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<font size="+1"><i>August 14, 2018</i></font><br>
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[lightning strike]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-45182675">VIDEO:
Bridge collapses in Italy amid violent storm, killing at least
20</a></b><br>
GENOA, Italy -- Video shows a bridge collapse in northern Italy in
the midst of a violent storm on Tuesday that has left at least 20
dead, according to Angelo Borrelli, the head of Italy's civil
protection agency.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-45182675">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-45182675</a></font><br>
<br>
[follow the money]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/will-this-summers-record-high-temperatures-scorch-the-broader-economy/">Summer's
record-high temperatures threaten to scorch the economy</a></b><br>
Extremely hot summers and brutally cold winters-widely understood to
be effects of climate change-are likely to have a huge impact on the
U.S. economy in the coming decades, according to a new analysis from
the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond that overturns previous
thinking on the topic.<br>
"[It] has generally been assumed that the economic effects of global
warming for the United States would be relatively small," the Fed
paper says. "[However,] rising temperatures could reduce overall
growth of U.S. economic output by as much as one-third by 2100."<br>
To put that in perspective, the hundreds of billions in tariffs
currently being imposed by the U.S., China and the European Union
are estimated to reduce the U.S. economic product somewhere between
0.06 and 0.25 percent...<br>
- - - <br>
The Fed's paper came to a similar conclusion as research published
earlier this year in Science, which estimated that climate change
could erase as much as 6 points off U.S. GDP by the end of the
century. Climate change will also redistribute wealth as workers
flee from hard-hit areas to more resilient ones...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/will-this-summers-record-high-temperatures-scorch-the-broader-economy/">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/will-this-summers-record-high-temperatures-scorch-the-broader-economy/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Photos before and after]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/before-and-after-california-wildfire-destruction_us_5b71b885e4b0ae32af9a5d9b">California
Wildfires: Before And After Images Capture Terrifying
Destruction</a></b><br>
HuffPost has created some before and after images that show the
extensive damage to once-standing homes and neighborhoods. The
images show destruction from the Carr Fire and recent images from
the Mendocino Complex Fire near Redding, California. <br>
Use the sliders... to move between the before and after images. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/before-and-after-california-wildfire-destruction_us_5b71b885e4b0ae32af9a5d9b">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/before-and-after-california-wildfire-destruction_us_5b71b885e4b0ae32af9a5d9b</a></font><br>
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<br>
[rescue Rover]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-45174894/race-against-time-for-dogs-in-wildfires">Race
against time for dogs in wildfires</a></b><br>
Dramatic scenes unfolded in Vacaville, California, as police raced
to rescue 60 cats and dogs from an animal shelter threatened by a
wildfire.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-45174894/race-against-time-for-dogs-in-wildfires">https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-45174894/race-against-time-for-dogs-in-wildfires</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/08/13/us-methane-problem/">The
US' hidden methane problem</a></b><br>
Published on 8/13/2018 <br>
Unregulated, unnoticed coal mines across the US are leaking a potent
greenhouse gas with the same greenhouse effect as 13 million cars<br>
By Mark Olalde<br>
Across the US, a major, uncontrolled leak of a potent greenhouse gas
is going unregulated and largely unnoticed.<br>
Climate Home News analysis of government data has identified roughly
300 active and 200 abandoned coal mines, which are the source of
almost one-tenth of US methane pollution.<br>
Methane has 34 times the long-term warming effect of carbon dioxide
and accounts for 10% of US greenhouse gas emissions. Its emissions
from the oil and gas industry and the efforts of the Trump
administration to roll back regulations on them have been widely
publicised.<br>
Meanwhile, US coal mines released 60.5 MMTCO2e of methane in 2016,
with roughly the same warming impact as 13 million cars. Efforts to
control the problem are being hampered despite those with the
technical expertise claiming a whole industry could be built on
capturing these emissions and turning them into electricity.<br>
- - - - <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/08/13/us-methane-problem/">http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/08/13/us-methane-problem/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Lesson today]<br>
video lecture 16:30<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrJ3n_8ZI4o">An
Introduction to Nitrogen and Climate Change</a></b><br>
Climate State<br>
Published on Mar 14, 2018<br>
In this 2015 talk, David Reay from the University of Edinburgh talks
about nitrogen, and how it effects climate change.<br>
Watch the full lecture <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_w5t832ln">https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_w5t832ln</a><br>
Nitrogen <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen</a><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_w5t832ln">Inaugural
Lecture. Professor David Reay. The School of GeoSciences.</a></b><br>
THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH. <br>
The School of GeoSciences Inaugural Lecture by Professor David Reay.
Professor of Carbon Management.<br>
Wonder Stuff. The Global Challenge of Nitrogen and Climate Change<br>
Thursday, 19th November 2015 - ECCI Conference Room, High School
Yards. Edinburgh EH1 1LZ.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_w5t832ln">https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_w5t832ln</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Analysis]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatecodered.org/2018/08/ipccs-political-fix-on-15c-will.html">IPCC's
political fix on 1.5C will undermine its credibility</a></b><br>
by David Spratt<br>
The forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
special report on 1.5C will suggest a significant "carbon budget"
for the 1.5C climate warming target, in a political fix that will
further undermine the organisation's credibility.<br>
The report will use unwisely low assumptions about the Earth's
climate sensitivity to pull a rabbit out of a hat: a carbon budget
that from any sensible risk-management perspective simply does not
exist. The political effect will be to say that the climate crisis
is less bad than it is, and that we can "allow" more fossil fuel
emissions.<br>
In fact, recent research shows that climate sensitivity is higher
that the median used in recent IPCC reports, but now the 1.5C report
will go in the opposite direction. The final report will likely have
an even higher 1.5C "carbon budget" figure than in the drafts leaked
in recent months.<br>
- - - - -<br>
<b>The 1.5C report</b><br>
In October this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) will release a special report on the impacts of global
warming of 1.5C and emission pathways to achieve this goal. <br>
<br>
The 2015 Paris climate policymaking conference (COP21) set a goal of
limiting the global average temperature increase to "well below 2C
above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the
increase to 1.5C". The 1.5C was included as a COP outcome for the
first time to pacify growing anger from the small-island states and
least-developed countries about the low ambition of the
international policymaking process. COP21 requested the IPCC to
report on how to achieve the goal.<br>
<br>
The Paris Agreement was a political fix in which grand words masked
inadequate deeds. The UN Environment Program says that current
pledges from governments represent only about half of what would be
required to avoid a 2˚C temperature rise, and just a third of what's
required to limit warming to 1.5˚C. <br>
<br>
The voluntary emission reduction commitments made by nations since
Paris put the world on a path of more than 3C of warming by 2100,
and up to 5C if high-end risks including carbon-cycle feedbacks are
taken into account. Warming in the zone of 3–5C is an existential
risk to human civilisation. ..<br>
- - - - <br>
There are many ways to reduce the amount of carbon in the air,
including better farming techniques, regenerative agriculture, soil
carbon and biochar, and technologies that can directly capture CO2
from the air. The most cost-effective, large-scale drawdown action
is the restoration of carbon-dense and biologically rich natural
forests.<br>
Isn't this academic if in reality we are heading for 3C or more of
warming?<br>
Absolutely not! Sustained political failure means we are heading
towards a disaster, but we have the economic and technological
capacity to get out of this huge mess. We need to be clear about
exactly what would be safe and how we can get there.<br>
What needs to be done?<br>
The big questions are what is necessary to avoid a climate
catastrophe and return to a safe climate, and how to achieve
emergency-speed national and sub-national actions to make it happen.
A campaign in the USA, "Well under 2C: Fast action policies to
protect people and the planet from extreme climate change", led by
respected scientists, advocates the "three levers" approach:<br>
The carbon neutral lever to achieve zero net emissions of CO2 with
renewables and energy efficiency;
<br>
The super pollutant lever to cut short-lived climate pollutants such
as methane, black carbon, tropospheric ozone and HFCs to maximum
extent possible; and
<br>
Atmospheric carbon extraction lever to thin the atmospheric CO2
blanket.
<br>
They also emphasise sub-national and city-scale climate action
plans, the Kigali HFC amendment to the Montreal Protocol, and action
on shipping and aircraft emissions which are not included in the
Paris Agreement. <br>
Is that enough?<br>
Zero emissions and carbon drawdown cannot be completed fast enough
to prevent or reverse the significant tipping points currently
crossed, and others close at hand...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatecodered.org/2018/08/ipccs-political-fix-on-15c-will.html">http://www.climatecodered.org/2018/08/ipccs-political-fix-on-15c-will.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
[it just amplifies injustice]<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/04/the-racism-of-climate-denial/">The
Racism of Climate Denial</a></b><br>
Creating uncertainty about evidence is an injustice<br>
Genevieve Guenther - April 24, 2018<br>
Climate justice demands we acknowledge that the fossil-fuel economy
distributes its costs unequally across racial lines. For example,
race, not poverty, is correlated with exposure to PM 2.5, a
health-damaging particle produced by the burning of fossil fuels.
Climate change itself, the planetary effect of fossil-fuel
consumption, also affects people unequally across racial lines. When
droughts, floods, and storms hit African-American and Latinx
communities the government does not help them rebuild, but rather
withholds resources and aid by "privatizing recovery." Yet climate
injustice and systemic racism intersect not only in the stark
miseries of climate-change disasters. They also overlap in the
normalized, complacent climate denial that sustains the fossil-fuel
economy.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/04/the-racism-of-climate-denial/">http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/04/the-racism-of-climate-denial/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Applies to climate activism]<br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmh4RdIwswE">Astroturfing:
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)</a></b><br>
LastWeekTonight<br>
Published on Aug 12, 2018<br>
Organizations can hire fake advocates who create the illusion of
real support for their message. It's a shady practice called
astroturfing that can warp the public perception of anything...even
astroturfing.<br>
Connect with Last Week Tonight online...<br>
Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel for more almost
news as it almost happens: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight">www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmh4RdIwswE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmh4RdIwswE</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/j5em4b/we-all-live-in-fear-how-climate-change-is-devastating-to-refugees">'We
All Live in Fear': How Climate Change Is Devastating to Refugees</a></b><br>
By Alice Rowsome - Apr 7 2017<br>
In Somaliland, a crippling drought has driven many women and
children from their rural villages and into dangerous and
overcrowded refugee camps.<br>
However, she adds, no humanitarian agencies operate in this camp. In
fact, women are expected to pay rent to their so-called landlords.
"This land is privately owned, so we have to pay. When we don't pay,
they [the landlords] grab the land back from us and we are forced to
move again," says Hussein. "See the stones we are standing on? We
pick them up and go sell them at the market. We make about 60,000
SOS [approximately $8] per ton."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/j5em4b/we-all-live-in-fear-how-climate-change-is-devastating-to-refugees">https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/j5em4b/we-all-live-in-fear-how-climate-change-is-devastating-to-refugees</a></font><br>
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<br>
[On the Road - passing nearby]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-road-trip_us_5b6b9129e4b0530743c6d538">Driving
The Climate Change Conversation To A Neighborhood Near You</a></b><br>
A scientist and a teacher are on a road trip across America to talk
about global warming.<br>
headshot<br>
By Yvette Cabrera<br>
Armed with a tent, sleeping bags, a hammock and a donated drone, the
couple will sleep outdoors or stay with friends, family members and
strangers who have offered their homes (and will make hotel stops
when necessary). <br>
"What we want to do is get this conversation going and try to make
people feel that it's OK to talk about climate change, even if we're
not coming at it from the same perspective," said Simolaris, who
recently became certified to teach Spanish. <br>
Both are putting their careers on hold at a crossroads. Simolaris,
28, earned her master's degree this year and normally would be
applying for teaching jobs to pay off her school loans. Masri also
has school debt and should be researching and publishing papers ―
the prescribed path to tenure in academia... <br>
- - - -<br>
He often finds that when he speaks to people about climate change,
they express a sense of defeat. They point out that the polar bears
are dying and ask if they can really make a difference at this
point. <br>
Masri just published a book, "Beyond Debate," to address common
climate change misconceptions and to remind the public that there is
still time to act.<br>
"It's not a foregone conclusion," he said. "There are climate
projections and many different scenarios. Whether we take the
worst-case scenario or best-case scenario, that's still entirely
dependent on how we act today."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-road-trip_us_5b6b9129e4b0530743c6d538">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-road-trip_us_5b6b9129e4b0530743c6d538</a></font><br>
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<br>
[New book publication]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.herbsimmens.com/a-climate-vocabulary-of-the-future/">A
Climate Vocabulary of the Future</a></b><br>
Just Released!<br>
A Climate Vocabulary of the Future is the first book to focus on
creating a new vocabulary encompassing all aspects of climate change
– political, economic, moral, behavioral as well as technological
and scientific. The vocabulary presented is broad based and far
reaching because climate change is and will affect every aspect of
life for most everyone on the planet.<br>
With some 265 new words and terms, and over 165 currently used terms
this book explains many of key concepts in climate change with a
combination of wit, simplicity, brevity and clarity.<br>
- - - -<br>
Some entries are straightforward words or phrase like dark snow or
negative emissions, others are playful terms like frozen chicken
syndrome or robin carbon hood tax or sharply drawn phrases like
carbon war criminal or the no solutions coalition.<br>
The need for urgent action is reflected in the descriptions of many
of these terms. Some 75 new words and terms present ideas for action
– most eminently practical, others aspirational or inspirational.<br>
Use it as a reference or as a creative way to learn the many
dimensions of climate change. And above all help acquire the words,
images, ideas and actions necessary to thrive in a world that will
be increasingly be dominated by climate chaos.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.herbsimmens.com/a-climate-vocabulary-of-the-future/">http://www.herbsimmens.com/a-climate-vocabulary-of-the-future/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Hard work on Friday]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.utilitydive.com/news/ferc-halts-atlantic-coast-clears-3-other-pipeline-projects-in-busy-friday/529963/">FERC
halts Atlantic Coast, clears 3 other pipeline projects in busy
Friday</a></b><br>
Gavin Bade - August 13, 2018<br>
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Friday halted the
construction of one major natural gas pipeline and declined to
revisit decisions approving three others in the final hours before
Republicans lost their one-vote majority at the agency.<br>
- FERC voted 3-2 to deny rehearing on the PennEast Pipeline, Eastern
Market Access Project and the Southeast Markets Pipeline Project,
allowing work to move forward. - FERC also unanimously ordered a
stop to construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, saying a court
ruling last week could mean it will need to be rerouted.<br>
The flurry of activity came on the last day at work for Republican
Commissioner Robert Powelson, who retired early to head a water
company trade group. The resulting 2-2 partisan split on the
commission allows Democrats to deadlock votes until a replacement is
confirmed.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.utilitydive.com/news/ferc-halts-atlantic-coast-clears-3-other-pipeline-projects-in-busy-friday/529963/">https://www.utilitydive.com/news/ferc-halts-atlantic-coast-clears-3-other-pipeline-projects-in-busy-friday/529963/</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b>This Day in Climate History - <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://youtu.be/BqqZzY0fjC0">August
14, 2008</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
August 14, 2008: GOP presidential candidate John McCain discusses
his views on energy and climate change in Aspen, Colorado.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/BqqZzY0fjC0">http://youtu.be/BqqZzY0fjC0</a><br>
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