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<font size="+1"><i>April 26, 2018</i></font><br>
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[Courageous TV broadcaster discussing climate change ]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCvRy3bhdSY">Gulf Stream
slowing down, researchers say</a></b><br>
10News WTSP (video)<br>
Published on Apr 12, 2018<br>
The change, if true, has major implications for our climate.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCvRy3bhdSY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCvRy3bhdSY</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Solar future is bright]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/graphics/falling-residential-solar-costs">Falling
Residential Solar Costs</a></b><br>
The cost of solar has dropped dramatically in recent years. Even
including installation and hardware, the cost of residential solar
energy has been <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2017/nrel-report-utility-scale-solar-pv-system-cost-fell-last-year.html">cut
in half since the start of the decade</a>. Utility and commercial
scale solar is <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2017/nrel-report-utility-scale-solar-pv-system-cost-fell-last-year.html">even
less expensive</a>.<br>
Job growth in solar is soaring, with more than 370,000 Americans
working in the solar energy industry, an <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/01/f34/2017%20US%20Energy%20and%20Jobs%20Report_0.pdf">increase
of 300 percent</a> since 2012. Correspondingly, the total amount
of solar generated in the U.S. has skyrocketed over the last decade
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.energy.gov/articles/energy-department-announces-achievement-sunshot-goal-new-focus-solar-energy-office">from
1.1 gigawatts in 2007 to 47.1 gigawatts last year.</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/graphics/falling-residential-solar-costs">http://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/graphics/falling-residential-solar-costs</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Video - Cleaning up one big beach]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/JtGsdiYdObQ">The
Man Clearing 9,000 Tons of Trash From Mumbai's Beaches</a></b><br>
Great Big Story Published on Jan 23, 2018<br>
Over three years ago, Versova beach in Mumbai was little more than a
dumping ground for garbage and waste. After witnessing the
devastating impact the refuse was having on the ocean, Afroz Shah
decided to take matters into his own hands. What started off as a
single man's mission to clean up his favorite childhood beach turned
into the world's largest beach cleanup initiative. As of today, Shah
and hundreds of volunteers have cleaned up over nine million
kilograms of plastic and waste, with hopes to expand their
initiative to other beaches in the future. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/JtGsdiYdObQ">https://youtu.be/JtGsdiYdObQ</a></font><br>
[impressive]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://getenergysmartnow.com/2018/04/24/individuals-can-change-world-mumbai-man-drives-beach-clean-ups-species-return/">Individuals
can change world: Mumbai man drives beach clean ups, species
return</a></b><br>
April 24th, 2018 <br>
To live in interesting times … we face the cursed reality that we
live in a highly interesting time. Tremendous technology advances
both create opportunity and threaten us. Communications leaps
forward enable humans to have incalculable amounts of information at
our finger tips while also enabling/facilitating the Putin's
interference in other nations' democracies and elections. Humans are
developing technologies and means to improve lives while reducing
environmental impacts even as humanity is increasing greenhouse gas
emissions and worsening climate catastrophe risks and impacts.<br>
- - - - - <br>
Amid all this, we need heroes - whether they are the neighbor who
organizes a great youth volleyball program or are voting rights
advocates fighting for free electionsor medical researchers
discovering disease cures or entrepreneurs delivering innovative
means to accelerate clean energy penetration to address energy
poverty - and we need to recognize them.<br>
This post is to share a new hero to me - someone who dedicated much
of his own time and motivated others to join him in fighting
pollution. And, well, has shown a remarkable success.<br>
- - - -<br>
He dedicated not just time, but also resources - roughly 25 percent
of his income has gone to beach clean up. He has been paying for
excavator, trucks to haul away trash, and other tools for helping
clean up the beach. To give an idea of the scale of this effort: on
any given weekend, there might be 20 tractor loads (two tons each)
hauled away.<br>
In a functioning governance, Shah's efforts wouldn't have been
necessary - but the local government, despite have resources and
equipment, would not act and so he did. And, his actions inspired
others to volunteer with him … and their collective efforts help
sparked the local government to join in what UN officials have
called "the world's largest beach clean up."<br>
May Shah's actions inspire others and spark action to take measures
to address humanity's damages to the ecosystem that menace not just
turtles but ourselves.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://getenergysmartnow.com/2018/04/24/individuals-can-change-world-mumbai-man-drives-beach-clean-ups-species-return/">http://getenergysmartnow.com/2018/04/24/individuals-can-change-world-mumbai-man-drives-beach-clean-ups-species-return/</a></font><br>
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[now, by contrast. 45 categories of trash]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS9uhASKyjA">Japan's Town
With No Waste</a></b><br>
Video 4 minutes <br>
Published on Dec 20, 2017<br>
The village of Kamikatsu in Japan has taken their commitment to
sustainability to a new level. While the rest of the country has a
recycling rate of around 20 percent, Kamikatsu surpasses its
neighbors with a staggering 80 percent. After becoming aware of the
dangers of carbon monoxide associated with burning garbage, the town
instated the Zero Waste Declaration with the goal of being
completely waste-free by 2020. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS9uhASKyjA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS9uhASKyjA</a></font><br>
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<br>
[New periodical]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/journal/anc">Introducing
Anthropocene Coasts </a></b><br>
Anthropocene Coasts is a multidisciplinary international journal
that brings together diverse fields of study to tackle complex
issues related to coastal regions in the Anthropocene.<br>
<blockquote>Human economic activities are increasingly concentrated
on the estuarine and coastal regions of the world. Natural
resources are being utilized to an unprecedented extent.
Reclamation is carried out to obtain more land, huge ports and
harbours are built to meet the requirement of maritime and inland
transportation, and large cities occupy the shoreline. Artificial
materials, from pesticides to micro-plastic particles, are
discharged in large quantities into the coastal ocean from urban
areas and river basins. Coastal ecosystems are either squeezed
into spaces that are inadequate to support healthy habitats, or
are being threatened by a number of factors, ranging from exotic
organism invasion, to degenerating environmental conditions. Our
towns and cities, especially those on low-lying coasts are exposed
to increasingly severe hazards due to storm surges, extreme
weather, and the combined effect of climate change and
human-induced modification to the coastal landforms. Nowadays,
anthropogenic processes dominate over many of the natural
processes that used to shape our coastal regions.<br>
<br>
As such, more rigorous scientific research is required to provide
the solutions to various problems that are emerging on shorelines
around the world. In the long run, the research will lead to a new
blueprint for the coasts of the future, and guide actions to
increase the resilience of coastal communities.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/journal/anc">http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/journal/anc</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full/10.1139/anc-2017-0006#.WuCpsW7RVpg">http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full/10.1139/anc-2017-0006#.WuCpsW7RVpg</a><br>
</font>- - - -<br>
[first article in Anthropocene Coasts]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/anc-2017-0001#.WuCqDG7RVpg">Coastal
wetland loss, consequences, and challenges for restoration</a></b><br>
<blockquote>ABSTRACT<br>
Coastal wetlands mainly include ecosystems of mangroves, coral
reefs, salt marsh, and sea grass beds. As the buffer zone between
land and sea, they are frequently threatened from both sides. The
world coastal wetland lost more than 50% of its area in the 20th
century, largely before their great value, such as wave
attenuation, erosion control, biodiversity support, and carbon
sequestration, was fully recognized. World wetland loss and
degradation was accelerated in the last three decades, caused by
both anthropogenic and natural factors, such as land reclamation,
aquaculture, urbanization, harbor and navigation channel
construction, decreased sediment input from the catchments, sea
level rise, and erosion. Aquaculture is one of the key
destinations of coastal wetland transformation. Profound
consequences have been caused by coastal wetland loss, such as
habitat loss for wild species, CO2 and N2O emission from land
reclamation and aquaculture, and flooding. Great efforts have been
made to restore coastal wetlands, but challenges remain due to
lack of knowledge about interactions between vegetation and
morphological dynamics. Compromise among the different
functionalities remains a challenge during restoration of coastal
wetlands, especially when faced with highly profitable coastal
land use. To solve the problem, multi-disciplinary efforts are
needed from physio-chemical–biological monitoring to modelling,
designing, and restoring practices with site-specific knowledge.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/anc-2017-0001#.WuCqDG7RVpg">http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/anc-2017-0001#.WuCqDG7RVpg</a><br>
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</font><br>
[dangerous misdirection]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24042018/pruitt-secret-science-evidence-pollution-health-disease-studies-epa-rule-ban">Pruitt
Announces Secret Science Rule Blocking Use of Crucial Health
Research</a></b><br>
The regulation would prevent EPA's use of studies that promised
subjects confidentiality, including pollution research. It mirrors a
bill Congress refused to pass.<br>
Sabrina Shankman<br>
BY SABRINA SHANKMAN<br>
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a new
regulation on Tuesday to restrict the types of scientific evidence
that can be used in writing EPA rules. Scientists and health
organizations say the move could rule out the use of major health
studies that support clean air and water regulations and that
promised the participants confidentiality.<br>
Scott Pruitt's proposal would only allow the EPA to use studies
where the underlying data is made public. Internal documents show
how the rule is the culmination of a years-long effort led by
Republican Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, chairman of the House Science
Committee, and other industry-aligned politicians and political
appointees.<br>
Critics of the policy change say any claims that it's being done in
the name of transparency are red herrings.<br>
"In reality, these are phony issues that weaponize 'transparency' to
facilitate political interference in science-based decision making,
rather than genuinely address either," a group of nearly 1,000
scientists wrote in a letter to Pruitt on Monday. "The result will
be policies and practices that will ignore significant risks to the
health of every American."<br>
The <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-pruitt-proposes-rule-strengthen-science-used-epa-regulations">proposal
</a>will be published for public comment, which the EPA is to take
into account in writing the final regulation. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24042018/pruitt-secret-science-evidence-pollution-health-disease-studies-epa-rule-ban">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24042018/pruitt-secret-science-evidence-pollution-health-disease-studies-epa-rule-ban</a></font><br>
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[Warning: misinformation]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-pruitt-proposes-rule-strengthen-science-used-epa-regulations">News
Releases from Headquarters > Office of the Administrator (AO)</a></b><br>
EPA Administrator Pruitt Proposes Rule To Strengthen Science Used In
EPA Regulations<br>
04/24/2018<br>
<blockquote><b>Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX): </b>"Administrator
Pruitt's announcement ensures that data will be secret no more.
For too long, the EPA has issued rules and regulations based on
data that has been withheld from the American people. It's likely
that in the past, the data did not justify all regulations. Today,
Administrator Pruitt rightfully is changing business as usual and
putting a stop to hidden agendas."<br>
</blockquote>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/forms/contact-us">Contact
Us</a> to ask a question, provide feedback, or report a problem. <a
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<font size="-1">Staff Directory Search Results 1 records found.<br>
Name (Last First) Location Office Phone<br>
Pruitt, Scott HQ 202-564-4700</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-pruitt-proposes-rule-strengthen-science-used-epa-regulations">https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-pruitt-proposes-rule-strengthen-science-used-epa-regulations</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Climate Science presented in court- (high geek factor)]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2018/04/the-alsup-aftermath/">RealClimate.org:
The Alsup Aftermath</a></b><br>
Guest Commentary by Myles Allen<br>
A few weeks ago, I had an unusual - and challenging - assignment:
providing a one-hour "tutorial" on the basic science of
human-induced climate change to a Federal District Court in San
Francisco. Judge William Alsup had requested this tutorial to bring
him up to speed on the fundamental science before proceedings begin
in earnest in a case brought by the cities of San Francisco and
Oakland, on behalf of the people of California, against a group of
major fossil fuel companies, addressing the costs of climate change
caused, they argue, by products those companies have sold.<br>
The format was straightforward - two hours each for the plaintiffs
and the defendants, and the judge had provided us with a series of
questions on the essential physics that he wanted addressed, as well
as requesting a<span> </span><a
href="http://blogs2.law.columbia.edu/climate-change-litigation/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/case-documents/2018/20180323_docket-317-cv-06011_exhibit-6.pdf"
style="color: rgb(51, 85, 34);">timeline</a><span> </span>of how
our understanding of climate change has evolved over the past 150
years. My presentation was followed by Professors Gary Griggs,<span> </span><a
href="http://blogs2.law.columbia.edu/climate-change-litigation/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/case-documents/2018/20180323_docket-317-cv-06011_exhibit.pdf"
style="color: rgb(51, 85, 34);">showing detailed projections of
sea-level rise and its impacts on California</a>, and Don
Wuebbles,<span> </span><a
href="http://blogs2.law.columbia.edu/climate-change-litigation/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/case-documents/2018/20180323_docket-317-cv-06011_exhibit-1.pdf"
style="color: rgb(51, 85, 34);">presenting key findings from the
latest US National Climate Science Special Report</a><span> </span>(also
speaking for the plaintiffs). Between Gary and Don, the Court heard
from<span> </span><a
href="http://blogs2.law.columbia.edu/climate-change-litigation/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/case-documents/2018/20180321_docket-317-cv-06011_notice-1.pdf"
style="color: rgb(51, 85, 34);">Theodore Boutrous</a>, a lawyer
speaking on behalf of Chevron, one of the defendants.<br>
The case was fairly widely covered, (<a
href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/3/28/17152804/climate-change-federal-court-chevron"
style="color: rgb(51, 85, 34);">here's an example</a>) and most of
the attention was, understandably, on what the oil companies had to
say: the fact that Gary, Don and I agreed with the IPCC was hardly
ever likely to be newsworthy. But I've had a few requests since
about what I presented - including from some students who spotted
that a carefully compressed summary of climate change science might
be quite handy revision material. So, with exam season nearly upon
us, here it is - or at least, here is what I would have presented if
I'd got through it all: in preparing this material, I had completely
failed to anticipate the number and depth of Judge Alsup's
questions, so we only got as far as the Charney Report.<br>
- - - - -<br>
The edited presentation runs for just under 45 minutes, and I've
broken it up into five segments. I've also put up the powerpoint in
case you want to use some of the graphics in your own teaching. I
hope it's useful.<br>
<b>Tutorial: The basic science of human-induced climate change</b><br>
Part 1 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/CqjbTMz5Hro">https://youtu.be/CqjbTMz5Hro</a>
<br>
Part 2 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/Tqx99ea-DrM">https://youtu.be/Tqx99ea-DrM</a><br>
Part 3 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/2Hh8iurCvcA">https://youtu.be/2Hh8iurCvcA</a><br>
Part 4 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/QFlcmsFOv6Y">https://youtu.be/QFlcmsFOv6Y</a>
<br>
Part 5 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/aMjzpaNLQ0Y">https://youtu.be/aMjzpaNLQ0Y</a><br>
<b>Presentation: The basic science of human-induced climate change</b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2018/04/the-alsup-aftermath/">http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2018/04/the-alsup-aftermath/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[the biggest issue of our time]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://theconversation.com/hope-and-mourning-in-the-anthropocene-understanding-ecological-grief-88630">Hope
and mourning in the Anthropocene: Understanding ecological grief</a></b><br>
Neville Ellis, Ashlee Cunsolo - April 2018<br>
<blockquote><b>Ecological grief in a climate-changed future</b><br>
Ecological grief reminds us that climate change is not just some
abstract scientific concept or a distant environmental problem.
Rather, it draws our attention to the personally experienced
emotional and psychological losses suffered when there are changes
or deaths in the natural world. In doing so, ecological grief also
illuminates the ways in which more-than-humans are integral to our
mental wellness, our communities, our cultures, and for our
ability to thrive in a human-dominated world.<br>
<br>
From what we have seen in our own research, although this type of
grief is already being experienced, it often lacks an appropriate
avenue for expression or for healing. Indeed, not only do we lack
the rituals and practices to help address feelings of ecological
grief, until recently we did not even have the language to give
such feelings voice. And it is for these reasons that grief over
losses in the natural world can feel, as American ecologist
Phyllis Windle put it, 'irrational, inappropriate,
anthropomorphic.'<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://theconversation.com/hope-and-mourning-in-the-anthropocene-understanding-ecological-grief-88630">https://theconversation.com/hope-and-mourning-in-the-anthropocene-understanding-ecological-grief-88630</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1977/76-1172">This Day in
Climate History - April 26, 1977</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
April 26, 1978: The Supreme Court explicitly gives private-sector
entities (including polluters) 1st Amendment rights in the First
National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti case.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1977/76-1172">https://www.oyez.org/cases/1977/76-1172</a> <br>
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