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<font size="+1"><i>July 22, 2018</i></font><br>
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[Youth demo in Washington, D.C.] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/21/us/politics/zero-hour-climate-march.html">Meet
the Teenagers Leading a Climate Change Movement</a></b><br>
They are trying to prove the adults wrong, to show that people their
age are taking heed of what they see as the greatest crisis
threatening their generation.<br>
"In our generation when we talk about climate change, they're like:
'Ha ha, that's so funny. It's not something we'll have to deal
with,'" said Nadia Nazar, Zero Hour's art director. "'Oh, yeah, the
polar bears will just die, the seas will just rise.' They don't
understand the actual caliber of the destruction."<br>
The group is building off the momentum of other recent youth-led
movements, such as the nationwide March for Our Lives rallies
against gun violence.<br>
"No one gives you an organizing guide of how to raise thousands of
dollars, how to get people on board, how to mobilize," Ms. Margolin
said. "There was no help. It was just me floundering around with
Dory-like determination, like, 'Just keep swimming,'" she said,
referring to the Disney movie "Finding Nemo."<br>
- - - - -<br>
Since starting Zero Hour, Ms. Margolin said she had been overwhelmed
by the response from people of all ages. Dozens of environmental
advocacy groups and nonprofits have approached the coalition,
looking to donate to or sponsor it.<br>
"We flipped the scenario as the underdog. We've proven ourselves,"
she said. "We are on the verge of something amazing. We're going to
change history."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/21/us/politics/zero-hour-climate-march.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/21/us/politics/zero-hour-climate-march.html</a></font><br>
- - - -<br>
[Zero Hour]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://thisiszerohour.org/">We
are the ones we've been waiting for.</a></b><br>
The mission of the Zero Hour movement is to center the voices of
diverse youth in the conversation around climate and environmental
justice. Zero Hour is a youth-led movement creating entry points,
training, and resources for new young activists and organizers (and
adults who support our vision) wanting to take concrete action
around climate change. Together, we are a movement of unstoppable
youth organizing to protect our rights and access to the natural
resources and a clean, safe, and healthy environment that will
ensure a livable future where we not just survive, but flourish.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thisiszerohour.org/">http://thisiszerohour.org/</a></font><br>
- - - -<br>
[The Platform]<br>
<b>Platform Documents</b><br>
<a
href="http://thisiszerohour.org/files/zh-peoples-platform-web.pdf"
target="_blank" class="red-black">People's Platform [PDF]</a><br>
<a
href="http://thisiszerohour.org/files/zh-platform-politicians-web.pdf"
target="_blank" class="red-black">Letter to Politicians [PDF]</a><br>
<a
href="http://thisiszerohour.org/files/zh-guiding-principles-web.pdf"
target="_blank" class="red-black">Our Guiding Principles [PDF]</a><br>
<a
href="http://thisiszerohour.org/files/ZeroHour_JustTransition.pdf"
target="_blank" class="red-black">Just Transition [PDF]</a> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thisiszerohour.org/platform/">http://thisiszerohour.org/platform/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[What did you say?]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/07/22/global-warming-naive/">Global
Warming Naive</a></b><br>
Posted on July 22, 2018<br>
At a town hall meeting near Philadelphia, 18-year-old Rose Strauss
had a question for Scott Wagner, the Republican candidate for
governor of Pennsylvania:<br>
You've said that climate change is a result of people's body heat,
and are refusing to take action on the issue. Does this have
anything to do with the $200,000 that you have taken from the fossil
fuel industry?<br>
Wagner responded by calling her "young and naive" in a way that
seems to me to be shamefully condescending; judge for yourself: <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/tC4VRRiEKO0">Scott
Wagner Callously Dismisses Voter As "Young And Naive" For Caring
About Climate Change</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/tC4VRRiEKO0">https://youtu.be/tC4VRRiEKO0</a><br>
As for her question, USA Today reports<br>
<blockquote>He did not answer her question and ultimately shifted
the conversation to concern about sewage spilling into the
Susquehanna River in Harrisburg.<br>
It turns out Scott Wagner really did say that body heat is part of
the reason for global warming, and added the Earth moving closer
to the sun as well:<br>
I haven't been in a science class in a long time, but the Earth
moves closer to the sun every year - you know, the rotation of the
Earth. We're moving closer to the sun.…<br>
</blockquote>
We have more people…you know, humans have warm bodies. So is heat
coming off?<br>
Actually, at present the Earth is moving very slightly further away
from the sun each year. I also doubt that he quite understands the
difference between Earth's rotation and its revolution around the
sun.<br>
It seems that Scott Wagner's callous insult to the young woman is
costing him votes. Do you think maybe he's "naive"?<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/07/22/global-warming-naive/">https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/07/22/global-warming-naive/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Season warming]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-20/climate-change-is-disrupting-the-planet-s-seasons">Climate
Change Is Disrupting the Planet's Seasons</a></b><br>
Four decades of temperature observations show what many suspected:
Human activity is disrupting the behavior of plants, animals, and
the march of the seasons.<br>
By Eric Roston - July 20, 2018, <br>
Poring over four decades of satellite data, climate scientists have
concluded for the first time that humans are pushing seasonal
temperatures out of balance-shifting what one researcher called the
very "march of the seasons themselves."...<br>
- - - - -<br>
Ben Santer, an atmospheric scientist at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory and the study's lead author, likens the temperature
results to a wave washing up on a beach. For every year in the
38-year satellite record, the team captured the monthly temperature
lows (troughs) and highs (crests). In the early years, the "waves"
came in small. By the end of the data set under study, 2016, the
waves crashed ashore with higher troughs-and much higher crests...<br>
- - - -<br>
What they discovered is an uneven pace of seasonal change in the
atmosphere above the Northern and Southern Hemispheres' temperate
zones. While warming is famously global, summers in the troposphere
are heating faster than winters, in a way physics would dictate if
greenhouse gases were the culprit. The satellite data and computer
models for seasonal temperature change used by the study agree with
each other even more closely than they do when gauging average
annual temperature....<br>
- - - <br>
"To me when incorrect claims are elevated to the level of formal
congressional testimony and are part of the Congressional Record,
then it is important to address them," Santer said.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-20/climate-change-is-disrupting-the-planet-s-seasons">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-20/climate-change-is-disrupting-the-planet-s-seasons</a></font><br>
- - - <br>
[Sources]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6399/eaas8806">Human
influence on the seasonal cycle of tropospheric temperature</a></b><br>
Benjamin D. Santer1, et al<br>
<b>'Tis the seasonal</b><br>
<blockquote>Anthropogenic climate change has become clearly
observable through many metrics. These include an increase in
global annual temperatures, growing heat content of the oceans,
and sea level rise owing to the melting of the polar ice sheets
and glaciers. Now, Santer et al. report that a human-caused signal
in the seasonal cycle of tropospheric temperature can also be
measured (see the Perspective by Randel). They use satellite data
and the anthropogenic "fingerprint" predicted by climate models to
show the extent of the effects and discuss how these changes have
been caused. (Science, this issue p. eaas8806; see also p. 227)<br>
</blockquote>
- - - <br>
Structured Abstract<br>
<b>INTRODUCTION</b><br>
<blockquote>Fingerprint studies use pattern information to separate
human and natural influences on climate. Most fingerprint research
relies on patterns of climate change that are averaged over years
or decades. Few studies probe shorter time scales. We consider
here whether human influences are identifiable in the changing
seasonal cycle. We focus on Earth's troposphere, which extends
from the surface to roughly 16 km at the tropics and 13 km at the
poles. Our interest is in TAC, the geographical pattern of the
amplitude of the annual cycle of tropospheric temperature.
Information on how TAC has changed over time is available from
satellite retrievals and from large multimodel ensembles of
simulations.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6399/eaas8806">http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6399/eaas8806</a></font><br>
- - - -<br>
[more science fundamentals]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-02520-7">Tropospheric
Warming Over The Past Two Decades</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-02520-7">http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6399/eaas8806</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[DeSmogBlog report]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/07/17/billionaire-mining-magnate-gina-rinehart-revealed-key-donor-australian-climate-science-denial-promoter-institute">Billionaire
Mining Magnate Gina Rinehart Revealed As Key Donor to Australian
Climate Science Denial Promoter Institute of Public Affairs</a></b><br>
By Graham Readfearn - Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 20:09<br>
Australia's richest person, mining magnate Gina Rinehart, has been
revealed as a key funder of the right wing think tank the Institute
of Public Affairs (IPA) - a major pusher of climate science denial.<br>
Rinehart's company, Hancock Prospecting Proprietary Ltd (HPPL),
donated $2.3 million to the IPA in 2016 and $2.2 million in 2017,
according to disclosures made to the New South Wales Supreme Court.<br>
As part of a long-running legal dispute over the use of company
funds, Gina Rinehart's daughter Bianca had served a subpoena to
access documents that would have shed light on the two donations
from HPPL to the IPA.<br>
The IPA is an influential right wing think tank with close ties to
Australia's governing Liberal Party. IPA fellows regularly appear in
the media. The payments suggest that more than a third of the IPA's
income in 2016 and 2017 was from HPPL - majority-owned privately by
Gina Rinehart.<br>
According to Forbes, Rinehart was the seventh richest woman in the
world in 2017 and Australia's richest person, with current wealth
estimated to be $17.6 billion.<br>
The IPA is a registered charity but is not legally required to
disclose its funders and has declined to reveal them in recent
years, citing concerns that donors could be "intimidated."<br>
According to the court judgement, Bianca's solicitors had been
provided with a schedule of "donations and sponsorships" from HPPL
where it was disclosed, the judgement said, "that HPPL paid or
provided amounts to IPA in a total of $2.3 million for the 2016
financial year and $2.2 million in the 2017 financial year."<br>
The donations also raise questions about the way the IPA has
disclosed the nature of its revenues. <br>
The IPA's 2017 annual report declared $6.1 million of income but
said that "86 percent" had come from individuals. HPPL's $2.2
million donation constituted more than a third of the IPA's income
that year.<br>
In 2016, the IPA reported that 91 percent of donations were from
individuals, but that year HPPL's $2.3 million donation constituted
almost half the IPA's income of $4.96 million that year.<br>
DeSmog has emailed HPPL asking why it was supporting the IPA, if the
donations were linked to specific work, and if it was still a
supporter. DeSmog also asked the IPA about the donations and if
supporters should be concerned that so much if its income is derived
from one person. IPA spokesperson Evan Mulholland replied: "No
comment."<br>
Rinehart's Climate Science Denial<br>
The IPA has long pushed climate science denialism - publishing books
and sponsoring speaking tours of prominent climate science deniers.<br>
Rinehart's own views on human-caused climate change match those
promoted by the IPA.<br>
In 2011, she wrote in a magazine column that she had "yet to hear
scientific evidence to satisfy me that if the very, very small
amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (approximately 0.38%) was
increased, it could lead to significant global warming."<br>
She added: "I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who
believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any
significant effect on climate change, especially not from a
relatively small country like Australia."<br>
Rinehart has also supported Australia speaking tours of UK climate
change denier Lord Christopher Monckton. Professor Ian Plimer,
another prominent geologist who rejects climate change science, sits
on the board of HPPL subsidiary Roy Hill Holdings.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/07/17/billionaire-mining-magnate-gina-rinehart-revealed-key-donor-australian-climate-science-denial-promoter-institute">https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/07/17/billionaire-mining-magnate-gina-rinehart-revealed-key-donor-australian-climate-science-denial-promoter-institute</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Climate refugee, climate migrant]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://theslot.jezebel.com/central-american-refugees-are-fleeing-climate-change-t-1827626386">Central
American Refugees Are Fleeing Climate Change, Too</a></b><br>
Prachi Gupta<br>
Refugees claiming asylum at the southern U.S. border are fleeing a
staggering set of harsh conditions, most often identified as
widespread violence and persecution. While both are driving factors,
Central Americans are also trying to escape the devastating effects
of climate change.<br>
According to Todd Miller, author of Storming the Wall: Climate
Change, Migration, and Homeland Security, there is an increase in
hurricanes, landslides, droughts, and other natural disasters
devastating enough to displace people...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://theslot.jezebel.com/central-american-refugees-are-fleeing-climate-change-t-1827626386">https://theslot.jezebel.com/central-american-refugees-are-fleeing-climate-change-t-1827626386</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[From the Daily KOS]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/2/1777389/-A-former-CIA-analyst-s-protips-on-surviving-the-onslaught-of-bad-news?detail=emaildkre">A
former CIA analyst's protips on surviving the onslaught of bad
news</a></b><br>
KM Wehrstein<br>
Today seems like the right time to do a thread I've been thinking
about for a while on how to handle the seemingly never-ending deluge
of depressing and disturbing news. My tips are based on my time as a
CIA military analyst in which I dealt daily with disturbing content.<br>
<br>
<b>There are several risks to being overloaded with
disturbing/negative content.</b><br>
<blockquote>Complacency - becoming so used to the deluge that it all
starts to seem normal.<br>
Paralysis - that is, being so overwhelmed, you can't figure out
what to do/how to move forward.<br>
Crisis perspective - you get trapped in the Breaking News cycle
where everything seems like a potentially world-ending crisis to
you.<br>
Depression/PTSD - you don't have to be on the frontline of a war
have either/both. Disturbing content is absolutely a trigger.<br>
</blockquote>
There are also serious physical consequences to living a negative
content overloaded life. I had a colleague who didn't know he had
stage 4 brain cancer because the symptoms were the same as our very
stressful careers-exhaustion, random fevers, stress, and dizziness.<br>
<br>
So, what do you do? First, I strongly urge you not to ignore the
news/current events. Ignorance is one reason we have this society.
It won't make the problems go away & contributes nothing to
their solving. Now that that's established, here's how to make it
easier to handle:<br>
<blockquote><b>1. TAKE ACTION.</b> Volunteer for a food pantry,
canvass for a political candidate, donate to a NGO, visit a sick
friend. Seriously. Service of some kind in your community lets you
be part of SOLUTIONS. You will see RESULTS when otherwise you'd
feel helpless.<br>
<br>
<b>2</b>. Conversely, for those who may take tip #1 to the extreme
- <b>know that you alone can't save the world. Accept your
limits.</b> You aren't a 7/11. You can't always be open. At the
end of every day when I reached my limit, I silently told myself,
"I've done what I can today." (Note: Repeating that to myself did
not stop me from feeling like I could have done more most days.
But it was important to tell myself anyway because I am human. We
are human. It's good we *feel* things.)<br>
<br>
<b>3. RESEARCH BEFORE PANICKING</b>. Easier said than done, but
everything will seem like crisis/earth-ending if you don't know
what has/hasn't happened before. If it has happened before, it's
can be hugely comforting to know how it was resolved and/or what
might happen next.<br>
<br>
<b>4. GET UP & MOVE.</b> Put the phone away, turn off the TV,
log out of Twitter. Go for a walk, sit outside, get some coffee,
call a friend. CIA is full of ppl walking the building with a
colleague/friend. There's a reason. Our brains & bodies need
breaks from stressful content.<br>
<br>
<b>5. SET RULES.</b> Because of my work at CIA, I had a rule-I
only read fiction at home. I had enough reality at work. In the
civilian world, I set blocks of time each day where I turn
everything off-no news or social media. Let yourself recharge so
you can keep fighting later.<br>
<br>
<b>6. AVOID DARK HOLES.</b> (I'm sure there's a joke to be made
about that.) It's easy to get sucked into the swirl of bad news.
You watch a gruesome YouTube video and the next one is all queued
up to play right after it. Focus on one issue at a time. Deal w/
it before moving on.<br>
<br>
<b>7. YOU NEED FUN.</b> When there is suffering, war, despair,
etc. around you, it's easy to feel guilty when you have fun, feel
happy, have a good meal with friends. You NEED these things. You
will be better able to do good in the world if you let yourself
have these things.<br>
<br>
<b>8. TALK TO SOMEONE</b>. Often, we curl inward socially when
overwhelmed w/ negative content. It's a means of protection. One
of the great things at CIA was that everyone else knew what you
were going through. Whether it's therapy or talking to your
person, talking helps.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/2/1777389/-A-former-CIA-analyst-s-protips-on-surviving-the-onslaught-of-bad-news?detail=emaildkre">https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/2/1777389/-A-former-CIA-analyst-s-protips-on-surviving-the-onslaught-of-bad-news?detail=emaildkre</a></font><br>
- - - -<br>
[From the Good Grief Group]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.goodgriefgroup.org/10-steps-to-psychsocial-resilience/">10
Steps to PsychoSocial Resilience</a></b><br>
Steps to Resiliency<br>
Want to cultivate personal resilience while being a part of a
community? Do you feel that someone is not quite right and you're
living in a type of matrix? Want to dig deep into systemic issues
and help yourself and others come to terms with what we're
experiencing and will face? Are you ready for open and honest
dialogue?<br>
[edited]<br>
10 Steps to Resiliency:<br>
<blockquote>1. Accept The Problem And Its Severity <br>
2. Acknowledge That I Am Part Of The Problem As Well As The
Solution<br>
3. Practice Embracing Uncertainty <br>
4. Confront My Own Mortality And The Mortality Of All<br>
5. Do Inner Work<br>
6. Feel My feelings<br>
7. Take Breaks And Rest As Needed<br>
8. Practice Gratitude<br>
9. Show Up<br>
10. Reinvest Into Problem-Solving Efforts<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.goodgriefgroup.org/10-steps-to-psychsocial-resilience/">http://www.goodgriefgroup.org/10-steps-to-psychsocial-resilience/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.politifact.com/new-jersey/statements/2013/jul/28/rush-holt/rush-holt-warns-millions-will-die-climate-change-g/">This
Day in Climate History - July 22, 2013</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
July 22, 2013: Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), a carbon-tax advocate running
for the seat left vacant by the passing of Sen. Frank Lautenberg
(D-NJ), shocks the Washington establishment by bluntly stating that
"millions will die" if something is not done to address carbon
pollution. (Rep. Holt would go on to lose the Democratic Senate
primary to Newark, NJ mayor Cory Booker, who won the seat in the
general election.)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_O4nEMAtP4&sns=em">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_O4nEMAtP4&sns=em</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.politifact.com/new-jersey/statements/2013/jul/28/rush-holt/rush-holt-warns-millions-will-die-climate-change-g/">http://www.politifact.com/new-jersey/statements/2013/jul/28/rush-holt/rush-holt-warns-millions-will-die-climate-change-g/</a><br>
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