><a
href="http://web.unep.org/environmentassembly/estimated-8-million-tons-plastic-waste-enter-world%E2%80%99s-oceans-each-year-0"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
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transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">eight million tons of
plastics</a><span> </span>are washed into the ocean each year...<br>
The appeals to humanity and reason did not move states jostling for
trade and commercial advantages. For the people of Europe, the arms
race was disastrous; for specific governments, it made perfect
sense, for those who did not compete risked falling behind.<br>
The same might be said today.<br>
From a global perspective, the necessity to abandon fossil fuels
cannot be denied. But for individual economies, change risks
undermining comparative advantages.<br>
If we don't sell coal,<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/27/malcolm-turnbull-coal-export-ban-would-make-no-difference-to-emissions"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
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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;">says Malcolm Turnbull</a>,
our competitors will - which was, of course precisely the logic of
the British fleet expansion in 1908.
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The devastation of the first world war eventually engendered a wave
of revolt from a populace appalled at the carnage their politicians
had wrought.<br>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-change"
data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag"
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;">Climate
change</a><span> </span>has not yet spurred an equivalent of the
mutinies in France or the revolution in Petrograd or the uprising in
Berlin.<br>
Yet Labor's appalling equivocation over the Adani mine - a piece of
environmental vandalism for which there can be no justification -
illustrates the urgency with which we need a new and different type
of politics.<br>
The stakes could not be higher. Lamps are going out all over the
natural world … and no one will ever see them lit again.<br>
<font size="-1"><span class="bullet" style="font-size: 0.00625rem;
line-height: 0.00625rem; color: transparent;">•</span><span> </span>Jeff
Sparrow is a Guardian Australia columnist</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/12/climate-change-is-a-disaster-foretold-just-like-the-first-world-war">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/12/climate-change-is-a-disaster-foretold-just-like-the-first-world-war</a></font><br>
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<br>
[perceptual bias]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://theconversation.com/why-some-conservatives-are-blind-to-climate-change-91549">Why
some conservatives are blind to climate change</a></b><br>
Do you see what I see?<br>
In the face of the evidence, how can we explain this division?<br>
As psychology researchers, we wondered whether some people are just
blind to cues of climate risk.<br>
When we're confronted by visually crowded settings, we tend to
notice emotional words and tune out others. For example, if you were
presented a series of words appearing one after another in quick
succession - 10 words per second - you would struggle to name all of
them. But you would be more likely to catch a word like "danger"
than a neutral one.<br>
We set up exactly that kind of scenario in our study. We recruited
university students, as well as people in shopping malls in the
Vancouver area and in Kamloops, B.C. Then we showed each of them a
rapid sequence of words and asked them to pick out two targets, such
as a set of digits (555555555) and a word in green font, in the
sequence.<br>
Due to limits in our visual system, once the first target has
appeared, people are unable to "see" the second target if it appears
too soon after the first. This phenomenon is called the attentional
blink. It's as if the mind blinks after the first target, preventing
you from seeing the second.<br>
But things change when emotional words are used. Previous research
has shown that if the second target is emotionally arousing, then
people are better able to see it than if it is neutral - compare the
words murder and keyboard, for example... <br>
When we modified the test to measure people's attention to climate
change, we found people who are concerned about climate change are
better at seeing climate-related words, such as carbon, right after
the first target than those who are less concerned.<br>
We also asked participants about their political orientation,
income, education, religion, profession, experience with natural
disasters and whether they owned a home near sea level...<br>
When we analyzed the data, we found a pattern: Conservatives who
were less concerned about climate change were less likely to see
climate-related words than liberals who were worried about the
issue.<br>
Now that we know people's political orientation affects their visual
attention to climate change, this raises a possible feedback loop,
where concerned liberals readily tune their attention to news
headlines about climate change and become even more concerned.<br>
But unconcerned conservatives may be more blind to the same
headlines about climate change and therefore become more entrenched
in their disbelief.<br>
The visual blindness can further deepen the denial of the real risks
of climate change such as flooding, hurricanes, drought and
heatwaves, and consequently a lack of action to mitigate climate
change.<br>
If we're to be successful communicating the risks of climate change
to conservatives, we may need to go about it in a different way.
Communications about climate change must tailor the climate-related
information to the audience, especially those who are conservative
or unconcerned.<br>
We can do this by using messages that align with people's political
ideologies and personal values.<br>
For example, we can frame climate change action as protecting our
nation against climate catastrophes, advancing economic and
technological development and creating a more caring and considerate
society, which is an effective message to engage climate deniers.
Framing environmentalism as a form of patriotism can be successful,
particularly if the appeal is seen as coming from one's in-group.<br>
It's always hard to get someone's attention, but if the messaging is
in line with their personal values and motivations, they will take
notice.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://theconversation.com/why-some-conservatives-are-blind-to-climate-change-91549">https://theconversation.com/why-some-conservatives-are-blind-to-climate-change-91549</a></font><br>
[Science of denial]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-018-2147-9">Political
orientation and climate concern shape visual attention to climate
change</a><br>
Abstract<br>
<blockquote>Despite the scientific consensus, there is widespread
public controversy about climate change. Previous explanations
focused on interpretations hampered by political bias or
insufficient knowledge of climate facts. We propose that public
views of climate change may also be related to an attentional bias
at a more basic level of cognitive processing. We hypothesized
that selective visual attention towards or away from
climate-related information would be associated with climate
concern. To test prioritization of climate-related stimuli under
conditions of limited attention, we asked participants to identify
climate-related and neutral words within a rapid stream of
stimuli. Undergraduate students attended to climate-related words
more readily than neutral words. This attentional prioritization
correlated with self-rated climate concern. We then examined this
relationship in a more diverse community sample. Principal
component analysis of survey data in the community sample revealed
a component indexing a relationship between climate concern and
political orientation. That component was correlated with the
degree of selective inattention to climate-related words. Our
findings suggest that climate-related communications may be most
effective if tailored in a manner accounting for how attentional
priorities differ between audiences-particularly those with
different political orientations.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-018-2147-9">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-018-2147-9</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Ethics of Climate Change 2013]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/2a7SSLYKbqQ">Ethics
and Climate Change: It's wrong to wreck the world</a></b><br>
If your house is on fire what is the best thing to do? <br>
I'd put out the darn fire and do it fast because there are people in
there about seven<br>
billion of them and there are animals in there and there are plants
<br>
but what do we do well? <br>
<blockquote>We debate about whether it was lightning or arson that
started that fire human caused or natural.<br>
We attack the credibility of the people who call in the alarm? <br>
We saw a jobs program for the firefighters.<br>
and this is the one that really gets me: <br>
We commissioned a number of studies about adapting to life in a
burnt-up house<br>
</blockquote>
We are moving so quickly to adaptation, there are jobs in
adaptation. It's empowering to think about how we can<br>
adapt to all this. But we're not done putting out the fire so let's
work on that first<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/2a7SSLYKbqQ">https://youtu.be/2a7SSLYKbqQ</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Audacity and Hubris]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/03/10/exxon-accuses-california-cities-misleading-investors-climate-change">Yes,
Exxon Is Accusing Local Governments of Misleading Investors on
Climate Change</a></b><br>
By Justin Mikulka • March 10, 2018<br>
In January, ExxonMobil<span> </span><a
href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4345487-Exxon-Texas-Petition-Jan-2018.html"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">filed a legal petition</a> seeking to depose more than a
dozen city and county government officials in California,<span> </span><a
href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article203207749.html"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">claiming that the municipal officials</a><span> </span>are
defrauding investors by not fully disclosing the risks posed by
climate change.<br>
You read that right. Exxon is legally challenging cities and
counties for not talking up the risks of climate change<span> </span><em>enough</em><span> </span>to
the investors who purchase municipal bonds for those localities...<br>
Exxon is responding to the municipalities which have<span> </span><a
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/legal-us-usa-oil-climatesuits/california-cities-sue-big-oil-firms-over-climate-change-idUSKCN1BV2QM"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">filed lawsuits<span> </span></a>seeking to hold Exxon and
other oil companies accountable for the damages to their cities from
sea level rise. Exxon's <a
href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4345487-Exxon-Texas-Petition-Jan-2018.html"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">legal petition</a> is calling those lawsuits a "conspiracy"
because - according to its petition - "A collection of special
interests and opportunistic politicians are abusing law enforcement
authority and legal process to impose their viewpoint on
climate change."<br>
The oil giant goes on to say: "ExxonMobil finds itself directly in
that conspiracy's crosshairs. Even though it has long acknowledged
the risks presented by climate change …"<br>
According to its legal filing, Exxon just wants to be able to talk
about climate change but claims its First Amendment rights are being
taken away by the lawsuits the various municipalities have filed:<br>
<span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">"</span>Through abusive
law enforcement tactics and litigation in California, Respondents
and others are attempting to stifle ExxonMobil's exercise, in Texas,
of its First Amendment right to participate in the national dialogue
about climate change and climate policy."<br>
How the lawsuits have stifled Exxon's free speech is not clear from
the legal document, but law experts say it certainly looks like an
attempt to intimidate anyone considering holding Exxon and the
industry accountable for the impacts of climate change.<br>
"It's an aggressive move,"<span> </span><a
href="https://www.fordham.edu/info/23129/howard_m_erichson"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Howard Erichson,</a><span> </span>a law professor at
Fordham with expertise in the procedure and ethics of complex
litigation, explained to<span> </span><a
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-13/exxon-sues-the-suers-in-fierce-bid-to-defeat-climate-lawsuits"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Bloomberg</a>. "Does Exxon really need these depositions or
is Exxon seeking the depositions to harass mayors and city attorneys
into dropping their lawsuits?"<br>
Exxon's claim that these municipalities are misleading investors on
climate change is interesting because that is - of course - exactly
what Exxon has been accused of<span> </span><a
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climatechange-exxon/new-york-prosecutor-says-exxon-misled-investors-on-climate-change-idUSKBN18T1XK"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">in multiple lawsuits</a><span> </span>and in the national
dialogue over climate liability...<br>
In an interesting turn of events, Exxon is using the tactic of
accusing its opponents of what it appears to be guilty of when it
comes to climate risks...<br>
Because even though Exxon fails to mention the company's exposure to
climate liability to its investors, the possibility remains that
international efforts to address climate change could seriously cut
into Exxon's profits. It should be expected that as the impacts of
climate change continue to intensify, Exxon's attacks on those
looking to hold them accountable will ramp up as well.<br>
<b><font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/03/10/exxon-accuses-california-cities-misleading-investors-climate-change">https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/03/10/exxon-accuses-california-cities-misleading-investors-climate-change</a></font></b><br>
<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzBhJvu_eYU">[On the other
hand - 1985 CSPAN video] </a> <i> (long duration, important,
historical - bookmark and save)</i><br>
<b><a
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/03/11/from-1985-warnings-from-carl-sagan-and-al-gore/">From
1985: Warnings from Carl Sagan and Al Gore [and others]</a></b><br>
by greenman3610<br>
Climate deniers will have a hard time explaining these to their
grandchildren, the kids who are now woke to the disasters they've
been served by blindness and greed. Astounding find by
ClimateState.<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzBhJvu_eYU">YouTube video</a>
<a>Carl Sagan, Al Gore Climate Warning 1985 +2m SLR +5 degrees C by
2100</a><br>
December 10, 1985 - A group of senators and scientists today called
for national and international action to avert a predicted warming
of the earth's climate resulting from a buildup of carbon dioxide
and other man-made gases in the atmosphere<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzBhJvu_eYU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzBhJvu_eYU</a></font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/03/11/from-1985-warnings-from-carl-sagan-and-al-gore/">https://climatecrocks.com/2018/03/11/from-1985-warnings-from-carl-sagan-and-al-gore/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/business/energy-environment/electric-cars-hybrid-tax-credits.html">This
Day in Climate History - March 12, 2017 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
The New York Times reports:<br>
<blockquote>"Today, the economic incentives that have helped
electric vehicles gain a toehold in America are under attack,
state by state. In some states, there is a move to repeal tax
credits for battery-powered vehicles or to let them expire. And in
at least nine states, including liberal-leaning ones like Illinois
and conservative-leaning ones like Indiana, lawmakers have
introduced bills that would levy new fees on those who own
electric cars.<br>
"The state actions could put the business of electric vehicles,
already rocky, on even more precarious footing. That is
particularly true as gas prices stay low, and as the Trump
administration appears set to give the nascent market much less of
a hand.<br>
"In coming days, the Trump administration is widely expected to
roll back stringent federal regulations on vehicle emissions, one
of the biggest environmental legacies of President Barack Obama.
The changes would give American carmakers less incentive to
produce more battery-powered cars. There are also concerns among
advocates of electric cars over the fate of a $7,500 federal tax
credit on the vehicles, a major catalyst for sales.<br>
"But while the battle in Washington gets much of the attention,
the most direct attack against electric vehicles, and in some
cases hybrid vehicles, is quietly being waged at the state level.<br>
In Colorado, a bill that would end income tax credits for owners
of electric and alternative-fuel vehicles is working its way
through the legislature. In Utah, lawmakers voted this month
against extending the state’s tax credit for electric cars.<br>
"The measure in Colorado has been backed publicly by Americans for
Prosperity, an advocacy group founded by the conservative
billionaire brothers David H. and Charles G. Koch, whose wealth is
founded on their petrochemicals empire.<br>
"A handful of other states, including Illinois, Pennsylvania and
Tennessee, have already let their incentives expire. That has
brought down to 16 the number of states that offer financial
support for buyers of electric vehicles. That number once
approached 25."<br>
</blockquote>
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