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<font size="+1"><i>June 10, 2018</i></font><br>
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[The Central Arizona Project used to be a coal-supporting
organization]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://kfgo.com/news/articles/2018/jun/08/main-customer-of-arizona-coal-plant-goes-green-ignoring-interior-department/">Main
customer of Arizona coal plant goes green, ignoring Interior
Department</a></b><br>
By Valerie Volcovici - Friday, June 08, 2018 <br>
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The main buyer of electricity from an Arizona
coal plant on the verge of closure said on Friday it will instead
source its electricity largely from a solar power project, ignoring
an appeal by the U.S. Interior Department to buy more power from the
plant to keep it open.<br>
The Trump administration has been waging a broad effort to keep
aging coal and nuclear plants from retirement, arguing that their
closure would constitute a threat to national energy security.<br>
On Friday, the board of the Central Arizona Project (CAP), a major
electricity consumer that supplies water to a large swath of
Arizona, voted to sign a 20-year agreement to buy power from a solar
project and also agreed to a five-year power deal with utility Salt
River Project for electricity from a variety of sources.<br>
The vote came despite a plea from the head of Interior's Bureau of
Reclamation, who last Friday wrote to board members to say that a
1968 law gives Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke power to require the
CAP to buy energy from the Navajo Generating Station, or NGS, a
2,250-MW coal-fired power plant that is scheduled to close in
2019...<br>
- - - -<br>
[The] Interior Department said it will continue to find ways to keep
the Navajo Generation Station open.<br>
"The Department of the Interior is committed to seek a post-2019
economically viable operation plan for NGS," said spokesman Dan
DuBray.<br>
"Interior's activities with myriad NGS stakeholders - including our
discussions with the Navajo Nation, the Hopi Tribe, and the multiple
tribes which rely on CAP water - are ongoing and productive," he
said.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://kfgo.com/news/articles/2018/jun/08/main-customer-of-arizona-coal-plant-goes-green-ignoring-interior-department/">http://kfgo.com/news/articles/2018/jun/08/main-customer-of-arizona-coal-plant-goes-green-ignoring-interior-department/</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="-1">["The rain raineth on the just, and the unjust
fella..."]</font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://weather.com/science/environment/news/2018-06-09-rainfall-storms-downpours-increasing-climate-change">Heavy
Rainfall Has Increased by Up to 70 Percent in Parts of the U.S.
Since the 1950s, and It Will Only Get Worse, Experts Say</a></b><br>
By Pam Wright<br>
Downpours from storms are dumping more water across the nation than
ever before, with the Midwest and Pacific Northwest receiving the
greatest increase in heavy rainfall.<br>
While some areas will get wetter, with heavier downpours, other
regions will get drier. <br>
The 2014 National Climate Assessment reported that downpours from
storms are dumping more water across the nation than ever before,
with the Midwest, Pacific Northwest and the Upper Plains receiving
the greatest increase in heavy rainfall. The Environmental
Protection Agency notes that heavy rainfall events have increased by
70 percent in the Pacific Northwest over the past six decades or so,
more than any other region in the United States.<br>
<font size="-1">- - - - -<br>
</font>"The combination of more intense rainfall and the spreading
of heavy rainfall over larger areas means that we will face a higher
flood risk than previously predicted," Prein said in a press
release. "If a whole catchment area gets hammered by high rain
rates, that creates a much more serious situation than a
thunderstorm dropping intense rain over parts of the catchment."<font
size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://weather.com/science/environment/news/2018-06-09-rainfall-storms-downpours-increasing-climate-change">https://weather.com/science/environment/news/2018-06-09-rainfall-storms-downpours-increasing-climate-change</a></font><br>
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<br>
[listen for 25 minutes]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.goodgriefgroup.org/episode-6-ten-steps-to-resilience/">Episode
6: Ten Steps to Resilience in a Chaotic Climate</a></b><br>
5 June 2018 Podcast, Steps to Resiliency<br>
Audio Player <br>
<b>LaUra and Aimee explain their 10 step program that leads to
psychosocial resilience from systemic existential threats</b>.
They acknowledge the importance of looking inwardly to engage
outwardly. This program was originally created by LaUra during her
Environmental Humanities Graduate program at the University of Utah
and after Aimee moved to Salt Lake City, the two of them turned
theory into practice and brought the steps alive. They're now weeks
away from releasing our manual that will guide anyone through
facilitating the steps. Start your own branch of the Network
anywhere!<br>
"You never change things by fighting against the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model
obsolete."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.goodgriefgroup.org/episode-6-ten-steps-to-resilience/">http://www.goodgriefgroup.org/episode-6-ten-steps-to-resilience/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Listen to the Pope]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-vatican-conference-pope/pope-warns-energy-bosses-of-global-destruction-without-fuel-shift-idUSKCN1J50BD">Pope
warns energy bosses of global destruction without fuel shift</a></b><br>
Philip Pullella - JUNE 9, 2018 - VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope
Francis warned that climate change risked destroying humanity on
Saturday and called on energy leaders to help the world to convert
to clean fuels to avert catastrophe.<br>
"<b>Civilization requires energy but energy use must not destroy
civilization,</b>" the pope told top oil company executives at the
end of a two-day conference in the Vatican.<br>
Climate change was a challenge of "epochal proportions", he said,
adding that the world needed an energy mix that combated pollution,
eliminated poverty and promoted social justice.<br>
The conference, held behind closed doors at the Pontifical Academy
of Sciences, brought together oil executives, investors and Vatican
experts who, like the pope, back scientific opinion that climate
change is caused by human activity.<br>
"We know that the challenges facing us are interconnected. If we are
to eliminate poverty and hunger ... the more than one billion people
without electricity today need to gain access to it," the pope told
them.<br>
"Our desire to ensure energy for all must not lead to the undesired
effect of a spiral of extreme climate changes due to a catastrophic
rise in global temperatures, harsher environments and increased
levels of poverty," he said.<br>
CLIMATE GOAL<br>
The oil and gas industry has come under growing pressure from
investors and activists to play a bigger role in reducing greenhouse
gas emissions to meet goals set out in a 2015 climate agreement
signed in Paris.<br>
- - - - -<br>
He said the transition to accessible and clean energy was "a duty
that we owe towards millions of our brothers and sisters around the
world, poorer countries and generations yet to come".<br>
The pope also called for a global, long-term common project:<br>
"Environmental and energy problems now have a global impact and
extent," he said.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-vatican-conference-pope/pope-warns-energy-bosses-of-global-destruction-without-fuel-shift-idUSKCN1J50BD">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-vatican-conference-pope/pope-warns-energy-bosses-of-global-destruction-without-fuel-shift-idUSKCN1J50BD</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://medialibrary.climatecentral.org/resources/global-ocean-conveyer-belt">Global
Ocean Conveyer Belt</a></b><br>
JUN 6, 2018<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://medialibrary.climatecentral.org/resources/global-ocean-conveyer-belt">http://medialibrary.climatecentral.org/resources/global-ocean-conveyer-belt</a><br>
<font size="+1">Ocean currents and broader circulations move vast
amounts of water around the world, redistributing heat and energy,
and helping regulate the global climate. Wind-driven currents like
the cold California Current and the warm Gulf Stream are drivers
of local climates. But a larger ocean circulation caused by
differences in temperature and salinity drives even greater
amounts of water around the world. This thermohaline circulation,
also known as the global ocean conveyor belt, involves both
surface and deep water throughout the global ocean.</font><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecentral.createsend.com/t/ViewEmail/y/AE1FB81754354E5A/C67FD2F38AC4859C/?tx=0&previewAll=1&print=1">https://climatecentral.createsend.com/t/ViewEmail/y/AE1FB81754354E5A/C67FD2F38AC4859C/?tx=0&previewAll=1&print=1</a><br>
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<br>
[Russia uses summer for winter ships]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/travel/2018/04/five-nuclear-powered-voyages-north-pole">Five
nuclear-powered voyages to melting North Pole</a></b><br>
Been there, seen that: 600 tourists pay up to $43,000 each to crush
through the ice towards the top of the world before it melts away.<br>
By Thomas Nilsen - April 18, 2018 - the most powerful icebreaker
ever built will serve as a cruise-ship for some of the best-paying
travelers this summer. With start in Murmansk, the nuclear-powered
giant sails towards the North Pole five times from June to August.
Each tour takes 120 passengers.<br>
<br>
Poseidon Expeditions, one of the operators organizing the tours,
promotes the feeling of crushing through the ice like this: «As we
make our way across the ice cap, you witness firsthand the ship's
awesome power as massive ice blocks give way under the enormous bulk
of the spoon-shaped bow. The sensation of being on deck at this time
is surreal and unforgettable.<br>
<br>
Maybe more unforgettable today than tomorrow. The sea ice is
currently melting away in record speed. Arctic sea ice gets thinner
and younger, making it move faster and breaks up more easily. This
is the consequences of global warming, making the last few winters
in the high north weirdly warm.<br>
<br>
National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado
Boulder follows the development by studying satellite data. As the
Arctic sea ice was at its maximum extent in March, the centre
concluded that 2018 became the second lowest extent in the 39-year
satellite record, falling just behind 2017. Worse: the four lowest
seasonal maxima have all occurred during the last four years.<br>
Polar scientists predict the North Pole could be ice free within a
few decades. In summer.<br>
- - -- <br>
In case you wonder: tickets for a bed onboard the North Pole cruises
starts at $27,295 when you are two sharing a cabin. The 33 m3
Arktika suite, on the top deck of the icebreaker, will cost you
$42,990 per person.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/travel/2018/04/five-nuclear-powered-voyages-north-pole">https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/travel/2018/04/five-nuclear-powered-voyages-north-pole</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Video]<br>
Climate Denial Crock of the Week with Peter Sinclair<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/06/09/reinventing-power-block-island-wind/">Reinventing
Power: Block Island Wind</a></b><br>
June 9, 2018<br>
Description:<br>
Bryan Wilson lost his business during the 2008 recession but he, and
the island he calls home, found a new future in offshore wind. After
relying for decades on diesel generators for power, Block Island
played a critical role in building the nation's first, and only,
offshore wind project. Today, Bryan is a wind technician and helping
the nation's smallest town lead the country on clean energy.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/06/09/reinventing-power-block-island-wind/">https://climatecrocks.com/2018/06/09/reinventing-power-block-island-wind/</a><br>
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<br>
[Spinal Tap: goes up to 11 ] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/hurricanes-are-now-so-violent-that-we-need-a-new-category&ct=ga&cd=CAEYKCoUMTI5OTc5MDQ1MzgyNzMxMDc1NzQyGmJiYWI3Y2QzMTRmMmE3Y2E6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNGh4pTmOzNIfLiATcttotWjFHgEZA">Hurricanes
Are Now So Violent That We Need a New Categor</a></b><b>y</b><br>
Daily Beast<br>
"Does actually adding another category make it easier for people on
the ground to understand how dangerous an incoming storm is?"<br>
To support their point, the authors cited a series of recent
hurricanes that broke meteorological records. Hurricane Harvey
(2017) had more rainfall than any other U.S. hurricane in history.
Irma (2017) maintained a wind speed of over 300km/hour for 37 hours,
longer than any other storm on record. September 2017 - the month
that Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico - had the highest cumulative
energy in the Atlantic in history.<br>
"Does actually adding another category make it easier for people on
the ground to understand how dangerous an incoming storm is?"<br>
To support their point, the authors cited a series of recent
hurricanes that broke meteorological records. Hurricane Harvey
(2017) had more rainfall than any other U.S. hurricane in history.
Irma (2017) maintained a wind speed of over 300km/hour for 37 hours,
longer than any other storm on record. September 2017 - the month
that Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico - had the highest cumulative
energy in the Atlantic in history...<br>
- -- - <br>
Having a Category 6 would potentially de-emphasize water conditions
and overemphasize wind conditions, which might be the wrong emphasis
in an emergency situation.<br>
Despite the debate, there's one thing experts agree on: There's been
a spike in intense hurricanes - and it's likely to get worse.<br>
"This is a risk that we can no longer afford to ignore," the authors
conclude.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/hurricanes-are-now-so-violent-that-we-need-a-new-category">https://www.thedailybeast.com/hurricanes-are-now-so-violent-that-we-need-a-new-category</a></font><br>
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<br>
[New Book by Naomi Klein]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1235-the-battle-for-paradise">The
Battle For Paradise</a></b><br>
Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists<br>
by Naomi Klein<br>
<blockquote>"We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and
María unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the
inequality it fosters, creating a fierce humanitarian crisis. Now
we must find a path forward to equality and sustainability, a path
driven by communities, not investors. And this book explains, with
careful and unbiased reporting, only the efforts of our community
activists can answer the paramount question: What type of society
do we want to become and who is Puerto Rico for?" —Carmen Yulín
Cruz, Mayor of San Juan<br>
</blockquote>
In the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans and ultrarich
"Puertopians" are locked in a pitched struggle over how to remake
the island. In this vital and startling investigation, bestselling
author and activist Naomi Klein uncovers how the forces of shock
politics and disaster capitalism seek to undermine the nation's
radical, resilient vision for a "just recovery."<br>
All royalties from the sale of this book in English and Spanish go
directly to JunteGente, a gathering of Puerto Rican organizations
resisting disaster capitalism and advancing a fair and healthy
recovery for their island. For more information, visit <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://juntegente.org/">http://juntegente.org/</a>.<br>
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist,
documentary filmmaker and author of the international bestsellers No
Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise
of Disaster Capitalism, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the
Climate, and No Is Not Enough.<br>
<b>Reviews</b><br>
"We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and Maria unmasked
the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the inequality it
fosters, creating a fierce humanitarian crisis. Now we must find a
path forward to equality and sustainability, a path driven by
communities, not investors. And this book explains, with careful and
unbiased reporting, only the efforts of our community activists can
answer the paramount question: What type of society do we want to
become and who is Puerto Rico for?" <br>
- Carmen Yulin Cruz, Mayor of San Juan<br>
<blockquote> "Naomi Klein concisely reveals to us what Puerto Rico
has faced, shock after shock, before Hurricane Maria and after it
and also the voices of people who believe and build a future for
Puerto Rico from the strength of their communities."<br>
</blockquote>
- Ana Irma Rivera Lassen, feminist, human rights activist, former
president of the Puerto Rico Bar Association<br>
Like so many of my generation, I've been a reader of Naomi Klein's
since the late 90s, always finding something to learn from her
rigorous reporting and thoughtful analysis. There's no-one better to
tell the story of Hurricane Maria and its global significance than
Naomi. In the face of speculation, exploitation and climate crisis,
this book calls on us to recognize Puerto Rico's struggle for
democracy, justice, and human life itself, as our own." <br>
—Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona<br>
<blockquote> "What 'shocks' in this work is the resilient spirit del
pueblo boricua. They become the metaphor, the meaning and the
maker of possibility. And one is left immeasurably hopeful." -
Cherrie Moraga, Las Maestras Center for Chicana Indigenous Thought
& Art Practice, UCSB<br>
</blockquote>
"A gripping and timely account of classic 'shock doctrine' being
perpetrated in Puerto Rico. Naomi Klein chronicles the extraordinary
grassroots resistance by the Puerto Rican people against neoliberal
privatization and Wall Street greed in the aftermath of the island's
financial meltdown, of hurricane devastation, and of Washington's
imposition of an outside control board over the most important U.S.
colony." <br>
- Juan Gonzalez, co-host of Democracy Now! and author of Harvest of
Empire: A History of Latinos in America.<br>
<blockquote> "Against the rampant greed of disaster capitalism, only
radical solidarity can provide the way forward for Puerto Rico. To
build it, our approach must be grounded in uncovering and
combating the strategies that have been developed to deprive an
entire nation of its human rights and its ability to defend
itself. Klein's work does precisely this, inspiring a unified
vision to create the Puerto Rico we need." <br>
- Amarilis Pagan Jimenez, Executive Director of Proyecto Matria<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1235-the-battle-for-paradise">https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1235-the-battle-for-paradise</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Classic 2012 lecture from Thomas Homer-Dixon]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/iAs3cm_PSg4">Catastrophic
dehumanization: the psychological dynamics of severe conflict</a></b><br>
Oxford Martin School - Published on Apr 26, 2012<br>
Dehumanization is arguably a defining feature of the most brutal
acts of human violence, such as saturation bombardment of civilian
populations, terrorist attacks on urban centers, intense battlefield
combat, and genocide. I propose a psychological explanation of this
phenomenon that uses a catastrophe manifold to describe a set of
psychological states in an individual's mind and the possible
pathways of movement between these states. The manifold exists in a
three-dimensional phase space defined by the variables identity,
justice, and structural constraint. It specifies five hypotheses
about the causes and dynamics of dehumanization. Taken together,
these hypotheses represent an overarching theory of the nonlinear
collapse of identification at the level of the individual.<br>
Speaker: Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon, Director, Waterloo Institute
for Complexity and Innovation, University of Waterloo, Canada<br>
Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon answers questions on his forthcoming
lecture and research in this blog <font size="-1"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/iAs3cm_PSg4">https://youtu.be/iAs3cm_PSg4</a></font><br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://youtu.be/0fkKnfk4k40">This Day in Climate History
- June 10, 1963</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
June 10, 1963: In a commencement address at American University,
President Kennedy famously observes:<br>
"For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we
all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all
cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/0fkKnfk4k40">http://youtu.be/0fkKnfk4k40</a> <br>
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