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<font size="+1"><i>June 7, 2018</i></font><br>
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[When a storm is heavy with water does it mean a slower wind speed?]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/06/hurricane-warning-storms-slowing-down-increasing-flood-risks/678125002/">Study:
Hurricanes are slowing down as climate warms, increasing flood
threats</a></b><br>
Doyle Rice, USA TODAY<br>
It's not that hurricanes' wind speeds are diminishing, but instead
how fast the entire storm moves, a<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0158-3.epdf?referrer_access_token=bpDbGjytjcp46KFgpkROINRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MemqNFYaQFhK1eblrz65R9wqFwJ5SEHzsxU9YMRaRIdXqhBw3Cw918EU1tJ22jjWSuRAcPmlhP7EaodJuXEKisroD8TcjDp4LBdqDHmvTnGQ3gdJGAGrYn_66lgkwEu4tw3YRUjYLPAGkPq9oDbVKz5TtbygdapzpWCQWvhci8au9FGjnxdO_WSEN2R5INweJk5NMBc3TH2Tcqx4MrCRZ2&tracking_referrer=mobile.nytimes.com">
new study reports</a>. <br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0158-3.epdf?referrer_access_token=bpDbGjytjcp46KFgpkROINRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MemqNFYaQFhK1eblrz65R9wqFwJ5SEHzsxU9YMRaRIdXqhBw3Cw918EU1tJ22jjWSuRAcPmlhP7EaodJuXEKisroD8TcjDp4LBdqDHmvTnGQ3gdJGAGrYn_66lgkwEu4tw3YRUjYLPAGkPq9oDbVKz5TtbygdapzpWCQWvhci8au9FGjnxdO_WSEN2R5INweJk5NMBc3TH2Tcqx4MrCRZ2&tracking_referrer=mobile.nytimes.com">A
global slowdown of tropical-cyclone translation speed</a><br>
As storms move slower, they can unload more heavy rain and pound
coastal areas longer, increasing damage potential. <br>
"The slower a storm goes, the more rain it's going to dump in any
particular area," said study author James Kossin, a climate
scientist from NOAA. "Hurricane Harvey last year was a great example
of what a slow storm can do."<br>
Harvey stalled out over Texas last August, dropping Biblical
rainfall that caused catastrophic flooding in the Houston area. As a
result of Harvey, 89 people died and some 200,000 homes and
businesses were destroyed, costing over $126 billion in economic
losses.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/06/hurricane-warning-storms-slowing-down-increasing-flood-risks/678125002/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/06/hurricane-warning-storms-slowing-down-increasing-flood-risks/678125002/</a><br>
</font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-tiger-mosquito-warning-20180604-story.html">Report:
Climate Change Increasing Connecticut's Risk For Mosquito-Borne
Disease</a></b><br>
Gregory B. Hladky <br>
The invasive and aggressive Asian tiger mosquito, capable of
infecting people with rare diseases like the <a id="HEIAD00014"
title="Zika Virus"
href="http://www.courant.com/topic/health/diseases-illnesses/zika-virus-HEIAD00014-topic.html">Zika
virus</a> and dengue fever, is now expected to spread through
almost all of Connecticut by 2040, according to a new state report.<br>
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The <a href="http://www.ct.gov/ceq/cwp/view.asp?a=986&Q=477460"
target="_blank">Council on Environmental Quality's</a> annual
report also warns that "Infection rates of <a id="HEDAI0000086"
title="West Nile Virus"
href="http://www.courant.com/topic/health/diseases-illnesses/west-nile-virus-HEDAI0000086-topic.html">West
Nile Virus</a> and other mosquito-borne diseases are likely to
rise as a warming climate creates more favorable habitats for
mosquitoes."<br>
<a
href="https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/animals/asiantigmos.shtml"
target="_blank">Asian tiger mosquitoes</a> were first detected in
Connecticut in 2006 and have been "increasing in abundance and
distribution," said Philip Armstrong, director of the <a
href="http://www.ct.gov/caes/cwp/view.asp?a=2819&q=377446&caesNav=%7C"
target="_blank">mosquito monitoring program</a> at the Connecticut
Agricultural Experiment Station.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-tiger-mosquito-warning-20180604-story.html">http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-tiger-mosquito-warning-20180604-story.html</a></font><br>
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[YaleClimateConnections - Audio]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/06/inmates-learn-about-climate-change/">These
inmates are learning about climate change</a></b><br>
It can help prisoners feel connected to something larger than
themselves.<br>
In 2017, nearly a hundred inmates at the Stafford Creek Corrections
Center in Washington state learned about climate change threats and
disaster resilience.<br>
Bush: "We feel that incarcerated people have been overlooked as
participants in the environmental movement. We need to engage all
people."<br>
Kelli Bush of Evergreen State College codirects the Sustainability
in Prisons Project. The initiative runs environmental education
programs at Washington's 12 state prisons.<br>
The project initiative runs environmental education programs at
Washington's 12 state prisons.<br>
Prisoners can participate in gardening, composting, beekeeping, and
butterfly conservation. And they can take classes that prepare them
for environmental jobs when they're released.<br>
Bush says this kind of education can make a difference in people's
lives both behind bars and when they return home...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/06/inmates-learn-about-climate-change/">https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/06/inmates-learn-about-climate-change/</a><br>
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[SPP is Sustainability in Prisons Project]<b><br>
</b><b> </b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://sustainabilityinprisons.org/"><b>Mission: We empower
sustainable change by bringing nature, science, and
environmental education into prisons</b></a><br>
Vision: In response to the dual crises of ecological degradation and
mass incarceration, we aim to reduce recidivism while improving
human well-being and ecosystem health. SPP brings together
incarcerated individuals, scientists, corrections staff, students,
and program partners to promote education, conserve biodiversity,
practice sustainability, and help build healthy communities.
Together, we reduce the environmental, economic, and human costs of
prisons.<br>
<b>What that looks like</b><br>
The Sustainability in Prisons Project (SPP) is a partnership founded
by The Evergreen State College and Washington State Department of
Corrections. With vital input from many additional partners, we
develop and deliver a wide range of science, sustainability and
environmental education programs in all 12 Washington State prisons.
Recent highlights include:<br>
In a single growing season, prison gardens grew ~492,000 lbs. of
produce for food banks and prison kitchens; one example.<br>
In six years of the Taylor's checkerspot butterfly program, reared
and released more than 13,000 caterpillars and adult butterflies
onto south Salish lowland prairies.<br>
Since 2013, more than 1,100 students graduated from a 50-hour
environmental course prepared for environmental careers, resource
savings, and positive community involvement.<br>
Since 2009, prairie conservation nurseries grew and delivered more
than 2 million rare and endangered species for Salish lowland
prairie restoration projects.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://sustainabilityinprisons.org/">http://sustainabilityinprisons.org/</a></font><br>
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[Audio and text]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/suncor-ceo-slams-climate-change-deniers-1.4694549">Suncor
CEO slams climate change deniers, politicians who cater to them</a></b><br>
'I hope some of those politicians get brave enough to stand up and
take some different positions,' CEO says<br>
David Bell · CBC News<br>
The head of Canada's largest oil company says climate change is
backed by science, and deniers, including politicians, need to do a
U-turn and accept it.<br>
Suncor Energy Inc. president and chief executive officer Steve
Williams - speaking on a panel during the event in Calgary titled <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.policyschool.ca/events/bridging-divides-in-search-of-sound-public-policies-for-energy-and-environment-in-canada/">Bridging
Divides: In Search of Sound Public Policies for Energy and
Environment in Canada </a>- said he's unhappy with how the debate
on climate change has become so polarizing.<br>
"It is a matter of profound disappointment to me that science and
economics have taken on some strange political ownership. Why the
science of the left-wing is different than the science of the
right-wing. Why it's not possible for, certainly within Canada for
conservatives, to take a conversation about, 'Hey, it's just a fact.
Let's get some facts out on the table,'" <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1249735747584">Williams told
the crowd at the sold-out event</a>.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/suncor-ceo-slams-climate-change-deniers-1.4694549">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/suncor-ceo-slams-climate-change-deniers-1.4694549</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Classic video from 2017]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://vimeo.com/215189130">Thomas
Homer-Dixon</a><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://vimeo.com/215189130">World
Government Summit, Dubai, February 2017, "Climate Change and
Food Supply"</a></b><br>
Video of his insightful and current Dubai lecture in 2017 <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://vimeo.com/215189130">https://vimeo.com/215189130</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://vimeo.com/215189130">https://vimeo.com/215189130</a><br>
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[Archived video - start 20 mins in]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://theintercept.com/puerto-rico/">Livestream: The
Battle for Paradise - Resisting Disaster Capitalism in Puerto
Rico</a></b><br>
On Wednesday, June 6, The Intercept will co-host[ed] "The Battle for
Paradise," an event focused on how the forces of disaster capitalism
are seeking to undermine the Puerto Rican people's vision for a just
and renewable future. The event will be [archived]<br>
"The Battle for Paradise" will feature Intercept Senior
Correspondent Naomi Klein, UPROSE Executive Director Elizabeth
Yeampierre, <a class="" href="https://www.democracynow.org/">Democracy
Now!</a> co-host Juan Gonzalez, as well as Edwin Morales, vice
president of the <a class="" href="https://twitter.com/FMPRLucha">Puerto
Rico Teachers Federation</a>, and Katia R. Aviles-Vazquez, Ph.D.,
a member of <a class=""
href="http://organizacionboricua.blogspot.com/">Organizacion
Boricua de Agricultura Ecologica.</a> Betsy Reed, editor-in-chief
of The Intercept, will introduce the event.<br>
This discussion is co-hosted by <a class=""
href="https://www.uprose.org/">UPROSE</a>, the <a class=""
href="http://www.ourpowercampaign.org/">Climate Justice Alliance</a>,
<a class="" href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/">Haymarket Books</a>,
and "<a class="" href="http://www.ourpowercampaign.org/puerto_rico">Our
Power Puerto Rico</a>" campaign.<br>
Naomi Klein's book, "<a class=""
href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1235-the-battle-for-paradise">The
Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists</a>"
is now available for sale in both English and Spanish - and all
royalties from its sale will go to <a class=""
href="http://juntegente.org/">JunteGente</a>, a group of Puerto
Rican organizations advancing a fair recovery for Puerto Rico.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://theintercept.com/puerto-rico">https://theintercept.com/puerto-rico</a><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/07/world/europe/07prexy.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print">This
Day in Climate History - June 7, 2007</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
June 7, 2007: The New York Times reports:<br>
"As leaders of wealthy nations converged Wednesday on a Baltic Sea
resort for their annual meeting, the White House effectively
derailed a climate change initiative backed by one of President
Bush’s strongest European allies, Chancellor Angela Merkel of
Germany.<br>
"The White House said it would hold firm against concrete long-term
targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a major priority for
Mrs. Merkel, the host of the Group of 8 meeting."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/07/world/europe/07prexy.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/07/world/europe/07prexy.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print</a></font><br>
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