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<font size="+1"><i>August 22, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[To Confront Climate Change, the Modern Automobile Must Die]<b><br>
</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.wired.com/story/germany-proves-cars-must-die/">GERMANY
HAS PROVEN THE MODERN AUTOMOBILE MUST DIE</a></b><br>
So far, Germany has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 27.7
percent -an astonishing achievement for a developed country with a
highly developed manufacturing sector. But with a little more than a
year left to go, despite dedicating $580 billion toward a low-carbon
energy system, the country "is likely to fall short of its goals for
reducing harmful carbon-dioxide emissions," Bloomberg News reported
on Wednesday. And the reason for that may come down not to any
elaborate solar industry plans, but something much simpler: cars.<br>
- - - - -<br>
Changing the way we power our homes and businesses is certainly
important. But as Germany's shortfall shows, the only way to achieve
these necessary, aggressive emissions reductions to combat global
warming is to overhaul the gas-powered automobile and the culture
that surrounds it. The only question left is how to do it.<br>
- - - - <br>
The modern cars they're seeking to preserve, and the way we use
them, are far from great. Of course, there's the climate impact -
the trillions in expected economic damage from extreme weather and
sea-level rise caused in part by our tailpipes. But 53,000 Americans
also die prematurely from vehicle pollution each year, and accidents
are among the leading causes of death in the United States. "If US
roads were a war zone, they would be the most dangerous battlefield
the American military has ever encountered," Humes wrote. It's
getting more dangerous by the day.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.wired.com/story/germany-proves-cars-must-die/">https://www.wired.com/story/germany-proves-cars-must-die/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[not since before statehood]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/08/21/hurricane-lane-packing-150-mph-winds-presents-rare-direct-threat-to-hawaii/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.40ed6a6ad00c">Hurricane
Lane, packing 150 mph winds, presents rare direct threat to
Hawaii</a></b><br>
By Jason Samenow - Weather editor<br>
Hurricane Lane, a Category 4 storm, is expected to make a
dangerously close encounter with the Hawaiian Islands over the next
several days.<br>
Although it is not certain whether the storm, packing peak winds of
150 mph, will directly strike the islands or just graze them,
significant effects from rain, wind and waves are becoming
increasingly likely.<br>
On Tuesday morning, the Central Pacific Hurricane Center, based in
Honolulu, posted hurricane watches for the eastern Hawaiian Islands,
including the Big Island and Maui, as tropical-storm-force winds and
heavy rain could affect those areas as soon as Wednesday or
Thursday. Watches may be extended to the western islands, the
Hurricane Center said.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/08/21/hurricane-lane-packing-150-mph-winds-presents-rare-direct-threat-to-hawaii">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/08/21/hurricane-lane-packing-150-mph-winds-presents-rare-direct-threat-to-hawaii</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[ 2018 is the LATEST REPORT]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.breakthroughonline.org.au/">WHAT LIES BENEATH</a></b><br>
THE UNDERSTATEMENT OF EXISTENTIAL CLIMATE RISK<br>
This latest Breakthrough report argues for an urgent risk reframing
of climate research and the IPCC reports. What Lies Beneath is the
inside story of how climate policy-making has become embedded in a
culture of failure and scientific reticence. The report brings
together the voices of some of the world's leading scientists. <br>
Written by: David Spratt & Ian Dunlop<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.breakthroughonline.org.au/">https://www.breakthroughonline.org.au/</a><br>
</font><br>
<br>
[idiots]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-climate-change-malcolm-turnbull-prime-minister-leadership-a8499366.html">Australia
pulls out of climate change targets agreed at Paris conference</a></b><br>
'Cheaper power has always been our number one priority'<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-climate-change-malcolm-turnbull-prime-minister-leadership-a8499366.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-climate-change-malcolm-turnbull-prime-minister-leadership-a8499366.html</a></font><br>
- - - -<br>
[opinion - Erwin Jackson]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/20/malcolm-turnbulls-emissions-backflip-sends-signal-that-climate-change-is-not-real">Turnbull
just showed what happens when 'ideology and idiocy take charge
of energy policy'</a></b><br>
the PM is signalling climate change is not real. This leaves the
rest of us paying the price for another political capitulation on
cleaning up our power sector.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/20/malcolm-turnbulls-emissions-backflip-sends-signal-that-climate-change-is-not-real">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/20/malcolm-turnbulls-emissions-backflip-sends-signal-that-climate-change-is-not-real</a></font><br>
- - - -<br>
[opinion - Katharine Murphy]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2018/aug/20/canberras-deranged-circus-of-wreckers-are-now-writing-our-future">Canberra's
deranged circus of wreckers are now writing our future</a></b><font
size="-1"><br>
</font>In fairness to the prime minister, there were no good
options. None at all. No rabbits in any hats.<br>
But doing the right thing was an option.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2018/aug/20/canberras-deranged-circus-of-wreckers-are-now-writing-our-future">https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2018/aug/20/canberras-deranged-circus-of-wreckers-are-now-writing-our-future</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[TIME magazine discovers the news]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://time.com/5372406/climate-change-epa-coal-trump/">The
Trump Administration Released a Plan to Fight Climate Change. It
Could Actually Make Things Worse</a></b><br>
The root of the issue is simple: the Trump Administration has no
interest in fighting climate change. In less than two years in
office, Trump has appointed officials who deny the science of global
warming, sought to defund climate change programs and begun the
process of pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement on climate
change. Before taking office he called global warming a "hoax."
Indeed, the White House press release for the new regulation does
not contain a single mention of climate change or global warming.<br>
But, by law, the EPA is required to try to cut climate
change-causing greenhouse gas emissions. That's thanks to a 2007
Supreme Court ruling that found that the EPA is required to regulate
pollutants that harm public health under the Clean Air Act. Two
years later, the EPA released a scientific document - known as the
endangerment finding - showing that greenhouse gas emissions do just
that.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://time.com/5372406/climate-change-epa-coal-trump/">http://time.com/5372406/climate-change-epa-coal-trump/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[both, as adjective, or as noun]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://writingexplained.org/smokey-or-smoky-difference">Smokey
or Smoky: What's the Difference?</a></b><br>
Smoky is an adjective. It means characterized by an abundance of
smoke.<br>
A 1950s pool hall would have been smoky. So too would Chicago,
during the Great Chicago Fire.<br>
Smokey is, however, a proper noun in the case of Smokey Bear or
Smokey the Bear,<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://writingexplained.org/smokey-or-smoky-difference">https://writingexplained.org/smokey-or-smoky-difference</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Book Review]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/America-The-Farewell-Tour/Chris-Hedges/9781501152672">America:
The Farewell Tour</a></b><br>
By Chris Hedges<br>
A profound and provocative examination of America in crisis, where
unemployment, deindustrialization, and a bitter hopelessness and
malaise have resulted in an epidemic of diseases of despair - drug
abuse, gambling, suicide, magical thinking, xenophobia, and a
culture of sadism and hate.<br>
America, says Pulitzer Prize - winning reporter Chris Hedges, is
convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of
profound hopelessness, a bitter despair and a civil society that has
ceased to function. The opioid crisis, the retreat into gambling to
cope with economic distress, the pornification of culture, the rise
of magical thinking, the celebration of sadism, hate, and plagues of
suicides are the physical manifestations of a society that is being
ravaged by corporate pillage and a failed democracy. As our society
unravels, we also face global upheaval caused by catastrophic
climate change. All these ills presage a frightening reconfiguration
of the nation and the planet.<br>
Donald Trump rode this disenchantment to power. In America: The
Farewell Tour, Hedges argues that neither political party, now
captured by corporate power, addresses the systemic problem. Until
our corporate coup d'etat is reversed these diseases will grow and
ravage the country. A poignant cry reported from communities across
the country, America: The Farewell Tour seeks to jolt us out of our
complacency while there is still time.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/America-The-Farewell-Tour/Chris-Hedges/9781501152672">http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/America-The-Farewell-Tour/Chris-Hedges/9781501152672</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[exciting trauma drama video, both are OK today]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/08/20/thought-were-going-die-father-and-son-escape-raging-montana-wildfire/2UnaLPzlbElBAh4VmPbzbP/story.html">'I
thought we were going to die': Father and son escape raging
Montana wildfire</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/08/20/thought-were-going-die-father-and-son-escape-raging-montana-wildfire/2UnaLPzlbElBAh4VmPbzbP/story.html">https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/08/20/thought-were-going-die-father-and-son-escape-raging-montana-wildfire/2UnaLPzlbElBAh4VmPbzbP/story.html</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Check for your city]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/20/sea-level-rise-is-a-major-urban-economic-risk/">Sea-Level
Rise Is A Major Urban Economic Risk</a></b><br>
When we think of sea-level rise due to global warming, we tend to
think of beaches eroding or perhaps tiny Pacific nations such as the
Maldives slowly disappearing. The reality, however, is that it won't
be countries or country sides bearing the economic brunt of
sea-level rise, but cities.<br>
<br>
Here are some important snippets of a 2011 economic projection
report by McKinsey, Urban world: Mapping the economic power of
cities:<br>
<blockquote>Today only 600 urban centers generate about 60 percent
of global GDP. […] By 2025, 136 new cities are expected to enter
the top 600, all of them from the developing world and
overwhelmingly -100 new cities -from China. […] Today's 23
megacities -with populations of 10 million or more -will
contribute about 10 percent of global growth to 2025, below their
14 percent share of global GDP.<br>
</blockquote>
The first and most obvious thing about the above points is that
cities are by far the richest and most valuable real estate in the
world and by definition tiny compared to countries. That means that
point adaptation by the richest cities is much more viable than for
most of the rest of the countries they are in.<br>
<br>
The second obvious thing is that while many of the richest cities
today are at sea level, not all are. And the geography of those
cities varies substantially. <br>
- - - -chart: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://cleantechnica.com/files/2018/08/main-qimg-0dd0253d4372bead76ad4e8f8c487d30.png">https://cleantechnica.com/files/2018/08/main-qimg-0dd0253d4372bead76ad4e8f8c487d30.png</a>
<br>
Will sea level rise impact economic growth? Absolutely and
negatively. Very expensive infrastructure will be abandoned or
require massive and expensive protection. That money, while it is
still an economic driver, could be better invested elsewhere for
better economic outcomes.<br>
<br>
Will all seaside cities be impacted equally? No, Miami, which
doesn't even make the top 25 cities, will suffer much more than most
cities due to a confluence of issues: sea level rise, coastal
subsidence and porous limestone. Dhaka, which does show up on the
list as a top performing megacity, could easily see 27 million
people impacted severely by sea level rise by 2050. It was already
impacted by the 2017 massive monsoon flooding, although the worst
impacts were north of the city.<br>
<br>
Will the economy of the earth survive? Of course. Will we see
reduced economic growth? Also of course.<br>
<br>
One projection has a price tag of $14 trillion USD by 2100. Another
has a trillion USD of property value loss in the United States
alone. These are big numbers. The global GDP is only 78 trillion
USD.<br>
- - - - more chart <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://cleantechnica.com/files/2018/08/main-qimg-85ece1d7ee57d64408fc2e07d9415bcb-270x235.png">https://cleantechnica.com/files/2018/08/main-qimg-85ece1d7ee57d64408fc2e07d9415bcb-270x235.png</a><br>
This is why governments which are actually serious about the economy
and their citizens are united globally in an effort to slow global
warming. And this is a significant reason why the United States
current regression is deeply unfortunate, not only for the USA and
its citizens, but also for the world.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/20/sea-level-rise-is-a-major-urban-economic-risk/">https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/20/sea-level-rise-is-a-major-urban-economic-risk/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/22/us/study-finds-warming-trend-that-could-raise-sea-levels.html">This
Day in Climate History - August 22, 1981</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
August 22, 1981: The New York Times reports on a groundbreaking
study by Dr. James Hansen on the risks of escalating carbon
emissions.<br>
<blockquote>A team of Federal scientists says it has detected an
overall warming trend in the earth's atmosphere extending back to
the year 1880. They regard this as evidence of the validity of the
''greenhouse'' effect, in which increasing amounts of carbon
dioxide cause steady temperature increases.<br>
The seven atmospheric scientists predict a global warming of
''almost unprecedented magnitude'' in the next century. It might
even be sufficient to melt and dislodge the ice cover of West
Antarctica, they say, eventually leading to a worldwide rise of 15
to 20 feet in the sea level. In that case, they say, it would
''flood 25 percent of Louisiana and Florida, 10 percent of New
Jersey and many other lowlands throughout the world'' within a
century or less.<br>
<b>Workings of Greenhouse</b><br>
The forecast, which also envisions widespread disruption of
agriculture, is the fruit of analyses and computer simulations
conducted by the Institute for Space Studies of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration. The institute, which is in
New York City, is part of the space agency's Goddard Spaceflight
Center in Greenbelt, Md. The forecast is in an article in the Aug.
28 issue of the journal Science.<br>
<br>
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is primarily a result of
mankind's burning of fuels, is thought to act like the glass of a
greenhouse. It absorbs heat radiation from the earth and its
atmosphere, heat that otherwise would dissipate into space. Other
factors being equal, the more carbon dioxide there is in the
atmosphere, the warmer the earth should become, according to the
theory...<br>
<font size="-1">- The TimesMachine archive viewer is a
subscriber-only feature.</font><br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/22/us/study-finds-warming-trend-that-could-raise-sea-levels.html">http://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/22/us/study-finds-warming-trend-that-could-raise-sea-levels.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/D6Un69RMNSw">http://youtu.be/D6Un69RMNSw</a><br>
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