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<font size="+1"><i>October 18, 2018</i></font><br>
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[Associated Press]<br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://apnews.com/9ddb3deeec9a49d6a1349b78f1ca0f03">Tornadoes
are spinning up farther east in US, study finds</a></b><br>
By SETH BORENSTEIN -- October 17, 2018<br>
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Over the past few decades tornadoes have been
shifting -- decreasing in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas but spinning up
more in states along the Mississippi River and farther east, a new
study shows. Scientists aren't quite certain why.<br>
<br>
Tornado activity is increasing most in Mississippi, Arkansas,
Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois,
Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa and parts of Ohio and Michigan, according
to a study in Wednesday's journal Climate and Atmospheric Science.
There has been a slight decrease in the Great Plains, with the
biggest drop in central and eastern Texas. Even with the decline,
Texas still gets the most tornadoes of any state.<br>
The shift could be deadly because the area with increasing tornado
activity is bigger and home to more people, said study lead author
Victor Gensini, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Northern
Illinois University. Also more people live in vulnerable mobile
homes and tornadoes are more likely to happen at night in those
places, he said...<br>
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The study looked at changes since 1979. Everywhere east of the
Mississippi, except the west coast of Florida, is seeing some
increase in tornado activity. The biggest increase occurred in
states bordering the Mississippi River...<br>
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[unstable ice]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/QubYjSTMGs0">The
Unexpected Threat To Greenland's Melting Glaciers (HBO)</a><br>
VICE News<br>
Published on Oct 15, 2018<br>
GREENLAND — This summer, a chunk of ice the size of lower Manhattan
broke off of a glacier in Eastern Greenland. It contained 10 billion
tons of ice, making the video of the event an insanely shareable
capsule of climate change dread. But for NASA scientists, the
spectacle created by these massive calving events is really just the
final step in a far more worrisome -- and less visible -- process.<br>
<br>
That's because glacial melt isn't just the result of our planet's
warming air. The biggest threat to these glaciers' continued
existence resides deep below the water's surface.<br>
<br>
Unlike most other bodies of water, the ocean surrounding Greenland
gets warmer with increasing depth. That's because warm, salty
currents from the Atlantic are heavier than fresh glacial water, so
those currents end up on the bottom. And that's what's got
scientists' attention: our oceans absorb the heat trapped by
greenhouse gases, so they're getting warmer, and as they do,
Greenland's biggest, deepest glaciers are interacting with them --
and melting at increasing speeds.<br>
<br>
To understand this better, NASA has been sending planes and boats to
Greenland in an effort to map the ocean floor. What they're seeing
isn't good.<br>
<br>
"We'll have to revise our sea level projections upward, and that's
scary," said NASA climate scientist Josh Willis, who cautioned that
they're still in the early days of the ocean mapping mission, dubbed
"Oceans Melting Greenland" -- or "OMG". "If we're reshaping the
coastline in a radical way, you know do you want to take out a
30-year mortgage on a house that might be flooded in 30 years? And
so it's real and it's time to start dealing with it."<br>
<br>
VICE News Tonight traveled to Greenland to visit Eric Rignot, a NASA
researcher who sails the iceberg-infested waters in the hopes of
figuring out how fast Greenland's glaciers are melting -- and how
much trouble we're really in.<br>
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href="https://youtu.be/QubYjSTMGs0">https://youtu.be/QubYjSTMGs0</a></font><br>
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<br>
[travel greeting from a cryologist in Denmark]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGxdko5JN7w">Jason Box on
Climate and Jet Stream - October 2018</a></b><br>
greenmanbucket<br>
Published on Oct 17, 2018<br>
Unseasonable warmth in Northern Europe is a continuation of a
persistent jet stream pattern that was responsible for Europe's very
warm summer, and Greenland's coldest summer in decades.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGxdko5JN7w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGxdko5JN7w</a></font><br>
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<br>
[overlooked in the news]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/bill-gates-world-bank-launch-climate-change-adaptation-fund/">Bill
Gates launches effort to help the world adapt to climate change</a></b><br>
Many people are already facing the impacts of a changing climate and
need help adjusting now, world leaders assert.<br>
BY LAURA PARKER - OCTOBER 16, 2018<br>
"We are at a moment of high risk and great promise," Gates said in a
statement. "We need policies to help vulnerable populations adapt
and we need to ensure that governments...are… supporting innovation
and helping deliver those breakthroughs to…places that need them the
most."<br>
<b>The commission will spend a year sorting out the best adaptation
approaches and present a plan to the 2019 United Nations climate
summit.</b><br>
<blockquote>video: Bill and Melinda talk about it <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/culture-exploration/180718-gates-foundation-goalkeepers-report-culture-vin">http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/culture-exploration/180718-gates-foundation-goalkeepers-report-culture-vin</a><br>
</blockquote>
But <a
href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/about/people/k/kristalina-georgieva">World
Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva</a>... said that's not the case.
"For quite a while there has been that sense that if we adapt, that
means we are accepting defeat against climate change," she said at
the briefing. "It is not defeat, it is reality."<br>
Even if efforts to reduce carbon emissions succeed and the goal of
keeping global temperature rise below two degrees Celsius is
achieved, changes already locked into planetary systems carry
significant consequences that argue for the need for adaptation,
Georgieva said. She added the world is capable of doing both tasks
at the same time, like "walking and breathing."<br>
<br>
"We are the last generation that can change the course of climate
change, that can mitigate climate change effectively and the first
generation that has to live with the consequences," she said. "It
has to be mitigate and adapt at the same time."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/bill-gates-world-bank-launch-climate-change-adaptation-fund/">https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/bill-gates-world-bank-launch-climate-change-adaptation-fund/</a></font><br>
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[Musical parody video, with a message: vote!]<br>
<b><a href="https://youtu.be/g7wLw3iYQl4">HEY DUDE – Parody of Hey
Jude</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://parodyproject.com/hey-dude-parody-of-hey-jude/?mc_cid=e6f7decac6&mc_eid=b76a4f4ca4">https://parodyproject.com/hey-dude-parody-of-hey-jude/?mc_cid=e6f7decac6&mc_eid=b76a4f4ca4</a>
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<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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<br>
[Year Zero]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OYE8_TsteA">Year Zero:
The Year When Wild Animals Are Gone</a></b><br>
Sustainable Human<br>
Published on Oct 3, 2018<br>
Learn more about you can do to prevent Year Zero: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.preventyearzero.org/">https://www.preventyearzero.org/</a><br>
This video was created by Chris Agnos of Sustainable Human. <br>
<br>
My name is Sailesh Rao and I am one of the original engineers of the
Internet.<br>
<br>
In 2014, researchers at the World Wildlife Fund released a report
saying that between 1970 and 2010, in just 40 years, the population
of wild vertebrates decreased by 52%. Then two years later, they
released a second report saying that between 1970 and 2012, the
population of wild vertebrates decreased by 58%. From these two data
points, you can perform a simple math calculation to tell you that
at the current rate of decline, 100% of wild vertebrates will be
gone by 2026.<br>
<br>
This is year zero. The year when all wild animals are gone.<br>
<br>
It turns out that animal agriculture is not only the number one
source of carbon emissions, it is also the number one source of land
use on the planet. All over the world, humans are destroying
original forests to make room for grazing animals or to grow crops
for feeding animals.<br>
<br>
And then humans are using sophisticated geo-locating technology to
locate the last remaining schools of fish<br>
<br>
And finally we are pouring all these toxins into the environment
which kills the insects which kills the birds who eat those insects.
So we are attacking wild animals in the ocean, on land, and in the
air. And this leaves wild animals no room to survive.<br>
<br>
We did some calculations. We took all the land that is currently
being used for animal agriculture and restored the native forests
that were there on that land in 1800, and in turns out not only that
you could sequester more carbon than we have added to the atmosphere
since 1750 but you also restore the natural habitat for wild animals
to live. It's their world, too.<br>
<br>
So this is entirely possible. We can bring back the forests and we
can heal the climate, and in the process ensure that Year Zero never
becomes a reality.<br>
Help us caption & translate this video!<br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OYE8_TsteA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OYE8_TsteA</a></font><br>
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<br>
[NPR 1A audio segment 37:17]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.npr.org/2018/10/16/657907123/why-its-hard-to-change-minds-about-climate-change">Why
It's Hard To Change Minds About Climate Change</a></b><br>
October 16, 2018<br>
But despite overwhelming scientific evidence that climate change
exists, the subject can be tough to discuss. Or even because of that
evidence.<br>
How do we navigate conversations about climate change with those who
don't believe in it?...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.npr.org/2018/10/16/657907123/why-its-hard-to-change-minds-about-climate-change">https://www.npr.org/2018/10/16/657907123/why-its-hard-to-change-minds-about-climate-change</a></font><br>
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<br>
[serious engineering ]<br>
UPCOMING REPORT RELEASE<br>
<b><a href="http://nas-sites.org/dels/studies/cdr/">Negative
Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration: A Research
Agenda</a></b><br>
October 24, 2018, 11:00am EST<br>
Negative emissions technologies (NETs) that aim to remove and
sequester excess carbon from the atmosphere have been identified as
an important part of the portfolio of responses to climate change.
These approaches have been garnering new attention as the
international community has identified lower thresholds for global
temperature increases, which can only be accomplished with net
negative carbon emissions to the atmosphere. This new report aims to
develop a detailed research and development agenda needed to assess
the benefits, risks, and sustainable scale potential for carbon
dioxide removal and sequestration approaches; and increase their
commercial viability.<br>
<br>
Statement of Task<br>
An ad hoc committee will conduct a study to:<br>
<blockquote>1. Identify the most urgent unanswered scientific and
technical questions needed to:<br>
assess the benefits, risks, and sustainable scale potential for
carbon dioxide removal and sequestration approaches in terrestrial
and coastal environments; and<br>
increase the commercial viability of carbon dioxide removal and
sequestration;<br>
2. Define the essential components of a research and development
program and specific tasks required to answer these questions;<br>
3. Estimate the costs and potential impacts of such a research and
development program to the extent possible in the timeframe of the
study.<br>
4. Recommend ways to implement such a research and development
program.<br>
The list of CDR approaches to be examined would include land and
coastal (i.e., tidal wetlands, seagrass meadows, and mangroves)
ecosystems management, accelerated weathering, bioenergy with
capture, direct air capture, geologic sequestration, and other
approaches deemed by the study committee to be of similar
viability in terrestrial and coastal environments.<br>
</blockquote>
NOTE: The statement of task was slightly edited in September 2017 to
clarify that the scope of this study is limited to the assessment of
any viable approach in the terrestrial and coastal environments.<br>
<br>
<b>A public briefing of the report will be held on Wednesday,
October 24, 2018 at 11 am EST.<br>
</b>Please register to attend in person at the National Academy of
Sciences Building in Washington, DC, or to join the webcast.<br>
Please visit the study website - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://nas-sites.org/dels/studies/cdr/">http://nas-sites.org/dels/studies/cdr/</a>
- for more information on this report. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://nas-sites.org/dels/studies/cdr/">http://nas-sites.org/dels/studies/cdr/</a></font><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://vimeo.com/222359789">https://vimeo.com/222359789</a><br>
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<br>
[Deep dive documents]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climateinvestigations.org/covert-attack-john-mccain-climate-change-exxonmobil-koch-brothers/">The
Covert Attack on Sen. McCain's Climate Leadership by ExxonMobil
and the Koch brothers</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateinvestigations.org/covert-attack-john-mccain-climate-change-exxonmobil-koch-brothers/">https://climateinvestigations.org/covert-attack-john-mccain-climate-change-exxonmobil-koch-brothers/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Sarah Silverman video rant]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKzW9Ls3E9Q">Why Aren't
Billionaires Afraid of Climate Change? | I Love You, America on
Hulu</a></b><br>
I Love You, America<br>
Published on Oct 12, 2018<br>
Follow the money on these environmental deregulations. Sarah calls
out the 100 companies who are profiting from them on this week's I
Love You, America.<br>
- - - -<br>
"I Love You, America," a Hulu Original Series.<br>
From inciting treason to telling poop jokes, Sarah Silverman has
created her fair share of online chatter. With "I Love You,
America," she's looking to connect with people who may not agree
with her personal opinions through honesty, humor, genuine interest
in others, and not taking herself too seriously. While it's great to
connect with like-minded people, Silverman feels it's crucial, now
more than ever, to connect with un-like-minded people.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKzW9Ls3E9Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKzW9Ls3E9Q</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?183978-1/bush-administration-policies&start=$%28start%29">This
Day in Climate History - October 18, 2004</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
October 18, 2004: In a speech at Georgetown University, former Vice
President Al Gore discusses the failures of the Bush administration.
Noting Bush's deception on energy and dereliction of duty on climate
change, Gore states:<br>
<blockquote>"[Bush] claimed that gaining dominance of Iraqi oil
fields for American producers was never part of his calculation.
But we now know, from a document uncovered by the New Yorker and
dated just two weeks to the day after Bush's inauguration, that
his National Security Counsel was ordered to 'meld' its review of
'operational policies toward rogue states' with the secretive
Cheney Energy Task Force's 'actions regarding the capture of new
and existing oil and gas fields.'<br>
<br>
"We also know from documents obtained in discovery proceedings
against that Cheney Task Force by the odd combination of Judicial
Watch and the Sierra Club that one of the documents receiving
scrutiny by the task force during the same time period was a
detailed map of Iraq showing none of the cities or places where
people live but showing in great detail the location of every
single oil deposit known to exist in the country, with dotted
lines demarking blocks for promising exploration - a map which, in
the words of a Canadian newspaper, resembled a butcher's drawing
of a steer, with the prime cuts delineated. We know that Cheney
himself, while heading Halliburton, did more business with Iraq
than any other nation, even though it was under U.N. sanctions,
and that Cheney stated in a public speech to the London Petroleum
Institute in 1999 that, over the coming decade, the world will
need 50 million extra barrels of oil per day. 'Where is it going
to come from?' Answering his own question, he said, "The Middle
East, with two thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost is
still where the prize ultimately lies.'<br>
<br>
"In the spring of 2001, when Cheney issued the administration's
national energy plan - the one devised in secret by corporations
and lobbyist that he still refuses to name - it included a
declaration that 'the [Persian] Gulf will be a primary focus of
U.S. international energy policy.'<br>
<br>
Less than two months later, in one of the more bizarre parts of
Bush's policy process, Richard Perle, before he was forced to
resign on conflict of interest charges as chairman of the Defense
Policy Board, invited a presentation to the Board by a RAND
corporation analyst who recommended that the United States
consider militarily seizing Saudi Arabia's oil fields.<br>
<br>
"The cynical belief by some that oil played an outsized role in
Bush's policy toward Iraq was enhanced when it became clear that
the Iraqi oil ministry was the only facility in the country that
was secured by American troops following the invasion. The Iraqi
national museum, with its priceless archeological treasures
depicting the origins of civilization, the electric, water and
sewage facilities so crucial to maintaining an acceptable standard
of living for Iraqi citizens during the American occupation,
schools, hospitals, and ministries of all kinds were left to the
looters...<br>
<br>
"In the case of the global climate crisis, Bush has publicly
demeaned the authors of official reports by scientists in his own
administration that underscore the extreme danger confronting the
United States and the world, and instead prefers a crackpot
analysis financed by the largest oil company on the planet,
ExxonMobil. He even went so far as to censor elements of an EPA
report dealing with global warming and substitute, in the official
government report, language from the crackpot ExxonMobil report.
The consequences of accepting ExxonMobil's advice - to do nothing
to counter global warming - are almost literally unthinkable. Just
in the last few weeks, scientists have reached a new, much
stronger consensus that global warming is increasing the
destructive power of hurricanes by as much as half of one full
category on the one-to-five scale typically used by forecasters.
So that a hurricane hitting Florida in the future that would have
been a category three and a half, will on average become a
category four hurricane. Scientists around the world are also
alarmed by what appears to be an increase in the rate of CO2
buildup in the atmosphere - a development which, if confirmed in
subsequent years, might signal the beginning of an extremely
dangerous runaway greenhouse effect. Yet a third scientific group
has just reported that the melting of ice in Antarctica, where 95
percent of all the earth's ice is located, has dramatically
accelerated. Yet Bush continues to rely, for his scientific advice
about global warming, on the one company that most stands to
benefit by delaying a recognition of reality."<br>
</blockquote>
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