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<font size="+1"><i>September 1 , 2018</i></font><br>
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[no swimming, no breathing]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/floridas-unusually-long-red-tide-is-killing-wildlife-tourism-and-businesses/2018/08/28/245fc8da-aad5-11e8-8a0c-70b618c98d3c_story.html">Florida's
unusually long red tide is killing wildlife, tourism and
businesses</a></b><br>
By Darryl Fears and Lori Rozsa - August 28<br>
SIESTA KEY, Fla. - Even as she sat under the brilliant Florida sun,
her toes covered in sugar-white sand, Alex McShane wasn't exactly
enjoying her summer vacation. Florida's worst red tide in more than
a decade had turned the aqua-blue surf to a rusty dull brown.<br>
And then there were the lifeguards. They were wearing gas masks.<br>
With no mask of her own, McShane, 24, wore a frown. Her eyes itched,
she coughed, and the stench was giving her a headache - all telltale
symptoms of the monster algal bloom spanning the southern Gulf
Coast. It is killing untold numbers of marine animals from Bradenton
to Naples, where rotting fish still lay scattered on a beach behind
Gov. Rick Scott's seaside mansion, even after a cleanup.<br>
As the outbreak nears the year mark, with no sign of easing, it's no
longer a threat to just marine life. Business owners in the
hardest-hit counties report they have lost nearly $90 million and
have laid off about 300 workers because of the red tide and a
separate freshwater algal bloom in the state's largest lake.
Together, the two blooms have caused a sharp drop in tourism.<br>
- - - -<br>
"Gosh, should we be out here?" she wondered. "I definitely wouldn't
go in the water. This is as close as I'm getting."<br>
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The red tide's poisonous algae is a variety called Karenia brevis
that is native to the Gulf of Mexico. It breaks out every year, and
its neurotoxin disorients and paralyzes marine life. But in her
nine-year tenure at Mote, Lovewell has never seen animals die on
this scale.<br>
As of Friday, the aquarium had recovered 19 dolphins and 239 sea
turtles in Sarasota and Manatee counties alone. That did not include
more than 100 manatees statewide and an untold number of fish, as
well as large animals such as sharks and tarpons.<br>
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More than 2,000 tons of dead marine animals have been removed from
the coasts of the five hardest-hit counties, according to cleanup
reports. The baby dolphin was the 13th recovered.<br>
At the beach, an intern and part-time worker snapped on blue rubber
gloves. A swarm of flies launched when they reached for the carcass.
Its mouth was stuck open, tongue bloated and body stiff with rigor
mortis. Blood oozed from its navel as they examined it.<br>
"It definitely takes a toll on you, dealing with so much death,"
Lovewell said. "When this is all said and done, I'm going to have to
go into a room and scream and cry a little."<br>
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"I am so sick of hearing it's a natural occurring phenomenon that
I'm ready to puke," said Andy Mele of Suncoast Waterkeeper, a
nonprofit watchdog. "Yeah, it's naturally occurring, but what
happens to it is man-made. It responds to nutrients - period. Really
the dynamite that lights the explosion is nutrient pollution."<br>
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"We don't have an algae problem in Florida," Suncoast's Mele said.
"We have a nutrient problem in the state." The only way to stop
giant algal blooms, he said, is to stop nutrients from polluting the
water.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/floridas-unusually-long-red-tide-is-killing-wildlife-tourism-and-businesses/2018/08/28/245fc8da-aad5-11e8-8a0c-70b618c98d3c_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/floridas-unusually-long-red-tide-is-killing-wildlife-tourism-and-businesses/2018/08/28/245fc8da-aad5-11e8-8a0c-70b618c98d3c_story.html</a><br>
</font>- - - - - - -<br>
[P=Phosphate]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0058545">Increased
Toxicity of Karenia brevis during Phosphate Limited Growth:
Ecological and Evolutionary Implications</a></b><br>
Published: March 12, 2013<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0058545">https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0058545</a></font><br>
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<br>
[similar messages before]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.businessinsider.com/global-warming-point-of-no-return-temperature-2018-8">Scientists
calculated a 'point of no return' for dealing with climate
change - and time is running out</a></b><br>
Kevin Loria Aug. 30, 2018, 8:00 AM<br>
The world is approaching a "point of no return" for dealing with
climate change. AP / Ed Wray<br>
The goal of the Paris Agreement was to ensure global temperatures
didn't rise more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.<br>
If temperatures hit that point, we'll be more likely to see the
worst projected effects of climate change, including rising seas,
severe storms, extreme heat, drought, and fires.<br>
The world needs to transition to renewable energy fast if we don't
want temperatures to rise that much, according to a new study.<br>
In that study, the authors calculated a "point of no return" for
acting on climate- and it's soon.<br>
There's nothing mysterious about what it will take to limit climate
change: The world needs to transition away from fossil fuels towards
renewable energy.<br>
<b>Predicting the point of no return</b><br>
The authors aren't saying there's one decisive point after which all
hope is lost.<br>
If global energy use were to rise faster, the switch to renewables
would have to happen sooner.<br>
On the other hand, if the share of renewables were to grow by 5% a
year instead of 2%, that could push the date back 10 years. The
development of negative emissions technology that could suck
greenhouse gases out of the air could also push back that no-return
date. But even that would only give us six to 10 extra years - and
the switch to renewables still would be required.<br>
Regardless of these caveats, the study suggests that the clock is
ticking, and it's going to get harder to meet our goals the longer
we delay.<br>
<b>Uncertain consequences</b><br>
In the study, the authors explain that it gets harder to predict
climate consequences and the world's response to them as the Earth's
temperature gets higher.<br>
That's because research suggests that certain natural systems on the
planet could be activated by warming and consequently trigger
further warming. A recent paper that explained this concept: if
those systems are triggered at 2 degrees, it said, that might cause
temperatures to spike even higher regardless of how we control
emissions. The study dubbed this scenario "hothouse Earth."<br>
In that situation, Earth's average temperature could rise 4 or 5
degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, leading to sea levels
up to 200 feet higher than they are now.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.businessinsider.com/global-warming-point-of-no-return-temperature-2018-8">https://www.businessinsider.com/global-warming-point-of-no-return-temperature-2018-8</a></font><br>
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<br>
[The Daily radio 28 mins...version of NYT article]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://radiopublic.com/TheDaily/ep/s1%2110ca2">When We
Almost Stopped Climate Change</a></b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://radiopublic.com/TheDaily/ep/s1%2110ca2"><br>
</a>Thirty years ago, the United States had a chance to stop global
warming in its tracks. Almost nothing stood in the way - except
human resistance. Guests: Rafe Pomerance, an environmentalist who
became involved with the climate movement in its earliest days;
Nathaniel Rich, who reported on the history of climate politics for
The New York Times Magazine. For more information on today's
episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://radiopublic.com/TheDaily/ep/s1%2110ca2"><font
size="-1">https://www.nytimes.com/podcasts/the-daily</font></a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Radio: Here and Now - Real Estate - Climate Gentrification]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/08/31/climate-change-sell-your-home">What
Happens When Climate Change Affects Your Ability To Sell Your
Home?</a></b><br>
The damage to my home exceeded at least half its value, and in my
case, it exceeded 100 percent the value. Therefore, FEMA has granted
$30,000 for the house for either demolition or elevation. I can have
it demolished for $30,000. I can't have it elevated for anything
close to 30, so I do at least feel like those funds will go towards
starting over, blank canvas for someone, and in a way, I have to
emotionally detach from it because I've owned it since '97, lovingly
refurbished it, have spent so much time, energy, money and heartache
trying to recover from three flood episodes that in a way I'm spent
with it. In another way, you know, I'm both awash with emotion at
the same time seeing the damage from the flooding, recognizing
there's really not any other way but to move on."<br>
<blockquote>"I hate to say I'm spent with it. I put so much into
trying to come back from this last one, which was such a hard hit.
The other two were just dress rehearsals." Elizabeth Boineau On
how her neighbors' homes fared after repeated flooding<br>
</blockquote>
"Well, on either side of me is an elevated and newer home - one
roughly 10 years old that it sold in 17 days for $1.1 million; on
the other side of me [is] a brand new house. And that's part of the
reason I was hit so badly was a development on either side of me.
The neighbors across the street, three of four [homes] are [built]
to the ground. They are all very concerned, trying to decide if they
better get out while they can. Will they have the money to elevate
their homes? The smaller homes are outnumbered and seemed to be the
ones that took the most damage."...<br>
<b>On how the flooding has changed her life </b><br>
"We've just really been through a lot, and I have to say that first
one you could not leave the house, your possessions floating down
the street. Ever since then, life made a shift. And it's not just
torrential rain. We get sunny day flooding in Charleston, too. We're
that low, the sea has risen that high, and on a full moon or a new
moon time of the calendar you may not be able to get from one side
of town to the other. Our city can be, certain sections of it, can
be underwater even with no rain. Our legislators seem to be divided
about whether or not to apply some of the accommodations tax money
to finding flooding fixes, and maybe someone from Greenville doesn't
exactly support offsetting flooding in Charleston, South Carolina. I
can see that, but hopefully we can look at ways to come together."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/08/31/climate-change-sell-your-home">http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/08/31/climate-change-sell-your-home</a></font><br>
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<br>
[USA Today opinion:]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/08/31/climate-change-global-warming-extreme-weather-disaster-column/1113923002/">Uncontrolled
climate change could result in disaster for our kids. Will we do
something?</a></b><br>
Mike Hoffmann, Opinion contributor - Aug. 31, 2018<br>
There is a one in 20 chance climate change could end in disaster by
2050. This is too great a risk. When will we start to protect our
children?<br>
Would you put your child or grandchild on a plane that has a one
chance in 20 of a disastrous crash?<br>
- - - - <br>
If we continue on that path without taking the necessary actions to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions, there is a 5 percent chance of
catastrophic consequences - even an existential threat to humanity
by mid-century, according to experts at the Scripps Institute. <br>
<b>We can see the change is happening</b><br>
We all take chances, but few would board a plane with a 5 percent
chance of crashing. In reality, air travel is incredibly safe
because we trust those who design, build and test aircraft and
manage the flow of thousands of flights a day...<br>
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Then consider what their future holds given what is happening all
around us - it's getting warmer, large wild fires are more frequent
in California, it's getting too hot to fly planes out of Phoenix,
there are more downpours hitting New York City and Boston, and
Alaska is melting. And then consider what that younger person's life
journey looks like in a changing climate: It's not going to get
better. By attaching the name of someone you care about, it becomes
personal and for many, strikes home.<br>
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<b>Our kids face the consequences of our choices</b><br>
Let's fast-forward to the year 2048, when today's under-12 crowd
will be in their early 30s and 40s. Most of them will be settled
into careers, with young families, and relatively secure - or maybe
not. It all depends on the path we choose to take now.<br>
Path A: It was nearly miraculous given the overall political climate
in 2018, along with the disbanding of an important federal
climate-change advisory panel, but the 86-member bipartisan Climate
Solutions Caucus rapidly grew in number and influence - a bit of an
awakening with a good dash of bravery...<br>
So, in 2048 a new clean energy economy is booming, gross domestic
product is up $290 billion, as is household income, energy bills
down, and an estimated 2 million additional jobs have been created.
The United States took advantage of the opportunity for economic
development and transformed an inefficient system to one much
smarter. By doing so, the nation led the world down a more stable
path, with less geopolitical upheaval and more cooperation, and a
more just society. Taking on this grand challenge was not easy, and
the work will continue for decades to come, benefiting today's 12
and under crowd and their children and grandchildren.<br>
<br>
<b>The other, avoidable path ends in disaster</b><br>
Path B: If we continue on today's path and do not address the
climate change challenge, the world in 2048 will likely be
unravelling, a disaster. And those 30- to 40-year-old's have several
more decades expected lifespan ahead. Their trajectory, their
flight, their agenda has been set and will get worse. And they are
asking why we didn't do something about this when we were young,
when in fact 70 percent believed that global warming was happening
and were concerned about the impact on future generations. It was so
obvious at the time that something was up with the climate.<br>
<br>
And then there were the predictions of how it would get worse in the
future, which is our present day in 2048 - a long, clear and
dangerous list. What were the deniers, the doubters, thinking,
especially those in leadership roles? Calling climate change a hoax
(Donald Trump), denying the science (Rick Perry) or spreading myths
(Lamar Smith), yet the rest of the world was recognizing the
challenge by signing the Paris climate accord and agreeing to do
something about it.<br>
<br>
The science behind climate change was more solid than the science
behind smoking being a cause of cancer - but it was rejected by
people who should have known better.<br>
<br>
So today, those who won't accept the truth about climate change are
messing with our children and grandchildren - their life journey.
For the vast majority who do believe we face a grand challenge,
raise your voice, get involved, and whisper that name again. It's
personal, very personal. What will they say about us in 2048? Did we
try?<br>
<font size="-1">Mike Hoffmann is executive director of the Cornell
Institute for Climate Smart Solutions, <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/08/31/climate-change-global-warming-extreme-weather-disaster-column/1113923002/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/08/31/climate-change-global-warming-extreme-weather-disaster-column/1113923002/</a><br>
</font><br>
<br>
[Time for humans to eat insects?]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/climate-change-insects-crops/568978/">The
Very Hot, Very Hungry Caterpillar</a></b><br>
Climate change will mean more insects, and less food for humans.<br>
ED YONG - AUG 30, 2018<br>
In thinking about insects, Deutsch and his team focused on two big
patterns. First, insects burn calories at a faster rate when their
environment heats up, which forces them to eat more food. This is a
straightforward trend that's been documented in a number of earlier
experiments, with a wide range of pest species. As the future gets
hotter, the very hungry caterpillar is going to be even hungrier.<br>
<br>
The second pattern is more complicated: Insect populations grow
fastest at certain optimal temperatures-neither too hot nor too
cold. Those that live in the tropics tend to live at those
temperatures already. Their numbers will probably grow more slowly
as the climate heats up, which will partly mitigate their expanding
appetites. That's good news for rice, which is mostly grown in
tropical environments. Losses will still rise with temperatures, but
to a lesser degree than for the other crops.<br>
<br>
But in temperate parts of the world, insects mostly live in
cooler-than-ideal conditions. "Some of them go through a dormant
state in the winter, and more of them will make it through a winter
that's warmer," explains Deutsch. "And when they emerge, they
develop and reproduce faster because their metabolic rates are
higher." This is especially bad news for wheat, which is mostly
grown in cool climates. Wheat growers will face more insects, which
will also want to eat more to support their metabolisms. "It's a
double whammy," Deutsch says.<br>
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These intricacies might change the degree of the losses that Deutsch
predicts, but it's hard to imagine that they might wipe away those
losses entirely. This, he says, is the time to start preparing,
whether through agricultural practices like crop rotations, or by
applying pesticides, or by planting genetically modified crops. "But
preventing climate change is the thing I would first turn to," he
adds.<br>
<br>
"Humanity faces this food-security challenge at a time when
training and job opportunities for expert entomologists are
shrinking," writes Markus Riegler from Western Sydney University in
an accompanying editorial. "These experts are urgently needed" to
deal not just with the problem of pests, but also with threats to
insect biodiversity.<br>
<br>
Most of the millions of species of insects are not pests. They are
the linchpins of many ecosystems. They're sources of food for birds,
and carriers of pollen for plants. If insects decline, ecosystems
everywhere will too. And insects are declining, even in protected
areas worldwide. As I wrote in The Atlantic last year, "Insects are
the most diverse and numerous group of animals on the planet. If
they're in trouble, we're all in trouble."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/climate-change-insects-crops/568978/">https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/climate-change-insects-crops/568978/</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b>[Carbon Footprint for Burning Man; and global warming]</b><br>
(are you kidding!?- watch it yourself - live)<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sajC0N21QD4">Burning Man
Life streaming video</a></b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sajC0N21QD4"><br>
</a><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sajC0N21QD4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sajC0N21QD4</a><br>
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[years past: 2015]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://cleantechnica.com/2015/08/26/burning-man-big-carbon-footprint-unsurprisingly/">Burning
Man Has A Big Carbon Footprint (Unsurprisingly)</a></b><br>
with an estimated 70,000 people heading to Black Rock City this
year, I figured it might be worth posting some information on the
carbon footprint involved.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://cleantechnica.com/2015/08/26/burning-man-big-carbon-footprint-unsurprisingly/">https://cleantechnica.com/2015/08/26/burning-man-big-carbon-footprint-unsurprisingly/</a><br>
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[MOOP = mess, poop, garbage, glitter, broken bicycles, and abandoned
trash]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.laweekly.com/music/lets-be-real-burning-man-is-bad-for-the-environment-5018359">Hey,
Burning Man: Your desert party sucks for the rest of us</a></b><br>
By Katie Herzog on Aug 21, 2015<br>
LA Weekly unearthed a 2007 website called Cooling Man, where
concerned Burners calculated the carbon footprint of the event. <br>
There's certainly a lot of talk about the environment surrounding
the festival. It's long been touted as a leave-no-trace event.
Participants throw around terms such as MOOP (matter out of place)
to acknowledge they, like good Boy and Girl Scouts, do their best to
leave their campsites cleaner than before they arrived.<br>
Burners are shunned for wearing feather boas, lest an errant wisp
float away onto the playa. And glitter is also a big no-no, even
though it's a mainstay with the EDM fans who meet the neo-hippies
and post-apocalyptic cosplayers in the middle of Black Rock City's
Venn diagram.<br>
And while that's all great, let's not forget about the thousands of
cars driving hundreds of miles, the hundreds of planes flying
thousands of miles, and the gigantic burning dude - that's a lot of
smoke being spit into the air. No matter how clean the desert looks
when the party is done, no matter how diligent the organizers are
about shaming those who leave behind MOOP, the environment gets
worse every year because of Burning Man.<br>
Seven years ago, Burners created a website and calculated the
overall carbon footprint of the prior year's event. All told,
Burning Man 2006 pumped out 27,492 tons of greenhouse gases.
Eighty-seven percent of that was from travel to and from Black Rock
City, while the actual burning man was responsible for 112 tons. <br>
There were 40,000 participants that year, but now they allow 28,000
more people, so let's update the math. Being generous and assuming
the staff and infrastructure will have the same impact at 1,776
tons, we can figure those additional 28,000 participants will
produce the same amount of carbon dioxide as the others, and raise
this year's overall total to 45,493 tons of greenhouse gases. <br>
So what does that mean? Just how much is 45,493 tons? [about a half
a ton per person]<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.laweekly.com/music/lets-be-real-burning-man-is-bad-for-the-environment-5018359">https://www.laweekly.com/music/lets-be-real-burning-man-is-bad-for-the-environment-5018359</a></font><br>
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['Leave no trace' BurningMan.org]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://burningman.org/event/preparation/leaving-no-trace/greening-your-burn/">Burning
Man Event Preparation</a></b><br>
Greening Your Burn<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://burningman.org/event/preparation/leaving-no-trace/greening-your-burn/">Leave
No Trace</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://burningman.org/event/preparation/leaving-no-trace/greening-your-burn/2">Greening
Your Camp</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://burningman.org/event/preparation/leaving-no-trace/greening-your-burn/3">Greening
Your Art</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://burningman.org/event/preparation/leaving-no-trace/greening-your-burn/4">Greening
Your Vehicle</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://burningman.org/event/preparation/leaving-no-trace/greening-your-burn/">https://burningman.org/event/preparation/leaving-no-trace/greening-your-burn/</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.coolingman.org/?page_id=123">COOLINGMAN</a></b><br>
climate positive. carbon negative, tools for carbon computation<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.coolingman.org/?page_id=123">http://www.coolingman.org/?page_id=123</a><br>
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<br>
[Birthplace, date of birth?]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/30/climate/how-much-hotter-is-your-hometown.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share">How
Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born?</a></b><br>
As the world warms because of human-induced climate change, most of
us can expect to see more days when temperatures hit 90 degrees
Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) or higher. See how your hometown has
changed so far and how much hotter it may get.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/30/climate/how-much-hotter-is-your-hometown.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/30/climate/how-much-hotter-is-your-hometown.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share</a></font><br>
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<br>
[First episode of the NYTimes article - recent history, not news]<br>
[listen to the podcast audio version of the printed article ]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/podcasts/the-daily/climate-change-losing-earth.html">When
We ALmost Stopped Climage Change</a></b><br>
The US had and opportunity to solve the climate crisis in the 1980s.
What went wrong?<br>
August, 31, 2018<br>
Thirty years ago, the United States had a chance to stop global
warming in its tracks. Almost nothing stood in the way - except
human resistance.<br>
On today's episode:<br>
Rafe Pomerance, an environmentalist who became involved with the
climate movement in its earliest days.<br>
Nathaniel Rich, who reported on the history of climate politics for
The New York Times Magazine.<br>
Background reading:<br>
Read "<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html">Losing
Earth</a>," Nathaniel Rich's magazine feature about the decisive
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/08/30/covert-attack-john-mccain-s-climate-leadership-exxonmobil-and-koch-brothers">The
Covert Attack on John McCain's Climate Leadership by ExxonMobil
and the Koch Brothers</a></b><br>
Thursday, August 30, 2018<br>
<a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26082018/john-mccain-climate-change-leadership-senate-cap-trade-bipartisan-lieberman-republican-campaign"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);"><em>InsideClimate News</em></a> notes briefly that there
was a coordinated effort to oppose McCain's efforts run by
corporate-funded entities. Climate Investigations Center went back
and looked at our records for documentation of the campaign to the
kill the <a
href="https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2001/8/post-4be0be1b-0295-42bf-a9e8-f0ed44f1a8aa"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">McCain-Lieberman climate legislation</a> as it gained
momentum. First introduced in 2001 by the two Senators, The Climate
Stewardship Act (S.139) was the first national, bipartisan
legislation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas pollution. This bill
eventually became the ground-zero target for climate deniers and
corporate interests.<br>
Unfortunately, a month after the first McCain-Lieberman bill was
introduced, the attacks on September 11th changed everything. <a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specials/attacked/transcripts/nbctext_102101.html"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">McCain and Lieberman</a>, a neo-con Democrat at the time, <a
href="https://thinkprogress.org/on-morning-of-9-11-attacks-mccain-immediately-began-making-the-case-for-iraq-war-4042b28b5f9b/"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">were among the first to lead</a> the charge to war in Iraq
and Afghanistan, well ahead of the Bush Administration according to
many accounts from that time.<br>
<br>
By 2003, McCain and Lieberman got back to thinking about climate
change together and leveraged the first full Senate vote on their
bill by <a
href="https://theconversation.com/will-john-mccain-be-the-last-republican-leader-in-the-senate-to-address-climate-change-102221"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">forcing Majority Leader Bill Frist's hand </a>on an energy
bill he was trying to pass.<br>
The McCain-Lieberman bill garnered surprising support but lost
43-55, well short of the 60 votes needed to avoid an override under
Senate rule. Corporations saw this as a close call and began a
concerted effort to kill the momentum in 2004 (see below). In 2005,
the bill was renamed The Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act, and
in McCain style, stubbornly brought up for another vote where it
lost by a bigger margin, 38 Yea to 60 Nay votes.<br>
I know for a fact that they got blindsided on this. They thought
they had paved the way for success. In a meeting with a McCain
staffer after the second vote, I showed them an ExxonSecrets map
(similar to the one below) of the organizations and individuals that
worked to kill the bill. The staffer knew there were various
organizations and companies lobbying against the bill, but had no
idea the level of coordination, nor the ExxonMobil funding channels.<br>
- - - - - - <br>
<b>Was the Exxon Denial Machine built to fight Sen. McCain?</b><br>
It has always been interesting that our database of ExxonMobil
climate denial funding shows a dramatic increase in spending after
2000, which coincides with McCain emerging as a climate champion.<br>
Conventional wisdom would suggest that corporate polluters thought
they were off the hook with the Bush-Cheney victory over
Gore-Lieberman. Yet ExxonMobil's funding of climate denial
organizations ballooned to its highest levels between 2000 and 2005
as the McCain-Lieberman legislation gained momentum. Between
2003-2005, Exxon wrote grants totaling more than $3.3 million
dollars each year to climate-denying organizations.<br>
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (<span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">CEI</span>), the leader of the <a
href="http://climateinvestigations.org/climate-deniers/cooler-heads-coalition/"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Cooler Heads Coalition </a>(<span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">CHC</span>) and recipient of over $2
million dollars total from ExxonMobil between 1997-2005,
aggressively fought Sen. McCain's climate leadership in the early
2000s. A<a
href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4793357-2004-July-CEI-Myron-Ebell-leaked-email-targeting.html"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);"> leaked 2003 email from Myron Ebell</a>, Director of Global
Warming Policy at<span> </span><span class="caps" style="font-size:
0.9em;">CEI</span>, lays out a target list for lobbying against
the "McLieberman" bill. <a
href="http://www.climatefiles.com/denial-groups/cei/cei-white-house-congress-energy-policy/"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);"><span class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">FOIA</span>ed
documents</a> show communications in 2003 between Myron Ebell and
the Bush White House Council on Environmental Quality, where Ebell
details the campaign against McCain. <span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">CEI</span><span> </span>also put out <a
href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3877869-Cei-Email-103003-1-728.html"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">press releases</a> against the legislation, held <a
href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3877863-Cei-Email-102303-1-728.html"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">events </a>to debate it, and used the<span> </span><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">CHC</span><span> </span>network
of climate deniers to <a
href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3877746-Cei-Email-6904-1-728-1-Not-Duplicative.html"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">wage their campaign</a>.<br>
The Exxon-funded groups were also being funded by the Koch brothers
and their foundations. In January 2003, <a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20031207033457/http://www.cse.org:80/informed/issues_template.php/1238.htm"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);"><span class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">CEI</span><span> </span>co-authored
a letter with the Koch-funded Citizen's for Sound Economy</a> to
the Bush Whitehouse decrying the McCain-Lieberman legislation. <a
href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1019876-2003-exxon-giving-report.html#document/p41/a289372"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">ExxonMobil gave<span> </span><span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">CEI</span><span> </span>$465,000 that
year</a> according to Exxon documents, the largest Exxon haul by<span> </span><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">CEI</span>in any year. <a
href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4797409-Competitive-Enterprise-Institute-CEI-2003-IRS.html#document/p14/a450857"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">An unredacted<span> </span><span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">CEI</span><span> </span><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">IRS</span><span> </span>990</a> for
2003 lists a <a
href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4797409-Competitive-Enterprise-Institute-CEI-2003-IRS.html#document/p14/a450858"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">$100,000 donation from David Koch himself</a> and only
$180,000 from ExxonMobil (probably an accounting anomaly).<br>
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<b>Kochtopus Tentacles Ensnare McCain</b><br>
Well before the Koch brothers became a household name, they were
hard at work influencing our political system. It is safe to assume
that the Koch campaign against climate progress ramped up in the
mid-2000s targeted Senator McCain.<br>
Well before the Koch brothers became a household name, they were
hard at work influencing our political system. It is safe to assume
that the Koch campaign against climate progress ramped up in the
mid-2000s targeted Senator McCain. <br>
<br>
<a
href="https://thinkprogress.org/nancy-pfotenhauer-mccains-dirty-energy-spokeswoman-972466b6f15b/"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">McCain's presidential campaign was staffed by the long-time
Koch operative</a> <a
href="https://littlesis.org/person/41341/Nancy_Pfotenhauer"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Nancy Pfotenhauer.</a> The Koch network veteran became one
of McCain's top policy advisors for his 2008 campaign, after she
left her position as the leader of the Koch-controlled Americans for
Prosperity(AFP). Pfotenhauer began working directly for Koch
Industries in the mid-1990s and led its federal lobbying shop during
Clinton's second term. After Bush became president in 2001,
Pfotenhauer took on another Koch-funded group (<a
href="https://www.thenation.com/article/meet-the-feminists-doing-the-koch-brothers-dirty-work/"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Independent Women's
Forum</strong>)</a> and then became the head of the core
Koch-controlled group in Washington,<span> </span><span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">DC</span>, Citizens for a Sound Economy
(CSE). CSE <span class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;"></span><span></span><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;"></span><span></span>was
created by Charles Koch's right-hand man Richard Fink and later
became AFP<span class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;"></span>.
Pfotenhauer left<span> </span><span class="caps" style="font-size:
0.9em;">AFP</span><span> </span>to work for McCain in 2007. That
year, McCain attended the Kochs' first<span> </span><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">AFP</span><span> </span>"Defending
the American Dream" summit. After he lost, she went back to Koch
Industries as an official spokesperson and started a consulting firm
that represented Koch Industries and the Kochs in the media.<br>
<br>
CSE <span class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;"></span><span></span>was
active in attacking efforts to address climate change when
Pfotenhauer was working for Koch Industries directly and when she
helmed<span> </span><span class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">CSE</span><span> </span>(which
she led for a period as a joint operation with the Koch-funded
Independent Women's Forum). For example, in 2003, <a
href="http://www.freedomworks.org/content/cse-urges-no-vote-s-139-climate-stewardship-act-0"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);"><span class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">CSE</span><span> </span>staunchly
backed Exxon in its shareholder controversy and lobbied against
McCain's Climate Stewardship Acts</a>. CSE <span></span>also
advised members of Congress that it would score and publicize to
their constituents their votes on McCain's legislation. After CSE <span></span>was
rebranded as AFP <span></span>on her watch, the Koch group
continued to attack measures to mitigate climate change in numerous
ways. (<em><span class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">PDF</span>s
available</em>).<br>
<br>
In 2008, as Pfotenhauer served as one of McCain's top advisors <a
href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=91462"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">on energy policy </a>and touted his <a
href="https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1018"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">"market based approach"</a> to our climate and environment,<span> </span><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">AFP</span><span> </span>ran
a national state-by-state roadshow to influence elections and
policy, called the <a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080501145049/http://www.hotairtour.org:80/"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">"Hot Air Tour"</a>...<br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/08/28/us/ap-us-oil-pipeline-etp-lawsuit.html">Environmental
Groups Fight Back Against Corporate Lawsuits</a></b><br>
By The Associated Press<br>
Aug. 28, 2018<br>
BISMARCK, N.D. - Twenty environmental and civil liberties groups are
fighting back against lawsuits they believe are aimed at limiting
free speech and silencing critics.<br>
The "Protect the Protest" task force announced Tuesday targets what
are known as strategic lawsuits against public participation, or
SLAPP, which use legal action and the threat of financial risk to
deter people and groups from speaking out against something they
oppose.<br>
"We know from our own experience that this legal bullying tactic
will work if it's not shut down," said Katie Redford, co-founder and
director of EarthRights International.<br>
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href="https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/08/28/us/ap-us-oil-pipeline-etp-lawsuit.html">https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/08/28/us/ap-us-oil-pipeline-etp-lawsuit.html</a></font><br>
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[Block that slapp!]<br>
<b>WHAT IS A SLAPP LAWSUIT?</b><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.protecttheprotest.org/">ANTI-SLAPP TASK FORCE:
PROTECT THE PROTEST</a></b><br>
Courts are for those who seek justice, not revenge. A growing number
of corporations, law firms, and individuals attempt to silence their
critics by filing "Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation"
(SLAPPs). SLAPPs violate the First Amendment rights of those who
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failure of the United States to join the Kyoto Protocol, even though
the treaty is quite moderate relative to what the science demands in
terms of worldwide emissions cuts.<br>
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