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<font size="+1"><i>October 20, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[looking to the sky]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/19/politicians-say-nothing-but-us-farmers-are-increasingly-terrified-by-it-climate-change">Politicians
say nothing, but US farmers are increasingly terrified by it -
climate change</a></b><br>
Research forecasts Iowa corn yields could drop in half within the
next half-century thanks to extreme weather - yet it's not part of
the political conversation<br>
- - - -<br>
Farmers are taking action on their own, after losing money six
straight years in Iowa and wondering where the corn ethanol bubble
of 2008 went. They are starting to look into cover crops like rye to
protect the soil and hold nutrients in place during these
increasingly harsh flushes. They also can help store moisture by
building soil tilth to ward off dry spells, which could span
decades. "You have flavors of the Dust Bowl," Takle said, sprinkled
by torrents in the future.<br>
<br>
Another soil scientist, Jerry Hatfield of the National Lab for
Agriculture and the Environment in Ames, told my reporter son Tom
that we can make agriculture resilient to a changing climate. But it
will take a transformation in thinking that is not yet reflected in
the political conversation.<br>
<br>
Few politicians in the five states around here are talking about
regulating agriculture in an era of warmer and wetter nights and
long droughts. Yet farmers are paying attention. Hatfield says that
conventional producers in the Raccoon river watershed are starting
to focus on profitability reports from sustainable agriculture
groups like the Practical Farmers of Iowa. They advocate a rotating
crop-livestock land use with more diverse plantings that can restore
soil and make farmers more resilient - and get them off that
expensive chemical jones. Because, the government doesn't appear
equipped to deal with it.<br>
more at - <font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/19/politicians-say-nothing-but-us-farmers-are-increasingly-terrified-by-it-climate-change">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/19/politicians-say-nothing-but-us-farmers-are-increasingly-terrified-by-it-climate-change</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[disease vectors]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/climate/moose-ticks.html">47,000
Ticks on a Moose, and That's Just Average. Blame Climate Change.</a></b><br>
Between 2014 and 2016, Dr. Pekins counted ticks on moose calves at
two locations in New Hampshire and Maine. He wanted to see how the
moose were faring, given that climate change has been delaying
snow's arrival in New England's winters.<br>
The longer-lasting warmth gives the ticks a leg up as they glom onto
the moose, their preferred hosts, in the fall. They then feed
through winter and hop off in the spring to lay eggs.<br>
<font size="-1">more at - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/climate/moose-ticks.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/climate/moose-ticks.html</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[A Climate and Security - a military point-of-view]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2018/10/18/a-security-analysis-of-the-new-ipcc-report-prevent-2c-prepare-for-1-5-and-do-so-responsibly/">A
Security Analysis of the New IPCC Report: Prevent 2C, Prepare
for 1.5, and Do So Responsibly</a></b><br>
Cover Page 1.5 ReportBriefer No. 39: A Security Analysis of the New
IPCC Report: Prevent 2C, Prepare for 1.5, and Do So Responsibly
(PDF)<br>
By Caitlin Werrell, Francesco Femia, Shiloh Fetzek and John Conger<br>
ITopline security takeaways<br>
<blockquote>- -Our 1C world is already facing security challenges
driven by climate change. The 1.5C and 2C<br>
worlds the IPCC envisions will magnify those risks significantly.<br>
- -Unstable regions will face even greater challenges under these
scenarios, and we have already seen<br>
that these local risks have global security implications.<br>
- -Sea level rise will be a major security problem for both
populations and militaries.<br>
- -Arctic melt will create a new and uncertain security
environment, including for great powers.<br>
- -Risks to food, water and health security will likely increase
state fragility and conflict risk in strategically-significant<br>
regions.<br>
- -Keeping the world below 2C may drive the deployment of
"negative emissions technologies" (or<br>
"geoengineering") for which there is currently no international
governance, and could pose security<br>
risks if not adequately managed.<br>
</blockquote>
Topline security recommendation<br>
<blockquote>- -Prevent the difficult-to-manage security future of a
2.0C world and robustly prepare for the likely<br>
unavoidable 1.5C world, doing both in a way that either improves
or does no harm to security<br>
</blockquote>
The report also implies that there is an increasingly narrowing
window of time to reduce the significant risks of a 2C/3.4F
scenario. This is true across a broad range of risks, including to
national, regional and international security. Overall, a
security-focused read of this report suggests that the serious
security risks we face will only become more serious as the global
temperature increases. This informs our top-line recommendation:
prevent a difficult-to-manage security future of a 2.0C/3.4F world
and robustly prepare for the likely unavoidable 1.5C/ 2.7F world,
doing both in a way that either improves or does no harm to
security...<br>
<font size="-1">more at - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2018/10/18/a-security-analysis-of-the-new-ipcc-report-prevent-2c-prepare-for-1-5-and-do-so-responsibly/">https://climateandsecurity.org/2018/10/18/a-security-analysis-of-the-new-ipcc-report-prevent-2c-prepare-for-1-5-and-do-so-responsibly/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Bernie Sanders speaks out]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4KyXQxyd5g">Message from
Bernie: Urgent Warning on Climate Change</a></b><br>
Senator Bernie Sanders<br>
Published on Oct 17, 2018<br>
We have 12 years left to stop the worst consequences of climate
change. This is a crisis that cannot be ignored any longer.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4KyXQxyd5g">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4KyXQxyd5g</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Group Observation]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-bad-news-we-need/">The
Bad News We Need</a></b><br>
The IPCC's scary new report could finally stir us to take action on
climate change<br>
By Alan Townsend, Katharine Hayhoe, Jacquelyn Gill, Marshall
Shepherd, Jonathan Foley, Dawn Wright on October 18, 2018<br>
- - - -<br>
The IPCC's latest report must shake us out of that complacency: in
the time it takes for a child in kindergarten today to graduate high
school, the future will be here. <br>
<br>
And that's why the IPCC's latest news might also be a blessing in
disguise. Perhaps a seemingly insurmountable challenge is exactly
what we need.<br>
<br>
Why? Because we must solve it. We can solve it. And by doing so, we
will heal not only our planet, but ourselves. Much as the basic
facts of science transcend partisan divides, so too can humanity
come together, across political, national and ideological barriers.
We can unify, as we have in crucial moments in the past, to respond
to a crisis that touches us all. We know what must be done. We
merely require the will to act, and the belief that our actions will
matter.<br>
<br>
In this hyper-partisan era, we forget humanity's astonishing
capacity for dramatic and purposeful change. When someone is gravely
ill, families and friends restructure their lives overnight. When a
community is under attack, heroes emerge from every corner, and
nobody cares how they voted in the last election. Every one of us
has a story of how our communities united in a difficult time, and
how leadership, bravery and compassion elevated our lives when
things were at their darkest...<br>
- - - -<br>
We are climate scientists. We study the atmosphere, the ocean, the
biosphere--and what our human actions are doing to them. We look
reality in the face every day and we cannot indulge in utopian
fantasies that everything will be alright or that this will be easy
to fix.<br>
<br>
But we do see tendrils of hope, meaningful change beginning to grow.
Prices for clean energy are dropping - not just in the U.S. but in
many developing nations and emerging economies. In the U.S.,
communities and corporations, universities and seminaries, states
and cities are moving us forward even in the absence of national
leadership. Last month alone, more than 70 major companies signed on
for deep carbon cuts, with independent verification. And California
--the world's fifth largest economy--committed to going carbon free
within a generation. These are actions that can unleash a
transformation at the scales required.<br>
<br>
That transformation will need technical innovations in every area,
from energy to agriculture to infrastructure and more. We will also
need communities of innovators that include marginalized voices, and
to build resiliency for those most vulnerable to the changes that
are coming.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-bad-news-we-need/">https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-bad-news-we-need/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Dept of Idea Promotion - Fossil Fuel Risk Bonds ]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://walker-foundation.org/net/org/project.aspx?projectid=107425">Fossil
Fuel Risk Bonds</a></b><br>
Summary<br>
<blockquote>This Fossil Fuel Risk Bonds project is focused on
tackling the hidden subsidies we all pay in the externalized costs
of fossil fuel extraction, transport, storage and combustion. In
line with the internationally recognized "polluter pays"
principal, our work on fossil fuel risk bonds is an effort to get
these costs borne by the polluter. <br>
In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Public Citizen underscores the
need for mechanisms like fossil fuel risk bonds to internalize the
costs of climate change...<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1">more at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://walker-foundation.org/net/org/project.aspx?projectid=107425">http://walker-foundation.org/net/org/project.aspx?projectid=107425</a></font><br>
- - <br>
Fossil Fuel Risk Bonds<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://sustainable-economy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Fossil-Fuel-Risk-Bonds-May-25.pdf">Safeguarding
public finances from product life cycle risks of oil, gas, and
coal</a></b><br>
John Talberth, Ph.D. and Daphne Wysham<br>
<blockquote>+ Governments at every level face burgeoning economic
and financial risks from fossil fuel<br>
extraction, storage, refining, transport, and combustion -
including risks associated with<br>
climate change.<br>
+ Sources of risk include explosions, spills, abandoned
infrastructure and mines, extractionrelated<br>
earthquakes, toxic contamination, climate-induced natural
disasters, and the costs<br>
of climate adaptation.<br>
+ Insurance markets and existing financial assurance mechanisms,
including "self-bonding,"<br>
are inadequate for protecting public finances from these risks.
Fossil fuel risk bond<br>
programs offer a solution.<br>
+ Fossil fuel risk bond programs are systematic efforts by state
and local governments to<br>
evaluate and respond to the financial risks they face at each
stage of the fossil fuel product<br>
life cycle in their jurisdictions.<br>
+ Fossil fuel risk bond programs embody two major approaches for
internalizing risk. The<br>
first involves expanding the scale and scope of conventional
financial assurance<br>
mechanisms to safeguard public finances against risks associated
with extraction, refining,<br>
storage, and transport.<br>
+ The second approach includes surcharge-based trust funds that
can be tapped to cover<br>
the costs of climate-related disasters, climate adaptation, air
and water pollution,<br>
earthquakes, and other pervasive hazards associated with fossil
fuels.<br>
+ Fossil fuel risk bond programs work in tandem with other
market-based solutions for<br>
internalizing the social costs of carbon. But unlike other
approaches, fossil fuel risk bond<br>
programs are directly targeted at public financial risks.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://sustainable-economy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Fossil-Fuel-Risk-Bonds-May-25.pdf">https://sustainable-economy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Fossil-Fuel-Risk-Bonds-May-25.pdf</a></font><br>
- - - -<br>
[For a copy of <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://sustainable-economy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Fossil-Fuel-Risk-Bonds-May-25.pdf">Fossil
Fuel Risk Bonds: Safeguarding public finance from product life
cycle risks of oil, gas, and coal</a>, click there.]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://sustainable-economy.org/fossil-fuel-risk-bonds-making-polluters-pay-for-the-climate-crisis/">FOSSIL
FUEL RISK BONDS: MAKING POLLUTERS PAY FOR THE CLIMATE CRISIS</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://sustainable-economy.org/fossil-fuel-risk-bonds-making-polluters-pay-for-the-climate-crisis/">https://sustainable-economy.org/fossil-fuel-risk-bonds-making-polluters-pay-for-the-climate-crisis/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[video explanation]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Bz2RDzbgU">IPCC's New
Climate Report: We Could See Irreparable Damage by 2040</a></b><br>
TheRealNews<br>
Published on Oct 8, 2018<br>
The IPCC climate report once said a 3.6 degree F rise from the
pre-industrial era could be disastrous. New research drops that
threshold to 2.7 degrees F and says that the point of no-return
could be as early as 2040<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Bz2RDzbgU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Bz2RDzbgU</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[CBS Sunday Morning gives us video amusement]<br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q-NSGFht9E">The Flat
Earth movement: People who ignore science</a></b><br>
CBS Sunday Morning<br>
Published on Oct 14, 2018<br>
Flat-Earthers will tell you that not only is the Earth shaped like a
Frisbee, but also that Man has never gone to the Moon, that footage
of floating astronauts is faked, and the sun is tiny, hovering above
our disk-shaped planet. It's a sign of a lack of faith in science,
by people who only choose to believe what they can see for
themselves. Correspondent Brook Silva-Braga talks with YouTube host
Patricia Steere (who thinks NASA is part of a conspiracy); Thomas
Nichols, author of "The Death of Expertise" (who talks about a
reverse-snobbery expressed against the well-educated); and Flat
Earther "Mad Mike" Hughes (who ascended 1,800 feet in a self-built
rocket to see if the Earth actually curves.<br>
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<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q-NSGFht9E">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q-NSGFht9E</a></font><br>
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<br>
[excellent briefing on the Koch brothers]<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh8O7tZ2GD4">This Day in
Climate History - October 20, 2011</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
October 20, 2011: MSNBC host Rachel Maddow challenges Charles and
David Koch to come on to her show after repeated rhetorical attacks
on the program by Koch operatives. The challenge is never accepted.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh8O7tZ2GD4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh8O7tZ2GD4</a><br>
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