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<font size="+1"><i>September 26, 2018</i></font><br>
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[Bloomberg does some fearless publishing]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-26/new-climate-debate-how-to-adapt-to-the-end-of-the-world">New
Climate Debate: How to Adapt to the End of the World </a></b><br>
Researchers are thinking about social collapse and how to prepare
for it. <br>
By Christopher Flavelle - Sept 26, 2018<br>
- - - -<br>
It might be tempting to dismiss Bendell and Gosling as outliers. But
they're not alone in writing about the possibility of massive
political and social shocks from climate change and the need to
start preparing for those shocks. Since posting his paper, Bendell
says he's been contacted by more academics investigating the same
questions. A LinkedIn group titled "Deep Adaptation" includes
professors, government scientists, and investors.<br>
<br>
William Clark, a Harvard professor and former MacArthur Fellow who
edited the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper, is
among those who worry about what might come next. "We are right on
the bloody edge," he says.<br>
<br>
Clark argues that in addition to quickly and dramatically cutting
emissions, society should pursue a new scale of adaptation work.
Rather than simply asking people to water their lawns less often,
for example, governments need to consider large-scale, decades-long
infrastructure projects, such as transporting water to increasingly
arid regions and moving cities away from the ocean.<br>
<br>
"This is not your grandfather's adaptation," he says...<br>
<font size="-1">more at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-26/new-climate-debate-how-to-adapt-to-the-end-of-the-world">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-26/new-climate-debate-how-to-adapt-to-the-end-of-the-world</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Oil announces an aspiration]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-25/big-oil-warns-of-backlash-as-it-makes-vow-on-climate-change">Big
Oil Warns of Backlash as It Makes Vow on Climate Change</a></b><br>
By Alex Nussbaum<br>
September 25, 2018,<br>
The world's biggest oil and gas companies made an unprecedented vow
to cut their contributions to global warming, even as they warned of
a potential backlash from pushing change too quickly.<br>
A collection of 13 energy luminaries, including the heads of BP Plc
and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, gathered in New York Monday to
acknowledge the need to reduce the planet's reliance on fossil
fuels. But they said a long road lies ahead that's filled with
political and technological challenges, and insisted petroleum will
remain a key source of fuel for a growing population.<br>
- - - -<br>
The companies present on Monday announced a collective pledge to cut
the rate of heat-trapping methane pollution from their operations by
one-fifth by 2025, a move that would reduce overall emissions by
350,000 tons per year, according to a statement. The 13 businesses
have also created a $1.3 billion investment fund to seed startups
that are aiming to cut emissions from vehicles, oil wells, concrete
production and other top sources of greenhouse gases...<br>
-- - - -<br>
Still, some climate activists remain skeptical of the OGCI. The
initiative has very little to do with addressing climate change and
everything with oil and gas companies trying to delay their
"inevitable" demise, Patrick McCully, climate and energy program
director at the Rainforest Action Network in San Francisco, said in
an email.<br>
"The math is clear," he said. To avoid "catastrophic climate change
we need to stop expanding fossil fuel use and start the managed
decline of the sector."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-25/big-oil-warns-of-backlash-as-it-makes-vow-on-climate-change">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-25/big-oil-warns-of-backlash-as-it-makes-vow-on-climate-change</a></font><br>
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<b><br>
[Opinion]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-25/how-we-re-making-climate-change-even-more-expensive">Fear
Climate Change -- and Our Response to It</a><br>
Global warming will be expensive, and humanity's irrational
reaction may make it even more so.<br>
</b>By Tyler Cowen<br>
September 25, 2018, 4:30 AM PDT<br>
The potential costs of climate change, already the subject of heated
debate, may actually be understated. It's not just the potential
disruptions to weather systems, agriculture and coastal cities; it's
that we may respond to those problems in stupid and destructive
ways. As the philosopher and cartoon character Pogo said: "We have
met the enemy and he is us."<br>
<br>
Consider how poorly we have responded to many non-climate-related
problems. In the case of Brexit, for example, the Leave movement was
arguably responding to some real problems. The European Union
bureaucracy is too stringent, and perhaps the U.K. did not have an
ideal arrangement with immigration. But Brexit is careening toward
disaster, with no good plan on tap, the two major parties in
splinters, the British pound declining, the Irish "Good Friday"
agreement at risk, and the U.K. seriously talking about food
stockpiles and other emergency measures.<br>
<br>
It would have been better if the British had responded to their
country's problems in a less extreme way, or simply learned to live
with the problems they had. Instead, they voted for a rash and
poorly thought-out remedy.<br>
<br>
Similarly, you might think that supporters of President Donald Trump
have legitimate concerns about illegal immigration and U.S.
unwillingness to stand up to China. Still, that did not require a
presidential "remedy" that has brought chaos and corruption to the
White House and U.S. foreign policy alike.<br>
<br>
In short, the world increasingly appears to be reaching for extreme
and imprudent remedies to admittedly complex problems. These
overreactions do not seem to be mere accidents, but arise from some
pretty fundamental features of polarized politics — namely, that
discourse has become less rational and technocratic.<br>
<br>
When it comes to climate change, all this plays out in interesting
ways. In the U.S., imagine that many Florida residents have to leave
their residences permanently, due to fiercer storms or rising sea
level. The rational approach might involve well-functioning
insurance markets, some public-sector transfers and compensation,
and better infrastructure planning. The idea would be to limit the
number of such moves or at least to lower their cost. That could
prove very costly but essentially manageable.<br>
<br>
But that is probably not what we will get. Instead, the debate may
well radicalize Florida politics, which has consequences for
national politics as Florida is a swing state. On the federal level,
an infrastructure bill would invariably direct too much money to
wasteful new projects in less populated states. Everywhere, the
harsh, non-sympathetic tone of the debate will further corrode
American politics.<br>
<br>
Looking outside of the U.S.: Imagine that climate change forced or
induced the migration of many people from Bangladesh. An ideal
international reaction would involve foreign aid plus the
cooperative parceling out of refugees to different countries. Circa
2018, following the crises in Syria and Libya, does anyone really
expect such a rational outcome? A more likely, though admittedly
speculative scenario, is clashes on the border with India, the
further radicalization of Indian politics ("build a wall"), refugee
camps full of hundreds of thousands of people, and more extremist
terrorism in Bangladesh.<br>
I am struck by the costs of climate change suggested in the UN's
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, hardly a source of
denialism. Its cost estimate — "1 to 5% of GDP for 4C of warming" —
is relatively reassuring. After all, global GDP is right now growing
at more than 4 percent a year. If climate change cost "only" 4
percent of GDP on a one-time basis, then the world economy could
make up those costs with less than a year's worth of economic
growth. In essence, the world economy would arrive at a given level
of wealth about a year later than otherwise would have been the
case. That sounds expensive but not tragic.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, that is not the right way to conceptualize the
problem. Think of the 4 percent hit to GDP, if indeed that is the
right number, as a highly unevenly distributed opening shot. That's
round one, and from that point on we are going to react with our
human foibles and emotions, and with our highly imperfect and
sometimes corrupt political institutions. (Libertarians, who are
typically most skeptical of political solutions, should be the most
worried.)<br>
Considering how the Syrian crisis has fragmented the EU as well as
internal German politics, is it so crazy to think that climate
change might erode international cooperation all the more? The true
potential costs of climate change are just beginning to come into
view.<b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-25/how-we-re-making-climate-change-even-more-expensive">https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-25/how-we-re-making-climate-change-even-more-expensive</a></font><br>
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</b><br>
[fighting with 1's and 0's]<br>
<b><a href="https://insights.sustainability.google/">Google's New
Tool to Fight Climate Change</a><br>
</b>The company will begin estimating local carbon pollution from
cities around the world.<br>
ROBINSON MEYER<br>
In the next decade or so, more than 6,000 cities, states, and
provinces around the world will try to do something that has eluded
humanity for 25 years: reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases,
which warm the atmosphere and cause climate change.<br>
- - - -<br>
"The first step toward taking climate action is creating an
emissions inventory," says Saleem Van Groenou, a program manager at
Google Earth. "Understanding your current situation at the city
scale, and understanding what you can do to it—that's an information
problem, and that's a good place for Google to sit."<br>
So far, the company has only released estimates for five cities,
including Pittsburgh, Buenos Aires, and Mountain View, California.
It plans to expand the program gradually to cover municipalities
worldwide, but has declined to provide more specific plans. "What we
envision is an open search bar for users to search for their own
city in the future," Van Groenou told me.<br>
<br>
As part of this initiative, Google says it will also release its
proprietary estimates of a city's annual driving, biking, and
transit ridership, generated from information collected by its
popular mapping apps, Google Maps and Waze. The company has never
released this kind of aggregate transportation data to the public
before, and it says it may share even more specific types of data
with individual local governments.<br>
<br>
"This information has historically been really hard to get a hold
of," Van Groenou said. "But this is precise data, like looking at
the 'red-yellow-green' traffic in Google Maps and aggregating it up
for an entire year."<br>
Google has framed the new project, called the Environmental Insights
Explorer, as a way for leaders to focus and improve local climate
programs.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insights.sustainability.google/">https://insights.sustainability.google/</a></font><br>
- - - - <br>
[Beta version]<br>
<b><a href="https://insights.sustainability.google/">Environmental
Insights Explorer</a></b><br>
The explorer remains a better tool for getting a glancing sense of a
city's carbon emissions than it is for making meticulous policy.
Right now, it can only estimate carbon emissions from electricity
and from transportation--two important sources of pollution, but not
the only ones. Heavy industry and agriculture, for instance,
generate roughly a third of U.S. emissions. Google is also hampered
by the age and quality of some data: To estimate how much carbon is
emitted to power a given city, it must use a six-year-old data set
from the EPA.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insights.sustainability.google/">https://insights.sustainability.google/</a></font><br>
- - -- <br>
[released report]<br>
<b><a
href="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-sustainability.appspot.com/pdf/Google_2018-Environmental-Report.pdf">Google
Environmental Report 2018</a><br>
</b>"Our commitment to a zero-carbon future drives us to build
sustainability<br>
into everything we do, and we'll continue using our technology for
good<br>
in order to help people around the world make smarter use of the
earth's<br>
resources and drive positive environmental impact.<b>"<br>
</b><font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-sustainability.appspot.com/pdf/Google_2018-Environmental-Report.pdf">https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-sustainability.appspot.com/pdf/Google_2018-Environmental-Report.pdf</a></font><b><br>
<br>
</b><br>
<b>[How we get data from oceans]<br>
<b><a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23092018/antarctica-warming-southern-ocean-human-greenhouse-gas-ozone-ice-loss-study">What's
Causing Antarctica's Ocean to Heat Up? New Study Points to 2
Human Sources</a></b><br>
</b>With help from floating data-collectors, a new study reveals the
impact greenhouse gas emissions and ozone depletion are having on
the Southern Ocean.<br>
Sabrina Shankman<br>
BY SABRINA SHANKMAN<br>
The Southern Ocean around Antarctica is warming at an alarming
rate—twice that of the rest of the world's oceans. Now, researchers
have developed more powerful evidence pointing to the human causes.<br>
Though warming had been observed in the past, there was little
historical data to allow scientists to pinpoint the causes with much
certainty.<br>
In a new study, researchers used climate models, the past
observations that did exist and data flowing in from new ocean-going
sensors to show how greenhouse gas emissions and the depletion of
ozone in the atmosphere have led to both a warming of the Southern
Ocean and an increase in its freshwater content. The findings also
rule out natural variability as a major source of those changes.<br>
"The observed warming is due to human influence," said oceanographer
Neil Swart, a research scientist with Environment and Climate Change
Canada who led the study, published Monday in the journal Nature
Geoscience. "That may have been suspected or proposed before, but
this is the evidence that really proves it."<br>
Ocean-Going Floats and Climate Models<br>
The Southern Ocean is notoriously inhospitable, clogged with ice and
home to rough seas and weather. As a result, there weren't many
measurements in the past.<br>
In 2004, a partnership of 30 countries across the world launched the
Argo program to improve what's known about the world's oceans, and
now there are close to 4,000 programmable floats collecting data in
the oceans worldwide. That is helping improve what's known, but the
lack of complete data going back decades has, in the past, left
researchers wondering if their conclusions were robust...<b><br>
- - - -<br>
</b>
<blockquote>[important, informative video]<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/PzHZdwaBr_Q">Argo float animation</a><br>
argoproject<br>
Published on Aug 20, 2009<br>
Animation of Argo float cycle and Argo project overview<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/PzHZdwaBr_Q">https://youtu.be/PzHZdwaBr_Q</a><br>
</blockquote>
- - - -<br>
"If we wish to avoid the worst consequences--and you can think, this
can have effects on coastal regions, agriculture, island
nations--clearly we need to make efforts to change our behavior
patterns and decarbonize the economy," Wilson said. "This is clearly
what it's pointing towards."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23092018/antarctica-warming-southern-ocean-human-greenhouse-gas-ozone-ice-loss-study">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23092018/antarctica-warming-southern-ocean-human-greenhouse-gas-ozone-ice-loss-study</a></font><b><br>
<br>
</b><br>
[NYC activism]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climateanalytics.org/events/2018/whats-the-hurry-bending-the-carbon-emissions-curve/">Climate
Analytics is hosting two Climate Week NYC events this Wednesday
26 September. Both events will be webcast live.</a><br>
</b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climateanalytics.org/events/2018/whats-the-hurry-bending-the-carbon-emissions-curve/">26/09/2018
What's the hurry - bending the carbon emissions curve</a><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climateanalytics.org/events/2018/whats-the-hurry-bending-the-carbon-emissions-curve/"><br>
</a>Event 1 (morning) <br>
Cool tips for a liveable planet - the whys and hows of 1.5C<br>
26 September 2018 <br>
9:30am Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue<br>
Watch the webcast:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/28zg6PxXyFY">https://youtu.be/28zg6PxXyFY</a><br>
Speakers:<br>
- renowned climate scientist Dr Michael Oppenheimer (Princeton
University): the significance of the upcoming IPCC special report
on 1.5C<br>
- IPCC AR6 lead author Dr Tabea Lissner (Climate Analytics) will
share the key latest 1.5C science on climate impacts and extremes<br>
- Dr Bill Hare (CEO, Climate Analytics) will discuss the feasibility
of limiting warming to 1.5C and the new generation of scenarios and
pathways<br>
- - - - <br>
Followed by Panel Discussion<br>
how business and investors are leveraging new opportunities to
support the transformation.<br>
Panelists:<br>
-Helen Mountford (WRI), the New Climate Economy Report 2018,
representatives from the renewables sector, Justine Bell-Leigh,
Climate Bonds Initiative We Mean Business.<br>
- Moderation by Richard Black (director of Energy & Climate
Intelligence Unit, UK, and former BBC Environment Correspondent)<br>
Full programme Event 2 (afternoon)<br>
What's the hurry - bending the carbon emissions curve<br>
1:30pm - 4pm, Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue<br>
Watch the webcast<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/QTOr8LS_idE">https://youtu.be/QTOr8LS_idE</a><br>
<blockquote> Speakers: Climate Action Tracker organisations: <br>
Bill Hare (Climate Analytics) <br>
Niklas Höhne (NewClimate)<br>
Others TBC<br>
</blockquote>
Highlights<br>
- overview of state of play global climate action, based on
assessment by the Climate Action Tracker<br>
- a more detailed look at what some of the big emitters - US, EU,
China, India - are doing, with a discussion about the effect of the
Trump administration's policies will have on US emissions and what
recent developments, like the EU-China agreement means for global
leadership on climate<br>
- how the unprecedented development in renewables can act as a
springboard for more ambitious climate pledges by 2020<br>
- panel discussion about the political processes that must line up
to result in more climate action by 2020, with views from the
presidencies of the UNFCCC climate summit - Fiji COP23 and Poland
COP24, updates about the Global Climate Action Summit, and what the
UN Secretary General plans for the 2019 summit.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateanalytics.org/events/2018/whats-the-hurry-bending-the-carbon-emissions-curve/">https://climateanalytics.org/events/2018/whats-the-hurry-bending-the-carbon-emissions-curve/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Pledge, find candidates, get active, Vote ]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.voteclimate.net/">Our
Nation. Our Climate. Vote Climate 2018.</a></b><br>
"I pledge to #VoteClimate for a 100 percent clean energy future."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.voteclimate.net/pledge">https://www.voteclimate.net/pledge</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.voteclimate.net/">https://www.voteclimate.net/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Satellite monitoring - methane, for instance]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/cams/methane-forecasts?facets=undefined&time=2018092300,3,2018092303&projection=classical_global&layer_name=composition_ch4_totalcolumn">Total
column of methane [ ppbv ] (provided by CAMS, the Copernicus
Atmosphere Monitoring Service)</a></b><br>
CAMS is one of six services that form Copernicus, the European
Union's Earth observation programme which looks at our planet and
its environment for the ultimate benefit of all European citizens.
Copernicus offers information services based on satellite Earth
observation, in situ (non-satellite) data and modelling.<br>
<font size="-1"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/cams/methane-forecasts?facets=undefined&time=2018092300,3,2018092303&projection=classical_global&layer_name=composition_ch4_totalcolumn">https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/cams/methane-forecasts?facets=undefined&time=2018092300,3,2018092303&projection=classical_global&layer_name=composition_ch4_totalcolumn</a></font><br>
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More at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/81905/flying-through-formaldehyde">https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/81905/flying-through-formaldehyde</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Time magazine opinion]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://time.com/5403478/climate-change/">Governments Are
Failing Their Citizens on Climate Change. Here's How They Can
Fix It</a></b><br>
- - - -<br>
First: "Do no harm." After decades of distorting the market with
subsidies for carbon-emitting industries, it's time we end that
practice. Energy, environment and finance policies should no longer
include subsidies for fossil fuels.<br>
There are low-hanging fruits. G7 countries continue to give $100
billion in subsidies to the production, and use, of fossil fuels,
and globally, a similar amount is spent on forest-destroying
agricultural expansion. Dropping those subsidies and investments
would make a big difference: In all, 13% of global carbon-dioxide
emissions are linked to the use of subsidized fossil fuels for
consumption, and forests are a primary source to offset carbon
emissions.<br>
<br>
Second, introduce carbon-pricing mechanisms. I know firsthand it is
difficult, but possible. We did it in Norway with the first ever CO2
tax in 1992. Almost 40 countries followed the example set by Norway
and other Scandinavian countries in recent years, including the 27
of the European Union, Canada and Mexico, each of which set up their
own carbon "cap-and-trade" mechanisms. And while others, like the
U.S., are falling behind, in 2017, China launched the world's
largest such program.<br>
<br>
Finally, make emitters pay for the true social cost of carbon. After
the financial crisis, European emission allowances dropped to less
than 5 euros per ton, rendering them all but useless. But after a
reform last year, the tide turned, and they now trade at 18 euros
($21) -- an all-time high...<br>
- - - -<br>
We cannot force those that stay behind to join us. But after the
last few years of climate fire and fury, we know there is a high
price to pay for non-action. With the sprint, we want to provide a
viable option to those who want to make a change, and give hope to
those that can't.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://time.com/5403478/climate-change/">http://time.com/5403478/climate-change/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Opinion]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/5-ways-for-your-stock-market-investments-to-profit-from-climate-change-2018-09-24">Opinion:
5 ways for your stock-market investments to profit from climate
change</a></b><br>
... it's worth examining discussing the broader trend of extreme
weather brought on by climate change and considering which stocks
and investment themes are best positioned to profit from this...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/5-ways-for-your-stock-market-investments-to-profit-from-climate-change-2018-09-24">https://www.marketwatch.com/story/5-ways-for-your-stock-market-investments-to-profit-from-climate-change-2018-09-24</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[vegetation in Antarctica]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://phys.org/news/2018-09-evidence-climate-impacts-east-antarctic.html">Study
finds first evidence of climate change impacts on East Antarctic
vegetation</a></b><br>
September 24, 2018 by Ben Long, University of Wollongong<br>
- - - - -<br>
The broader message from the study, Professor Robinson said, is that
nowhere on Earth is spared the consequences of climate change.<br>
"We think of Antarctica as a pristine wilderness but climate change
and ozone depletion have a huge impact there. What we do in the rest
of the globe affects the plants and animals in Antarctica," she
said.<br>
<br>
At the same time, what happens in Antarctica affects the rest of the
globe; as the westerlies that circulate Antarctica move poleward,
they are changing weather patterns across the Southern Hemisphere.<br>
<br>
"Another message from this is that we don't necessarily anticipate
the consequences of what we do. We knew ozone depletion would
increase UV radiation, but it was decades before we knew it affected
the climate," Professor Robinson said.<br>
<br>
"Those shifting winds are affecting southern Africa and South
America and Australia because they are pulling all the weather bands
to the south. Some areas are getting wetter, and big areas that were
wetter have got much drier. It's affecting how trees grow in New
Zealand. It's affecting the southern tip of Chile where trees are
growing less well, forests are contracting and there's less water
for hydroelectric power plants."...<br>
<font size="-1">Read more at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2018-09-evidence-climate-impacts-east-antarctic.html#jCp">https://phys.org/news/2018-09-evidence-climate-impacts-east-antarctic.html#jCp</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Time to get real]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.citymetric.com/horizons/climate-change-means-we-need-talk-about-moving-populations-inland-4216">Climate
change means we need to talk about moving populations inland</a></b><br>
By Luciana Esteves<br>
- - - - -<br>
But open and inclusive debate about the need for relocation and the
consequences and benefits of it can change people's perceptions. The
"Nimby" (not in my backyard) attitude is strong in coastal
communities, but can subside after personal experiences of severe
flooding or erosion. The environment around us is changing and we
cannot continue living the way we did in the past.<br>
<br>
Prevention is always less costly and more effective than
remediation, particularly when involving people's safety. The
earlier we accept the need to change, the less damaged is the legacy
we will leave to the next generations...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.citymetric.com/horizons/climate-change-means-we-need-talk-about-moving-populations-inland-4216">https://www.citymetric.com/horizons/climate-change-means-we-need-talk-about-moving-populations-inland-4216</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[No one should be surprised]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/09/welund-private-intelligence-oil-gas/">The
Private Intelligence Firm Keeping Tabs on Environmentalists</a></b><br>
When big oil companies want to monitor activists, they turn to
Welund.<br>
ADAM FEDERMAN - SEPTEMBER 14, 2018 <br>
- - - -<br>
For its part, Welund may disagree with the heavy-handed methods
employed against the Dakota Access protesters, but it still holds a
rather ominous view of environmental activism. "It's threatening
your operations, it's threatening your finances, it's threatening
your reputation, and it's threatening your viability," Moran said in
Houston<br>
<br>
The Houston conference was mostly celebratory, with discussions of
greatly expanding oil production and pipeline capacity. There were
presentations refuting the science of global warming and information
sessions with representatives of the US Environmental Protection
Agency and Bureau of Land Management. David Blackmon, editor of
Shale Magazine, gave a talk titled, "The Trump-Driven Sea Change in
Federal Energy Policy." Chris Wallace of Fox News delivered the
keynote address.<br>
<br>
But, when Moran took the stage, the tone was decidedly darker.
Showing the audience an image of a masked tree-sitter protesting a
pipeline project, he warned them about the financial impact of
activism. "If you're not aware of this, if you're not aware of how
effective they can be…if you're not ahead of the game," he said,
"this can be your fate."<br>
<font size="-1">This article was reported in partnership with The
Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, with support from the
H.D. Lloyd Fund for Investigative Journalism.</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/09/welund-private-intelligence-oil-gas/">https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/09/welund-private-intelligence-oil-gas/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[climate empathy - classic essay]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-09-21/psychologists-explain-our-climate-change-anxiety/">Psychologists
Explain our Climate Change Anxiety</a></b><br>
By Kyla Mandel<br>
September 21, 2018<br>
- - - - -<br>
For individuals who are immediately suffering the consequences of
climate change - catastrophic storms, drought, heat - there is an
additional set of emotions and stressors at play.<br>
<br>
Fear is the root emotion of anxiety, said Van Susteren, and from
there it is expressed and dealt with in different ways, from
ignoring the issue or taking a defeatist attitude, to substance
abuse or suicide. (A recent study found that suicide rates are
likely to increase with every degree Celsius in temperature rise.)<br>
<br>
"You can be so fearful that you become catatonic, absolutely
paralyzed," she said. "You can be so fearful that all you have to do
is smell a little bit of smoke or hear a siren and you are
immediately brought back to what is now a post-traumatic stress
state."<br>
<br>
A survey released in April, for instance, revealed unprecedented
levels of psychological distress among Hurricane Harvey victims.
Serious psychological distress was found in 18 percent of the
survey's respondents. People described trouble sleeping, losing
weight, having difficulty thinking, and increased illness. To help,
Harvey survivors launched a Facebook group for those struggling with
anxiety, pain, or anger with a focus on "sharing solutions, talking
through problems, sharing experiences."<br>
<br>
Heat too can make people more irritable, which in turn can make
people more aggressive - either towards themselves or others.
Pollution can harm our health and exacerbate psychiatric symptoms of
anxiety, bipolar disease, obsessive compulsive disorders, said Van
Susteren. "I've said this before - not everything that counts can be
counted." In other words, these secondary factors that intensify
mental health issues are hard to quantify - but it doesn't mean they
aren't happening and in some way connected to climate change.<br>
<br>
A farmer who feels stressed to the point of suicide because they
can't make enough money due to crop failures might not blame climate
change. Likewise, an individual who feels hopeless after losing
their home, or even family members, due to a hurricane probably has
more immediate and urgent concerns.<br>
<br>
But we know climate change is making individual events more severe
and destructive, making more people vulnerable to the impacts.
Understanding these connections and how best to address them should
be at the forefront of policy and response efforts experts say.<br>
<br>
Several news reports, for instance, detail the prolonged toll
Hurricane Maria has taken on Puerto Ricans. Individuals who already
suffered depression are more vulnerable and many suspect suicide
rates may have increased in response to the storm's impact. As a CNN
headline starkly put it, this is the "Maria Generation" where "young
people are dying and suffering on an island with a highly uncertain
future."<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, response efforts are lagging behind. Not much is set
up at the moment to help those who are bearing the brunt of climate
change deal with the long-term mental health impacts. "It's
something that the mental health professionals, the associations,
psychiatrists, and social workers, really, really need to start
talking about," said Van Susteren.<br>
<br>
Understanding climate anxiety, and how to incorporate psychology
into our plans for tackling climate change is growing, but only
slowly. A significant barrier, however, is inherent in the problem -
we won't, or don't know how to, talk about it.<br>
<br>
"There's an enormous opportunity for mental health professionals to
get into this and to help people begin to process what they're
experiencing," echoed Van Susteren. "And especially to start working
on what we can start doing to build emotional resilience, because
you cannot have a healthy society that is scared."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-09-21/psychologists-explain-our-climate-change-anxiety/">https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-09-21/psychologists-explain-our-climate-change-anxiety/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[OK CBS, that's one. We're keeping score]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/09/25/with-exceptions-media-still-not-connecting-dots-on-storms-climate/">With
Exceptions – Media Still Not Connecting Dots on Storms, Climate</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/VC1MJmc-4Dw">https://youtu.be/VC1MJmc-4Dw</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/09/25/with-exceptions-media-still-not-connecting-dots-on-storms-climate/">https://climatecrocks.com/2018/09/25/with-exceptions-media-still-not-connecting-dots-on-storms-climate/</a></font><br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-0925-carbon-fuels-20150925-story.html"><br>
</a><font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-0925-carbon-fuels-20150925-story.html">This
Day in Climate History - September 26, 2015</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
September 26, 2015:<br>
The Los Angeles Times reports:<br>
<blockquote>"California air quality officials on Friday approved
updates to a key climate change rule that will force reductions in
carbon pollution from gasoline and diesel fuel over the next five
years.<br>
"The vote Friday by the Air Resources Board to readopt its
low-carbon fuel standard will require California to achieve at
least a 10% cut in the carbon intensity of transportation fuels by
2020.<br>
"The move is one indication of how California officials will use
existing regulations, rather than new laws, to continue their
climate change efforts after Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic
lawmakers were forced this month to drop legislative proposals to
cut petroleum use and reduce greenhouse gas emissions."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-0925-carbon-fuels-20150925-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-0925-carbon-fuels-20150925-story.html</a><br>
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