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<font size="+1"><i>March 17, 2018<br>
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</i></font> [no, not Tabasco Sauce too!!]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/tabasco-hot-sauce-and-fate-louisiana-s-shorelines">Tabasco
Hot Sauce and the Fate of Louisiana's Shorelines</a></b><br>
Climate change might be driving Tabasco production elsewhere<br>
BY KATHERINE WEI<br>
Avery Island is not strictly an island. It is a huge dome of salt in
south Louisiana, nestled in bayous, marshes, and swamps off the Gulf
of Mexico. Standing at 163 feet above sea level, it is one of the
highest points of land in flat Louisiana and is home to two of the
three ingredients for Tabasco hot sauce: salt and chili peppers. The
salt is mined from the island's salty composition, and the peppers
are tabasco peppers. <br>
Avery Island is losing about 30 feet of its coastline each year,
meaning the planting grounds for peppers and its salt mines are in
grave danger of getting destroyed or submerged in saltwater. Avery
Island's current area is only 2,200 acres at the most. With the
coastal region disappearing under water at the rate of a football
field (roughly 1.32 acres) every hour, the whole island could
technically disappear in 1,667 hours (less than 70 days).<br>
The peppers planted on Avery Island now are plucked for their seeds,
which are packaged and sent to pepper farms in Africa and Central
and South America for the main harvest. This ensures that the
peppers can grow away from Louisiana's coastal weather perils, but
nobody knows whether climate change will also impact the
pepper-friendly regions in new planting grounds, too.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/tabasco-hot-sauce-and-fate-louisiana-s-shorelines">https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/tabasco-hot-sauce-and-fate-louisiana-s-shorelines</a><br>
[TV news report on beer and climate change]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/k2aoHbg3-AE">Elisa
Raffa - KOLR 10 News, We the People: Climate Change</a></b><br>
In a series on political polarization, Meteorologist Elisa Raffa
focuses on climate change.<br>
97% of weather and climate experts say humans are a primary cause of
global warming. But if so, then why is the debate so heated?
Meteorologist Elisa Raffa talked with one local brewery dealing with
the impact of climate change every day, and says the solution could
be a hard brew.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/k2aoHbg3-AE">https://youtu.be/k2aoHbg3-AE</a>
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<br>
[Who is Pompeo?]<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/03/16/climate-weekly-thought-tillerson-bad/">You
thought Tillerson was bad?</a></b><br>
Published 16/03/2018,<br>
By Megan Darby<br>
Nobody ever accused Rex Tillerson of being an eco-warrior, but his
time answering to ExxonMobil shareholders - and litigants - at least
forced him to pay some attention to climate science.<br>
Now Donald Trump wants to replace him as US foreign affairs chief
with Mike Pompeo, who has faced no such constraints.<br>
Pompeo has taken more campaign funding from the Koch Industries
anti-climate lobby than any other lawmaker and described the Paris
Agreement as a "costly burden".<br>
The White House needs the support of Democrat senators to confirm
the appointment, Politico reports - which is unlikely to be granted
readily.<br>
If Pompeo secures the job, the question will be whether he actively
sabotages UN climate talks or merely neglects them.<br>
When Pompeo took his job at the CIA, the New York Times' Lisa
Friedman made <a
href="https://twitter.com/LFFriedman/status/799613403379761154">this
helpful list </a>of things he had said about Obama's climate
stance. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/LFFriedman/status/799613403379761154">https://twitter.com/LFFriedman/status/799613403379761154</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/03/16/climate-weekly-thought-tillerson-bad/">http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/03/16/climate-weekly-thought-tillerson-bad/</a></font><br>
[New is worse]<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/03/13/climate-deal-critic-pompeo-replace-tillerson-us-secretary-state/">Climate
deal critic Pompeo to replace Tillerson as US secretary of state</a></b><br>
During his time at state, Tillerson has focused on cutting costs. He
cut staffing for climate diplomacy, notably scrapping the position
of US climate envoy. Many key diplomatic positions across his
department remain unfilled.<br>
Climate campaigners criticised the choice.<br>
Naomi Ages of Greenpeace USA said: "Donald Trump has now somehow
picked someone even worse than Rex Tillerson to run the state
department. Greenpeace has been opposed to Tillerson as Secretary of
State from the moment he was nominated, and we continue to believe
that the US government cannot and should not be run by fossil fuel
industry flunkies.<br>
"Mike Pompeo, though, is uniquely unqualified to be Secretary of
State in an entirely different way than Rex Tillerson was. In
addition to being a climate denier, like his predecessor, Pompeo is
a Koch brothers' shill and a dangerous choice who will continue to
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="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/03/13/climate-deal-critic-pompeo-replace-tillerson-us-secretary-state/">http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/03/13/climate-deal-critic-pompeo-replace-tillerson-us-secretary-state/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Arctic meets the Atlantic]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/03/14/the-melting-arctic-is-already-messing-with-a-crucial-part-of-the-oceans-circulation-scientists-say/?utm_term=.2a3ead67d3fa&wpisrc=nl_green&wpmm=1">The
fast-melting Arctic is already messing with the ocean's
circulation, scientists say</a></b><br>
by Chris Mooney March 14 at 3:00 PM<br>
Scientists studying a remote and icy stretch of the North Atlantic
have found new evidence that fresh water, likely melted from
Greenland or Arctic sea ice, may already be altering a key process
that helps drives the global circulation of the oceans.<br>
In chilly waters on either side of Greenland, the ocean circulation
"overturns," as surface waters traveling northward become colder and
more dense and eventually sink, traveling back southward toward
Antarctica at extreme depths. This key sinking process is called
convection. But too much fresh water at the surface could interfere
with it, because with less salt, the water loses density and does
not sink as easily.<br>
In the new research, Marilena Oltmanns and two colleagues at the
GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany, found
that following particularly warm summers in the remote Irminger Sea,
convection tended to be more impaired in winter. In some cases, a
layer of meltwater stayed atop the ocean into the next year, rather
than vanishing into its depths as part of the overturning
circulation, which has sometimes been likened to an ocean "conveyor
belt."<br>
<blockquote>One caution is that this is an observational study, not
a prediction for the future - and Oltmanns said "nobody really
knows" how much freshwater is enough to significantly slow or shut
down the circulation, which is technically called the "Atlantic
meridional overturning circulation," or AMOC. Still, it suggests
that <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/bibliography/related_files/td0802.pdf">key
processes</a> that have raised long-standing concern are already
happening.<br>
</blockquote>
The research highlights the growing attention being paid to the
crucial ocean circulation in question, which is responsible for
bringing warm ocean water northward and, therefore, warming higher
latitudes and Europe, in particular. It has long been considered a
potential weak spot in the climate system because of the possibility
that a change here could trigger dramatic changes in a short time.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/03/14/the-melting-arctic-is-already-messing-with-a-crucial-part-of-the-oceans-circulation-scientists-say/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/03/14/the-melting-arctic-is-already-messing-with-a-crucial-part-of-the-oceans-circulation-scientists-say/</a><br>
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of the Draft Fourth National Climate Assessment</a></b><br>
"...draft NCA4 key messages tend to be long and are sometimes hard
to follow" <br>
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<br>
[Free energy in Arizona] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/h6Y_oh9PN-w">Senator
Flake: Negative Electricity Pricing in Arizona</a></b><br>
by greenman3610<br>
video statement <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/h6Y_oh9PN-w">https://youtu.be/h6Y_oh9PN-w</a>
:20<br>
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<br>
[pull up the boots] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.upi.com/An-extra-half-degree-of-global-warming-could-displace-5-million-people/7421521134075/">An
extra half degree of global warming could displace 5 million
people</a></b><br>
UPI.com<br>
"Even under the best-case climate policy being considered today,
many places will still have to deal with rising seas and more
frequent coastal floods,"...<br>
Now, new research has confirmed that the half-degree separating the
two targets is far from inconsequential. According to climate
scientists at Princeton University, an extra half degree of warming
would trigger additional sea level rise, flooding coastal regions
and islands currently inhabited by some 5 million people...<br>
Researchers used the most up-to-date sea level and storm surge
prediction models to gauge the impact of three different global
warming scenarios -- warming of 1.5, 2 and 2.5 degrees Celsius. The
published the results of their analysis in the journal<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aaac87/meta">
Environmental Research Letters</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.upi.com/An-extra-half-degree-of-global-warming-could-displace-5-million-people/7421521134075/">https://www.upi.com/An-extra-half-degree-of-global-warming-could-displace-5-million-people/7421521134075/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[sensitivity is a technical term] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://phys.org/news/2018-03-climate-sensitivityreducing-uncertainty.html">Climate
sensitivity - reducing the uncertainty of uncertainty</a></b><br>
Phys.Org<br>
In their paper published in the journal Nature, Prof. Cox and
colleagues estimate the sensitivity to be in the 'likely' range of
2.2 degrees C to 3.4 degrees C - less than half the range given by
the IPCC...<br>
To be clear, this range is not necessarily how much warming anyone
should expect. It only reflects how much warming there would be for
a doubling of CO2 levels since the baseline period of
pre-industrialisation - although we're about halfway to that
threshold already.<br>
This simple parameter is known as the climate's sensitivity, and it
dominates our uncertainty about future global warming. ... "I sort
of see this as good news, in that our range says values above 4
degrees C are unlikely, and so we're not yet too late to avoid the 2
degrees C limit set by the Paris Agreement," said Prof. Cox.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2018-03-climate-sensitivityreducing-uncertainty.html">https://phys.org/news/2018-03-climate-sensitivityreducing-uncertainty.html</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[political warrior Tom Steyer]
<section class="article__body">
<div class="article__content" data-editable="content"
itemprop="mainEntityOfPage"> <b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/why-tom-steyer-is-hot-about-climate-change-and-impeachment.html">A
Climate Activist's Impeachment Campaign Heats Up</a></b><br>
Tom Steyer is hot about Democrats' lack of initiative on climate
change and impeachment.<br>
Billionaire megadonor Tom Steyer, founder of the climate
advocacy group NextGen, has, for some time, been one of the most
prominent climate activists in the Democratic Party. He's
recently turned his attention to an expansive effort to build
support for removing Trump from office. He's spent millions on
an impeachment ad campaign and will begin a national town hall
tour on the subject Thursday night in Columbus, Ohio. <br>
<b>Osita Nwanevu:</b> ... But climate policy hasn't been a major
part of the conversation within the party and on the left since
the election, even as the need to address climate change
obviously grows more urgent each passing year. Why do you think
that is?<br>
<b>Tom Steyer:</b> You know it's hard for me to speculate about
what they're thinking about. To me, there's no way to get away
from the centrality of clean air and clean water and the need to
rebuild a sustainable America. When you think about the future
of this country, it is hard for me to see how we talk to people
without talking about the right people have to breathe clean air
and drink clean water. That seems to me to be a basic right
that's being abridged. And it's a real health issue. And I think
in terms of thinking about both the current economic position of
the country and of working people and the future economic
position of the country and of working people, it's impossible
not to see that we need to rebuild the United States of America
and we need to do it in a sustainable way. Whether you're
talking about creating good paying jobs or when you're talking
about the health of American citizens, you know you are in
effect talking about climate. You're just not talking about it
directly.<br>
- - - - <br>
I mean, I was talking to a super senior Democrat today who's an
old friend. And you know, the guy just hates impeachment. I mean
he was talking to me and said, "You know, I just don't want to
talk about impeachment because I disagree with you." And I was
like, "OK, do you think the guy is a traitor? That he's refusing
to protect the American people from electronic attacks by a
hostile foreign power?" And he's like, "Oh, yeah that's true." I
said, "Do you think he's lawless?" "Absolutely lawless." "So you
think he's a traitor who is not obeying the laws of the United
States. And he's not putting the American people first. He's the
president. But you're not for impeachment?" "No." I'm like, "Why
not?" He's like, "Well, tactical reasons." And I'm like, "This
isn't a tactical question. This is a moral question. This is a
question of right and wrong. And you're telling me you won't
stand up for right and wrong because it's not tactically smart,
in your opinion." He says, "Yes." I don't want to extrapolate
that conversation to everybody else. But what I'm seeing is a
lack of mojo. They're lying for money. It's not nice. I wish it
weren't true. But that's actually what's happening. It's very
simple. And so, if you're not willing to say that, I have no
idea what is scaring you. But for some reason, you're being
scared away from telling an obvious truth. That is absolutely
hampering us. And until we start telling the obvious truth-that
this is a lawless president controlled by a hostile foreign
power-how are we supposed to deal with it? We have to have the
guts and the confidence to step up and tell the truth because
the American people need the truth.<br>
</div>
</section>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/why-tom-steyer-is-hot-about-climate-change-and-impeachment.html">https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/why-tom-steyer-is-hot-about-climate-change-and-impeachment.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
[just words]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/15/594140026/fema-drops-climate-change-from-its-strategic-plan">FEMA
Drops 'Climate Change' From Its Strategic Plan</a></b><br>
March 15, 201811:49 PM ET<br>
Richard Gonzales<br>
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the federal government's
first responder to floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters,
has eliminated references to climate change from its strategic
planning document for the next four years.<br>
That document, released by FEMA on Thursday, outlines plans for
building preparedness and reducing the complexity of the agency.<br>
"Disaster costs are expected to continue to increase due to rising
natural hazard risk, decaying critical infrastructure, and economic
pressures that limit investments in risk resilience. As good
stewards of taxpayer dollars, FEMA must ensure that our programs are
fiscally sound. Additionally, we will consider new pathways to
long-term disaster risk reduction, including increased investments
in pre-disaster mitigation."<br>
The document does not say what could be contributing to "rising
natural hazard risk," or what conditions could require the
"increased investments in pre-disaster mitigation."<br>
Similarly, under a section about "Emerging Threats," the document
cites cybersecurity and terrorism. There are no references to global
warming, rising sea levels, extreme weather events or any other term
related to the potential impact of rising surface temperatures.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/15/594140026/fema-drops-climate-change-from-its-strategic-plan">https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/15/594140026/fema-drops-climate-change-from-its-strategic-plan</a><br>
</font><br>
<br>
[globalization]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/global-warming-and-climate-instability-one-last-chance-to-save-ourselves/5631803">Global
Warming and Climate Instability: One Last Chance to Save
Ourselves</a></b><br>
By Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null<br>
-----------------------------------<br>
There is a peculiar arrogance when sentimental environmentalists
proclaim the Earth is sick and humanity must unite and collectively
gather together and heal her. This view also perpetuates the myth
of human supremacy over Nature and further reinforces the assumption
shared by most members of the scientific community, private
corporations, and among high governmental officials who have an
unswerving faith in the potentials of human intelligence and
ingenuity to override the forces of Nature. Regardless of how
critical, or even desperate, a situation becomes, there dangles
before us the faux promise that we can find the technology to solve
it. But humanity is not a savior for the simple fact the Earth does
not need saving, except from our own limited, awry perception and
destructive actions. "Global warming," writes Roy Scranton, author
of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, "is what is called a 'wicked
problem': it doesn't offer any clear solutions, only better or worse
responses." Regardless of the billions of tons of carbon dioxide,
methane and other greenhouse gases our culture pumps into the
atmosphere, regardless of how acidic we turn the oceans, the Earth
will tweak and re-tweak itself in order to return to a homeostatic
state, with or without the numerous species now faced with
extinction. It will continue to self-organize and reestablish
stability. It may require many thousands of years after the
Anthropocene has passed before she finds a new balance and bursts
anew, albeit without us or the presence of countless other creatures
extinguished by climate change. This was the overriding theme in
Alan Weisman's bestselling thought experiment, The World Without Us,
later made into a PBS special, which portrayed a planet coming alive
again after humanity destroyed itself. Earth will heal nicely, thank
you, without our technological intervention and the hubris of the
superiority complex unique to our species.<br>
---------------------------<br>
There are certain dominant characteristics that define psychopathic
behavior. One is the inability to feel remorse over destructive
behavior or for committing a crime that inflicts terrible suffering
upon another. Another common psychopathic trait is to regard
violent acts as permissible and perhaps even beneficial. Therefore,
we destroy and kill thousands of species, live off a diet
responsible for the butchering of billions of animals daily, mow
over ecosystems for mining and development or to raise livestock and
sow genetically engineered crops, survey and drill and drill some
more for the Earth's last drops of fossil fuels, all in the name of
capitalist growth and expansion. At the same time, corporations and
the global elite, the captains of industry, our governments,
international banks, our educational institutions, and the corporate
media whitewash these ecocidal actions as being virtuous and
necessary in order for us to enjoy the comforts and ease of
postmodern civilization has to offer. Perversely, we are being told
it is better to sustain the artifacts of our modern culture than the
Gaian life support necessary to live, breath and nourish us.<br>
Such a view is pathologically dangerous. And it is indicative of the
human psychology that today defines the Anthropocene Age.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/global-warming-and-climate-instability-one-last-chance-to-save-ourselves/5631803">https://www.globalresearch.ca/global-warming-and-climate-instability-one-last-chance-to-save-ourselves/5631803</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/robert-kenner-battles-climate-change-deniers-with-merchants-of-doubt/2015/03/16/8011a19c-c80e-11e4-a199-6cb5e63819d2_story.html?hpid=z4">This
Day in Climate History - March 17, 2015 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
March 17, 2015:<br>
The Washington Post profiles "Merchants of Doubt" director Robert
Kenner.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/robert-kenner-battles-climate-change-deniers-with-merchants-of-doubt/2015/03/16/8011a19c-c80e-11e4-a199-6cb5e63819d2_story.html?hpid=z4">http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/robert-kenner-battles-climate-change-deniers-with-merchants-of-doubt/2015/03/16/8011a19c-c80e-11e4-a199-6cb5e63819d2_story.html?hpid=z4</a><br>
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