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<font size="+1"><i>June 12, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[Carbon Briefing]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/pope-francis-urges-oil-and-gas-groups-to-tackle-climate-change">Pope
Francis urges oil and gas groups to tackle climate change</a></b><br>
June 11. 2018<br>
The Pope has warned major oil company heads that there is "no time
to lose" to address climate change, urging them to speed up the
transition away from fossil fuels, report the Financial Times and
many others. The Pope's comments came at a closed-door summit of
energy leaders at the Vatican, where he hosted chief executives from
firms including BP, Shell and ExxonMobil. He told the meeting that
climate change could "destroy civilisation", reports the Hill.
Describing climate change as a challenge of "epochal proportions",
the Pope said: "Civilisation requires energy, but energy use must
not destroy civilisation," according to BBC News. Reuters carries
lengthy excerpts from the Pope's closed-door speech including: "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…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." Environmentalists and aid agencies urged oil firms to heed
the Pope's warnings, reports another Reutersarticle. Al Jazeera, the
Telegraph, Huffington Post, Climate Home News and Politico also
cover the story. The meeting comes three years after the Pope's
encyclical calling for swift action on climate change, notes the New
York Times. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/papal-encyclical-key-statements-on-climate-energy-and-the-environment">See
Carbon Brief's coverage</a> of the encyclical for more details.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/pope-francis-urges-oil-and-gas-groups-to-tackle-climate-change">https://www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/pope-francis-urges-oil-and-gas-groups-to-tackle-climate-change</a></font><br>
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INTERNATIONAL POLICY 18 June 2015 <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/papal-encyclical-key-statements-on-climate-energy-and-the-environment">Papal
Encyclical: key statements on climate, energy and the
environment</a></b><br>
Carbon Brief has read though the Papal Encyclical and here are the
document's key statements on climate, energy and the environment…<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/papal-encyclical-key-statements-on-climate-energy-and-the-environment">https://www.carbonbrief.org/papal-encyclical-key-statements-on-climate-energy-and-the-environment</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[below is an observation]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jun/11/the-wall-street-journal-keeps-peddling-big-oil-propaganda">The
Wall Street Journal keeps peddling Big Oil propaganda</a></b><br>
The WSJ disguises climate misinformation as "opinion"<br>
Dana Nuccitelli - Mon 11 Jun 2018 <br>
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Opinion page has long had a
conservative skew, and unfortunately that has extended to
politicizing climate change with<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent+media/wallstreetjournal"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">biased and factually inaccurate
editorials</a>.<br>
Over the past several weeks, the WSJ's attacks on climate science
have gone into overdrive. On May 15th, the Opinion page published<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/may/21/yes-evs-are-green-and-global-warming-is-raising-sea-levels"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">a self-contradictory editorial</a><span> </span>from
the lifelong contrarian and fossil fuel-funded<span> </span><a
href="https://www.skepticalscience.com/Fred_Singer_blog.htm"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Fred Singer</a><span> </span>that so
badly rejected basic physics,<span> </span><a
href="https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/wall-street-journal-commentary-grossly-misleads-readers-about-science-of-sea-level-rise-fred-singer/"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">it prompted one researcher to remark</a>,
"If this were an essay in one of my undergraduate classes, he would
fail."<br>
The WSJ did publish<span> </span><a
href="http://michaelmann.net/content/our-response-latest-climate-change-denying-wall-street-journal-op-ed"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">a letter to the editor (LTE) from
real climate scientists </a>Andrea Dutton and Michael Mann
rebutting Singer's editorial. However, it gave the last word to
science deniers in<span> </span><a
href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-wouldnt-think-sea-level-is-so-complex-1527873471"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">an LTE response</a><span> </span>rejecting
the well-established facts that<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/feb/27/scientists-have-detected-an-acceleration-in-sea-level-rise"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">sea level rise is accelerating</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/mar/01/decisions-today-will-decide-antarctic-ice-sheet-loss-and-sea-level-rise"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Antarctic is loss is contributing to
it</a>.<br>
A few days later, the WSJ opinion page was at it again, publishing<span> </span><a
href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-change-has-run-its-course-1528152876"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">an editorial </a>by<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/steven-f-hayward"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Stephen F. Hayward</a>, who<span> </span><a
href="http://www.dailycal.org/2016/08/30/conservative-scholar-steven-hayward-teach-uc-berkeley/"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">describes himself</a><span> </span>as
having "spent most of my adult life in conservative think tanks in
Washington, D.C.," and it shows. Hayward has<span> </span><a
href="https://twitter.com/past_is_future/status/1004444147950989312"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">a long history as a climate naysayer</a>,
spanning<span> </span><a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070204135040/http:/www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.24401/pub_detail.asp"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">over a decade</a> back to his days
with the<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/american-enterprise-institute"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">fossil fuel-funded American
Enterprise Institute</a>...<br>
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The WSJ is of course far from the only media outlet guilty of
peddling fossil fuel industry propaganda. Last Friday,<span> </span><a
href="http://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/390729-theres-no-need-to-panic-about-the-rising-sea-level"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">The Hill published a very similar
editorial</a><span> </span>by Fred Singer, whose second sentence
included two very easily fact-checked falsehoods: "sea level has
been rising at a steady rate, between 1 and 2 millimeters per year."
In reality,<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/feb/27/scientists-have-detected-an-acceleration-in-sea-level-rise"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">sea level rise has been accelerating</a>,
now up to<span> </span><a href="http://sealevel.colorado.edu/"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(136, 1, 5); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out;">about 3.3 millimeters per year</a>.<br>
Some people are of the opinion that the Earth is flat, but the WSJ
and The Hill probably wouldn't publish Flat Earthers' editorials. Of
course, the Flat Earth Society doesn't have the financial and
political clout of the fossil fuel industry.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jun/11/the-wall-street-journal-keeps-peddling-big-oil-propaganda">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jun/11/the-wall-street-journal-keeps-peddling-big-oil-propaganda</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Heat opens up the lungs]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://theconversation.com/an-understudied-impact-of-climate-change-increased-deaths-and-illnesses-from-inhaling-airborne-dust-96625">An
understudied impact of climate change: Increased deaths and
illnesses from inhaling airborne dust</a></b><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://theconversation.com/an-understudied-impact-of-climate-change-increased-deaths-and-illnesses-from-inhaling-airborne-dust-96625"><br>
</a>June 11, 2018<br>
The Dust Bowl in the 1930s was one of the worst environmental
disasters of the 20th century. Intense dust storms relentlessly
pounded the southern Great Plains of the United States, wreaking
severe ecological damage, forcing<span> </span><a href="https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=1355" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">2.5 million people to leave the region</a><span> </span>and
claiming unnumbered lives, mainly from<span> </span><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1996313/pdf/pubhealthreporig01958-0004.pdf" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">"dust pneumonia."</a><br>
Research has<span> </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1175/2007JCLI2134.1" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">shown</a><span> </span>that
this disaster was fueled by a combination of severe droughts and
over-cultivated lands. Today, climate change driven by human actions
is<span> </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.81" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">enhancing the occurrence of droughts</a><span> </span>in
multiple regions around the world.<br>
As researchers working at the intersection of environmental health,
air pollution and climate change, we wanted to know how increasing
drought conditions and population growth in the U.S. Southwest could
affect airborne dust levels and public health.<br>
In a recently published<span> </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aabf20" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">study</a>,
we estimate that if the world stays on its current greenhouse gas
emissions path, rising fine dust levels could increase premature
deaths by 130 percent and triple hospitalizations due to fine dust
exposure in this region...<br>
If global greenhouse gas emissions are not sharply reduced,
scientists project that the U.S. Southwest - already the nation's
hottest and driest region - will experience unprecedented
multi-decade "<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/10/megadroughts-arizona-new-mexico/503531/" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">mega-droughts</a>"
in the coming decades.<br>
It is now well understood that short- and long-term exposures to
airborne particles, including dust, pose major<span> </span><a href="https://www.epa.gov/pm-pollution/health-and-environmental-effects-particulate-matter-pm" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">health risks</a>.
Effects range from increased hospital admissions to higher risk of
premature death, primarily due to cardiovascular and respiratory
disorders...<br>
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Our findings highlight the potential for climate change to worsen
air quality problems in many populated arid regions around the world
- one of the many threats posed by climate change to human health
and well-being.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://theconversation.com/an-understudied-impact-of-climate-change-increased-deaths-and-illnesses-from-inhaling-airborne-dust-96625">https://theconversation.com/an-understudied-impact-of-climate-change-increased-deaths-and-illnesses-from-inhaling-airborne-dust-96625</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Working Group on Climate Nuclear and Security Affairs Report Two]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/working-group-on-climate-nuclear-security-affairs-report-two_2018_05.pdf"><b>RELEASE:
Amidst Growing Nuclear and Climate Threats, A New Series of
Reports Issues Warnings and Recommendations</b></a><br>
by Caitlin Werrell and Francesco Femia<br>
Washington, DC - Building on the success of its first groundbreaking
report from 2017, today the Working Group on Climate Nuclear, and
Security Affairs, a cross-sectoral group of distinguished nuclear
affairs, climate and security experts chaired by the Center for
Climate and Security, released a second report and series of
briefers based on its 2018 deliberations. These short papers mark
the first-ever step in exploring how to reduce emerging threats as
nuclear trends, the effects of climate change, and underlying
security dynamics collide in regions such as South Asia and the
Middle East. Amidst growing nuclear and climate threats, this
pioneering collaborative group has identified potential new and
unexplored risks where these issues collide, and anticipatory
solutions to those risks..<br>
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The Working Group on Climate, Nuclear, and Security Affairs was a
first-of-its-kind experiment in<br>
bringing diverse voices from each of these fields together to
examine pressing challenges to international<br>
security. The group showed clearly that effective threat reduction
will require the examination of the<br>
nexus of these risks in places as diverse as Pakistan, the United
States, Jordan, Indonesia, Iran, China,<br>
Russia, and India. This is merely the first step of the Working
Group. In the coming months and<br>
years, it will guide deep case study research, continue to convene
to deliberate on global trends and<br>
develop recommendations, and help in communicating the importance of
aggressive measures to<br>
address existential risks such as nuclear threats and extreme
climate change impacts - and the even<br>
more daunting challenges emerging as they collide. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/working-group-on-climate-nuclear-security-affairs-report-two_2018_05.pdf">https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/working-group-on-climate-nuclear-security-affairs-report-two_2018_05.pdf</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Right joins Left]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/06/11/nyc-climate-case-oil-industry/">NYC
Climate Case Belongs in Court, Libertarian Think Tank Argues</a></b><br>
By Karen Savage<br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">A<span> </span></span><a
href="http://blogs2.law.columbia.edu/climate-change-litigation/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/case-documents/2018/20180601_docket-118-cv-00182_amicus-brief.pdf"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">friend-of-the-court
brief</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight:
400;"><span> </span>supporting New York City's liability lawsuit
against major oil companies came last week from a source that once
would have seemed unlikely:<span> </span></span><a
href="https://niskanencenter.org/about/" style="box-sizing:
inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span style="box-sizing:
inherit; font-weight: 400;">the Niskanen Center</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">, a traditionally
libertarian think tank.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">The Center,
based in Washington D.C., is led by Jerry Taylor,<span> </span></span><a
href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/28/how-a-professional-climate-change-denier-discovered-the-lies-and-decided-to-fight-for-science/"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"></span><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">formerly</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>a
climate skeptic and a staff director at the American Legislative
Exchange Council (</span><a
href="https://niskanencenter.org/blog/staff/jerry-taylor/"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">ALEC</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">). The Niskanen
Center has long had a libertarian bent and is a staunch defender
of property rights. But in the case of New York, which is trying
to use state common law to hold five major companies accountable
for climate change-related damages,<span> </span></span><a
href="https://niskanencenter.org/blog/oil-companies-should-be-held-accountable-for-climate-change/"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">the Center
believes</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;
font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>that law provides the best remedy
for climate change-related damages because they harm both public
and private property without the owner's consent.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">The brief was
written by David Bookbinder, formerly chief climate counsel for
the Sierra Club and the lead attorney in Massachusetts v. EPA,
successfully arguing to the Supreme Court that the EPA is
obligated to regulate carbon dioxide emissions as a pollutant. He
has been Niskanen's chief counsel since February 2017.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Earlier this
year, the Niskanen Center became co-counsel in</span><a
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/04/17/colorado-climate-lawsuits-exxon-suncor/"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>a
climate liability suit filed</span></a><span style="box-sizing:
inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>by three Colorado
communities against two fossil fuel companies, Exxon and Suncor.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Since then, the
Center, and Niskanen in particular, has become a vocal force on
issues in this new wave of litigation, now supporting the suit
filed by the country's biggest city against five major oil
companies.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">New York filed</span><a
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/01/10/new-york-city-climate-lawsuit-liability-bill-de-blasio/"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span> </span><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">suit</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>in
federal court in January, asking for damages to cover
infrastructure improvements needed to protect New Yorkers from the
increasing effects of climate change. Three of the defendants -
US-based Chevron, Exxon and ConocoPhillips - filed a motion to
dismiss in February. Judge John Keenan will hear arguments on that
motion on Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of New York.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">In their motion
to dismiss, the oil giants</span><a
href="http://blogs2.law.columbia.edu/climate-change-litigation/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/case-documents/2018/20180223_docket-118-cv-00182_motion-to-dismiss.pdf"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span> </span><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">maintain</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>that
the city's claims aren't covered by state common law because they
involve greenhouse gas emissions, which are regulated by the
federal government, not the states. That is the only way, the
companies argue, to maintain uniform standards and avoid conflict
and confusion between states.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">The companies
also argue that the city's claims fail to meet federal common law
guidelines because they are displaced by the Clean Air Act, which
empowers the EPA to regulate air pollution...</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"></span><font
size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/06/11/nyc-climate-case-oil-industry/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/06/11/nyc-climate-case-oil-industry/</a></font><br>
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<br>
June 14 - June 17, 2018<br>
[International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and
Psychotherapy]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://iarpp.net/thesite/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IARPP-2018-Brochure.pdf">IARPP
Conference 2018 - New York</a></b><br>
Roosevelt Hotel, 45 East 45th Street, NYC<br>
New York City, USA<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://iarpp.net/conference/iarpp-conference-2018-new-york/">Hope
and Dread: Therapists and Patients in an Uncertain World</a></b><br>
IARPP is an international community of professionals and individuals
committed to developing relational perspectives and exploring
similarities and differences with other approaches to analysis and
psychotherapy.<br>
<blockquote>We are currently a nation rife with divisions; inundated
with hate,<br>
competing claims on truth, paranoia, and a distrust of the<br>
Other. For some, a primary concern is the debasement of<br>
moral practices that all democratic collectivities depend<br>
on; populism in the US and around the world threatens<br>
critical thought, empathic identification, collective
determination, and<br>
community building. For others, there is a chronic feeling of
inequality,<br>
disempowerment, and a lack of change over time that has fueled the<br>
bi#erness and animosity so pervasive in the current<br>
political climate. This conference will take up many different
areas in<br>
Relational thought, but will also directly address immediate
matters of<br>
concern that have a long history such as immigration, racism, and
national/<br>
international trauma.<br>
Our hope is that this conference may provide a forum to join
together<br>
in examining political and social crises similar to the one
currently going<br>
on in the United States and, in so doing, clarifying what we can
learn<br>
from living through troubled times, both about the self and the
world.<br>
We will seek to understand the repetition of trauma to explain in
part<br>
how we have arrived at a certain point in history as well as more
deeply<br>
grasp its nefarious and complex impact on both members of the
analytic<br>
dyad. We will consider the place of truth and objective fact
alongside<br>
that of postmodern constructivism, multiplicity, and the
importance of<br>
holding the complexity of experience and its inherent ambiguity. <br>
</blockquote>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://iarpp.net/thesite/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IARPP-2018-Brochure.pdf">Click
here to view/download the IARPP 2018 Conference Brochure</a><br>
WALK IN REGISTRATION BEGINS THURSDAY JUNE 14 at 7:45am<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://iarpp.net/conference/iarpp-conference-2018-new-york/">http://iarpp.net/conference/iarpp-conference-2018-new-york/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Cryoacoustics - new audio experience]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thebulletin.org/how-fast-arctic-ice-retreating-just-listen-it-melt11878">How
fast is the Arctic ice retreating? Just listen to it melt</a></b><br>
What is the loudest thing in the sea?<br>
The sound of a melting glacier, says oceanographer Oskar Glowacki
of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of
California at San Diego. When a glacier meets the sea, it sounds
like a billion bubbles bursting all at once, creating a white noise
that is very different from the sound of an individual melting
iceberg - whose bubbles typically number only in the thousands,
allowing people to hear more distinct, individualized popping
sounds.<br>
It may not seem like much at first on paper, but when the raw data
from months of field recordings in a fjord in Norway is compiled
into statistics and run through an algorithm, that is enough for
researchers to tell the difference between a melting glacier and a
melting iceberg, and even track an individual iceberg as it travels.
And the technique can be used to estimate the speed at which
glaciers and icebergs are melting underwater, right at that critical
point where the ice meets the sea. Scientists can also use this
budding field of "cryoacoustics" to determine, by sound alone, the
volume of a chunk of ice as it calves from a glacier and crashes
into the ocean, say Glowacki and his colleagues Grant Deane and
Mateusz Moskalik.<br>
And having a better idea of all this information could have many
different possible ramifications. Not only will the sea level rise
due to all that melting ice, but the fresh cold water released by
the ice will alter the environment, impose different conditions for
sea mammals to survive, affect the ocean's salinity, and change the
circulation patterns of ocean currents such as the Gulf Stream, with
potentially huge impacts on human civilization...<br>
- - - - <br>
Dan Drollette: So there's all kinds of different implications that
can come out of using acoustics to study glaciers and icebergs?<br>
Glowacki: What we usually say is that this is a new field - call it
"ambient noise cryology" or "cryoacoustics" or whatever - it's
studying the ice with noise. For some people it sounds ridiculous,
you know: "Why are you going to listen to the ice?"<br>
But I tell them that we are helping the science enter a different
stage. Researchers have been using satellites for years, and have
well-established methods. While we are in the position of
establishing a new tool. They found out ways to use satellites to
measure what is going on at the surface with glaciers and icebergs,
while we are preparing the tools for going down under the water.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thebulletin.org/how-fast-arctic-ice-retreating-just-listen-it-melt11878">https://thebulletin.org/how-fast-arctic-ice-retreating-just-listen-it-melt11878</a></font><b><br>
</b>- - - - <b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://soundcloud.com/user-629727076/glacier-noise-in-hornsund-fjord-credit-oskar-glowacki">Glacier
noise in Hornsund Fjord Credit: Oskar Glowacki</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://soundcloud.com/user-629727076/glacier-noise-in-hornsund-fjord-credit-oskar-glowacki">https://soundcloud.com/user-629727076/glacier-noise-in-hornsund-fjord-credit-oskar-glowacki</a></font><br>
- - - -<br>
[try your new headphones on this]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://vimeo.com/18572586">Cryoacoustic
Orb</a></b><br>
7 years agoMore<br>
Cryoacoustic Orb is a sound installation involving multiple
illuminated acrylic orbs filled with slowly melting ice. Hydrophones
frozen inside the ice amplify the sounds of the melting process,
which are electronically processed and spatialized throughout the
darkened gallery space. The result is a unique ambient soundscape
that evolves over the course of several hours.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://vimeo.com/18572586">https://vimeo.com/18572586</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[are we now <i>homo-stupido?</i>]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://mailchi.mp/climatenewsnetwork/extinction-may-silence-advanced-civilisations?e=30dc80e2f6">Extinction
may silence advanced civilisations</a></b><br>
ET hasn't been in touch. Enduring silence may be the real message
from distant and ancient galaxies, if advanced civilisations destroy
the conditions for their own survival.<br>
By Tim Radford<br>
<em>LONDON, 11 June, 2018</em> - US scientists have calculated the
conditions for the survival of a civilisation - all advanced
civilisations across the vast universe. <a
href="https://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=8c3d2453d9&e=30dc80e2f6"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #6DC6DD;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">Their calculations may explain</a>
why, so far, extraterrestrial beings have failed to get in touch. <br>
They may also help explain why climate change driven by global
warming could be both inevitable and potentially calamitous.<br>
Entirely theoretical research of this kind is the basis of
astrobiology: the attempt to understand why life exists in a
seemingly hostile universe, and why, if it exists on Earth, it is
not visible everywhere. For practical data, astrobiologists have
only one instance of life, and one of intelligent advanced
civilisation to work with: planet Earth.<br>
<a
href="https://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=b9dae8f7d7&e=30dc80e2f6"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #6DC6DD;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">Adam Frank, of the University
of Rochester, New York</a>, and colleagues report in the journal <a
href="https://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=172df6197f&e=30dc80e2f6"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #6DC6DD;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">Astrobiology</a> that they
considered the evidence of a vanished civilisation on Earth - the
mysterious culture that flourished on Easter Island in the Pacific
and then vanished by about 1500AD.<br>
<strong>Better insight</strong><br>
"If we're not the universe's first civilisation, that means there
are likely to be rules for how the fate of a young civilisation like
our own progresses," said Professor Frank.<br>
"The point is to recognise that driving climate change may be
something generic. The laws of physics demand that any young
population, building an energy-intensive civilisation like ours, is
going to have feedback on its planet. Seeing climate change in this
cosmic context may give us better insight into what's happening to
us now and how to deal with it."<br>
The principle is that any civilisation must change its planet, and
the most obvious way would be by exploiting resources in ways that
might affect average planetary temperatures.<br>
Under such circumstances the population could reach a peak - and
then die off, leaving a few survivors. Or it could foresee the
problems and go for sustainability rather than ever more growth. Or
population and temperature could reach a peak, at which point the
civilisation would collapse. Or - disconcertingly - the threatened
civilisation could identify the looming disaster but fail to act in
time.<br>
<strong>Fatal delay</strong><br>
"The last scenario is the most frightening," said Professor Frank.
"Even if you did the right thing, if you waited too long, you could
still have your population collapse."<br>
Geoscientists have already identified a new phase of Earth history:
the planet has now entered <a
href="https://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=eca5d9b933&e=30dc80e2f6"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #6DC6DD;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">an epoch informally called the
Anthropocene</a>. They have already established that, in
principle, the build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as a
consequence of <a
href="https://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=d599cccd2e&e=30dc80e2f6"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #6DC6DD;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">the exploitation of fossil
fuels could raise temperatures to a point</a> that would <a
href="https://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=f7d0833dfc&e=30dc80e2f6"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #6DC6DD;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">make civilisation, and perhaps
even life on Earth, unsustainable</a>.<br>
Professor Frank himself has explored these questions in earlier
studies. In 2014, he and colleagues asked themselves how long <a
href="https://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=ae0ff03f5a&e=30dc80e2f6"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #6DC6DD;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">an alien civilisation that had
discovered fossil fuels</a>, and therefore changed the conditions
in which it evolved, could sustain itself.<br>
Earlier this year he returned to the theme and asked how modern
humans could ever know if <a
href="https://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=af4d90fb11&e=30dc80e2f6"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #6DC6DD;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">some intelligent non-human
civilisation</a> had once ruled the planet and then obliterated
itself. <a
href="https://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=838274fc4b&e=30dc80e2f6"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #6DC6DD;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">Easter Island's vanished
overlords, the people who built the vast stone statues</a> that
now stand in enigmatic silence over an impoverished landscape,
become in such a case an object lesson.<strong><br>
</strong>
<blockquote><strong>"If we're not the universe's first civilisation,
that means there are likely to be rules for how the fate of a
young civilisation like our own progresses"</strong><br>
</blockquote>
Archaeological evidence suggests that a culture emerged perhaps 1600
years ago, population grew to a peak, resources were over-exploited,
population collapsed and, with it, all memory of what once had been.
If an isolated island had a maximum carrying capacity, then so
ultimately would an isolated planet. Professor Frank sees global
climate change as a planet's response to civilisation.<br>
"If you go through really strong climate change, then your carrying
capacity may drop, because, for example, large-scale agriculture
might be strongly disrupted. Imagine if climate change caused rain
to stop falling in the Midwest. We wouldn't be able to grow food,
and our population would diminish," he said.<br>
"If you change the Earth's climate enough, you might not be able to
change it back. Even if you backed off and started to use solar or
other less impactful resources, it could be too late, because the
planet has already been changing.<br>
"These models show we can't just think about a population evolving
on its own. We have to think about our planets and civilisations
co-evolving." - <em>Climate News Network</em><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://mailchi.mp/climatenewsnetwork/extinction-may-silence-advanced-civilisations?e=30dc80e2f6">https://mailchi.mp/climatenewsnetwork/extinction-may-silence-advanced-civilisations?e=30dc80e2f6</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[hope grows everywhere, like a weed]<br>
<b><a
href="https://newrepublic.com/article/148926/no-quick-fix-climate-change">There
Is No Quick Fix for Climate Change</a></b><br>
A plan to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel sounds great in
theory, but poses a number of problems.<br>
By ADAM MCGIBBON - June 11, 2018<br>
The solutions don't need to be invented; they already exist. The
world must sharply cut carbon emissions, keep fossil fuels in the
ground, decarbonize the economy, and pursue aggressive reforestation
and peatland restoration - nature's geoengineering. Realizing these
solutions will be more challenging than inventing a way to remove or
reuse the carbon in the atmosphere. But these are not hypothetical
experiments; their efficacy is not in doubt.<br>
Climate change is an overwhelming problem, almost too big to grasp.
It's comforting to believe that someone, somewhere, can get us out
of this mess, just as previous generations have overcome the
challenges of their era. But the promise of geoengineering is just
that: Thus far, it has only proven effective at easing anxiety about
the state of the planet. There is no quick fix to this crisis, and
it will take all of us to solve it.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://newrepublic.com/article/148926/no-quick-fix-climate-change">https://newrepublic.com/article/148926/no-quick-fix-climate-change</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py2XVILHUjQ">This Day in
Climate History - June 12, 1996</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
June 12, 1996: Unrepentant professional climate-change denialist
Frederick Seitz wrongfully accuses climate scientist Ben Santer of
fraud in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Seitz's claims are quickly
debunked, but the op-ed forms the centerpiece of a years-long effort
by the fossil fuel industry to destroy Santer's life, reputation and
career. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.odlt.org/dcd/docs/Seitz%20-%20A%20Major%20Deception%20on%20Global%20Warming.pdf">http://www.odlt.org/dcd/docs/Seitz%20-%20A%20Major%20Deception%20on%20Global%20Warming.pdf</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers/WSJ_June25.pdf">http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers/WSJ_June25.pdf</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py2XVILHUjQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py2XVILHUjQ</a><br>
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