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<font size="+1"><i>September 10, 2018</i></font><br>
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[Hunker down]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article218110735.html">Florence
-- with sights set on U.S. East Coast -- leads trio of
hurricanes in Atlantic</a></b><br>
But the gravest threat to the U.S. remains Hurricane Florence, which
is expected to strengthen considerably by Monday night and remain
"an extremely dangerous major hurricane" through Thursday, according
to the Hurricane Center...<br>
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<b>Hurricane Isaac</b>, with winds of 75 mph, is located roughly
1,300 miles east of the Windward Islands and is expected to continue
moving westward, across the lesser Antilles and into the eastern
Caribbean Sea, by Wednesday night or Thursday.<br>
Even farther away is Hurricane Helene and her 85 mph winds, which
are 195 miles south southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands off the
western coast of Africa. <b>Helene</b> is expected to turn north
well ahead of any proximity to the U.S. East Coast and is forecast
to start weakening by Tuesday.<br>
The 2018 hurricane season lasts until Nov. 30. Forecasters had
predicted between nine and 13 named storms this season, four to
seven of them hurricanes. Thus far, nine storms have been named...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article218110735.html">https://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article218110735.html</a></font><br>
- - - -- <br>
[Hurricane Florence video of track]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/q-Xn2xHYe5A">Hurricane
Florence Model 080918</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/q-Xn2xHYe5A">https://youtu.be/q-Xn2xHYe5A</a></font><br>
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[Data animation of hurricane Florence boiling up]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://weather.us/satellite/561-w-241-n/satellite-superhd2-1min.html#play4">Satellite
Super HD, Meso2</a></b><br>
GOES-16 Satellite Images<br>
<blockquote>This product shows satellite images captured using the
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105 west. The new GOES-East satellite operates at a much higher
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times greater than the previous versions. Images will now be
available every 5 minutes compared to the old satellites which
only provides data every 15 minutes. In addition to the 5 minute
baseline, a special mesoscale sector will provide 1 minute imagery
for special weather events such as severe thunderstorm outbreaks.
Products currently available through GOES-East include two high
resolution infrared views, one high resolution water vapor view,
and three high resolution visible views. We hope to have all 16
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</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://weather.us/satellite/561-w-241-n/satellite-superhd2-1min.html#play4">https://weather.us/satellite/561-w-241-n/satellite-superhd2-1min.html#play4</a><br>
longest view<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://weather.us/satellite/561-w-241-n/satellite-superhd2-1min.html#play8">https://weather.us/satellite/561-w-241-n/satellite-superhd2-1min.html#play8</a><br>
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[Also see Lightning counts]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://weather.us/lightning/561-w-241-n/20180909-2040z.html">https://weather.us/lightning/561-w-241-n/20180909-2040z.html</a><br>
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[video backgrounder super saturated storm]<br>
<b><a
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/09/09/florence-development-similar-to-harvey/">Florence
Development Similar to Harvey</a></b><br>
Hurricane Florence strengthening now, and expected to make landfall
as a major Cat 3-4 hurricane.<br>
Emergency declarations in several states along east coast.<br>
Very concerning indications in some models that Florence could stall
over coastal areas, similar to how Hurricane Harvey lingered over
Houston last year. Potential for massive rain event, making the
video above all the more relevant.<br>
Scientists tracked moisture from hot ocean, thru Harvey, onto
mainland, - good discussion of climate impacts on storms.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/09/09/florence-development-similar-to-harvey/">https://climatecrocks.com/2018/09/09/florence-development-similar-to-harvey/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Wait, dire, tripping points, and tipping points - video news
interview]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM0jC_3TEUs">CNN: Kim Cobb
interview on Connect the World</a></b><br>
greenmanbucket<br>
Published on Aug 7, 2018<br>
Climate expert Kim Cobb on new concerns about planetary tipping
point for climate.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM0jC_3TEUs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM0jC_3TEUs</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Reuters]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pensions-climatechange-study/public-pension-funds-slow-to-move-on-climate-change-risk-study-idUSKCN1LP0UV">Public
pension funds slow to move on climate change risk: study</a></b><br>
LONDON (Reuters) - Most of the world's largest public pension funds
are providing little or no information about how climate change will
affect the value of their assets, a report by the Asset Owners
Disclosure Project (AODP) shows.<br>
The AODP, part of investor pressure group ShareAction, tracked funds
with combined assets of more than $11 trillion and found that 63
percent of them were at risk of breaching their duty to savers.<br>
Less than 1 percent of the funds' assets were invested in low-carbon
solutions and only 10 percent of the funds had a policy to exclude
coal from their portfolios, the AODP said in its report published on
Monday.<br>
The report is the first to assess the funds against the
recommendations put forward by the Task Force on Climate Related
Disclosures, set up by the Group of 20 Nations' Financial Stability
Board in 2015.<br>
Launching a global ranking to show how funds were performing against
the task force's framework, the AODP said that a number of European
schemes scored highly, including Fourth Swedish National Pension
Fund (AP4), which manages assets worth about $40 billion.<br>
Niklas Ekvall, chief executive of AP4, said that climate change was
the "single biggest systematic threat to asset values in the long
term" and that AP4 had moved to ensure its portfolio and engagement
supported the move to a low-carbon economy.<br>
"As large investors, pension funds own substantial parts of the
global economy and have a stake in maintaining its long-term health
and stability," he said.<br>
Reporting by Simon Jessop; Editing by David Goodman<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pensions-climatechange-study/public-pension-funds-slow-to-move-on-climate-change-risk-study-idUSKCN1LP0UV">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pensions-climatechange-study/public-pension-funds-slow-to-move-on-climate-change-risk-study-idUSKCN1LP0UV</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Not just Minnesota]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/09/07/climate-change-prolonging-fall-allergy-season">Climate
change prolonging fall allergy season</a></b><br>
Mark Zdechlik - Sep 7, 2018<br>
The Minnesota Department of Health says people with fall allergies
may be in for some tough days as the ragweed pollen season peaks in
Minnesota. Wendy Brunner, with the department's asthma program, said
ragweed-related allergies will be a problem for people who have them
from now until when the first hard frost comes.<br>
"The ragweed pollen season extends from early August through the
first hard frost. Looking at historical data, we tend to see the
peak coming right now or into the next few weeks of September,"
Brunner said.<br>
Brunner said people who think their fall allergies are getting worse
are probably right because ragweed pollen is irritating many people
for well over two weeks longer than it used to.<br>
"Researchers have shown that actually the first frost is coming a
little later and we've seen the season extended," Brunner said. "In
fact, since 1995 the ragweed pollen season has increased by 18 to 21
days."<br>
Brunner says people with allergy induced-asthma need to step up
their management of the condition this time of year.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/09/07/climate-change-prolonging-fall-allergy-season">https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/09/07/climate-change-prolonging-fall-allergy-season</a></font><br>
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<b><br>
</b>[Happer is an advisor to the president]<b><br>
</b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/william-happer"><b> From the
DeSmogBlog database William Happer</b></a><br>
Credentials<br>
Ph.D, physics, Princeton (1964).<br>
Bachelor's degree in physics from University of North Carolina
(1960).<br>
Background<br>
<blockquote>William Happer is the emeritus Eugene Higgens professor
of physics and Cyrus Fogg Brackett professor of physics at
Princeton University. Happer is a director of the CO2 Coalition, a
group formed in 2015 out of the former George C. Marshall
Institute where Happer was also previously chairman of the board.<br>
Happer is involved with a range of other climate change denial
groups. He is on the academic advisory council of the Global
Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Will Happer is also a member of
a group titled Climate Exit (Clexit), founded in the summer of
2016.<br>
According to Clexit's founding statement (PDF), "The world must
abandon this suicidal Global Warming crusade. Man does not and
cannot control the climate." <br>
In September 2018, it was reported that Happer was serving on the
National Security Council of the Trump administration as a senior
director for emerging technologies.<br>
According to Will Happer's profile at the Cato Institute where he
is adjunct scholar, his specialty at Princeton University was
modern optics, optical and radiofrequency spectroscopy of atoms
and molecules, radiation propagation in the atmosphere, and
spin-polarized atoms and nuclei. From 1991-1993, Happer was the
Director of Energy Research at the U.S. Department of Energy. <br>
</blockquote>
Fossil Fuel Funding<br>
<blockquote>William Happer has accepted funding from the fossil fuel
industry in the past. In a Minnesota state hearing on the impacts
of carbon dioxide, Peabody Energy paid him $8,000 which was routed
through the CO2 Coalition.<br>
In a 2015 undercover investigation by Greenpeace, Happer told
Greenpeace reporters that he would be willing to produce research
promoting the benefits of carbon dioxide for $250 per hour, while
the funding sources could be similarly concealed by routing them
through the CO2 Coalition. [8]<br>
In March 2018, Happer-among other , was asked by a judge to
disclose any ties he had to fossil fuel companies in a case
between cities and fossil fuel companies. Happer disclosed $1,000
he had received for a speech on climate change at the Heritage
Foundation in 2017. The response to the request for information
also revealed that Happer had received "around $10,000 to $15,000
though he does not recall the precise number" (emphasis added)
from Peabody Coal, which was donated to the CO2 coalition on his
behalf "earned in connection with testimony given in a Proceeding
of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission in September 2015." <br>
</blockquote>
Stance on Climate Change<br>
<blockquote>William Happer has often contended that climate change
is due to natural forces as opposed to the actions of mankind:<br>
March, 2016<br>
Happer wrote an article at Asbury Park Press in 2016 where he
argued that man's role in climate change was minimal:<br>
"Since the year 1800, the Earth has warmed by about 1 degree
Celsius. Some fraction of the warming is due to more atmospheric
CO2 from burning fossil fuels, but most of the warming is probably
due to the same natural forces that have always controlled the
Earth's changeable climate."<br>
May, 2010<br>
In Happer's written statement on "Climate Science in the Political
Arena" (PDF), which he delivered to the Select Committee on Energy
Independence and Global Warming U.S. House of Representatives in
2010, he declared:<br>
"I, and many other scientists, think the warming will be small
compared the natural fluctuations in the earth's temperature, and
that the warming and increased CO2 will be good for mankind."<br>
</blockquote>
Key Quotes<br>
<blockquote>January 2018<br>
"The public in general doesn't realize that from the point of view
of geological history, we are in a CO2 famine," Happer said in an
interview with E&E News. <br>
November 30, 2017<br>
Below are some quotes from Happer's talk at the "At the Crossroads
IV: Energy & Climate Policy Summit" co-hosted by The Heritage
Foundation and Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF).<br>
"It's not as though if you double CO2 you make a big difference.
You make a barely detectable difference […]"<br>
"The 97% consensus is phony." <br>
March, 2017<br>
Jezebel reported that Happer had responded to a reader of the
magazine, arguing that the "demonization of CO2" "really differs
little from the Nazi persecution of the Jews, the Soviet
extermination of class enemies or ISIL slaughter of infidels." <br>
In his emails to a Jezebel reader, Happer also made a number of
claims regarding CO2, temperatures, and sea level rise, to which
climate scientist Gavin Schmidt responded, noting that "sea level
was 'typically' 100's of feet higher during the Phanerozoic," and
CO2 levels are "nowhere near 'famine levels' for many plants."...<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1">More at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/william-happer">https://www.desmogblog.com/william-happer</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.skepticalscience.com/William_Happer_quote.htm">Climate
Misinformation by Source: William Happer</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.skepticalscience.com/William_Happer_quote.htm">https://www.skepticalscience.com/William_Happer_quote.htm</a></font><br>
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[Sunday video talk by Margaret Wheatley 42 mins]<br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtaYNxp56gs">Margaret
Wheatley l Islands of sanity l Meaning 2017</a></b><br>
Meaning conference<br>
Published on Dec 4, 2017<br>
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Meg is author of nine books, from the classic 'Leadership and the
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----------------------------------------------------<br>
Meaning is the annual gathering for people who believe business can
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To subscribe for news or buy tickets visit meaningconference.co.uk.
Or you can follow @MeaningConf on Twitter.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtaYNxp56gs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtaYNxp56gs</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/us/fires-in-west-leave-residents-gasping-on-the-soot-left-behind.html">This
Day in Climate History - September 10, 2015</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
September 10, 2015:<br>
The New York Time$ reports on severe wildfires in California.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/us/fires-in-west-leave-residents-gasping-on-the-soot-left-behind.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/us/fires-in-west-leave-residents-gasping-on-the-soot-left-behind.html</a>
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