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<font size="+1"><i>June 27, 2018</i></font><br>
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[New Gojira, let's listen to some heavy metal music]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.loudersound.com/news/watch-gojira-deliver-stunning-studio-version-of-global-warming">Watch
Gojira deliver stunning studio version of Global Warming</a></b><br>
By Scott Munro <br>
Gojira release studio version of their 2005 track Global Warming to
raise awareness of "one of the most important challenges of our
time"<br>
Gojira have released a live studio video showcasing their track
Global Warming.<br>
The song originally appeared on their 2005 album From Mars To
Sirius, with the band recording the new take on the song at Silver
Cord Studio, New York, in April this year.<br>
Gojira say in a statement: "A few weeks ago, we played Global
Warming together for the first time since the recording of From Mars
To Sirius. We never played it live before, as it is a challenging
one to play and place in a set list. <br>
"It's emotionally heavy, and would almost 'hurt' the rest of the
songs in a way. We just really wanted to do this on camera for our
fans. <br>
"Global warming is a reality and a relevant topic - we feel it's
good to be reminded of one of the most important challenges of our
time: How to grow as a species without being a parasite to our
planet, the only home we have. <br>
"'We will see our children growing' is a mantra for future
generations, and in a figurative way we hope the children in all of
us will grow, evolve, and take action for a more compassionate and
meaningful world."<br>
Watch the video below.<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/8DiWzvE52ZY">Gojira
- Global Warming [Live at the Silver Cord Studio May 2018]</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><span class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/8DiWzvE52ZY">https://youtu.be/8DiWzvE52ZY</a></span></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[future analysis from Bloomberg: ]<br>
<b><a href="https://about.bnef.com/new-energy-outlook/#toc-download">New
Energy Outlook 2018</a></b><br>
NEO is our annual long-term economic analysis of the world's power
sector out to 2050.<br>
Focused on the electricity system, our New Energy Outlook (NEO)
combines the expertise of over 65 market and technology specialists
in 12 countries to provide a unique view of how the market will
evolve.<br>
What's new in the 2018 NEO? <br>
What sets NEO apart is that we focus on technology that is driving
change in markets and business models across the sector, such as
solar PV, onshore and offshore wind and battery technology. In
addition, we put special focus on changing electricity demand,
electric vehicles, air-conditioning, and the growing role of
consumers. NEO includes our price forecasts for coal, oil and gas
around the world, and assesses the impact of the energy transition
on fossil fuel demand and materials.<br>
Each year we aim to make a number of changes to NEO to continuously
improve the completeness and complexity of our analysis. In 2018, we
have included the following in the client report:<br>
Extended our outlook from 2040 to 2050.<br>
Expanded our new-build algorithm to include utility-scale
lithium-ion batteries - both stand-alone and paired with renewables
- for energy arbitrage as well as peaking capacity.<br>
Expanded our assessment of new air-conditioning load to include
Brazil, Indonesia, India, Mexico, Malaysia, Philippines and
Thailand.<br>
Added chapters on materials demand, market design and coal phase-out
scenarios.<br>
Updated our PV and wind cost and lithium-ion battery cost curves
with 2017 data.<br>
Updated our comparative cost of energy analysis to better capture
difference between technologies and the cost of bulk electricity and
flexibility, and enhanced the digital experience when interacting
with our data models.<br>
In addition, we have updated a number of the proprietary models
central to this forecast, including: our EV and small-scale solar PV
and storage consumer uptake models, and our electricity demand
fundamentals model.<br>
While BNEF clients get access to the full NEO report including the
content above, an excerpt of the findings in a free public report.<br>
"Wind and solar are set to surge to almost "50 by 50" - 50% of world
generation by 2050 - on the back of precipitous reductions in cost,
and the advent of cheaper and cheaper batteries that will enable
electricity to be stored and discharged to meet shifts in demand and
supply. Coal shrinks to just 11% of global electricity generation by
2050."<br>
<blockquote>1 - "50 by 50"<br>
Cheap renewable energy and batteries fundamentally reshape the
electricity system. Batteries boom means that half of the world's
electricity by 2050 will be generated from wind and solar.<br>
<br>
2 - PV, wind and batteries trifecta.<br>
The cost of an average PV plant falls 71% by 2050. Wind energy is
getting cheaper too, and we expect it to drop 58% by 2050. PV and
wind are already cheaper than building new large-scale coal and
gas plants. Batteries are also dropping dramatically in cost.
Cheap batteries enable wind and solar to run when the wind isn't
blowing and the sun isn't shining.<br>
<br>
3 - Coal is the biggest loser in this outlook.<br>
Coal will shrink to just 11% of global electricity generation by
2050, from 38% currently.<br>
<br>
4 - Gas consumption for power generation increases only modestly
out to 2050<br>
despite growing capacity, as more and more gas-fired facilities
are either dedicated peakers or run at lower capacity factors
helping to balance variable renewables, rather than run flat-out
around-the-clock. Gas use declines dramatically in Europe, grows
in China and picks up materially in India beyond 2040.<br>
<br>
5 - Electric vehicles add around 3,461TWh of new electricity
demand globally by 2050, equal to 9% of total demand.<br>
Time-of-use tariffs and dynamic charging further support
renewables integration: they allow vehicle owners to choose to
charge during high-supply, low-cost periods, and so help to shift
demand to periods when cheap renewables are running.<br>
</blockquote>
High-level findings of NEO 2018 are available in a free public
report: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://about.bnef.com/new-energy-outlook/#toc-download">https://about.bnef.com/new-energy-outlook/#toc-download</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[A superb essay in The Guardian - clips:]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/26/rising-seas-florida-climate-change-elizabeth-rush">Rising
seas: 'Florida is about to be wiped off the map'</a></b><br>
Harold Wanless, or Hal, chair of the geology department, speak about
sea level rise. "Only 7% of the heat being trapped by greenhouse
gases is stored in the atmosphere," Hal begins. "Do you know where
the other 93% lives?"<br>
A teenager, wrists lined in aquamarine beaded bracelets, rubs sleep
from her eyes. Returns her head to its resting position in her palm.
The man seated behind me roots around in his briefcase for a
breakfast bar. No one raises a hand.<br>
"In the ocean," Hal continues. "That heat is expanding the ocean,
which is contributing to sea level rise, and it is also, more
importantly, creating the setting for something we really don't want
to have happen: rapid melt of ice."...<br>
- - - - -<br>
But Hal says it doesn't matter whether you live six feet above sea
level or sixty-five, because he, like James Hansen, believes that
all of these predictions are, to put it mildly, very, very low. "The
rate of sea level rise is currently doubling every seven years, and
if it were to continue in this manner, Ponzi scheme style, we would
have 205 feet of sea level rise by 2095," he says. "And while I
don't think we are going to get that much water by the end of the
century, I do think we have to take seriously the possibility that
we could have something like 15 feet by then."...<br>
- - - -<br>
But Hal says it doesn't matter whether you live six feet above sea
level or sixty-five, because he, like James Hansen, believes that
all of these predictions are, to put it mildly, very, very low. "The
rate of sea level rise is currently doubling every seven years, and
if it were to continue in this manner, Ponzi scheme style, we would
have 205 feet of sea level rise by 2095," he says. "And while I
don't think we are going to get that much water by the end of the
century, I do think we have to take seriously the possibility that
we could have something like 15 feet by then."<br>
It's a little after nine o'clock. Hal's sons stop sipping their
lattes and the oceanographic scientist behind me puts down his
handful of M&M's. If Hal Wanless is right, every single object I
have seen over the past 72 hours - the periodic table of elements
hanging above his left shoulder, the buffet currently loaded with
refreshments, the smoothie stand at my seaside hotel, the beach
umbrellas and oxygen bars, the Johnny Rockets and seashell shop, the
lecture hall with its hundreds of mostly empty teal swivel chairs -
will all be underwater in the not-so-distant future...<br>
- - - - <br>
It's a little after nine o'clock. Hal's sons stop sipping their
lattes and the oceanographic scientist behind me puts down his
handful of M&M's. If Hal Wanless is right, every single object I
have seen over the past 72 hours - the periodic table of elements
hanging above his left shoulder, the buffet currently loaded with
refreshments, the smoothie stand at my seaside hotel, the beach
umbrellas and oxygen bars, the Johnny Rockets and seashell shop, the
lecture hall with its hundreds of mostly empty teal swivel chairs -
will all be underwater in the not-so-distant future...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/26/rising-seas-florida-climate-change-elizabeth-rush">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/26/rising-seas-florida-climate-change-elizabeth-rush</a></font><br>
- - - - - <br>
[videos of Dr Hal Wanless - this one is 30 seconds]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwJijb_tdbA">UM Professor,
Dr. Wanless on Sea Level Rise</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwJijb_tdbA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwJijb_tdbA</a><br>
- - -<br>
[This community meeting may be the 2015 presentation mentioned in
the article]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp8KDL1TSKg">Sea Level
Rise: What's Our Next Move? Day 1: Debate 1- Dr. Harold R.
Wanless</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp8KDL1TSKg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp8KDL1TSKg</a><br>
- - - - - -<br>
[Book Review]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/rising-9781571313676/">RISING:
DISPATCHES FROM THE NEW AMERICAN SHORE</a></b><br>
Elizabeth Rush - Milkweed Editions (Jun 12, 2018)<br>
Hardcover $26.00 (320pp) 978-1-57131-367-6<br>
Obsessed with the rate of sea-level rise, environmental writer
Elizabeth Rush traveled extensively along the US coasts and as far
afield as Bangladesh, interviewing concerned scientists and coastal
dwellers directly affected by devastating floods and catastrophic
storms.<br>
Her conclusion: the future we feared is already here. In the time it
has taken to write this book, the sea level's predicted
end-of-century rise has doubled. "If sea level rise continues to
accelerate at even half this speed we are looking at a rise of well
over ten feet in the next eighty years," she writes.<br>
Scientists have found that Earth's climate doesn't change slowly and
steadily. Instead, the transition from ice age to greenhouse
conditions and back again is often rapid and dramatic. It has
happened before, but this is the first time that humans will be here
to see it. And it won't be pretty.<br>
The prediction is that by 2050 there will be two hundred million
refugees worldwide due to climate change that has been exacerbated
by human intervention in the landscape. Of these, two million will
be from the state of Louisiana, whose southern edge is eroding at a
rate that's among the fastest on the planet.<br>
Rush explains the role of thriving wetlands and tidal marshes in
securing coastal land and in providing habitat for threatened or
endangered species, and how short-sighted laws have allowed filling
and hardscaping them for economic gain. In response, coastal animals
and insects are relocating, and even plants are moving inland,
slowly stretching their rhizomes away from the sea.<br>
What Rush lays before us in her book is extremely disturbing: that
our only hope appears to be retreat - evacuation of the coasts and
relocation of the things we value - and that we must take radical,
even unthinkable, action at once.<br>
Reviewed by Kristine Morris - May/June 2018<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/rising-9781571313676/">https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/rising-9781571313676/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[facing danger]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/resources/silencing-science-tracker/silencing-climate-science/">Silencing
Climate Science</a></b> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/resources/silencing-science-tracker/silencing-climate-science/">http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/resources/silencing-science-tracker/silencing-climate-science/</a><br>
This page lists government actions targeting scientific research and
education on climate change. The listed actions are also included in
the table on the SST home page, along with actions targeting other
(non-climate) environmental science fields.<br>
Agency: EPA<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/agency/us-epa/">http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/agency/us-epa/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Planetary Security Conference]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.planetarysecurityinitiative.org/">New analysis
on how climate change reinforces nuclear threats</a></b><br>
PSI consortium partner CCS just released a new report and briefers
that address the various ways that climate change effects, nuclear
trends, and security challenges are combining around the world. Many
countries such as Nigeria, Jordan, Bangladesh, Egypt, and Saudi
Arabia are dealing with numerous internal climatic, economic,
security, demographic, and environmental pressures as they pursue
nuclear energy. Concerns are also growing that Russia may become a
dominant nuclear supplier to these countries. Where nuclear and
climate issues are combining in specific countries with other issues
such as terrorism, nation-state competition, weak institutions, and
mass movement of people, the international community must understand
how this nexus of challenges could affect stability and security.
Moreover, these issues together stand to affect geopolitics and the
strength of global governance institutions in profound ways.<br>
<br>
Building on the success of their 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 papers outline the challenges the
world is facing as well as practical recommendations for how
addressing them as nexus threats could provide efficient and
effective ways of reducing security risks.<br>
<br>
<b>The report:</b> <br>
This report provides summaries of the insights produced via breakout
sessions the Working Group held during its January 2018 meeting to
focus on three questions: "First, can we devise a flexible policy
toolkit to allow public and private actors to address the nexus of
climate, nuclear and security challenges? Second, for high-priority
regions in which these trends are present, how might we reduce the
odds they will combine in destabilizing ways? Finally, how can we
begin to improve how we communicate with the public and policymakers
regarding these types of complex yet existential risks?" It then
briefly describes select themes that emerged from the Working
Group's deliberations and highlights specific recommendations.<br>
<br>
A critical task of the Working Group was to explore policy tools
that could be used to mitigate the grave concerns stemming from
nuclear, climate, and security risks interacting. As John Conger and
Shiloh Fetzek describe in their report of this discussion,
"Multilateral regimes have been created, on the one hand, to address
nuclear safety and proliferation, and climate risks on another, but
they don't interact. Building this bridge would go a long way toward
continuing to identify and mitigate risks at the
climate-nuclear-security nexus." Analytical tools could be used to
"combine climate, nuclear, and security data into risk assessments
that would help define priorities and push for early responses to
prevent grave threats in areas where nuclear materials and
facilities reside."<br>
<br>
The Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction allows for a strong
platform for increasing resilience as the world faces mounting costs
of natural disasters. However, it could go further to "explicitly
explore what these disasters could mean around nuclear facilities.",
according to the report. <br>
<br>
Currently, effective communication on the risks of the
nuclear-security-climate nexus is lacking. Indeed, improving
communication regarding this nexus will require continuing processes
to identify shared values, especially when power politics and
climate-sensitive regions are concerned. We can think of "Russia's
dominance in securing deals to build and operate nuclear reactors in
regions such as the Middle East" for example.<br>
<br>
<b>The briefers:</b><br>
The briefers show the importance of collaboration between security
experts in the nuclear affairs and climate security spheres (as well
as in other security disciplines) to support common interests like
strengthening international security institutions and norms. The
reports also conclude that communities must also collaborate in
pushing for the sustainment of critical scientific and technical
work that can provide the data, information, and solutions needed to
navigate complex risks, including robust monitoring and modelling
systems and the wide-ranging capabilities of U.S. National
Laboratories.<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
First, "the complexity of the climate change-nuclear-security nexus
requires new tools for monitoring hotspots and testing government
responses. Building that baseline knowledge would inform
policy-makers on the nature of these intersecting threats. Stress
tests and climate and nuclear crisis scenario exercises will be
important inputs into understanding the nature of
climate-nuclear-security risks."<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, inadequate funding limits the development of new
tools, intensifying competition for a finite pool of funds. With
greater financing, the public and private sectors could bolster the
development and implementation of risk management measures and
transnational mechanisms such as the UNFCCC Warsaw International
Mechanism for Loss and Damage, which was designed to track and
compensate losses from climate change. It should include nuclear
facilities since they fall under the energy security category and
are sensitive to climate-related threats.<br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; outline: none;"><span
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style="box-sizing: inherit; outline: none; font-weight:
700;">The report and two briefers are available online at:</strong></span></span></span><span
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Working Group on Climate, Nuclear and Security Affairs - "<a
href="https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/working-group-on-climate-nuclear-security-affairs-report-two_2018_05.pdf"
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style="box-sizing: inherit; outline: none;">Report Two: A
Clear Path for Complex Threats</span></a>"</span></span></span><span
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Breakout Briefer 1: "<a
href="https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/working-group-on-climate-nuclear-security-affairs_breakout-briefer_crisis-regions_2018_05.pdf"
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transparent; color: rgb(0, 179, 230); text-decoration: none;
touch-action: manipulation; cursor: pointer;"><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; outline: none;">Stability At
Stake: Addressing Critical Regions Facing Complex Climate,
Security, and Nuclear Risks</span></a>"</span></span></span><span
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Breakout Briefer 2: "<a
href="https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/working-group-on-climate-nuclear-security-affairs_breakout-briefer_toolkit_2018_05.pdf"
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transparent; color: rgb(0, 179, 230); text-decoration: none;
touch-action: manipulation; cursor: pointer;"><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; outline: none;">Expanding The
Climate-Nuclear-Security Toolkit</span></a>"</span></span></span><span
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<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.planetarysecurityinitiative.org/">https://www.planetarysecurityinitiative.org/</a><br>
- - - - -<br>
</font> <b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.planetarysecurityinitiative.org/signees">The
Hague Declaration on Planetary Security</a></b><br>
PDF <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.planetarysecurityinitiative.org/sites/default/files/2017-12/The_Hague_Declaration.pdf">The
Hague Declaration.pdf</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.planetarysecurityinitiative.org/sites/default/files/2017-12/The_Hague_Declaration.pdf">https://www.planetarysecurityinitiative.org/sites/default/files/2017-12/The_Hague_Declaration.pdf</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.planetarysecurityinitiative.org/signees">https://www.planetarysecurityinitiative.org/signees</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[video questions of risk]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIvnQo0wZ4c">How Much
Climate Change is too Much? The "Reasons for Concern" about
Climate Change</a></b><br>
Atkinson Center<br>
Published on Mar 19, 2018<br>
Cornell University - 2018 Climate Change Seminar by Brian O'Neill<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.atkinson.cornell.edu/events/ClimateChangeSem.php">http://www.atkinson.cornell.edu/events/ClimateChangeSem.php</a><br>
Recorded at Cornell University - March 12, 2018<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIvnQo0wZ4c">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIvnQo0wZ4c</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Washington Post reports...]<br>
<b><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/">Climate change is a top
spiritual priority for these religious leaders</a></b><br>
ABOARD THE SHIP MORE SPACIOUS THAN THE HEAVENS - Off the island
of Spetses, the leader of 300 million Christians worldwide told a
group of nearly 200 religious leaders, academics and activists that
they needed to move beyond intellectualism when it came to the
environment.<br>
"What remains for us is to preach what we practice," said Orthodox
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople. "Now we must
begin the long and difficult way from the mind to the heart . . .
May God guide you in your service to his people and the care of his
creation."...<br>
- - - -<br>
"For humans to cause species to become extinct and to destroy the
biological diversity of God's creation; for humans to degrade the
integrity of Earth by causing changes in its climate, by stripping
the Earth of its natural forests, or destroying its wetlands; for
humans to injure other humans with disease, for humans to
contaminate the Earth's waters, its land, its air, and its life,
with poisonous substances," he told a crowd that included
then-Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. "These are sins."<br>
Pope Francis has likewise drawn global attention to environmental
activism: On the same day Bartholomew was concluding his conference
in Greece, the pope brought the leaders of multinational energy and
investment firms to the Vatican to discuss the path forward on
climate change.<br>
At a time when some political leaders have become more cautious
about - or have outright rejected - policies aimed at curbing
greenhouse gas emissions, several major faith leaders are making
environmental care a top spiritual priority.<br>
But they have also struggled to inspire some of their congregants to
action.<br>
"Even when there's a will, there is not always a willingness to
act," said Nigerian Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, one of two
cardinals who traveled to the patriarch's conference. "The spirit is
willing, but very often, the flesh is weak."<br>
Still, Onaiyekan and others who had journeyed to Greece for the
three-day "Green Attica" conference emphasized that they would
persist in raising the moral and ethical dimensions of climate
change.<br>
In Nigeria, Onaiyekan said in an interview that "there is a kind of
ambiguity about climate change" because it is "a nation largely
dependent on oil revenue." But those living on the Niger Delta have
experienced the damage associated with oil production firsthand, he
said. It would be naive, he said, to expect oil companies and
governments to shift their practices on their own.<br>
"If you are waiting for them to change, you will wait till Jesus
comes back again," he said. "We feel the only area where we can
actually make an impact is to constantly keep challenging our
leaders to stop killing us. Stop killing your people."<br>
Francis - who issued the first papal encyclical focused solely on
the environment, "Laudato Si," in 2015 - pressed this message
during his private audience this month with executives from
ExxonMobil, Eni, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Equinor and Pemex.<br>
Calling climate change "a challenge of epochal proportions," the
pope said that the private sector had taken modest steps toward
incorporating climate risks into its business models and funding
renewable energy.<br>
"Progress has indeed been made," he told the group as he wrapped up
the two-day session. "But is it enough?"...<br>
- - - - - <br>
This month's gathering - which included stops on the islands of
Spetses and Hydra - included similarly dire warnings from
researchers. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, who directs the Potsdam
Institute for Climate Impact Research, described the current changes
arising from fossil-fuel burning as "disruption on a global scale."<br>
Without a sharp reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, Schellnhuber
told the audience, large swaths of Nigeria, the Philippines and
elsewhere "will become uninhabitable" because they will be too hot
for humans to live in.<br>
Some of the most fiery rhetoric came from Columbia University Earth
Institute director Jeffrey Sachs, who spoke to the group in Greece
before departing for the Vatican to participate in the papal climate
conference. In an impassioned speech, Sachs charted the historic
development of the global capitalist economy, arguing that its
foundation upon the idea of "limited liability" has meant that
corporations will not take responsibility for the economic damage
they have caused.<br>
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"What we've proved is greed unleashed has no boundaries at all,"
Sachs said. "That is the modern economy: Unleash the greed."<br>
The patriarch, who sat in the front row for the entirety of the
conference, opened and closed the proceedings. Speaking in English,
he framed conservation as a cause inextricably linked to both his
faith and the broader cause of social justice.<br>
"Any kind of alienation between human beings and nature is a
distortion of Christian theology and anthropology," he said.<br>
Even small details of Bartholomew's itinerary carried symbolic
significance. His top environmental adviser, the Rev. John
Chryssavgis, asked the conference hotels to avoid plastic straws and
nixed a planned blessing for Hydra's fishing fleet that was
sponsored by an oil company...<br>
<font size="-1">Magda Jean-Louis contributed to this report. <br>
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<font size="+1"><b>This Day in Climate History - June 27, 2006 -
from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<b style="font-weight:normal"
id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-12b9b111-40d6-ef16-0b13-e48f21f6b5ae"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">June 27, 2006: On MSNBC's "Countdown," Keith Olbermann interviews Elizabeth Kolbert of the New Yorker on the Supreme Court's decision to hear the Massachusetts v. EPA case.
</span></b>
<blockquote><b style="font-weight:normal"
id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-12b9b111-40d6-ef16-0b13-e48f21f6b5ae"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OLBERMANN: Apart from the end there, where we‘re flash back to the Lyndon Johnson “Daisy Ad” and we‘re expecting this little girl to start counting backwards from 10, is that the thrust of the arrangement being made against doing anything about CO2, that if we do there‘ll be no more electricity and we‘ll have to live in caves at the outskirts of town and pound ground with rocks for energy or something? </span></b><br>
<b style="font-weight:normal"
id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-12b9b111-40d6-ef16-0b13-e48f21f6b5ae"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></b><br>
<b style="font-weight:normal"
id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-12b9b111-40d6-ef16-0b13-e48f21f6b5ae"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">KOLBERT: Yeah, exactly. George Bush has said, you know, that if we regulate CO2 it would ruin our economy and that‘s an argument that you hear all the time. Unfortunately, it is probably just not true and in the meantime we‘re just wasting a lot of time, because I think everyone acknowledges eventually we are going to have to do that. </span></b><br>
<b style="font-weight:normal"
id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-12b9b111-40d6-ef16-0b13-e48f21f6b5ae"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></b><br>
<b style="font-weight:normal"
id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-12b9b111-40d6-ef16-0b13-e48f21f6b5ae"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OLBERMANN: Give me the political playing field on this. We know, obviously, where Mr. Gore stands. Who are the other, if any, political figures who are picking up the global warming cajole (ph). </span></b><br>
<b style="font-weight:normal"
id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-12b9b111-40d6-ef16-0b13-e48f21f6b5ae"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></b><br>
<b style="font-weight:normal"
id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-12b9b111-40d6-ef16-0b13-e48f21f6b5ae"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">KOLBERT: Well, John McCain has been very outspoken. He has a bill, the McCain-Lieberman Bill, that‘s been brought up twice, but unfortunately both times it‘s been defeated, that would regulate CO2 emissions.</span></b><br>
<b style="font-weight:normal"
id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-12b9b111-40d6-ef16-0b13-e48f21f6b5ae"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></b><br>
<b style="font-weight:normal"
id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-12b9b111-40d6-ef16-0b13-e48f21f6b5ae"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OLBERMANN: Is there anybody else or does it boil down to him and Gore? </span></b><br>
<b style="font-weight:normal"
id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-12b9b111-40d6-ef16-0b13-e48f21f6b5ae"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></b><br>
<b style="font-weight:normal"
id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-12b9b111-40d6-ef16-0b13-e48f21f6b5ae"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">KOLBERT: Well, there are—when McCain has brought his bill up, he‘s gotten a lot of democratic votes, he hasn‘t gotten a lot of republican votes. He‘s gotten Hillary Clinton‘s vote, for example. Hillary Clinton has been very outspoken. I know she and John McCain have actually taken trips together to the Arctic, to view where you can see the affects of climate change very, very dramatically up in places like Alaska and northern Canada. </span></b><br>
<b style="font-weight:normal"
id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-12b9b111-40d6-ef16-0b13-e48f21f6b5ae"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></b><br>
<b style="font-weight:normal"
id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-12b9b111-40d6-ef16-0b13-e48f21f6b5ae"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OLBERMANN: Is there any hope to be drawn out of the news that the Supreme Court‘s going to hear arguments on the Bush administration and the need to regulate carbon emissions. Can you describe what this case is and what implications might be of it? </span></b><br>
<b style="font-weight:normal"
id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-12b9b111-40d6-ef16-0b13-e48f21f6b5ae"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></b><br>
<b style="font-weight:normal"
id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-12b9b111-40d6-ef16-0b13-e48f21f6b5ae"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">KOLBERT: Sure, 12 states, including New York, where I‘m sitting now, and Massachusetts, where I live, have brought to the Supreme Court a case that demands, basically that the EPA regulates CO2 under the Clean Air Act, classify it as a pollutant, a harmful pollutant, and therefore they‘d have to regulate it. And then whether or not there‘s any chance that this could succeed is a really good question. I don‘t think that anyone who watches the court carefully could say there‘s a terribly good chance, but on the other hand, you have to hope that the court took it—it was a divided lower court decision, and you have to hope the court took it in good faith and is really going to listen to the arguments on both sides. </span></b><br>
<b style="font-weight:normal"
id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-12b9b111-40d6-ef16-0b13-e48f21f6b5ae"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></b><br>
<b style="font-weight:normal"
id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-12b9b111-40d6-ef16-0b13-e48f21f6b5ae"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OLBERMANN: Elizabeth Kolbert of the “New Yorker” magazine, and author of “Field Notes from a Catastrophe.” Great thanks for your time. </span></b><br>
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