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<font size="+1"><i>October 27, 2018</i></font><br>
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[Voting carbon tax]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatehawksvote.com/candidate/i-1631/">Today
Climate Hawks Vote announcing our final endorsement of 2018: the
carbon fee initiative in Washington state, I-1631</a></b><br>
(Initiative) I-1631 would place a $15 per ton fee on greenhouse gas
pollution, raising over $800 million a year for investments in the
clean energy economy. It's backed by the largest coalition in
Washington history. Unions, tribes, communities of color, faith
groups, health professionals, businesses like Microsoft and REI all
support I-1631. However, the oil companies have poured in $26
million and counting to defeat it. <br>
"Normally when announcing an endorsement, we ask the national
climate hawk community to do some small dollar fundraising. But the
I-1631 organizers need one-on-one conversations for people power to
defeat Big Oil lies. So instead we've asked climate hawks to give
some time to I-1631," says RL Miller, president of Climate Hawks
Vote. <br>
<font size="-1">To view this endorsement on the web: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatehawksvote.com/candidate/i-1631/">http://climatehawksvote.com/candidate/i-1631/</a></font><br>
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[Big enemy]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.thenation.com/article/washington-carbon-emissions-tax-initiative-1631/">Big
Oil Really Wants to Kill Washington's Green New Deal</a></b><br>
Will a record $28 million war chest sway Evergreen State voters?<br>
By KC Golden<br>
- - -<br>
Now, voters in Washington State can take the offensive against the
climate-wrecking industry by passing ballot initiative 1631. This
"Green New Deal" would fund public investments to tackle climate
disruption and economic inequality, using proceeds from carbon
pollution fees starting at $15 per metric ton.<br>
<br>
The best indication of the potency of I-1631 may be the fury with
which Big Oil is attacking it. Petroleum companies have amassed a
war chest of $28 million to defeat 1631--the largest ever for a
Washington ballot measure. With BP and Phillips 66 leading the way,
99.5 percent of the No campaign budget is from Big Oil, according to
the Washington state public-disclosure commission. What's more, Big
Oil's lavish spending against 1631 climbed steeply after the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's recent report calling
for urgent climate action. In other words, Big Oil's answer to the
global alarm was to pour more fuel on the fire.<br>
<br>
"The campaign opposing 1631 is the biggest political oil spill in
state history," Washington governor Jay Inslee told The Nation.
"These companies have a permit for infinite pollution at zero cost.
But Washingtonians can revoke that permit and take control of our
energy future by approving 1631."...<br>
- -<br>
The oil-i-garchs are clearly worried about I-1631, and they should
be. Any effective climate policy must keep fossil fuels in the
ground. But their reserves of coal, oil, and gas are exactly what
make fossil-fuel companies valuable. If their underground assets
can't be drilled, mined, monetized, and combusted, then Big Oil and
King Coal are toast. But if even half of these reserves are burned,
then everything else is toast. We can have a viable fossil-fuel
industry or a decent future. Not both...<br>
- - -<br>
The burning question is: Will we act fast enough?<br>
<br>
That question is on the ballot in the Evergreen State.
Washingtonians can stand up to the abusive power of the oil industry
and strike a blow for freedom from fossil fuels, right now.<br>
<br>
The future is unwritten, Rebecca Solnit observed, responding to the
fear and fatalism that wafted thick behind the IPCC report. As
ballots arrive in their mailboxes, Washington's voters have the pen.<br>
<font size="-1">more at -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.thenation.com/article/washington-carbon-emissions-tax-initiative-1631/">https://www.thenation.com/article/washington-carbon-emissions-tax-initiative-1631/</a></font><br>
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[Time to Vote]<br>
<b><a
href="http://campuselect.org/voter-education/candidate-issue-guides/">Campus
Election Engagement Project</a></b><br>
CEEP creates nonpartisan, state-specific candidate & issue
guides to help students navigate candidate stands. We research
salient votes & what candidates say to different groups, not
just how they spin their positions. Our research team includes a
former Encyclopaedia Britannica senior editor & veteran New York
Times & Los Angeles Times reporters. Use our guide distribution
resource to help share them across your campus.<br>
<font size="-1">more at - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://campuselect.org/voter-education/candidate-issue-guides/">http://campuselect.org/voter-education/candidate-issue-guides/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Paul Beckwith video plays with data displays]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKeB9vFozk4">Freakishly
Slow Sea Ice Regrowth: 1 of 2</a></b><br>
Paul Beckwith<br>
Published on Oct 26, 2018 <br>
Arctic sea ice regrowth in October is freakishly slow. We are at
record low ice extent for late October; even lower than the 2012
minimum. In this video, and the next, I chat about Beaufort Gyre
stalling and reversal, atmospheric and ocean circulation changes,
sea-surface and water column temperatures, salinities, heat
transport, and much more. Since formation in 2015, there have been
two permanent hot spots in the oceans off Svalbard, with water
temperatures at 78 degrees latitude North of 18.5 degrees Celsius in
late October. <i>[temperatures of 18 degrees C is about 64
degrees Fahrenheit]</i><br>
Please donate at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://paulbeckwith.net">http://paulbeckwith.net</a> to get
the unvarnished science on our climate. Thanks<br>
<font size="-1">see the video at - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKeB9vFozk4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKeB9vFozk4</a><br>
</font><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDDRo-N8SzA">Freakishly
Low Sea Ice Regrowth: 2 of 2</a></b><font size="-1"><br>
<font size="-2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDDRo-N8SzA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDDRo-N8SzA</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Really?, must we ASK for this?]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/10/26/un-climate-human-rights-david-boyd/">UN
Urged to Recognize Healthy Climate As a Human Right</a></b><br>
By Ucilia Wang<br>
David Boyd stood in front of the United Nations General Assembly in
New York City on Thursday as the new special rapporteur on human
rights and the environment and he argued the global organization
should recognize the right of people to live in a healthy
environment.<br>
<br>
"Climate change is one of the top priorities because it threatens
the human rights of billions of people in the world, because of
declining water supplies and changing agricultural production
patterns and increasing storms throughout," said Boyd, who is also
law professor at the University of British Columbia in Canada.<br>
<br>
The idea that everyone deserves a clean and safe environment may
seem lofty, but many argue that a formal resolution from the U.N.,
193-member assembly of virtually every nation in the world, would
produce concrete results, swaying policies and legal opinions on a
wide range of environmental issues, including climate change...<br>
- - -<br>
He's also come across lawsuits in 50 countries so far, including
Costa Rica, Argentina and the Philippines, that seek to enforce the
right to a healthy environment. One suit in the U.S., Juliana v.
United States, features 21 young people suing the government for
fostering an energy system that exacerbates climate change and has
led to a U.S. District Court judge declaring a safe climate as a
Constitutional right. It was stayed by the Supreme Court before the
trial even began.<br>
<br>
The Commission on Human Rights in the Philippines is currently
investigating whether 47 fossil fuel, cement and coal companies
violated the human rights of Filipinos.<br>
<br>
Lawsuits have also emerged in recent years to hold governments
responsible for addressing climate change as a human right. One of
them is the landmark Urgenda case in the Netherlands, where an
appeals court recently upheld the ruling the government must cut
emissions more aggressively...<br>
<font size="-1">more at -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/10/26/un-climate-human-rights-david-boyd/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/10/26/un-climate-human-rights-david-boyd/</a><br>
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[Adaptation]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23102018/cape-cod-sea-level-rise-trump-voters-climate-change-questions-science-based-coastal-building-codes">They
Know Seas Are Rising, but They're Not Abandoning Their Beloved
Cape Cod</a></b><br>
Lifelong residents are building higher with each flood. But while
they deal with climate change, some say they aren't sure what to
believe about the cause.<br>
BY MEERA SUBRAMANIAN, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS<br>
OCT 26, 2018<br>
"It flooded in early January, and then it happened again two or
three months later," says Matt Teague of Barnstable, Mass., about
the slew of storms that hit Cape Cod in the winter of 2017. "We're
like, what are we doing here?" he says, opening his arms skyward.<br>
- - -<br>
The 2018 hurricane season so far has been quiet around the Cape, but
farther south, the Carolinas are reeling from an estimated $1
billion in damage from storm surge and flooding from Hurricane
Florence.<br>
<br>
During one of my conversations with Matt, I ask what he'll do if the
1-foot-above-flood-plain level that he chose for his foundation's
height proves insufficient. "I designed it so I can jack it up
again!" he says. He laughs, then pauses, becoming more reflective.
"People are adaptive. Humans have always figured out a way to live
where they live," he says. Consider the desert. The Arctic. Coastal
areas. "The problem in the past was that people had to learn the
hard way." Losing homes to floods is pretty hard, but New Englanders
are used to hardship and hard weather and cleaning up after storms.
Now they're getting used to building their homes higher and higher,
hoping to reach themselves out of harm's way--and keep the view.<br>
<br>
"The fact that there's enough science out there to provide some
predictability for that and to provide for some policy--that makes
sense," Matt says returning to the hope for smart policy based on
solid science. "I think that's as good as you're going to get."<br>
<font size="-1">more at -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23102018/cape-cod-sea-level-rise-trump-voters-climate-change-questions-science-based-coastal-building-codes">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23102018/cape-cod-sea-level-rise-trump-voters-climate-change-questions-science-based-coastal-building-codes</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[VICE video news segment a few minutes duration]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/J0-qgA3lIvw?t=1018">Melting Ground Crisis
& Arctic Journey VICE News Tonight Full Episode (HBO)</a></b><br>
VICE News<br>
Published on Oct 24, 2018<br>
This s the October 17, 2018 FULL EPISODE of VICE News Tonight on
HBO.<br>
[also] 17:00 VICE News joined NASA for their annual flight to study
thing thawing permafrost in the Arctic. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/J0-qgA3lIvw?t=1018">https://youtu.be/J0-qgA3lIvw?t=1018</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Business Insider]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-stop-gobal-warming-plan-carbon-capture-2018-10">We're
altering the climate so severely that we'll soon face
apocalyptic repercussions. Sucking carbon dioxide out of the air
could save us.</a></b><br>
Dana Varinsky <br>
<blockquote><b>The Earth is warming so rapidly that most experts
agree we'll need to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere in
order to avoid the worst consequences of climate change.</b><br>
<br>
<b>A new report from the National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine lays out a range of options for how to
do that.</b><br>
<br>
<b>But the authors say developing these negative-emissions
technologies requires large-scale investment from the government
-- and the funding has to come immediately.</b><br>
</blockquote>
A recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) predicts that just another half-degree temperature rise --
which is predicted to happen by the year 2040 -- will lead to severe
drought, even more intense hurricanes, and the death of most coral
reefs. These changes could trigger huge migrations of people and
mass extinctions of animals.<br>
<br>
There are two ways to deal with this problem. The first is to make
big changes to the ways we power our lives and grow food in order to
stop putting greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. The second is to
suck carbon dioxide back out of the air then store it away or turn
it into new products or fuels.<br>
<br>
A comprehensive new report looks at that second approach.<br>
The study, written by scientists from the National Academies of
Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS), suggests a plan for
developing so-called "negative-emissions technologies" (a term for
ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere) and highlights options that
have essentially unlimited capacity for reducing carbon levels in
the atmosphere, but aren't yet ready for prime time.<br>
<br>
Researching and developing those technologies requires substantial
investment from the US government -- and the report's authors say
that money needs to start flowing soon, or we could soon cross
dangerous climate tipping points...<br>
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But according to the new report -- funded by the US Department of
Energy, EPA, NOAA, and the US Geological Survey, along with several
foundations -- those approaches require a lot more research to be
scaled up, and there's no way those methods alone could ever capture
enough carbon to keep Earth's temperature from rising another
degree.<br>
"Uncertain research breakthroughs will be required before those NETs
[negative emissions technologies] can provide even the minority
share of the solution," the authors wrote.<br>
<br>
A more promising option, they said, is to invest in technologies
that essentially filter out CO2 molecules from the air around us.
These technologies are still in early development stages, but
usually involve materials that naturally attract and bind with
carbon.<br>
"It's like draining a bathtub -- like pulling the plug and letting a
little bit of the water out. It's actually not that sophisticated or
crazy," Gordon told Business Insider.<br>
<br>
That carbon would then get concentrated and stored, perhaps by
injecting it into pores in deep underground rock, which is
essentially where it came from in the first place. There's not much
limit to how much CO2 these potential technologies could capture and
store.<br>
We need this kind of intervention immediately, according to the
authors.<br>
<font size="-1">more at - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-stop-gobal-warming-plan-carbon-capture-2018-10">https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-stop-gobal-warming-plan-carbon-capture-2018-10</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[RT America]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gVRE35AnBk">"America: The
Farewell Tour" & Climate Change: What's at Stake?</a></b><br>
The Big Picture RT video 28 minutes<br>
Published on Oct 19, 2018<br>
Holland Cooke speaks with Dr. Gregg Marland from the Department of
Geological and Environmental Sciences at Appalachian State
University and Marc Morano, former Republican political aide,
founder of ClimateDepot.com, and Climate Change skeptic about the UN
Climate Report, which highlights extreme risks to regions around the
world. Then a discussion with Chris Hedges on his latest book,
"America: The Farewell Tour".<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gVRE35AnBk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gVRE35AnBk</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Activism on October 29th]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/trial/">Trial of the
Century</a></b><br>
21 YOUTH ARE SUING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR CAUSING CLIMATE
CHANGE. <br>
BUT THE GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO TRY TO SILENCE THEM.<br>
[video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/6bBFeHwYmVc">https://youtu.be/6bBFeHwYmVc</a>
]<br>
Join us for the rally at the federal courthouse in your state (see
below) to be a part of the #TrialoftheCentury and support these
young climate warriors in Juliana v United States who are fighting
for their right to be heard in court. <br>
Our freedom depends on a climate system that will sustain human
life. Let's show the government that it has a duty to listen to our
country's youngest citizens, and to prepare and implement a Climate
Recovery Plan to protect our basic and most fundamental rights!<br>
These brave youth need you to stand with them!<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/trial/">https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/trial/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Lewis Black rants on global warming science]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/SsM44DGmc7M?t=5746">Lewis
Black & Friends - A Night to Let Freedom Laugh (Live In
Washington D.C.)</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/SsM44DGmc7M?t=5746">https://youtu.be/SsM44DGmc7M?t=5746</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130303200905/http://www.rockefeller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=87f3ae3b-0f0d-44ee-af03-9080592901a4">This
Day in Climate History - October 27, 2006</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
October 27, 2006: Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Olympia Snowe
(R-ME) urge ExxonMobil to stop funding climate-change-denying think
tanks.<br>
Press Releases<br>
<b>Oct 27 2006</b><br>
<blockquote>ROCKEFELLER AND SNOWE DEMAND THAT EXXONMOBIL END FUNDING
OF CAMPAIGN THAT DENIES GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE<br>
<br>
<b>-Senators Demand that the World's Largest Oil Maker Make Public
Its History of Funding Climate Change "Skeptics"-</b><br>
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In an effort to call attention to the
detrimental effects of industry-funded, so-called "research" in
the debate on global climate change, Senators John (Jay)
Rockefeller IV (D-WV) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) today called on the
world's largest oil company to end its funding of a climate change
denial campaign. Rockefeller and Snowe's effort would also
reassert the leading role of the United States in addressing
important global issues that demand the world's collective
attention.<br>
<br>
Rockefeller and Snowe said that ExxonMobil's extensive funding of
an "echo chamber" of non-peer reviewed pseudo-science had
unfortunately succeeded in raising questions about the legitimate
scientific community's virtually universal findings on the
detrimental effects of global warming. This ongoing "debate" has
also damaged America's reputation as a leader in global affairs.<br>
<br>
"American companies have every right to engage in important public
debates, but these discussions should neither serve as a license
to obscure credible data and research nor impede domestic and
international actions based on that data," said Rockefeller.
"Climate change is one of the most serious environmental and
economic issues facing the United States and our partners in the
international community. It is absolutely irresponsible for any
entity to try to influence our government's involvement in such an
important debate in any way that is not scrupulously accurate and
honest."<br>
<br>
"The institutions that ExxonMobil is supporting are producing very
questionable data. The company's support for a small, but
influential, group of climate skeptics has damaged the United
States' reputation by making our government appear to ignore
conclusive data on climate change and the disastrous effects
climate change could have."<br>
<br>
"ExxonMobil - which recorded $10.5 billion in third quarter
profits this year - has an obligation and a responsibility to the
global community to refrain from lending their support, financial
and otherwise, to bogus, non substantiated articles and
publications on climate change that serve only to cloud the
important global debate of rigorous peer-reviewed research and
writings," Snowe said. "The efforts of those supported by
ExxonMobil foster the false belief among the international
community that the United States is insensitive to global warming
and unwilling to engage in forthright discussion on what many
consider to be one of the most important economic and
environmental issues of the 21st century."<br>
<br>
"Rather than continue to damage our credibility abroad, I urge
ExxonMobil, under its new leadership, to work with those of us in
Congress who are committed to moving our nation back to the
negotiating table and leading the way toward greater energy
efficiencies, and clean alternative and renewable fuels.
ExxonMobil has the tremendous opportunity to employ its
significant resources and assist the United States and the world
by promoting the technological innovations necessary to address
climate change and develop a global solution to this undeniably
global problem."<br>
<br>
According to reports, in 2004 alone, ExxonMobil was the primary
funder of more than 29 climate change denial front groups. Since
the late 1990s, ExxonMobil has spent more than $19 million on a
strategy of "information laundering," enabling a small number of
professional skeptics, working through so-called scientific
organizations, to funnel their viewpoints through
non-peer-reviewed websites, such as <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.techcentralstation.com">www.techcentralstation.com</a>.<br>
<br>
"Climate change denial has been so effective because the 'denial
community' has mischaracterized the necessarily guarded language
of serious scientific dialogue as vagueness and uncertainty,"
Rockefeller and Snowe wrote ExxonMobil Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer Rex Tillerson. "ExxonMobil is responsible for
much of this scientific data debate and support of global warming
deniers."<br>
<br>
Rockefeller and Snowe insisted that ExxonMobil end its funding of
the climate change denial campaign by the Competitive Enterprise
Institute (CEI) and other organizations with similar purposes. The
two Senators also encouraged ExxonMobil and Tillerson to make its
history of funding public and acknowledge the dangers and
realities of climate change.<br>
<br>
Finally, Rockefeller and Snowe suggested that Tillerson, as the
company's new CEO, has a unique opportunity to change the culture
of the company: "You will become the public face of an undisputed
leader in the world energy industry and a company that plays a
vital role in our national economy. As that public face, you will
have the ability and responsibility to lead ExxonMobil toward its
rightful place as a good corporate and global citizen."<br>
</blockquote>
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