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<font size="+1"><i>April 6, 2018</i></font><br>
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[updated chart of climate cases]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://climatecasechart.com/">Climate
Change Litigation Databases</a></b><br>
This site provides two databases of climate change case law. <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatecasechart.com/us-climate-change-litigation/">U.S.
CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION</a></b> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatecasechart.com/us-climate-change-litigation/">http://climatecasechart.com/us-climate-change-litigation/</a><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatecasechart.com/non-us-climate-change-litigation/">NON-U.S.
CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION</a></b> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatecasechart.com/non-us-climate-change-litigation/">http://climatecasechart.com/non-us-climate-change-litigation/</a><br>
Cases in the databases are organized by type of claim and are
searchable. In many cases, links are available to decisions,
complaints, and other case documents.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatecasechart.com/">http://climatecasechart.com/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Methane in the courts]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://westernlaw.org/groups-appeal-court-stay-blm-methane-waste-rule/">Groups
appeal court stay of BLM methane waste rule</a></b><br>
Conservation groups today appealed a federal District Court judge in
Wyoming's stay of 2016 methane waste rule implementation. The 2016
rule compels oil and gas companies operating on public lands to take
reasonable measures to prevent the waste of methane, the primary
ingredient of natural gas that, when wasted to the atmosphere,
degrades air quality and, as a greenhouse gas over 80 times more
potent than carbon dioxide, harms our climate.<br>
The 2016 rule, having gone through a reasoned and informed process,
benefits public health, taxpayers, the climate, and air quality.
Today's decision, in acceding to the Trump administration's rollback
of health and environmental protections, places the interests of
billion-dollar corporations ahead of everyday Americans.<br>
<blockquote>The BLM methane waste rule was developed and adopted to
address:<br>
<b>Waste: </b>According to Interior, in 2014, oil and gas
companies wasted more than 4 percent of the natural gas they
produced on federal lands, sufficient gas to supply nearly 1.5
million households with gas for a year.<br>
<b>Public health:</b> Methane released by the oil and gas industry
comes packaged with other toxic pollutants— benzene, toluene,
ethylbenzene, xylene — and smog-forming volatile organic
compounds.<br>
<b>Climate: </b>Methane is a greenhouse gas 87 times more potent
than carbon dioxide during the time it remains in the atmosphere.<br>
<b>Taxpayers:</b> The BLM methane waste rule would earn taxpayers
about $800 million in royalties on publicly owned methane
resources over the next decade. Since 1980, lax provisions have
resulted in BLM rubber-stamping industry requests to vent and
flare natural gas and to avoid paying royalties. The U.S.
Government Accountability Office estimates lost royalties at
nearly $23 million annually under the antiquated regime. <br>
</blockquote>
"The 2016 rule was, and remains, absolutely necessary to battle the
wasteful oil and gas practices on public lands," said Darin
Schroeder, associate attorney at Clean Air Task Force. "We will
continue our efforts to make sure that the 2016 rule is fully
effective."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://westernlaw.org/groups-appeal-court-stay-blm-methane-waste-rule/">https://westernlaw.org/groups-appeal-court-stay-blm-methane-waste-rule/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[What the hell? Shell - knew. Now we can too]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ciel.org/news/crackintheshell/">Internal
Documents Shed New Light on Shell's Role in the Climate Crisis</a></b><br>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br>
April 5, 2018<br>
Washington, DC - CIEL's analysis of a massive new trove of Shell
internal documents unearthed by Dutch journalist Jelmer Mommers
shows the global oil giant understood and acted on climate science
while publicly sowing doubt as to its validity and fighting its
regulation. The analysis, A Crack in the Shell: New Documents Expose
a Hidden Climate History, details a troubling pattern in Shell's
behavior: making declarations about the dangers of climate change
while working with other companies to oppose climate action,
including by spreading misinformation, then leaving after the damage
has already been done.<br>
<br>
These new documents fill in missing pieces of a story that begins no
later than 1958 and spans decades, continents, and an array of
disciplines. They demonstrate that Shell had at its disposal both
profound scientific expertise in relevant disciplines and the
resources to deploy that expertise to profoundly shape long-term
trajectories for both the company itself and the world as a whole.<br>
<br>
"With Shell facing litigation and investigation in a growing number
of jurisdictions, from US courts to human rights bodies in the
Philippines, these new documents come at a critical juncture," says
Steven Feit, a CIEL attorney and lead author of the report. A
confidential 1988 report called The Greenhouse Effect, a key
document in the trove, not only acknowledged the robustness of the
scientific evidence of climate change and Shell's own significant
role in the problem, but noted that waiting for full scientific
certainty on climate change could mean needed action would be too
late.<br>
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"Shell has flown below the radar in part because it has been talking
a big game on climate for a long time," says Feit. "But these
documents reveal a more complicated history: While Shell has been
promising to take action, it has always been deliberately
perpetuating a carbon-based energy mix. Shell's new Sky Scenario is
more of the same: the model sets out a vision to meet Paris goals,
while the company acknowledges that it has no intent to pursue that
vision."<br>
<br>
"This trove of documents is significant not just for what it
contains, but also for what it portends for future investigations,"
says report co-author and CIEL President Carroll Muffett.
"Information breeds new information—names, dates, connections. Just
as the disclosure of Exxon documents has informed and fueled new
investigations into that company's conduct, these Shell documents
herald a potential step change in the speed and scale of future
revelations. Those revelations didn't end with ExxonMobil, and
they're unlikely to end with Shell."<br>
Read the report:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/A-Crack-in-the-Shell_April-2018.pdf">http://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/A-Crack-in-the-Shell_April-2018.pdf</a><br>
more at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ciel.org/news/crackintheshell/">http://www.ciel.org/news/crackintheshell/</a><br>
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<b>"However, by the time the global warming becomes detectable it
could be too late to take effective countermeasures to reduce the
effects or even to stabilize the situation." </b>(<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4411090-Document3.html#document/p4/a415539">Link </a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4411090-Document3.html#document/p4/a415539">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4411090-Document3.html#document/p4/a415539</a>
)<br>
...<br>
Our post with an index<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climateinvestigations.org/shell-oil-climate-documents-revealed/">http://climateinvestigations.org/shell-oil-climate-documents-revealed/</a><br>
...<br>
The whole collection is hosted on our site ClimateFiles<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatefiles.com/page/3/?s=Shell">http://www.climatefiles.com/page/3/?s=Shell</a><br>
...<br>
DeSmogUK post<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/04/04/internal-shell-oil-climate-documents-revealed">https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/04/04/internal-shell-oil-climate-documents-revealed</a><br>
...<br>
Three US online stories so far:<br>
Inside Climate News<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05042018/shell-knew-scientists-climate-change-risks-fossil-fuels-global-warming-company-documents-netherlands-lawsuits">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05042018/shell-knew-scientists-climate-change-risks-fossil-fuels-global-warming-company-documents-netherlands-lawsuits</a><br>
...<br>
ClimateWire<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2018/04/05/stories/1060078213">https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2018/04/05/stories/1060078213</a><br>
...<br>
Climate Liability News<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/04/05/shell-knew-climate-change-liability/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/04/05/shell-knew-climate-change-liability/</a><br>
...<br>
<font size="-1">more at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ciel.org/news/crackintheshell/">http://www.ciel.org/news/crackintheshell/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Climate Liability News]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/04/05/climate-change-oil-companies-knew-shell-exxon/">What
Oil Companies Knew About Climate Change and When: A Timeline</a></b><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">By Ucilia Wang<br>
Here is a timeline that shows internal research and discussions by
some of the biggest oil companies over the past 40 years and how
their public statements and campaigns often included very
different messages. It begins to draw the picture of what the
fossil fuel industry knew about climate change and when and how it
contrasted with their public stance:</span><br>
<b style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">July 1977:</b><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>James
Black, a scientist at Exxon, told the company's top management
that scientific evidence showed burning fossil fuels was causing
climate change.</span><br>
<b style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">May 1981:</b><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>In a
paper written for Exxon's head of research, the company scientist
Henry Shaw estimated that global temperatures will increase by 3
degrees Celsius with the doubling of the carbon dioxide emissions
in the atmosphere, which could cause catastrophic impacts as early
as the first half of the 21st century.</span><br>
<b style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">November 1982:</b><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>Exxon
distributed a paper internally on climate change that advised
"major reductions in fossil fuel combustion" for limiting global
warming.</span><br>
<b style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">June 1988:<span> </span></b><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">James Hansen, a
NASA scientist, testified during a congressional hearing that
human activities were causing global warming. It was the first
major public warning of a looming climate crisis.</span><br>
<b style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">1988:</b><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>Shell
prepared an internal report called "The Greenhouse Effect" that
analyzed the impacts of climate change. It noted that fossil fuel
burning was driving climate change and quantified the carbon
emissions from its products (oil, gas, coal) made up 4 percent of
global emissions in 1984.</span><br>
<b style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">1989:</b><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>In a
move to coordinate a public response to the growing attention on
climate change, a group of big businesses, including Exxon, BP and
Shell, formed the<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Global_Climate_Coalition"
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;">Global Climate
Coalition</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;
font-weight: 400;">. It set out to<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.climatefiles.com/denial-groups/heartland-institute/global-climate-coalition-draft-primer-for-ipcc-2nd-assessment/"
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;">cast doubt on
climate science</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;
font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>and lobby against efforts to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions.</span><br>
<b style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">February 1995:</b><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>An
internal report by Shell warned that fossil fuel burning was the
main source of manmade emissions that was driving global warming,
and this fact "could have major business implications for the
fossil fuel industry."</span><br>
<b style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">1991:<span> </span></b><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">A 30-minute</span><a
href="https://thecorrespondent.com/6286/if-shell-knew-climate-change-was-dire-25-years-ago-why-still-business-as-usual-today/692773774-4d15b476"
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;"><span> </span>video</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>produced
by Shell<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VOWi8oVXmo"
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;">included</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>dire
predictions and images of fires, floods and food shortages. A
narrator included this ominous warning: "Global warming is not yet
certain, but many think that to wait for final proof would be
irresponsible. Action now is seen as the only safe insurance."</span><br>
<b style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">1996:</b><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>Exxon
solidified its public stance on dealing with climate change when
chief executive Lee Raymond<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.climatefiles.com/exxonmobil/1996-exxon-lee-raymond-climate-change-dont-ignore-the-facts/"
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;">wrote an article
for a company publication</span></a><span style="box-sizing:
inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>saying that scientific
evidence was "inconclusive" on whether humans were contributing to
climate change.</span><br>
<b style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">1997:</b><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>Exxon
took out<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/exxon-mobil-lied-about-climate-change/"
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;">an ad in the New
York Times</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;
font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>that was titled, "Reset the
Alarm," which said:<span> </span></span><span style="box-sizing:
inherit; font-weight: 400;">"Let's face it: The science of climate
change is too uncertain to mandate a plan of action that could
plunge economies into turmoil." It also read, "We still don't
know what role man-made greenhouse gases might play in warming the
planet."</span><br>
<b style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">1998:</b><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>In a
speech to employees, Lucio Noto, chief executive of Mobil Oil
(before its merger with Exxon) told employees who were apparently
were upset about "what they think is Mobil's negative attitude on
the Kyoto so-called climate agreement." His speech was<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/04/03/mobil-climate-change-lucio-noto/"
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;">captured on video</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">. He said while
there's a connection between greenhouse gases and climate change,
"we are also not prepared to admit that the science is a closed
fact, and that we should take draconian steps tomorrow to reduce
CO2 gases." He also said the company should try to reduce its
operational emissions as well as those produced by customers.</span><br>
<b style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">1998:<span> </span></b><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"> Shell produced a
document called the<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4430277-27-1-Compiled.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;">Shell Internal
TINA Group Scenarios 1998-2020 Report</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">, which included
modeling a future that included oil companies and governments
being held liable for climate impacts. Its scenario eerily
described the U.S. being hit with fierce storms in 2010, followed
by activist groups initiating legal liability cases. (In reality,
the biggest storm him the East Coast in 2012—Superstorm Sandy—and
liability cases began to stir after that.)</span><br>
<b style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">2009:</b><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>In a
filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Exxon
acknowledged that humans were causing climate change.</span><br>
<b style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">2013:</b><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>A
study by Richard Heede published in the journal<span> </span></span><i
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;"><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Climatic Change</span></i><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>showed
that<span> </span></span><a
href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-013-0986-y"
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;">90 companies</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>are
responsible for two-thirds of the carbon emissions since the start
of the industrial age in the mid-18th century.</span><br>
<b style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">August 2017:</b><span> </span><a
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/08/23/exxon-climate-science-naomi-oreskes/"
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 Harvard study</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>that
analyzed Exxon's internal papers and public statements and
campaigns showed the company misled the public about what it knew
about the risk of climate change. The peer-reviewed study
concluded that Exxon emphasized doubts about the scientific
evidence that blamed fossil fuel burning for global warming when
communicating with the public while acknowledging the issue more
forthrightly in internal communications.</span><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/04/05/climate-change-oil-companies-knew-shell-exxon/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/04/05/climate-change-oil-companies-knew-shell-exxon/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[John Cook]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/apr/05/american-conservatives-are-still-clueless-about-the-97-expert-climate-consensus">American
conservatives are still clueless about the 97% expert climate
consensus</a></b><br>
Now there's a handbook for that<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/apr/05/american-conservatives-are-still-clueless-about-the-97-expert-climate-consensus">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/apr/05/american-conservatives-are-still-clueless-about-the-97-expert-climate-consensus</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[IEA = International Energy Agency]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/05/iea-accused-of-undermining-global-shift-from-fossil-fuels">IEA
accused of undermining global shift from fossil fuels</a></b><br>
Highly critical study warns projections used by the organisation
tasked with leading the switch to clean energy remain skewed towards
oil and gas and may break climate targets of Paris agreement<br>
The global shift from fossil fuels to renewables is being undermined
by the very organisation that ought to be leading the charge,
according to a scathing new critique of the International<span> </span><span
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;" class="u-underline">Energy</span><span> </span>Agency
(IEA).<br>
Governments across the world rely on IEA projections to set energy
policies, but the agency's figures - which are influenced by the oil
industry - are pushing them off track to reach the targets of the<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/paris-climate-agreement"
data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag"
class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action:
manipulation; color: rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer;
text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid
rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Paris
climate agreement</a>, says the report.<br>
The study, released on Thursday by research and advocacy NGO<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/oil"
data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag"
class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action:
manipulation; color: rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer;
text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid
rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Oil</a><span> </span>Change
International, claims the agency's investment projections remain
massively skewed towards oil and gas, effectively encouraging
governments to overshoot emissions targets and worsen climate
damage...<br>
Under the most prominent and widely used of the IEA's pathways - the
"new policy scenario" - the world's carbon budget for 1.5C would be
exhausted by 2022, and for 2C by 2034, the report calculates. Even
its most ambitious outlook - the "sustainable development scenario"
- would bust the 2C budget by 2040, even though it assumes the
deployment of as yet untried to extract carbon emissions from the
atmosphere, it says.<br>
"The IEA provides an energy roadmap that is supposed to lead us to
safety, but in fact it takes us over the cliff," says Greg Muttitt,
research director at Oil Change International. "Any government or
financial institution that uses these scenarios as a basis for
investments in oil and gas is getting seriously bad information.
It's shocking how far off the Paris agreement they are."...<br>
more at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/05/iea-accused-of-undermining-global-shift-from-fossil-fuels">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/05/iea-accused-of-undermining-global-shift-from-fossil-fuels</a><br>
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[DeSmog]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.desmog.uk/2018/04/04/international-energy-agency-undermining-efforts-climate-change-through-scenarios-inconsistent-paris-agreement">International
Energy Agency 'Undermining Efforts on Climate Change' through
Scenarios Inconsistent with Paris Agreement</a></b><br>
By Chloe Farand • Wednesday, April 4, 2018<br>
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is "undermining efforts on
climate change" by guiding governments towards energy decisions that
are inconsistent with the Paris Agreement goals, new research
suggests.<br>
...<br>
But according to Oil Change International's analysis, these
scenarios are inconsistent with the Paris Agreement goals. The
report highlights two specific examples: the Sustainable Development
Scenario and the New Policies Scenario.<br>
According to the research, the IEA's Sustainable Development
Scenario would use up the world's carbon budget to limit global
temperature rise to 1.5 degrees by 2023 and exhaust the two degree
carbon budget by 2040.<br>
Similarly, Oil Change International claims that the IEA's most
widely promoted scenario, the New Policies Scenario, would burn
enough fossil fuels to use up the world's carbon budget even sooner
- respectively exhausting the two degrees target budget by 2034 and
that for 1.5 degrees by 2022...<br>
...<br>
The "damaging" impact of the IEA's scenarios is exacerbated by the
way the organisation uses its far-reaching communication channels,
the report argues.<br>
According to the analysis, the IEA devotes about 80 percent of its
communication efforts, including through its flagship annual
publication World Energy Outlook (WEO), to promote its
business-as-usual New Policies Scenarios.<br>
Co-author Muttitt pointed to the extensive influence the fossil fuel
yields over the WEO.<br>
According to the report, <a
href="https://www.iea.org/media/about/Brochure_IEA_StaffonLoan_2015.pdf">at
least two of last year's WEO authors</a> were on secondment from
Shell with the oil company still paying their salaries.<br>
Muttitt added that other people who had previously worked for oil
companies had been involved in writing the WEO but he was unable to
confirm whether they were on secondment...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmog.uk/2018/04/04/international-energy-agency-undermining-efforts-climate-change-through-scenarios-inconsistent-paris-agreement">https://www.desmog.uk/2018/04/04/international-energy-agency-undermining-efforts-climate-change-through-scenarios-inconsistent-paris-agreement</a></font><br>
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<br>
[higher is cooler]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180404133513.htm">Increase
of plant species on mountain tops is accelerating with global
warming</a></b><br>
Over the past 10 years, the number of plant species on European
mountain tops has increased by five-times more than during the
period 1957-66. Data on 302 European peaks covering 145 years shows
that the acceleration in the number of mountain-top species is
unequivocally linked to global warming.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180404133513.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180404133513.htm</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Gavin Schmidt video lectures - despite a head-cold]<br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C89_Cr-oVTM">What Are
Climate Models Good For?</a></b><br>
University of California Television (UCTV)<br>
Published on Apr 3, 2018<br>
(Visit: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.uctv.tv/">http://www.uctv.tv/</a>)
The earth's climate is dynamic and complex. Large changes in climate
are recorded in ice cores, ocean mud and over the last two
centuries, instrumental records. However, to understand the large
scale patterns in climate and their changes and drivers, climate
models are not only useful, but increasingly necessary to make
skillful predictions for the future. Though critically important,
understanding the role of climate models is often misunderstood or
distorted. Climate scientist Gavin Schmidt discusses how climate
models are not only useful, but increasingly necessary. <br>
Recorded on 01/10/2018. <br>
Series: "Bren School of Environmental Science & Management"
[4/2018] [Show ID: 33355]<br>
<i>"That was probably one of the better layperson's talks I've
watched in a long time" - T.N.</i><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C89_Cr-oVTM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C89_Cr-oVTM</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2011/04/07/gop_bid_to_keep_epa_from_regulating_greenhouse_gases_fails/">This
Day in Climate History - April 6, 2011</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
April 6, 2011: An effort by Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and
James Inhofe (R-OK) to eliminate the EPA's ability to regulate
greenhouse gas emissions fails in a 50-50 vote. Four Democratic
senators support the McConnell-Inhofe effort; only one Republican
(Sen. Susan Collins of Maine) opposes it.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2011/04/07/gop_bid_to_keep_epa_from_regulating_greenhouse_gases_fails/">http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2011/04/07/gop_bid_to_keep_epa_from_regulating_greenhouse_gases_fails/</a></font><br>
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