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<font size="+1"><i>June 11, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[Money talks]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-l-g-funds-climatechange/investor-lgim-seeks-removal-of-eight-company-chairs-over-climate-change-inaction-idUSKBN1J6133">Investor
LGIM seeks removal of eight company chairs over climate change
inaction</a></b><br>
Simon Jessop - LONDON (Reuters) - <br>
Britain's biggest asset manager wants to remove the chairmen of the
board at eight companies worldwide, which it says have failed to
confront the threats posed by climate change.<br>
Legal & General Investment Management, the fund arm of insurer
Legal & General (LGEN.L), has been among the most vocal asset
managers on the topic, recently writing to some of the world's top
companies calling for more action.<br>
On Monday, it said it would vote against the chairs of China
Construction Bank (601939.SS), Dominion Energy (D.N) and Japan Post
Holdings (6178.T), as well as Occidental Petroleum (OXY.N), Rosneft
Oil (ROSN.MM) and Subaru (7270.T). The other two companies on its
list were Loblaw Companies (L.TO) and Sysco Corp (SYY.N).<br>
As well as demanding the removal of the companies' chairmen, LGIM
also said it would sell any shares of the eight companies held in
its 5 billion pounds ($6.7 billion) Future World Funds index funds
range.<br>
After spending a year engaging with 84 of the world's biggest firms
over their climate strategies, LGIM, which manages nearly 1 trillion
pounds ($1.3 trillion) in assets, said some were not doing enough to
prepare for a low-carbon economy.<br>
While some companies were "excelling", others were "failing to do
the bare minimum", with a number not even responding to requests to
engage, LGIM said.<br>
"We're going to keep ratcheting up the minimum standards and our
expectations from the companies; it's not a finished business," said
Meryam Omi, head of sustainability and responsible investment
strategy at LGIM...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-l-g-funds-climatechange/investor-lgim-seeks-removal-of-eight-company-chairs-over-climate-change-inaction-idUSKBN1J6133">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-l-g-funds-climatechange/investor-lgim-seeks-removal-of-eight-company-chairs-over-climate-change-inaction-idUSKBN1J6133</a><br>
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<br>
[US against reality]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10062018/g7-summit-climate-change-communique-trump-allies-estranged-germany-france-canada">Six
of the G7 Commit to Climate Action. Trump Wouldn't Even Join
Conversation.</a></b><br>
Trump skipped the formal climate discussions, had the U.S.
negotiators promote fossil fuels instead, and then renounced the
group's official communique.<br>
- - - - <br>
"Leaders from the other six countries didn't even try to paper over
their strong disagreements with Trump on trade, climate change and
other important issues," Meyer wrote. "They are joined by thousands
of mayors, governors, business leaders and others who are moving
forward with ambitious climate action and pursuing the tremendous
economic development and job creation benefits that clean energy
technologies provide. As communities across the U.S. confront the
costly and harmful impacts of climate change, it's these leaders -
not President Trump - who are acting in the true economic,
environmental and national security interests of the American
people."<br>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-a7b5fc33-eaaa-0aaa-e356-0d94903381b8"
style="box-sizing: inherit;">This year's G7 statement on climate
change was more extensive than the G7's </span><a
href="https://www.mofa.go.jp/files/000260041.pdf"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(131, 190, 68); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">2017
communique</a>. Last year, they included a single paragraph on
climate change that stated that the U.S. was reviewing its policies
and was "not in a position to join the consensus." The other leaders
said only that they recognized the process underway in the U.S. and
that they reaffirmed their commitment to the Paris Agreement.<br>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-a7b5fc33-eaaa-0aaa-e356-0d94903381b8"
style="box-sizing: inherit;">"</span>America - until now - had led
on climate," Environmental Defense Fund President <a
href="https://twitter.com/fredkrupp/status/1005532156347629568?s=11"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(131, 190, 68); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Fred
Krupp wrote</a><span> </span>after this week's G7 meeting. "Today
our president doesn't even care enough to be present. We all must
work to restore the USA to a leadership position."<br>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-a7b5fc33-eaaa-0aaa-e356-0d94903381b8"
style="box-sizing: inherit;">Greenpeace, meanwhile, put pressure
on the other nations:<span> </span></span>"The joint commitment
to climate action forged in Paris remains at the top of the
geopolitical agenda despite the U.S. administration's repeated
attempts to demolish it," Executive Director Jennifer Morgan<span> </span><a
href="https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/17041/g7-leaders-release-tepid-plans-for-addressing-climate-change-and-ocean-plastic-pollution-greenpeace-response/"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(131, 190, 68); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">wrote</a>.
"G6 leaders now have to demonstrate their commitment in practice."
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href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10062018/g7-summit-climate-change-communique-trump-allies-estranged-germany-france-canada">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10062018/g7-summit-climate-change-communique-trump-allies-estranged-germany-france-canada</a></font><br>
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<br>
[seven billion Hail Marys]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending-now/pope-to-oil-execs-energy-needs-mustn-t-destroy-civilization/766497446">Pope
to oil execs: Energy needs mustn't destroy civilization</a></b><br>
Updated: Jun 9, 2018 - 6:22 PM<br>
Facebook <br>
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis told leading oil executives Saturday
that the transition to less-polluting energy sources "is a challenge
of epochal proportions" and warned that satisfying the world's
energy needs "must not destroy civilization."...<br>
- - - -<br>
The pope called for a "long-term global strategy to provide energy
security," along with "precise commitments" to tackle the challenge
of climate change.<br>
He said it was "disturbing and a cause for real concern" that the
levels of carbon dioxide emissions and the concentrations of
greenhouse gases remain high despite commitments taken in the 2015
Paris accord to fight global warming.<br>
He urged participants to use their "demonstrated aptitude for
innovation" to address "two of the great needs in today's world: the
care of the poor and the environment." He noted that the poor pay
the highest price for climate change, often being forced to migrate
due to water insecurity, severe weather and an accompanying collapse
in agriculture.<br>
"The transition to accessible and clean energy is a duty that we owe
toward millions of our brothers and sisters around the world, poor
countries and generations yet to come," the pope said.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending-now/pope-to-oil-execs-energy-needs-mustn-t-destroy-civilization/766497446">https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending-now/pope-to-oil-execs-energy-needs-mustn-t-destroy-civilization/766497446</a></font><br>
- - - -<br>
[Invitations lost in the mail?]<br>
<b><a
href="https://qz.com/1301539/the-list-of-oil-companies-that-met-with-pope-francis-about-climate-change-has-some-big-names-missing/">The
list of oil companies that met with the Pope about climate
change has some big names missing</a></b><br>
Those who have not yet confirmed to the media as to whether or not
they sent a representative to Francis's climate klatsch<br>
Chevron<br>
Total<br>
Sinopec<br>
PetroChina<br>
Gazprom<br>
Rosneft<br>
Reliance Industries<br>
LukOil<br>
Phillips 66<br>
PTT PCL<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://qz.com/1301539/the-list-of-oil-companies-that-met-with-pope-francis-about-climate-change-has-some-big-names-missing/">https://qz.com/1301539/the-list-of-oil-companies-that-met-with-pope-francis-about-climate-change-has-some-big-names-missing/</a><br>
</font><br>
<br>
[Despite higher prices for water and energy]<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/rising-seas-could-swell-arizonas-population-21862">Rising
seas could swell Arizona's population</a></b><br>
climatecentral.org - Jun. 8<br>
In decades ahead the state's draw as a new home could be boosted as
seas rise and oceans warm, forcing coastal residents to deal with
fallout like...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/rising-seas-could-swell-arizonas-population-21862">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/rising-seas-could-swell-arizonas-population-21862</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[YouTube video science and policy about water]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivLmV_Ybbyc">Peter Gleick,
Ph D Availability of Water & Sea Level Rise Saint Louis
Climate Summit 1280x720 M</a></b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivLmV_Ybbyc"><br>
</a>Published on Jun 7, 2018<br>
The future of water and climate change: risks, threats,
opportunities, and a sustainable future. <br>
<b>"I would like to argue that there's a positive future out there
but it's gonna require a new way of thinking</b><b><br>
</b><b>about water"</b><br>
A presentation by Dr. Peter Gleick at the 2018 Saint Louis Climate
Summit at St. Louis University.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivLmV_Ybbyc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivLmV_Ybbyc</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Video lecture from top ice scientist - very current - exasperation]<br>
<b><a href="https://youtu.be/05wQ9nG0IXY">Dr. Jason Box
(@climate_ice)- Climate data for climate communicators</a></b><br>
Nick Breeze<br>
Published on Jun 5, 2018<br>
Dr Jason Box gives a 30 minute climate data presentation to climate
communicators at Green Culture in Montenegro, May 2018.<br>
Clip from Transcript:<br>
<blockquote>We have now a complete inventory of global land ice
and... how much volume of ice there is on the planet precisely.<br>
And how it's changing, we have a baseline. And we make
conclusions, like in the Arctic. Greenland represents 60 percent
actually. <br>
I see 60%, [plus] the peripheral glaciers, another six point four
percent, so two-thirds of the Arctic sea level contribution is
coming from Greenland.<br>
And Alaska and the Canadian Arctic are big players and precise
statements like: "the last 20 years Greenland has been
contributing twice what Antarctica has, even though Antarctica's
nine times the volume of Greenland" <br>
It's averaged 280 billion tons the last 12 years. We have
high-precision satellite gravity measurements. <br>
280 billion metric tons per year. Let me put that number into more
perspective - that's equivalent with 8,000 cubic meters of ice per
second. That's the average loss from Greenland the last 15 years.
<br>
8,000 cubic meters per second, the loss from Greenland alone. That
divided by all the people on earth would give...7.2 billion people
each, 150 liters of water per day; every day of the year. That's
about ton of water - forever equivalent [to] everyone.<br>
So it's still kind of an astronomical...number - the loss rate for
Greenland. <br>
And then you add up the others; you add up the other contributors,
it's equivalent to three millimeters of sea level rise per per
year and as you'll see it's accelerated. <br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/05wQ9nG0IXY">https://youtu.be/05wQ9nG0IXY</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Understanding climate models]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/comparing-cmip5-observations/">Comparing
CMIP5 & observations</a></b><br>
updated: February 2018<br>
This page is an ongoing effort to compare observations of global
temperature with CMIP5 simulations assessed by the IPCC 5th
Assessment Report. The first two figures below are updated versions
of Figure 11.25a,b from IPCC AR5 which were originally produced in
mid-2013.<br>
The first panel shows the raw 'spaghetti' projections, with
different observational datasets in black and the different emission
scenarios (RCPs) shown in colours. The simulation data uses
spatially complete coverage of surface air temperature...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/comparing-cmip5-observations/">http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/comparing-cmip5-observations/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Activism]<br>
(((sfpelosi))) American Dreamer US<br>
Jun 9<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://medium.com/@sfpelosi/democrats-lets-clean-up-our-planet-and-our-politics-oilmoneyout-of-the-dnc-b1102d4311ab">Democrats,
let's clean up our planet and our politics: #OilMoneyOut of the
DNC</a></b><br>
An open letter to my DNC Executive Committee colleagues<br>
The clear and present danger to our ecology; the lead in our water
from Flint to Fresno; the alarming rates of environmental illness
from asthma to cancer - which the Trump administration is not only
failing to prevent - but refusing to treat given their
just-announced assault on Affordable Care Act coverage of
pre-existing medical conditions - and the fossil fuel industry's
outsized multi-multi-million dollar influence in political PAC
contributions that expect a return on investment in the form of
drilling off our coasts, desecrating and despoiling our native lands
and public parks, and rolling back fuel emission standards all block
the path to a clean energy future.<br>
<br>
Today we can act - in harmony with the millions of Americans
demanding that we clean up our planet and our politics and join the
hundreds of individual Democratic political candidates for office
across the country who have pledged not to take money from the
fossil fuel industry.<br>
<br>
<b>DNC RESOLUTION REAFFIRMING OUR PRO-ENVIRONMENT PLATFORM,
ENCOURAGING GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM, AND REJECTING DONORS FROM THE
FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY </b><br>
Respectfully submitted,<br>
Christine Pelosi CA<br>
<blockquote>WHEREAS, we Democrats have the opportunity to reform and
revive our party by empowering diverse grassroots Democrats at the
leadership table and in our communities including building on our
recent successes with small donor fundraising programs; and<br>
<br>
WHEREAS, the American people are looking to Democrats to promote
people-powered politics in this era of resistance, revival, and
reform but are rightly concerned that their voices are drowned
out; and,<br>
<br>
WHEREAS, climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels
represents an existential threat to civilization, and Democrats
committed in our 2016 Platform to curbing the effects of climate
change, protecting America's natural resources, and ensuring the
quality of our air, water, and land for current and future
generations - then marched in the hundreds of thousands at 2017
and 2018 Science March and Earth Day events; <br>
<br>
WHEREAS, in addition to President Obama's 2009 - 2016 ban on all
corporate PAC donations to the DNC, our state parties have been
drawing bright lines for years with respect to rejecting donations
from various corporate interests that conflict with our Democratic
platforms such as tobacco, payday lending, and gun manufacturers
to perpetuate what President Obama referred to in his Farewell
Address as our efforts to "reduce the corrosive influence of money
in our politics, and insist on the principles of transparency and
ethics in public service;"<br>
<br>
WHEREAS, fossil fuel corporations are drowning our democracy in a
tidal wave of dark oily money; they have deceived the public about
the impacts of climate change, fought the growth of clean
renewable energy, and corrupted our political system;<br>
<br>
WHEREAS, hundreds of individual Democratic political candidates
for office across the country have pledged not to take money from
the fossil fuel industry;<br>
<br>
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Democratic National Committee
acts to revive trust in our Party by reaffirming our progressive,
pro-environment 2016 Platform, encouraging grassroots donors, and
rejecting corporate PAC contributions from the fossil fuel
industry that conflict with our DNC Platform in order to empower
Democrats to walk our talk in harmony with our stated beliefs and
convictions<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://medium.com/@sfpelosi/democrats-lets-clean-up-our-planet-and-our-politics-oilmoneyout-of-the-dnc-b1102d4311ab">https://medium.com/@sfpelosi/democrats-lets-clean-up-our-planet-and-our-politics-oilmoneyout-of-the-dnc-b1102d4311ab</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://c-spanvideo.org/program/Remarkson">This Day in
Climate History - June 11, 1992</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
June 11, 1992: In remarks prior to leaving for the United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development in Brazil, President
George H. W. Bush says the United States is leading on environmental
protection while protecting economic growth. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://c-spanvideo.org/program/Remarkson">http://c-spanvideo.org/program/Remarkson</a> </font><br>
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