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<font size="+1"><i>March 15, 2018<br>
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[He'll be back]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/03/14/arnold-schwarzenegger-climate-lawsuit-sxsw/">Schwarzenegger
Wants to Sue Big Oil for Climate Change. Does He Have a Case?</a></b><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Schwarzenegger didn't spell out the
nature of lawsuit he plans to file and whether he will be a
plaintiff. But some of the legal challenges he will face are
already apparent, said David Levine, a professor at the University
of California Hastings College of Law. </span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">"It's not clear to me how he will be
able to really frame the case," Levine said. "It's problematic.
It's not a good lawsuit even for a superhero."</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">As a plaintiff, Schwarzenegger has
to show how he has suffered at the hands of oil companies, and
that will be difficult to establish. Cities</span><a
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/09/20/san-francisco-oakland-lawsuit-climate-change-bp-exxon-shell/">
<span style="font-weight: 400;">such as San Francisco</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400;"> and New York City are suing oil
companies on behalf of their residents and claiming that climate
change has caused public harm because it leads to stronger
hurricanes and wildfires that require cities to spend billions of
dollars to build sea walls, elevate roads and invest in other
public safety projects.</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Kassie Siegel, director of Climate
Law Institute at the Center for Biological Diversity, said a
lawsuit by Schwarzenegger would at least put an uncomfortable
spotlight on oil companies.</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">"It's terrific that Schwarzenegger
is considering litigation. It's an extremely important advocacy
method," Siegel said. "It's important to have more plaintiffs sue
fossil fuel companies, which are at the heart of the problem."</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Schwarzenegger could model a case
after </span><a
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/07/13/the-kids-climate-case-against-the-u-s-government-a-timeline/"><i><span
style="font-weight: 400;">Juliana v. United States</span></i></a><span
style="font-weight: 400;">, whose plaintiffs are individuals, not
governments. But they are a group of young people in their teens
and early 20s who argue that the federal government has</span><a
href="https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/us/federal-lawsuit/"> <span
style="font-weight: 400;">violated their constitutional rights</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400;"> to life and liberty by promoting fossil
fuel-centric energy policies.</span><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/03/14/arnold-schwarzenegger-climate-lawsuit-sxsw/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/03/14/arnold-schwarzenegger-climate-lawsuit-sxsw/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Warm up there, cold down here]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/13/extreme-winter-weather-becoming-more-common-as-arctic-warms-study-finds">Extreme
winter weather becoming more common as Arctic warms, study finds</a></b><br>
Scientists found a strong link between high temperatures near the
pole and unusually heavy snowfall and frigid weather farther
south...<br>
Extreme cold winter weather is up to four times more likely when
temperatures in the Arctic are unusually high, the study found...<br>
The polar vortex is a low pressure system that swirls around the
polar region. Sometimes it can stray further south, bringing cold
Arctic air with it. There is continuing conjecture over the impact
climate change is having but some scientists believe warming
temperatures could be weakening the polar vortex's flow, allowing it
to meander towards the equator...<br>
"There have always been cold outbreaks. The cold air has to go
somewhere," said Kevin Trenberth, senior scientist at the National
Center for Atmospheric Research.<br>
"The issue is whether the air stays put or gets loose. Some years it
is contained, other years it breaks out. The question is where and
what is the cause. This study reaffirms the relationship but not its
cause. The Arctic likely plays a modest role in terms of feedbacks
but it is unlikely it is a cause."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/13/extreme-winter-weather-becoming-more-common-as-arctic-warms-study-finds">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/13/extreme-winter-weather-becoming-more-common-as-arctic-warms-study-finds</a><br>
</font>[Nature study]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-02992-9">Warm
Arctic episodes linked with increased frequency of extreme
winter weather in the United States | Nature ...</a></b><br>
<b>Abstract</b><br>
<blockquote>Recent boreal winters have exhibited a large-scale
seesaw temperature pattern characterized by an unusually warm
Arctic and cold continents. Whether there is any physical link
between Arctic variability and Northern Hemisphere (NH) extreme
weather is an active area of research. Using a recently developed
index of severe winter weather, we show that the occurrence of
severe winter weather in the United States is significantly
related to anomalies in pan-Arctic geopotential heights and
temperatures. As the Arctic transitions from a relatively cold
state to a warmer one, the frequency of severe winter weather in
mid-latitudes increases through the transition. However, this
relationship is strongest in the eastern US and mixed to even
opposite along the western US. We also show that during mid-winter
to late-winter of recent decades, when the Arctic warming trend is
greatest and extends into the upper troposphere and lower
stratosphere, severe winter weather - including both cold spells
and heavy snows - became more frequent in the eastern United
States.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-02992-9">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-02992-9</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[England does it]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-43405684">MPs warn of
'poisonous air' emergency costing 20bn a year</a></b><br>
By Roger Harrabin, BBC environment analyst<br>
MPs have demanded an end to the UK's "poisonous air" in an
unprecedented report from four Commons committees.<br>
The Environment, Health, Transport and Environmental Audit
committees want a new Clean Air Act, and a clean air fund financed
by the motor industry.<br>
They are also demanding a faster phase-out of petrol and diesel cars
- currently set for 2040.<br>
The government said air pollution had improved significantly since
2010 but there was "more to do".<br>
MPs have been frustrated by the response from ministers, who have
promised to publish a comprehensive clean air strategy later this
year.<br>
Their report says: "Air pollution is a national health emergency
resulting in an estimated 40,000 early deaths each year, costing the
UK 20bn pounds annually.<br>
"It is unacceptable that successive governments have failed to
protect the public from poisonous air.<br>
"Despite a series of court cases, the government has still not
produced a plan that adequately addresses the scale of the
challenge. Nor has it demonstrated the national leadership needed."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-43405684">http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-43405684</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Oh No! Nitrogen too?]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatestate.com/2018/03/14/nitrogen-and-climate-change-explained/">Nitrogen
and Climate Change explained</a></b><br>
In this 2015 talk, David Reay from the University of Edinburgh talks
about nitrogen, and how it affects climate change.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/JrJ3n_8ZI4o">video
16 minutes</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/JrJ3n_8ZI4o">https://youtu.be/JrJ3n_8ZI4o</a><br>
Watch the full lecture <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_w5t832ln">https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_w5t832ln</a><br>
Nitrogen <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatestate.com/2018/03/14/nitrogen-and-climate-change-explained/">http://climatestate.com/2018/03/14/nitrogen-and-climate-change-explained/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<i>["Asteroid means sea stars. Idiopathic means that it arises
spontaneously and is caused by unknown factors. And syndrome means
a series of correlated disease signs."]</i><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180313152126.htm">A
starfish cold case reopens, climate change remains suspect</a></b><br>
"Disease among sea stars is likely caused by multiple factors, not
just one factor like SSaDV or rising temperature. The 'disease' is
actually multiple diseases. Understanding this, it's a lot more
complicated to explain than simply a virus - like SSaDV - coming
along or water temperature increasing by way of climate change,"
said lead author Ian Hewson, associate professor of microbiology.<br>
Sunflower sea stars - whose 16 to 24 arms exceed 3 feet long - were
once prolific throughout the Salish Sea, which borders Washington
state and Canada's British Columbia. In 2013-14 wasting disease
decimated their population.<br>
The paper suggests renaming the wasting disease to Asteroid
Idiopathic Wasting Syndrome because the term correlates with an
array of symptoms, "which is more correct for describing this
situation, as there are likely multiple diseases present," Hewson
said.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180313152126.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180313152126.htm</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[keep planting anyway]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tree-farms-will-not-save-us-from-global-warming/">Tree
Farms Will Not Save Us from Global Warming</a></b><br>
Plantations would have to be massive in scale, and their value is
still unproven<br>
By Chelsea Harvey, E&E News on March 13, 2018<br>
The idea calls for massive plantations of trees and other crops to
draw carbon dioxide out of the air. The trees could then be
harvested for the production of energy or biofuels, with carbon
capture technology used to sequester their emissions. The whole
process would be carbon-negative. This could theoretically cool the
climate. But it would have to be done at a massive scale.<br>
It's still almost an entirely hypothetical concept. But it has
rapidly risen to prominence as a strategy for meeting the world's
climate targets established under the Paris Agreement. It's called
"bioenergy with carbon capture and storage," or BECCS...<br>
But there's a major problem: Research increasingly suggests that the
process is not feasible at the scale necessary to make a real dent
in global climate goals - at least, not without causing massive
environmental or social disruptions. If that's the case, some
experts worry that the models could mislead policymakers into
believing there's a definite "out" if global emissions don't fall
fast enough in the future...<br>
Just this month, the European Academies Science Advisory Council
released a report warning against unrealistic assumptions about
carbon dioxide removal, or CDR...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tree-farms-will-not-save-us-from-global-warming/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tree-farms-will-not-save-us-from-global-warming/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Ken Ward Can't Stop]<br>
"<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.thereluctantradicalmovie.com/">The Reluctant
Radical, no one likes thinking about Climate Change,</a></b>"<br>
<a href="https://www.thereluctantradicalmovie.com/">"The Reluctant
Radical,"</a> a movie produced by my friends Lindsey Grazel and
Deia Schlosburg, cobbled together from footage accumulated by
trailing me around for the last three years, will <a
href="http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/festival/films-2018-peak/reluctant_radical">premiere
this week at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival</a> in Missoula, MT
this Thursday and Friday, and I'd like to invite all my MT friends
to attend if you are able. The movie covers my climate direct action
work from the Lobster Boat Blockade, through Shell No!, Fennica
action, Break Free Anacortes, Exxon gas station actions, and Shut It
Down.
<div>Like the <a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/magazine/afraid-climate-change-prison-valve-turners-global-warming.html">NYTimes
Sunday Magazine article this week</a>, which focused on Michael
Foster, the movie is a personal story - a distinct departure from
my own prior climate activism, all of which was carefully focused
on climate politics and policy, and steered away from personal
narrative. Choosing to participate in the project which ultimately
produced "The Reluctant Radical" was, for me, a decision driving
by desperation. I felt that the dry, academic style of
communication I learned in the Nader network just wasn't working.
This movie is an experiment in climate storytelling; I will report
back. </div>
<div>Here's one take away. If you are going to have a film crew
follow you around for a couple, three years, pay attention to
personal grooming. by Ken Ward<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://vimeo.com/248062039">The
Reluctant Radical Trailer</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://vimeo.com/248062039">https://vimeo.com/248062039</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://vimeo.com/220944702">Defense
attorney Lauren Regan closing arguments</a></b><br>
Defense attorney Lauren Regan draws parallels between Ken Ward's
actions to shut down an oil pipeline and the Boston Tea Party<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://vimeo.com/220944702">https://vimeo.com/220944702</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://vimeo.com/201178385">Necessity
Defense Denied</a></b><br>
Judge Rickert describes his reasoning in denying the use of the
necessity defense in Ken Ward's trial.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://vimeo.com/201178385">https://vimeo.com/201178385</a><br>
</font><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://vimeo.com/188582850">Ken Ward action</a></b><font
size="-1"> 42 minutes<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://vimeo.com/188582850">https://vimeo.com/188582850</a></font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.thereluctantradicalmovie.com/">https://www.thereluctantradicalmovie.com/</a></font><br>
</div>
<br>
<br>
[Bemidji news]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/government-and-politics/4417789-red-lake-votes-remove-pipelines">Red
Lake votes to remove pipelines</a></b><br>
By Grace Pastoor on Mar 14, 2018 <br>
RED LAKE - The Red Lake Tribal Council voted Tuesday to remove
Enbridge-owned oil pipelines from its land.<br>
The unanimous vote came two months after the council agreed to
rescind a resolution accepting a land swap agreement with the
Canadian energy company. That Jan. 9 vote paved the way for
Tuesday's action, according to Red Lake Representative Robert Smith.<br>
The pipelines in question are located on a 24-acre parcel of land
about 30 miles northwest of Bemidji. They were installed by Lakehead
Pipeline Co. Inc. sometime before the 1980s, when the reservation
realized it owned the land.<br>
Enbridge Energy now owns the pipelines, but does not own the land
under which they are installed. So in December 2015 the tribal
council voted to accept $18.5 million - meant to be spent on other
land - in exchange for the parcel.<br>
The deal appeared to fall apart in January when band member and
anti-pipeline activist Marty Cobenais, acting as a concerned
citizen, addressed the tribal council and described the land deal as
unconstitutional.<br>
Though some at the January meeting interpreted the deal as a
constitutional land swap, others saw it as an unconstitutional land
sale. The council voted 5-3 to rescind Resolution 281-15 and back
out of the deal.<br>
And on Tuesday, Red Lake Representative Romas Stately, Jr., made a
motion to remove the pipelines entirely. Smith seconded to motion
and nine council members voted in favor.<br>
Enbridge spokesperson Shannon Gustafson said Wednesday that Enbridge
had not yet been contacted by the Red Lake Tribal Council in regard
to the removal of pipelines.<br>
Red Lake Chairman Darrell Seki, Sr., said the band's attorneys will
contact Enbridge.<br>
"We just want them to move their lines and clean up the pollution
and the damages they've done the past 70 years," Seki said.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/government-and-politics/4417789-red-lake-votes-remove-pipelines">http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/government-and-politics/4417789-red-lake-votes-remove-pipelines</a><br>
- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/dallasgoldtooth/status/974139453605339137?s=19">https://twitter.com/dallasgoldtooth/status/974139453605339137?s=19</a><br>
</font> <br>
<br>
[Six Degrees News]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sixdegreesnews.org/archives/23392/fracking-scientific-evidence-points-towards-public-health-crisis">Fracking:
Scientific Evidence points towards public health crisis</a></b><br>
HEALTH PROFESSIONAL GROUPS RAISE ALARM THAT BUILD-OUT OF DRILLING
AND FRACKING OPERATIONS IS CREATING A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS<br>
As incontrovertible evidence of harm from fracking mounts and more
health professionals raise the alarm, the fracking debate is taking
place within an altered landscape. Today, as a growing body of
scientific evidence confirms demonstrable health risks and harms
from drilling and fracking operations and their attendant
infrastructure, calls from the medical community for
health-protective policies are growing louder. A new report by two
leading health professional organizations - <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://psr.org/">Physicians for
Social Responsibility </a>and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://concernedhealthny.org/">Concerned Health
Professionals of New York</a> - tracks and analyzes the rapidly
emerging science that points to the increasing dangers to health,
including respiratory disease, cancer risk, and low birth weight and
preterm birth, both of which are leading causes of infant death.<br>
<blockquote>This evidence is of grave concern to health
professionals, especially given that over 17 million Americans now
live within a mile of an active oil or gas well.<br>
</blockquote>
This population includes over a million young children and a million
elderly people, two groups with special vulnerabilities to air
pollution and contaminated water. Other studies show harm to infants
born to mothers who live near drilling and fracking operations
during their pregnancies. If carried out, the Trump administration's
plans to roll back federal regulations and expand fracking on public
lands will further exacerbate these harmful impacts.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.sixdegreesnews.org/archives/23392/fracking-scientific-evidence-points-towards-public-health-crisis">http://www.sixdegreesnews.org/archives/23392/fracking-scientific-evidence-points-towards-public-health-crisis</a></font><br>
[from PSR Physicians for Social Responsibility]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.psr.org/resources/fracking-compendium.html">Compendium
of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks
and Harms of Fracking – Fifth Edition</a></b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.psr.org/assets/pdfs/fracking-compendium-5.pdf">[download
PDF]</a><br>
The 2018 edition of the Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media
Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking updates the
rapidly expanding evidence indicating harm to health from fracking
and methane infrastructure.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.psr.org/resources/fracking-compendium.html">http://www.psr.org/resources/fracking-compendium.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[wise opinion]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/07/how-do-you-raise-resilient-kids-accept-them-how-they-are">How
do you raise resilient kids? Accept them how they are</a></b><br>
Girls in particular are taught in a million ways that they should
please others. What if we honoured their natural differences?<br>
Nelly Thomas is an award-winning comedian and author. She has just
released her first children's book <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/some-girls">Some
Girls</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/07/how-do-you-raise-resilient-kids-accept-them-how-they-are">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/07/how-do-you-raise-resilient-kids-accept-them-how-they-are</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[twently years]<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/shared/research/ONLINE-PREPRINTS/Millennium/mbh99.pdf">This
Day in Climate History - March 15, 1999</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
March 15, 1999: The paper "Northern Hemisphere Temperatures During
the Past<br>
Millennium: Inferences, Uncertainties, and Limitations," by Michael
E. Mann, Raymond S. Bradley and Malcolm K. Hughes, is published in
the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The paper features the
"hockey stick" graph that makes Mann a target of unrelenting
rhetorical and legal assaults by supporters and representatives of
the fossil fuel industry.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/shared/research/ONLINE-PREPRINTS/Millennium/mbh99.pdf">http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/shared/research/ONLINE-PREPRINTS/Millennium/mbh99.pdf</a>
</font><br>
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