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<font size="+1"><i>September 5, 2018</i></font><br>
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[SCOTUS]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10072018/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-trump-nominee-climate-change-policy-environmental-law">What
Brett Kavanaugh on Supreme Court Could Mean for Climate
Regulations</a></b><br>
Trump's Supreme Court nominee has a history of opposing regulations
Congress didn't explicitly authorize. That could be a problem for
greenhouse gas policies.<br>
Marianne Lavelle<br>
BY MARIANNE LAVELLE<br>
In his dozen years on the federal appeals court that hears the most
disputes over government regulatory power, Judge Brett Kavanaugh has
compiled an extensive record of skepticism toward the government's
powers to act on climate change.<br>
In particular, while Kavanaugh has repeatedly voiced the belief that
global warming is a serious problem, he has challenged the argument
that Congress has given the Environmental Protection Agency
authority to do something about it.<br>
That means the 53-year-old jurist, if approved by the Senate to fill
the vacancy left by Justice Anthony Kennedy, <b>could harden the
high court for the next generation as a blockade to climate action
that isn't explicitly mandated by Congress</b>. Though Kennedy was
hardly a reliable vote for environmental protection, he was the
pivotal vote in Massachusetts v. EPA, the 5-4 decision that in 2007
established that greenhouse gases were a pollutant that fit :well
within: the EPA's authority to regulate under the Clean Air Act...<br>
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Goffman said one of Kavanaugh's most telling environmental opinions
was his 2012 decision to strike down the EPA's rules for addressing
cross-state pollution from power plants, a decision that was
overturned by a 6-3 Supreme Court, including both Kennedy and Chief
Justice John Roberts in the majority.<br>
<br>
"He looked at a technical issue that involved an analysis both of
atmospheric chemistry and economics, and substituted the judgment of
EPA's with his own,: Goffman said. "To me, it's a 'tell' of his
anti-EPA mind set.:...<br>
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Gerrard believes that will extend beyond the question of EPA's
authority. He thinks Kavanaugh may not look favorably on the cases
that seek to hold oil companies legally liable for the costs that
society and communities are bearing on climate change. "The fact
that he thinks it is Congress that should be making the key
decisions on climate change, and not the EPA, would suggest that he
doesn't think the courts should be making the policy either."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10072018/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-trump-nominee-climate-change-policy-environmental-law">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10072018/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-trump-nominee-climate-change-policy-environmental-law</a></font><br>
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[Sports and Global Warming - NYTime$]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/climate/roger-federer-loss-heat.html">Health?
Desire? Nah, but the heat was a major problem for Roger Federer</a></b><br>
New York Times<br>
Roger Federer, one of the world's greatest tennis players, may have
become an unwitting spokesman for the effects of climate change on
Monday at ...<br>
By Kendra Pierre-Louis<br>
Roger Federer, one of the world's greatest tennis players, may have
become an unwitting spokesman for the effects of climate change on
Monday at the U.S. Open.<br>
Federer, who is ranked No. 2, seemed to struggle all night in the
heat and humidity at Arthur Ashe Stadium, losing in a fourth-round
upset to John Millman, an Australian ranked 55th.<br>
:It was hot," Federer said. It :was just one of those nights where I
guess I felt I couldn't get air; there was no circulation at all."<br>
This was the first time Federer, who won the U.S. Open five
consecutive times from 2004 to 2008, lost to a player outside the
top 50 at the tournament.<br>
To some, the comments by Federer, 37, may sound like sour grapes.
But they also underscore a growing problem: increasing nighttime
temperatures.<br>
Under climate change, overall temperatures are rising - 2018 is on
track to be the fourth-warmest year on record - but the warming is
not happening evenly. Summer nights have warmed at nearly twice the
rate of summer days. Average overnight low temperatures in the
United States have increased 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit per century
since 1895, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.<br>
While daytime temperatures above 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees
Celsius) have been a persistent problem at this U.S. Open, forcing
officials to offer players heat breaks and suspend junior matches,
conditions Monday night were not much cooler. Temperatures hovered
in the mid-80s, with the humidity for much of the match above 70
percent.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/24571914/us-open-health-desire-nah-heat-was-major-problem-roger-federer"><font
size="-1">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/climate/roger-federer-loss-heat.html</font></a><br>
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<br>
[Methanogenic]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2018/08/more-and-bigger-sinkholes-yamal-tundra">More
and bigger sinkholes on Yamal tundra</a></b><br>
The biggest hole is now more than 60 meters wide and 200 meter deep.<br>
By Atle Staalesen - August 31, 2018<br>
The formations believed to be created by eruption of natural gas
from the ground are of growing concern both to researchers and the
oil and gas industry in the far Arctic peninsulas of Yamal and
Gydan.<br>
One of the biggest formations is located only about four kilometers
from a gas pipeline leading from the huge Bovanenkovo field, a
project operated by Gazprom. This formation is now growing and has
reached a diameter of more than 60 meter and a depth of about 200
meters.<br>
The first sinkholes were discovered in 2014 and since then at least
ten big-size holes have been mapped. In addition, there are
indications that several more major holes are in the making.
Researchers told RIA Novosti that they on the two Arctic peninsulas
have discovered several small hills which they believe could be «gas
bubbles» ready to burst.<br>
According to researchers at the Institute of Earth Cryosphere in
Tyumen, there is methane gas seeping out from the formations...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2018/08/more-and-bigger-sinkholes-yamal-tundra">https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2018/08/more-and-bigger-sinkholes-yamal-tundra</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Bloomberg: Trump data dump]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-04/dire-climate-change-warnings-cut-from-trump-power-plant-proposal">Dire
Climate Change Warnings Cut From Trump Power-Plant Proposal</a></b><br>
By Jennifer A Dlouhy<br>
September 4, 2018, 11:33 AM PDT<br>
Warnings about potentially severe consequences of climate change
were deleted from a Trump administration plan to weaken curbs on
power plant emissions during a White House review.<br>
Drafts had devoted more than 500 words to highlighting the impacts
-- more heat waves, intense hurricanes, heavy rainfalls, floods and
water pollution -- as part of the proposal to replace Obama-era
restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions. That language was left out
of the Trump administration's final analysis of the Environmental
Protection Agency proposal, when it was unveiled Aug. 21.<br>
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Endangerment Finding<br>
The administration also backed off from a plan to seek public
comment on the appropriateness of the EPA's landmark conclusion that
greenhouse gas emissions endanger the public health and welfare.
That endangerment finding, as it is known, serves as the legal
underpinning for a suite of regulations designed to combat climate
change.<br>
EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler has said he would not reopen
the endangerment finding, but conservatives are petitioning the
agency to revisit the issue.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-04/dire-climate-change-warnings-cut-from-trump-power-plant-proposal">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-04/dire-climate-change-warnings-cut-from-trump-power-plant-proposal</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Yale pink noise is a data term]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180904150358.htm">Parsing
natural climate variability from human-caused climate change</a></b><br>
Date: September 4, 2018<br>
Source: Yale University<br>
Summary: A new study says pink noise may be the key to separating
out natural climate variability from climate change that is
influenced by human activity.<br>
:We find that the observed pink noise behavior is intrinsic to
Earth's climate dynamics, which suggests a range of possible
implications, perhaps the most important of which are 'resonances'
in which processes couple and amplify warming,: Wettlaufer said.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180904150358.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180904150358.htm</a></font><br>
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<br>
[heavy science - simple discussion of math words only]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zTUGuUk97M">Climate
Modelling Joanna D Haigh</a></b><br>
Serious Science<br>
Published on May 21, 2018<br>
Serious Science - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://serious-science.org">http://serious-science.org</a><br>
Category Science & Technology<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zTUGuUk97M">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zTUGuUk97M</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/epa-now-requires-political-aides-sign-off-for-agency-awards-grant-applications/2017/09/04/2fd707a0-88fd-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5_story.html?utm_term=.8beb69e98350">This
Day in Climate History - September 5, 2017</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
<b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">September 5, 2017:
</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Washington Post reports:
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<blockquote><font size="+1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"The Environmental Protection Agency has taken the unusual step of putting a political operative in charge of vetting the hundreds of millions of dollars in grants the EPA distributes annually, assigning final funding decisions to a former Trump campaign aide with little environmental policy experience.
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"In this role, John Konkus reviews every award the agency gives out, along with every grant solicitation before it is issued. According to both career and political employees, Konkus has told staff that he is on the lookout for ‘the double C-word’ - climate change - and repeatedly has instructed grant officers to eliminate references to the subject in solicitations."</span></font><br>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/epa-now-requires-political-aides-sign-off-for-agency-awards-grant-applications/2017/09/04/2fd707a0-88fd-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5_story.html?utm_term=.8beb69e98350"
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