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<font size="+1"><i>November 5, 2018</i></font><br>
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[process of choosing]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.vox.com/2018/10/29/18022736/2018-midterm-elections-climate-change-voters-guide">This
group is helping voters make sense of which candidates take
climate change seriously</a></b><br>
Vote Climate US PAC's guide to House and Senate races scores
candidates on their positions on climate change and a carbon price.<br>
By Umair Irfan Updated Nov 4, 2018, 9:37am EST<br>
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Climate change, a major threat to the United States, has become
impossible to ignore this election season, and is finding its way
into midterm debates, along with gun violence, health care, and
immigration.<br>
<br>
In places like Florida, the devastation wrought by Hurricane Michael
placed the consequences of the warming world front and center in the
minds of many voters. And earlier this month, the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change warned that the world may have as little as
12 years to limit warming this century to 1.5 degrees Celsius.<br>
At the same time, clean energy is booming, but many states are
seeing a concerted push to roll back climate policies and to boost
fossil fuels.<br>
<font size="-1">more at - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.vox.com/2018/10/29/18022736/2018-midterm-elections-climate-change-voters-guide">https://www.vox.com/2018/10/29/18022736/2018-midterm-elections-climate-change-voters-guide</a></font><br>
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[projections for your location]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.vox.com/a/weather-climate-change-us-cities-global-warming">WEATHER
2050 America is warming fast.</a></b><br>
See how your city's weather will be different in just one
generation.<br>
By Umair Irfan, Eliza Barclay, and Kavya Sukumar<br>
Our world is getting warmer. This we know.<br>
Just look at Los Angeles, which experienced all-time record heat in
July, topping out at 118 degrees Fahrenheit. Dozens of other heat
records across the United States were smashed this summer alone.<br>
<br>
But how much will temperatures in US cities change by 2050? By then,
scientists say average global warming since preindustrial levels
could be about twice what it is in 2018 -- and much more obvious and
disruptive. It's a world you'll (probably) be living in. And it's
the one we're definitely handing off to the next generation.<br>
<br>
To answer this question, we looked at the average summer high and
winter low temperatures in 1,000 cities in the continental US,
comparing recorded and modeled temperatures from 1986 to 2015 to
projections for 2036 to 2065. This offers us the best possible
estimate on how much winters and summers will shift from 2000 to
2050. (More on our methodology here.)<br>
<br>
Here's how much the winters and summers in the city closest to you
are predicted to change about 30 years from now.<br>
<br>
Winters and summers will be warmer in every city by 2050. Type in
other cities to see for yourself:<br>
<font size="-1">more at - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.vox.com/a/weather-climate-change-us-cities-global-warming">https://www.vox.com/a/weather-climate-change-us-cities-global-warming</a></font><br>
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[Vote, says the talking penguin - 2 videos]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwBr_8fvWaM">Earth for
America: Breaking News Ahead of the Midterms</a></b><br>
Climate Reality<br>
Published on Nov 2, 2018<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://earthforamerica.com/">https://earthforamerica.com/</a><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7f6yfxGFmo">Earth: A New
Breed of Politician</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7f6yfxGFmo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7f6yfxGFmo</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwBr_8fvWaM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwBr_8fvWaM</a><br>
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<br>
[New Yorker text and audio]<br>
November 5, 2018 Issue<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/05/the-day-the-great-plains-burned">The
Day the Great Plains Burned</a></b><br>
Alerts had been going out for weeks that conditions in Oklahoma,
Kansas, and Texas were perfect for wildfires.<b> </b>On<b> March 6,
2017</b>, the prairie went up in flames.<br>
By Ian Frazier<br>
Slapout, Oklahoma, at the intersection of a county road and a much
used east-west state highway, has a population of five...<br>
- - -<br>
In the dark of early morning, it's jumping with truckers, oil-field
workers, guys who drive the county road graders, and farmers who
have been baling hay all night. A hand-lettered sign on the door
reads "Please hang on to the door." This is so the howling prairie
wind won't keep yanking it open and undoing the feeling of comfort
inside.<br>
- - -<br>
For weeks, the National Weather Service out of Norman, Oklahoma,
Amarillo, Texas, and Dodge City, Kansas, had been sending alerts.
The conditions were perfect for wildfires. There had been almost no
precipitation for six months; before that, however, a lot of rain
had fallen, and now the plentiful prairie grasses stood up tall and
tinder-dry. On some days, like this one, the winds blew at
fifty-plus miles an hour, while the humidity dipped down into the
single digits. An ice storm in January had damaged scores of power
lines, making them more vulnerable. Often, the Weather Service
alerts are mainly precautionary. But on this day the south-central
Great Plains did indeed catch fire. Huge wildfires spread over the
Texas and Oklahoma panhandles and in western Kansas, with a smaller
burn in Colorado...<br>
<font size="-1">more at - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/05/the-day-the-great-plains-burned">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/05/the-day-the-great-plains-burned</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Compliance]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/11/the-role-harassment-plays-in-climate-change-denial/">The
Role Harassment Plays in Climate Change Denial</a></b><br>
Many of the same patterns have appeared when extremists attack other
targets.<br>
REBECCA LEBER - NOVEMBER 2, 2018 <br>
- - -<br>
The link between hate groups and climate denial is complex and
anecdotal at best, with little research examining the overlap
between the two. But there is enough anecdotal experience to prompt
prominent figures who study and advance science and policy to see a
connection. In an interview with Mother Jones, Steyer said he sees
the intolerance and hyperpartisanship that has marked the GOP as
fundamentally connected with the party's "willingness to directly
lie" on climate change science...<br>
- - -<br>
"Climate change was really one of the seminal points for the
Republicans because they decided they could straight-up lie," he
said in a phone interview. "When you look at the kind of violent and
dehumanizing rhetoric that the president has indulged in, it's
entirely consistent with the idea that there is no cost to lying,
there is no cost to really attacking the basic interest of the
American people. So I think climate was the template."<br>
<br>
These questions about tensions concerning the climate change debate
are not as well understood or explicitly drawn as the immigration
debate, where George Soros is charged in coded language with pulling
all the strings in a vast global conspiracy, as the New York Times
reported, to "undermine the established order and a proponent of
diluting the white, Christian nature of their societies through
immigration."<br>
<br>
But the right's denial of climate change science nonetheless repeats
many of the same patterns that have appeared in other extremist
targets, from guns to immigration to abortion. These patterns
include the appropriation of Nazi or anti-Semitic imagery, the
demonization of funders and prominent advocates, and the distortion
of the terms of the debate. Climate change has become another
flashpoint for irrational, hateful, sometimes violent rhetoric, and
even personal attacks on people who have risen to some prominence as
scientists, funders, and advocates. <br>
<br>
Stephan Lewandowsky, a University of Bristol cognitive scientist who
studies science denial, notes how the virulently anti-government
message that has long dominated climate denial discourse shares
common themes with people who believe in conspiracy theories writ
large. "Science as well as respect for others' religions or
ethnicity are considered establishment norms, just like
truth-telling, and hence the people who support (and are incited by)
Donald Trump are likely to reject all of those norms," Lewandowsky
tells Mother Jones, "which again would link science denial,
anti-Semitism, and conspiracy theories as a cluster or related
phenomena."... <br>
- - - <br>
Katharine Hayhoe, a Texas Tech climate scientist and self-identified
evangelical Christian, often invokes her faith in explaining the
need to act to slow down the progress of global warming. Often
prominent deniers invoke their faith to advance fossil-fuel-friendly
talking points--think Scott Pruitt, who invoked God to justify
burning fossil fuels. Hayhoe, who also finds herself facing
harassment for her work, draws on her religion to make a moral case
to act on the scientific evidence, not bury one's head in the
ground. A scientist alarmed by the impacts of climate change, she
has also observed that the anger surrounding the climate debate may
have its roots in similar impulses present in other toxic debates.
"I think that right now we're facing a time of tremendous change in
race, gender, socioeconomic status, and privilege. It's especially
frightening if you feel you're going to lose from the change."<br>
<br>
That fear of change and uncertainty, Hayhoe thinks, is connected to
the anger. Replacing coal, oil, and gas, which we've used for
hundreds of years, with solar panels and wind turbines, is still
another example of the unpredictability inherent in change.<br>
<br>
"I think we often tend to treat these issues as all separate
issues," she says. "Rejection of climate change and harassment of
scientists is a package. It's not an issue that stands by itself. It
goes along with symbols of change, racial issues and gender issues
and political."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/11/the-role-harassment-plays-in-climate-change-denial/">https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/11/the-role-harassment-plays-in-climate-change-denial/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Classic video sample]<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>
Climate One<br>
Published on Feb 24, 2017<br>
George Lakoff, a professor of linguistics at UC Berkeley discusses
climate denial. "Climate deniers don't come around and say I'm going
to deny climate or I'm going to deny science," Lakoff said. Adding
"They don't do that at all." <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bXBqb5rkaA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bXBqb5rkaA</a></font><br>
- - -<br>
[Full Program video 1:11:09]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enE9MyzwFA8">Why Facts
Don't Trump the President (Full Program)</a></b><br>
Climate One<br>
Published on Mar 14, 2017<br>
Facts are overrated. Sure, they are the concrete foundation of
narratives and they should be defended when the president of the
United States and his team make false claims. But the obsession with
facts can be taken too far at the expense of other deeper means of
communication.<br>
George Lakoff says if progressives want to learn from the election
of Donald Trump they need to change what they study in college, how
they think about facts as adults, understand framing and learn to
repeat, repeat, repeat. Robert Rosenthal joins us from The Center
For Investigative Reporting to help us understand the importance of
facts in reporting.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enE9MyzwFA8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enE9MyzwFA8</a></font><br>
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<br>
[UK study]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.ft.com/content/99d5c50a-30bf-39c0-b67d-6752abd7e53d">Pension
funds fail to insulate against climate-change risks</a></b><br>
Few UK schemes have specific policy covering effect of global
warming on investment returns<br>
Only 5 per cent of the UK's biggest corporate pension funds, which
collectively oversee £479bn in assets, have a policy on climate
change despite growing concern about the possible effect of global
warming on returns.<br>
<br>
None of the 43 funds analysed had a target for investment in
low-carbon, energy-efficient or sustainable assets, while all also
lacked a decarbonisation target for their investment portfolio,
according to research by Pinsent Masons, the law firm.<br>
<br>
The lack of action comes despite pressure from policymakers and
investors for pension funds to factor the risks of climate change
into investment decisions.<br>
<br>
This year, 14 of the UK's biggest pension funds, including the Tesco
Pension Scheme, British Airways Pensions and the BP Pension Fund,
were warned by lawyers that they risk legal action if they fail to
consider the effect of climate change on their portfolios...<br>
<font size="-1">more at - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ft.com/content/99d5c50a-30bf-39c0-b67d-6752abd7e53d">https://www.ft.com/content/99d5c50a-30bf-39c0-b67d-6752abd7e53d</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Dave Roberts report]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/10/26/18026074/koch-industries-bp-colorado-washington-fracking-carbon-tax">Big
Oil is using brute financial force to kill 2 state
sustainability initiatives</a></b><br>
Oil and gas has dumped at least $47 million into efforts to crush
ballot measures in Washington and Colorado.<br>
By David Roberts - Nov 4, 2018<br>
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) makes it vividly clear that averting catastrophic climate
change means rapidly reducing the use of fossil fuels, getting as
close to zero as possible, as soon as practicably possible. The US
needs to fully decarbonize by mid-century or shortly thereafter.<br>
<br>
Big Oil, at least with its public face, has acknowledged that
reality and is supporting a revenue-neutral carbon tax in the US
(one that, not incidentally, would shelter the industry from legal
threats based on climate change). It is attempting to act, or at
least to be seen as acting, as a reasonable partner in the federal
climate effort.<br>
<br>
Down at the state level, where media pays less attention? Not so
much.<br>
<br>
Take what's happening in Washington and Colorado. In those states,
citizens who are tired of waiting for their elected officials to act
are resorting to direct democracy: with ballot initiatives, up for
votes on November 6, that would directly take on fossil fuels.
(Washington's would put a price on carbon emissions; Colorado's
would radically reduce oil and gas drilling.)...<br>
- - -<br>
Climate hawks often debate whether it works to frame Big Oil as the
villain in the climate fight. But it's not really a "messaging"
question here. In these state fights over fossil fuels, Big Oil is
playing the villain in a very non-metaphorical, non-symbolic way, in
the form of spending outrageous amounts of money to fight off
climate action.<br>
<br>
These initiatives illustrate, if it wasn't already obvious, that
state-by-state climate policy is going to be an uphill battle. In
each state, support for the climate side comes from underfunded
citizen and public-interest groups -- and for the most part, only
the ones inside the state. Meanwhile, Big Oil, backed by
ideologically aligned billionaires like the Koch brothers, has
effectively unlimited funds to spend on every one of these fights.
It's overwhelmingly asymmetrical.<br>
- - -<br>
<font size="-1">more at - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/10/26/18026074/koch-industries-bp-colorado-washington-fracking-carbon-tax">https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/10/26/18026074/koch-industries-bp-colorado-washington-fracking-carbon-tax</a></font><br>
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<br>
[lax enforcement]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/climate/china-ozone-cfcs.html">More
Evidence Points to China as Source of Ozone-Depleting Gas</a></b><br>
By Chris Buckley - Nov. 3, 2018<br>
BEIJING -- An environmental group says it has new evidence showing
that China is behind the resurgence of a banned industrial gas that
not only destroys the planet's protective ozone layer but also
contributes to global warming.<br>
<br>
The gas, trichlorofluoromethane, or CFC-11, is supposed to be phased
out worldwide under the Montreal Protocol, the global agreement to
protect the ozone layer. In May, however, scientists published
research showing that CFC-11 levels in the atmosphere had begun
falling more slowly. Their findings suggested significant new
emissions of the gas, most likely from East Asia.<br>
Evidence then uncovered by The New York Times and the Environmental
Investigation Agency pointed to rogue factories in China as a likely
major source...<br>
<font size="-1">more at - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/climate/china-ozone-cfcs.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/climate/china-ozone-cfcs.html</a></font><br>
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[chilling report]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://content.eia-global.org/posts/documents/000/000/796/original/EIA_US_CFC11_MOP30.pdf?1541105595">EIA
Briefing to the 30th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal
Protocol</a></b><br>
Tip of The iceberg: implications of illegal cfc production and Use<br>
November 2018<br>
In May 2018 scientists revealed that atmospheric levels of CFC-11, a
potent ozone depleting substance banned globally since 2010, were
significantly higher than expected, indicating new illegal
production and use of CFC-11 occurring in East Asia.<br>
EIA investigations quickly pinpointed that illegal use of CFC-11 in
China's polyurethane (PU) foam insulation sector was likely a major
source of the new emissions. Eighteen out of 22 companies
interviewed from ten provinces confirmed using CFC-11 as the main
blowing agent in the production of foam panels and spray foams.<br>
Traders and buyers of CFC-11 in China repeatedly stated that it was
used in the majority of China's rigid PU foam sector...<br>
<font size="-1">full report- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://content.eia-global.org/posts/documents/000/000/796/original/EIA_US_CFC11_MOP30.pdf?1541105595">https://content.eia-global.org/posts/documents/000/000/796/original/EIA_US_CFC11_MOP30.pdf?1541105595</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/nov/05/scientists-warned-the-president-about-global-warming-50-years-ago-today">This
Day in Climate History - November 5, 1965 </a>- from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
November 5, 1965: President Johnson's Science Advisory Committee
issues <br>
a report, "Restoring the Quality of Our Environment," that cites the
<br>
hazards of carbon pollution.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/nov/05/scientists-warned-the-president-about-global-warming-50-years-ago-today">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/nov/05/scientists-warned-the-president-about-global-warming-50-years-ago-today</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://dge.carnegiescience.edu/labs/caldeiralab/Caldeira%20downloads/PSAC,%201965,%20Restoring%20the%20Quality%20of%20Our%20Environment.pdf">https://dge.carnegiescience.edu/labs/caldeiralab/Caldeira%20downloads/PSAC,%201965,%20Restoring%20the%20Quality%20of%20Our%20Environment.pdf</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/Caldeira%20downloads/PSAC,%201965,%20Restoring%20the%20Quality%20of%20Our%20Environment.pdf">http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/Caldeira%20downloads/PSAC,%201965,%20Restoring%20the%20Quality%20of%20Our%20Environment.pdf</a><br>
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