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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>March 20, 2020</b></font></i></p>
[political news]<br>
<b>Democrats Want to Include Climate Action in Coronavirus Aid</b><br>
The two main proposals are for airlines to reduce carbon emissions
and to extend clean-tech tax credits..<br>
<blockquote>"Aviation currently accounts for around 2.5% of global
greenhouse gas emissions. But that percentage is expected to
triple by midcentury as tourism and travel expand..."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/democrats-want-to-include-climate-action-in-coronavirus-aid/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/democrats-want-to-include-climate-action-in-coronavirus-aid/</a><br>
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[See clearly]<br>
<b>Coronavirus: Air pollution and CO2 fall rapidly as virus spreads</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51944780">https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51944780</a><br>
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[Ooops! nearly an eights of an inch]<br>
<b>Greenland's melting ice raised global sea level by 2.2mm in two
months</b><br>
<b> </b>Analysis of satellite data reveals astounding loss of 600bn
tons of ice last summer as Arctic experienced hottest year on
record...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/19/greenland-ice-melt-sea-level-rise-climate-crisis">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/19/greenland-ice-melt-sea-level-rise-climate-crisis</a><br>
[What happens when ice packs and ice sheets are raised a fraction of
an inch?]<br>
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[certainly so]<br>
<b>Climate Voters Still Want More From Biden</b><br>
By Lisa Friedman<br>
March 19, 2020<br>
WASHINGTON -- Ardent climate change voters thought Campaign 2020 was
going to be their election.<br>
<br>
Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington centered his entire presidential
campaign on the issue. When he dropped out, Tom Steyer, Senator
Elizabeth Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders each clamored for the
mantle of 'climate candidate' with a series of increasingly
ambitious calls for action.<br>
<br>
Now, some climate-focused voters said they are struggling with their
feelings as former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. appears
certain to become the Democratic nominee. In interviews with two
dozen activists and voters who consider the planet's warming their
top issue, almost all said they worried that Mr. Biden has not made
the issue a sufficient priority or been specific enough about his
plans.<br>
"The response to Biden on climate change ranges from suspicion to
resignation," said Megan Mullin, an associate professor of
environmental politics at Duke University's Nicholas School of the
Environment."He doesn't talk about it very much, and he doesn't talk
about it very convincingly," she said.<br>
Multiple polls have found climate change has been among the top
three issues for Democrats in the 2020 primary, often second only to
health care. And many Democratic voters are happy with the
front-runner. One Super Tuesday exit poll found that 34 percent of
voters who cited climate change as their most important issue went
for Mr. Biden, compared to 28 percent who voted for Mr. Sanders.<br>
Mr. Biden said this week he was prepared to act aggressively. After
winning three more states that held primaries on Tuesday, he
extended an appeal, "especially to the young voters who have been
inspired by Senator Sanders: I hear you. I know what is at stake.
And I know what we have to do."<br>
<br>
But Mr. Biden has resisted tacking left on climate change these past
few weeks in the way he did recently when he endorsed Senator
Warren's bankruptcy plan.<br>
<br>
His climate change plan would inject $1.7 trillion into the economy
with an aim of achieving zero emissions in the United States by
2050. Mr. Sanders, in comparison, calls for spending $16 trillion
and completely eliminating fossil fuels from the American economy by
2050. Asked about it Sunday in a debate, Mr. Biden was unapologetic.<br>
<br>
"It is ambitious enough to tackle the crisis," Mr. Biden said.
Noting his home state of Delaware is three feet above sea level and
vulnerable to warming, he told Mr. Sanders, "I don't need a lecture
on what's going to happen about rising seas."...<br>
- - - <br>
He pointed to his introduction, as a senator, of one of the first
bills on climate change and his efforts in the Obama administration
on the Paris Agreement. He also noted that, as part of the 2009
Recovery Act, he helped direct $90 billion toward clean energy
investments that helped bring down the costs of solar and wind
energy.<br>
<br>
"That's why not another new coal plant will be built," Mr. Biden
said to Mr. Sanders. "I did that while you were watching."<br>
<br>
Surrogates for Mr. Biden said the overwhelming support Mr. Biden has
seen in recent primaries indicated that most Democrats like his
climate policy already.<br>
<br>
"It's hard to argue with someone who is winning by such wide margins
that he doesn't have a plan that people like," said Representative
Donald McEachin, a Virginia Democrat who helped design Mr. Biden's
plan. "They know what his climate plan is, and they're fine with
it."<br>
Some critics are unconvinced. Laurie Mazer, a renewable energy
consultant in Philadelphia, said she still could not get behind Mr.
Biden's candidacy. Ms. Mazer, 41, said Mr. Biden should set tougher
targets and call for a national ban on hydraulic fracturing, the oil
and gas extraction technique also known as fracking.<br>
<br>
"We've got to get to a place where climate change is treated as
seriously as it needs to be," Ms. Mazer said. "I'm sure Biden and I
aren't that unaligned, but sending a message is important for
me."...<br>
Liam Shaffer, a 27-year-old wine salesman in New Jersey and
supporter of Mr. Sanders, said working with a product directly
affected by climate change had made the issue one of his top voting
priorities. He acknowledged that he had not read Mr. Biden's climate
plan, but he said his impression was that Mr. Biden did not favor
the sweeping changes that he believes are necessary.<br>
<br>
"He represents a return to the way things were run under Obama," Mr.
Shaffer said. "I guess I just don't feel that's enough."<br>
<br>
And Alyssa Midcalf, a 25-year-old musician who owns a vintage
clothing store in Detroit, said she disliked Mr. Biden's willingness
to accept corporate donations and the lack of respect she feels he
has shown young activists fighting for aggressive plans like the
Green New Deal.<br>
<br>
"He has time and time again treated constituents like they don't
matter to him," she said.<br>
<br>
Sam Ricketts and Bracken Hendricks, Democratic strategists who
helped write Mr. Inslee's climate change plan, said Mr. Biden should
adopt the plan, which Greenpeace hailed as the "gold standard."<br>
<br>
"There's more that his plan can do," Mr. Ricketts said of Mr. Biden.
He pointed to specific renewable energy standards; a strategy for
halting carbon emissions for individual sectors like transportation,
buildings and electricity; opposing fossil fuel subsidies; and
providing details for the promises his plan makes of fighting for
low income communities of color most vulnerable to environmental
injustices.<br>
<br>
Maggie Thomas, who was Mr. Inslee's deputy climate change director
before joining Senator Warren's campaign, has not yet thrown her
support behind either Mr. Sanders or Mr. Biden. But she said if Mr.
Biden does become the Democratic nominee, "He really needs to show
that this is a priority for his campaign."<br>
<br>
President Trump's re-election campaign already is painting Mr. Biden
as radical on climate change, releasing a video after Sunday's
debate edited to emphasize his statements against fossil fuels and
mocking moderate Democrats who had sought to assure voters in
gas-rich states that the former vice president does not intend to
ban fracking.<br>
Mr. McEachin said he thought Mr. Biden was open to other ideas, but
he said the notion that Mr. Biden is not aggressive enough was a
misperception. "From a climate change point of view you can't have a
better candidate than Joe Biden," he said.<br>
<br>
Collin O'Mara, the president of the National Wildlife Foundation,
which last week endorsed Mr. Biden through its political action
fund, called Mr. Biden's plan and approach to climate change
"incredibly impressive." He credited the activist movement for
raising the standard for candidates to meet.<br>
<br>
"In any other election, this would be the strongest plan that's ever
been put out," Mr. O'Mara said. But ultimately, he added, "The best
laid plans are just symbols on a page." He said he supports Mr.
Biden because the former vice president could actually get his ideas
enacted.<br>
<br>
Jennie Sweet-Cushman, an associate professor of political science at
Chatham University in Pittsburgh, has been making a similar argument
to her students. She cited climate change as one of her top three
voting issues and said she supported Mr. Biden because he is a
pragmatist, and her years studying government have shown her that
major structural changes require bipartisanship.<br>
<br>
"If you want any sort of change, you have to have people pushing it
that are willing to listen to the other side, and I don't see that
out of the Sanders campaign," she said.<br>
<br>
But Ms. Cushman has had a hard time convincing students like Taylor
Pelow, 20, a chemistry and political science major from Buffalo who
said her dream was to one day run the Environmental Protection
Agency. Ms. Pelow said she believes in banning fracking and wants to
see a transition away from fossil fuels earlier than Mr. Biden does.<br>
<br>
If Mr. Biden wins the Democratic nomination Ms. Pelow said she would
vote for him in November, but only because she believes he is
slightly better than President Trump on climate change.<br>
"It's the lesser of two evils at that point," she said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/climate/climate-voters-biden.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/climate/climate-voters-biden.html</a>
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[Dark view]<br>
MARCH 18, 2020<br>
<b>The IPCC's Worst Case Scenario</b><br>
by ROBERT HUNZIKER<br>
The truth of the matter: Scientists' models have been off course,
meaning way too conservative. Similar to the rampant stock market
run to unsustainable heights of recent in contrasts to expectations
by a few smart hedge fund managers, global warming has blown apart
analyses of the smartest and brightest, and based upon a series of
recent studies demonstrating the onset of ecosystems collapsing,
e.g., permafrost in the high Arctic collapsing 70 years ahead of
expectations...<br>
- -<br>
It is likely that global warming has morphed into global heating at
its worst and thus more mercurial than ever thought possible. If so,
then batten down the hatches as it will soon become politically a
necessity to force unified global efforts, like the Marshall Plan,
to take steps to combat the biggest threat of all time.<br>
<br>
As such, powerful, clear evidence of anthropogenic impact on the
climate system, well beyond the forces of nature, is beyond the
scope of debate. After all, rising greenhouse emissions and rising
temperatures run upwards in parallel fashion, nearly step-by-step,
with a lag effect.<br>
<br>
Meanwhile, of all the global proposals to combat climate
catastrophe, one of the more interesting is World War Zero initiated
by former Secretary of State John Kerry, former California governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Ohio governor John Kasich.
According to the Terminator: "It's not a party issue at all because
there is no Democratic air or Republican air. We all breathe the
same air. There's no Democratic water or Republican water. We all
drink the same water. So don't fall for those tricks. It's not a
political issue."<br>
<br>
They advocate net zero emissions as soon as humanly possible. Along
the way, they grandstand the obvious benefits of conversion from
fossil fuels to renewable energy, or the onset of a vast renaissance
of global business with high-wage jobs galore, similar to the
industrial renaissance of the early 20th century conversion from
horse and buggy to gasoline-powered vehicles.<br>
<br>
Nevertheless, by all appearances, the planet's climate system has
already been radically altered more so than ever before, or at least
as far back as ice core evidence of a couple million years ago.<br>
<br>
Alas, the risk of major breakdown of ecosystems throughout the
planet has never been so prevalent. In fact, it's already started.
Greenland and Antarctica are clear, absolute proof. The overriding
question therefore is whether humanity will go to work to mitigate
the catastrophe as much as humanly possible.<br>
<br>
After all, CO2 emissions and global temperatures have risen in
lockstep, but what really counts in the final analysis is the
actuality of physical responses, like the measured massive meltdown
of the worlds' largest masses of ice. That's an incontrovertible
fact, yet almost unbelievable, but still a measure of harsh reality.<br>
<br>
<b>Postscript:</b> One year ago one of America's greatest climate
scientist Wally Broecker, affectionately known as "the grandfather
of climate science," passed away at age 87. He coined the term
"global warming," and in 1984 warned the House of Representatives
that urgent action was required to halt accumulation of greenhouse
gasses in the atmosphere because, in his words, "the climate system
could jump abruptly from one state to another with devastating
effects."<br>
<br>
Ergo, his warning of 36 years ago now lingers over Congress.<br>
<br>
<b>Post-Postscript:</b> During a 2019 BBC interview, James Lovelock
(100) the father of Gaia theory said: "There is a real danger of
losing our tenure on the planet altogether…. We've got to care about
this matter of global warming because if we don't do anything about
it, there won't be anybody here… It's about time we went back to
taking an interest in the environment… What happens to the planet
when more CO2 is put into the air? The earth will get hotter. It
will heat up to a point where no life on it of our kind will be
possible…When tough times come, it'll be very rapid, indeed." (James
Lovelock, The Vanishing Face of Gaia, A Final Warning, Allen Lane,
2010)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/18/the-ipccs-worst-case-scenario/">https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/18/the-ipccs-worst-case-scenario/</a><br>
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[good advice]<br>
<b>Anxiety and global warming: A growing source of fear among
different age groups</b><br>
Sean Krajacic - March 15, 2020<br>
Dr. Karen Cassiday, the past president of the Anxiety and Depression
Association of America, broached a hot topic and stressed that cool
minds prevail as she presented on "Decreasing Worry in the Age of
Global Warming" at the Salem Community Library on Wednesday.<br>
<br>
The event was hosted by the Westosha Dems and the Kenosha Democratic
Party.<br>
<br>
Cassiday began the evening with the question of how many felt more
anxiety than they had two years prior. The entire room, about 15
attendees, raised their hands.<br>
<br>
Moving onto the subject of anxiety and global warming, Cassiday
shared statistics including the staggering number that 72 percent of
elementary students through college students worry about global
warming every day.<br>
<br>
She stated that research shows that worrying leads to anxiety and a
feeling of being overwhelmed that manifests as losing sleep,
headaches and stomachaches.<br>
<br>
The way we consume media is a large factor in the amount of anxiety
we harbor, Cassiday said. In this age, people are bombarded with
headlines and stories pushed to their electronic devices. The more
they click on a specific subject, the more those subjects are fed to
them.<br>
<br>
"We are hardwired to pay attention to fear," she said.<br>
<br>
Cassiday provided techniques to break the cycle of fear, worry and
anxiety.<br>
<br>
"If you want to change things, you have to have a positive belief
system, compassion and love," said Cassiday.<br>
<br>
The simplest way to change your way of thinking is to practice
gratitude. Find three small things each day that you're thankful for
and focus on those, she said..<br>
<br>
Beyond gratitude, to weaken anxiety's grip one can: seek news of
successful attempts to manage risk factors for global warming, avoid
criticizing inaccurate news reports and focus on facts about efforts
to manage global warming.<br>
<br>
Cassidy said that "simple solutions are empowering." Instead of
focusing on "doom and gloom" and "worst case scenarios," she said we
should be proactive and take small steps such as making recycling
routine, or choosing to use reusable bags instead of disposable
plastic bags at the grocery store.<br>
<br>
Cassiday finished her presentation with a bit of parenting advice,
saying that we should strive to raise our children with a
skill-based model rather than a fear-based one.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/anxiety-and-global-warming-a-growing-source-of-fear-among/article_be6be5b5-6185-56f0-a67a-47259a8c15dc.html">https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/anxiety-and-global-warming-a-growing-source-of-fear-among/article_be6be5b5-6185-56f0-a67a-47259a8c15dc.html</a><br>
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[following the money]<br>
<b>Study: global banks 'failing miserably' on climate crisis by
funneling trillions into fossil fuels</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/18/global-banks-climate-crisis-finance-fossil-fuels">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/18/global-banks-climate-crisis-finance-fossil-fuels</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 -
March 20, 2007 </b></font><br>
<p>In a published interview, then-Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD) notes
that he was blocked from being appointed to the bipartisan Select
Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming by House
Minority Leader John Boehner because Gilchrest refused to disavow
the overwhelming evidence of human-caused climate change.
Gilchrest also notes that fellow Republican Roy Blunt of Missouri
"…said he didn't think there was enough evidence to suggest that
humans are causing global warming," Gilchrest said. "Right there,
holy cow, there's like 9,000 scientists to three on that one."<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.orangepower.com/threads/global-warming-panel-makeup-questioned.33589/">http://www.orangepower.com/threads/global-warming-panel-makeup-questioned.33589/</a><br>
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