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<font size="+1"><i>October 21, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[testing the waters?]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.koin.com/news/environment/feds-ask-scotus-to-halt-climate-kids-lawsuit/1535426486">SCOTUS
freezes 'Climate Kids' lawsuit temporarily</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.koin.com/news/environment/feds-ask-scotus-to-halt-climate-kids-lawsuit/1535426486">https://www.koin.com/news/environment/feds-ask-scotus-to-halt-climate-kids-lawsuit/1535426486</a></font><br>
[Tipping, weaving and waffling]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/10/19/supreme-court-kids-climate-case-roberts/">Supreme
Court Grants Government's Extraordinary Appeal, Pauses Kids
Climate Case</a></b><br>
By Karen Savage<br>
<b>The U.S. Supreme Court has put the brakes on the landmark
youth-led climate lawsuit, Juliana v. United States.</b><br>
In a one-page order issued Friday by Chief Justice John Roberts,
Jr., the court granted a request made earlier this week by the Trump
administration to stay discovery and trial pending review of its
newly filed petition for writ of mandamus.<br>
Roberts also ordered the plaintiffs to respond to the government's
mandamus petition no later than Wed. Oct. 24.<br>
Trial in the case was previously set to begin on Oct. 29 in U.S.
District Court in Eugene, Ore.<br>
<br>
The Trump administration has repeatedly asked both the Supreme Court
and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the trial via writ of
mandamus, a rarely used and even more rarely granted appeal in which
a higher court overrules a lower court before a verdict has been
issued. The Ninth Circuit has twice turned down the request for
mandamus (and a third is pending) and the Supreme Court turned down
a previous one as well.<br>
<br>
"We are confident once Chief Justice Roberts and the full Court
receive the youth plaintiffs' response to defendants'
mischaracterization of their case, the trial will proceed," said
Julia Olson, co-counsel for the young plaintiffs.<br>
<br>
The case has survived numerous attempts by the government to dismiss
the case since it was originally filed in 2015. The 21 young
plaintiffs from around the country argue that the federal government
is violating their Constitutional rights to life, liberty and
property by promoting an energy system that exacerbates climate
change. They are asking for a science-based program to reduce carbon
emissions and protect the climate for future generations.<br>
<br>
"As the Supreme Court has recognized in innumerable cases, review of
constitutional questions is better done on a full record where the
evidence is presented and weighed by the trier of fact. This case is
about already recognized fundamental rights and children's rights of
equal protection under the law," Olson said. <font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/10/19/supreme-court-kids-climate-case-roberts/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/10/19/supreme-court-kids-climate-case-roberts/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[don't build on sand]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://phys.org/news/2018-02-team-geology-wildfires.html#jCp">Research
team studies geology of wildfires</a></b><br>
February 26, 2018 by Adrienne Berard, The College of William &
Mary<br>
- - <br>
What they found was a relationship between fire and flooding that
"has the potential to substantially change future erosion rates" in
the region, they later wrote in the study. Their research showed
areas that burned hottest experienced an erosion rate around a
hundred times higher than the region's longer-term natural erosion
rate.<br>
<br>
"The fires change the soil properties," Kaste explained. Areas with
dense vegetation, such as the north-facing slopes of Fourmile
Canyon, provide more fuel for wildfires, making the fires burn
hotter and faster. An intense, fast-moving fire will burn the
organic layer at the soil surface, Kaste said, which effectively
makes the soil water repellent. Instead of water soaking the ground,
it cuts into it.<br>
<br>
"The soils become hydrophobic," Kaste said. "So the water does not
seep into the ground. When the rains followed that fire, the soils
were not able to absorb the water and so it ran off into rivers and
roads. Houses were destroyed, property was damaged and cars became
part of the sediment load of the rivers."<br>
<br>
Both wildfires and heavy rainstorms are expected to increase in
frequency and severity with changing climate conditions, Kaste said.
Since 1970, the region's wildfires have increased fourfold in both
frequency and magnitude, while the area burned has increased more
than sixfold...<br>
- - - <br>
Kaste says those looking to build homes in the area should keep in
mind their proximity to dense forest and running water.<br>
<br>
"If you were going to construct a house there," Kaste said. "You
wouldn't want a forest around you and you would want to be well
above the stream valley."<br>
<font size="-1">Read more at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2018-02-team-geology-wildfires.html#jCp">https://phys.org/news/2018-02-team-geology-wildfires.html#jCp</a></font><br>
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<br>
[poignant photo]<br>
SMITHSONIAN PHOTO CONTEST<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/photo-of-the-day/2018-10-19/solar-portrait-in-love/">Solar
Portrait in Love</a></b><br>
Faustina Flores Carranza (66) and her husband Juan Astudillo Jesus
(63) sit in their solar-lit home in San Luis Acatlan, Guerrero,
Mexico. Faustina and Juan have seven children and are together since
48 years. Like many members of the Mextica Indigenous Community,
they have never had access to electricity. When asked how having
solar has impacted their lives, Juan said, ''For the first time, we
are able to look at each in the eyes in our moments of intimacy.''<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/photo-of-the-day/2018-10-19/solar-portrait-in-love/">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/photo-of-the-day/2018-10-19/solar-portrait-in-love/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Pew Research Center of Global Attitudes and Trends]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.pewglobal.org/2018/10/17/international-political-engagement/">Many
Around the World Are Disengaged From Politics</a></b><br>
But could be motivated to participate on issues like health care,
poverty and education<br>
- - -<br>
The survey finds that, aside from voting, relatively few people take
part in other forms of political and civic participation. Still,
some types of engagement are more common among young people, those
with more education, those on the political left and social network
users. And certain issues – especially health care, poverty and
education – are more likely than others to inspire political action.
Here are eight key takeaways from the survey, which was conducted
from May 20 to Aug. 12, 2018, via face-to-face interviews...<br>
<b>Most people vote, but other forms of participation are much less
common...</b><br>
- - - -<br>
Attending a political campaign event or speech is the second most
common type of participation among those surveyed – a median of 33%
have done this at least once. Fewer people report participating in
volunteer organizations (a median of 27%), posting comments on
political issues online (17%), participating in an organized protest
(14%) or donating money to a social or political organization
(12%)...<br>
- -<br>
<b>Health care, poverty and education are the top motivators for
political engagement.<br>
</b>Young people vote less often...<br>
But young people are more likely to participate online...<br>
Young people are also more motivated by a variety of issues...<br>
There is a strong link between education and political
participation...<br>
Social networking usage is linked to greater engagement on issues...<br>
In some cases, people on the political left are more likely than
those on the right to take action...<br>
- -<br>
<font size="-1">BY RICHARD WIKE AND ALEXANDRA CASTILLO<br>
more at - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.pewglobal.org/2018/10/17/international-political-engagement/">http://www.pewglobal.org/2018/10/17/international-political-engagement/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Aljazeera]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2018/10/media-climate-change-total-overhaul-181020072147408.html">Media
and climate change: Why we need a total overhaul</a></b><br>
We examine the alarming UN climate report and the state of climate
reporting today. Plus, exporting Orban's media model.<br>
- - - <br>
Climate change: Do we need a total media overhaul?<br>
Only a small proportion of news consumers will have heard about the
report released earlier this month by the UN's Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC. Not because the report was dull
or inconsequential but because the global media is still proving
unable - or unwilling - to grapple adequately with the story of our
warming planet.<br>
<br>
With scientists agreed that the world has just 12 years left to
limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, coverage
of the IPCC report was a flash in the pan - an initial wave of
headlines receding as quickly as they emerged.<br>
<br>
Climate change is the world's most significant existential challenge
and those who want to cover it are still wondering how to convey its
size and scale.<br>
<font size="-1">more at-
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2018/10/media-climate-change-total-overhaul-181020072147408.html">https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2018/10/media-climate-change-total-overhaul-181020072147408.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/">This Day
in Climate History - October 21, 2008</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
October 21, 2008: PBS airs the "Frontline" special "Heat,"
chronicling the 20-year effort to reduce worldwide carbon emissions,
an effort stymied by the fossil fuel industry. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/</a></font><br>
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