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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>August 2, 2020</b></font></i></p>
<font size="+1">[US has 38% now]<br>
<b>Biden calls for 100 percent clean electricity by 2035. Here's
how far we have to go.</b><br>
States such as New York, California and Maine already have
ambitious goals, while Ohio and West Virginia have weakened theirs<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/07/30/biden-calls-100-percent-clean-electricity-by-2035-heres-how-far-we-have-go/?arc404=true">https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/07/30/biden-calls-100-percent-clean-electricity-by-2035-heres-how-far-we-have-go/?arc404=true</a></font><br>
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<p>[<font size="+1">Unbounded Youthful Exuberance!]<br>
<b>Student Leadership on Climate Solutions</b><br>
31 July 2020 - James Hansen<br>
A stunning and heartening message appeared in my e-mails this
week, which I share in hopes that it will encourage you as much
as it did me. Look at this (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.s4cd.org/statement">https://www.s4cd.org/statement</a>) and
scroll down to see our impressive future leaders. The e-mail,
from Alex Posner, founder of the group, Students for Carbon
Dividends (S4CD) included:<br>
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Today, after months of organizing, the student climate group I
lead (Students for Carbon Dividends) has unveiled the "Students
Government Leaders' Statement on Carbon Dividends," the largest
declaration of student body presidents in US history.<br>
The bipartisan statement, which is inspired by last year's
Economists' Statement on Carbon Dividends, includes 350+ college
student government presidents from all 50 states. Collectively,
the signers represent over 4 million students from campuses
across the country--ranging from Stanford and MIT to Mississippi
State and the University of Michigan…. <br>
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We must help the United States Congress to recognize the wisdom
these young people express. Politicians must resist the
temptations of a new revenue source. The public will allow the
carbon fee to rise to a level that moves us to clean energies
only if the money goes directly to the public.<br>
<br>
This approach is optimum for social justice. Low-income and
most middle-income people make money with Fee & Dividend;
wealthy people lose because of their large carbon footprint.<br>
<br>
Economic studies show that putting 100 percent of the funds
immediately into the hands of the public spurs the economy,
creates millions of jobs, increases GNP and government revenue -
just what is needed to provide a basis for progressive policies.<br>
<br>
The students are following the science! The science - climate,
energy, economics - is clear. The fastest route to a global
solution is a simple, honest, domestic carbon fee with border
duties on products from countries without an equivalent fee.<br>
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You can help young people and other life on Earth best by
supporting Citizens Climate Lobby.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/">https://citizensclimatelobby.org/</a><br>
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[See images of these Students For Carbon Dividends
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.s4cd.org/all-sbp-signees">https://www.s4cd.org/all-sbp-signees</a>]<br>
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As young people, with decades of life ahead, we are clear-eyed
about what climate disruption means for our generation. That's
why we recognize the power of a consensus solution like carbon
dividends to bridge partisan divides, protect our shared
environment, and strengthen the economy. Where our political
leaders have been unwilling, or unable, to forge agreement
around common-sense solutions, we on college campuses are
showing them how it's done. <br>
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<b>STUDENT GOVERNMENT LEADERS' STATEMENT ON CARBON DIVIDENDS</b><br>
The climate threat is one of the greatest challenges of our
generation. It transcends virtually every other issue because it
threatens the basic building blocks of our security and
prosperity, and with it, the American way of life. While the
precise effects of climate instability remain uncertain, the
risks are too grave to ignore.<br>
<br>
This is why we are stepping forward today--as the foremost
student leaders at America's colleges and universities--to
endorse the breakthrough, bipartisan climate solution known as
carbon dividends.<br>
<br>
The carbon dividends framework has earned truly record-breaking
support. In 2019, more than 3,500 US economists--from all 50
states and virtually every major college and university in the
country--united in support of the solution. It became the
largest statement of economists in the history of the
profession.<br>
<br>
Signatories of the "Economists' Statement on Carbon Dividends"
include every living former Federal Reserve Chair, as well as
27 Nobel Prize-winners--the largest number to endorse any policy
on any topic, ever. Supporters also include 15 former Chairs of
the Council of Economic Advisers, representing Presidential
administrations on both sides of the aisle over the last half
century.<br>
<br>
To this unprecedented show of force, we now add our own. We, the
undersigned college and university student body presidents and
leaders, join this historic coalition of economists and opinion
leaders in uniting behind the four pillars of this breakthrough
solution:<br>
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<b>1.A steadily rising price on carbon to spur clean energy
innovation and drive emissions reductions</b><b><br>
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</b><b>2.Carbon dividend rebates to ensure revenue-neutrality
and benefit American families</b><b><br>
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</b><b>3.The streamlining of carbon regulations that are no
longer necessary</b><b><br>
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</b><b>4.Border-carbon adjustments to level the playing field
for American workers and businesses and hold other countries
accountable</b><br>
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This win-win proposal is built upon bedrock principles of
economics and would succeed in delivering far greater emissions
reductions than all previous policies combined. It would promote
US leadership and unleash American innovation toward a cleaner
and more prosperous future. While there are complementary
policies to consider, the carbon dividends framework has emerged
as a cornerstone solution. Our economics professors, in a
historic groundswell of support, have coalesced around this
concrete climate strategy, and we are now carrying the torch
forward.<br>
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As young people, with decades of life ahead, we are clear-eyed
about what climate disruption means for our generation. That's
why we recognize the power of a consensus solution like carbon
dividends to bridge partisan divides, protect our shared
environment, and strengthen the economy. Where our political
leaders have been unwilling, or unable, to forge agreement
around common-sense solutions, we on college campuses are
showing them how it's done.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.s4cd.org/statement-text">https://www.s4cd.org/statement-text</a><br>
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<font size="+1">[Optimism for storage]</font><br>
<font size="+1"> <b>Dan Kammen on New Batteries</b></font><br>
<font size="+1">Aug 1, 2020</font><br>
<font size="+1">greenmanbucket</font><br>
<font size="+1">Dan Kammen PhD is an Engineer and Professor at
University of California Berkeley. </font><br>
<font size="+1">He is known globally as an expert on new energy.</font><br>
<font size="+1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbRBBbUKY-I">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbRBBbUKY-I</a></font>
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<font size="+1">[Ironic news from The Barents Observer]<br>
</font><font size="+1"><b>Climate change hits back, Svalbard coal
mine flooded by melting glacier</b><br>
After days with record heat at Svalbard, the penetration of water
from the above melting glacier is now flooding Norway's only
operating coal mine that supplies the country's only coal-power
plant.<br>
</font><font size="+1">ByThomas Nilsen<br>
July 30, 2020</font><br>
<font size="+1">Large water penetration in Gruve 7 (Mine 7) was
discovered on Sunday July 26 during a routine inspection, the
Store Norske mining company informs.<br>
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The day before, a record heat of 21,7°C was measured in
Longyearbyen, the highest temperature ever measured so far north
in the European Arctic.<br>
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Mine 7 is located some 15 kilometers southeast of Longyearbyen and
is the only remaining Norwegian operated coal mine on the Arctic
archipelago. The mine supplies the local coal-power plant with
about 30,000 tons of coal annually, while another 80,000 tons are
exported to customers in the European metallurgical and chemical
industry.<br>
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The mountain above the mine is covered by a glacier and it is
melting water from this glacier that now penetrates through the
rocks into the mine.<br>
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Extra pumps are installed, but has so far not been able to remove
more water than is coming in, the company explains. New pipes are
put in place and more pumping capacity is brought in.<br>
<br>
"We are also working on trying to get an overview of the equipment
we can expect to have been destroyed and therefore need to be
replaced before operations can start again," says mining chief Per
Nilssen. He says it is too early to tell when coal mining can
start again.<br>
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Operations were currently on a pause due to the coronavirus
situation, a halt in mining supposed to last until August 17. The
pause is now likely to be prolonged, the mining company informs.<br>
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Store Norske is owned by the state. Norway has for years been
criticized for the paradox of mining coal and supplying
electricity from a coal power plant to the town of Longyearbyen at
the place on earth where temperatures are rising most due to
climate changes.<br>
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Since the 70s, the annual average temperatures have risen by 4°C
at Svalbard, with winter temperatures rising more than 7°C, as
previously reported by the Barents Observer. A climate report
released last year warns that annual average temperatures could
increase with up to 10 degrees Celsius by 2100.<br>
<br>
This is not the first time climate changes troubles human
activities on Svalbard. The Global Seed Vault, where some 45,000
international varieties are stored deep into what originally was
believed to be safe permafrost, was recently forced to rebuild its
entrance.<br>
<br>
Climate change caused more snow and rain and the entrance was
flooded several times. During reconstruction, the ground around
the new waterproof entrance is artificially frozen to avoid
further erosion.<br>
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In the town of Longyearbyen is houses sagging due to unstable
ground as the permafrost melts. About 250 homes will have to be
torn down and new buildings are built on steel pillars and sensors
are placed in the ground to measure how the steel constructions
impact the permafrost.<br>
</font><font size="+1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/industry-and-energy/2020/07/coal-mine-flooded-melting-glacier">https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/industry-and-energy/2020/07/coal-mine-flooded-melting-glacier</a><br>
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<font size="+1">[OK, will do]<br>
</font><font size="+1"><b>The four types of climate denier, and why
you should ignore them all</b><br>
Damian Carrington<br>
The shill, the grifter, the egomaniac and the ideological fool:
each distorts the urgent global debate in their own way<br>
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<font size="+1">new book, described as "deeply and fatally flawed"
by an expert reviewer, recently reached the top of Amazon's
bestseller list for environmental science and made it into a
weekly top 10 list for all nonfiction titles.<br>
<br>
How did this happen? Because, as Brendan Behan put it, "there's no
such thing as bad publicity". In an article promoting his book,
Michael Shellenberger - with jaw-dropping hubris - apologises on
behalf of all environmentalists for the "climate scare we created
over the last 30 years".<br>
<br>
Shellenberger was named a hero of the environment by Time magazine
in 2008 and is a loud advocate of nuclear power, but the article
was described by six leading scientists as "cherry-picking",
"misleading" and containing "outright falsehoods".<br>
<br>
The article was widely republished, even after being removed from
its first home, Forbes, for violating the title's editorial
guidelines on self-promotion, adding further heat to the storm.
And this is why all those who deny the reality or danger of the
climate emergency should be ignored. Obviously, I have broken my
own rule here, but only to make this vital point once and for all.</font><br>
<font size="+1">The science is clear, the severity understood at the
highest levels everywhere, and serious debates about what to do
are turning into action. The deniers have nothing to contribute to
this.<br>
<br>
However infuriating they are, arguing with them or debunking their
theories is likely only to generate publicity or money for them.
It also helps to generate a fake air of controversy over climate
action that provides cover for the vested interests seeking to
delay the end of the fossil fuel age.<br>
</font><br>
<font size="+1">But the deniers are not all the same. They tend to
fit into one of four different categories: the shill, the grifter,
the egomaniac and the ideological fool.<br>
<br>
The shill is the easiest to understand. He, and it almost always
is he, is paid by vested interests to emit clouds of confusion
about the science or economics of climate action. This uncertainty
creates a smokescreen behind which polluters can lobby against
measures that cut their profits.<br>
<br>
A sadder case is that of the grifters. They have found themselves
earning a living by grinding out contrarian articles for rightwing
media outlets. Do they actually believe the guff they write? It
doesn't matter: they just warm their hands on the outrage, count
the clicks and wait for the pay cheque.<br>
<br>
The egomaniacs are also tragic figures. They are disappointed,
frustrated people whose careers have stalled and who can't
understand why the world refuses to give full reverence to their
brilliance. They are desperate for recognition, and, when it
stubbornly refuses to arrive, they are drawn to make increasingly
extreme pronouncements, in the hope of finally being proved a
dogma-busting, 21st-century Galileo.<br>
<br>
The ideological fool is the fourth type of climate denier, and
they can be intelligent. But they are utterly blinded by their
inane, no-limits version of the free-market creed. The climate
emergency requires coordinated global action, they observe, and
that looks horribly like communism in disguise.<br>
<br>
They could explore the many credible climate action plans being
pursued, including by those on the political right. But their
cognitive dissonance forces them to the conclusion that because
state intervention is wrong, acting to avert climate danger cannot
be right. Intellectual gymnastics to "expose" climate alarmism
then follow naturally.<br>
<br>
But why do I say ignore them all? The climate crisis is urgent,
and we need debate to drive action. However, vigorous debates over
action are already taking place in good faith all over the world,
from the tops of governments to the smallest local action groups.<br>
<br>
Every nation in the world signed up to the 2015 Paris climate
deal, pledging to keep global heating below 2C and ideally to
1.5C. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change involves
thousands of international scientists and is arguably the greatest
scientific endeavour in history. It has spent three decades
spelling out in painstaking detail how humanity is causing global
heating, how catastrophic that threatens to be - and how drastic
action is required to avert the worst.<br>
<br>
The world of finance and business is catching up fast with the
science, and almost all the technology needed already exists. In
short, no sane or serious actor can countenance denial of climate
danger. Bad-faith arguments motivated by greed, egomania or
ideology have nothing to add.<br>
<br>
Which brings me to the US president, Donald Trump. Political
leaders are the exception to the rule. Their climate idiocy should
be challenged, as they hold actual power. But even in this case,
reality is fast debunking their proclamations.<br>
<br>
In the US, coal is dying, because green energy is cheaper and
cleaner, however great Trump claims he will make the miners. Even
if Trump, and Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, persist, other
nations will begin to ostracise them via trade sanctions and
border taxes.<br>
<br>
As for the shill, grifter, egomaniac and ideological fool, the
reality of increasing climate impacts and successful action is
fast exposing them as well. Those willing to employ the shills and
the grifters are dwindling.<br>
<br>
The book I started with has now been knocked off the environmental
bestsellers list, fittingly enough by one published by the
environmental hero Rachel Carson, in 1951. I can't profess to know
what Shellenberger's motivation was, but one thing is clear: the
egomaniacs and ideological fools will get the place in history
they so lust for. It will be a small footnote marking the useful
idiots of the climate war.<br>
-- Damian Carrington is the Guardian's Environment editor<br>
</font><font size="+1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/30/climate-denier-shill-global-debate">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/30/climate-denier-shill-global-debate</a></font>
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<font size="+1">[Wonderful images too]</font><br>
<font size="+1"><b>How Killer Whales are Changing the Arctic</b><br>
Jun 12, 2020<br>
Terra Mater<br>
Life in the frozen North is changing. Due to climate change,
seasonal pack ice extends much less than it previously did,
meaning that once closed-off waterways like Eclipse Sound are now
open to visitors almost all year round. And when those visitors
are highly skilled predators like killer whales, the entire
ecosystem could be turned on its head...<br>
<br>
Shot in the Canadian Arctic, our latest video explores the effect
that rising sea temperatures are having on iconic polar species
like orcas and narwhals. We explore the importance of ice in
shaping local ecosystems and find out why killer whales are the
perfect predators.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsAfZxyw3r0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsAfZxyw3r0</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 -
August 2, 2006 </b></font><br>
<p>Republican televangelist Pat Robertson calls for action on
human-caused climate change, a position he would abandon several
years later.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2006/08/03/6719/robertson-global-warming/">http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2006/08/03/6719/robertson-global-warming/</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/zxT0Nug1XqY">http://youtu.be/zxT0Nug1XqY</a><br>
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