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<font size="+1"><i>March 13, 2018</i></font><br>
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[innovation]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/03/americas-newest-weather-satellite-is-a-game-changer-for-forecasting-catastrophic-natural-events/">America's
Newest Weather Satellite Is a Game-Changer</a></b><br>
"The future of forecasting" is here...<br>
Robbie Gonzalez - Mar. 3, 2018<br>
...the important thing to know about GOES-16 and -17 is that they
are the most sophisticated environmental forecasting spacecraft ever
to ride a rocket to orbit. They'll monitor the eastern and western
portions of the US, respectively, and their adjoining oceans,
spanning an area that extends from the west coast of Africa to the
eastern reaches of New Zealand. Together, they'll provide
researchers and meteorologists with valuable data on weather systems
- including violent storms, wildfires, lightning, and dense fog - in
close to real time. The upshot: more accurate forecasts on your
weather app, for one. More robust climate models, for another. But
most consequentially: more advance warning, the next time local
conditions turn cataclysmic.<br>
The satellite formerly known as GOES-S will provide that warning
with the help of powerful instruments like the Advanced Baseline
Imager. Its 70 megapixel camera will scan the planet along 16
spectral channels tuned to detect visible, infrared, and
near-infrared signals at four times the resolution and five times
faster than GOES-15, the satellite GOES-S is destined to replace.
Translation: This sentinel in the sky can simultaneously image the
Western hemisphere once every 15 minutes, the continental US every
five, and smaller areas of interest every 30 seconds...<br>
"The key here is we're completing our picture of the west coast,"
says Walsh. The weather in Hawaii and Alaska, and along the Pacific
Coast, originates farther west than researchers and forecasters
could ever see with GOES-16. Its sibling satellite, assuming all
goes well, will give researchers, forecasters, and the public a
better sense of what's coming - from the everyday, to the extreme.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/03/americas-newest-weather-satellite-is-a-game-changer-for-forecasting-catastrophic-natural-events/">https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/03/americas-newest-weather-satellite-is-a-game-changer-for-forecasting-catastrophic-natural-events/</a></font><br>
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[Famine Early Warning Systems network]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.fews.net/global/global-weather-hazards/march-9-2018">FEWS
Net Global Weather Hazards</a></b><br>
Despite recent rains, many areas of southern Africa remain dry <br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.fews.net/sites/default/files/documents/reports/GlobalWeatherHazard-18.03.08.pdf">Download
report</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.fews.net/sites/default/files/documents/reports/GlobalWeatherHazard-18.03.08.pdf">http://www.fews.net/sites/default/files/documents/reports/GlobalWeatherHazard-18.03.08.pdf</a><br>
The Global Weather Hazards report anticipates severe weather or
climate events in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and
Central Asia. This product provides maps with current weather and
climate information; short and medium range weather forecasts (up to
one week); and the potential impact on crop and pasture conditions.
It does not reflect long range forecasts or food security
conditions.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.fews.net/global/global-weather-hazards/march-9-2018">http://www.fews.net/global/global-weather-hazards/march-9-2018</a></font><br>
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[Repression]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/resources/silencing-science-tracker/about/">Silencing
Science Tracker</a></b><br>
The Silencing Science Tracker is a joint initiative of the <b>Sabin
Center for Climate Change Law and the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.csldf.org/">Climate Science Legal Defense Fund</a></b>.
It is intended to record reports of government attempts to "silence
science" since the November 2016 election. At this time, the tracker
only includes actions taken by the federal government, but we plan
to add state-level actions in the future.<br>
We define "silencing science" to include any action that has the
effect of restricting or prohibiting scientific research, education
or discussion, or the publication or use of scientific information.<br>
The tracker does not include legislation affecting scientific
research, education, or discussion.<br>
All tracker entries are drawn from media reports, with most taken
from national news sources. We do not take any position on the
accuracy of those reports. Please contact Romany Webb (<a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:rwebb@law.columbia.edu">rwebb@law.columbia.edu</a>)
to recommend relevant media reports we may have missed or provide
responses or corrections to media reports we have included<br>
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href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/resources/silencing-science-tracker/about/">http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/resources/silencing-science-tracker/about/</a></font><br>
[Suspension]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/epa-science-advisory-board-unofficially-suspended/">EPA
Science Advisory Board Unofficially Suspended</a></b><br>
As of March 6, 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s
Science Advisory Board (SAB) had <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2018/03/06/stories/1060075513">not
met </a>in at least six months. <font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/epa-science-advisory-board-unofficially-suspended/">http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/epa-science-advisory-board-unofficially-suspended/</a></font><br>
[Restrictions]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/epa-staff-participation-in-scientific-integrity-survey-restricted/">EPA
Staff Participation in Scientific Integrity Survey Restricted</a></b><br>
E&E News <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2018/03/09/stories/1060075941">reported</a>
that scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had
been restricted from participating in an online survey intended to
gather information on scientific integrity within the federal
government.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/epa-staff-participation-in-scientific-integrity-survey-restricted/">http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/epa-staff-participation-in-scientific-integrity-survey-restricted/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Climate Liability News]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/03/12/climate-change-wildfires-california-utilities/">California
Utilities, Climate Change and Wildfires: A Liability Quagmire</a></b><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">By Ucilia Wang</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">California's rampant wildfires have
ignited legal questions as the state begins to deal with the
question of who's at fault and who pays for the escalating
damages. <br>
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Caught squarely in the middle
is the state's electric companies, several of whom have been found
liable for huge settlements when their equipment or negligence in
maintaining it were blamed for costly fires. That has driven them
to use a new tactic: blaming climate change.</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The three biggest utilities are
linking</span><a
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-23/best-shot-a-utility-has-against-fire-costs-may-be-climate-change">
<span style="font-weight: 400;">climate change to wildfires</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400;"> in a bid to persuade the Public
Utilities Commission to let them pass on some of the ballooning
firefighting and legal costs to their customers.</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The utilities say a constitutional
doctrine called inverse condemnation has compelled them to settle
lawsuits from property owners, firefighting agencies and local
governments. They believe the doctrine entitles them to recoup
some of the expenses by raising rates. The commission disagrees.</span><br>
<blockquote> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The stakes of this
debate are high. San Diego Gas & Electric faced more than
2,500 lawsuits and paid</span><a
href="http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M201/K962/201962746.PDF">
<span style="font-weight: 400;">$2.4 billion in settlements</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400;"> for its role in three fires in 2007
that</span><a
href="http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/wildfire/sd-me-witch-creek-20171010-story.html">
<span style="font-weight: 400;">burned 1,738 homes</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400;">, killed two people and scorched
368,316 acres in San Diego County.</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Fourteen of the</span><a
href="http://fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/top20_acres.pdf">
<span style="font-weight: 400;">20 largest wildfires</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400;"> in California since 1932 took place
within the past two decades. The biggest one, the Thomas Fire,
took place last December and lawsuits are piling up against
Southern California Edison. Up north, Pacific Gas & Electric
could potentially pay</span><a
href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/18/santa-rosa-couple-sues-pge-for-negligence-leading-to-wildfire/">
<span style="font-weight: 400;">billions of dollars</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400;"> for its role in</span><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2017_Northern_California_wildfires">
<span style="font-weight: 400;">a series of wildfires</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400;"> in Northern California last October
that killed 44 people and destroyed 8,900 buildings.
Investigators haven't pinpointed the causes of these recent
firestorms. </span><br>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet the stocks of both companies
tumbled after the fires, leading to</span><a
href="https://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2018/01/16/what-does-the-stock-market-tell-us-about-the-california-wildfires/"><span
style="font-weight: 400;"> $20 billion</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400;"> in combined market value losses. </span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">"What the California utilities are
facing is that large wildfires can bankrupt them if they can't
pass on the cost, if the size of potential liabilities exceed the
value of the companies," said Lucas Davis, a professor of economic
analysis and policy at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Science has concluded that climate
change</span><a
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-see-climate-change-in-californias-wildfires/">
<span style="font-weight: 400;">contributes to drier conditions</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400;">, exacerbates drought and leads to a
greater number and more intense wildfires. The three utilities say
that warming trend is a problem shared by all Californians, who
should then share the fire costs.</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The problem may be shared by all,
but the blame for causing it is where the utilities run into a
legal tangle. If climate change is to blame for the wildfires, the
utilities could turn and sue the fossil fuel industry whose
products have been overwhelmingly linked to rising global
temperatures. But that won't necessarily play well in the courts,
said Sean Hecht, an environmental law professor at the UCLA
School of Law.</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Utilities use gas for power plants,
and that doesn't make them the most sympathetic plaintiffs," Hecht
said.</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The utilities' other options, Hecht
said, are raising rates or lobbying for legislation that limits
their liability in homeowner lawsuits.</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">California officials and consumer
advocates say the utilities' attempt to blame climate change is
distracting from their responsibility to secure and maintain their
equipment to limit fire risk. </span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">"I'm finding that utilities are
trying to confuse the issue," said state Sen. Jerry Hill, who
chairs the subcommittee on gas, electricity and transportation
safety. "Climate change might have spread the fires more quickly,
but it didn't start the fires."</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Hill introduced </span><a
href="http://sd13.senate.ca.gov/news/2018-01-03-state-legislators-introduce-bill-prohibit-electric-utilities-pushing-costs-resulting"><span
style="font-weight: 400;">legislation</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400;">, SB 819, in January that would prohibit
utilities from raising rates to recover costs if they were found
negligent in a fire.</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The bill is a reaction to a debate
over whether San Diego Gas & Electric could pass on the $379
million from the 2007 fires that it couldn't cover through
insurance. The</span><a
href="http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M197/K851/197851767.PDF">
<span style="font-weight: 400;">commission denied</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400;"> the utility's request last November
because it said the company caused the fire with improper
maintenance of power lines. The commission also said it wouldn't
automatically deny rate increases in future cases in which the
utilities were at fault.</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">San Diego Gas & Electric is</span><a
href="http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M201/K962/201962746.PDF">
<span style="font-weight: 400;">appealing the decision</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400;">, arguing that it wasn't at fault. The </span><a
href="https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/CPUC-SDGE-2007-Wildfires-Costs-461048153.html"><span
style="font-weight: 400;">company said</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400;"> the fires were caused by
"hurricane-force winds," high heat and low humidity. Its two
fellow utilities are</span><a
href="http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M201/K974/201974376.PDF">
<span style="font-weight: 400;">lobbying the commission</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400;"> to change its mind as well.</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The central issue in the appeal,
however, is all about inverse condemnation, which is based on the</span><a
href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CONS§ionNum=SEC.%2019.&article=I">
<span style="font-weight: 400;">California and U.S. Constitution</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400;"> and says government should compensate
property owners for the damage it caused. California courts have
applied that doctrine</span><a
href="http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1223894.html">
<span style="font-weight: 400;">to private utilities</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400;"> as well since the same liability exists
for government-owned electric service providers.</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Inverse doctrine holds that
utilities could be liable even if they weren't negligent. That
means power companies could be required to compensate property
owners even though they followed safety rules. </span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">"The theory behind it is to create
an incentive for utilities to take even stronger actions to make
sure it doesn't happen again," Hecht said.</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">That nudge has worked, Hill said,
pointing out that the 2007 fires prompted the San Diego utility to</span><a
href="https://www.sdge.com/newsroom/press-releases/2016-08-08/sdge%E2%80%99s-skycrane-returns-support-regional-fire-fighting-needs-0">
<span style="font-weight: 400;">improve fire prevention practices</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400;">, including replacing wooden poles with
steel ones, employing meteorologists and paying for</span><a
href="https://www.sdge.com/newsroom/press-releases/2016-08-08/sdge%E2%80%99s-skycrane-returns-support-regional-fire-fighting-needs-0">
<span style="font-weight: 400;">firefighting aircraft</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400;">.</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The courts have applied inverse
condemnation with the understanding that the cost of the damage
would be shared by many, said Robert H. Thomas, an attorney who
chairs the state and local government law section at the American
Bar Association. </span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">California judges have</span><a
href="https://www.leagle.com/decision/incaco20120830026"> <span
style="font-weight: 400;">rejected the argument</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400;"> that private utilities should be exempt
from inverse condemnation because they lack the authority of
public utilities to spread the financial responsibility by taxing
their customers. In</span><a
href="https://www.leagle.com/decision/incaco20120830026"> <i><span
style="font-weight: 400;">Pacific Bell Phone v. Southern
California Edison</span></i></a><span style="font-weight:
400;">, the appellate court said the electric utility, Edison, "</span><span
style="font-weight: 400;">has not pointed to any evidence to
support its implication that the commission would not allow Edison
adjustments to pass on damages liability during its periodic
reviews." </span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Pacific Gas & Electric said if
the commission doesn't resolve how it would apply inverse
condemnation, then it's creating "essentially unlimited
liabilities" for utilities. </span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Private utilities, including
PG&E, have challenged the application of inverse condemnation
on various grounds. While in the past those challenges have
generally been unsuccessful, these [and other] issues ultimately
will need to be resolved by the California Supreme Court and
Federal courts," said Ari Vanrenen, a company spokesman, in an
email.</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Utilities could request rate
increases to pay for greater insurance coverage instead of legal
fees. But that could send the wrong message.</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">"If a utility is completely covered,
then it doesn't have an incentive to be careful," Davis said.
"What's really important is for the state of California to get the
incentives right for utilities, homeowners and landowners to avoid
fires in the future."</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The blame game, inevitably, isn't
going to reflect well on utilities, regardless of how the courts
ultimately rule.</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">"It appeals to a lot of people even
if legally, you would ask, wait a minute, what does that have to
do with the causation and what happened on your lines?" Thomas
said. "In a way, a lot of these [questions] will be decided not so
much by legal cases but by politics. The public will say, why
should I pay for it when PG&E screws up?"</span><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/03/12/climate-change-wildfires-california-utilities/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/03/12/climate-change-wildfires-california-utilities/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[say anything]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/interior-climate-change-crank-blogs_us_5aa2df63e4b086698a9da922">Interior
Officials Are Citing Coal Execs And Crank Bloggers To Defend
Climate Stances</a></b><br>
At the federal agency in charge of 20 percent of the U.S. landmass,
blogs like "Watts Up With That" trump The New York Times.<br>
By Alexander C. Kaufman and Chris D'Angelo<br>
"They're in the bubble of the climate misinformation world and
ignoring their own scientists. "<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/interior-climate-change-crank-blogs_us_5aa2df63e4b086698a9da922?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/interior-climate-change-crank-blogs_us_5aa2df63e4b086698a9da922?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[ticks]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/03/climate-change-pushes-ticks-into-canada-bringing-lyme-disease-and-confusion-with-them/">Climate
Change Pushes Ticks Into Canada, Bringing Lyme Disease (and
Confusion) With Them</a></b><br>
Reported Lyme cases in Canada increased more than six-fold between
2009 and 2016, but many patients are still struggling to get
diagnosed and treated.<br>
VIVIANE CALLIER - MAR 2018 <br>
Ticks carried by migratory birds have been raining down on Canada
for years. But it's only in the last 10 to 15 years, amid a changing
climate and the creation of new habitats in the north, that
populations of deer ticks (Ixodes scapularis) have been able to
establish a permanent beachhead in Canada. They have brought with
them a variety of tick-borne diseases, the most common of which is
Lyme.<br>
According to Canada's Lyme surveillance efforts, the number of
reported Lyme cases increased more than six-fold from 2009 (144
reported cases) to 2016 (987 reported cases). And while public
awareness of the disease is increasing in Canada as caseloads surge,
many patients still struggle to get diagnosed and treated - enough
so that many of them have been driven to seek help beyond the
country's borders, or even from alternative medicine practitioners
with questionable expertise but in some cases, a more sympathetic
ear.<br>
"There are people who are really suffering," says Tara Moriarty, an
associate professor in the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of
Toronto who studies the dissemination of blood-borne pathogens. That
suffering, she says, "has made a lot of people feel very
marginalized.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/03/climate-change-pushes-ticks-into-canada-bringing-lyme-disease-and-confusion-with-them/">https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/03/climate-change-pushes-ticks-into-canada-bringing-lyme-disease-and-confusion-with-them/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[paleo-liability]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/mar/12/burning-coal-may-have-caused-earths-worst-mass-extinction">Burning
coal may have caused Earth's worst mass extinction</a></b><br>
New geological research from Utah suggests the end-Permian
extinction was mainly caused by burning coal, ignited by magma<br>
<blockquote>Great documentary by paleo investigator<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/uDH05Pgpel4">The
Permian-Triassic Boundary - The Rocks of Utah</a></b><br>
Benjamin Burger Published on Feb 26, 2018<br>
The Great Dying! In this episode we head out to the
Permian-Triassic Boundary and try to discover what caused Earth's
Largest Mass Extinction event, 252 million years ago. <br>
After 4-months of research, I'm excited to finally release this
exciting video!<br>
A pre-print of the scientific paper is available at: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://eartharxiv.org/khd9y">https://eartharxiv.org/khd9y</a><br>
I've submitted this research to the journal "Global and Planetary
Change" for peer review.<br>
YouTube video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/uDH05Pgpel4">https://youtu.be/uDH05Pgpel4</a><br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/mar/12/burning-coal-may-have-caused-earths-worst-mass-extinction">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/mar/12/burning-coal-may-have-caused-earths-worst-mass-extinction</a><br>
</font>[Preprint]<font size="-1"><br>
</font><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://eartharxiv.org/khd9y">What caused Earth's largest
mass extinction event? New evidence from the Permian-Triassic
boundary in northeastern Utah</a></b><font size="-1"><br>
</font>Abstract<font size="-1"><br>
</font>
<blockquote>The discovery of a Permian-Triassic boundary section in
northeastern Utah reveals a detailed record of events that led to
one of the greatest mass extinctions on the planet. From 83% to
97% of the species living on the planet went extinct during this
relatively short interval of geological time, which defines the
major geological boundary between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic Eras.
The cause and resulting sequence of events that led to this
extinction have puzzled geologists for years. A new stratigraphic
section in Utah provides details enabling the reconstruction of
the events that led to this mass extinction. Geochemical analysis
of the section demonstrates a significant drop in carbonate and
total organic carbon, and a delayed occurrence of pyrite
framboids. Carbon isotope ratios (δ13C) show a negative excursion
in carbonate with ratios dropping from 2.585‰ to -3.627‰. Elevated
mercury is present at the boundary with a 4-fold increase from
background levels. The boundary layer shows elevated zinc, lead,
strontium, and nickel, but not at high enough levels to indicate a
volcanic ash source. There is no evidence in concentrations of
siderophile and chalcophile elements for an extraterrestrial
impact. The stratigraphic section in Utah supports the theory of a
massive release of carbon dioxide, resulting in the acidification
of the oceans. High levels of mercury, as well as elevated levels
of zinc and lead, implicate a coal source triggered by the
contemporary Siberian Traps sill complex. The delay of enriched
sulfur and barium content in the stratigraphic record indicates an
anoxic ocean and upwelling of methane hydrates from depth. Further
study of this stratigraphic section will aid our understanding of
the global impact these catastrophic events had on life and
hopefully prevent it from happening again.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://eartharxiv.org/khd9y">https://eartharxiv.org/khd9y</a><br>
-<br>
</font>[Also consider the paleo classic from 2008] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.amazon.com/Under-Green-Sky-Warming-Extinctions/dp/0061137928/ref=sr_1_1">Under
a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past,
and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future</a></b><br>
Peter Ward, PhD<br>
<blockquote>Paleontologist Peter D. Ward, ... turned to the Permian
problem, and he has come to a stunning conclusion. In his
investigations of the fates of several groups of mollusks during
those extinctions and others, he discovered that the near-total
devastation at the end of the Permian was caused by rising levels
of carbon dioxide leading to climate change. But it's not the heat
(nor the humidity) that's directly responsible for the
extinctions, and the story of the discovery of what is responsible
makes for an fascinating, globe-spanning adventure. <i>[it's the
sulfur]</i><br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.amazon.com/Under-Green-Sky-Warming-Extinctions/dp/0061137928/ref=sr_1_1">https://www.amazon.com/Under-Green-Sky-Warming-Extinctions/dp/0061137928/ref=sr_1_1</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Extreme alarmism]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/on-the-fast-track-to-extinction-can-humanity-survive/238660/">On
The Fast Track to Extinction: Can Humanity Survive?</a></b><br>
The threat faced by humanity is not the multitude of complex social,
political, economic and technological forces precipitating our rush
to extinction, it is our dysfunctional individual and collective
psychological state, perhaps a much more vexing problem to solve.<br>
by Robert J. Burrowes<br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;"><strong
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Anyone reading
the scientific literature</strong><span> </span>(or the
progressive news outlets that truthfully report this literature)
knows that homo sapiens are on the fast track to extinction, most
likely sometime between 2025 and 2040.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">For a taste
of the evidence in this regard focusing on the climate, see<span>
</span></span><a
href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/guy-mcpherson-on-climate-collapse-and-near-term-human-extinction/5386102"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px
0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; color: rgb(240, 185, 32);
text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-weight: 400;">'Climate Collapse and Near Term Human
Extinction'</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-weight: 400;">,<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.ecoshock.info/2012/11/kevin-anderson-what-they-wont-tell-you.html"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px
0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; color: rgb(240, 185, 32);
text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-weight: 400;">'What They Won't Tell You About Climate
Catastrophe'</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-weight: 400;">,<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/39957-release-of-arctic-methane-may-be-apocalyptic-study-warns"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px
0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; color: rgb(240, 185, 32);
text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-weight: 400;">'Release of Arctic Methane "May Be
Apocalyptic," Study Warns'</span></a><span style="box-sizing:
border-box; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>and<span> </span></span><a
href="http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0905-7000-underground-gas-bubbles-poised-to-explode-in-arctic/?nf=News"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px
0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; color: rgb(240, 185, 32);
text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-weight: 400;">'7,000 underground [methane] gas bubbles
poised to "explode" in Arctic'</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">Unfortunately,
of course, the climate is not the only imminent threat to human
survival. With an insane leadership in the White House in the
United States – see<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.eurasiareview.com/02032017-resisting-donald-trumps-violence-strategically-oped/"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px
0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; color: rgb(240, 185, 32);
text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-weight: 400;">'Resisting Donald Trump's Violence
Strategically'</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>– we are faced with the prospect
of nuclear war. And even if the climate and nuclear threats to our
survival are removed, there is still a substantial range of
environmental threats – including rainforest destruction, the
ongoing dumping of Fukushima radiation into the Pacific Ocean,
extensive contamination from military violence… – that need to be
addressed, given the synergistic impacts of these multiple and
interrelated threats.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">Can these
extinction-threatening problems be effectively addressed?</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">Well the
reality is that most (but not all) of them can be tackled
effectively if we are courageous enough to make powerful personal
and organizational decisions and then implement them. But we are
not even close to doing that yet. And time is obviously running
out fast.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">Given the
evidence, scientific and otherwise, documenting the cause and
nature of many of these problems and what is required to fix them,
why aren't these strategies to address the problems implemented?</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">At the
political and economic level, it is usually explained structurally
– for example, as an outcome of capitalism, patriarchy and/or the
states-system – or, more simply, as an outcome of the powerful
vested interests that control governments and the corporate
imperative to make profits despite exacerbating the current
perilous state of the Earth's biosphere and its many exploited
populations (human and otherwise) by doing so.</span><br>
But the reality is that these political and economic explanations
mask the deeper psychological drivers that generate and maintain
these dysfunctional structures and behaviors.<br>
Let me explain why and how this happens using the climate
catastrophe to illustrate the process...<br>
While scientific concern about the increase in carbon dioxide in the
Earth's atmosphere had been raised more than a century ago – see
'The Discovery of Global Warming' – it wasn't until the 1980s that
this concern started to gain significant traction in public
awareness. And despite ongoing agitation by some scientists as well
as climate and environment groups, corporate-funded climate deniers
were able to stall widespread recognition of, and the start of
serious official action on, the climate catastrophe for more than
two more decades.<br>
However, as the truth of the climate catastrophe was finally being
accepted by most people and the climate deniers were finally forced
into full-scale retreat on the issue of whether or not the climate
catastrophe was, in fact, so serious that it threatened human
extinction, the climate deniers implemented their back-up strategy:
they used their corporate media to persuade people that action
wasn't necessary 'until the end of the [21st] century' and to
exaggerate the argument about the 'acceptable' increase above the
pre-industrial norm – 2 degrees? 3 degrees? 1.5 degrees? – to
obscure the truth that 0.5 degrees was, in fact, the climate science
consensus back in 2007.<br>
But, you might ask: 'Why would anyone prefer to ignore the evidence,
given the extinction-threatening nature of this problem?'<br>
Or, to put the question more fully: 'Why would anyone – whether an
"ordinary" worker, academic, lawyer, doctor, businessperson,
corporate executive, government leader or anyone else – prefer to
live in delusion and believe the mainstream narrative about "the end
of the century" (or 1.5 degrees) rather than simply consider the
evidence and respond powerfully to it?'<br>
And what is so unattractive about the truth that so many people run
from it rather than embrace it?<br>
Obviously, these questions go to the heart of the human
(psychological) condition so let me explain why most humans now live
in a delusional state whether in relation to the climate,
environment issues generally, the ongoing wars and other military
violence, the highly exploitative global economy or anything else...<br>
People do not choose to live in delusion nor do they choose their
delusion consciously. A delusion is generated by a person's
unconscious mind; that is, the part of their own mind of which the
individual is normally unaware. So why does a person's unconscious
mind generate a delusion? What is the purpose of it?<br>
A person's unconscious mind generates a delusion when the individual
is simply too terrified to contemplate and grapple with reality.
Instead, the person unconsciously generates a delusion and then
lives in accord with that delusion for the (obvious) reason that the
delusion does not frighten them.<br>
This unconscious delusional state is the fundamental outcome of the
socialization, which I call 'terrorization', of the typical child
during their childhood.<br>
Endlessly and violently coerced (by a variety of threatened and
actual punishments) to obey the will of parents, teachers and
religious figures in denial of their own self-will, while
simultaneously denied the opportunity to feel the fear, anger,
sadness and other feelings that this violence causes, the child has
no choice but to suppress their awareness of how they feel and the
reality that caused these feelings. As a result, this leaves
virtually all children feeling terrified, full of self-hatred and
powerless. For brief explanations of how this happens, see
'Understanding Self-Hatred in World Affairs' and 'Why Are Most Human
Beings So Powerless?'<br>
However, and this point is important, each of these feelings is
extraordinarily unpleasant to feel consciously and the child never
gets the listening they need to focus on feeling them. See
'Nisteling: The Art of Deep Listening'.<br>
As a result, these feelings are suppressed below conscious awareness
and this fear, self-hatred and powerlessness become the primary but
unconscious psychological drivers of their behaviour and,
significantly, results in them participating mindlessly in the
widespread 'socially acceptable' delusions generated by elites and
endlessly promulgated through elite channels such as education
systems, the corporate media and entertainment industries.<br>
Hence, as a result of being terrorized during childhood, delusion is
the most common state of human individuals, irrespective of their
role in society. For a full explanation of why this happens, see
'Why Violence?' and 'Fearless Psychology and Fearful Psychology:
Principles and Practice'.<br>
And, as one part of their delusional state, most people must engage
in the denial of reality whenever reality (unconsciously) frightens
them (or threatens to bring their unconscious self-hatred or
powerlessness into their awareness). See 'The Psychology of Denial'.
This, of course, means that they are frightened to take action in
response to reality but also deny it is even necessary.<br>
So what can we do about all of this? Well, as always, I would tackle
the problem at various levels...<br>
If you are one of those rare people who prefer to research the
evidence and to act intelligently and powerfully in response to the
truth that emerges from this evidence, I encourage you to do so. One
option you have if you find the evidence of near-term human
extinction compelling in light of the lackluster official responses
so far, is to join those participating in 'The Flame Tree Project to
Save Life on Earth'.<br>
Obviously, tokenism on your part – such as rejecting plastic bags or
collecting rubbish from public places – is not enough in the face of
the profound changes needed.<br>
Of course, if you are self-aware enough to know that you are
inclined to avoid unpleasant realities and to take the action that
this requires, then perhaps you could tackle this problem at its
source by 'Putting Feelings First'.<br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">If you are
one of those rare people who prefer to research the evidence and
to act intelligently and powerfully in response to the truth that
emerges from this evidence, I encourage you to do so. One option
you have if you find the evidence of near-term human extinction
compelling in light of the lackluster official responses so far,
is to join those participating in<span> </span></span><a
href="http://tinyurl.com/flametree" target="_blank"
style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; transition:
all 0.1s ease-in-out; color: rgb(240, 185, 32); text-decoration:
none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">'The
Flame Tree Project to Save Life on Earth'</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">Obviously,
tokenism on your part – such as rejecting plastic bags or
collecting rubbish from public places – is not enough in the face
of the profound changes needed.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">Of course,
if you are self-aware enough to know that you are inclined to
avoid unpleasant realities and to take the action that this
requires, then perhaps you could tackle this problem at its source
by<span> </span></span><a
href="https://feelingsfirstblog.wordpress.com/putting-feelings-first/"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px
0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; color: rgb(240, 185, 32);
text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-weight: 400;">'Putting Feelings First'</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">If you want
intelligent, compassionate and powerful children who do not grow
up living in delusion and denial, consider making<span> </span></span><a
href="https://feelingsfirstblog.wordpress.com/my-promise-to-children/"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px
0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; color: rgb(240, 185, 32);
text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-weight: 400;">'My Promise to Children'</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">If you want
to campaign on the climate, war, rainforest destruction or any
other issue that brings us closer to extinction, consider
developing a comprehensive nonviolent strategy to do so. See<span> </span></span><a
href="https://nonviolentstrategy.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"
style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; transition:
all 0.1s ease-in-out; color: rgb(240, 185, 32); text-decoration:
none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">Nonviolent
Campaign Strategy</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-weight: 400;">.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">And if you
want to participate in the worldwide effort to end violence in all
of its manifestations, you are welcome to consider signing the
online pledge of<span> </span></span><a
href="http://thepeoplesnonviolencecharter.wordpress.com/"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px
0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; color: rgb(240, 185, 32);
text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-weight: 400;">'The People's Charter to Create a Nonviolent
World'</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-weight: 400;">.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">In summary,
the primary threat faced by humanity is not the synergistic
multitude of complex social, political, economic and technological
forces that are precipitating our rush to extinction.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">The
fundamental threat to our survival is our psychological incapacity
(particularly because of our fear, self-hatred and powerlessness)
to perceive reality and respond powerfully to it by formulating
and implementing appropriate social, political, economic and
technological measures that address our multifaceted crisis
systematically.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">Unless we
include addressing this dysfunctional individual and collective
psychological state in our strategy to avert human extinction, we
will ultimately fail and extinction will indeed be our fate.</span><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/on-the-fast-track-to-extinction-can-humanity-survive/238660/">https://www.mintpressnews.com/on-the-fast-track-to-extinction-can-humanity-survive/238660/</a></font><br>
-<br>
[more intense]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/climageddon_scenario">What
is the Climageddon Scenario of Global Warming?</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/climageddon_scenario">http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/climageddon_scenario</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Spiegel]<br>
Reporter Podcast - interview clip<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/tomorrow/reporter-podcast-studying-global-warming-in-greenland-a-1192899.html">Understanding
the Riddles of Greenland</a></b><br>
Christoph Seidler traveled to the vast Greenland ice sheet to visit
scientists studying global warming there. In an interview, the
reporter talks about what makes such projects so special and why he
almost didn't make it back.<br>
<b style="font-weight: 700; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
SpiegelSansWeb, Calibri, Candara, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;">SPIEGEL ONLINE:</b><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-family: SpiegelSansWeb, Calibri, Candara, Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal;
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0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><span> </span>Nice to have you back,
Christoph. There are rumors to the effect that you almost didn't
make it back from<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-river-of-ice-scientists-study-greenland-s-role-in-sea-level-rises-a-1161220.html"
title="A River of Ice: Scientists Study Greenland's Role in Sea
Level Rises" class="text-link lp-text-link-int article-icon
article-en" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration:
underline; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; font-family:
SpiegelSansWeb, Calibri, Candara, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
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normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
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text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">your reporting trip to
Greenland</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
SpiegelSansWeb, Calibri, Candara, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
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!important; float: none;">.<br>
</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
SpiegelSansWeb, Calibri, Candara, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><b style="font-weight: 700; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: SpiegelSansWeb, Calibri, Candara,
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start;
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Christoph Seidler:</b><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: SpiegelSansWeb,
Calibri, Candara, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><span> </span>It wasn't easy, that's
for sure. I had the pleasure of visiting the EastGRIP project in
Greenland, where scientists are trying to drill through
two-and-a-half kilometers of ice down to the rock below...<br>
<b>SPIEGEL ONLINE:</b> What does such a research station on the
ice of Greenland look like?<br>
<b>Christoph Seidler:</b> When you approach the station in an
airplane, all you can see are a couple of small dots on the vast
expanse of ice. They are arranged in a fairly regular manner and
get bigger and bigger the closer you get. Eventually, you can
see that the dots are of different sizes. There is a large black
one, which is the dome, the heart of the research camp. And
there are lots of small red ones, including the huts or tents
where the researchers sleep at night. It all looks a bit like
playing pieces on a board game, except that the board is
completely white...</span></span><b style="font-weight: 700;"><br>
SPIEGEL ONLINE:</b><span> </span>You mentioned the project is
called EastGRIP. What does that stand for?<b style="font-weight:
700;"><br>
Christoph Seidler:</b><span> </span>It stands for the East
Greenland Ice Core Project, because an ice core is being drilled at
the site. There are already a half-dozen such cores, so that's not
necessarily what's new about this project. The interesting part is
where it's taking place, the North-East Greenland Ice Stream, a
gigantic ice highway that flows northeast from the center of
Greenland for a few hundred kilometers, ending up in the sea in the
form of a trio of glaciers. About 12 percent of Greenland's ice is
transported on this ice highway, and that's what is so exciting
about this project: It's the first time that a core is being drilled
from an ice stream like this one...<span style="color: rgb(51, 51,
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style="font-weight: 700;"><br>
Christoph Seidler:</b><span> </span>We're talking about a place
that very few people have had the privilege to visit. ... I find the
location to be something special and also what is happening there,
namely people collaborating and trying to understand something about
the world they live in. Because it's a question that affects all of
us: How will the melting of Greenland change the ocean levels? It is
about our future.<b style="font-weight: 700;"><br>
SPIEGEL ONLINE:</b><span> </span>What do the Greenlanders
themselves say about the research activity?<b style="font-weight:
700;"><br>
Christoph Seidler:</b><span> </span>That is a difficult question.
I don't think they say much at all, because they are busy enough
with their lives and survival in Greenland. It is an unbelievably
tough environment. They have to worry about trivial things like:
"How is the internet connection?" "What is there to buy?" "Where do
the kids go to school?" In Greenland, there are still immense social
challenges. But to take a half-step back, it's interesting to think
about what effect climate change will have on Greenland. At the
moment, Greenland still belongs to Denmark, is partially autonomous
and would ultimately like to become independent. And that could
happen by earning money from natural resources - either from oil or
from the minerals present there. And that is something that very
much has to do with the climate change that the scientists there are
researching. Simply put, a melting Greenland is a Greenland where it
is easier to exploit natural resources. At the same time, a melting
Greenland is, of course, also a Greenland where the old laws and
rules that have been established over generations no longer apply.
Things like, for example: What's the best way to hunt? How do you
know when certain animals will be where? And in any case, because of
industrialization, and because of the American military presence
since World War II, Greenland has changed significantly, and the
society as a whole has yet to recover. If climate change is added on
top of all that, the population will find itself faced with huge
problems. It's a pretty onerous assortment of hurdles, so it's tough
to say whether people in Greenland find the scientific research good
or bad. But I think, in general, they find those things good that
are somehow useful to them and improve their lives.<span
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<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/tomorrow/reporter-podcast-studying-global-warming-in-greenland-a-1192899.html">http://www.spiegel.de/international/tomorrow/reporter-podcast-studying-global-warming-in-greenland-a-1192899.html</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Space...final frontier]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14777622.2018.1436329">"Potentialities
of Space-Based Systems for Monitoring Climate Policies and
Mitigation of Climate Process Drivers,"</a></b> which just
appeared on Astropolitics: The International Journal of Space
Politics and Policy (IJSPP); a Taylor and Francis Publishing
journal:<br>
Abstract:<br>
<blockquote>The services of space-based technology have advanced for
monitoring strategies, especially for studying and predicting the
physical events in ecosystems. This article investigates the
viability of space technology use for monitoring implementations
of climate policies and, potentialities for mitigation of climate
process drivers. Qualitative data were sourced through Delphi
experts' method and quantitatively analyzed. The key findings show
that experts allude to the high (3.33/4) anticipatory
contributions of deploying space-based systems with dedicated
sensors for monitoring implementation of international climate
treaties. However, while there is a very strong yes (84.44
percent) rate on the potentiality of space-based solar power for
direct climate change mitigation, the feasibility of deploying
such systems in the near-future (2020 to 2025) is low (1.77/4).
The statistics further show that the further away the possible
start-time (2040 and a 50-year horizon of 2065) for deployment of
space-based solar power, the more likely it will be deployed. The
article concludes that deploying satellites for monitoring and
mitigating global climate change contributes significantly to
climate change management efforts. Specifically, the development
of space-based solar power if fast-tracked. The article also
provides a conceptual framework for climate change management
using space technology, which facilitates constructive discussion
informing policy direction on the subject.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1">DOI: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14777622.2018.1436329">https://doi.org/10.1080/14777622.2018.1436329</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14777622.2018.1436329">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14777622.2018.1436329</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[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></b><br>
Jeff Sparrow<br>
The warnings about an unfolding climate catastrophe are getting more
desperate, yet the march to destruction continues<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><br>
</font><br>
<br>
[abjure regulation day]<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=3657&method=full">This
Day in Climate History - March 13, 2001,</a> <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/us/senate-deletes-higher-mileage-standard-in-energy-bill.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm">2002</a>,
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/epas-chief-criticized/">2008</a>
- from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
March 13, 2001: The Bush administration announces that it will not
regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, abandoning a
campaign pledge under pressure from the fossil fuel industry. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=3657&method=full">http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=3657&method=full</a><br>
<br>
March 13, 2002: The US Senate, in a 62-38 vote, rejects an effort by
Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and John McCain (R-AZ) to strengthen CAFE
standards for automobiles, ignoring arguments that strengthening the
standards would make sense on both climate-change and
national-security grounds. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/us/senate-deletes-higher-mileage-standard-in-energy-bill.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm">http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/us/senate-deletes-higher-mileage-standard-in-energy-bill.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm</a><br>
<br>
March 13, 2008: "CBS Evening News" reports on that day's House
Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming hearing
concerning EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson's response, or lack
thereof, to the 2007 Massachusetts v. EPA ruling requiring Johnson's
agency to regulate CO2 as a pollutant. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/epas-chief-criticized/">http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/epas-chief-criticized/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcA-fCZcfb0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcA-fCZcfb0</a><br>
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