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<font size="+1"><i>March 23, 2018</i></font><br>
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[blame game]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://cleantechnica.com/2018/03/22/california-utilities-say-climate-change-caused-recent-fires-not/">California
Utilities Say Climate Change Caused Recent Fires, Not Them</a></b><i>
(the utilities)</i><br>
March 22nd, 2018 - by Steve Hanley <br>
When insurers jack up their premiums to cover the cost of climate
change related harm - from rising sea levels to more powerful storms
to fires and floods - that's the moment in time when all the debate
about climate change and junk science will come to an end. That's
when the horror of the disaster humanity has wrought by its own hand
will become real. Banks won't loan money on projects that can't get
insurance. No loans, no commerce. Simple as that. Over and done
with. Finis....<br>
<blockquote>This scenario is playing out right now in California,
where the state's largest public utility companies are defending
themselves against lawsuits claiming they were negligent in the
way they removed debris and brush from beneath their wires and
transmission lines. The suits allege that negligent behavior
caused or contributed to the horrific forest fires that swept
through various parts of California the last few years. Utility
companies are forbidden by law from automatically passing on
losses not covered by insurance to their customers without
permission from the state's PUC. If they lose the lawsuits that
have been filed against them, they could be in serious financial
trouble....<br>
</blockquote>
According to a report in Think Progress, "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,"<br>
Already Fitch Ratings, a stock rating service, has downgraded its
ratings of PG&E's stock to reflect the company's potential
exposure to damages for the "unprecedented 2017 wildfires across
large swaths of the utility's service territory and seemingly absent
legislative support for recovery of such costs."...<br>
The utilities insist the real culprits are warmer temperatures and
lack of rain caused by climate change, conditions over which they
have no control. They have a point. In a way, it is refreshing to
hear major corporations dare to mention climate change, a subject
that is anathema to the current administration. If the utility
companies really want to press their claim, they should be standing
shoulder to shoulder with the cities of San Francisco and Oakland,
which are suing 5 major oil companies for the money they say will be
needed to protect residents of the San Francisco Bay Area from the
ravages of climate change attributable to rising sea levels.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://cleantechnica.com/2018/03/22/california-utilities-say-climate-change-caused-recent-fires-not/">https://cleantechnica.com/2018/03/22/california-utilities-say-climate-change-caused-recent-fires-not/</a></font><br>
[game blame]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/california-wildfires-threaten-utility-finances-65dbb66dc1eb/">California's
historic wildfire season puts financial squeeze on the state's
utilities</a></b><br>
Utilities blame climate change, not negligence, for catastrophic
wildfires.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/california-wildfires-threaten-utility-finances-65dbb66dc1eb/">https://thinkprogress.org/california-wildfires-threaten-utility-finances-65dbb66dc1eb/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Where can we go?]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180321121600.htm">New
interactive map shows climate change everywhere in world</a></b><br>
University of Cincinnati<br>
Summary:<br>
A geography professor has created a new interactive map that allows
students or researchers to compare the climates of places anywhere
in the world. The map draws on five decades of public meteorological
data recorded from 50,000 international weather stations around the
Earth. And it uses prediction models to display which parts of the
globe will experience the most or least climate change in the next
50 years....<br>
The data is mapped in a 4-square-kilometer grid that gives
researchers a visual of what's happening with temperatures and
precipitation from pole to pole.<br>
"The map demonstrates climate change over time but also climate
diversity. The concept is powerful and can inspire a lot of
research," Stepinski said...<br>
- - - - -<br>
"I've lived in Houston, Tucson and Cincinnati. Climatically
speaking, they couldn't be farther apart," he said....<br>
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"ClimateEx is mostly an educational tool," Netzel said. "Using
ClimateEx, it is easy to get answers to questions such as where in
the world do we have a climate similar to Houston's? Where can I
find a place with a climate as pleasant as Florida's?"<br>
The map also could help predict which areas will have climates more
conducive to extreme weather phenomena such as tornadoes in places
where historically there were few, he said...<br>
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But Stepinski said the map is easy enough to use and understand that
ordinary people could use it for more personal reasons like planning
their next vacation or contemplating a move to a new city.<br>
So what's the global climate twin of Cincinnati?<br>
Stepinski said it's Vicenza, Italy.<br>
"You will see that both Cincinnati's and Vicenza's climates have a
similar progression of weather conditions throughout the year," he
said. "So a person would experience the passing of the seasons in
the same way in both places."<br>
Map: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://sil.uc.edu/webapps/climateex/">http://sil.uc.edu/webapps/climateex/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180321121600.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180321121600.htm</a><br>
[Use the map]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://sil.uc.edu/webapps/climateex/">ClimateEx - Climate
Explorer Introduction</a></b><br>
ClimateEx (Climate Explorer) is based on the novel idea of climate
similarity search (CSS) and its goal is to visualize climate
variability and its change by calculating degrees of similarity
between local climates. The key concept is to regard all present and
future local climates as objects in an abstract metric space so a
degree of similarity between any pair of climates can be calculated
using a distance (dissimilarity) function<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://sil.uc.edu/webapps/climateex/">http://sil.uc.edu/webapps/climateex/</a>
<i>[Click the red button for manual - upper right corner]</i><br>
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<br>
[After the Storm, tears]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/03/after-weather-disasters-mental-health-problems-spike/">After
weather disasters, mental health problems spike</a></b><br>
"Not everybody in the community will be equally affected. They don't
all have equivalent resources to help them deal with these problems.
So think about not just the generalized impact of climate change,
but also how more vulnerable members of the community might be
affected, and ways to have a community plan that incorporates all
members of the community."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/03/after-weather-disasters-mental-health-problems-spike/">https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/03/after-weather-disasters-mental-health-problems-spike/</a></font><br>
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[DIY tools]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/as-icebergs-melt-in-greenland-scientists-need-a-front-row-seat"><b>Melting
icebergs are an engine of climate change, but we know
surprisingly little about them.</b></a><br>
By Daniel Carlson<br>
Icebergs pose a particular challenge for climate scientists. They
are simultaneously a key part of the ocean physics driving climate
change, and very difficult to collect real-world data on. In most
cases, studying actual icebergs in the actual ocean requires
traveling to harsh, remote locations to examine a massive piece of
ice that could break apart at any minute. This is time consuming,
expensive, uncomfortable, and at times dangerous. But it's extremely
important-we need more of this kind of data. That's why my research
has brought me to Greenland, to see and measure melting icebergs
first-hand.<br>
Greenland is a new front line for climate research <br>
With the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet accelerating in recent
years, it's time to look a little more closely at the icebergs
there. Freshwater from melting ice lowers the density of the ocean's
surface waters. This can affect deep water formation that drives
large-scale ocean circulation patterns. In short: Where icebergs
melt and where that meltwater goes has local, and possibly also
global implications...<br>
- - - - -<br>
Due to the cost and effort required to study icebergs in their
natural environment in Greenland, satellites and models are often
used to study how icebergs melt and drift. Models are an incredibly
important tool, but a realistic model of iceberg drift will be
difficult to achieve without feeding it with real-world data first.<br>
- - - - - -<br>
The commercial GPS trackers used to study iceberg drift are costly
and usually deployed by helicopter, which only adds to the expense.
As a result, few icebergs in Greenland have been tracked, especially
smaller, less stable icebergs and "bergy bits" in fjords. By
building my own low-cost iceberg trackers, which can be tossed atop
an iceberg from a boat, I was able to track 18 icebergs near Nuuk
over periods of 30-100 days....<br>
<br>
The "GoPro on a pole" method has since been brought into the modern
age using a small, remotely operated vehicle (ROV) designed by
undergraduate engineering students. Images collected by the ROV made
it possible to construct 3D models of the iceberg keel. This kind of
unmanned robotic platform is ideal for studying icebergs, as they
place the human operators a safe distance away from a massive,
unstable chunk of ice.<br>
Collecting data will get easier as technology advances<br>
Ideally, technological advances will increase the number of
autonomous observational platforms in operation in Greenland, which
would allow researchers like me to watch the data roll in from the
relative comfort of our office chairs. Of course, that experience
won't come close to being in the front-row seat and sailing past a
massive chunk of ice, hearing a gunshot-like crack as it breaks
apart<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/as-icebergs-melt-in-greenland-scientists-need-a-front-row-seat">https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/as-icebergs-melt-in-greenland-scientists-need-a-front-row-seat</a></font><br>
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[academic]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180319155717.htm">So
close, yet so far: Making climate impacts feel nearby may not
inspire action</a></b><br>
March 19, 2018 Cornell University<br>
Summary:<br>
An expert says it is possible to make faraway climate impacts feel
closer. But that doesn't automatically inspire the American public
to express greater support for policies that address it.<br>
Journal Reference:<br>
Jonathon P. Schuldt, Laura N. Rickard, Z. Janet Yang. Does reduced
psychological distance increase climate engagement? On the limits of
localizing climate change. Journal of Environmental Psychology,
2018; 55: 147 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2018.02.001<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180319155717.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180319155717.htm</a></font><br>
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<br>
[USAToday on the SF court case]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://grist.org/article/fossil-fuels-are-the-problem-say-fossil-fuel-companies-being-sued/?for-guid=843ad60e-79d4-e711-b65f-90b11c343abd">Fossil
fuels are the problem, say fossil fuel companies being sued</a><br>
Big Oil and the cities suing them in federal court agreed on at
least one thing on Wednesday: Human-made climate change is real.<br>
In the country's first court hearing on the science behind climate
change, a lawyer for Chevron, Theodore Boutrous Jr., said the oil
company accepts the scientific consensus. He quoted chapter and
verse from the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, the thousands of scientists assembled by the United Nations
to figure out exactly what's going on. "From Chevron's perspective,
there is no debate about the science of climate change," Boutrous
said.<br>
Oil companies have recently started saying they're on the side of
science, but they've never said it so clearly in court.<br>
- - - - - -<br>
The oil companies seem poised to argue that those who bought
petro-products are just as responsible as those who sold them. And
they will almost certainly argue that those suffering the ravages of
climate change should try to fix things by passing laws rather than
suing businesses. That's a position even the most liberal members of
the Supreme Court have held in the past.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://grist.org/article/fossil-fuels-are-the-problem-say-fossil-fuel-companies-being-sued/?for-guid=843ad60e-79d4-e711-b65f-90b11c343abd">https://grist.org/article/fossil-fuels-are-the-problem-say-fossil-fuel-companies-being-sued/?for-guid=843ad60e-79d4-e711-b65f-90b11c343abd</a></font><br>
[More court update]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/03/22/climate-tutorial-judge-alsup-chevron-liability/">In
Climate Tutorial, Oil Industry Doubles Down on Science
Uncertainty</a></b><br>
By Amy Westervelt<br>
In a climate science tutorial in San Francisco on Wednesday, U.S.
District Court Judge William Alsup pushed both defendants and
plaintiffs in the San Francisco and Oakland climate liability cases
to answer dozens of questions about the state of climate science.
But the five-hour hearing all boiled down to one fundamental
question: At what point was it clear man-made CO2 emissions were
putting the climate on a path toward destruction?<br>
- - - - -<br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Alsup had </span><a
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/03/15/california-climate-liability-judge-william-alsup/"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">ordered the
tutorial</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;
font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>to inform him of the scientific
issues at hand in the case. The cities of San Francisco and
Oakland<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/09/20/san-francisco-oakland-lawsuit-climate-change-bp-exxon-shell/"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">are suing five
major oil companies</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;
font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>for public nuisance, saying the
companies have known for decades their products contributed to
global warming and not only did nothing to mitigate the harm, but
also impeded action on climate change.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">The judge did
chastise four of the defendants for refusing to present arguments
at the tutorial. Only Chevron chose to speak, relying on<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.gibsondunn.com/lawyer/boutrous-jr-theodore-j/"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">attorney Ted
Boutrous</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;
font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>to explain its views on the
science, while attorneys from ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, BP and
Shell sat in the courtroom but did not make a presentation. Alsup
gave those four companies two weeks to to provide a statement in
writing either agreeing with or refuting each point made in
Boutrous' presentation. "You can't get away with sitting there in
silence and then saying later, 'Oh, he [Boutrous] doesn't speak
for us,'" Alsup said.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">The plaintiffs
called on </span><a
href="http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/people/mallen.html"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Myles Allen</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">, head of the
Climate Dynamics group at the University of Oxford, whom Alsup
would call "a genius" by the end of the hearing;<span> </span></span><a
href="https://eps.ucsc.edu/faculty/Profiles/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=griggs"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Gary Griggs,</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>distinguished
professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the University of
California at Santa Cruz; and<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.atmos.illinois.edu/cms/One.aspx?siteId=127458&pageId=151986"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Dr. Don Wuebbles</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">, professor of
atmospheric science at the University of Illinois and lead author
of the IPCC's fourth scientific assessment report and a member of
the team who compiled the 2014 U.S. National Climate Assessment.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">After
announcing the acceptance of all amicus briefs (including<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/03/20/climate-denial-william-alsup-liability/"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">a controversial
brief<span> </span></span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;
font-weight: 400;">backed by the conservative Heartland
Institute), and noting that the U.S. government has been given
until April 20 to provide one, Alsup turned the floor over to the
plaintiffs. Allen started by walking through the history of
climate science, including the work of Nobel Prize-winning Swedish
physicist and chemist Svante August Arrhenius, who first theorized
that CO2 emissions would trigger atmospheric warming. He also
described Charles Keeling's observations in Hawaii, now known as
the Keeling Curve, which showed that the planet's rising CO2
levels couldn't just be attributed to human respiration.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Stopped
frequently by Alsup to explain a chart or a bit of jargon, Allen
made the case that science has successfully identified the sources
and impacts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for a very long
time and that scientific consensus emerged as early as the 1950s.
On this point, even Chevron's Boutrous agreed, despite spending
the majority of his two hours making the case that the science
around anthropogenic climate change and its impacts has been
uncertain up until the early 2000s. He agreed with Alsup that
despite some disagreements on Arrhenius's work in the 1930s and
1940s, by the early 1950s, there was consensus around the warming
effect of CO2. Boutrous said, "That's the theory that still holds
today," a statement that seemed to contradict his earlier
statements that there had been no consensus around warming until
2000.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Griggs
presented his findings on sea level rise, the science most
relevant to the case because most of the damages claimed by the
communities stem from seal level rise.<span> </span></span><a
href="https://news.ucsc.edu/2017/04/sea-level-report.html"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Griggs discussed
his work on sea level rise</span></a><span style="box-sizing:
inherit; font-weight: 400;">, how the rate is increasing and
related attribution science.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Boutrous tried
to counter his testimony by showing sea level rise projection
charts from the fifth IPCC assessment, calculated five or more
years ago. By leaving out the past five years, when global warming
has produced record-breaking global temperature records and
accelerated sea level rise, he attempted to leave the impression
of continued uncertainty in the science....<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/03/22/climate-tutorial-judge-alsup-chevron-liability/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/03/22/climate-tutorial-judge-alsup-chevron-liability/</a></font><br>
</span><br>
<br>
[Opinion; The Scotsman]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/ruth-davidson-real-conservatives-fight-climate-change-1-4709553">Ruth
Davidson: Real Conservatives fight climate change</a></b><br>
Too many centre-right politicians have dismissed environmentalism as
a left-wing cause, writes Ruth Davidson. "For generations, we have
assumed that the efforts of mankind would leave the fundamental
equilibrium of the world's systems and atmosphere stable. But it is
possible that with all these enormous changes – population,
agricultural, use of fossil fuels – concentrated in such a short
period of time, we have unwittingly begun a massive experiment with
the system of this planet itself."<br>
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So Mrs Thatcher's 30-year old message from history should also act
as a reminder to her successors – to those of us on the centre-right
today – that the cause of environmentalism is as urgent as ever, and
must be our cause too. Too often, the political right has dismissed
'green' issues as something which need only concern those on the
opposite side of the fence.<br>
- - - - - - -<br>
Conservatives must not allow the environmental cause to become
ghettoised only by professional environmentalists. Our job is to
make it a common cause for all. We can do so in a number of ways.<br>
Firstly, by respecting the science. Because the science is
unequivocal. Human activity is leading to a warming of the
atmosphere. Climate change is real. And with social media platforms
fanning the flames of conspiracies and lies, it is all the more
important to say it. And secondly, Conservatives need to show a lead
in tackling climate change and environmental damage at home.<br>
- - - - - - <br>
"The environmental challenge that confronts the whole world demands
an equivalent response from the whole world," declared Mrs Thatcher
before the UN in 1989. "Every country will be affected and no-one
can opt out. Those countries who are industrialised must contribute
more to help those who are not." Powerful words – and 30 years on,
they offer a challenge to those of us on the centre-right of
politics more than ever.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/ruth-davidson-real-conservatives-fight-climate-change-1-4709553">https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/ruth-davidson-real-conservatives-fight-climate-change-1-4709553</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Comics]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/dark-fang-climate-change-comics">"Dark
Fang": Climate Change Comics</a></b><br>
The series' latest installment has an ocean-loving vampire fighting
oil tycoons<br>
BY CARLY NAIRN | MAR 22 2018<br>
If art does indeed imitate life, it shouldn't be all that surprising
that today's comic books feature oil-suckers alongside
blood-suckers. Image Comics, the Portland-based publisher behind hit
titles including The Walking Dead and Saga, touts its Dark Fang
volumes as its "ecological action series." <br>
<blockquote>The first installment of the climate-change-centric
series, created by writer Miles Gunter and illustrator Kelsey
Shannon and released in November, introduced readers to Valla the
vampire, who was a fisherwoman prior to her transformation into
one among the undead. Once freed from the bounds of morality,
Valla moved to the dark depths of the ocean, which, when you think
about it, is probably prime real estate for vampires-they don't
need to breathe, they're never subjected to direct sunlight, they
can swim endlessly, and (this is probably the most important part)
no one is around to notice any of it. Dark Fang's fifth and latest
volume was released on Wednesday, wrapping up the series' first
story arc with a deus ex machina that will leave the reader
guessing until the next installment.<br>
</blockquote>
Dark Fang's ocean setting is a veritable wonderland for monsters.
It is also pristine, a refuge away from the chaos of human
interaction. In the third installment, Valla (un)lives it up under
the sea, cavorting with jellyfish and fighting with colossal squids,
until an oil spill wipes out the only place she dared to call home.
The oil is a menace harmful to everything it touches-even to Valla,
who can crush iPhones in the palm of her hand, or turn into a bat or
a shark whenever the mood strikes. Unable to stanch the seep, she
emerges from the sea to find out why humans destroy so
unremorsefully. <br>
<br>
On dry ground, Valla finds a world both inscrutable and yet easy to
manipulate. She becomes a cam girl; i.e., a lady who poses
lasciviously before live chat rooms, employing mind control to get
all her fans to fork over their life savings. She spends the first
millions to buy Dracula's castle and outfits the entire structure
with solar panels. She also finances solar panel fields nearby,
creating "the largest solar project on the planet" and providing
nearby Transylvanian communities with free energy. <br>
<br>
Once comfortable navigating the depraved landscape of human
existence, Valla starts hunting down the oil barons and government
officials responsible for the spill-who are somehow connected to
some strange Knights Templar-like characters-to exact her revenge,
but not before noticing a black stain slowly making its way up one
of her fangs. The origins of the stain are unknown for now (Is it
tainted blood? Is it oil?), but its presence, of course, gives the
series its title. <br>
<br>
Throughout Dark Fang's five volumes, endangered and extraordinary
species play an important role. Valla's bestie during sea life is a
great white shark. She wears a magical dress that makes her appear
not unlike an endangered Portuguese man o' war. A pair of white
lions make an appearance, and Valla briefly takes the form of a
polar bear. The animals act as representations for her rage, and her
empathy toward the natural world.<br>
<br>
Throughout Dark Fang's five volumes, endangered and extraordinary
species play an important role. Valla's bestie during sea life is a
great white shark.<br>
Shannon's artwork is the standout element of Dark Fang, mixing
ethereal waterscapes with some excellent, frenetic-feeling action
sequences that are reminiscent of beloved superheroes and classic
monster comics from childhood.<br>
<br>
It should come as no surprise that a series with so acute a
political message would come out of Image Comics. The publishing
house launched in 1992, expressly as an avenue through which
illustrators and creators could keep copyrights to their character
brainchildren. Beyond making artists happy, Image has since found
widespread success by helping to fuel our cultural fascination with
zombies (via The Walking Dead) and finding character-driven epics
that delve into the troubles of childrearing during a galactic war
with Saga. <br>
<br>
And perhaps, if the world is ready, Image Comics is poised to
further discussions around climate change-and how to act on it-with
Dark Fang. <br>
here it is <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://imagecomics.com/comics/releases/dark-fang-1">https://imagecomics.com/comics/releases/dark-fang-1</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/dark-fang-climate-change-comics">https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/dark-fang-climate-change-comics</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-pelley-and-catherine-herrick-on-global-warming-coverage/">This
Day in Climate History - March 23, 2006 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
March 23, 2006: In a CBSNews.com interview, "60 Minutes"<br>
correspondent Scott Pelley explains why he doesn't cite the views of<br>
climate-change deniers in his stories:<br>
<blockquote>"'If I do an interview with Elie Wiesel,' he asks, 'am I
required as a<br>
journalist to find a Holocaust denier?' He says his team tried
hard to<br>
find a respected scientist who contradicted the prevailing opinion
in<br>
the scientific community, but there was no one out there who fit
that<br>
description. 'This isn't about politics or pseudo-science or<br>
conspiracy theory blogs,' he says. 'This is about sound<br>
science...'There becomes a point in journalism where striving for<br>
balance becomes irresponsible.'"<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-pelley-and-catherine-herrick-on-global-warming-coverage/">http://www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-pelley-and-catherine-herrick-on-global-warming-coverage/</a><br>
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