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<font size="+1"><i>June 21, 2018</i></font><br>
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[Summer solstice for TV]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/global-warming-now-brought-you-your-local-tv-weathercaster-n884831">Global
warming, now brought to you by your local TV weathercaster</a></b><br>
Local weathercasters have become one of the primary conduits for
news on global warming. One nonprofit helped push the change.<br>
Steve LaPointe has been a television weatherman for nearly three
decades, and for most of his career, he didn't focus much on global
warming. He was skeptical about the science behind it, particularly
the notion that human behavior was heating the planet.<br>
But the issue wouldn't go away. So LaPointe began to do "a lot of
homework," he said, reading research papers and consulting fellow
meteorologists, who connected him with a nonprofit, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.climatecentral.org/">Climate
Central</a>, that spreads information on climate change. <br>
LaPointe increasingly came to realize he was wrong - that the
evidence that greenhouse gases are warming the Earth is
"irrefutable." Now, LaPointe routinely reports on the effects of
climate change - from the escalated growth of poison ivy to a jump
in the number of high-pollen days - alongside his usual seven-day
nightly forecasts on CBS affiliate WRGB in Albany, New York.<br>
"It's just scientific fact. And the more it gets talked about, the
more it's normalized," LaPointe said. "It gets into people's heads
and it's not this political albatross that it could be."<br>
- - - - -<br>
While 70 percent of Americans now accept that global warming is
occurring, and 58 percent agree that it is mostly caused by human
activities, most people still don't express urgency about the
problem. It's not listed as a pressing issue by most voters and just
39 percent believe that climate change is causing harm right now,
according to a March <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.unkochmycampus.org/george-mason-university-media/">George
Mason</a> survey of 1,278 adults.<br>
"To most people this is distant in time, distant in space, distant
in species," said Susan Hassol, who has been working in climate
communications for three decades. "We say, 'No, it's about us, and
it's local, and it's happening right now.'"<br>
- - - -<br>
LaPointe said he has run into no opposition as he has increasingly
folded climate reporting into his weather forecasts, including from
the Sinclair Broadcast Group, the conservative-leaning company that
owns his upstate New York station. "There is zero pushback. Nobody
has said 'You can't do this.' Nobody has said 'You cannot say
this,'" LaPointe said.<br>
"This is all based on science and on fact," LaPointe added, "and on
the idea that it can help us to make better decisions and elect
better people and implement the policy changes we need to turn this
thing around."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/global-warming-now-brought-you-your-local-tv-weathercaster-n884831">https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/global-warming-now-brought-you-your-local-tv-weathercaster-n884831</a></font><br>
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[Thank you George Mason - and earlier this year, AP told of
skeleton in the closet]<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://apnews.com/0c87e4318bcc4eb9b8e69f9f54c7b889/Documents-show-ties-between-university,-conservative-donors">Documents
show ties between university, conservative donors</a></b></font><br>
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - Virginia's largest public university granted the
conservative Charles Koch Foundation a say in the hiring and firing
of professors in exchange for millions of dollars in donations,
according to newly released documents.<br>
The release of donor agreements between George Mason University and
the foundation follows years of denials by university administrators
that Koch foundation donations inhibit academic freedom.<br>
University President Angel Cabrera wrote a note to faculty Friday
night saying the agreements "fall short of the standards of academic
independence I expect any gift to meet." The admission came three
days after a judge scrutinized the university's earlier refusal to
release any documents.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://apnews.com/0c87e4318bcc4eb9b8e69f9f54c7b889/Documents-show-ties-between-university,-conservative-donors">https://apnews.com/0c87e4318bcc4eb9b8e69f9f54c7b889/Documents-show-ties-between-university,-conservative-donors</a><br>
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[Zombie on campus]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.unkochmycampus.org/george-mason-university-media/">George
Mason University - UnKoch My Campus</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.unkochmycampus.org/george-mason-university-media/">www.unkochmycampus.org/george-mason-university-media/</a><br>
George Mason University in Virginia, just 20 miles from Washington
D.C., is ground zero for Koch influence in higher education...<br>
- - - -<br>
Since August of 2014, students have been requesting access to the
gift agreements, grand agreements, and MOUs that George Mason
University has with the Charles Koch Foundation, but they have been
repeatedly denied. The lack of transparency at GMU makes students
believe their university is more interested in hiding their
relationship with the Charles Koch Foundation than being held
responsible to their students and the university community.<br>
Students started researching Koch influence on campus in 2012...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.unkochmycampus.org/george-mason-university-media/">http://www.unkochmycampus.org/george-mason-university-media/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[NPR video]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/u5_zreSBgZc">Ben
Strauss on Antarctic Ice Melt with PBS NewsHour</a></b><br>
Published on Jun 18, 2018<br>
Our CEO and chief scientist Ben Strauss went on air with Hari
Sreenivasen of PBS NewsHour to talk through a new study on Antarctic
ice melt and what that may mean for coastal cities in the U.S. -
particularly on the East Coast. "South Florida is severely at risk
particularly because their bedrock is porous. So even if you built
levees or protected walls, water would push underneath them come up
through the ground. So there are really high stakes here." <br>
Antarctica, a continent of snow and ice, is now losing ice three
times faster than it was in 2007. In a new study published last week
in the journal Nature, more than 80 scientists from multiple
countries use satellite data to examine the Antarctic's vast ice
sheets, and their prediction is that if the current rate of ice melt
continues, sea levels could rise six inches by the year 2100.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/u5_zreSBgZc">https://youtu.be/u5_zreSBgZc</a></font><br>
<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-how-scientists-estimate-climate-sensitivity"><br>
Explainer: How scientists estimate 'climate sensitivity'</a></b><br>
CLIMATE SENSITIVITY - 19 June 2018 <br>
Climate sensitivity is an important scientific uncertainty, and
narrowing the range could have significant consequences. One <a
href="http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/373/2054/20140429"
target="_blank">economic study</a> by <a
href="https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/faculty-a-z/chris-hope/"
target="_blank">Dr Chris Hope</a> at the University of Cambridge
suggests that the value of halving the uncertainty may be in the
trillions of dollars, as it would allow the amount and speed of
emissions reductions needed to be better determined.<br>
Yet the world would still need to decarbonise to meet the goals of
the <a
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/interactive-the-paris-agreement-on-climate-change">Paris
Agreement</a>, even if sensitivity is better understood or even at
the low end of current estimates. An ECS of closer to 2C would only
extend the deadline for reaching net-zero emissions by a decade or
so, according to <a
href="http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/9/3/031003/meta"
target="_blank">a study</a> by IIASA's <a
href="http://www.iiasa.ac.at/staff/staff.php?type=auto&visibility=visible&search=true&login=rogelj"
target="_blank">Dr Joeri Rogelj</a> and colleagues.<br>
The uncertainty also cuts both ways; there are just as many new
studies being published today suggesting that sensitivity might be
on the high end of the 1.5C to 4.5C range as there on the low end. <a
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo3017" target="_blank">Knutti
and colleagues</a> suggest that the uncertainty in climate
sensitivity should not be seen as a roadblock for action today.
Dessler tells Carbon Brief:<br>
<blockquote>"Unless climate sensitivity falls outside the IPCC's
range, I don't see that refinements to the range have a huge
impact on what we should be doing from a policy perspective. We
should be trying to reduce emissions as fast as we can – but slow
enough not to be too disruptive to the economy."<br>
</blockquote>
Ultimately, just how warm the world will be in 2100 depends as much
or more on the amount of CO2 and other greenhouse gases emitted into
the atmosphere than on the precise value for climate sensitivity.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/climate-sensitivity-is-unlikely-to-be-less-than-2c-say-scientists">https://www.carbonbrief.org/climate-sensitivity-is-unlikely-to-be-less-than-2c-say-scientists</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[letter to Chicago Tribune]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/letters/ct-letters-flooding-michigan-wisconsin-climate-change-20180620-story.html">Letter:
The Midwest's rude awakening: It isn't immune from climate
change.</a></b><br>
Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin and Michigan are getting most of
the press, but it looks as if a hurricane struck much of the Upper
Midwest. I drove to Chicago last week, passing mile after mile of
flooded farm fields and stunted corn and wondering how farmers will
get through this. In Madison, trees are down and streets are
flooded. A torrent of water carried large rocks against the
underground parking garage where I live, smashing the door, flooding
the garage above hub-cap level, and shorting out the elevators...<br>
- - - -<br>
We broke the climate and everyone must do all they can to stop
making things worse. We can no longer afford complacency, denial, or
our fossil-fuel habit. Many businesses and state and local
governments are climate heroes, but they can't carry the burden for
all of us. As individuals, we can reduce our own carbon footprint.
We can become active in one or more of the groups addressing various
aspects of climate change or energy policy. We can thank and do
business with companies that are "going green" and deny our business
and investments to companies that aren't. We can prioritize climate
when we vote and let candidates know we expect effective climate
action from them, such as a price on carbon pollution commensurate
with its long-deferred social, environmental, and economic costs. We
can talk about the existential threat of climate change to anyone
who will listen. There's a role for each of us, no matter what our
strengths or weaknesses.<br>
It's time to be scared - but scared into serious action, not into
paralysis.<br>
- Carol Steinhart, Madison, Wis.<br>
email <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:letters@chicagotribune.com">letters@chicagotribune.com</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/letters/ct-letters-flooding-michigan-wisconsin-climate-change-20180620-story.html">http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/letters/ct-letters-flooding-michigan-wisconsin-climate-change-20180620-story.html</a><br>
</font><br>
<br>
[Miami: The Invading Sea project]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article213562579.html">Climate
change puts South Floridians' health at risk</a></b><br>
BY JULIO FRENK - June 20, 2018 07:52 PM<br>
Today is the first day of summer, and in South Florida that means
warmer temperatures, rain and mosquitoes. Just two years ago,
mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus were first identified in Wynwood
before spreading across Florida.<br>
Vector-borne diseases such as Zika, dengue and chikungunya are
re-emerging because temperatures are rising. As the planet warms,
habitats that support mosquito vectors expand, allowing these
diseases to spread faster and further beyond neighborhood, state and
national borders.<br>
Climate change has also sparked extreme weather events, which can
spur a rise in illnesses. Hurricane Harvey showed us that standing
water and flooding from slower and wetter storms can create breeding
grounds for water-borne diseases. As we know all too well,
hurricanes can also cause damage to vital infrastructure, making it
more difficult to contain outbreaks. <br>
Droughts, disruptions in seasons and extreme temperatures put
pressure on food production and can cause food insecurity for entire
communities. The risk of famine and illness brought by malnutrition
increases. Malnourishment makes it more difficult to recover from
infections that are otherwise easily treatable, like lower
respiratory tract infections and diarrhea.<br>
Similarly, rising seas threaten our supply of drinking water. This
is especially true in South Florida, as we get much of our water
from underground aquifers that are at risk of salt-water intrusion.
Contaminated water can result in severe illness, and salt-water
intrusion in the aquifers threatens a most fundamental element
needed to maintain a healthy population and a thriving economy.<br>
The findings are clear: Climate change poses a direct and grave risk
to our health. This is why we must act. The need for water and food
does not ascribe to a particular ideology. Mosquitoes carrying
disease do not differentiate between political parties. That is why
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.theinvadingsea.com/">The
Invading Sea </a>project by the Miami Herald, South Florida Sun
Sentinel, Palm Beach Post, and WLRN is so impressive. This unique
media collaboration is shining a bright light on sea level rise in
our communities and is fostering conversation and debate that
otherwise would not occur...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article213562579.html">http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article213562579.html</a></font><br>
- - - - -<br>
[Media organizing]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.theinvadingsea.com/">The
Invading Sea</a></b> is a collaboration by the editorial boards
of the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post
- with reporting by WLRN Public Media - to address the threat South
Florida faces from sea-level rise<br>
We plan to use our collective voice to communicate in drumbeat
fashion the undeniable and unrelenting threat we face, help people
see what's at stake and engage experts, citizens, businesses and
political leaders on the tough choices ahead.<br>
The time is right for our project because this is a big election
year in Florida - for the U.S. Senate, for the Governor's Mansion,
all four seats on the Florida Cabinet and the Florida Legislature.<br>
Our three editorial boards plan to ask all the candidates about sea
level rise: What are we going to do? Who's going to decide? And
who's going to pay?<br>
We want to raise awareness, amplify the voice of our region and
create a call to action that can't be ignored.<br>
WLRN, meanwhile, plans an in-depth series of reports, roundtable
discussions and other community engagement events.<br>
<b>If you have comments or suggestions about "The Invading Sea,"
contact one of these people:</b><br>
<blockquote>Project editor Tom O'Hara<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:thomasohara043@gmail.com">thomasohara043@gmail.com</a><br>
304-704-2901<br>
<br>
Miami Herald Editorial Page Editor Nancy Ancrum<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:nancrum@miamiherald.com">nancrum@miamiherald.com</a><br>
305-376-3517<br>
<br>
Rosemary O'Hara<br>
Sun Sentinel Editorial Page Editor<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:rohara@sun-sentinel.com">rohara@sun-sentinel.com</a><br>
954-356-4669<br>
<br>
Palm Beach Post Editorial Page Editor Rick Christie<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:rchristie@pbpost.com">rchristie@pbpost.com</a><br>
561-820-4476<br>
<br>
WLRN Vice President of News Tom Hudson<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:thudson@wlrnnews.org">thudson@wlrnnews.org</a><br>
305-995-1717<br>
<br>
Sun Sentinel Newsroom Product Engineer Danny Sanchez<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:dsanchez@sun-sentinel.com">dsanchez@sun-sentinel.com</a><br>
954-356-4818<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theinvadingsea.com/">https://www.theinvadingsea.com/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Academics agree]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14781158.2015.1019442?journalCode=cpar20">Climate-induced
conflict or Hospice Earth: the increasing importance of
eco-socialism</a></b><br>
John Barkdull and Paul G. Harris<br>
24 Mar 2015<br>
Download citation <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14781158.2015.1019442">https://doi.org/10.1080/14781158.2015.1019442</a>
<br>
Abstract<br>
What are the implications of global climate change for peace and
human welfare in the future? The answer depends on the actual
effects of climate change and how the world responds to them.
Current economic and political systems are unlikely to produce the
policy and institutional changes needed to reduce adequately the
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions causing the problem, so some of the
most dangerous effects of climate change could occur this century.
Some observers posit that climate change will result in catastrophe,
but specifics of this catastrophe range widely. Does climate change
mean painful but manageable social disruption, requiring, for
instance, populations to move and cities to be rebuilt? Or does
climate change portend much worse, including major wars, the end of
modern civilization or, incredibly, even the eventual extinction of
humanity? If these more severe consequences are likely or possible,
what kind of global society would be best able to survive, or at
least cope? The answer may be found in eco-socialism and a 'Hospice
Earth' that nurtures people and societies regardless of how bad the
future becomes.<br>
<font size="-1"><span class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14781158.2015.1019442?journalCode=cpar20">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14781158.2015.1019442?journalCode=cpar20</a></span></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="June%2021,%202010:%20In%20the%20New%20Republic,%20Brad%20Plumer%20writes%20that%20if%20the%20Senate%20can%27t%20pass%20cap-and-trade,%20the%20EPA%20should%20move%20ahead%20with%20regulating%20carbon%20emissions.%20He%20further%20observes:,,%22In%20the%20long%20term,%20though,+we%27d+really+need+a+price+on+carbon+to+transform+the+country%27s+energy+sector+and+give+people+incentive+to+develop+new+clean-energy+technologies%E2%80%94having+the+EPA+just+flatly+tell+polluters+that+they+have+to+adopt+this+or+that+specific+pollution-cutting+gizmo+isn%27t+very+good+for+innovation.+But+hey,%20maybe%20a%20few%20years%20from%20now%20we%27ll%20have%20a%20Congress%20that%27s%20ready%20to%20address%20this%20problem.%20Odder%20things%20have%20happened.%22,,http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/the-vine/75723/leaving-global-warming-the-bureaucrats">This
Day in Climate History - June 21, 2010</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
June 21, 2010: In the New Republic, Brad Plumer writes that if the
Senate can't pass cap-and-trade, the EPA should move ahead with
regulating carbon emissions. He further observes:<br>
<blockquote>"In the long term, though, we'd really need a price on
carbon to transform the country's energy sector and give people
incentive to develop new clean-energy technologies—having the EPA
just flatly tell polluters that they have to adopt this or that
specific pollution-cutting gizmo isn't very good for innovation.
But hey, maybe a few years from now we'll have a Congress that's
ready to address this problem. Odder things have happened."<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/the-vine/75723/leaving-global-warming-the-bureaucrats">http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/the-vine/75723/leaving-global-warming-the-bureaucrats</a></font><br>
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