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<font size="+1"><i>May 17, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[Storms]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://floodlist.com/america/usa/usa-storms-north-east-flash-floods-maryland-may-2018">USA
- Deadly Storms Hit North East, Flash Floods in Maryland</a></b><br>
16 MAY, 2018 BY RICHARD DAVIES <br>
Severe storms caused major damage in Northeastern USA on Tuesday, 15
May, 2018.<br>
Strong winds caused most of the damage. Two deaths were reported -
one in Newburgh, New York, the other in Danbury, Connecticut - as a
result of falling trees. Almost 400,000 people were without power in
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts.<br>
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo declared a state of emergency in
four counties and has deployed members of the New York National
Guard to assist recovery efforts.<br>
Maryland Flooding<br>
Severe flooding was reported in parts of Maryland, in particular
Montgomery and Fredrick counties, where up to 6 inches of rain fell
during the storm. Hail up to 2.5 inches (63.5 mm) was also
reported...<br>
<font size="-1">More at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://floodlist.com/america/usa/usa-storms-north-east-flash-floods-maryland-may-2018">http://floodlist.com/america/usa/usa-storms-north-east-flash-floods-maryland-may-2018</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Going way past gas] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/05/16/teslas-giant-battery-saving-consumers-huge-dollars-gas-turbines-in-trouble/">Tesla's
Giant Battery Saving Consumers Huge Dollars - Gas Turbines in
Trouble</a></b><br>
by greenman3610<br>
General Electric, Siemens, and Mitsubishi, all scaling back
production of gas turbines. This is one reason why. Future muddier
for gas, bright for batteries. <br>
I've asked the question before: Will Gas break wind? or Will Wind
Pass Gas? REnewEconomy- Australia: The Tesla big battery in South
Australia has already taken a 55 per cent share <br>
<blockquote>REnewEconomy- Australia:<br>
The Tesla big battery in South Australia has already taken a 55
per cent share in the state's frequency and ancillary services
market, and lowered prices in that market by 90 per cent, new data
has shown.<br>
The stunning numbers on the economics of the country's first
utility-scale battery were presented at the Australian Energy Week
conference in Melbourne on Thursday by McKinsey and Co partner
Godart van Gendt.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/05/16/teslas-giant-battery-saving-consumers-huge-dollars-gas-turbines-in-trouble/">https://climatecrocks.com/2018/05/16/teslas-giant-battery-saving-consumers-huge-dollars-gas-turbines-in-trouble/</a><br>
- - - -<br>
[storing wind power solution]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://cleantechnica.com/2018/05/15/elon-musk-harpooned-baseload-power/">Elon
Musk Harpooned Baseload Power</a></b><br>
Cleantechnica:<br>
At the other end of the spectrum are peaking plants, usually powered
by natural gas, which are set up only to deliver power when the
demand is exceeding the supply. These plants need to be maintained
even when they are not needed, on a ready basis. Some operate as
"spinning reserve," running without actually putting power on the
grid just so they can respond to demand changes as quickly as
possible. Clearly, it is only fair that they charge high prices for
power, possibly $250/MWh.<br>
In emergency situations, the price of electric power can go to
amazing heights. When a major baseload power plant goes off-line
suddenly and without warning, power prices can go to over
$10,000/MWh in minutes. Another of Giles Parkinson's articles on
RenewEconomy provides an example, in which Australian spot prices
hit $14,000/MWh (Australian) when two large gas-burning power plants
failed.<br>
On the other hand, when the power supply exceeds the demand, spot
prices can go into negative territory. Anyone who is set up to buy
wholesale power can absorb the excess and be paid to take it.
Batteries and pumped storage facilities do that.<br>
Power generators often do not wish to lock themselves into contracts
for production at a low, fixed rate. For example, when a contract
between the state of Vermont and the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant
had to be renewed in 2012, the owners of the nuclear plant offered
to supply half of the amount of power Vermont had been buying from
them at $65/MWh, with the remainder at spot prices. Vermont went
with hydropower at $60/MWh for the entire amount instead. Vermont
Yankee closed not long after that because it was no longer
economical to keep it running.<br>
Like Vermont Yankee, many power generators wish to maintain only
some portion of their power under contracts at a low fixed price.
With a contract for power at a low price, they can get a steady
income, but they do not make a lot of money on it. They sell the
rest of their power on the short-term or spot markets, because they
believe they can get higher income there.<br>
And this is where Elon Musk's harpoon comes in. Tesla's Hornsdale
Power Reserve, by cutting the income available from spot power
prices, has not merely cut into the incomes of peaking plants and
other short-term suppliers. It has also eliminated some options
available for baseload generators make profits.<br>
When the high prices of spot power are pushed down, baseload power
plants will no longer find the spot market profitable. In order to
keep baseload plants profitable, the baseload power plants will have
to sell their power under contracts at higher prices.<br>
Meanwhile, with batteries like the Hornsdale Power Reserve, power
from solar and wind power will be more valuable, because with
battery backup their power can be used to supply an increasing share
of baseload power. And that increase in value, which might not
necessarily be reflected by an increase in price, makes their power
all the more attractive.<br>
One of the interesting things about this development is that it did
not happen so suddenly because of market forces. It happened the way
it did because Elon Musk felt frisky enough to place a $50 million
bet that he could build his hundred-megawatt battery in a hundred
days. He offered a bet too good for South Australia to miss out on,
and the state committed $50 million in the big battery. As it
happens, the state benefited from Musk's win; it saved $35 million
in the first four months of operations. And that is a pretty short
return on the investment.<br>
Fossil fuels have been harpooned.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://cleantechnica.com/2018/05/15/elon-musk-harpooned-baseload-power/">https://cleantechnica.com/2018/05/15/elon-musk-harpooned-baseload-power/</a><br>
- - -<br>
[Offshore Wind Looks Increasingly Like a Good Bet, Analysis Finds]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.utilitydive.com/news/high-values-are-blowing-in-offshore-winds-policymakers-may-need-more/523407/">High
values are blowing in offshore winds; policymakers may need more</a></b><br>
A new report says offshore wind can be more cost effective than
onshore turbines near major population centers along the East Coast,
when considering the technology's full economic value. The
first-of-its-kind analysis, from Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, is another piece of evidence that offshore wind is
coming into its own. Read more from ICN about America's first
offshore wind farm in Rhode Island.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.utilitydive.com/news/high-values-are-blowing-in-offshore-winds-policymakers-may-need-more/523407/">https://www.utilitydive.com/news/high-values-are-blowing-in-offshore-winds-policymakers-may-need-more/523407/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Hurricane season]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://newrepublic.com/article/148384/america-not-ready-hurricane-season-again">America
Is Not Ready for This (Again)</a></b><br>
Hurricane season begins in two weeks, but little has been done since
last year's devastating storms to make vulnerable communities more
resilient.<br>
By EMILY ATKIN - May 15, 2018 - The New Republic<br>
With hurricane season only two weeks away, I asked Dr. Irwin
Redlener, the director of Columbia University's <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://ncdp.columbia.edu/">National
Center for Disaster Preparedness</a>, if communities struck by
last year's devastating storms were prepared for another pummeling.
His reply: "It's unfortunate that we can't stop time."<br>
For thousands of Americans in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico,
hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria have barely faded from memory.
Yet on June 1, conditions will be ripe for Helene, Isaac, and
Michael - just a few of the names in line for tropical cyclones that
form in the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of
Mexico in 2018. This year is expected to be a "normal to above
normal" season, according to a study released last week by the
Hurricane Genesis and Outlook Project, better known as the HUGO
outlook. And it may even start early; there's a small chance that
Florida will get hit with a minor tropical cyclone this week,
according to a report in Earther.<br>
...<br>
The Florida legislature takes a myopic approach to hurricanes,
preferring to allocate money for immediate recovery - to repair
beaches and farms, or for displaced students who evacuated to
Florida from Puerto Rico. But spending money only on immediate
recovery ensures that money will have to be spent again and again,
every time there's a severe hurricane season. As Republican State
Representative Jeanette Nunez told the Times: "Sometimes it's just
easier to throw money at a problem than it is to take a thoughtful
and diligent approach to policy making."<br>
That criticism also applies to President Donald Trump's
administration and the Republican Congress, which has allocated more
than $140 billion for hurricane relief since September, most of it
for humanitarian assistance and rebuilding infrastructure. Last
week, FEMA Administrator Brock Long visited Louisiana and Texas to
urge residents to start preparing for the 2018 hurricane season.
It's good advice, but it comes as the administration has rolled back
hurricane resilience policies that would take the burden off
individuals. Last year, Trump shelved two rules requiring new
construction projects be built with flood protections in mind. After
the damage wrought by Hurricane Harvey, Trump said he would
reinstate those rules. With another hurricane season coming on June
1, they remain shelved.<br>
"We keep calling these storms a wake-up call, but they keep turning
into snooze alarms," Redlener said. "When the cameras go away, we
slip into complacency."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://newrepublic.com/article/148384/america-not-ready-hurricane-season-again">https://newrepublic.com/article/148384/america-not-ready-hurricane-season-again</a></font><br>
- - -<br>
[getting ready]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://toolkit.climate.gov">U.S.
Climate Resilience Toolkit</a></b><br>
Meet the Challenges of a Changing Climate<br>
Find information and tools to help you understand and address your
climate risks.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://toolkit.climate.gov/#steps">LEARN
ABOUT OUR RESILIENCE FRAMEWORK</a> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://toolkit.climate.gov/#steps">https://toolkit.climate.gov/#steps</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://toolkit.climate.gov/#case-studies">SEE WHAT OTHERS
ARE DOING</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://toolkit.climate.gov/#case-studies">https://toolkit.climate.gov/#case-studies</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://toolkit.climate.gov/#climate-explorer">USE THE
CLIMATE EXPLORER</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://toolkit.climate.gov/#climate-explorer%E2%80%BA">https://toolkit.climate.gov/#climate-explorer›</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://toolkit.climate.gov/#steps">https://toolkit.climate.gov/#steps</a><br>
- - - <br>
[Preparation]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ncdp.columbia.edu/research/research-portal/">The
National Center for Disaster Preparedness at the Earth Institute</a></b>
works to understand and improve the nation's capacity to prepare
for, respond to and recover from disasters. NCDP focuses on the
readiness of governmental and non-governmental systems; the
complexities of population recovery; the power of community
engagement; and the risks of human vulnerability, with a particular
focus on children.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ncdp.columbia.edu/research/research-portal/">Research
Portal</a><br>
DISASTERS THROW US OFF BALANCE<br>
The CHAOS of devastating STORMS, TERROR events, or major ACCIDENTS
upsets the equilibria of<br>
COMMUNITIES, ORGANIZATIONS, and PEOPLE.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://ncdp.columbia.edu/research/research-portal/">http://ncdp.columbia.edu/research/research-portal/</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ncdp.columbia.edu/practice/practice-portal/">Practice
Portal</a><br>
Readiness requires PREPARED communities, TRAINED responders, ROBUST
supply lines, and EFFECTIVE coordination. <br>
In short, READINESS REQUIRES A SYSTEM. Training people is NOT
ENOUGH.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://ncdp.columbia.edu/practice/practice-portal/">http://ncdp.columbia.edu/practice/practice-portal/</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ncdp.columbia.edu/library/publications/">Publications</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://ncdp.columbia.edu/library/publications/">http://ncdp.columbia.edu/library/publications/</a><br>
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<br>
[Securing security]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2018/05/16/the-developing-focus-of-the-un-security-council-on-climate-security/">The
Developing Focus of the UN Security Council on Climate Security</a></b><br>
[T]he United Nations Security Council held another in a series of
Arria-formula meetings on climate security. The meeting was chaired
by Italy and co-hosted with Sweden, Morocco, the UK, the
Netherlands, Peru, Japan, France, the Maldives and Germany. The
meeting was titled, "Preparing for the Security Implications of
Rising Temperatures." A key focus was on how the UN system might
develop the capabilities to foresee the threats posed by climate
events and to prepare appropriate responses such as risk assessment
and risk management. The discussion included consideration of
creating an institutional home for climate and security within the
UN system.<br>
<blockquote><b>Briefing to the UN Security Council: "A
Responsibility to Prepare,"</b> December 15, 2017, Caitlin
Werrell, The Center for Climate and Security<br>
Summary: The world in the 21st century is characterized by both
unprecedented risks and unprecedented foresight. Climate change,
population shifts and cyber-threats are rapidly increasing the
scale and complexity of risks to international security, while
technological developments are increasing our capacity to foresee
those risks. This world of high consequence risks, which can be
better modeled and anticipated than in the past, underscores a
clear responsibility for the international community: A
"Responsibility to Prepare." This responsibility, which builds on
hard-won lessons of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) framework
for preventing and responding to mass atrocities, requires a
reform of existing governance institutions to ensure that
critical, nontraditional risks to international security, such as
climate change, are anticipated, analyzed and addressed
systematically, robustly and rapidly by intergovernmental security
institutions and the security establishments of nations that
participate in that system.<br>
</blockquote>
A Responsibility to Prepare agenda should be developed and adopted
by all nations, while adhering to the overarching principle of
"climate-proofing" security institutions at the international,
regional and national levels. That climate-proofing would include
routinizing, integrating, institutionalizing and elevating attention
to climate and security issues at these bodies, as well as
establishing rapid response mechanisms, and developing contingencies
for potential unintended consequences.<br>
Such an agenda - focused as it is on reforming security institutions
- would ensure that critical nontraditional challenges, such as
climate change, are appropriately managed as global security risks,
rather than as niche concerns. A practical fulfillment of the goals
and principles articulated in this Responsibility to Prepare
framework would increase the likelihood of more stable governance in
the face of rapid but foreseeable change.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/responsibilitytoprepare/">https://climateandsecurity.org/responsibilitytoprepare/</a><br>
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</font>The wide-ranging contributions included in this book touching
on sanctions, the creation of a climate change tribunal, climate
migration, developing a responsibility to respond, climate change
adaptation practices in peace missions, and the Security Council's
power to legislate each tackle what the UNSC can do in respect of
climate policy and security. The purpose of assembling this
expertise into a single volume was to offer a clear basis on which
debates can take place on the specific initiatives that the Council
can take both as ends in themselves and to lay the groundwork for a
much larger climate governance role that may well be called for in
the future.<br>
[1] See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/">http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2018/05/16/the-developing-focus-of-the-un-security-council-on-climate-security/">https://climateandsecurity.org/2018/05/16/the-developing-focus-of-the-un-security-council-on-climate-security/</a><br>
</font><br>
<br>
[another question]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/trump-white-house-quietly-cancels-nasa-research-verifying-greenhouse-gas-cuts">Trump
White House quietly cancels NASA research verifying greenhouse
gas cuts</a></b><br>
By Paul VoosenMay. 9, 2018 , 2:00 PM<br>
You can't manage what you don't measure. The adage is especially
relevant for climate-warming greenhouse gases, which are crucial to
manage - and challenging to measure. In recent years, though,
satellite and aircraft instruments have begun monitoring carbon
dioxide and methane remotely, and NASA's Carbon Monitoring System
(CMS), a $10-million-a-year research line, has helped stitch
together observations of sources and sinks into high-resolution
models of the planet's flows of carbon. Now, President Donald
Trump's administration has quietly killed the CMS, Science has
learned.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/trump-white-house-quietly-cancels-nasa-research-verifying-greenhouse-gas-cuts">http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/trump-white-house-quietly-cancels-nasa-research-verifying-greenhouse-gas-cuts</a><br>
For <em>Science</em>, Paul Voosen writes about the Trump
administration's <a
href="https://journalistsresource.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=30699762a3826bbf132818652&id=0631aecc21&e=59fd1f3a43"
target="_blank" style="color: #003881;font-weight:
bold;text-decoration: underline;word-wrap: break-word !important;">cuts
to climate research</a>. NASA's Carbon Monitoring System, which
helps measure greenhouse gas emissions, is one such casualty. While
existing grants for the CMS will continue to completion, new
projects won't start. What this means for policy: it will be much
more difficult to verify whether countries are adhering to emissions
standards laid out in the Paris climate accords. What this means for
research: European scientists likely will pick up the slack...<br>
- - - -<br>
It's an ironic time to kill the program, Jacob says. NASA is
planning several space-based carbon observatories, including the
OCO-3, which is set to be mounted on the International Space Station
later this year, and the Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory, due
for launch early next decade. The CMS would help knit all these
observations together. "It would be a total shame to wind [it]
down," Jacob says.<br>
This type of research is likely to continue, Duffy adds, but
leadership will pass to Europe, which already operates one
carbon-monitoring satellite, with more on the way. "We really shoot
ourselves in the foot if we let other people develop the
technology," he says, given how important the techniques will be in
managing low-carbon economies in the future. Hurtt, meanwhile, holds
out hope that NASA will restore the program. After all, he says, the
problem isn't going away. "The topic of climate mitigation and
carbon monitoring is maybe not the highest priority now in the
United States," he says. "But it is almost everywhere else."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/trump-white-house-quietly-cancels-nasa-research-verifying-greenhouse-gas-cuts">http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/trump-white-house-quietly-cancels-nasa-research-verifying-greenhouse-gas-cuts</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Minnesota radio show going for 5 years]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/05/15/climate_cast_live">Climate
Cast live special with Paul Huttner</a></b><br>
Environment May 15, 2018<br>
1hour 32min Climate Cast<br>
A Climate Cast live special, hosted by MPR News chief meteorologist
Paul Huttner in MPR's UBS Forum in downtown St. Paul.<br>
Guests included:<br>
Radhika Fox, executive director of the US Water Alliance.<br>
Jessica Hellman of the University of Minnesota's Institute on the
Environment.<br>
Mark Seeley, retired University of Minnesota meteorologist and
climatologist.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/05/15/climate_cast_live">https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/05/15/climate_cast_live</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Book Review]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climateandcapitalism.com/2018/05/14/making-the-case-against-geoengineering/">Making
the case against geoengineering</a></b><br>
Posted on May 14, 2018<br>
The Big Bad Fix powerfully exposes the dangers of deliberate climate
modification, and presents alternatives. A deeper focus on fighting
the fossil industry would strengthen the argument.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.etcgroup.org/content/big-bad-fix">THE BIG BAD FIX
The Case Against Climate Geoengineering</a><br>
ETC Group, BiofuelWatch and Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2017<br>
reviewed by Valerie Lannon<br>
There are full-blown climate change deniers, including Scott Pruitt,
the head of the US Environmental "Protection" Agency. Then there are
those who acknowledge the seriousness of global warming but are
confident that capitalist ingenuity will save the day somehow "just
like we always have." Last but not least are those who are concerned
about global warming, are not overly confident in
capitalism-as-saviour but who are so desperate to avoid climate
catastrophe that they pray that the far-out solutions they hear
about from Bill Gates (for "storm modification") will keep the
global warming wolves at bay.<br>
The Big Bad Fix: The Case Against Climate Geoengineering addresses
the last two categories...<br>
There are three main approaches to geoengineering.<br>
<blockquote><b>Solar Radiation Management (SRM) (aka albedo
modification),</b> aims at reducing the amount of heat in the
atmosphere by turning sunlight back into space (e.g. by increasing
the reflectivity of clouds). The report notes "SRM deployment is
likely to alter the hydrological cycle (reduce or increase
rainfall by changing weather patterns) and produce unequal effects
across the planet, potentially threatening the sources of food and
water for millions of people." There is no attempt here to try and
reduce greenhouse gas emissions, only the release "of inorganic
particles such as sulphur dioxide into the upper layer of the
atmosphere - via cannons or hoses or aircraft - to act as a
reflective barrier to reduce the amount sunlight reaching Earth…
the unknowns are many, including the possibility of ozone layer
depletion and significant weather pattern changes."<br>
<br>
<b>Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR), does not focus on the sun but, as
its name describes, aims to remove the excess greenhouse gas
that is already in the atmosphere</b>. Again there is no no
focus on reducing the production of greenhouse gas emissions. Some
GGR methods look to change the chemical balance in the oceans to
increase the uptake of carbon dioxide. Others look to sequester
carbon dioxide underground or in specialized facilities. As the
report states "Despite stepped-up research on these technologies
over the last decade, no one has yet been able to demonstrate that
artificial, large-scale, long-term carbon sequestration is
affordable, safe or even possible, or that CDR would produce the
desired effect of lowering the Earth's temperature."<br>
<br>
Lastly, <b>Weather Modification is the stuff of both science
fiction movies and of actual use in China, usually to either
make rain or suppress rain, for example by "cloud seeding</b>."<br>
</blockquote>
The report explains all three approaches in greater detail and
provides eight case studies, all of which point to extreme dangers
and, in many cases, irreversibility.<br>
So wrong, on so many levels...<br>
The report states, "Geoengineering aims to intervene in dynamic and
poorly-understood systems. Given the complexities of global climate,
there are countless ways interventions could go awry…Trying to fix a
failing geoengineering deployment could make the problem of climate
change worse."<br>
Economics. The experiments are typically funded by industry (often
with government support), especially the high tech sector. But this
is a classic example of "just because you can do something, doesn't
mean you should do it." The costs are prohibitive, especially when
you consider the savings to be had by immediately gearing up
sustainable energy sources and agricultural practices to eliminate
the use of fossil fuels.<br>
- - - -<br>
The authors of the report make four excellent recommendations to
address the problems raised with current geoengineering "solutions."
These include:<br>
<blockquote> - End the production of carbon dioxide from fossil
fuels by phasing out fossil fuel infrastructure, using renewable
sources with communities' consent, efficient public transport,
reducing energy consumption, transforming agribusiness to smaller
holdings and "agroecology"<br>
- Restore natural ecosystems, including forests, rainforests,
moors and oceans, with full involvement of local communities<br>
- Ban outdoor testing of geoengineering, enforced through a global
governance body, since geoengineering has global impacts<br>
- Debate proposed geoengineering solutions using the "do no harm"
principle.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climateandcapitalism.com/2018/05/14/making-the-case-against-geoengineering/">http://climateandcapitalism.com/2018/05/14/making-the-case-against-geoengineering/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[activisim call]<font size="+1"><br>
<b><a href="http://sc.org/NAFTAEnviro">NAFTA Talks Have Ignored
Environmental Concerns</a></b><br>
NAFTA 2.0 Could Increase Pollution that Threatens Our Communities<br>
"Today, 17 environmental organizations are releasing a joint
statement pledging to oppose a NAFTA 2.0 deal if it prioritizes
the interests of polluters over the needs of communities across
borders. </font>
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size="+1">The statement can be found here:<span> </span><a
href="http://sc.org/NAFTAEnviro" target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">sc.org/NAFTAEnviro</a>. You can<span> </span><a
href="https://twitter.com/SierraClub/status/996781617187381248"
target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">retweet here</a>.
See below for the list of signers. </font>
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initial;"><font size="+1"><b>Please help amplify this statement
on social media!</b><span style="font-weight:400"> See
below for ideas for tweets, posts, and graphics that may be
of use for your social media team. </span></font></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.8px; font-style:
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size="+1">To date, the NAFTA talks have ignored most of the
environmental concerns that our groups<span> </span><a
href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/NAFTA%20Enviro%20Redlines%20FINAL.pdf"
target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">delineated before
talks began</a>. Unless talks dramatically change course, the
resulting deal is likely to further exacerbate pollution and
climate change. As detailed in<span> </span><a
href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/NAFTA%20Environmental%20Letter%20May%202018.pdf"
target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">today's statement</a>,
the deal could<span> </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
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normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display:
inline;">help corporations offshore more jobs and pollution,
lock in fossil fuel dependency, and prolong the Trump
administration's polluting legacy. </span></font></div>
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normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
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text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font
size="+1">The statement makes clear that the U.S. environmental
community "will oppose a NAFTA 2.0 deal if it undermines rather
than supports environmental protection and a just transition to
a clean energy economy." <br>
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<font size="+1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://sc.org/NAFTAEnviro">http://sc.org/NAFTAEnviro</a></font><br>
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[Humor - scroll down screen comic]<br>
<b>Life During Interesting Times -</b> <br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thenib.com/greatest-generation-interesting-times?utm_campaign=newsletter-links&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter">"The
greatest generation" was defined by their suffering. Will we
be?</a></b></font><br>
by Mike Dawson<br>
"A catastrophe to which we gradually gave meaning"<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thenib.com/greatest-generation-interesting-times?utm_campaign=newsletter-links&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter">https://thenib.com/greatest-generation-interesting-times?utm_campaign=newsletter-links&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter</a><br>
Rise and Shine.The World is Doomed. <br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/05/17/settled-among-scientists/">This
Day in Climate History - May 17, 2013</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
May 17, 2013: Andrew Sullivan points to the root cause of US
climate-change denial:<br>
"But the main reason many Americans still refuse to believe it is
religious fundamentalism. That is immune to science and reason. But
it is the bedrock belief of one of our political parties."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/05/17/settled-among-scientists/">http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/05/17/settled-among-scientists/</a><br>
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