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<font size="+1"><i>November 4, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[pleasant vote message]<br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2pxOoenAqM">Samantha
Bee's Soothing Vistas Voter Guide | Fuller Frontaler on TBS</a></b><br>
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee<br>
Published on Nov 2, 2018<br>
We know you're sick of hearing about the midterms, but there are
some things you still need to know. So sit back and enjoy these
soothing images while Sam gives you the lowdown on voting day.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2pxOoenAqM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2pxOoenAqM</a><br>
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<br>
[back to 1959]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2018/nov/02/burning-trees-for-fuel-gets-u-s-nod-201/">Burning
trees for fuel gets U.S. nod</a></b><br>
Some scientists call idea terrible<br>
By JENNIFER A. DLOUHY - BLOOMBERG NEWS - Posted: November 2, 2018<br>
President Donald Trump's administration endorsed Thursday burning
trees and other biomass to produce energy, vowing to promote a
practice some scientists have declared more environmentally
devastating than coal-fired power.<br>
The Environmental Protection Agency joined the departments of Energy
and Agriculture in a letter to congressional leaders committing to
"encourage the use of biomass as an energy solution." The EPA also
reasserted its view that power plants burning trees and other woody
materials to generate electricity should be viewed as carbon
neutral, because when the plants eventually regrow they remove
carbon dioxide from the air.<br>
- - -<br>
The EPA's own science advisers also warned that assuming biomass
emissions are carbon neutral "is inconsistent with the underlying
science."<br>
- - -<br>
The approach could be good news for timber companies and firms that
pelletize wood for power plants, such as Enviva Partners. The
American Forest and Paper Association said the administration was
ending "seven years of policy uncertainty" that "jeopardizes our
companies' ability to invest in biomass and build and upgrade their
facilities."<br>
<br>
The EPA also has proposed giving utilities credit for cutting carbon
dioxide emissions when they replace some coal in power plants with
biomass. That kind of substitution would qualify as an efficiency
upgrade under the EPA's proposal to relax Clean Power Plan curbs on
greenhouse gas emissions from electricity.<br>
<br>
Shifting to biomass increases carbon dioxide emissions "in nearly
every scenario," the Natural Resources Defense Council, Clean Air
Task Force and seven other environmental groups said in comments
filed on the plan this week.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2018/nov/02/burning-trees-for-fuel-gets-u-s-nod-201/">http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2018/nov/02/burning-trees-for-fuel-gets-u-s-nod-201/</a><br>
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[Sports Hero talks Climate Change]<br>
[Brent Suter is a starting pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers.]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90259916/fighting-climate-change-should-make-americans-come-together">Fighting
climate change should make Americans come together to find
solutions</a></b><br>
BY BRENT SUTER - 10.31.18<br>
Baseball is America's pastime. It's part of our identity and our
culture. Americans love the sport, and the national camaraderie the
comes with it, while rooting for their favorite team. That's why I
was proud to pitch for the 2018 National League Central Division
Champion Milwaukee Brewers this year. I saw how my city of Milwaukee
came together to cheer us on towards our goal of the World Series.
And while we lost our bid for the series, there's a bigger test
ahead for us. It requires that we come together, just like we do
with sports, to address the very real threats from climate change.<br>
<br>
These threats are impacting every community, including mine. In
playing for the Milwaukee Brewers, I represent a city with a strong
heritage in the beer industry. But get this, climate change is now
going to impact beer as well. Recently, a new study noted that
drought, heatwaves, and extreme weather associated with climate
change will drastically reduce crop yields of barley, a key
ingredient in beer. This is going to double the price of beer for
consumers and have a huge impact on my city's beer industry. But
this isn't the only climate change impact that Milwaukee and
Wisconsin are facing. Flooding is on the rise throughout our entire
state due to torrential rains, threatening our neighborhoods and
infrastructure.<br>
<br>
These threats are becoming more frequent and formidable for all of
America, not just Milwaukee. Earlier this month, the UN
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that we've got only
12 years to avert total climate catastrophe. And each week, it
seems, new scientific and economic reports highlight the growing
threats to industries and regions from climate change. Amidst these
dire reports, communities around the country continue to bear the
brunt of climate change in the form of hurricanes, storm surges,
wild fires, and flooding.<br>
<br>
That's why we can't keep kicking the climate action can down the
road. We need to come together to acknowledge climate change and
work together to take real action. While we know that the earth's
climate is always in flux, we also know that the excessive use of
fossil fuels is making the climate change at a faster and faster
rate that harms our way of life and negatively impacts our health,
our economy, and our security. Reducing our overall energy use,
making everything more energy efficient, and transitioning to
renewable energy, then, are necessary steps for us to take.<br>
<br>
The low-hanging fruit on this front would be to first get electric
and gas utilities to work together, with our states and local
communities, to transition to lower-carbon power. That's a
no-brainer. And then let's electrify everything, from our buildings
to our cars, so they can be powered by renewable energy.<br>
<br>
While doing that, let's invest in our cities and towns so they're
better prepared to respond to the health, economic, and security
risks from floods, storms, and heat waves. They're getting hit hard
now and need our help. But it's not just cities that need support.
Let's make sure our farmers and ranchers are equipped with the most
sustainable practices, so they can continue to feed the world in
ways that are less water, pesticide, and carbon intensive.<br>
<br>
Lastly, let's make sure we're wisely using our increasingly
threatened natural resources. We depend on natural resources for
everything. Our entire economy runs on natural capital. So we can't
be quite so careless anymore in how we treat our forests, for
example, or even our food supply. Our forests are the lungs that
allow us to breathe by absorbing and storing carbon dioxide, and
indiscriminate deforestation is just making the planet hotter,
drier, and less inhabitable. Protecting and restoring this asset,
then, should be our number-one priority.<br>
<br>
We can do this, but the clock is ticking loudly. We have to act fast
as 12 years comes quickly. Just 12 years ago, as an example the St.
Louis Cardinals and the Detroit Tigers were playing in the World
Series. Both cities now face serious climate impacts–as do the
animals their mascots represent.<br>
<br>
If we want our favorite American pastime to persevere far into the
future, we've got to change the game and fast. And since Americans
love a good competition, this should be an easy challenge and easy
test of our tenacity and teamwork. So, let's do this. Working
together we can win together. And I want us to win.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90259916/fighting-climate-change-should-make-americans-come-together">https://www.fastcompany.com/90259916/fighting-climate-change-should-make-americans-come-together</a><br>
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<br>
Opinions<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-not-rocket-science-climate-change-was-behind-this-summers-extreme-weather/2018/11/02/b8852584-dea9-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html?utm_term=.5d6841d2f924">It's
not rocket science: Climate change was behind this summer's
extreme weather </a></b><br>
Michael E. Mann is director of the Penn State Earth System Science
Center and co-author with Tom Toles of "The Madhouse Effect: How
Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our
Politics, and Driving Us Crazy."<br>
<br>
Summer 2018 saw an unprecedented spate of extreme floods, droughts,
heat waves and wildfires break out across North America, Europe and
Asia. The scenes played out on our television screens and in our
social media feeds. This is, as I stated at the time, the face of
climate change.<br>
<br>
It's not rocket science. A warmer ocean evaporates more moisture
into the atmosphere -- so you get worse flooding from coastal storms
(think Hurricanes Harvey and Florence). Warmer soils evaporate more
moisture into the atmosphere -- so you get worse droughts (think
California or Syria). Global warming shifts the extreme upper tail
of the "bell curve" toward higher temperatures, so you get more
frequent and intense heat waves (think summer 2018 just about
anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere). Combine heat and drought, and
you get worse wildfires (again, think California).<br>
<br>
Climate scientists have become increasingly comfortable talking
about these connections. Much like how medical science has developed
key diagnostic tools, we have developed sophisticated tools to
diagnose the impact climate change is having on extreme weather
events.<br>
<br>
One of these tools, "extreme event attribution," can be thought of
as climate science's version of an X-ray. In this case, a climate
model is run both with and without the human effect on climate. One
then compares how often a particular extreme event happens in both
the "with" and "without" cases. If it occurs sufficiently more often
(i.e., beyond the "noise") in the former case, a study can
"attribute" and quantify how climate change affected the extremeness
of the event.<br>
<br>
The scorching European heat wave this summer, according to one such
study, was made more than twice as likely by global warming. The
record rainfall in North Carolina from Hurricane Florence was,
according to another study, increased by as much as 50 percent by
warming oceans.<br>
<br>
The climate models used in these sorts of studies represent
remarkable achievements in the world of science. But no tool is
perfect. In our medical analogy, some injuries -- such as soft
tissue damage -- are too subtle to be detected by an X-ray. So
medical professionals developed even more sophisticated tools, such
as MRI. Similarly, some climate-change impacts on extreme weather
are too subtle to be captured by current generation climate models.<br>
<br>
In a study my co-authors and I recently published in the journal
Science Advances, we identified a key factor behind the rise in
extreme summer weather events (such as the ones that played out in
summer 2018) that -- as we demonstrate in our study -- is not
captured by current generation climate models. Using an alternative
approach based on a combination of models and real-world
observations, we showed that climate change is causing the summer
jet stream to behave increasingly oddly. The characteristic
continental-scale meanders of the jet stream (its "waviness") as it
travels from west to east are becoming more pronounced and are
tending to remain locked in place for longer stretches of time.<br>
<br>
Under these circumstances -- when, for example, a deep high-pressure
"ridge" gets stuck over California or Europe -- we usually see
extreme heat, drought and wildfire. And typically there's a deep
low-pressure "trough" downstream, stuck over, say, the eastern
United States or Japan, yielding excessive rainfall and flooding.
That's exactly what happened in summer 2018. The spate of extreme
floods, droughts, heat waves and wildfires we experienced were a
consequence of such jet stream behavior.<br>
<br>
Our study shows that climate change is making that behavior more
common, giving us the disastrous European heat wave of 2003 (during
which more than 30,000 people perished), the devastating 2011 Texas
drought (during which ranchers ranchers in Oklahoma and Texas lost
24 percent and 17 percent of their cattle, respectively), the 2016
Alberta wildfire (the costliest natural disaster in Canadian
history) and yes, the extreme summer of 2018.<br>
<br>
Just as climate models almost certainly underestimate the impact
climate change has already had on such weather extremes, projections
from these models also likely underestimate future increases in
these types of events. Our study indicates that we can expect many
more summers like 2018 -- or worse.<br>
<br>
Climate-change deniers love to point to scientific uncertainty as
justification for inaction on climate. But uncertainty is a reason
for even more concerted action. We already know that projections
historically have been too optimistic about the rates of ice sheet
collapse and sea-level rise. Now it appears they are also
underestimating the odds of extreme weather as well. The
consequences of doing nothing grow by the day. The time to act is
now.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-not-rocket-science-climate-change-was-behind-this-summers-extreme-weather/2018/11/02/b8852584-dea9-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html?utm_term=.5d6841d2f924">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-not-rocket-science-climate-change-was-behind-this-summers-extreme-weather/2018/11/02/b8852584-dea9-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html?utm_term=.5d6841d2f924</a></font><br>
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<br>
[enabling techno deceit]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.propublica.org/article/how-big-oil-dodges-facebooks-new-ad-transparency-rules"><b>How
Big Oil Dodges Facebook's New Ad Transparency Rules</b></a><br>
We've identified 12 ad campaigns in which energy, insurance and
other industries masked their sponsorship of political messages on
Facebook.<br>
by Jeremy B. Merrill Nov. 1, 5 a.m. EDT<br>
A Facebook ad in October urged political conservatives to support
the Trump administration's rollback of fuel emission standards,
which it hailed as "our president's car freedom agenda" and "plan
for safer, cheaper cars that WE get to choose." The ad came from a
Facebook page called Energy4US, and it included a disclaimer,
required by Facebook, saying it was "paid for by Energy4US."<br>
<br>
Yet there is no such company or organization as Energy4US, nor is it
any entity's registered trade name, according to a search of
LexisNexis and other databases. Instead, Energy4US -- which Facebook
says spent nearly $20,000 on the ads -- appears to be a front for
American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, a trade association
whose members include ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron and Shell. In 2015,
when the Energy4US website was launched, it was registered to AFPM,
which is also first on a list of "coalition members" on the site.
AFPM, which did not respond to calls and emails for this article,
has spent more than $2.5 million this year lobbying the federal
government, including advocating for less stringent emission
standards.<br>
<br>
Although Facebook now requires every political ad to "accurately
represent the name of the entity or person responsible," the social
media giant acknowledges that it didn't check whether Energy4US is
actually responsible for the ad. Nor did it question 11 other ad
campaigns identified by ProPublica in which U.S. businesses or
individuals masked their sponsorship through faux groups with
public-spirited names. Some of these campaigns resembled a digital
form of what is known as "astroturfing," or hiding behind the mirage
of a spontaneous grassroots movement. In most cases, Facebook users
would have to click on the ad and scrutinize the affiliated website
to find any reference to the actual sponsor...<br>
- - - <br>
Here are the examples found by ProPublica where Facebook has allowed
advertisers to say their ads are "paid for by" a legally nonexistent
group.<br>
<ul>
<li>Energy Citizens, Energy Nation and Explore Offshore Coalition,
actually programs of the American Petroleum Institute. "We are
in compliance with Facebook's advertising rules," API
spokeswoman Natalia Sharova said.</li>
<li>We Stand For Energy, actually a program of the Edison Electric
Institute. EEI spokesman Jeff Ostermayer said, "We have always
been transparent that EEI sponsors We Stand For Energy, and we
are currently in the process of updating all the Facebook ads to
reflect that EEI is sponsoring the ads."</li>
<li>Energy In Depth, actually a program of the Independent
Petroleum Association of America. Seth Whitehead, a team lead
with Energy in Depth, said, "Our role as an IPAA program is
disclosed on every page of our website and in all our
interactions with the media and other third parties. EID's
Facebook profile also clearly notes the program's affiliation
with IPAA. Occasionally, EID will run ads on Facebook, which is
done in full compliance with Facebook's advertising
requirements."</li>
<li>Energy4US, linked to American Fuel & Petrochemical
Manufacturers. AFPM did not return requests for comment.</li>
<li>Long Island Coalition for Healthy Lawn and Water, actual
advertiser unknown. Did not respond to a request for comment via
Facebook Messenger.</li>
<li>Don't Touch My Insurance is "just a name of a campaign"
managed by the Insurance Council of New Jersey, said ICNJ
president Christine O'Brien.</li>
<li>Americans for Fair Courtrooms, actual advertiser unknown. Did
not respond to a request for comment via Facebook messenger.</li>
<li>Texans for Natural Gas is a "is a digital advocacy campaign,"
said a spokesman, Steve Everley, "As clearly disclosed on our
home page, Texans for Natural Gas receives support from three
natural gas producers," EnerVest, EOG Resources and XTO Energy.
XTO Energy is a subsidiary of ExxonMobil.</li>
<li>Connect Americans Now is a "Microsoft-supported community."
Connect Americans Now spokesman Zachary Cikanek said.</li>
<li>Greenlight the Gulch, an ad campaign promoting tax benefits
for a proposed real estate development in downtown Atlanta, is
linked to CIM Group, the project's developer. Spokesman Bill
Mendel said that "all advertising for Greenlight the Gulch --
including on social media and in print -- directs people to the
campaign's website, which clearly states CIM's developer role."</li>
</ul>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.propublica.org/article/how-big-oil-dodges-facebooks-new-ad-transparency-rules">https://www.propublica.org/article/how-big-oil-dodges-facebooks-new-ad-transparency-rules</a><br>
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<br>
[repeal the Laws of Thermodynamics!]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://undark.org/article/satire-science-communication/">Using
Satire to Communicate Science</a></b><br>
10.31.2018 / BY Elizabeth Preston <br>
WE DO NOT care about planet Earth," four French scientists declared
in February in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Research
shows that while satire does carry some risks, it can be an
effective tool for communication. Scientists are giving it a go.<br>
If humans are exhausting the planet's resources, they wrote, it's
Earth that needs to adapt -- not us. The authors issued a warning:
"Should planet Earth stick with its hardline ideological stance…we
will seek a second planet."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://undark.org/article/satire-science-communication/">https://undark.org/article/satire-science-communication/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[lies, liars, pants on fire - video discussion]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK9KCG05HFw">CNN: George
Lakoff and a Truth Sandwich</a></b><br>
greenmanbucket<br>
Published on Nov 2, 2018<br>
Neuro Linguist George Lakoff and panel of journalists discuss how
best to deal with Lies as a Strategy.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK9KCG05HFw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK9KCG05HFw</a></font><br>
- - - <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bXBqb5rkaA">Professor
George Lakoff on Climate Denial and Logic</a></b><br>
Published on Feb 24, 2017<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bXBqb5rkaA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bXBqb5rkaA</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Classic video rant from the Weather Channel]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhdymoRTz6M">A Message to
Breitbart from Weather.com</a></b><br>
The Weather Channel<br>
Published on Dec 6, 2016<br>
Note to Breitbart: Earth is not cooling, climate change Is real and
please stop using our video to mislead Americans. <br>
Full article here <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://weather.com/news/news/breitbart-misleads-americans-climate-change?cm_ven=T_WX_CD_120616_2">https://weather.com/news/news/breitbart-misleads-americans-climate-change?cm_ven=T_WX_CD_120616_2</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhdymoRTz6M">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhdymoRTz6M</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-climate-change-denier-has-a-lot-more-power-354795587758#">This
Day in Climate History - November 4, 2014</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
November 4, 2014: Republican climate-change deniers seize control of
the United States Senate. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/us/politics/midterm-elections.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/us/politics/midterm-elections.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.msnbc.com/now/watch/inhofes-climate-views-could-be-a-big-problem-354648643852#">http://www.msnbc.com/now/watch/inhofes-climate-views-could-be-a-big-problem-354648643852#</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/watch/republicans-push-keystone-xl-354739267954#">http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/watch/republicans-push-keystone-xl-354739267954#</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-climate-change-denier-has-a-lot-more-power-354795587758#">http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-climate-change-denier-has-a-lot-more-power-354795587758#</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/us/politics/republicans-vow-to-fight-epa-and-approve-keystone-pipeline.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/us/politics/republicans-vow-to-fight-epa-and-approve-keystone-pipeline.html</a></font><br>
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