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<font size="+1"><i>April 2, 2018</i></font><br>
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[Climate refugees]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/19/climate-change-soon-to-cause-mass-movement-world-bank-warns">Climate
change soon to cause movement of 140m people, World Bank warns</a></b><br>
Fiona Harvey, Environment correspondent<br>
Tens of millions in three regions of the developing world expected
to migrate before 2050 unless environment is improved<br>
Climate change will result in a massive movement of people inside
countries and across borders, creating "hotspots" where tens of
millions pour into already crowded slums, according to the World
Bank.<br>
More than 140 million people in just three regions of the developing
world are likely to migrate within their native countries between
now and 2050, the first report on the subject has found.<br>
The World Bank examined three regions, which between them account
for 55% of the developing world's population. In sub-Saharan Africa,
86 million are expected to be internally displaced over the period;
in south Asia, about 40 million; and in Latin America, 17 million.<br>
Such flows of people could cause enormous disruption, threatening
governance and economic and social development, but the World Bank
cautioned that it was still possible to stave off the worst effects.<br>
"Climate change-driven migration will be a reality, but it does not
need to be a crisis, provided we take action now and act boldly,"
said John Roome, a senior director for climate change at the World
Bank group.<br>
He laid out three key actions governments should take: first, to
accelerate their reductions of greenhouse gases; second, for
national governments to incorporate climate change migration into
their national development planning; and third, to invest in further
data and analysis for use in planning development...<br>
more at: <font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/19/climate-change-soon-to-cause-mass-movement-world-bank-warns">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/19/climate-change-soon-to-cause-mass-movement-world-bank-warns</a></font><br>
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<br>
[NYTime$]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/climate/united-nations-climate-change.html">Biggest
Threat to Humanity? Climate Change, UN Chief Says</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/climate/united-nations-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/climate/united-nations-climate-change.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Combined efforts by US Govt Agencies]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://feedthefuture.gov/about">About
Feed the Future</a></b><br>
The Global Food Security Act of 2016 strengthens Feed the Future's
existing accountability mechanisms and establishes parameters for
robust Congressional oversight, monitoring and evaluation of impact.<br>
<b>Country Partners</b><br>
The U.S. Government cannot do all things, do them well, and do them
everywhere. That's why we're striving for a meaningful, sustained
impact in more focused locations. We currently target efforts in 19
focus countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean.<br>
Our focus countries, in consultation with stakeholders, set
agricultural development and food security priorities in actionable,
comprehensive national development and investment plans. These plans
guide our investments and provide a foundation for our partner
countries to accelerate their progress toward achieving the
Sustainable Development Goals.<br>
<b>Government Agencies</b><br>
Led by the U.S. Agency for International Development, Feed the
Future draws on the agricultural, trade, investment, development and
policy resources and expertise of 11 federal agencies. We're putting
whole-of-government into practice. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://feedthefuture.gov/about">https://feedthefuture.gov/about</a><br>
- - - - - - <br>
U.S. Government Global Food Security Strategy (FY 2017-2021)<br>
October 1st, 2016<br>
This <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://feedthefuture.gov/sites/default/files/resource/files/USG_Global_Food_Security_Strategy_FY2017-21_0.pdf">Global
Food Security Strategy (pdf, 3.42mb)</a> presents an integrated
whole-of-government strategy and agency specific implementation
plans as required by the Global Food Security Act of 2016 (GFSA).
This strategy reflects the unique skills, resources, and lessons
learned from U.S. federal departments and agencies that contribute
to global food security, as well as input from partners throughout
the private sector, academic institutions, and civil society. It
charts a course for the U.S. Government to contribute to the
achievement of global food security and the range of Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs), together with partners across the globe.<br>
USG_Global_Food_Security_Strategy_FY2017-21.pdf<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://feedthefuture.gov/sites/default/files/resource/files/USG_Global_Food_Security_Strategy_FY2017-21_0.pdf">https://feedthefuture.gov/sites/default/files/resource/files/USG_Global_Food_Security_Strategy_FY2017-21_0.pdf</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://feedthefuture.gov/about">https://feedthefuture.gov/about</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Canada politics ] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/mckenna-has-no-time-for-climate-change-deniers-1.3865161">McKenna
has 'no time' for climate change deniers</a></b><br>
OTTAWA – Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says she has
"no time" for political adversaries who don't believe climate change
is real.<br>
During an interview with CTV Question Period host Evan Solomon,
McKenna smacked down critics of the Liberals' climate change plan
and price on carbon.<br>
"I have no time for folks who are like, you know, 'We shouldn't take
action,'" she said. "I don't have time for politicians that play
cynical games about climate action."<br>
Asked whether she viewed having time for people as part of her role
as a federally elected official, she said: "I have time for
Canadians who disagree with me, and I have conversations with them
all the time…. But I don't have time for politicians that pretend
that climate change isn't real."<br>
Saskatchewan is strongly opposed to the federal carbon tax, and both
Alberta United Conservative Leader Jason Kenney and Ontario
Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford have said they'd rail
against it if they become premier of their respective provinces.<br>
McKenna said she isn't worried about potential legal challenges to
the federal government's imposition of a per tonne price on
pollution should some provinces not put in place their own system by
Jan. 1, 2019.<br>
"They'll lose in court," she said, asserting that it is within the
federal jurisdiction to implement a carbon pricing system.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/mckenna-has-no-time-for-climate-change-deniers-1.3865161">https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/mckenna-has-no-time-for-climate-change-deniers-1.3865161</a></font><br>
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<br>
[CO = Carbon Monoxide]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/GlobalMaps/view.php?d1=MOP_CO_M">NASA
Earth Observatory Global Maps Carbon Monoxide</a></b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/globalmaps/data/mov/MOP_CO_M.mov">Download
an animation of this dataset</a><br>
Colorless, odorless, and poisonous, carbon monoxide is one of the
six major air pollutants regulated in the United States and in many
other nations around the world. When carbon-based fuels, such as
coal, wood, and oil, burn incompletely or inefficiently, they
produce carbon monoxide. The gas is spread by winds and circulation
patterns throughout the lower atmosphere (called the troposphere).<br>
These maps show monthly averages of global concentrations of
tropospheric carbon monoxide at an altitude of about 12,000 feet.
The data were collected by the MOPITT (Measurements Of Pollution In
The Troposphere) sensor on NASA's Terra satellite. Concentrations of
carbon monoxide are expressed in parts per billion by volume (ppbv).
A concentration of 1 ppbv means that for every billion molecules of
gas in the measured volume, one of them is a carbon monoxide
molecule. Yellow areas have little or no carbon monoxide, while
progressively higher concentrations are shown in orange and red.
Places where the sensor didn't collect data, perhaps due to clouds,
are gray.<br>
In different parts of the world and in different seasons, the
amounts and sources of atmospheric carbon monoxide change. In
Africa, for example, the seasonal shifts in carbon monoxide are tied
to the widespread agricultural burning that shifts north and south
of the equator with the seasons. Fires are an important source of
carbon monoxide pollution in other regions of the Southern
Hemisphere, such as the Amazon and Southeast Asia.<br>
In the United States, Europe, and eastern China, on the other hand,
the highest carbon monoxide concentrations occur around urban areas
as a result of vehicle and industrial emissions. Fires burning over
large areas in North America and Russia in some years can be an
important source. The MOPITT observations often show that pollution
emitted on one continent can travel across oceans to have a big
impact on air quality on other continents.<br>
Carbon monoxide is a trace gas in the atmosphere, and it does not
have a direct effect on the global temperature, like methane and
carbon dioxide do. However, carbon monoxide plays a major role in
atmospheric chemistry, and it affects the ability of the atmosphere
to cleanse itself of many other polluting gases. In combination with
other pollutants and sunshine, it also takes part in the formation
of lower-atmospheric ("bad") ozone and urban smog.<br>
View, download, or analyze more of these data from NASA Earth
Observations (NEO):<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=MOP_CO_M">Carbon
Monoxide</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/GlobalMaps/view.php?d1=MOP_CO_M">https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/GlobalMaps/view.php?d1=MOP_CO_M</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Opinions]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-dolsak-prakash-carbon-tax_us_5abe746ae4b055e50acd5c80">The
Climate Change Hypocrisy Of Jet-Setting Academics</a></b><br>
By Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash<br>
Recently, we witnessed a fascinating conversation among a few of our
professorial colleagues about their frequent flyer status on a
prominent airline. Two of them had achieved "Diamond" status ― the
very top of the priority boarding pecking order. They spoke the most
and were the loudest. The others, with either Platinum or Gold
frequent flyer medallions, also noted how "busy" they were with "all
this travel."<br>
The group casually mentioned the various benefits ― such as seating
upgrades and access to airport lounges ― that come with their
statuses, but the bragging was not really about those perks. It was
about importance and recognition. After all, only the most
successful academics fly around the world, attending conferences,
participating in workshops and giving lectures. Congratulations all
around!<br>
- - - - - -<br>
It was about importance and recognition. After all, only the most
successful academics fly around the world, attending conferences,
participating in workshops and giving lectures. Congratulations all
around!<br>
Also recently, 13 major universities launched the University Climate
Change Coalition, or UC3, which seeks to "<a
href="http://secondnature.org/uc3-coalition/">help local
communities achieve their climate goals and accelerate the
transition to a low-carbon future</a>." Several of these
institutions are also participating in the Climate Leadership
Network, a larger group of colleges and universities that have made
a commitment to "take action on climate and prepare students through
research and education to solve the challenges of the 21st century."
<br>
- - - - - - <br>
Perhaps teleconferencing would become more popular. Maybe over time
mega conferences with thousands of attendees would become less
attractive as decentralized networks for knowledge exchange emerged.
Instead of attending five major conferences every year, professors
might start attending only two or three. And they might start
looking for conferences within their time zones.<br>
Academics are capable of finding the answers to most complex
problems, including climate change. But their excellent research
will be less effective in changing public policy and popular culture
without their moral leadership. And moral authority comes when we
are willing to forgo valuable things to serve the public purpose.<br>
If there is an overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change
is influenced by human beings, then academics should personally do
something about it. Even if it means fewer conferences and less air
travel.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-dolsak-prakash-carbon-tax_us_5abe746ae4b055e50acd5c80">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-dolsak-prakash-carbon-tax_us_5abe746ae4b055e50acd5c80</a></font><br>
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<br>
[NoApp4that.org essay]<br>
<b><a href="http://noapp4that.org/">Technology and Morality in the
Age of Climate Change, Overpopulation, and Biodiversity Loss</a></b><br>
Richard Heinberg - August 8, 2017<br>
Technology has grown with us, side by side, since the dawn of human
society. Each time that we've turned to technology to solve a
problem or make us more comfortable, we've been granted a solution.
But it turns out that all of the gifts technology has bestowed on us
have come with costs. And now we are facing some of our biggest
challenges: climate change, overpopulation, and biodiversity loss.
Naturally, we've turned to our longtime friend and
ally-technology-to get us out of this mess. But are we asking too
much this time?<br>
- [<a href="http://noapp4that.org/#">Download the report</a> 79
pages] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://noapp4that.org/#">http://noapp4that.org/#</a> Or
read online <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://noapp4that.org/#">http://noapp4that.org/#</a><br>
But here's the thing. Technology isn't saving us from climate
change, overpopulation, or collapsing biodiversity.[8] While
solutions have been proposed, some of which are technically viable,
our problems are actually getting worse rather than going away,
despite the existence of these "solutions." Greenhouse gas
concentrations in the atmosphere are rising. World population is
growing more, in net numbers annually (85 million), than the entire
populations of most countries. And more species are disappearing
every year.<br>
Video <a href="https://youtu.be/ALugeRQbXAM">Hello Humanity, it's
me, Technology. We need to talk </a> <br>
Technology has grown with us, side by side, since the dawn of human
society. But all the gifts it has bestowed have come with costs. And
now, are we asking too much of technology?<font size="-1"> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/ALugeRQbXAM">https://youtu.be/ALugeRQbXAM</a><br>
</font>[Outline content]<font size="-1"><br>
</font><b>Three make-or-break problems confronting humanity</b><font
size="-1"><br>
</font>1. Climate Change <br>
2. Overpopulation <br>
3. Vanishing Biodiversity<br>
<b>Everybody's favorite techno-solutions</b><br>
Alternative Energy<br>
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)<br>
Electric self-driving cars and Transportation-as-a-Service (TaaS)<br>
Solar radiation geo-engineering<br>
Agricultural biotechnology<br>
Genetic re-constitution of extinct species<br>
<b>Our problems are growing faster than the solutions</b><b><br>
</b>
<blockquote>The only reason policy makers are seriously discussing
extreme technologies like CCS and geo-engineering… is that the
project of shifting to alternative energy sources while
maintaining economic growth is so daunting.<br>
<br>
There's a common thread here. The most promising solutions with
the fewest likely negative side effects... require the most from
us in terms of changes in behavior and in systems... That is, in
effect, they imply moral intervention.<br>
</blockquote>
<b>The inequality problem</b><b>..<br>
</b>...<b><br>
</b><b>Why we rely on technology so much, in imagination as in daily
life...</b><br>
...<b><br>
</b><b>Denying limits leads to moral atrophy-and catastrophe<br>
</b>
<blockquote>Technology assumed the guise of an all-purpose genie to
which we could appeal in order to evade uncomfortable moral and
philosophical questions about limits, questions whose only genuine
answers entail-as they always have-negotiation, behavior change,
and willingness to give up some degree of power and advantage.<b><br>
</b></blockquote>
<b>What we must do<br>
</b>
<blockquote>A reinvigorated and refined moral message is needed to
confront a new reality. Whereas environmentalists at first merely
issued warnings of eventual consequences, we now see consequences
at our doorstep...</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://noapp4that.org/#">http://noapp4that.org/#</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Hilarity - Lewis Black on Climate Change - best, succinct rant
ever]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="Back%20in%20Black%20-%20Osama%20bin%20Laden%27s%20Last%20Wishes:%20The%20Daily%20Show">Back
in Black - Osama bin Laden's Last Wishes: The Daily Show</a><br>
Lewis Black rant on climate change<br>
</b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/tFjih_o2UT8?t=4m5s">https://youtu.be/tFjih_o2UT8?t=4m5s</a><br>
- - - - - -<br>
[Humor Lewis Black]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYwSGiowEzs">11/15/14
Climate Change</a></b><br>
Lewis Black<br>
Published on Nov 20, 2014<br>
Lew takes a couple of questions from the San Antonio audience about
climate change.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYwSGiowEzs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYwSGiowEzs</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/2001/04/09/climate.html">This
Day in Climate History - April 2, 2001</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
April 2, 2001: CNN.com reports on the backlash to the George W. Bush
administration's decision to reject the Kyoto Protocol:<br>
<blockquote>"With the U.S. essentially sidelining itself in the
global-warming fight, it is possible that the battle may never be
effectively engaged. What's causing the most distress among
environmentalists is that all this comes at a time when many other
pieces of the global-warming solution seemed to be falling into
place. In the U.S., state and local governments have been
increasingly active in implementing greenhouse programs of their
own, clamping down on emissions within their borders, stepping up
mass-transit initiatives and enforcing conservation laws.
Corporations in such sooty industries as oil and autos have been
climbing on board too, imposing on themselves the very
restrictions Washington won't. Outside the U.S., green-leaning
developed nations like the E.U. members and emerging polluters
like China and Mexico have seemed to be getting the message,
implementing new programs and testing new technologies to control
global warming, even without the cudgel of Kyoto.<br>
<br>
"What was needed to complete the picture was a vigorously engaged
U.S. to control its own titanic greenhouse output and help get
Kyoto enacted. The developments of the past few weeks cast doubt
on whether that will happen, and for now, other nations may have
to go it alone. 'The science is so much more solid that humans are
not going to sit by and foul their own nests,' says Fred Krupp,
executive director of the advocacy group Environmental Defense.
'We have to do something now.'"<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/2001/04/09/climate.html">http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/2001/04/09/climate.html</a><br>
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