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<font size="+1"><i>March 14, 2018<br>
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[politics]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-pompeo-climate-state-department_us_5aa7e180e4b03c9edfaffc0a">Trump's
Pick To Replace Former Exxon CEO As Secretary Of State Is A
Bigger Climate Denier</a></b><br>
By Alexander C. Kaufman<br>
Mike Pompeo, who was tapped to replace Rex Tillerson, could be the
first secretary of state to reject climate science outright. Climate
deniers have high hopes for him.<br>
Tillerson urged Trump against pulling out of the Paris Agreement
last June, and suggested last September that the U.S. could remain
in the deal. Still, the State Department rewrote its web page on
climate change last March, abolished its climate change envoy
position in August and left teams working on global warming issues
in limbo, seemingly encouraging staff to leave. Coincidentally, a
major environmental nonprofit sued the State Department on Tuesday
for refusing to release a U.N. report on U.S. climate action that
was due on Jan. 1. <br>
If confirmed by the Senate, Pompeo seems poised to do more damage to
efforts to combat climate change.<br>
"It's good news for us," said Myron Ebell, a leading proponent of
climate change denial and a director at the right wing Competitive
Enterprise Institute. "I expect very good things from him at the
State Department."<br>
In his six years as a Republican congressman from Kansas, Pompeo
voted so routinely against environmental policies that he received a
4 percent lifetime score on the League of Conservation Voters'
ranking. In 2011, he unsuccessfully pushed to end energy subsidies
in a move Ebell said was meant to target tax credits for wind
turbines...<br>
Environmental groups swiftly condemned Trump's decision to name
Pompeo as secretary of state.<br>
"Donald Trump has now somehow picked someone even worse than Rex
Tillerson to run the State Department," Naomi Ages, Greenpeace USA's
climate director, said in a statement. "In addition to being a
climate denier, like his predecessor, Pompeo is Koch brothers' shill
who will denigrate the United States' reputation abroad and make us
vulnerable to threats at home." <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-pompeo-climate-state-department_us_5aa7e180e4b03c9edfaffc0a">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-pompeo-climate-state-department_us_5aa7e180e4b03c9edfaffc0a</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[empathy]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/feeling-it-uw-bothell-class-helps-students-face-emotional-impact-of-a-warming-planet/">Feeling
it: UW Bothell class helps students face emotional impact of a
warming planet </a></b><br>
<span class="byline-copy">By </span><a
href="https://www.seattletimes.com/author/katherine-long/"
rel="author" class="p-author h-card hcard url fn">Katherine Long</a>
<br>
A popular new class on climate change at the University of
Washington Bothell tackles the emotional dimensions of a warming
planet, helping students develop personal resources to deal with a
lifetime of witnessing environmental losses...<br>
Loss is a growing issue for people working and living on the front
lines of climate change. And that gave Jennifer Wren Atkinson, a
full-time lecturer in the UW Bothell's School of Interdisciplinary
Arts & Sciences, an idea for a class...<br>
This quarter she taught students on the Bothell campus about the
emotional burdens of environmental study. She drew on the
experiences of Native American tribes, scientists and activists, and
asked her 24 students to face the reality that there is no easy fix
- that "this is such an intractable problem that they're going to be
dealing with it for the rest of their lives."<br>
The class was so popular that she had to turn many students away.
Atkinson plans to teach it again next year.<br>
<blockquote><b>"We haven't had to spend any time debating whether
climate change is actually happening," she said. "It's more,
'What's my personal responsibility for this, and how do I
develop the personal resources to navigate it?' "</b><br>
</blockquote>
For college students in their teens and 20s, the loss some feel due
to climate change can be deeply personal - akin to grieving for a
dead parent or grandparent...<br>
Atkinson became interested in the subject in fall 2016, when she
joined a group of educators and activists around the region who
convened to talk about teaching climate change. The group gathered
shortly after Trump was elected, and "they talked openly of grief
and fear," and the possibility that years of their work would be
undone, she said...<br>
Many feel a sense of panic and urgency in their own lives, but they
have no one to talk to about it.<br>
Student Cody Dillon used to be a climate-science skeptic. Then he
did his own reading and research, and changed his mind.<br>
Dillon isn't going into environmental work - he's a computer-science
major. Yet the potential for a planet-wide environmental catastrophe
seemed so real to him five years ago that he quit his job and became
a full-time volunteer for an environmental group that worked on
restoration projects...<br>
Atkinson said she hopes the class helped her students steel
themselves to the amount of loss that will happen over their
lifetimes and gave them resources to help cope with despair and
grief.<br>
"We are already transforming the planet - so many species and
communities are going to be lost, displaced or massively impacted,"
she said. "The future isn't going to be what they imagined."<br>
Morrison said she felt empowered by learning about climate-change
actions around the globe.<br>
"It's easy to feel defeated, but all over the world, people are
stepping up," she said.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/feeling-it-uw-bothell-class-helps-students-face-emotional-impact-of-a-warming-planet/">https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/feeling-it-uw-bothell-class-helps-students-face-emotional-impact-of-a-warming-planet/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Terminator returns to fight Big Oil ]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://grist.org/briefly/former-governator-arnold-schwarzenegger-wants-to-sue-oil-companies-for-murder/">Former
Governator Schwarzenegger wants to sue oil companies for
'murder.'</a></b><br>
During an interview with Politico's "Off Message" podcast at the
South by Southwest festival, Arnold Schwarzenegger argued that
fossil fuel companies made a perfect target for tobacco-style class
action lawsuits, as pollution kills 7 million to 9 million people a
year. "We're talking to law firms to go and do exactly the same
thing they did with the tobacco industry, " he said. And though
Schwarzenegger didn't clarify the details, he assured the crowd that
he planned to back up his words.<br>
"We're going to go after them, and we're going to be in there like
an Alabama tick," Schwarzenegger promised (borrowing one of Jesse
Ventura's lines from Predator).<br>
During his tenure as California governor, the Republican worked with
a Democratic statehouse to pass California's landmark climate
legislation, while also driving around in Hummers retrofitted to run
on hydrogen and biofuel. He said environmentalism had to be "sexy,"
rather than abstemious and fingerwagging.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://grist.org/briefly/former-governator-arnold-schwarzenegger-wants-to-sue-oil-companies-for-murder/">https://grist.org/briefly/former-governator-arnold-schwarzenegger-wants-to-sue-oil-companies-for-murder/</a></font><br>
[full video of Interview]<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/eIk9Tx6dyc4">YouTube video</a> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/eIk9Tx6dyc4">https://youtu.be/eIk9Tx6dyc4</a><br>
<b><a href="https://youtu.be/eIk9Tx6dyc4">Arnold Schwarzenegger
Joins POLITICO's Off Message|SXSW 2018</a></b><br>
Arnold Schwarzenegger talks with POLITICO's Isaac Dovere about his
own principles for effective governing, why he made gerrymandering
and other issues his crusades after finishing as governor of
California, and what he sees for the future of American politics.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/eIk9Tx6dyc4">https://youtu.be/eIk9Tx6dyc4</a></font><br>
[Politico Magazine audio interview]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/12/arnold-schwarzenegger-sxsw-trump-big-oil-me-too-217345">Schwarzenegger
to Sue Big Oil for 'First Degree Murder'</a></b><br>
At SXSW, the former California governor lets loose on climate
change, Donald Trump and gives his first in-depth remarks on #MeToo.<br>
By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE<br>
March 12, 2018 <br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://megaphone.link/PPY9539955439">Off Message recorded
live</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://megaphone.link/PPY9539955439">https://megaphone.link/PPY9539955439</a>
<i>(this is a culturally great, important interview)</i><br>
<blockquote>AUSTIN, Texas - Arnold Schwarzenegger's next mission:
taking oil companies to court "for knowingly killing people all
over the world."<br>
<br>
The former California governor and global environmental activist
announced the move Sunday at a live recording of POLITICO's Off
Message podcast here at the SXSW festival, revealing that he's in
talks with several private law firms and preparing a public push
around the effort.<br>
<br>
"This is no different from the smoking issue. The tobacco industry
knew for years and years and years and decades, that smoking would
kill people, would harm people and create cancer, and were hiding
that fact from the people and denied it. Then eventually they were
taken to court and had to pay hundreds of millions of dollars
because of that," Schwarzenegger said. "The oil companies knew
from 1959 on, they did their own study that there would be global
warming happening because of fossil fuels, and on top of it that
it would be risky for people's lives, that it would kill."<br>
<br>
Schwarzenegger said he's still working on a timeline for filing,
but the news comes as he prepares to help host a major
environmental conference in May in Vienna.<br>
<br>
"We're going to go after them, and we're going to be in there like
an Alabama tick. Because to me it's absolutely irresponsible to
know that your product is killing people and not have a warning
label on it, like tobacco," he said. "Every gas station on it,
every car should have a warning label on it, every product that
has fossil fuels should have a warning label on it."<br>
<br>
He argues that at the very least, this would raise awareness about
fossil fuels and encourage people to look to alternative fuels and
clean cars.<br>
<br>
He added, "I don't think there's any difference: If you walk into
a room and you know you're going to kill someone, it's first
degree murder; I think it's the same thing with the oil
companies."<br>
<br>
Schwarzenegger was at SXSW for an extensive discussion of lessons
he learned in his seven years as governor, and how he'd apply them
to the current political situation in Washington and beyond. On
the list: Maximize the bully pulpit; use the carrot but have the
stick ready; and no one gets a perfect "10," because there's
always room for improvement. Those, he said, were part of his art
of the deal, and explained how he'd been able to institute major
laws from worker's compensation reform to environmental standards
to a state election overhaul to implement independent
redistricting and a "jungle primary" system, in which the top two
advance.<br>
<br>
Schwarzenegger also addressed, for the first time since the
national reawakening around the #MeToo moment, the charges of
groping and inappropriate behavior that surfaced from multiple
women against him at the end of his first campaign for governor in
2003. He acknowledged that the change in the moment made a huge
difference.<br>
<br>
"It is about time. I think it's fantastic. I think that women have
been used and abused and treated horribly for too long, and now
all of the elements came together to create this movement, and now
finally puts the spotlight on this issue, and I hope people learn
from that," he said. "You've got to take those things seriously.
You've got to look at it and say, 'I made mistakes. And I have to
apologize.'"<br>
<br>
He stressed the importance of sexual harassment training, like the
one he made his staff do once he was elected- including himself.<br>
<br>
"We make mistakes, and we don't take it seriously. And then when
you really think about it, you say, 'Maybe I went too far,'"
Schwarzenegger said. "You've got to be very sensitive about it,
and you've got to think about the way that women feel-and if they
feel uncomfortable, then you did not do the right thing."<br>
<br>
The past few months, he said "made me think totally differently,"
adding, "I said to myself, 'Finally.'"<br>
(Click here to subscribe and hear the full podcast, including
Schwarzenegger's views on violent movies and video games in the
gun control debate, and his lessons for governing in the age of
Trump.)<br>
<br>
Schwarzenegger took a number of shots at Donald Trump, dismissing
the president's latest attack on him, delivered at a rally in
Pennsylvania on Saturday night, for having "failed when he did the
show," a reference to the former governor's rocky one-season stint
as the host of "The Apprentice" on NBC last year.<br>
<br>
"I never know really why the Russians make him say certain
things," Schwarzenegger said. "It's beyond me. Why do you think he
says those things? He's supposed to be very busy."<br>
<br>
Later in the interview, he returned to the attack on Trump,
teasing that the script of the new "Terminator" movie, which
Schwarzenegger is set to start filming in June and is expected to
be released next year, had to be rewritten to include Trump. "The
T-800 model that I play, he's traveling back in time to 2019 to
get Trump out of prison," Schwarzenegger joked.<br>
<br>
He wouldn't reveal any actual details about the script other than
that he is still the T-800 model. This isn't his only upcoming
foray into old film franchises: He's due to shoot "King Conan" and
"Triplets," an update on the 1988 film "Twins," with Eddie Murphy
as the third brother. ("There's something funny there with the
mixing of the sperm," he said.)<br>
<br>
Schwarzenegger said he'd like to see Ohio Gov. John Kasich run for
president but urged him to run in the Republican primary rather
than as an independent.<br>
<br>
"He's a great Republican," Schwarzenegger said.<br>
<br>
But he said don't expect him to be a major campaign presence in
2020. He'll be focusing on pushing gerrymandering reform, and has
gotten involved again with California Republicans, with whom he'll
be meeting in the coming days back home.<br>
<br>
"The Republicans that are the new thinking Republicans in
California want to get things done," Schwarzenegger said, adding
that he wants elected officials to remember, "ultimately, you are
a public servant, not a party servant."<br>
<br>
He urged the GOP to pay attention to what happened in California,
where Democrats have become completely dominant. Republicans
there, he said, "are stuck with an ideology that doesn't really
fit anymore with what people want."<br>
<br>
He cited the environmental work of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan
and George H.W. Bush as examples.<br>
<br>
"Today, those are all things that are absolutely a no-no in the
Republican Party. I didn't change; it's the Republican Party
that's changed," he said. "Now we have to work very hard to get
the party back to where it was."<br>
<br>
Back at the end of his presidency, Bill Clinton wrote
Schwarzenegger a long letter that ended with Clinton urging
Schwarzenegger to become a Democrat. Schwarzenegger said he wasn't
interested then, and isn't interested now, for all his problems
with Trump and the current GOP.<br>
<br>
"That's a fun letter, and I like supporting him on some issues,"
Schwarzenegger said. "But the bottom line is that I'm a
Republican, and I'm a true Republican, and I will always be a
Republican. It's a fantastic party, but they've veered off into
the right into some strange lanes."<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/12/arnold-schwarzenegger-sxsw-trump-big-oil-me-too-217345">https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/12/arnold-schwarzenegger-sxsw-trump-big-oil-me-too-217345</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[legal action]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://theenergymix.com/2018/03/11/u-s-judge-upholds-cities-right-to-sue-fossils-for-climate-adaptation-costs/">U.S.
Judge Upholds Cities' Right to Sue Fossils for Climate
Adaptation Costs</a></b><br>
Last week, a San Francisco judge upheld the right of cities to
attempt to sue greenhouse gas emitters in U.S. federal court. Judge
William Alsup has instructed parties on both sides of the case to
return to court with a two-part presentation. Part one "will trace
the history of scientific study of climate change," while "the
second part will set forth the best science now available on global
warming, glacier melt, sea rise, and coastal flooding. <br>
Read more: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://theenergymix.com/2018/03/11/u-s-judge-upholds-cities-right-to-sue-fossils-for-climate-adaptation-costs/">http://theenergymix.com/2018/03/11/u-s-judge-upholds-cities-right-to-sue-fossils-for-climate-adaptation-costs/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[video by Katie Teague]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.acesconnection.com/g/international-transformational-resilience-coalition-itrc/clip/living-into-being-3-minutes-interview-with-culture-designer-evolutionary-joe-brewer-katie-teague">Living
Into Being (3 minutes) - interview with Culture
Designer/Evolutionary Joe Brewer </a></b><br>
"So the false choice between the story of hope and the story of
doom... misses the point. We create the story by living it. .. Have
something in the future that you cannot let go.... Not knowing is an
essential piece of living." <br>
"What Future are you Living into Being?"<br>
A conversation about the context of the time we are living in,
combined with aerial cinematography from various locations in the
USA and Iceland.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.acesconnection.com/g/international-transformational-resilience-coalition-itrc/clip/living-into-being-3-minutes-interview-with-culture-designer-evolutionary-joe-brewer-katie-teague">http://www.acesconnection.com/g/international-transformational-resilience-coalition-itrc/clip/living-into-being-3-minutes-interview-with-culture-designer-evolutionary-joe-brewer-katie-teague</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[full essay]<br>
COMMENTARY<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.mdedge.com/clinicalpsychiatrynews/article/133804/schizophrenia-other-psychotic-disorders/hold-your-breath">Hold
your breath</a></b></font><br>
Publish date: March 20, 2017<br>
By Lise Van Susteren, MD<br>
<blockquote>"Exercising my 'reasoned judgment,' I have no doubt that
the right to a climate system capable of sustaining human life is
fundamental to a free and ordered society."<br>
- U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken in Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana
vs. United States of America, et al.<br>
</blockquote>
In many areas of the world, the simple act of breathing has become
hazardous to people's health.<br>
<br>
According to the World Health Organization, more people die every
day from air pollution than from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and road
injuries combined. In China, more than 1 million deaths annually are
linked to polluted air (76/100,000); in India the number of deaths
is more than 600,000 annually (49/100,000); and in the United
States, that figure comes to more than 38,000 (12/100,000).<br>
Unhealthy air is primarily the result of burning "fossil fuels" -
coal, oil, and gas - for energy, a deadly practice. It fills the air
with harmful particulate matter that we breathe in, and it alters
the chemistry of our atmosphere by releasing CO2, the heat-trapping
greenhouse gas responsible for global climate instability.<br>
And yet, nonpolluting, alternative options - such as sun and wind
power - are readily available.<br>
<br>
Dirty air is visible on a hot summer day - when, mixed with other
substances, it forms smog. Higher temperatures can then speed up the
chemical reactions that form smog. We breathe in that polluted air,
especially on days when the air is stagnant or there is temperature
inversion.<br>
<br>
The health effects of climate change<br>
Black carbon found in air pollution leads to drug-resistant bacteria
and alters antibiotic tolerance.1 The pollution also is associated
with multiple cancers: lung, liver, ovarian, and, possibly,
breast.2,3,4,5 It causes inflammation linked to the development of
coronary artery disease (seen even in children!) and plaque
formation leading to heart attacks and cardiac arrhythmias -
including atrial fibrillation. Air pollution causes, triggers, or
worsens respiratory illnesses - chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease, emphysema, asthma, infections - and is responsible for
lifelong diminished lung volume in children (a reason families are
leaving Beijing.) Exponentially increased rates of autism are linked
to bad air quality, as are autoimmune diseases, which also are on
the rise.6,7 Polluted air causes brain inflammation - living near
sources of air pollution increases the risk of dementia - and other
neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's,
and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.8 The blood brain barrier protects
the brain from most foreign matter, but particulate matter,
especially ultrafine particulate matter of less than 1 mcm such as
magnetite, can cross directly into the brain via the olfactory
nerve. (Magnetite has been identified in the brain tissue of
residents living in areas where the substance is produced as a
result of industrial waste.) While particulate matter of 2.5 mcmis
measured in the United States, ultrafine particulate matter is not.<br>
<br>
Psychiatric symptoms and chronic psychiatric disorders also are
associated with polluted air: On days with poor air quality, a
statistically significant increase is seen in suicide threats and
visits to emergency departments for panic attacks.9,10<br>
<br>
A rise in aggression occurs when there are abnormally high
temperatures and significant changes in rainfall. More assaults,
murders, suicides, domestic violence, and child abuse can be
expected, and a rise in unrest around the world should come as no
surprise.<br>
<br>
As a consequence of increased CO2 in the atmosphere, temperatures
have already risen by 2 degrees F: Sixteen of the hottest years on
record have occurred in the last 17 years, with 2016 as the hottest
year ever recorded. In Iraq and Kuwait, the temperature last summer
reached 129.2 degrees F.<br>
<br>
We are experiencing more frequent and extreme weather events,
chronic climate conditions, and the cascading disruption of
ecosystems. Drought and sea level rise are leading to physical and
psychological impacts - both direct and indirect. Some regions of
the world have become destabilized, triggering migrations and the
refugee crisis.<br>
<br>
Along with these psychological impacts, CO2 affects cognition: A
recent study by the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, shows
that the indoor levels of CO2 to which American workers typically
are exposed impair cognitive functioning, particularly in the areas
of strategic thinking, information processing, and crisis
management.<br>
What do we do about it?<br>
As mental health professionals, we know that aggression can be overt
or passive (from inaction). Overwhelming evidence shows harm to
public health from burning fossil fuels, and yet, though we are
making progress, resistance still exists in the transition to clean,
renewable energy critical for the health of our families and
communities. When political will is what stands between us and
getting back on a path to breathing clean air, how can inaction be
understood as anything but an act of aggression?<br>
<br>
This issue has reached U.S. courts: In a landmark case, 21 youths
aged 9-20 years represented by "Our Children's Trust" are suing the
U.S. government in the Oregon U.S. District Court for failure to act
on climate. The case, heard by Judge Ann Aiken, is now headed to
trial.<br>
<br>
All of us have a duty to collectively, repeatedly, and forcefully
call on policy makers to take action.<br>
<br>
That leads me to what we can do as doctors. In this effort to
quickly transition to safe, clean renewable energy, we all have a
role to play. The notion that we can't do anything as individuals is
no more credible than saying "my vote doesn't matter." Just as our
actions as voters in a democracy demonstrate the collective civic
responsibility we owe one another, so too do our actions on climate.
As global citizens, all actions that we take to help us live within
the planet's means are opportunities to restore balance.<br>
<br>
What we do collectively drives markets and determines the social
norms that powerfully influence the decisions of others - sometimes
even unconsciously.<br>
<br>
As doctors, we have a unique role to play in the places we work -
urging hospitals, clinics, academic centers, and other organizations
and facilities to lead by example, become role models for energy
efficiency, and choose clean renewable energy sources over the ones
harming our health. We can start by choosing wind and solar to power
our homes and influencing others to do the same.<br>
<br>
We are the voices because this is a health message.<br>
Dr. Van Susteren is a practicing general and forensic psychiatrist
in Washington. She serves on the advisory board of the Center for
Health and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of
Public Health, Boston. Dr. Van Susteren is a former member of the
board of directors of the National Wildlife Federation and coauthor
of group's report, "The Psychological Effects of Global Warming on
the United States - Why the U.S. Mental Health System is Not
Prepared." In 2006, Dr. Van Susteren sought the Democratic
nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Maryland. She also founded
Lucky Planet Foods, a company that provides plant-based, low carbon
foods.<br>
<br>
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[future]<br>
<b><a
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>
<b>'The extraordinary - almost absurd - contrast between what we
should be doing and what's actually taking place fosters low-level
climate denialism' </b><br>
<blockquote>"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not
see them lit again in our life-time."<br>
</blockquote>
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>
- - - - - -<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 temperatures 35
degrees above the historical average in Siberia, a phenomenon that
apparently corresponded with the unprecedented cold snap across
Europe.<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 eight
million tons of plastics are washed into the ocean each year.<br>
<blockquote>"It may seem impossible to imagine, that a
technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to
destroy itself, but that is what we're now in the process of
doing."<br>
</blockquote>
This passage from the New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert concluded a
piece on global warming, which was published way back in 2005. Over
the 13 years since, the warnings from scientists have grown both
more specific and desperate - and yet the march to destruction has
only redoubled its pace.<br>
<blockquote>The extraordinary - almost absurd - contrast between
what we should be doing and what's actually taking place fosters
low-level climate denialism. Coral experts might publicise, again
and again and again, the dire state of the Great Barrier Reef but
the ongoing political inaction inevitably blunts their message.<br>
</blockquote>
It can't be so bad, we think: if a natural wonder were truly under
threat, our politicians wouldn't simply stand aside and watch...<br>
The first world war killed 20 million people and maimed 21 million
others. It shattered the economy of Europe, displaced entire
populations, and set in train events that culminated, scarcely two
decades later, with another, even more apocalyptic slaughter<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>
<br>
<br>
[Draft Govt report - big]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/science/ct-government-climate-report-20180312-story.html">Government
close to finishing climate change report that runs counter to
Trump skepticism</a></b><br>
Chris Mooney<br>
The country's top independent scientific advisory body has largely
approved a major climate report being prepared by scientists within
the Trump administration - suggesting that another key government
document could soon emerge that contradicts President Donald Trump's
skepticism about climate change and humans' role in driving it.<br>
<br>
The U.S. National Academies on Monday released a public peer review
of a draft document called the U.S. National Climate Assessment, a
legally required report that is being produced by the federal Global
Change Research Program. The document, which is in its fourth
installment, closely surveys how a changing climate is affecting
individual U.S. states, regions, and economic and industrial
sectors. The final version is expected later this year; the last
version came out in 2014 during the Obama administration...<br>
The report, 1,506 pages long in draft form, says U.S. temperatures
will rise markedly in coming decades, accompanied by many other
attendant effects. It predicts that Northeastern fisheries will be
stressed by warmer ocean waters, that the Southeast will suffer from
worsening water shortages, that worse extreme-weather events will
tax water and other types of infrastructure, and far more...<br>
<br>
Many scientists initially feared that the Trump administration would
in some way suppress or otherwise interfere with the release of the
Climate Science Special Report, given that it so thoroughly appeared
to undermine the president's personally expressed skepticism of
climate change and his decision to withdraw the United States from
the Paris climate change agreement. But the report was released as
expected, and there were no significant cries of censorship or
political meddling.<br>
<br>
Now, the question is whether the same will occur with the longer
National Climate Assessment, which goes beyond the Climate Science
Special Report to locate the climate problem within specific U.S.
communities and industries, describing both how they will suffer and
how they are coping. The National Climate Assessment arguably has
more potential for political ramifications, in that it exhaustively
describes effects in specific places in the country.<br>
<br>
"There are many stories about the change, and that's the beauty of
this, you can go to the document and find stories in your community
no matter where you live in the U.S.," Bell said.<br>
<br>
Granted, the current review is not a 100 percent endorsement - for
instance, it states that when it comes to discussing different types
of scientific uncertainty, "improved differentiation and more
standardized treatment is needed across the draft report." The
document also contains more than 40 pages of line edits to the
longer report.<br>
<br>
But this is not a fundamental undermining of the document - it just
means more work has to be done for it to be improved before
publication.<br>
<br>
"They are meant to provide clarification and ease of use by the
readers but not direction-changing sorts of recommendations," said
Daniel Cayan, a professor at the University of California at San
Diego and one of the peer reviewers.<br>
<br>
The report will be revised in light of these critiques by its
federal authors - and move toward anticipated final-form publication
later this year.<br>
<br>
"There's a tremendous interest and demand for updated information
and also examples of how various communities are approaching climate
issues," Cayan said. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/science/ct-government-climate-report-20180312-story.html">http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/science/ct-government-climate-report-20180312-story.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Australian video humor] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xL905Uzw9E">Honest
Election Ad | Batman by-election</a></b><br>
thejuicemedia<br>
Published on Mar 13, 2018<br>
Mining giant Adani has made an ad about the Batman by-election on
March 17, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xL905Uzw9E">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xL905Uzw9E</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://youtu.be/DSy2UCNwchM">This Day in Climate History
- March 14, 2012 </a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
"NBC Nightly News" reports on the risk of rising sea levels.<br>
A new study from nonprofit Climate Central found that Southern
California could be at risk within a couple of decades. NBC's Anne
Thompson reports.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/DSy2UCNwchM">http://youtu.be/DSy2UCNwchM</a></font><br>
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