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<font size="+1"><i>September 14, 2018</i></font><br>
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[virtual surge video illustration 2:15]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/q01vSb_B1o0">Storm
Surge Like You've Never Experienced it Before</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/q01vSb_B1o0">https://youtu.be/q01vSb_B1o0</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://weather.com/safety/hurricane/news/2018-09-13-hurricane-florence-power-outages-carolinas-duke-energy">Florence
Could Knock Out Power to Up to 3 Million and It Could Be Out for
Weeks</a></b><br>
By Pam Wright - weather.com<br>
The Charlotte, North Carolina-based company said it could take weeks
to fully restore power.<br>
Some 20,000 workers are ready to restore power in the Carolinas
following the storm.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://weather.com/safety/hurricane/news/2018-09-13-hurricane-florence-power-outages-carolinas-duke-energy">https://weather.com/safety/hurricane/news/2018-09-13-hurricane-florence-power-outages-carolinas-duke-energy</a><br>
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[storm relief contributions]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ncwarn.org/hurricane-florence-relief-fund/">Update
on contributions: the great climate justice group NC WARN has
established an environmental justice/disaster recovery fund that
is now up on Paypal and ActBlue. NC WARN is convening the fund and
won't be taking a cut.</a><br>
ActBlue: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://secure.actblue.com/donate/hurricane-florence-recovery">https://secure.actblue.com/donate/hurricane-florence-recovery</a><br>
PayPal: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=BEE2NS36JLR8E">https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=BEE2NS36JLR8E</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ncwarn.org/hurricane-florence-relief-fund/">http://www.ncwarn.org/hurricane-florence-relief-fund/</a><br>
In partnership with community-based organizations in the eastern
part of the state, NC WARN has established the Hurricane Florence
Emergency Relief and Recovery Fund. This fund will support groups
that do not have the capacity to receive online donations, but who
are already providing leadership and offering direct services to
those bearing the brunt of economic and environmental devastation.<br>
It is critical that we provide support for the people who have yet
to recover from Hurricane Matthew 2 years ago, and face severe
threats now. Distribution of funds will be determined by an advisory
committee of environmental justice leaders from our partnering
groups.<br>
Please contribute as generously as you can to ensure that no one is
left to weather the storm alone.<br>
All proceeds will be sent to frontline communities in need. NC WARN
is not collecting an administrative fee from these donations. Your
donation is tax-deductible.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ncwarn.org/hurricane-florence-relief-fund/">http://www.ncwarn.org/hurricane-florence-relief-fund/</a></font><br>
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<font size="3">[sure]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/hurricane-florence-climate-change">Here's
How Climate Change Put Hurricane Florence On Steroids</a></b></font>
<div style="font-size: 16px;"><a
href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/hurricane-florence-climate-change">https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/hurricane-florence-climate-change</a></div>
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<br>
[Another emerging crisis]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://sdg.iisd.org/news/scientists-urge-immediate-decisive-action-to-tackle-deoxygenation-in-oceans/">Scientists
Urge Immediate, Decisive Action to Tackle Deoxygenation in
Oceans </a></b><br>
UNESOC-IOC's Global Ocean Oxygen Network and other scientists call
for urgent efforts to address deoxygenation in the world's oceans in
the 'Kiel Declaration'.<br>
The Declaration cautions that the Paris Agreement on climate change
and the 2030 Agenda are "severely threatened by ocean
deoxygenation"...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://sdg.iisd.org/news/scientists-urge-immediate-decisive-action-to-tackle-deoxygenation-in-oceans/">http://sdg.iisd.org/news/scientists-urge-immediate-decisive-action-to-tackle-deoxygenation-in-oceans/</a></font><br>
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[Press release]<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/urgent_appeal_for_more_marine_and_climate_protection_marine/"><br>
Urgent appeal for more marine and climate protection: marine
scientists publish "Kiel Declaration"</a></b><br>
Kiel, 7 September 2018 - This week, more than 300 scientists from 33
countries met in Kiel, Germany, at an international conference to
discuss the decline of oxygen in the ocean, the causes and the
consequences. At the conclusion of the conference, the scientists
published a haunting appeal, the "Kiel Declaration", in which they
call urgently for more marine and climate protection.<br>
The numbers are alarming: over the past 50 years, oxygen has
decreased by 2% in the global ocean. The volume of oxygen-depleted
waters, has grown more than fourfold. The main reasons are the
increasing global warming, but also the over-fertilization of the
oceans. In the long term, these changes will not only jeopardize
life in large parts of the world's oceans, but also feedbacks to the
atmosphere are expected, as greenhouse gases such as nitrous oxide
and methane form in oxygen-free water.<br>
Scientists from all parts of the world who convened in Kiel for a
conference organized by the Collaborative Research Centre 754 (SFB
754) "Climate and Biogeochemical Interactions in the Tropical Ocean"
agreed that this problem must be immediately and urgently addressed
to develop solutions in order to stop the oxygen loss as soon as
possible. Therefore, they unanimously adopted an appeal for more
marine and climate protection, the "Kiel Declaration".<br>
"The ocean is in a global crisis," says Prof. Dr. Andreas Oschlies,
spokesperson of the SFB 754 from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for
Ocean Research Kiel. "For the very productive areas of the world's
ocean off Peru and West Africa, the supply of nutrients and oxygen
is of vital importance," Oschlies continues. But particularly in
these areas, the oxygen content has decreased significantly in the
past 50 years. In addition, these coastal areas are particularly
affected by overfertilization, which leads to algae blooms and
ultimately to increased oxygen depletion through degradation of
biomass.<br>
"Comparisons between observational data and the results of complex
numerical models show that even the best simulations underestimate
the changes which are already observed significantly," Prof.
Oschlies explains. "Thus, nature is changing faster than we
expected." Therefore, Oschlies and the more than 300 participants of
the conference and the Global Ocean Oxygen Network (GO2NE) - an
expert group established in 2016 under UNESCO's Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission - consider it important to publicize these
changes and also to advocate increased ocean observations, leading
to a better understanding of ongoing rapid changes and eventually to
more robust predictions.<br>
In the document, they call for more international efforts to sharpen
global awareness of oxygen depletion, taking immediate and decisive
action to limit marine pollution and in particular the excessive
nutrient input into the ocean and to limit global warming by
decisive climate change mitigation actions.<br>
The researchers refer to the Paris Climate Change Agreement and the
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 14 for the sustainable
development of the seas and oceans. "We still have the chance to
avoid strong and irreversible effects of climate change, pollution
and overuse of the oceans through rethinking and immediate action,"
says Prof. Oschlies. "But we are quickly running out of time! That's
why we want to set a clear and strong signal with the 'Kiel
Declaration' in order to stop the oxygen depletion of the ocean and
thus, preserve the largest ecosystems on this planet.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/urgent_appeal_for_more_marine_and_climate_protection_marine/">http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/urgent_appeal_for_more_marine_and_climate_protection_marine/</a></font><br>
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[Kiel Declaration on Ocean Deoxygenation]<b><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.geomar.de/uploads/media/Kiel_declaration_fin_02.pdf"><br>
The ocean is losing its breath</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.geomar.de/uploads/media/Kiel_declaration_fin_02.pdf">https://www.geomar.de/uploads/media/Kiel_declaration_fin_02.pdf</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Paul Gilding's declaration]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatecodered.org/2018/09/when-we-look-at-crisis-rationally-only.html">When
we look at the crisis rationally, the only logical response is
to declare a climate emergency</a></b><br>
by Paul Gilding <br>
People engaged in the climate debate are often bewildered by
society's lack of response. How can we ignore such overwhelming
evidence of an existential threat to social and economic stability?<br>
Given human history, we should never have expected anything else.
Humans have a consistent tendency that when change is uncomfortable
we delay action until a threat becomes a crisis. The scale of the
threat or the existence of powerful evidence makes little
difference.<br>
There are countless examples - personal health issues, a business'
declining success, or global financial and credit risks.
Historically, though, World War Two (WWII ) remains the best
analogy.<br>
The evidence of the threat posed by Hitler was overwhelming and the
case for action crystal clear. However, many were still deeply
resistant to acting. Only when the threat became overwhelming -
until it was accepted as an imminent crisis - was Britain triggered
into action. When it was, Winston Churchill led the critical shift
in thinking, arguing that no matter how uncomfortable, expensive or
challenging to the status quo, sometimes you just have to do what is
necessary. Not your best, or what you can afford, or what's
"realistic" - but what is necessary. In his case, that was going to
war and assuming victory was possible.<br>
<br>
And so began one of the fastest and most dramatic economic
mobilisations and industrial transformations in history. As a
result, something that was rationally bordering on the impossible
was achieved.<br>
I would argue we are approaching a point where this same cycle will
play out on climate change - and we will get to the transformational
action stage.<br>
Perhaps surprisingly given the global implications of what's at
stake, a good indicator of this is the council of Darebin, in
Melbourne, where I am addressing a Climate Emergency conference this
week.<br>
<br>
Why is this an indicator? When we look back at history, like WWII,
we tend to simplify cause and effect. We say it was the invasion of
Poland, the arrival of Churchill, etc, that triggered the change. In
reality, complex systems like human society move in a distributed
way, reaching a critical mass or tipping point at a time that is
hard to predict and sometimes even hard to identify afterwards.<br>
Comparing WWII to climate change, we should first acknowledge that
once again, the issue is not the evidence of the threat. That is
clear and accepted - in fact with hindsight it will be seen as
blindingly obvious.<br>
<br>
What is relatively new is that scientists and experts are
increasingly acknowledging that nothing less than a massive global
mobilisation on a WWII scale is required to address the catastrophic
risks posed.<br>
<br>
Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, head of the Potsdam Institute
for Climate Impact Research, and a senior advisor to Pope Francis,
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the European Union recently
argued that "Climate change is now reaching the end-game, where very
soon humanity must choose between taking unprecedented action, or
accepting that it has been left too late and bear the consequences."<br>
<br>
All around us examples of what these consequences might be are
increasingly tangible. Whether it be wild fires in northern Sweden,
refugee crises, extreme ice melt in the Arctic, submerged airports
in Japan or severe droughts, people are feeling climate change live.<br>
My key argument is that this process - identified threats,
resistance and avoidance, stronger and stronger evidence, acceptance
of crisis and then dramatic response - is pretty much how these
things always unfold. And so it will most likely be on climate
change.<br>
<br>
Many argue we need a Churchill to lead us, that only a strong leader
can take charge in a crisis and show us the way forward. Or maybe we
need a climate "Pearl Harbour" - a major single event. This is not
how systems usually change, but especially not in a globalised and
connected world. Yes, we need leadership and across all sections of
society. But the "Churchills" emerge from a context and the context
shift we need is to accept we have a crisis. Critically, this
acceptance is a distributed social phenomenon, not a technical
question of science or evidence.<br>
<br>
This brings me back to Darebin in Melbourne. This local council
looked rationally at what the science told them - that we face a
crisis and the only logical response is to declare a climate
emergency. And so they did. In consultation with their community,
they then developed the Darebin Climate Emergency Plan.<br>
<br>
Why is this significant? Because this is how systems change. Ideas
take hold and spread. Darebin has since been followed in the US with
a small but growing list of elected bodies in regions and cities
also declaring a climate emergency. First came Montgomery County,
Maryland , since joined by Richmond, Berkeley and Los Angeles in
California, and Hoboken, New Jersey. This is not emerging
spontaneously, but through active organising by groups dedicated to
the task like The Climate Mobilisation.<br>
<br>
Yes, it's frustrating that these things take time. Therefore,
knowing we can still "win" is key. Towards this end I co-wrote
nearly 10 years ago a journal paper, The One Degree War Plan, with
Professor Jorgen Randers, showing how achieving 1 degree of warming
was surprisingly realistic with a WWII style mobilisation. Recently
along the same lines, The Climate Mobilisation developed a "Victory
Plan" to show what a WWII style economic mobilisation across the USA
could look like.<br>
<br>
So on the surface, Darebin Council inviting a group of experts like
myself to suburban Melbourne to discuss what a climate emergency
means might not seem much. But it is a crucial part of a process
whereby we first normalise the idea that we face an existential
crisis. Next we will come to accept that the only rational response
is a WWII-like economic mobilisation to eliminate global net carbon
dioxide emissions within a decade or so.<br>
<br>
Find this hard to imagine? It is. But as we learnt from Churchill in
1940, when we shift our thinking to "what is necessary", what we can
achieve is quite extraordinary. Or as Nelson Mandela said: "It
always seems impossible, until it<font size="-1">'</font>s done." <br>
Paul Gilding is a Fellow at the University of Cambridge Institute
for Sustainability Leadership, and senior advisor to Breakthrough:
The National Centre for Climate Restoration. This afrticle first
appeared in the Fairfax dailies.<br>
Breaking news: On 12 September, Moreland Council became the second
local council, after Darebin, to recognise the climate emergency
crisis, and passed an acknowledgement we are in a state of climate
emergency. This will be embedded in next Council plan and Zero
Carbon Evolution framework.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatecodered.org/2018/09/when-we-look-at-crisis-rationally-only.html">http://www.climatecodered.org/2018/09/when-we-look-at-crisis-rationally-only.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
</font>[here it is]<font size="-1"><br>
</font><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.yoursaydarebin.com.au/climateaction">Darebin
Climate Emergency Plan</a></b><br>
Darebin Council has now adopted the Darebin Climate Emergency
Plan(External link). You can read what Councillors had to say about
the plan in the minutes from the Council meeting on Monday 21
August(External link) 2017.<br>
Thank you to everyone who contributed their input and feedback to
the consultation process from May to July, and to earlier work on
the previous Climate Action Plan.<br>
You can download the entire plan, or the summary document - <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.yoursaydarebin.com.au/21346/documents/62558">http://www.yoursaydarebin.com.au/21346/documents/62558</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/ehq-production-australia/d56ca201157ab0fa99917bf358a0b37502fd807b/documents/attachments/000/079/292/original/Darebin_Climate_Emergency_Plan_lo-res_-_web-ready_June_1_2018.pdf?1527830276">https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/ehq-production-australia/d56ca201157ab0fa99917bf358a0b37502fd807b/documents/attachments/000/079/292/original/Darebin_Climate_Emergency_Plan_lo-res_-_web-ready_June_1_2018.pdf?1527830276</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.yoursaydarebin.com.au/climateaction">https://www.yoursaydarebin.com.au/climateaction</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Climate Liability News]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/09/11/rhode-island-states-climate-liability/">Why
States May Turn the Tide in Climate Liability, Led by Rhode
Island</a></b><br>
When Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin filed suit
against 21 oil and gas companies in July, it became the first such
lawsuit filed by a state. According to experts, though, it could
spark a wave of climate change-related lawsuits filed by states.<br>
Until Rhode Island filed, the more than one dozen suits filed
attempting to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for climate
related impacts had all come from cities or counties. Almost all are
in a jurisdictional battle, striving to stay in state courts where
they believe the law will be more favorable, instead of federal
court, where the industry would like them tried. And they are
splintered across the country, ranging from New York City to
Boulder, Colo., to San Francisco and Oakland<br>
<br>
"Because of their position in the federal system and their ability
to make legal arguments that others can't, I wouldn't be surprised
at all if the states are soon leading the way with climate suits
like they've done in past with tobacco and pharmaceutical
companies," said Paul Nolette, a political science professor at
Marquette University. "I expect a flood of litigation here,
ultimately led by the states."<br>
<br>
Nolette and others say Rhode Island's suit could be one of the
strongest ever filed because it makes strict liability claims
against the companies in addition to public nuisance claims, whereas
the communities relied almost solely on public nuisance claims.<br>
<br>
The difference is, a strict liability claim needs to prove the state
has been damaged but does not have to prove negligence. Proving
negligence is essential to proving public nuisance.<br>
<br>
"I think strict liability is a game changer for these cases," said
Sharon Eubanks, a former Department of Justice lawyer who led the
government's racketeering case against the tobacco industry.<br>
<br>
Eubanks said that the cases recently dismissed by federal
judges--those filed by New York, San Francisco and Oakland--were not
judged on the basis of strict liability claims because those claims
weren't included in the initial pleadings.<br>
<br>
For strict liability claims to prevail under Rhode Island law, the
state needs to show the defendants engaged in business, sold the
product to plaintiffs, the product was used as intended and it
caused harm to the plaintiffs.<br>
<br>
Nolette said the state attorneys general are in an excellent
position to file climate change-related suits. One reason is that
attorney generals are able to rely on the principle of parens
patriae, a doctrine that gives states the power to speak on behalf
of their citizens, a legal maneuver not available to local
jurisdictions.<br>
<br>
"Whereas the jurisdictions are limited to making claims about how
they themselves as a jurisdiction have been damaged, states can also
make claims about how the citizens and the public trust in general
have been damaged by these actions. That's very significant, I
think, because it really broadens the potential of the suit," said
Nolette, who studies state attorneys general and their role in
national policy making.<br>
<br>
Rhode Island is alleging that 21 oil and gas companies--including
giants Exxon, BP, Shell, Chevron and ConocoPhillips--knowingly
contributed to climate change and failed to adequately warn Rhode
Island citizens about the risks posed by their products. The state
alleges the companies' actions contributed to sea level rise and
violated state laws by polluting, impairing and destroying the
state's natural resources, and interfering with the public's ability
to use and enjoy those resources.<br>
<br>
Shell recently filed a motion to move the case from state to federal
court, a common move by defendants because federal precedent favors
the companies. Those precedents were cited by the federal judges in
dismissing the suits by New York, San Francisco and Oakland. <br>
<br>
"I think the Rhode Island complaint was pled in such a way to make
it more likely, appropriate, and proper that the case stay in the
court that it's in," said Eubanks, adding that the case is strong,
even if it lands in federal court...<br>
<font size="-1">more at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/09/11/rhode-island-states-climate-liability/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/09/11/rhode-island-states-climate-liability/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[voice, not twitter]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jerry-brown-trump-climate-change-liar_us_5b9ae116e4b0c875d14a15ac">Jerry
Brown Calls Trump A 'Liar, Criminal, Fool' On Climate Change</a></b><br>
The president's moves to dismantle environmental protections are a
"major assault" on Americans, California's governor said at a
climate summit Thursday.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jerry-brown-trump-climate-change-liar_us_5b9ae116e4b0c875d14a15ac">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jerry-brown-trump-climate-change-liar_us_5b9ae116e4b0c875d14a15ac</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8137848.html">This Day
in Climate History - September 14, 1989</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
September 14, 1989: Reviewing Bill McKibben's book "The End of
Nature," Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman observes:<br>
<blockquote> "It is not a doomsday diatribe, although his
reflections have the conceptual power of Jonathan Schell's 'Fate
of the Earth.' From his home in the Adirondacks, McKibben doesn't
chart the end of the world, but of the natural order.<br>
<br>
"In some ways that has been the moral message of the ecology
movement. Limits. Restraints. We learned to stop using DDT, and we
are learning to do without chlorofluorocarbons, and we must stop
releasing carbon dioxide. More profoundly, as McKibben writes,
'Deep ecology suggests that instead of just giving better orders
we learn to give fewer and fewer orders -- to sink back into the
natural world.'<br>
<br>
"Nature is already pushed back to prairie museums, zoos, national
parks, protected endangered species. Now, in McKibben's work,
there is another late reminder that if we don't limit our numbers
and our habits, all we'll have of nature will be the videotapes."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8137848.html">http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8137848.html</a>
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