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<font size="+1"><i>November 7, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[The Late Show 10 min video - serious report]<br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djE-XptVKWI">The Dems'
House Win Is A 'BFD' Says Alex Wagner And John Heilemann</a></b><br>
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<br>
Published on Nov 7, 2018<br>
Showtime's 'The Circus' hosts Alex Wagner And John Heilemann
encourage Democrats not to downplay the importance of their House
win, calling it a 'BFD.' (see: Google's search results for 'BFD').<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djE-XptVKWI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djE-XptVKWI</a><br>
</font>[more comedic responses from the Late Show]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjdDuW1jElQ">Midterms
2018: The Good, The Bad, And Ted Cruz</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjdDuW1jElQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjdDuW1jElQ</a><br>
</font>[comment road ahead uglier] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brZhQbfCxwQ">The Midterms
Panel: John Heilemann, Alex Wagner And Hasan Minhaj</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brZhQbfCxwQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brZhQbfCxwQ</a></font><br>
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[David Roberts has a good roundup of the ballot measures]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/11/7/18069940/election-results-2018-energy-carbon-fracking-ballot-initiatives">Fossil
fuel money crushed clean energy ballot initiatives across the
country</a></b><br>
A carbon tax, limits on fracking, a renewable energy standard -- all
defeated.<br>
<blockquote>The lessons of this year's initiatives<br>
To me, the lesson of this year's energy initiatives is pretty
clear: When big oil wants to, it can spend unlimited amounts of
money and crush efforts at direct democracy.<br>
And it wants to. Where it chose to spend -- notably, on 1631 in
Washington and 112 in Colorado -- it won.<br>
As I said in this piece, this rather puts the lie to the notion
that oil and gas companies plan to be productive partners in the
climate fight. They can and will fight it at the grassroots level.<br>
More broadly, ballot initiatives, like US politics generally, are
becoming a battle of billionaires. Big money flows in virtually
unrestricted. And it is effective.<br>
Decamping from the federal level to the states is not going to
allow clean energy proponents to escape that dynamic.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/11/7/18069940/election-results-2018-energy-carbon-fracking-ballot-initiatives">https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/11/7/18069940/election-results-2018-energy-carbon-fracking-ballot-initiatives</a></font><br>
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[From Nexus Hot News - <a href="https://climatenexus.org/">ClimateNexus</a>]<br>
<b><a
href="https://mailchi.mp/climatenexus/climate-shifts-in-the-house-industry-money-wins-at-the-ballot-box-more">Climate
Shifts in The House:</a></b> Ten Republican members of the House
Climate Solutions Caucus, including co-chair Carlos Curbelo of
Florida, lost their seats Tuesday evening as voters ushered in
Democratic control of the House. Eight retiring GOP members and
representatives who lost their seats earlier in the year in midterms
means that the future of the caucus--which climate hawks have
criticized as ineffectual and providing political cover for
Republicans--could be in jeopardy. Tuesday's Democratic shakeup also
made way for a handful of new climate-focused progressives focused
on enacting a "Green New Deal" to form a small bloc in the new
Congress. And incumbent Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in an interview
with the New York Times last week that she would urge the House to
reestablish a climate-focused panel to "prepare the way with
evidence" for climate and clean energy policies and disaster
preparation<span style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-size: 14px;
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0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !
important; float: none;">. (Climate Solutions Caucus:<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/curbelo-fl-26_us_5bd9dbbbe4b01abe6a1a8392?mha"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(221, 41, 83); font-weight:
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Huffington Post</a><span style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61);
font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
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255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline ! important; float: none;">,<span> </span></span><a
href="https://grist.org/article/the-midterms-could-spell-the-end-of-this-bipartisan-climate-caucus/"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(221, 41, 83); font-weight:
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Grist</a><span style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-size:
14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
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normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
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0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !
important; float: none;">,</span><a
href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/11/future-of-house-climate-caucus-in-doubt-as-carlos-curbelo-concedes/"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(221, 41, 83); font-weight:
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Mother Jones</a><span style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61);
font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline ! important; float: none;">. Green New
Deal:<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/green-new-deal-progressive-democrats_us_5be26f5be4b0769d24c6a954?jz"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(221, 41, 83); font-weight:
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text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Huffington Post</a><span style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61);
font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline ! important; float: none;">. Pelosi:<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/us/politics/house-democrats-nancy-pelosi.html"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(221, 41, 83); font-weight:
normal; text-decoration: underline; font-size: 14px; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
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text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">New York Times</a><span style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61);
font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
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255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline ! important; float: none;"><span> </span>$)</span><br>
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[Day after election - Washington Post Opinion]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2018/11/06/the-energy-202-climate-change-isn-t-usually-a-big-issue-for-voters-but-the-u-n-report-gave-some-democrats-a-talking-point/5be0acdb1b326b39290545f9/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5bf42897fc39">The
Energy 202: Climate change isn't usually a big issue for voters.
But the U.N. report gave some Democrats a talking point.</a></b><br>
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Climate change usually doesn't play at the polls. Voters invariably
rank more immediate and personal concerns, such as paying their own
medical expenses or tax bills, as higher priorities than addressing
the steady rise in temperatures globally. <br>
<br>
Nevertheless, some Democratic candidates chose to talk about climate
change on the 2018 campaign trail anyway, seeking to counter
President Trump's dismissal of the climate science saying human
activity is dangerously warming the planet. <br>
<br>
That handful of House hopefuls got some ammunition this October: A
report from the leading climate scientists that the world is close
to failure in holding man-made global warming to moderate levels.<br>
<br>
On Oct. 7, only 30 days before Election Day, the United Nations'
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported the
world's nations need to undertake "unprecedented" action to cut
their carbon emissions over the next decade enough to keep the
planet from warming 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit,
past preindustrial levels.<br>
<br>
The timing could not have been better for the smattering of
Democratic nominees who want to contrast their environmental agenda
with the GOP's. They pointed to the U.N.'s findings as reason the
United States needs to rein in greenhouse gas emission -- and, even
more immediately, why the nation needs to elect them to office.<br>
<br>
"What it said in a nutshell -- I'll save you some time -- we've got
about 15 years to take action," Mike Levin, a Democratic House
candidate, told voters in suburban Southern California, according to
the Washington Examiner.<br>
Other Democrats referred to that tight time frame as well. Elaine
Luria, the Democratic challenger in Virginia's 2nd District on the
commonwealth's coast, said the report representing the work of
nearly 100 scientists is "a wake-up call for all of us to take
climate change seriously." Sean Casten, running for Congress in
suburban Chicago, called it a "wake-up call," too. <br>
<br>
"We have 10 years to get climate under control," he told the Daily
Herald in Illinois...<br>
<font size="-1">more at -</font> <font size="-1"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2018/11/06/the-energy-202-climate-change-isn-t-usually-a-big-issue-for-voters-but-the-u-n-report-gave-some-democrats-a-talking-point/5be0acdb1b326b39290545f9/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5bf42897fc39">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2018/11/06/the-energy-202-climate-change-isn-t-usually-a-big-issue-for-voters-but-the-u-n-report-gave-some-democrats-a-talking-point/5be0acdb1b326b39290545f9/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5bf42897fc39</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Surprise] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/06/uk-renewable-energy-capacity-surpasses-fossil-fuels-for-first-time">UK
renewable energy capacity surpasses fossil fuels for first time</a></b><br>
Renewable capacity has tripled in past five years, even faster
growth than the 'dash for gas' of the 1990s<br>
The capacity of renewable energy has overtaken that of fossil fuels
in the UK for the first time, in a milestone that experts said would
have been unthinkable a few years ago.<br>
<br>
In the past five years, the amount of renewable capacity has tripled
while fossil fuels' has fallen by one-third, as power stations
reached the end of their life or became uneconomic.<br>
<br>
The result is that between July and September, the capacity of wind,
solar, biomass and hydropower reached 41.9 gigawatts, exceeding the
41.2GW capacity of coal, gas and oil-fired power plants...<br>
<font size="-1">more at -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/06/uk-renewable-energy-capacity-surpasses-fossil-fuels-for-first-time">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/06/uk-renewable-energy-capacity-surpasses-fossil-fuels-for-first-time</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[overshoot]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://mailchi.mp/climatenewsnetwork/world-lacks-enough-plants-for-healthy-diet?e=30dc80e2f6">World
lacks enough plants for healthy diet</a></b><br>
Guidelines for a healthy diet emphasise fresh fruit and vegetables.
Right now, there may not be enough in the gardens to nourish a
cooler, healthier world.<br>
By Tim Radford<br>
LONDON, 5 November, 2018 − Canadian scientists have confirmed once
again that a healthy diet is the best way to help contain global
warming and feed 9.8 billion people by 2050. And that involves,
among other things, a global shift away from meat-eating and towards
consuming plants instead.<br>
<br>
But they have also done the sums and identified a problem: the world
just does not produce enough of the fruits and vegetables that are
at the heart of nutritional health guidelines almost everywhere.<br>
<br>
"We simply can't all adopt a healthy diet under the current global
agricultural system," said Evan Fraser, a researcher in global food
security at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.<br>
<br>
"Results show that the global system currently overproduces grains,
fats and sugars, while production of fruit and vegetables and, to a
smaller degree, protein is not sufficient to meet the nutritional
needs of the current population."<br>
<br>
"The only way to eat a nutritionally balanced diet, save land and
reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to consume and produce more
fruits and vegetables"<br>
<br>
It has become an axiom of climate science that the clearing of
wilderness to create more pasture and fodder crops for livestock can
only accelerate global warming, and a global shift to the US and
north European diet would require an extra billion hectares of
grazing land...<br>
<font size="-1">more at - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://mailchi.mp/climatenewsnetwork/world-lacks-enough-plants-for-healthy-diet?e=30dc80e2f6">https://mailchi.mp/climatenewsnetwork/world-lacks-enough-plants-for-healthy-diet?e=30dc80e2f6</a></font><br>
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PUBLIC RELEASE: 25-OCT-2018<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/uog-nef102518.php">Not
enough fruits, vegetables grown to feed the planet, U of G study
reveals</a></b><br>
University of Guelph researchers compared global agricultural
production with nutritionists' consumption recommendations and found
we aren't producing enough fruits and vegetables to feed everyone on
the planet a healthy diet<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/uog-nef102518.php">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/uog-nef102518.php</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
THE CENTER FOR CLIMATE & SECURITY<br>
EXPLORING THE SECURITY RISKS OF CLIMATE CHANGE<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2018/11/06/chairman-of-the-joint-chiefs-climate-change-a-source-of-conflict-around-the-world/">Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs: Climate change a source of conflict around
the world</a></b><br>
General_Joseph_F._DunfordAt an event hosted by Duke University's
Program in American Grand Strategy, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, General Joe Dunford, responded to a question on climate
change from a student in the audience. Here's what he said
(beginning at 1:23:56 here):<br>
<blockquote>When we look at, when I look at, climate change, it's in
the category of sources of conflict around the world and things we
have to respond to. So it can be great devastation requiring
humanitarian assistance/ disaster relief, which the U.S. military
certainly conducts routinely. In fact, I can't think of a year
since I've been on active duty that we haven't conducted at least
one operation in the Pacific along those lines due to extreme
weather in the Pacific. And then, when you look at source of
conflict – shortages of water, and those kind of things – those
are all sources of conflict. So, it is very much something that we
take into account in our planning as we anticipate when, where and
how we may be engaged in the future and what capabilities we
should have.<br>
</blockquote>
General Dunford joins a growing list of 18 other senior military
leaders appointed by the current President who have identified
climate change as a security risk that is affecting the U.S.
military, and that the U.S. military is dealing with.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKvpHtLs7sY&feature=youtu.be">Click
here to watch the entire event with General Dunford</a>.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2018/11/06/chairman-of-the-joint-chiefs-climate-change-a-source-of-conflict-around-the-world/">https://climateandsecurity.org/2018/11/06/chairman-of-the-joint-chiefs-climate-change-a-source-of-conflict-around-the-world/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[UK Activism YouTube video channel]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYThdLKE6TDwBJh-qDC6ICA">Rising
Up</a><br>
The Rising Up! network promotes a fundamental change of our
political and economic system to one which maximises well-being and
minimises harm. We believe change needs to be nurtured in a culture
of reverence, gratitude and inclusion; whilst the tools of civil
disobedience and direct action are used to express our collective
power.<br>
We are open to experimentation and reflection, trying to learn from
successful methods of organising. Any individual or group can take
actions in the spirit and name of RisingUp without permission, if it
fits RisingUp "DNA"; this covers our vision for change, our
understanding of why change is needed, our decentralised structure,
principles and values and our strategy and tactics.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYThdLKE6TDwBJh-qDC6ICA">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYThdLKE6TDwBJh-qDC6ICA</a></font><br>
- -<br>
[Aiming for Nov 17th Parliament Square, London]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To5tZpjkakU">Intro to
Extinction Rebellion</a></b><br>
RisingUp!<br>
Premiered Oct 25, 2018<br>
We are in an ecological crisis, mass extinction is already happening
and human extinction is now a real risk.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To5tZpjkakU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To5tZpjkakU</a></font><br>
<br>
<b><br>
</b>[magical thinking]<b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-climate-change-back-on-own-denies-government-report-2018-11">Trump
says he thinks the Earth will cool back down, denying his own
administration's climate change report<br>
</a></b>
<blockquote>"Will it go back like this?" Trump asked, making an up
and down waving motion with his hand. "I mean will it change back?
Probably, that's what I think."<br>
<br>
"I believe it goes this way," he said, again waving his hand up
and down.<br>
<br>
"We do have an impact, but I don't believe the impact is nearly
what some scientists say, and other scientists dispute those
findings very strongly," Trump said.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-climate-change-back-on-own-denies-government-report-2018-11">https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-climate-change-back-on-own-denies-government-report-2018-11</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[The hubris of cybernetic investments]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://carbon.ycombinator.com/">Y
Combinator's Search For a Climate Change Unicorn</a></b><br>
By Edd Gent - Nov 5, 2018<br>
Silicon Valley's premier tech incubator, Y Combinator, has decided
to take on climate change. They've put out a call for proposals for
technology that can suck CO2 from the air in the hope of reversing
our seemingly inexorable march towards a catastrophic 2C increase in
global temperatures.<br>
<br>
An incubator that became famous for spawning internet-based unicorns
like AirBnB, DropBox, and Stripe is not the most obvious vehicle for
supporting next-generation geoengineering approaches. But with
sluggish action on climate change, they've decided to bring Silicon
Valley's disruptive potential to bear on carbon sequestration
technology.<br>
<br>
The call comes hot on the heels of the IPCC's recent warning that we
need to limit warming to 1.5C rather than 2C to avoid serious
adverse effects. And with growing pessimism around efforts to curb
emissions, most scenarios in the report suggest we will need to
combine dramatic expansion in renewable energy with removal of huge
amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere.<br>
<font size="-1">more at - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://singularityhub.com/2018/11/05/y-combinators-search-for-a-climate-change-unicorn/#sm.00001x3m0yvi5bcsirbonnmn03j4u">https://singularityhub.com/2018/11/05/y-combinators-search-for-a-climate-change-unicorn/#sm.00001x3m0yvi5bcsirbonnmn03j4u</a><br>
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</font>[Request for Startups]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://carbon.ycombinator.com/">Carbon
Removal Technologies</a></b><font size="-1"><br>
</font>Climate Change<br>
Climate change presents an existential threat to humanity. We are
already seeing the effects and they are showing up faster and
stronger than anticipated. A report by United Nations' scientific
panel on climate change released this month expects the
atmosphere-on our current trajectory-to warm up by 1.5 degrees
Celsius by 2040. Even the effects of a 0.5 degrees increase will
have far-reaching consequences. This research indicates that we are
already past the tipping point; even if we significantly reduced
emissions, climate change would continue (Source IPCC summary C3
section). We believe there's still time to make a change if we look
both to renewal energy and CO2 removal.<br>
<font size="-1">more at - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://carbon.ycombinator.com/">http://carbon.ycombinator.com/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Too hot to work]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bradenton.com/news/state/florida/article220833555.html">Florida
heat is already hard on outdoor workers. Climate change will
raise health risks<br>
</a></b>BY ALEX HARRIS<br>
Updated November 1, 2018 <br>
Harvesting crops or building a house in the Florida sun is grueling
work, and a new report shows that it'll only get more miserable and
unsafe for workers as climate change sends temperatures soaring.<br>
<br>
By at least one safety standard, it was too hot for Floridians to do
very heavy labor (like digging with a shovel) for at least an hour a
day almost every single day this summer.<br>
<br>
Unworkable, a report from Public Citizen and the Farmworker
Association of Florida released Tuesday, spells out the risks to the
state's large population of outdoor workers, particularly
construction and agricultural workers.<br>
- - -<br>
Emory University's Girasoles Study involved 250 agricultural workers
in central and South Florida, including Homestead. Researchers gave
workers temperatures pills that measured their core body temperature
from the inside, strapped heart rate monitors to them, took blood
and urine samples and surveyed them about the kind of work they do
and how they stay cool.<br>
<br>
Half the workers started the day dehydrated, and three quarters
finished it that way.<br>
<br>
Four in five workers had a core body temperature over 100 degrees
Fahrenheit at least one study day -- the tipping point for risk of
serious heat injury. One in three workers had acute kidney injury at
stage one or higher on at least one study day.<br>
<br>
One man showed up to participate in the study and was immediately
hospitalized, Economos said. His kidneys were in such bad shape he's
been on dialysis ever since.<br>
<br>
Crank the heat up another few degrees on average and the concerns
multiply. An analysis by Climate Central shows Miami experienced an
average of zero "danger days" -- days where the combination of heat
and humidity make it feel like 105 degrees Fahrenheit outside -- in
2010 to 2014. That jumps to an average of 132 danger days a year in
2025 to 2034 if nothing is done to check global warming.<br>
<br>
In Saudia Arabia, outdoor work is banned from noon to 3 p.m. for
three months of the year to protect workers from dangerous
conditions. Public Citizen's Managing Director David Arkush said
rising global temperatures could spread that policy around the globe
-- maybe even to Florida.<br>
<br>
"We would be losing most of the outdoor labor in the south during
the summer by the end of the century," he said. "In the hottest
places, including probably South Florida, even nighttime work could
become too hot."<br>
<font size="-1">more at - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bradenton.com/news/state/florida/article220833555.html">https://www.bradenton.com/news/state/florida/article220833555.html</a></font><br>
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[Rattus rattius]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-rat-explosion-climate-change-1007-20181105-story.html">Commentary:
Climate change is scary. 'Rat explosion' is way scarier.</a></b><br>
Faye Flam<br>
What's so scary about climate change?<br>
<br>
The term is not scary -- at least not in a visceral, skin-crawling
sense. Scientists have shown that the likely 2 degrees of global
warming to come this century will be extremely dangerous, but, you
know, "2 degrees" is hardly a phrase from nightmares and horror
films.<br>
<br>
How about "rat explosion"?<br>
<br>
As the climate warms, rats in New York, Philadelphia and Boston are
breeding faster -- and experts warn of a population explosion.<br>
<br>
Like rats, humans are hardy animals, and we've adapted to all kinds
of climates. So it can be tempting to brush off the prospect of 2
degrees of warming. Especially for Americans, who mostly use
Fahrenheit. That 2 degree warming is Celsius. Think of 3.6 degrees
Fahrenheit. Still not scared? Fine.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-rat-explosion-climate-change-1007-20181105-story.html">https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-rat-explosion-climate-change-1007-20181105-story.html</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://youtu.be/A5PRSuCW1eY">This Day in Climate History
- November 7, 2014 </a>- from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
November 7, 2014:<br>
HBO's Bill Maher denounces the climate-change deniers who seized
control of the Senate earlier in the week. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/A5PRSuCW1eY">http://youtu.be/A5PRSuCW1eY</a></font><br>
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