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<i><font size="+1"><b>June 17, 2020</b></font></i><br>
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[will pay $10,000 per life]<br>
<b>PG&E Pleads Guilty To 84 Counts Of Manslaughter In 2018 Camp
Fire That Devastated</b> <br>
KPIX CBS SF Bay Area<br>
Len Kiese reports on PG&E being formally convicted on 84 counts
of involuntary manslaughter in 2018 Camp Fire <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXutCOBPuzA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXutCOBPuzA</a><br>
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[serious fire drill]<br>
<b>Covid-19 pandemic is 'fire drill' for effects of climate crisis,
says UN official</b><br>
Lise Kingo says social equality issues must be part of sustainable
development agenda<br>
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The coronavirus pandemic is "just a fire drill" for what is likely
to follow from the climate crisis, and the protests over racial
injustice around the world show the need to tie together social
equality, environmental sustainability and health, the UN's
sustainable business chief has said.<br>
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"The overall problem is that we are not sustainable in the ways we
are living and producing on the planet today," said Lise Kingo, the
executive director of the UN Global Compact, under which businesses
sign up to principles of environmental protection and social
justice. "The only way forward is to create a world that leaves no
one behind."<br>
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She said there were "very, very clear connections" between the
Covid-19 and climate crises, and the Black Lives Matter protests
around the world, which she said had helped to reveal deep-seated
inequalities and "endemic and structural racism".<br>
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"We have seen illustrated to everyone that social inequality issues
are part of the sustainable development agenda," Kingo said...<br>
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The UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, said building a fairer
society would be essential to the world's health, as well as to
saving the planet from climate breakdown and ecological destruction.<br>
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"Today, the fabric of society and the wellbeing of people hinge on
our ability to build a fair globalisation," he told the two-day UN
Global Compact virtual conference of business leaders, which started
on Monday.<br>
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"Where once 'do no harm' was a common approach for the business
community, today we are arriving at a new landscape of elevated
expectations and responsibilities. But despite progress, serious
threats would undermine our future, including climate change,
poverty, loss of biodiversity and widening social inequalities. The
pandemic has underscored the world's fragilities, which extend far
beyond the realm of global health."<br>
<br>
Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England, told the
conference that the Covid-19 crisis had shown how urgent it was to
tackle global heating. "This is a crisis that will involve the whole
world and from which no one can self-isolate," he said.<br>
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He called for all companies to provide clear information to
customers, the public and investors about how they plan to move to
net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.<br>
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More than 10,000 companies are signed up to the UN Global Compact,
and they are being urged to strengthen their commitments to cutting
greenhouse gas emissions. Many have pledged to cut carbon in line
with the Paris agreement goal of holding global temperature rises to
no more than 2C.<br>
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But scientific studies show that this may not be enough to stave off
disaster, and that the consequences of even 1.5C of global heating
will be severe. Kingo wants companies to revise their business plans
in order to reduce carbon in line with a 1.5C goal. "We need to see
leadership to drive this," she said.<br>
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A report by the UN for the 20th anniversary of the Global Compact
found that only four in 10 companies had targets that would enable
them to meet the UN's sustainable development goals by the 2030
deadline, and fewer than a third thought their industry was moving
fast enough.<br>
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While 84% of companies participating in the UN Global Compact were
taking action on the goals, fewer than half were "embedding" those
targets into their core business activities, and only 37% were
designing their business models to meet the goals.<br>
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"The human community is completely interconnected and
interdependent," Kingo said. "Without solidarity, especially with
those most vulnerable among us, we all lose. We are paying the price
for turning a blind eye to obvious injustices in the world."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/15/covid-19-pandemic-is-fire-drill-for-effects-of-climate-crisis-says-un-official">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/15/covid-19-pandemic-is-fire-drill-for-effects-of-climate-crisis-says-un-official</a><br>
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[Oxford Climate Society - video discussion ]<br>
<b>The Existential Risk of Climate Change</b><br>
Streamed live on 6-16-2020<br>
Moderated by Kate Guy - organizer and researcher in Security and
Climate Change<br>
<b>- David Wallace Wells - journalist -author The Uninhabitable
Earth</b><b><br>
</b><b>- Zeke Hausfather - Dir of Climate and Energy Breakthrough
Institute</b><b><br>
</b><b>- Luke Kemp - Researcher at Centre for the Study of
Existential Risk (CSER) at Univ of Cambridge</b><br>
Oxford Climate Society<br>
Starts about 8 min in <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah1pLU10o_U">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah1pLU10o_U</a>
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[Paul Beckwith video exposition]<br>
<b>Jet Stream Change Driving and Responding to Abrupt Climate
Change: Part 1 of many</b><br>
Jun 16, 2020<br>
Paul Beckwith<br>
Throughout Earth history, physical changes in the jet stream
(location, speed, waviness, width, etc.) have been vitally important
for our weather and climate systems. When a large quasi-stationary
ridge forms west to east air flow and weather systems are blocked,
causing extreme weather (heat waves; droughts under ridge;
torrential rains; floods in adjacent troughs). Climate models don't
agree on jet stream changes in the future as climate change rapidly
accelerates. In these videos, I discuss the overall picture of jet
streams and then delve into the latest peer reviewed science on jet
stream behaviour. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGYO1O4eIzU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGYO1O4eIzU</a><br>
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[Risk Management]<br>
<b>Global execs say firms not fully prepared for climate change</b><br>
Matthew Lerner<br>
Seventy-seven percent of CEOs and CFOs at the world's largest
companies say their firms are not fully prepared for the adverse
financial impact of a changing climate, FM Global reported Tuesday.<br>
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An even higher number, 82%, said their companies have somewhat to no
control over such an impact on their business.<br>
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Just over three-quarters of respondents, 76%, said their
organizations are somewhat to significantly exposed to climate risk,
with floods, droughts and wildland fires the three exposures that
"concern their companies the most" and that "could most negatively
affect their financials," FM Global said.<br>
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However, companies and organizations can manage and mitigate such
risks, the insurer said.<br>
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"Most losses stemming from climate-related events are preventable,
and loss prevention can help preserve a company's value and
resilience, especially during the pandemic," Katherine Klosowski,
vice president, manager of natural hazards and structures, FM
Global, said in the statement.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20200616/NEWS06/912335140/Global-execs-say-firms-not-fully-prepared-for-climate-change-FM-Global-report#">https://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20200616/NEWS06/912335140/Global-execs-say-firms-not-fully-prepared-for-climate-change-FM-Global-report#</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 -
June 17, 2010 and 2011 </b></font><br>
<p><b>June 17, 2010: Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) apologizes to BP.</b></p>
<p>Rep. Joe Barton Apologizes To BP For $20 Billion Claims Fund<br>
House Representative Joe Barton of Texas shockingly apologizes to
BP<br>
CEO Tony Hayward that they were asked to create a liability fund
for<br>
those people affected by the Gulf oil leak.<br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/Gv0siXm2cpc">http://youtu.be/Gv0siXm2cpc</a> <br>
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<b>June 17, 2011: Syndicated columnist Steve Chapman notes that at
some point, Republicans will have to knock it off with
climate-change denial and propose solutions to the problem:</b><br>
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"Conservatives fear liberals will use climate change to justify
heavy-handed intrusive regulation and wasteful subsidies, and they
are right to worry. But that's no excuse for pretending global
warming is a myth or refusing to do anything about it. It's an
argument for devising cost-effective, market-based remedies that
minimize bureaucratic control.<br>
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"If today's Republican attitude had prevailed four decades ago,
Americans would not have such vital measures as the Clean Air Act
and the Clean Water Act. Then, many people worried that
environmentalism would strangle economic growth and personal
freedom. But both have survived and even flourished.<br>
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"Conservatives once understood that corporations are not entitled
to foul the environment, any more than individuals have the right
to dump garbage in the street. Barry Goldwater, the 1964 GOP
presidential nominee, wrote, 'When pollution is found, it should
be halted at the source, even if this requires stringent
government action.'" <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20110617-steve-chapman-republicans-must-return-to-pro-environmental-roots-.ece">http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20110617-steve-chapman-republicans-must-return-to-pro-environmental-roots-.ece</a>
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