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<font size="+1"><i>August 28, 2018</i></font><br>
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[Oh no, Space Weather too?]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-26/noaa-issues-geomagnetic-storm-warning-crack-opened-earths-magnetic-field-plasma">NOAA
Issues Geomagnetic Storm Warning: "A Crack Opened In Earth's
Magnetic Field & Plasma Started Pouring In"</a></b><br>
by Tyler Durden - 8/27/2018 <br>
According to NOAA Space Weather forecasters, a powerful G3-class
geomagnetic storm is in progress on August 26th as Earth passes
through the wake of a coronal mass ejection (CME) that arrived with
little notice approximately 24 hours ago. Strong magnetic fields in
the CME's wake have cracked into Earth's magnetosphere, allowing
solar wind to enter. So far auroras have been sighted in
Scandinavia, Canada, and northern-tier US states such as Michigan
and New York.<br>
<blockquote>Area of impact primarily poleward of 50 degrees
Geomagnetic Latitude.<br>
Induced Currents - Power system voltage irregularities possible,
false alarms may be triggered on some protection devices.<br>
Spacecraft - Systems may experience surface charging; increased
drag on low Earth-orbit satellites and orientation problems may
occur.<br>
Navigation - Intermittent satellite navigation (GPS) problems,
including loss-of-lock and increased range error may occur.<br>
Radio - HF (high frequency) radio may be intermittent. Aurora -
Aurora may be seen as low as Pennsylvania to Iowa to Oregon.<br>
- - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/text/discussion.txt">http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/text/discussion.txt</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-26/noaa-issues-geomagnetic-storm-warning-crack-opened-earths-magnetic-field-plasma">https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-26/noaa-issues-geomagnetic-storm-warning-crack-opened-earths-magnetic-field-plasma</a><br>
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</b><br>
[Senator John McCain obits - (Hagiography = writing about Saints)]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1034132463289683970.html">ThreadReader
on John McCain - by David Roberts</a></b> - @drvox<br>
<b>1. All right. I am declaring the period of Enforced McCain
Hagiography over.</b> I think every "objective" political
journalist has had a chance to give his legacy a tongue bath by now,
no? If non-worshipful McCain thoughts hurt your feelings, you might
wanna mute this thread.<br>
2. I could tweet about McCain forever, eventually angering &
alienating everyone, but instead I'll just focus on the area I know
best: climate politics. McCain's adventures there, and the press's
reaction, are a perfect distillation of the larger McCain Dynamic.<br>
3. To see the way McCain's climate politics are typically covered,
check out this embarrassingly uncritical bit of Hallmark devotional
from Holthaus:<br>
John McCain was a climate hero, too<br>
The Arizona senator leaves a complicated legacy -- but for much of
the past two decades, the GOP's maverick was outspoken about saving
the planet<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://grist.org/article/john-mccain-was-an-american-climate-hero-too/">https://grist.org/article/john-mccain-was-an-american-climate-hero-too/</a><br>
4. That is a particularly maudlin bit of fanfic, but it's not rare.
The standard line is that McCain's work on climate demonstrated his
courage, independence, and general brave heroic wonderfulness. But
let's think about this a little harder, shall we?<br>
5. In the early 2000s, Bush was in power, having defeated McCain in
a nasty primary, and McCain's ego was wounded. He *hated* Bush. And
so he spent the early 2000s setting himself up as Bush's nemesis,
blocking his efforts & ostentatiously taking "maverick"
positions.<br>
6. Also in the early 2000s, climate change policy was off the table.
Bush had made clear he wouldn't do anything about it. So had
Congress. It was seen as one of those niche liberal feel-good
issues. So that made it perfect for McCain...<br>
- see 29 more at:<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1034132463289683970.html">https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1034132463289683970.html</a></font><b><br>
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</b><br>
[Canada Adaptation Preparation]<b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://calgaryherald.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/climate-change-impact-study-coming-for-east-coast-ferry-ports-airports-bridge-2/wcm/6908ddc6-497d-4428-86b9-12d6ebd7122c">Climate
change impact study coming for East Coast ferry ports, airports,
bridge</a></b><br>
THE CANADIAN PRESS - August 27, 2018<br>
HALIFAX - Ottawa has posted a tender asking engineering firms to
assess how climate change and extreme weather will affect some of
Atlantic Canada's major ferry terminals, airports and the
Confederation Bridge.<br>
The tender posted last week seeks analysis on the vulnerability of
the infrastructure to rising sea levels, harsher storms and changing
waves.<br>
It says the federal government wants to know how the sites may be at
risk of “failure, damage and loss of service,” due to the climate
events that could hit the region.<br>
The report will look at six ferry terminals, including Nova Scotia
facilities at Digby and Caribou; the Saint John, N.B., terminal, and
the Prince Edward Island terminals in Wood Islands and Souris, along
with the Cap-Aux-Meules terminal on the Magdalene Islands.<br>
It will also examine the impact of climate change on the airports at
Wabush and St. Anthony's in Newfoundland and Labrador.<br>
The federal advisory panel on climate change adaptation recently
noted that average temperatures in Canada have increased by 1.5 C
between 1950 and 2010, with higher rises in the north.<br>
Average precipitation has also been rising, and both heavy
precipitation and extreme precipitation events are projected to
become more frequent.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://calgaryherald.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/climate-change-impact-study-coming-for-east-coast-ferry-ports-airports-bridge-2/wcm/6908ddc6-497d-4428-86b9-12d6ebd7122c">https://calgaryherald.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/climate-change-impact-study-coming-for-east-coast-ferry-ports-airports-bridge-2/wcm/6908ddc6-497d-4428-86b9-12d6ebd7122c</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Senator Elizabeth Warren reforms the world]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/off/senator-elizabeth-warren-introduces-accountable-capitalism-act/vp-BBMoUYF">Senator
Elizabeth Warren Introduces Accountable Capitalism Act</a></b><br>
Duration: 02:08<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/off/senator-elizabeth-warren-introduces-accountable-capitalism-act/vp-BBMoUYF">https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/off/senator-elizabeth-warren-introduces-accountable-capitalism-act/vp-BBMoUYF</a><br>
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[VOX]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17683022/elizabeth-warren-accountable-capitalism-corporations">Elizabeth
Warren has a plan to save capitalism</a></b><br>
She's unveiling a bill to make corporate governance great again.<br>
By Matthew Yglesias<br>
The Accountable Capitalism Act - real citizenship for corporate
persons<br>
The conceit tying together Warren's ideas is that if corporations
are going to have the legal rights of persons, they should be
expected to act like decent citizens who uphold their fair share of
the social contract and not act like sociopaths whose sole
obligation is profitability - as is currently conventional in
American business thinking.,,<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17683022/elizabeth-warren-accountable-capitalism-corporations">https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17683022/elizabeth-warren-accountable-capitalism-corporations</a><br>
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[Fast Company]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90223130/how-elizabeth-warrens-accountable-capitalism-act-works">Elizabeth
Warren's bold new plan to give corporate wealth back to workers</a></b><br>
With her new Accountable Capitalism Act, Senator Warren wants to
widen the pool of stakeholders to whom big companies are
accountable, and ensure that the workers at those companies have a
voice in how corporate decisions are made.<font size="-1"><br>
BY EILLIE ANZILOTT<br>
</font>The largest companies in the U.S., from Amazon to Wells Fargo
to Walmart, impact the lives of millions of people across the U.S.
Amazon, for instance, employees over 560,000 people; Wells Fargo
reaches 70 million customers. These corporations sit in the middle
of a massive web of stakeholders, from workers to managers to
customers to executives to shareholders. And yet, only those last
two-executives and people who own stock in the company-have any
substantive say in how these businesses are actually run...<br>
- - - - -<br>
The bill would require corporations with more than $1 billion in
annual revenue to get a new federal corporate charter (currently,
all businesses are chartered by the states). The charter would
require corporate directors to consider the interests of all major
corporate stakeholders-like workers, their communities, in addition
to stockholders-in company decisions. Shareholders could sue if they
believed directors weren't fulfilling those obligations, and
companies would be protected from shareholder lawsuits claiming the
companies were violating a fiduciary obligation to increase stock
prices at all costs...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90223130/how-elizabeth-warrens-accountable-capitalism-act-works">https://www.fastcompany.com/90223130/how-elizabeth-warrens-accountable-capitalism-act-works</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Reuters news]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-climatechange-politics/climate-fund-snags-threaten-opportunity-to-fight-warming-ban-ki-moon-idUSKCN1LC01T">Climate
fund snags threaten opportunity to fight warming - Ban Ki-moon</a></b><br>
Megan Rowling<br>
BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Insufficient cash is
hampering a flagship international fund to help poor nations combat
climate change, which is not working as fast and efficiently as the
urgency of global warming requires, said former U.N.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.<br>
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was established at U.N. climate talks
in 2010 to channel a substantial portion of the $100 billion per
year wealthy nations had pledged to mobilize by 2020 for
developing-world efforts to curb carbon emissions and weather the
impacts of climate change.<br>
Ban told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that decisions by U.S.
President Donald Trump to withdraw his country from the 2015 Paris
Agreement on global warming, and to walk away from promises on
climate finance jeopardized global commitments...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-climatechange-politics/climate-fund-snags-threaten-opportunity-to-fight-warming-ban-ki-moon-idUSKCN1LC01T">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-climatechange-politics/climate-fund-snags-threaten-opportunity-to-fight-warming-ban-ki-moon-idUSKCN1LC01T</a></font><br>
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[from The Trouble mailing list]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://mailchi.mp/447a7a4f9a9f/troubleshoot?e=036bc54c16">The
Climate Movement at-large</a></b><br>
In-depth analysis from other outlets<br>
<blockquote><a
href="https://the-trouble.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8a297daee46cb5ac738d6061&id=788bdc5fb5&e=036bc54c16"
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;"><span
style="color:#FF0000">Will California's Dirty Oil Business
Soil Governor Jerry Brown's Climate Legacy</span></a><span
style="color:#FF0000"> </span>There's something hinky about
Brown's climate leadership, an inconsistency that
environmentalists caution will threaten his legacy. Despite a
reputation for being tough on climate, the governor has not done
much to keep California's reserves in the ground. From Newsweek's
Judith Lewis Mernit<br>
<br>
<a
href="https://the-trouble.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8a297daee46cb5ac738d6061&id=82e23f15d1&e=036bc54c16"
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;"><span
style="color:#FF0000">The 1.5 Generation</span></a><span
style="color:#FF0000"> </span>Courage and bolt cutters define
the millennial generation's revolutionary approach to climate
action, but will it suffice to reverse the course of climate
change? From Grist's Eric Holthaus<br>
<br>
<a
href="https://the-trouble.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8a297daee46cb5ac738d6061&id=43c2b4f1e6&e=036bc54c16"
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;"><span
style="color:#FF0000">The Victims of Climate Change Are
Already Here</span></a> With a new global summit approaching,
communities in the southern United States are calling attention to
the disaster scenarios they currently face. From the Atlantic's
Vann R Newkirk II<br>
<br>
<a
href="https://the-trouble.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8a297daee46cb5ac738d6061&id=9602dbd41d&e=036bc54c16"
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;"><span
style="color:#FF0000">John McCain's Climate Change Legacy</span></a><span
style="color:#FF0000"> </span>He wrote legislation that failed.
He built a bipartisan coalition that crumbled. And when Congress
came closest to passing a bill that embraced his central idea-a
market-based cap-and-trade system-McCain turned his back. From
Insideclimate News' Marianne Lavelle<br>
<br>
<a
href="https://the-trouble.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8a297daee46cb5ac738d6061&id=a77192a4a1&e=036bc54c16"
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;"><span
style="color:#FF0000">Climate Change Policy Toppled
Australia's Leader. Here's What It Means for Others.</span></a>
Fossil fuel regimes from a few key polluting economies threatens
global climate strategy. If emissions targets continue to
stagnate, the worst effects of climate change may come to pass.
From the NYT's Somini Sengupta<br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://youtu.be/nmEI9Doctqs">This Day in Climate History
- August 28, 2008</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
August 28, 2008: Al Gore and Barack Obama address the Democratic
National Convention, with Gore denouncing the Bush administration
for denying the climate crisis and Obama promising to make clean
energy a priority in his administration.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/dYdV1wszqhM">http://youtu.be/dYdV1wszqhM</a> (Gore)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/nmEI9Doctqs">http://youtu.be/nmEI9Doctqs</a> (Obama)<br>
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