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<font size="+1"><i>May 25, 2018</i></font><br>
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[challenge to courts]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/24/families-take-eu-court-climate-change-emissions">'We
can't see a future': group takes EU to court over climate change</a></b><br>
Litigants from eight countries claim EU institutions are not
protecting fundamental rights<br>
Daniel Boffey in Brussels 24 May 2018...<br>
"The plaintiff families are putting their trust in the EU courts and
legal system to protect their fundamental rights of life, health,
occupation and property which are under threat of climate change.
The EU courts must now listen to these families and ensure that they
are protected."<br>
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"Yet, it is clear that the existing EU 2030 climate target is not
enough to respect the commitments taken in the Paris agreement and
should be increased. The EU needs under the agreement to confirm its
target by 2020. This legal action initiated by normal families
impacted by climate change is underlining the urgency and the
necessity to increase it." <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/24/families-take-eu-court-climate-change-emissions">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/24/families-take-eu-court-climate-change-emissions</a></font><br>
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[Heard on NPR]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/24/614105843/asteroid-impact-that-wiped-out-the-dinosaurs-also-caused-abrupt-global-warming">Asteroid
Impact That Wiped Out The Dinosaurs Also Caused Abrupt Global
Warming</a></b><br>
2:35 Audio heard on All Things Considered<br>
May 24, 2018<br>
The asteroid impact that ended the age of the dinosaurs also
released so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that the planet
warmed up by about 5 degrees Celsius - and the hot spell persisted
for roughly 100,000 years...<br>
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"The atmosphere was loaded for a very brief interval of time, and
the consequences of that change in atmospheric composition lasted
for 100,000 years," MacLeod says. "So it illustrates, I think,
really strongly, even if we went back to 1850 levels of carbon
dioxide emission, it's going to take a 100,000 years for the carbon
dioxide that we've already put in the atmosphere to cycle through
the Earth's systems."<br>
Brian Huber, a paleobiologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum
of Natural History who wasn't part of the research team, says this
paper is real step forward in understanding temperature changes
around the time of this mass extinction event. And he agrees that
the results have implications for thinking about the future.<br>
"I think the stunning result of this is that this temperature
warming after the impact persisted for 100,000 years," Huber says.
"It's, to me, stunning and a little bit frightening about the course
of what happens with burning so much coal, so much petroleum, in
just a few decades."<br>
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href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/24/614105843/asteroid-impact-that-wiped-out-the-dinosaurs-also-caused-abrupt-global-warming">https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/24/614105843/asteroid-impact-that-wiped-out-the-dinosaurs-also-caused-abrupt-global-warming</a></font><br>
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<br>
[psychology and climate change 12 video interviews]<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwsCBr5L_ScQ8GxKN6aefgQ">Depth
Psychology / Depth Insights</a> Interviews by Bonnie Bright <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwsCBr5L_ScQ8GxKN6aefgQ">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwsCBr5L_ScQ8GxKN6aefgQ</a><br>
<b><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6O_9_P0cq7bULdR4CqW1mhmbiNsPFmGO">Earth,
Climate, Dreams Symposium</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6O_9_P0cq7bULdR4CqW1mhmbiNsPFmGO">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6O_9_P0cq7bULdR4CqW1mhmbiNsPFmGO</a><br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCFKEhFAyiY&list=PL6O_9_P0cq7bULdR4CqW1mhmbiNsPFmGO&index=1">Dreams,
Synchronicities & our Relationship to the Earth - Veronica
Goodchild, Earth Climate Dreams </a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCFKEhFAyi">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCFKEhFAyi</a></font><br>
<span id="video-title" class="style-scope
ytd-playlist-video-renderer" title="Navigating the Great
Transition—Susannah Benson, Earth Climate Dreams Symposium"><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUY4dz9zgm8">Navigating
the Great Transition - Susannah Benson, Earth Climate Dreams
Symposium </a></span> <br>
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ytd-playlist-video-renderer" title="The Frankenstein Prophecies:
The Untold Tale—Robert Romanyshyn, Earth Climate Dreams"><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJlViNR21Yw">The
Frankenstein Prophecies: The Untold Tale - Robert Romanyshyn,
Earth Climate Dreams</a></span><br>
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The Untold Tale—Robert Romanyshyn, Earth Climate Dreams"></span>
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id="video-title" class="style-scope
ytd-playlist-video-renderer" title="The Frankenstein
Prophecies: The Untold Tale—Robert Romanyshyn, Earth Climate
Dreams"> <font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJlViNR21Yw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJlViNR21Yw</a></font></span><br>
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class="style-scope ytd-playlist-video-renderer"
title="Dreams and the Animated Earth—Stephen Aizenstat,
Earth Climate Dreams"><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrdy6Wyz5W0">Dreams
and the Animated Earth - Stephen Aizenstat, Earth
Climate Dreams </a> </span> <br>
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<div id="meta" class="style-scope ytd-playlist-video-renderer"><span
id="video-title" class="style-scope
ytd-playlist-video-renderer" title="We Need to Talk about
Climate Change, with Depth—Sally Gillespie, Earth Climate
Dreams Symposium"><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTP4qem2hAY&index=5&list=PL6O_9_P0cq7bULdR4CqW1mhmbiNsPFmGO">We
Need to Talk about Climate Change, with Depth - Sally
Gillespie, Earth Climate Dreams Symposium </a></span> <br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzzDiuAe6xk&index=6&list=PL6O_9_P0cq7bULdR4CqW1mhmbiNsPFmGO"><span
id="video-title" class="style-scope ytd-playlist-video-renderer"
title="Facing Climate Change through a Jungian Lens—Jeffrey
Kiehl, Earth Climate Dreams Symposium">Facing Climate Change
through a Jungian Lens - Jeffrey Kiehl, Earth Climate Dreams
Symposium </span></a> <br>
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id="video-title" class="style-scope ytd-playlist-video-renderer"
title="Depth Ecology and Climate Change—Jonathan Marshall, Earth
Climate Dreams"><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGQiVV96bAs&index=7&list=PL6O_9_P0cq7bULdR4CqW1mhmbiNsPFmGO">Depth
Ecology and Climate Change - Jonathan Marshall, Earth Climate
Dreams </a> </span> <br>
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id="video-title" class="style-scope ytd-playlist-video-renderer"
title="Revisiting the Well at the Dawn of Life: Teachings of the
Maya—Nancy Furlotti, Earth Climate Dreams"><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v80ERblfQgw&index=8&list=PL6O_9_P0cq7bULdR4CqW1mhmbiNsPFmGO">Revisiting
the Well at the Dawn of Life: Teachings of the Maya - Nancy
Furlotti, Earth Climate Dreams</a> </span> <br>
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title="The Role of Primary Narcissism in the Ecological
Crisis—Michael Conforti, Earth Climate Dreams"><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG9Jw94NrMw&index=9&list=PL6O_9_P0cq7bULdR4CqW1mhmbiNsPFmGO">The
Role of Primary Narcissism in the Ecological Crisis - Michael
Conforti, Earth Climate Dreams </a></span> <br>
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id="video-title" class="style-scope ytd-playlist-video-renderer"
title="Dominion Psyche, Reciprocity Psyche, Borderland
Consciousness—Jerome Bernstein, Earth Climate Dreams"><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtW9avovskc&index=10&list=PL6O_9_P0cq7bULdR4CqW1mhmbiNsPFmGO">Dominion
Psyche, Reciprocity Psyche, Borderland Consciousness - Jerome
Bernstein, Earth Climate Dreams </a></span> <br>
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title="Dionysus: Revisioning Psychology & Literature in Jung
& Hillman—Susan Rowland, Earth Climate Dreams"><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgse7iIcGAc&index=11&list=PL6O_9_P0cq7bULdR4CqW1mhmbiNsPFmGO">Dionysus:
Revisioning Psychology & Literature in Jung & Hillman
- Susan Rowland, Earth Climate Dreams </a></span> <br>
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title="The Human Soul in Transition at the Dawn of a New
Era—Erel Shalit, Earth Climate Dreams Symposium"><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUSl6xI4K3s&index=12&list=PL6O_9_P0cq7bULdR4CqW1mhmbiNsPFmGO">The
Human Soul in Transition at the Dawn of a New Era - Erel
Shalit, Earth Climate Dreams Symposium </a><br>
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<font size="-1">Playlist for the Symposium <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6O_9_P0cq7bULdR4CqW1mhmbiNsPFmGO">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6O_9_P0cq7bULdR4CqW1mhmbiNsPFmGO</a></font><br>
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<br>
[pre-traumatic stress disorder]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-03-20/eric-holthaus-on-imagination-our-brains-are-constantly-being-encouraged-to-give-up/">Eric
Holthaus on Imagination: "Our Brains are Constantly Being
Encouraged to Give Up"</a></b><br>
By Rob Hopkins, Eric Holthaus<br>
March 20, 2018<br>
Eric Holthaus was once called 'The Rebel Nerd of Meteorology' by
Rolling Stone magazine and is a journalist who writes about climate
change. In 2013, sitting at an airport, he burst into tears having
just read the latest IPCC report, and took to Twitter to share the
impact, as a scientist studying climate change, that this knowledge
was having on him emotionally. In one he wrote:<br>
"I'm starting my 11th year working on climate change, including the
last 4 in daily journalism. Today I went to see a counselor about
it. There are days where I literally can't work. I'll read a story
& shut down for the rest of the day. We don't deserve this
planet. There are (many) days when I think it would be better off
without us."<br>
In another he wrote:<br>
"To me, our emotional/psychological response is *the* story on
climate change. It defines how (and if) we will solve the problem".<br>
Audio of interview:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://soundcloud.com/transition-culture/eric-holthaus-on-imagination-our-brains-are-constantly-being-encouraged-to-give-up">https://soundcloud.com/transition-culture/eric-holthaus-on-imagination-our-brains-are-constantly-being-encouraged-to-give-up</a><br>
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Inaction, or doing small actions like recycling or taking your
reusable bag to go shopping with you, those are also forms of
denial. Any time we're not acting on the scale necessary to solve
the problem, these are all ways of tricking ourselves to think that
either the problem's not as big as what it is, or that we are
powerless to solve it, or that our actions are having some effect.
They're all coping strategies for us to avoid imagining that change
that's actually necessary, or imagining the world we want to have.
Sometimes it's easier to just say, "Oh well, this is just too big of
a thing".<br>
Accepting failure is a way of denying that we have a chance to
change that future. Thinking that someone else is going to somehow
solve the problem is also a way of denying our own responsibility.
Change also is a trauma for a lot of people. Especially radical
change on the scale that scientists say is necessary. It's a scary
thing to think about. It's scary to think about, especially if you
don't see any of your friends acting like it's a big deal.<br>
There is research that goes along with that, that at least in
meteorology, where I was trained. There are studies saying that in
order to take shelter in a tornado warning, you need to have a
signal from scientists, or from some official source, that the
tornado is real and it's heading towards you, and that needs to be
someone that you trust. But also you need to verify that with
someone directly in terms of I need to physically talk with someone
nearby, or see other people taking action, before I take action.
There needs to be some sort of visual or personal communication to
verify in our brains that this is a major disaster that's imminent,
that I need to drop everything and take radical action.<br>
I feel like we're in a similar scenario with climate change. It's
really clear that very, very few people are radically changing their
lives, or even advocating for radical change. Even fewer are trying
to do that in a way that matches the way our brains work, that we
need to be doing this together as a community. That's the only way
that we will be able to convince ourselves that it's a real thing.
Increasingly you are able to look at your window and see the direct
impacts of climate change. We all have little signs that those
things are happening, like an early spring, or hearing about it on
the news more recently...<br>
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Direct participatory democracy at the local level, in terms of
groups of people, 5-10 to 100, meeting together to talk about their
hopes and dreams and how to make it happen, is probably the most
important thing that we could be doing right now. I don't know how
to incentivise that. I'm not a policy person. I'm not a marketing
person or an activist or an organiser or anything. I don't know how
to get people excited enough to do that, but I think a world where
that is happening is really hopeful.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-03-20/eric-holthaus-on-imagination-our-brains-are-constantly-being-encouraged-to-give-up/">https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-03-20/eric-holthaus-on-imagination-our-brains-are-constantly-being-encouraged-to-give-up/</a><br>
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<br>
[the Inquisition]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23052018/scott-pruitt-epa-climate-change-clean-power-plan-scientific-review-board-trump-administration">Pruitt's
Anti-Climate Agenda Is Facing New Challenge From Science
Advisers</a></b><br>
Members of the Science Advisory Board, including some Pruitt
appointees, are raising concerns about EPA's regulatory rollback for
lacking adequate scientific basis.<br>
Scott Pruitt, the embattled head of the Environmental Protection
Agency, faces a broadening challenge to his efforts to roll back
greenhouse gas regulations, as agency science advisers expand the
list of policies they want to vet at an upcoming meeting.<br>
A work group of the EPA's Science Advisory Board, in<span> </span><a
href="https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf//9263940BB05B89A885258291006AC017/$File/WG_Memo_Fall17_RegRevAttsABC.pdf"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color:
transparent; color: rgb(131, 190, 68); text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;">a May 18 memo</a>, has added three more of his
actions to a list they want reviewed by the full board: the
weakening of auto efficiency and emissions standards, Pruitt's
elimination of a rule to curb truck pollution, and the cost-benefit
analysis underpinning the<span> </span><a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/tags/clean-power-plan"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color:
transparent; color: rgb(131, 190, 68); text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;">Clean Power Plan</a>, which the Trump
administration is trying to undo.<span> </span><span
id="docs-internal-guid-e85245c4-9249-3ef4-678b-623826a74a1e"
style="box-sizing: inherit;">In</span><a
href="https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf//A4070377D540D61B8525827F0075E673/$File/SABWkGrpSpring2017Att+ABC.pdf"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(131, 190, 68); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;"><span> </span>an
April 30 memo,</a><span> </span>the work group called for the full
board to review Pruitt's repealing of the Clean Power Plan<br>
The main purpose of the board is to review the quality and relevance
of scientific research used by the<span> </span><a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/epa" target="_blank"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(131, 190, 68); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">EPA</a><span> </span>to
draft regulations.<br>
The group's actions signal that the full board's May 30 meeting will
be partly devoted to the scientific community's harshest critiques
of President<span> </span><a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/tags/donald-trump"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color:
transparent; color: rgb(131, 190, 68); text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;">Donald Trump</a>'s deregulatory agenda.<br>
The same 10-member work group, which includes four of Pruitt's own
appointees, already had<span> </span><a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17052018/scott-pruitt-epa-secret-science-health-fossil-fuel-industry"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(131, 190, 68); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">called</a><span> </span>for
a full board review of his effort to restrict the agency's use of
scientific studies...<font size="-1"><br>
- - - -<br>
</font>The work group also urged the Science Advisory Board to
review the cost-benefit analysis that underpinned the decision to
repeal the Clean Power Plan.<br>
That document, a complex appendix to the final rule, is known as the
"regulatory impact analysis," and the Pruitt team manipulated
several of its core calculations to justify jettisoning the Obama
regulation.<font size="-1"> - Marianne Lavelle<br>
</font><font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23052018/scott-pruitt-epa-climate-change-clean-power-plan-scientific-review-board-trump-administration">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23052018/scott-pruitt-epa-climate-change-clean-power-plan-scientific-review-board-trump-administration</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[800 MW = 800 thousand households]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2018/05/23/vineyard-wind-massachusetts-offshore-farm">Mass.
Selects Vineyard Wind For 800-Megawatt Offshore Wind Farm</a></b><br>
May 23, 2018<br>
Matt Murphy, State House News Service<br>
Vineyard Wind, a project backed by a Danish fund management company,
has been chosen by the Baker administration and state utilities to
build an 800-megawatt offshore wind farm off the southern coast of
Martha's Vineyard, officials announced Wednesday.<br>
The project beat two other competitors for the contract authorized
under a 2016 renewable energy law that called for the procurement of
major hydroelectric and offshore wind resources to help reduce the
state's carbon footprint and deliver clean, cost effective energy to
the region...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2018/05/23/vineyard-wind-massachusetts-offshore-farm">http://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2018/05/23/vineyard-wind-massachusetts-offshore-farm</a></font><br>
- - - - <br>
[Audio Radio Boston]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2018/05/23/vineyard-wind-farm"><b>Vineyard
Wind Will Build Nation's 1st Industrial-Sized Offshore Wind Farm
Off Mass. Coas</b>t</a><br>
Massachusetts officials have announced that Vineyard Wind will build
the nation's first industrial-sized offshore wind project off the
coast of Martha's Vineyard.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2018/05/23/vineyard-wind-farm">http://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2018/05/23/vineyard-wind-farm</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[closed-to-the-public]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/05/23/koch-edison-electric-institute-wooing-interior-department-vincent-devito">Koch-Backed
and Anti-Renewable Energy Groups Wooing Interior Department
Official</a></b><br>
Vincent DeVito<br>
Fossil fuel groups backed by the Koch brothers and lobbyists for
anti-renewable energy entities have been courting an Interior
Department official responsible for energy policy, according to
internal documents. Vincent DeVito, a senior energy advisor to
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, has received considerable attention
from these groups, accepting several invitations to closed meetings
and conferences.<br>
DeVito, a former lawyer and lobbyist for the Boston-based firm
Bowditch and Dewey, joined Trump's Interior Department as a
political appointee in early 2017, and has already loomed as a key
official responsible for rolling back federal species protections at
the behest of the fossil fuel industry.<br>
His calendar and travel documents, recently released through an open
records request and reviewed by DeSmog, show that in his first few
months in office, DeVito attended many energy industry events.<br>
Agenda: 'Easing Barriers' to Fossil Fuel Development<br>
In June last year, DeVito received an invitation to attend a meeting
in Boston of the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), a national trade
group representing investor-owned utilities. The invitation was sent
by Michael Whatley, a lobbyist for the firm HBW Resources, which
runs the fossil fuel-backed front group Consumer Energy Alliance
(CEA), of which EEI is a member..<br>
- - - -<br>
The Department of Interior did not respond to detailed questions
about this story.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/05/23/koch-edison-electric-institute-wooing-interior-department-vincent-devito">https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/05/23/koch-edison-electric-institute-wooing-interior-department-vincent-devito</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[pollution corruption]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thenarwhal.ca/university-of-alberta-air-quality-research-reviewed-by-coal-producer-prior-to-publication-documents-reveal/">University
of Alberta air quality research reviewed by coal producer prior
to publication, documents reveal</a></b><br>
Carol Linnitt May 23, 2018<br>
Research released by the University of Alberta's School of Public
Health on the health effects of coal-fired power plants was reviewed
prior to publication by TransAlta, one of Alberta's largest utility
providers and coal producers, documents released to The Narwhal
under the Freedom of Information Act reveal.<br>
More than 550 pages of emails and documents exchanged between
TransAlta executives and University of Alberta researcher Warren
Kindzierski show the company was heavily involved in assigning,
reviewing and publicizing research that would promote the coal
industry as the government moved forward with a province-wide coal
phase-out.<br>
The correspondence between Kindzierski and TransAlta show the
researcher sought input from company executives on draft versions of
his research, asking how the company would like to proceed based on
his findings. Kindzierski also accompanied TransAlta executives to
meetings with government officials where Kindzierski presented
slides reviewed in advance by the company.<br>
The documents also show Kindzierski offered pointers for TransAlta
communications personnel to consider during the development of
company messaging.<br>
In one email to TransAlta, Kindzierski tells officials they will
"not be disappointed" in his findings....<br>
- - - -<br>
"He has even gone so far as to suggest that instead of air pollution
being harmful to human health, it is neutral, or even possibly
beneficial. This would be analogous to me, as a physician, to
stating smoking is good for you." <br>
Last year Vipond launched a complaint against Kindzierski with the
Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta
(APEGA) for violating his professional code of conduct as outlined
in the Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act. The Narwhal has
learned the investigation into Kindzierski has been ongoing for over
12 months and relates to complaints made by at least one additional
individual.<br>
Vipond said he finds it disturbing Kindzierski participated in
TransAlta's presentations to government as a representative of the
University of Alberta's School of Public Health.<br>
"It nauseates me to think our institutions have been corrupted in
such a manner."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thenarwhal.ca/university-of-alberta-air-quality-research-reviewed-by-coal-producer-prior-to-publication-documents-reveal/">https://thenarwhal.ca/university-of-alberta-air-quality-research-reviewed-by-coal-producer-prior-to-publication-documents-reveal/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Tamino the Statistics Guru] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://wp.me/p2dVD-2wR">Sea
Level Data: Church & White, or Jevrejeva et al.</a></b><br>
by tamino|May 24, 2018<br>
Before the satellite era, the best data we have about sea level
comes from tide gauges. They give local sea level, which is the
difference between the height of the sea surface and the height of
the land (it can move up and down too). It is possible - but very
complicated - to combine data from tide gauges around the world in
order to estimate how global mean sea level (GMSL) has changed over
the past century-and-a-half or so...<br>
- - - - -<br>
Most of them are in Europe and North America, simply because most
tide gauge stations (and especially those with long enough records)
are there, but there's a smattering of stations in other parts of
the world.<br>
For each of the 102 "enough-data" stations I computed the difference
between the 1930-1960 trend and the 1960-1990 trend. Recall that the
cw data say the global average decrease was 0.36 mm/yr while the jev
data suggest 2.32 mm/yr. Here's a histogram of the decrease as
estimated at individual tide gauges:<br>
- - - -<br>
All of this means that we should be using the cw data, not the jev
data. Let me make one thing clear: that does not mean that Jevrejeva
et al. are incompetent. The "virtual station method" was an
ingenious solution to a problem that needed addressing (essentially,
area-weighting). The fact that it can overemphasize a small number
of stations is a flaw, but when smart people invent new methods it's
all too easy for honest and intelligent researchers not to grasp all
its implications right off the bat. The fact that the "first
difference method" (which was well known even before their research)
is tremendously flawed is something that was missed by nearly
everybody. I myself considered it one of the best way to align
stations' data until I looked very closely into the matter.<br>
Jevrejeva et al. aren't fools, and in no way are they dishonest, in
fact they did a great deal of work and identified important issues
which we can't ignore, making great progress in advancing our
understanding of historical sea level rise. The fact that there were
unknown flaws in some of their methods and that subsequent research
has done a better job of it - that's just science.<br>
Unfortunately, climate deniers seem to know only two possible
explanations for scientific data: either it supports their
world-view, or it's some kind of fraud. Real scientists know that
research can arrive at mistaken conclusions, not because of some
global conspiracy to destroy America, but because science is
difficult, complex, intricate, and we don't always get everything
right the first time.<br>
I suspect that among scientists the Jevrejeva et al. data will fall
out of favor because it has demonstrable flaws. Among climate
deniers, it will remain a favorite because it supports a tiny part
of their climate-denier worldview. In my opinion, their support for
purely ideological reasons is a genuine insult to the efforts of
Jevrejeva et al. Criticism of their work for purely scientific
reasons is how real science works, and I strongly suspect that
Jevrejeva and colleagues would agree.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wp.me/p2dVD-2wR">https://wp.me/p2dVD-2wR</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>
[Fresh Air Movie Review]<br>
NPR<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.npr.org/2018/05/16/611590499/first-reformed-asks-will-god-forgive-us-for-destroying-his-creation">'First
Reformed' Asks: 'Will God Forgive Us For Destroying His
Creation?'</a></b><br>
[6 minute audio report} <br>
First Reformed is a stunner, a spiritually probing work of art with
the soul of a thriller, realized with a level of formal control and
fierce moral anger that we seldom see in American movies.<br>
This isn't just Paul Schrader's best picture in years; it distills
his brilliant, erratic career into one magnum opus. It brings
together his background in Calvinist theology, his fascination with
male sociopathic rage and his scholarly expertise on the austere,
contemplative style of filmmakers like Carl Theodor Dreyer and
Yasujirō Ozu.<br>
If that sounds like a lot to process, don't worry: It's also a hell
of a compelling story.<br>
Ethan Hawke brings a powerful sense of inner turmoil to the role of
Reverend Ernst Toller, a former military chaplain who now leads a
tiny congregation at a Dutch Reformed church in upstate New York.
The nearly 250-year-old chapel has since been absorbed by a wealthy,
well-attended mega-church called Abundant Life Ministries.<br>
One of Toller's few parishioners is a young woman named Mary, played
by Amanda Seyfried, who asks him to counsel her husband, Michael, an
ex-con and environmental activist. Michael, played by Philip
Ettinger, is so depressed and frightened by the devastating
implications of climate change that he wants Mary, pregnant with
their child, to have an abortion.<br>
In counseling Michael, Toller opens up about his own experience with
grief and despair; the minister is mourning his own son, who died in
the war in Iraq after Toller encouraged him to enlist in the
military.<br>
Their back-and-forth between is a masterwork of spiritual
interrogation, in which Toller's urgent plea for hope collides with
the full force of Michael's torment.<br>
Schrader shoots the dialogue and the entire film in long, measured
takes, rarely moving the camera or cutting away unless necessary. In
scene after scene he plants us in the room with the characters,
forcing us to adjust to the unhurried rhythms of their conversation.
But despite its measured pacing and formal spareness, First Reformed
has a powerful sense of narrative drive.<br>
"Will God forgive us for destroying His creation?" Michael asks, and
before long Toller is asking the same question - especially when
he learns that Abundant Life, the parent church, is in business with
one of the region's biggest industrial polluters.<br>
First Reformed is essentially the story of a minister's extreme
doubt, disillusionment and radicalization. It doesn't help that
Toller has so little to live for: His health is declining rapidly
and he's seemingly determined to drink himself to death in any case.
His thin, ravaged body becomes a stark metaphor for the dying Earth
itself.<br>
First Reformed isn't the subtlest of theological provocations. With
his explicit references to the Iraq War and climate change, Schrader
is implicating modern evangelical Christianity for what he perceives
as its lapses in moral leadership and co-opting by the conservative
right. The plotting may be a little convenient, but Schrader makes
no attempt to conceal the fact that he's written a polemic. It's
both a work of deep introspection and a call to arms.<br>
The movie isn't undone by these contradictions; it's fulfilled by
them. Toller finds himself drawing closer to the kind, gentle Mary,
but even that can't stop him from harboring dark and increasingly
violent thoughts towards the church. At times, First Reformed
suggests a loose remake of Taxi Driver by way of Robert Bresson's
Diary of a Country Priest. Schrader even throws in references to
Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light and Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice
for good measure.<br>
Hawke has said that his great-grandmother longed for him to be a
priest; it may not have been his destiny, but he was certainly born
to play one. Ettinger and Seyfried are heartbreaking in their
vulnerability, and so, too, is Victoria Hill as a church choir
director who carries a torch for Toller, but earns only his
unbridled contempt.<br>
The most surprising performance comes from a terrific Cedric the
Entertainer, billed here as Cedric Kyles. He plays Reverend Joel
Jeffers, the charismatic but deeply compromised head pastor of
Abundant Life.<br>
At one point Jeffers tries to get Toller to snap out of his despair,
telling him, "You're always in the garden! Even Jesus wasn't always
in the garden." First Reformed itself feels like the work of an
artist who has spent a lot of time in his own private Gethsemane,
wrestling with his demons. By the end of this beautifully sustained
movie, it's Schrader's career that's been resurrected.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.npr.org/2018/05/16/611590499/first-reformed-asks-will-god-forgive-us-for-destroying-his-creation">https://www.npr.org/2018/05/16/611590499/first-reformed-asks-will-god-forgive-us-for-destroying-his-creation</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b>This Day in Climate History - May 25, 1992 - from
D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
May 25, 1992: The New York Times editorial page calls for a price on
<br>
carbon, stating:<br>
<blockquote>"The prudent course for the West is to impose taxes that
help the <br>
environment, and incidentally combat global warming. The best
choice <br>
would be a modest tax on carbon-based fuels.<br>
"A carbon tax equivalent to, say, 25 cents per gallon of gasoline
would <br>
help reduce pollution. Incidentally, it might be enough to help
cut back <br>
greenhouse emissions in the West to 1990 levels by 2000 -- the
policy <br>
environmentalists fought, unsuccessfully, to have adopted at next
<br>
month's Earth Summit in Brazil."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/25/opinion/on-global-warming-why-no-carbon-tax.html">http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/25/opinion/on-global-warming-why-no-carbon-tax.html</a><br>
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