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<font size="+1"><i>September 11, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[National Hurricane Center = NHC]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDAT1+shtml/091450.shtml">Hurricane
Florence Forecast Discussion</a></b><br>
Key Messages:<br>
<blockquote>1. A life-threatening storm surge is likely along
portions of the<br>
coastlines of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, and<br>
a Storm Surge Watch will likely be issued for some of these areas
by<br>
Tuesday morning. All interests from South Carolina into the mid-<br>
Atlantic region should ensure they have their hurricane plan in<br>
place and follow any advice given by local officials.<br>
<br>
2. Life-threatening freshwater flooding is likely from a prolonged<br>
and exceptionally heavy rainfall event, which may extend inland
over<br>
the Carolinas and Mid Atlantic for hundreds of miles as Florence
is<br>
expected to slow down as it approaches the coast and moves inland.<br>
<br>
3. Damaging hurricane-force winds are likely along portions of the<br>
coasts of South Carolina and North Carolina, and a Hurricane Watch<br>
will likely be issued by Tuesday morning. Damaging winds could
also<br>
spread well inland into portions of the Carolinas and Virginia.<br>
<br>
4. Large swells affecting Bermuda and portions of the U.S. East<br>
Coast will continue this week, resulting in life-threatening surf<br>
and rip currents.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1">More discustion at: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDAT1+shtml/091450.shtml">https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDAT1+shtml/091450.shtml</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatesignals.org/headlines/events/hurricane-florence-september-2018">Hurricane
Florence September 2018</a></b><br>
The NHC warns of two life-threatening impacts from Hurricane
Florence: storm surge at the coast and freshwater flooding from a
prolonged heavy rainfall event inland<br>
[Some Florence signals breakdown]<br>
Sea surface temperatures are 3.6F (2C) hotter than normal along
Hurricane Florence's path, allowing for further strengthening,
according to the National Hurricane Center.<br>
Jim Kossin reports that Florence is currently forecast to stall out
over North Carolina, moving as slow as 3 miles per hour, in contrast
with the average speed for Atlantic hurricanes over land of 16 miles
per hour.<br>
Florence is intensifying rapidly as it approaches the US East Coast,
aided by sea surface temperatures 3.6F (2C) hotter than normal.<br>
Florence is expected to stall for as many as six days near the
Atlantic coast due to a strong ridge of high pressure over the
Mid-Atlantic that will block its forward progress[5], amplifying
rainfall totals and driving up flood risk. A similar situation
contributed to the record rainfall during Hurricane Harvey in August
2017.<br>
The stalling weather pattern is consistent with the weather patterns
that have increasingly forced tropical cyclones to stall.<br>
Five attribution studies found that global warming added to the
deluge of rainfall dumped by Hurricane Harvey.<br>
From 1963 to 2012, 88 percent of storm-related fatalities occurred
in water-related incidents; storm surge caused 49 percent and
freshwater floods due to heavy rainfall caused 27 percent...<br>
<font size="-1">More discussion at: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatesignals.org/headlines/events/hurricane-florence-september-2018">http://www.climatesignals.org/headlines/events/hurricane-florence-september-2018</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Opinion]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/06/save-earth-disposable-coffee-cup-green">We
won't save the Earth with a better kind of disposable coffee cup</a></b><br>
George Monbiot<br>
We must challenge the corporations that urge us to live in a
throwaway society rather than seeking 'greener' ways of maintaining
the status quo...<br>
Disposable coffee cups made from new materials are not just a
non-solution: they are a perpetuation of the problem. Defending the
planet means changing the world.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/06/save-earth-disposable-coffee-cup-green">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/06/save-earth-disposable-coffee-cup-green</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Video: Democracy Now]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0NU5Brgsy4">Rise for
Climate: Tens of Thousands March in San Francisco Calling for
Fossil-Free World</a></b><br>
Democracy Now! - Sep 10, 2018<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://democracynow.org">https://democracynow.org</a>
- Hundreds of thousands of protesters in more than 90 countries
joined a worldwide day of protest demanding urgent action to address
climate change Saturday. In San Francisco, up to 30,000 people took
part in the Rise for Climate, Jobs and Justice march. It is believed
to be the largest climate march ever on the West Coast. The protest
came just days before the start of the Global Climate Action Summit
being organized by California Governor Jerry Brown. Democracy Now!
was in the streets of San Francisco for the march.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0NU5Brgsy4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0NU5Brgsy4</a></font><br>
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[California acts fast]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatehawksvote.com/news/press-releases/congrats-california-100-percent-clean-energy/">FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE</a></b><br>
CONTACT: RL MILLER<br>
<blockquote>Climate Hawks Vote congratulates California on passage
of Kevin de Leon's SB 100, the boldest climate bill in the world,
requiring California to get 100 percent of its electricity from
clean sources by 2045. Gov. Jerry Brown signed SB 100 on Monday,
September 10, 2018 in the face of mounting criticism that he
hasn't done anything to transition the state away from fossil fuel
production.<br>
<br>
"This groundbreaking, historic bill owes its passage to two forces
of nature: Kevin de Leon, who stumped relentlessly for the bill
and refused to let it be watered down, and grassroots enthusiasm.
We were honored to play a small part in a big coalition for SB
100," says RL Miller, president of Climate Hawks Vote. "The bill
was given up for dead by the political elite several times over
the last year, but tens of thousands of climate hawks engaged in
grassroots work for its passage -- including over a thousand
letters sent from California Climate Hawks Vote members to Gov.
Brown in the last five days."<br>
<br>
Kevin de Leon led the California state senate until recently, and
is now running for United States Senate, with climate change as
one of his signature issues. His opponent Dianne Feinstein last
sponsored a climate initiative with Olympia Snowe in 2007.<br>
</blockquote>
To view this release on the web: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatehawksvote.com/news/press-releases/congrats-california-100-percent-clean-energy/">http://climatehawksvote.com/news/press-releases/congrats-california-100-percent-clean-energy/</a><br>
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[ BLOG ] UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/julie-mcnamara/wa-1631-takes-on-climate-change">For
Washington Voters, I-1631 is a Chance to Tackle Climate Change
Head On</a></b><br>
JULIE MCNAMARA, ENERGY ANALYST | AUGUST 16, 2018<br>
The magnitude of the climate challenge is daunting; a constellation
of causes and impacts, promising no simple fix.<br>
But a new proposal in Washington state has identified a powerful
place to start.<br>
I-1631, on the ballot this November, is grounded in the reality that
to truly address climate change today, it's simply no longer enough
to drive down carbon emissions--communities must now also be readied
for climate impacts, including those already at hand, and all those
still to come.<br>
As a result, this community-oriented, solutions-driven carbon
pricing proposal is generating enthusiastic support from a broad and
growing coalition across the state.<br>
No single policy can solve all climate challenges, but I-1631
presents a critically important start. And, because it was
specifically designed to prioritize those most vulnerable to climate
change and the inevitable transitions to come--through intersections
with jobs, health, geography, and historical social and economic
inequities--the policy stands to be a powerful change for good, and
that is the very best metric we've got.<br>
Here, a summary of what it's all about.<br>
Overarching framework<br>
I-1631 is organized around a commonsense framework: charge a fee for
carbon pollution to encourage the shift toward a cleaner economy,
then accelerate that transition by investing the revenues in clean
energy and climate resilience.<br>
The Clean Air, Clean Energy Initiative states:<br>
Investments in clean air, clean energy, clean water, healthy
forests, and healthy communities will facilitate the transition away
from fossil fuels, reduce pollution, and create an environment that
protects our children, families, and neighbors from the adverse
impacts of pollution.<br>
Funding these investments through a fee on large emitters of
pollution based on the amount of pollution they contribute is fair
and makes sense.<br>
I-1631 emerged as the result of a years-long collaboration between
diverse stakeholders--including labor, tribal, faith, health,
environmental justice, and conservation groups--leading to a
proposal that's deeply considerate of the many and varied needs of
the peoples and communities caught in the climate crossfire. The
Union of Concerned Scientists is proud to have been a part of this
alliance and to now support I-1631.<br>
How it works<br>
There are two main components to I-1631--the investments and the
fee. Let's take them in turn.<br>
Investing in a cleaner, healthier, and more climate-resilient world.<br>
I-1631 prioritizes climate solutions by investing in the
communities, workforces, and technologies that the state will need
to thrive moving forward. This means identifying and overcoming the
vulnerabilities these groups face, and re-positioning the state's
economic, health, and environmental priorities to achieve a
resilient and robust future.<br>
The policy proactively approaches this by assigning collected fees
to one of three investment areas, guided by a public oversight board
and content-specific panels:<br>
Clean Air and Clean Energy (70 percent): Projects that can deliver
tens of millions of tons of emissions reductions over time,
including through renewables, energy efficiency, and transportation
support. Within four years, would also create a $50 million fund to
support workers affected by the transition away from fossil fuels,
to be replenished as needed thereafter.<br>
Clean Water and Healthy Forests (25 percent): Projects that can
increase the resiliency of the state's waters and forests to climate
change, like reducing flood and wildfire risks and boosting forest
health.<br>
Healthy Communities (5 percent): Projects that can prepare
communities for the challenges caused by climate change--including
by developing their capacity to directly participate in the
process--and to ensure that none are disproportionately affected...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/julie-mcnamara/wa-1631-takes-on-climate-change">https://blog.ucsusa.org/julie-mcnamara/wa-1631-takes-on-climate-change</a></font><br>
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[Election date November 6, 2018 ballot initiative]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Initiative_1631,_Carbon_Emissions_Fee_Measure_%282018%29">Washington
Initiative 1631, Carbon Emissions Fee Measure (2018)</a></b><br>
Washington Initiative 1631, the Carbon Emissions Fee Measure is on
the ballot in Washington as an Initiative to the People, a type of
initiated state statute, on November 6, 2018.<br>
A <b>yes vote supports</b> the initiative to do the following:<br>
<blockquote>enact a carbon emissions fee of $15 per metric ton of
carbon beginning on January 1, 2020;<br>
increase the fee by $2 annually until the state's greenhouse gas
reduction goals are met; and<br>
use the revenue from the fee to fund various programs and projects
related to the environment.<br>
</blockquote>
A <b>no vote opposes</b> the initiative to do the following:<br>
<blockquote>enact a carbon emissions fee of $15 per metric ton of
carbon beginning on January 1, 2020;<br>
increase the fee by $2 annually until the state's greenhouse gas
reduction goals are met; and<br>
use the revenue from the fee to fund various programs and projects
related to the environment.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Initiative_1631,_Carbon_Emissions_Fee_Measure_%282018%29">https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Initiative_1631,_Carbon_Emissions_Fee_Measure_(2018)</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.pdc.wa.gov/browse/more-ways-to-follow-the-money/committees/statewide?category=Committees">[See
the 1631 campaign funding for yourself - data updated daily]</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.pdc.wa.gov/browse/more-ways-to-follow-the-money/committees/statewide?category=Committees">https://www.pdc.wa.gov/browse/more-ways-to-follow-the-money/committees/statewide?category=Committees</a><br>
[YES on 1631 is about $4.5 million - see 45 local and state donors
found in contributions section]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.pdc.wa.gov/browse/campaign-explorer/committee?filer_id=CLEAAC%20101&election_year=2018">https://www.pdc.wa.gov/browse/campaign-explorer/committee?filer_id=CLEAAC%20101&election_year=2018</a><br>
[NO on 1631 is about $11.1 million - primarily national carbon
fuel industry donors]<br>
Cash contributions $11,093,776.42 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.pdc.wa.gov/browse/campaign-explorer/committee?filer_id=NO1631%20507&election_year=2018">https://www.pdc.wa.gov/browse/campaign-explorer/committee?filer_id=NO1631%20507&election_year=2018</a><br>
<a
href="https://www.pdc.wa.gov/browse/campaign-explorer/committee?filer_id=NO1631%20507&election_year=2018">Contributions
detail of top 9 against the initiative from </a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.pdc.wa.gov/browse/campaign-explorer/committee?filer_id=NO1631%20507&election_year=2018">https://www.pdc.wa.gov/browse/campaign-explorer/committee?filer_id=NO1631%20507&election_year=2018</a><br>
PHILLIPS66, WASHINGTON, DC, $3,701,186.54<br>
ANDEAVOR, SACRAMENTO, CA Cash $3,162,827.17<br>
BP, SACRAMENTO, CA, Cash $3,000,000.00<br>
CHEVRON U.S.A. INC,. SAN RAMON, CA, Cash $500,000.00<br>
BP AMERICA, HOUSTON, TX, Cash $396,031.40<br>
U.S. OIL & REFINING COMPANY, TACOMA, WA Cash
$308,531.31<br>
WESTERN STATES PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION, SACRAMENTO, CA,
$27,390.42<br>
POTATO PAC, PASCO, WA, Cash $15,000.00<br>
ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF WA (BUILD PAC), SEATTLE WA,
Cash $10,000.00<br>
<br>
<br>
[Food Bank for hurricane relief]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.wltx.com/article/weather/forecast/tracking-the-tropics/harvest-hope-food-bank-preps-for-hurricane-florence/101-592397185">Harvest
Hope Food Bank Preps for Hurricane Florence</a></b><br>
Volunteers at Harvest Hope Food Bank made over 500 bags of food for
SC in preparation for Hurricane Florence.<br>
Updated: September 10, 2018<br>
Columbia, SC (WLTX) -- Harvest Hope Food Bank held a bagging event
Sunday to prepare for Hurricane Florence.<br>
Volunteers worked to make sure everyone has enough food to last
through the potentially severe weather.<br>
They made over 500 bags of food for communities in need. Those bags
will be distributed throughout the state.<br>
Program leaders say they've been monitoring the storm and felt now
was the time to act.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.wltx.com/article/weather/forecast/tracking-the-tropics/harvest-hope-food-bank-preps-for-hurricane-florence/101-592397185">https://www.wltx.com/article/weather/forecast/tracking-the-tropics/harvest-hope-food-bank-preps-for-hurricane-florence/101-592397185</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[cold irony]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/industry-and-energy/2018/09/green-power-load-board-chinese-ships-choose-route-through-arctic-ice">With
green power load on board, Chinese ships choose a route through
Arctic ice</a></b><br>
As if a symbol of clean intents for the Arctic, Chinese shipping
company COSCO has sent 4 vessels loaded with wind power equipment
through the Northern Sea Route.<br>
Ice conditions were complicated, Russian icebreaker assistance
company Rosatomflot says about the escort of the Chinese vessels
through the Arctic route. The cargo vessels "Tian You", "Tian Jian",
"Tian Hui", "Tian En" all transited from east to the west on the
northern ship route in August. At least two of them carried
equipment for the wind power industry.<br>
The green power equipment was delivered to buyers in Europe.<br>
The "Tian En" on September 5th arrived in French port of Rouen. It
was the vessel's first voyage through the Arctic, and the first ever
transit shipment via the NSR between China and France, Mer et Marine
informs. On board were 63 pieces of equipment, some of them up to 70
ton heavy, among them 21 blades for wind turbines...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/industry-and-energy/2018/09/green-power-load-board-chinese-ships-choose-route-through-arctic-ice">https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/industry-and-energy/2018/09/green-power-load-board-chinese-ships-choose-route-through-arctic-ice</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Beckwith conjectures the Blue Ocean event - video]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFme3C9e-cs">Jet Stream
Center-of-Rotation to Shift 17 degrees Southward from North Pole
to Greenland with Arcti</a></b><br>
Paul Beckwith<br>
Published on Sep 9, 2018<br>
When all the sea-ice in the Arctic has vanished from melt and
transport, what will happen? This so-called Blue-Ocean-Event (BOE)
in the Arctic will mean that the last bastion of ice and coldness in
the Arctic will be Greenland. Thus, instead of the
Center-of-Coldness or Centroid (I name it ColdTroid) being near the
North Pole, as it has been in human history it will be centred over
the middle of Greenland, and thus be at about 73 degrees N latitude.
Thus, to first-order simplicity, one can expect the jet streams to
shift their center of rotation 17 degrees from the North Pole where
they are now towards Greenland. This jet stream shift, causing a
decoupling from Earth's axis of rotation, obviously has profound
consequences for our global weather patterns and climate system and
human civilization, and plants and animals, and, for example our
ability to grow food. But hey; humans will at least be able to drill
and mine the Arctic, at least those of us that are left.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFme3C9e-cs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFme3C9e-cs</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Book Review]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/william-vollmann-carbon-ideologies/568309/">The
Most Honest Book About Climate Change Yet</a></b><br>
William T. Vollmann's latest opus is brilliant, but it offers no
comfort to its readers.<br>
NATHANIEL RICH<br>
OCTOBER 2018 ISSUE<br>
Authors like to flatter themselves by imagining for their work an
"ideal reader," a cherubic presence endowed with bottomless
generosity, the sympathy of a parent, and the wisdom of, well, the
authors themselves. In Carbon Ideologies, William T. Vollmann
imagines for himself the opposite: a murderously hostile reader who
sneers at his arguments, ridicules his feeblemindedness, scorns his
pathetic attempts at ingratiation. Vollmann can't blame this reader,
whom he addresses regularly throughout Carbon Ideologies, because
she lives in the future, under radically different
circumstances--inhabiting a "hotter, more dangerous and biologically
diminished planet." He envisions her turning the pages of his
climate-change opus within the darkened recesses of an underground
cave in which she has sought shelter from the unendurable heat; the
plagues, droughts, and floods; the methane fireballs racing across
boiling oceans. Because the soil is radioactive, she subsists on
insects and recycled urine, and regards with implacable contempt her
ancestors, who, as Vollmann tells her, "enjoyed the world we
possessed, and deserved the world we left you."<br>
<br>
Carbon Ideologies is a single work published in two parts, No
Immediate Danger and No Good Alternative, the bifurcation due to the
insistence of Vollmann's weary publisher and the limitations of
modern bookbinding. Of all the writers working today, Vollmann must
be the most free: He writes fiction, essays, monographs, criticism,
memoir, and history, usually merging several forms at once, taking
on subjects as diverse as Japanese Noh theater, train hopping, and
the Nez Perce War, all the while dilating to whatever length suits
him. (After 25 books, his career word count now rivals Zane Grey's.)<br>
<blockquote> NO IMMEDIATE DANGER: VOLUME ONE OF CARBON IDEOLOGIES<br>
BY WILLIAM T. VOLLMAN<br>
Viking<br>
As is often the case with Vollmann, his decades-long war of
attrition with his editors spills over into the pages of the
finished book. Carbon Ideologies begins with the confession that
the original manuscript was "several times longer than its
contractually stipulated maximum"; after "anxious negotiations,"
his publisher "finally agreed to indulge me once more." Not, mind
you, his nonfiction publisher--which he walked away from after it
proposed an advance that was less than the amount of money he had
already spent on research--but his fiction publisher. ("I
sincerely hope that someday all this will be worth it to you," he
writes in a loving acknowledgment.) Viking did hold the line when
it came to the endnotes, which run to 129,000 words and can be
examined online or in Vollmann's archive at Ohio State
University...<br>
</blockquote>
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Nearly every book about climate change that has been written for a
general audience contains within it a message of hope, and often a
prod toward action. Vollmann declares from the outset that he will
not offer any solutions, because he does not believe any are
possible: "Nothing can be done to save [the world as we know it];
therefore, nothing need be done." This makes Carbon Ideologies, for
all its merits and flaws, one of the most honest books yet written
on climate change. Vollmann's undertaking is in the vanguard of the
coming second wave of climate literature, books written not to
diagnose or solve the problem, but to grapple with its moral
consequences.<br>
<br>
It is also a deeply idiosyncratic project: Vollmann's idiolect is
obsessive, punctilious, twitchy, hyperobservational, and proudly
amateurish. The data he presents are at times revelatory. A homeless
person in America uses twice as much energy as the average global
citizen; 61 percent of the energy generated in the United States in
2012 "accomplished no useful work whatsoever"; from 1980 to 2011,
global energy use nearly tripled. Elsewhere the data are impossibly
arcane ("Power Wastage by Group-Driven Machine Tools, ca. 1945
[Deducting Idle Machines]") or defiantly unscientific ("I am sorry
that I could not make my table simple, complete or accurate"). His
insatiable appetite for detail yields both irrelevant trivia
("Embarking on the Super Limited Hitachi Express, which was also
known as the Super Hitachi 23 Limited Express") and magisterial
portraits of landscapes befouled by poking and prodding and, in the
case of West Virginia's mountains, decapitating...<br>
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The demand problem, the growth problem, the complexity problem, the
cost-benefit problem, the industry problem, the political problem,
the generational-delay problem, the denial problem--Vollmann
scrupulously catalogs all the major unsolved problems that
contribute to the colossus of climate change. "Whatever 'solution' I
could have proposed in 2017," he writes, "would have been found
wanting before the oceans rose even one more inch!" (The title of a
late chapter, "A Ray of Hope," is to be read sarcastically.) Nor
have his six years of traveling the world, tabulating data, and
interviewing experts changed his mind about any major aspect of the
issue. The reader who begins Carbon Ideologies hopeless will finish
it hopeless. So will the hopeful reader.<br>
<br>
But there exist other kinds of readers--those who do not read for
advice or encouragement or comfort. Those who are sick of dishonesty
crusading as optimism. Those who seek to understand human nature,
and themselves. Because human nature is Vollmann's true subject--as
it must be. The story of climate change hangs on human behavior, not
geophysics. Vollmann seeks to understand how "we could not only
sustain, but accelerate the rise of atmospheric carbon levels, all
the while expressing confusion, powerlessness and resentment." Why
did we take such insane risks? Could we have behaved any other way?
Can we behave any other way? If not, what conclusions must we draw
about our lives and our futures? Vollmann admits that even he has
shied away from fully comprehending the damage we've done. "I had
never loathed myself sufficiently to craft the punishment of full
understanding," he writes. "How could I? No one person could." He's
right, though books like Carbon Ideologies will bring us closer.<br>
<br>
The planet's atmosphere will change but human nature won't.
Vollmann's meager wish is for future readers to appreciate that they
would have made the same mistakes we have. This might seem a humble
ambition for a project of this scope, but only if you mistake Carbon
Ideologies for a work of activism. Vollmann's project is nothing so
conventional. His "letter to the future" is a suicide note. He does
not seek an intervention--only acceptance. If not forgiveness, then
at least acceptance.<br>
[The full] article appears in the October 2018 print edition with
the headline "The Brutal Truth About Climate Change."<br>
We want to hear what you think about this article. Submit a letter
to the editor or write to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:letters@theatlantic.com">letters@theatlantic.com</a>.<br>
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href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/william-vollmann-carbon-ideologies/568309/">https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/william-vollmann-carbon-ideologies/568309/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/B0mrv_rT3xw">Chomsky,
Mann, Hurricanes, Wildfires, Climate, and Music</a></b><br>
Climate State<br>
Published on Sep 10, 2018<br>
Music by Kaempfer and Dietze, "Shear Force" <br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/climate/hurricane-irma-climate-change.html">This
Day in Climate History - September 11, 2017</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
September 11, 2017:<br>
The New York Times reports:<br>
"Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection
Agency, says it is insensitive to discuss climate change in the
midst of deadly storms.<br>
"Tomas Regalado, the Republican mayor of Miami whose citizens raced
to evacuate before Hurricane Irma, says if not now, when?<br>
"'This is the time to talk about climate change. This is the time
that the president and the E.P.A. and whoever makes decisions needs
to talk about climate change,' Mr. Regalado told the Miami Herald.
'If this isn’t climate change, I don’t know what is. This is a
truly, truly poster child for what is to come.'"<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/climate/hurricane-irma-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/climate/hurricane-irma-climate-change.html</a>
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