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<font size="+1"><i>October 23, 2018</i></font><br>
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[about 1 million people]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.statesman.com/news/20181022/austin-ordered-to-boil-water-flood-silt-stalls-treatment">Austin
ordered to boil water; flood silt stalls treatment</a></b><br>
By Kelsey Bradshaw <br>
The city of Austin's water utility told all residents early Monday
to boil water before using until the city's water treatment system
is stabilized.<br>
- - <br>
Austin Water warned that inadequately treated water could contain
bacteria, viruses, and parasites that can cause diarrhea, cramps,
nausea, headaches or illness. Infants, young children, some of the
elderly and people with severely compromised immune systems also
would be at risk.<br>
See - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.austintexas.gov/boilH2O">http://www.austintexas.gov/boilH2O</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.austintexas.gov/boilH2O">The
city recommends</a> that customers do the following:<br>
<blockquote> Reduce water use as much as possible to ensure adequate
supply for basic needs, fire protection, public health and safety.<br>
Boil water intended for drinking. To ensure destruction of all
harmful bacteria and other microbes, water for drinking, cooking
and for making ice should be boiled and cooled. The water should
be brought to a rolling boil for three minutes.<br>
In lieu of boiling water, use bottled water.<br>
Businesses should not use drinking fountains or soda fountains
that rely on tap water.<br>
Austin Water said the water is safe for washing dishes, but you
should use hot, soapy water and rinse dishes in boiled water.<br>
The water is safe for laundry and for bathing, officials said.<br>
However, the utility said customers should only use boiled or
bottled water for cooking, making ice, washing fruits and
vegetables, and making baby formula.<br>
</blockquote>
Even if you have your own water filtration device in your kitchen,
you should still boil your drinking water, Austin Water director
Greg Meszaros said.<br>
"Anyone who's seen the water running through Lady Bird Lake can see
how muddy it is," said Austin Mayor Steve Adler. "The good thing is
that we can continue with most of our daily routines - like
showering, hand washing and laundry - but we all need to do our part
to conserve where we can, and boil the tap water we consume."<br>
- - -<br>
For more information and frequently asked questions about boil water
notices visit <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.austintexas.gov/boilH2O">http://www.austintexas.gov/boilH2O</a>.<br>
This is a developing story; check back for updates.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.statesman.com/news/20181022/austin-ordered-to-boil-water-flood-silt-stalls-treatment">https://www.statesman.com/news/20181022/austin-ordered-to-boil-water-flood-silt-stalls-treatment</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[opinion from Tamino]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/10/22/global-warmings-golden-opportunity/">Global
Warming's Golden Opportunity</a></b><br>
Posted on October 22, 2018 <br>
Opportunity knocks, but not often. Right now, it's knocking loud and
long.<br>
<br>
That opportunity is renewable energy. There are many forms,
including solar, wind, geothermal, and biofuels. There are
certaintly challenges, including energy storage, deployment, and
efficiency. Yet despite the challenges, costs are plummeting while
installations are muliplying. The race is on: whatever nation or
nations find the technological solutions first, and make them
available in markets world-wide, is going to WIN BIG. As in, win SO
big that they will become the economic powerhouses of the next few
decades.<br>
<br>
Whatever nations drag their feet, too sluggish to keep up with the
rapid advance of renewable energy technology because they're still
banking on fossil fuels, are going to LOSE. Lose BIG.<br>
<br>
If you don't believe global warming is real, you're not just
mistaken, you're committing economic suicide. Renewable energy
technology is already way beyond the early "model T" phase, moving
rapidly into the era of computerized and efficient high performance,
while you're still married to the horse-and-buggy days of energy.
How do you think that's going to work out?<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, the backward thinking of the Trump administration has
doomed the United States to depending on fossil fuels just when
they're poised to go the way of the dinosaurs.<br>
<br>
Each year brings us closer and closer to a world in which nobody
wants your fossil fuels. It's still a way off, but it's still a sure
thing. When I was young, a trip to the moon seemed so far off that
many believed president Kennedy's committment to get there before
the decade was out was just a hopeless fantasy. But the Russians
were working hard at it, and we wanted to beat them there so: the
race was on. We won -- and not just the race to the moon, but the
economic race to develop the new technology, new knowledge, new
manufacturing, that would ensure our dominance for decades to come.
We got a lot more out of winning the space race than just some moon
rocks, a lot more than just an explosion of amazing technology, we
also got pride, pride in a job brilliantly done, in achieving
something good in the name of peace and progess, something for all
mankind. America led the way.<br>
<br>
Not any more. China leads the way while the U.S. crawls backwards.
The banner of world leadership, economically at least, is leaving
America and heading overseas. As economic pre-eminence deserts us,
so too will moral leadership. Trump and his partners are handing the
world to China on a silver platter.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/10/22/global-warmings-golden-opportunity/">https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/10/22/global-warmings-golden-opportunity/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[A Gaslighting tactic will reassign blame]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/10/22/18007922/climate-change-republicans-denial-marco-rubio-trump"><b>Why
conservatives keep gaslighting the nation about climate change</b></a><br>
Republican climate rhetoric shifts (again), but the goal remains the
same.<br>
By David Roberts - Oct 22, 2018<br>
In recent years, leaders of the Republican Party have become aware
that denying the existence of global warming makes them look like
idiots. Changes in climate have become obvious, not just to
scientists, but to ordinary people -- they can be directly measured,
with such exotic instruments as a "thermometer." Majorities of every
group except the most conservative Republicans (who will trust their
media over their lying eyes) believe it is happening.<br>
<br>
Denying visible, tangible reality is a dicey business, even for the
modern US right. It makes the party look like a death cult. So
Republican climate-communication strategy has undergone something of
an adjustment...<br>
- - - -<br>
<b>Conservatives have been gaslighting the nation about climate
change for years</b><br>
That is obviously true when it comes to Trump, because he scarcely
tries, indeed doesn't know how, to pretend otherwise. But it's just
as true of the entire conservative movement, for decades now.<br>
<br>
All the denialist talking points -- nefarious scientists, sunspots,
natural cycles -- have their true believers in the base, among the
chumps who drink the Kool-Aid and fill up the comment sections.<br>
<br>
But the motive force is not any assessment of science. It's the
tight alliance between the cultural politics of white resentment and
the power of fossil fuel and related industries. To acknowledge
anthropogenic climate change is to empower liberals, open the door
to additional taxes and regulations, and threaten the power of the
fossil fuel industry.<br>
<br>
The Republican Party as currently constituted will simply never do
those things. Ever. The arguments are secondary...<br>
<font size="-1">more at -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/10/22/18007922/climate-change-republicans-denial-marco-rubio-trump">https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/10/22/18007922/climate-change-republicans-denial-marco-rubio-trump</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[gee whiz invention]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/carbon-dioxide-fuel-squamish-june-2018">Bill
Gates-funded startup in Squamish sucks up carbon dioxide to make
fuel</a></b><br>
A startup based in Squamish and funded by international investors
has created revolutionary new technology has the potential to combat
climate change if it could be implemented on a larger scale.<br>
<br>
As well, it could also potentially alter the global political
landscape and our entire paradigm of the effects of fossil fuels and
pollution.<br>
<br>
Carbon Engineering (CE) uses banks of fans to capture air as part of
a process to capture carbon dioxide. When altered through chemical
reactions with limestone, hydrogen, and air, the process creates an
end product of new synthetic fuels such as gasoline, diesel, or jet
fuel.<br>
<br>
And new research released this week shows that the process carries a
relatively low cost - far lower than initial estimates of USD$600
per ton to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.<br>
<br>
With new data and engineering to support its findings, it believes
it can achieve the same for between USD$94 and USD$232 per ton. The
resulting fuel could be made at a relatively low cost of just USD$1
per litre.<br>
<br>
"CE's vision is to reduce the effects of climate change by first
cutting emissions, then by reducing atmospheric CO₂," said Steve
Oldham, CEO of CE, in a statement.<br>
<br>
"Our clean fuel is fully compatible with existing engines, so it
provides the transportation sector with a solution for significantly
reducing emissions, either through blending or direct use. Our
technology is scalable, flexible, and demonstrated. Today, we're
actively seeking partners who will work with CE to dramatically
reduce emissions in the transportation sector and help us move to a
carbon-neutral economy."<br>
<br>
The project was the brain-child of David Keith, a Harvard professor
and founder of CE. The latest findings are based on three years of
research from CE's pilot plant located on a 1.2-acre industrial site
on the future site of the Oceanfront development on Squamish's
central waterfront.<br>
<br>
The plant has been operational since 2015, and it began converting
its captured carbon dioxide into fuels late last year. However, the
plant is not a complete small-scale version of a commercial plant.<br>
<br>
"Direct air capture technology offers a highly-scalable pathway to
removing carbon from the atmosphere," said Noah Deich, the executive
director of the Center for Carbon Removal. "This analysis
demonstrates the potential for Carbon Engineering's technology to
fall to a cost that would drive significant investment and corporate
adoption in the near future."<br>
<font size="-1">more at - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/carbon-dioxide-fuel-squamish-june-2018">http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/carbon-dioxide-fuel-squamish-june-2018</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Video Classic from April 2018 ]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6j0y8ml74E">In 10-15
Years World May Hit 2C of Warming</a></b><br>
Climate State<br>
Published on Apr 12, 2018<br>
Back in 2011, a Cornell University research team first made the
groundbreaking discovery that leaking methane from the shale gas <br>
fracking boom could make burning fracked gas worse for the climate
than coal. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6j0y8ml74E">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6j0y8ml74E</a><br>
- - - -<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/04/11/climate-change-two-degree-warming-fracking-natural-gas-rush-ingraffea">A
Different Energy Future, if Not for Fracking?</a></b><br>
By Sharon Kelly <br>
So what happened?<br>
<br>
Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, U.S. natural gas production
was flat or falling. If that trend had continued along the same
track it was following from 2006-2008, then wind, solar, and other
renewable energy sources might have had a chance to displace both
natural gas and coal as major energy sources in America, according
to Ingraffea.<br>
<br>
Instead, the shale gas rush, propelled by hydraulic fracturing
(fracking), swept across the U.S., with drillers snapping up land to
drill for previously inaccessible fossil fuels locked in geologic
formations of shale rock from coast to coast.<br>
<br>
If the shale gas rush hadn't disrupted trends around that time,
Ingraffea estimates that the wind energy sector alone could have
produced roughly triple the amount of energy expected by the end of
this coming decade, a difference of roughly 400 gigawatts.<br>
<br>
"We can easily see there is a loss of potential -- large amounts of
wind energy -- because of the injection of shale gas into our energy
economy," Ingraffea explains in the lecture.<br>
<br>
While the shale gas industry promised benefits like jobs and
American energy security, Ingraffea notes, those benefits would have
been almost exclusively aimed at just 5 percent of the world's
population, North Americans. But the harms will affect the remaining
95 percent of the world as well.<br>
<br>
It's an alarming message -- even though the shale rush has stumbled
somewhat as gas prices collapsed and many drillers went bankrupt,
the cumulative impact of American fracking appears to have set the
entire world on a collision course with climate change's most
extreme effects...<br>
<font size="-1">more at -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/04/11/climate-change-two-degree-warming-fracking-natural-gas-rush-ingraffea">https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/04/11/climate-change-two-degree-warming-fracking-natural-gas-rush-ingraffea</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[the start date for the disinformation war ]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>This Day in Climate History - October 23, 2007 -
from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
October 23, 2007: Dr. Julie Gerberding of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention addresses a US Senate committee regarding the
health risks of climate change. Her testimony was extensively edited
by the Bush White House to dramatically downplay the severity of the
risks. <br>
<blockquote>CDC officials are now revealing that the White House
heavily edited Gerberding's testimony, which originally was longer
and had more "information on health risks":<br>
<br>
"It was eviscerated," said a CDC official, familiar with both
versions, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the
sensitive nature of the review process.<br>
<br>
The official said that while it is customary for testimony to be
changed in a White House review, these changes were particularly
"heavy-handed," with the document cut from its original 14 pages
to four. It was six pages as presented to the Senate committee.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2007/10/23/17139/gerberding-global-warming/">http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2007/10/23/17139/gerberding-global-warming/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2007/10/24/the-censored-testimony-of-cdc-director-julie-gerberding/">http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2007/10/24/the-censored-testimony-of-cdc-director-julie-gerberding/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/science/earth/24cnd-climate.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/science/earth/24cnd-climate.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/07/08/174078/burnett-cheney-boiling/">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/07/08/174078/burnett-cheney-boiling/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?201698-1/HumanImp">http://www.c-span.org/video/?201698-1/HumanImp</a><br>
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