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<font size="+1"><i>September 15, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[dramatic videos mostly]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatestate.com/2018/09/14/hurricane-florence-storm-chaser-compilation/http://climatestate.com/2018/09/14/hurricane-florence-storm-chaser-compilation/">Hurricane
FLORENCE Storm Chaser Compilation</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatestate.com/2018/09/14/hurricane-florence-storm-chaser-compilation/">http://climatestate.com/2018/09/14/hurricane-florence-storm-chaser-compilation/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[agreement and division in CA]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/">The
Energy 202: Climate conference shows divide among Democrats over
how to counter global warming</a></b><br>
SAN FRANCISCO -- The organizers of a climate-change conference here
in California wanted their three-day summit to be a repudiation of
President Trump. And during many speeches, and commitments from
cities and companies to reduce their impact on the environment, it
was. <br>
But at other times both in and outside the convention center in San
Francisco, activists protested against the current Democratic
approach. The clash marked a high-profile schism between the middle-
and far-left segments of the Democratic coalition about how
forcefully to address climate change. <br>
The event was set up to show how the private sector and local
governments are pressing ahead to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions
even as the president promises to pull the United States out of the
landmark Paris climate agreement.<br>
The Global Climate Action Summit was organized by the state's
Democratic governor, Jerry Brown, who just days earlier signed a
bill committing California to getting 100 percent of its electricity
from carbon-free sources by 2045. He followed that up with an even
more ambitious mandate, outlined in an executive order, to
decarbonize California's entire economy by that year too. And then
on Thursday, he signed a bevy of 16 bills attempting to reduce the
carbon footprint of California's many automobiles by putting more
electric cars on the road.<br>
The climate summit saw a scattershot of plans and commitments by
other states, cities and companies eager to push ahead on problems
they believe Trump has turned his back on. Groups and companies
announced plans on everything from rain forests to electric car
charging stations.<br>
Twelve cities, including Tokyo and Seoul, joined an initiative to
slash emissions in city centers, making room on the roads for
electric car fleets. And New York City announced it will invest $4
billion in pension funds for climate change initiatives in the next
three years, doubling current investments. On the industry side,
LeasePlan, a Dutch company that is one of the biggest fleet
providers in world with 1.8 million vehicles, will step up purchases
of electric vehicles. So will the French electricity giant EDF
Energy, which has about 30,000 vehicles, organizers said.<br>
- - - -<br>
It remains to be seem whether that constellation of commitments from
cities and companies, none of which are legally binding, turns out
to be just a wish list. But many of the more well-traveled attendees
of climate conferences were encouraged.<br>
"I've been to a lot of gatherings and conferences related to the
climate crisis for many years now, and this is really top-notch,"
former vice president Al Gore said in an interview. "The nature of
the commitments being announced is extremely heartening."<br>
At times, the summit felt like a reunion of officials who served in
the Barack Obama and Bill Clinton administrations. (Obama made an
appearance, though only via prerecorded video.) ...<br>
- - - -<br>
"You need keep-it-in-the-ground commitments," Jennifer Morgan,
executive director of Greenpeace International, said in an
interview. "People don't know how big oil and gas development is in
California."<br>
Broadly, the progressive climate wing wants to see end to the cozy
relationship many of elected Democrats have with corporations.<br>
That message made its way on stage when protesters interrupted a
speech by former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg by yelling "our
air is not for sale."<br>
Back in front of the microphone, Bloomberg quipped in reply: "Only
in America could you have environmentalists protesting an
environmental conference."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2018/09/14/the-energy-202-climate-conference-shows-divide-among-democrats-over-how-to-counter-global-warming/5b9ad9741b326b47ec9595d3/?utm_term=.644c187927a9">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2018/09/14/the-energy-202-climate-conference-shows-divide-among-democrats-over-how-to-counter-global-warming/5b9ad9741b326b47ec9595d3/?utm_term=.644c187927a9</a></font><br>
<font size="-1">- - - - -</font><br>
[Video report contentious gathering in California]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2018/9/14?autostart=111.0">Democracy
Now!</a></b><br>
has long covered the issue of climate change. We reported from the
U.N. Climate Change Conferences in Paris, Lima, Warsaw, Doha,
Durban, Cancún, and Copenhagen, and from Bolivia's World Peoples'
Summit on Climate Change. We've interviewed many of the world's top
scientists, writers, policy makers, activists, indigenous leaders
and academics on the issue. We continue to follow the climate
movements.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb2HD-NQR8">"Climate
Capitalism is Killing Our Communities": Protesters Disrupt Gov.
Brown's SF Climate Summit</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb2HD-NQR8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obb2HD-NQR8</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccd2cfTU6rw">Effective Tool
to Limit Greenhouse Emissions or a "License to Pollute?": A Debate
on Cap-and-Trade</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccd2cfTU6rw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccd2cfTU6rw</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlzAPA4P1Io">Over 100
Indigenous Activists Decry California Gov. Jerry Brown's
Market-Based Climate Solutions</a> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlzAPA4P1Io">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlzAPA4P1Io</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEIoNLryWuw">A Debate on
Geoengineering: Should We Deliberately "Hack" Planet Earth to
Combat Climate Change?</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEIoNLryWuw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEIoNLryWuw</a><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.democracynow.org/2018/9/14/effective_tool_to_limit_greenhouse_emissions#transcript">Transcripts</a></b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.democracynow.org/2018/9/14/effective_tool_to_limit_greenhouse_emissions#transcript">https://www.democracynow.org/2018/9/14/effective_tool_to_limit_greenhouse_emissions#transcript</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2018/9/14?autostart=111.0">https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2018/9/14?autostart=111.0</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Opinion]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/09/13/you-cant-put-america-first-if-you-put-climate-change-last/?utm_term=.6f57f03a231c">You-cant-put-america-first-if-you-put-climate-change-last</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/09/13/you-cant-put-america-first-if-you-put-climate-change-last/?utm_term=.6f57f03a231c">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/09/13/you-cant-put-america-first-if-you-put-climate-change-last/?utm_term=.6f57f03a231c</a></font><br>
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<br>
[California fires still burning]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article218388250.html">Delta
Fire surpasses 60,000 acres after Thursday flare-up closed I-5
for 6 hours</a></b><br>
BY MICHAEL MCGOUGH - September 14, 2018<br>
Crews continue to make progress fighting the Delta Fire burning in
Shasta County, with the blaze 28 percent contained Friday at 60,018
acres, according to a 7 a.m. Cal Fire incident update.<br>
Fire activity flared up along the freeway Thursday evening, forcing
another temporary closure of a stretch of Interstate 5 and multiple
ramps. Traffic was reopened for all lanes in both directions at
about 6 p.m., according to Caltrans.<br>
At least 17 structures have been destroyed by the Delta Fire so far,
according to the latest Cal Fire update. More than 3,200 personnel
are assigned to the fire, including about 1,000 from the U.S. Forest
Service, the agency said on Twitter.<br>
Mandatory evacuation orders were lifted Wednesday for parts of
Shasta County. Voluntary evacuation warnings remained in place for
residents of Dunsmuir in Siskiyou County, and evacuations and road
closures remained in place for some of Trinity County through
Thursday. Up-to-date, detailed evacuation information can be found
on the fire's Inciweb page and the Facebook pages of those three
counties' sheriff's offices...<br>
more at: <font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article218388250.html">https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article218388250.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
[From Hakai magazine}<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-oracle-of-oyster-river/">The
Oracle of Oyster River</a></b><br>
On Vancouver Island, a hermit-priest has spent a lifetime
contemplating the natural world. At 95, he has come to believe there
is a way we can save it...<br>
Charles Brandt sums it up this way: <b>the universe is a community
of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. The
Earth is a one-time endowment; we don't get a second chance. The
Earth is primary; humans and all other beings are derivative.</b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-oracle-of-oyster-river/">https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-oracle-of-oyster-river/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Paul Gilding Independent writer & advisor on sustainability.]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://paulgilding.com/2018/09/14/cc2080914-why-incumbents-fail/">Why
Incumbents Fail – And What that Means for Sustainability</a></b><br>
The core assumption and focus of people who work to drive
sustainability through markets – as corporate leaders, investors,
NGOs or thought leaders – is that we need to convince existing
companies and their shareholders that sustainability is first good
for their business, and secondly, they can successfully transition
to a sustainable business model...<br>
- - - -<br>
But the world has changed. Today sustainability is an existential
threat to the global economy and that means the scale and speed of
change required is profoundly different.<br>
We are now up against time bounded needs that can only be addressed
through radical innovation in technology and business models –
inevitably resulting in disruptive change across the market.
Anything less will see issues like climate change, pollution,
inequality and resource constraint pose system wide threats to
global economic and social stability.<br>
- - - -<br>
The key questions to understand are why incumbents fail – and can
this be addressed – and what can be done to accelerate the success
of the disruptors? I will be focusing my work on this issue over the
coming year at the University of Cambridge Institute for
Sustainability Leadership, via this new research programme I am
supporting.<br>
This research will explore my hypothesis on what the current
evidence suggests:<br>
<blockquote>- <b>Incumbent businesses, no matter how good their
intentions, rarely deliver disruptive change</b>. When they do –
often by buying disruptors – they are driven more by the threat
from disruptive players than their own insights or strategies.
Fear of loss is the driver for incumbents, not opportunity. There
is a live example today with Tesla and the auto industry.<br>
-<b> Disruptive players usually win because they are not held back
by the assets, culture and risk aversion of incumbents</b>.
There are exceptions (and why they are is very important), but
they do not define how the system behaves.<br>
- <b>Capital follows opportunity and growth, but rarely prices
risk accurately</b>. Thus, markets crash, carbon bubbles pop and
boom/bust cycles are inevitable in disruption. But over time,
markets get it right. The dot com boom correctly sensed the
possibilities and the dot com crash didn't prevent tech companies
from dominating today's stock markets.<br>
-<b> Markets are ruthless and unsentimental. They have no ideology
except self-interest and will happily for example, destroy the
oil industry and do so quickly when they act.</b><br>
</blockquote>
This all suggests that, given the scale and speed of change needed
on sustainability, many and <b>perhaps most of today's major old
companies, simply won't get there. Not because they couldn't in
theory, but because they won't in practice.</b><b> </b>They have
some combination of products, assets, culture and values that means
transitioning is simply too difficult, too expensive in the short
term or just isn't going to happen in time. They will instead be
replaced by new companies – a process profoundly beneficial to the
economy.<br>
If this is right, it calls into question the very foundation of the
global movement for corporate sustainability. We need to have that
discussion.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://paulgilding.com/2018/09/14/cc2080914-why-incumbents-fail/">https://paulgilding.com/2018/09/14/cc2080914-why-incumbents-fail/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[changes]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatestate.com/2018/09/14/big-oil-gives-in-to-common-sense-and-invests-in-renewable-energy/">Big
Oil Gives In to Common Sense and Invests in Renewable Energy</a></b><br>
September 14, 2018<br>
The rise of electric vehicles (EVs) over the last few years portends
a steep decline in the demand for hydrocarbons over the next several
years as they become more and more mainstream. As demand for
gasoline drops, so too would oil prices, undercutting Big Oil's
profitability. By diversifying, they hedge against this looming
downturn and open up new revenue streams as their renewable
investments will likely play a part in powering the EV revolution.<br>
Development costs for solar and wind power have dropped dramatically
over in recent years as the technologies have scaled. The costs per
kilowatt-hour for renewables has fallen to significantly below those
of fossil fuels, spurring greater innovations and more market
momentum, which Big Oil would be loath to miss out on – their
investors are used to consistently strong returns.<br>
Finally, investor pressure is finally starting to stick this time.
Back in May, 60 massive institutional investors in command of a
combined $10.4 trillion in assets penned an open letter demanding
the oil and gas companies pick up their slack on supporting climate
protection goals, specifically in compliance with the Paris
Agreement .<br>
These trends are incredibly hard to ignore and oil companies finally
got the message that it's time to move on from fossil fuels, even
it's only baby steps for now.<br>
Greener Pastures<br>
This dramatic change in Big Oil's investment strategy presages an
era of incredible growth in the renewables sector. The last bastion
of climate deniers in industry has cracked and many players are
making an about-face toward a more sustainable future...<font
size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatestate.com/2018/09/14/big-oil-gives-in-to-common-sense-and-invests-in-renewable-energy/">http://climatestate.com/2018/09/14/big-oil-gives-in-to-common-sense-and-invests-in-renewable-energy/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[what to do]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2018/6/14/an-unusual-grant-fuels-a-push-to-start-treating-climate-change-as-a-real-emergency">An
Unusual Grant Fuels a Push to Start Treating Climate Change as a
Real Emergency</a></b><br>
Tate Williams<br>
A major challenge to organizing and advocacy around climate change
is how even to approach a problem so large, complex, and gradually
advancing (although it feels less gradual with every year, to be
honest).<br>
An advocacy group that launched in 2014 has one answer--we respond
like we're at war. <br>
For the Climate Mobilization Project, the climate crisis demands not
incremental changes or gradual reductions in emissions, but an
emergency response led by government that is on the scale of the
response to World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The group
just picked up a grant from the Unitarian Universalist Congregation
of Shelter Rock of $100,000, an amount they say is the "country's
single largest philanthropic investment in emergency climate
action."<br>
This modest grant from a local funder to a little-known climate
outfit is worth a closer look, with an eye to takeaways for other
players in this space. We've been saying for a while now that if
climate change is really the time-urgent, existential threat that so
many, including top funders, say it is, then civil society and
philanthropy needs to start acting on that belief. Nonprofits need
to hit harder and foundations need to give more--a lot more--while
there's still time.<br>
But what would that look like, exactly? <br>
<br>
Related: <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2015/9/25/dear-climate-funders-the-clock-is-ticking-use-your-endowment.html">Dear
Climate Funders: The Clock is Ticking. Use Your Endowments</a></b><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/2/23/if-an-asteroid-were-hurtling-toward-earth-how-would-philanth.html">If
an Asteroid Were Hurtling Toward Earth, How Would Philanthropy
Respond?</a></b><br>
<br>
The Climate Mobilization Project was started by a group of friends
from varying backgrounds--psychology, journalism, neuroscience--and
now boasts an advisory board that includes former executive director
of Greenpeace International, Paul Gilding, and leading climatologist
Michael E. Mann.<br>
The project's director, Margaret Klein Salamon, told Inside
Philanthropy that the grant from UUCSR was the first that it had
ever received. "We have been funded thus far through monthly giving,
major giving, and especially the in-kind donations of volunteers,"
she said. "We have leveraged volunteers, including experts in
policy, climate science and organizing, to a huge degree."<br>
The war-footing for climate change concept is more than just a
rallying cry. It's an operational approach that's gotten increasing
attention in recent years. For example, a 2016 NBER paper by Hugh
Rockoff explored the rapid transformation of the U.S. economy in
World War II to see whether this mobilization model "provides
lessons about how the economy could be transformed to meet
scarcities produced by climate change or other environmental
challenges." Bill McKibben also fleshed out the World War II analog
in a long 2016 article in the New Republic, noting that Pearl Harbor
made "individual Americans willing to do hard things: pay more in
taxes, buy billions upon billions in war bonds, endure the shortages
and disruptions that came when the country's entire economy
converted to wartime production."<br>
<br>
For its part, the Climate Mobilization Project is following a
city-by-city strategy to move the country into emergency mode. It's
campaigning to get governments to declare a climate emergency,
initiate aggressive carbon reduction commitments, and become
advocates for further emergency mobilization. The campaign cites
some political advances, including the Los Angeles City Council
voting to explore what would be the country's first Climate
Emergency Mobilization Department. And just this week, Berkeley,
California, declared a climate emergency.<br>
The people behind it aren't fixed on one particular pathway for
cities to take, but a proposed plan for how the country might
proceed is pretty intense, including a transformation of our food
systems, government rationing, carbon sequestration research,
massive land preservation, and significant reductions in resource
consumption. The group also has a strong environmental justice
framing, calling for an "emergency speed transition that not only
seeks to prevent unimaginable suffering from climate and
environmental catastrophe, but reinvents our economy to address the
social inequities on which an extractive economy is based."<br>
<br>
That's likely a big part of what connected with the Unitarian
Universalist Congregation of Shelter Rock. UUCSR is a prominent
congregation based in New York with a long record of social justice
work and philanthropy. In addition to its Veatch grantmaking
program, a Congregational Large Grants Program gives amounts of
$100,000 to grantees voted on by the congregation. A climate change
grant is a unique choice for the program, although past giving is
wide-ranging, from prison reform to disaster relief. <br>
The compelling thing about the Climate Mobilization Project is that,
while arguably unrealistic in its goals--since there's no political
consensus on this issue, as Rockoff's paper notes--it is unflinching
in its diagnosis of the level of response that climate change
warrants. Much of its goal is to build a movement around how we
should collectively think about climate change--mainly that the
status quo of the approach to date is unacceptable. And from the
standpoint of a funder like UUCSR, it's a status quo that's
certainly unjust.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2018/6/14/an-unusual-grant-fuels-a-push-to-start-treating-climate-change-as-a-real-emergency">https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2018/6/14/an-unusual-grant-fuels-a-push-to-start-treating-climate-change-as-a-real-emergency</a></font><br>
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<br>
[final word on TV hurricane coverage (how fake news can break like
the wind)]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFh-X1bv4P0">Weather channel
drama</a><br>
Stephen Stoddard - Published on Sep 14, 2018<br>
Reporter can barely stand,. Two Bros in shorts walk by without
issue.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFh-X1bv4P0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFh-X1bv4P0</a><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/15/us/with-white-house-approval-epa-pollution-report-omits-global-warming-section.html">This
Day in Climate History - September 15, 2002</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
September 15, 2002: The New York Times reports:<br>
<blockquote>"For the first time in six years, the annual federal
report on air pollution trends has no section on global warming,
though President Bush has said that slowing the growth of
emissions linked to warming is a priority for his administration.<br>
<br>
"The decision to delete the chapter on climate change was made by
top officials at the Environmental Protection Agency with White
House approval, White House officials said."<br>
</blockquote>
<a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/15/us/with-white-house-approval-epa-pollution-report-omits-global-warming-section.html"
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