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<i><font size="+1"><b>February 25, 2020</b></font></i><br>
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[over-insulated perhaps]<br>
<b>Mike Bloomberg under fire for 'not very ambitious' climate plan</b><br>
Candidate has offered few details on how he would he achieve goals
as critics say plan lags behind Democratic rivals<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/22/mike-bloomberg-climate-plan-campaign">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/22/mike-bloomberg-climate-plan-campaign</a><br>
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[call for a world government]<br>
<b>We need a world institution for climate and energy</b><br>
Establishing a structure to direct the green transition is key to
success<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ft.com/content/947290a6-5319-11ea-90ad-25e377c0ee1f">https://www.ft.com/content/947290a6-5319-11ea-90ad-25e377c0ee1f</a><br>
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[local TV news in Vermont]<br>
<b>Vt. House approves Global Warming Solutions Act</b><br>
By Calvin Cutler - Feb 21, 2020 <br>
<p>MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) Vermont lawmakers Friday took action to
advance a climate change bill that calls for the state to meet
strict carbon emission reduction targets or face legal
consequences.<br>
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The state has missed the targets for years but now you may be able
to sue the state if it fails to meet those goals.<br>
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The bill would require that by 2025 the state reduce greenhouse
gas emissions by 26% below the 2005 amount and 80% below by 2050.<br>
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The state will create a council that will make a plan to tackle
climate change.<br>
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If the state falls short of meeting its emission goals, then
Vermonters can file lawsuits to get the state back on track.
There's no money involved. It would just be a court order that
demands the state work to meet its goals.<br>
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"This is helping the state keep its promises to Vermonters. These
are promises we've already made. This says we're going to take it
seriously and we're going to have a plan. If we fall down on the
job, you're going to have a way to hold us accountable," said Rep.
Selene Colburn, P-Burlington.<br>
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The Global Warming Solutions Act passed through the House on a
vote of 105-37. That means even if Gov. Phil Scott chooses to veto
the plan, lawmakers can override his decision.<br>
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The Senate will vote on the bill next week.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Vt-House-approves-Global-Warming-Solutions-Act-568079641.html">https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Vt-House-approves-Global-Warming-Solutions-Act-568079641.html</a><br>
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[From the New Yorker]<br>
<b>The One War That the Human Species Can't Lose</b><br>
By Robin Wright <br>
The amount of ice on Earth was pivotal in the creation of human
civilization ten thousand years ago, a fact that
paleo-climatologists only discovered in the late twentieth century.
Scientists now say that ice is the key to peace among civilizations
for millennia to come, too. "The stability and size and mass of
Antarctica is not a bad proxy for how violent the world could
become, in that human civilization was built on a stable climate,"
Spencer Glendon, a senior fellow at the Woods Hole Research Center,
explained to me. "For the first hundred and ninety thousand years
that they were on the planet, humans moved from place to place to
find temperate weather, as ice and deserts shifted and temperatures
moved in wild swings. About 10,000 B.C., the climate stabilized.
When it stabilized, the nice places stayed nice. A stable climate
helped humans stop being nomads. And that's why people settled,"
creating time and space to create humankind's first civilizations.<br>
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"What's coming--or is happening--is the end of the earth's
stability," Glendon told me. "In human terms, that means a return to
migration, but in a population of not just a few million, but
several billion."<br>
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Before I went to Antarctica, I checked in with Donald Perovich, a
geophysicist at Dartmouth who tracks sea ice. We got to talking
about wars. "You can argue that in all wars, there are winners and
losers. Afterward, societies go on. There's an opportunity to
recover and move forward. If you approach climate change as a war,
there are some really severe consequences across the board," he told
me. "This," he added, "is the one war we can't lose."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/antarcticas-ice-the-one-war-that-the-human-species-cant-lose#intcid=recommendations_the-new-yorker-right-rail-popular_142bf0bb-b782-4953-ab23-33b79c3c8ec5_popular4-1">https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/antarcticas-ice-the-one-war-that-the-human-species-cant-lose#intcid=recommendations_the-new-yorker-right-rail-popular_142bf0bb-b782-4953-ab23-33b79c3c8ec5_popular4-1</a><br>
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[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
February 25, 2005 </b></font><br>
In a piece on state-level efforts to address carbon pollution, the
Boston Phoenix's Deirdre Fulton notes:<br>
<blockquote>"Though the United States accounts for almost 25 percent
-- more than any other single country -- of the world's
global-warming emissions, advocates say there's been little
federal action on this issue since at least 2001. That's when
George W. Bush, echoing concerns that had also been voiced by his
predecessor Bill Clinton, opted out of Kyoto, citing national
economic concerns and calling on developing nations to commit to
greater sacrifices than they do under the current agreement. No
wonder China, India, Mexico, and Brazil signed on, say US and
Australian leaders. They have much less to lose as more stringent
emissions regulations go into effect for other nations worldwide.<br>
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"The US position may or may not be fair, but we do know this much:
it doesn't move us very far toward addressing the looming problem
of global warming. And that makes regional and state-level efforts
all the more important."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050315235150/http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multi_3/documents/04495072.asp">http://web.archive.org/web/20050315235150/http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multi_3/documents/04495072.asp</a><br>
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