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<i><font size="+1"><b>April 30, 2020</b></font></i><br>
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[NYT opinion]<br>
<b>This Luxury Tower Has Everything: Pools. A Juice Bar. And Flood
Resilience.</b><br>
Unless we learn to adapt, only the rich will be able to avoid the
ravages of climate change.<br>
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In fact, America's entire disaster-response strategy is designed to
push back against nature, rather than adapt to it. Federal aid, like
the Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, aims at
recovery to pre-disaster conditions rather than preparedness to
weather future storms, further entrenching the status quo and
preventing adaptation at the structural or ecological level...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/opinion/climate-change-architecture-design.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/opinion/climate-change-architecture-design.html</a><br>
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[legal challenge]<br>
<b>In Montana, Children File Suit to Protect 'the Last Best Place'</b><br>
Part of a 50-state strategy, the lawsuit highlights Montana's love
of wild landscapes to force the state to address the climate impacts
of fossil fuels.<br>
BY JUDY FAHYS<br>
She's identified only as Kathryn Grace S., one of 16 youths who've
sued to keep the state of Montana from promoting the use of fossil
fuels, threatening their future.<br>
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To read the 108-page complaint, filed in March, is to understand
that they're fighting for what Montanans call "the last best place."<br>
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Grace, 16, says in the complaint that drought has dried up the Clark
Fork River for rafting. <br>
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Georgianna F., 17, fears shortened winters have reduced snow she
needs to train for Nordic skiing...<br>
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The Montana case, led by the non-profit public interest firm, Our
Children's Trust, is part of a 50-state campaign to put government
policy contributing to climate change before the courts...<br>
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Montana environmental lawyer Jack Tuholske said the case shines a
compelling spotlight on the state constitution's healthy environment
provision. The guarantee of environmental health, he said, was added
in 1972 because of historic mining pollution in a state where
industry had outsized influence on lawmakers.<br>
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"This [case] is very much in a context of the history and culture of
the state," he said. "It'll be interesting to see how the court
approaches this case, based on the Constitution."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28042020/montana-children-lawsuit-climate-change">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28042020/montana-children-lawsuit-climate-change</a><br>
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[read the complaints]<br>
<b>Proceedings in All 50 States</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/montana">https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/montana</a><br>
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[The Motley Fool]<br>
<b>Chevron Shareholders Want Action on Climate Change</b><br>
Shareholders want Chevron to produce a report on the risks to the
climate associated with the company's petrochemical operations...<br>
more at -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/04/29/chevron-shareholders-want-action-on-climate-change.aspx">https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/04/29/chevron-shareholders-want-action-on-climate-change.aspx</a><br>
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[to Plan Ahead]<br>
<b>How a Warming Climate Could Affect the Spread of Diseases Similar
to COVID-19</b><br>
A hotter planet could change the relationship among infectious
agents, their hosts and the human body's defense mechanisms<br>
By Sara Goudarzi on April 29, 2020<br>
Scientists have long known that the rise in average global
temperatures is expanding the geographical presence of vector-borne
diseases such as malaria and dengue fever, because the animals that
transmit them are adapting to more widespread areas. The link
between respiratory illnesses, including influenza and COVID-19, and
a warming planet is less clear. But some scientists are concerned
that climate change could alter the relationship between our body's
defenses and such pathogens. These modifications could include the
adaptation of microbes to a warming world, changes in how viruses
and bacteria interact with their animal hosts, and a weakened human
immune response...<br>
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Specifically, the researchers noted that the mice in the hottest
room ate less than those in the cooler rooms and lost 10 percent of
their body weight in the first 24 hours of being exposed to higher
temperatures. "People often lose their appetite when they feel
sick," said study author Takeshi Ichinohe, an associate professor at
the University of Tokyo, in a press release. "If someone stops
eating long enough to develop a nutritional deficit, that may weaken
the immune system and increase the likelihood of getting sick
again." When Ichinohe and his colleague Miyu Moriyama, then at the
University of Tokyo, supplemented the mice's diet with sugar or
short-chain fatty acids (which are commonly produced by intestinal
bacteria), those animals were able to mount a normal immune
response...<br>
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Ellen F. Foxman, an assistant professor of laboratory medicine and
immunobiology at the Yale School of Medicine, who was not involved
in the study, expresses caution about making a direct link between
heat and the mice's immune response. "The temperature had an effect
on the animals' behavior, which had an effect on immunity," and the
mice "didn't form as good of an antiviral immune response in this
particular type of flu infection," she says. In contrast, Foxman's
own 2015 PNAS study showed that the very first steps of the immune
response to fight a cold virus were, in fact, boosted by higher
temperatures and depressed by lower ones...<br>
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"I think that climate change disrupts a lot of patterns--of human
behavior, of insect vectors and even [of] bats"--from which the
COVID-19 virus and other deadly coronaviruses likely originated,
Foxman says. The disruptions could indirectly alter the interactions
between diseases and human defenses in ways scientists have yet to
fully understand.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-warming-climate-could-affect-the-spread-of-diseases-similar-to-covid-19/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-warming-climate-could-affect-the-spread-of-diseases-similar-to-covid-19/</a><br>
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[Looking ahead]<br>
<b>Don't look now, but the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season could
break records</b><br>
By Zoya Teirstein on Apr 29, 2020<br>
Parts of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans saw record-high
temperatures last month. Meanwhile, the average ocean temperature
worldwide came in just shy of the record set in 2016.<br>
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On Saturday morning, a tropical depression formed in the eastern
Pacific Ocean -- the earliest tropical cyclone in that area since
reliable record-keeping began in the early 1970s.<br>
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These two facts are related: Warming water is changing the size and
frequency of tropical storms. And new forecasts show that this
year's Atlantic hurricane season, which will take place between June
and November, is shaping up to be among the worst we've ever
experienced.<br>
Last week, Penn State's Earth System Science Center released its
predictions for the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. The team of
scientists, which include renowned climate scientist Michael E.
Mann, said we could be looking at between 15 and 24 named tropical
storms this year. Their best estimate is 20 storms. It could be one
of the most active hurricane seasons on record...<br>
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Just because the forecast says the Atlantic is going to have an
active hurricane season doesn't mean that each of those predicted
storms will hit land -- there's no way to predict that this far out.
But we do know that the storm-suppressing El Niño looks like it's
going to take a sabbatical this year. The news couldn't come at a
less opportune time. The United States and other countries bordering
the Atlantic already have their hands full with the coronavirus
pandemic. Another disaster on top of that could strain our
already-buckling disaster response system.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://grist.org/climate/dont-look-now-but-the-2020-atlantic-hurricane-season-could-break-records/">https://grist.org/climate/dont-look-now-but-the-2020-atlantic-hurricane-season-could-break-records/</a><br>
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[video discussion]<br>
<b>The Corona Oil Shock</b><br>
Apr 29, 2020<br>
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs<br>
Join Professors Jeff Colgan and Mark Blyth for a discussion around
the implications of COVID-19 on global politics and the environment,
followed by an interactive Q&A.<br>
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Oil used to be a big story. If it rose we feared inflation. If it
fell we celebrated a boost to consumption while worrying about green
investments.<br>
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Over the past few months, the story about Oil has disappeared under
an avalanche of COVID-19 concerns. But its price has collapsed and
this time few are celebrating, or even worrying that much. Mark
Blyth, Director of the Rhodes Center for International Economics and
Finance at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
talks with Professor Jeff Colgan, the Richard Holbrooke Associate
Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs,
about why Oil is still a big story and why we need to pay it more
attention.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bllK2R9Xq1g">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bllK2R9Xq1g</a><br>
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[new military thinking]<br>
<b>Pentagon and Northern Command: Climate Change Has Implications
for National Security in the Arctic</b><br>
GENERAL TERRENCE J. O'SHAUGHNESSY, USAF, COMMANDER OF UNITED STATES
NORTHERN COMMAND AND NORTH AMERICAN AEROSPACE DEFENSE COMMAND,
SPEAKS BEFORE THE SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE – MARCH 3, 2020<br>
By Dr. Marc Kodack<br>
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On March 3, the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sub-Committee on
Readiness and Management Support, held a hearing on "U.S. Policy and
Posture in Support of Artic readiness." Witnesses providing written
statements and answering questions included the HON Dr. James
Anderson, Performing the Duties of the Deputy Under Secretary of
Defense for Policy and General Terrence O'Shaughnessy, Commander of
U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command.
Both witnesses identified climate change implications for national
security in the Arctic region.<br>
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<b>Summary</b><br>
In both the witness written statements and in answer to Members
questions, there was considerable emphasis on the threats from the
Russians and Chinese to U.S national security interests in the
Arctic. The Russians have significantly increased their military
presence, both at sea and on land. While the U.S. has its own
existing maritime and land-based Arctic capabilities, it is only now
moving towards building additional ice breakers to supplement the
only working ice breaker currently in the Coast Guard inventory. The
need for additional ice breakers is driven by the effects of climate
change whereby sea ice is considerably less extensive that in the
past creating ice free sea lanes that will become more extensive in
the future. The Russians are planning on exploiting these sea lanes
to their economic and military advantage...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/04/29/pentagon-and-northern-command-climate-change-has-implications-for-national-security-in-the-arctic/">https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/04/29/pentagon-and-northern-command-climate-change-has-implications-for-national-security-in-the-arctic/</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 -
April 30, 2001 </b></font><br>
<p>Speaking in Toronto at an annual meeting of the Associated Press,
Vice President Dick Cheney asserts, "Conservation may be a sign of
personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound,
comprehensive energy policy."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2001-05-01-cheney-usat.htm">http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2001-05-01-cheney-usat.htm</a><br>
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