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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>October 15, 2020</b></font></i></p>
[SCOTUS candidate believes global warming is debatable]<b><br>
</b><b>Watch Kamala Harris corner Amy Coney Barrett into sharing her
view on climate change</b><br>
Amy Graff, SFGATE - Oct. 14, 2020<br>
<p>Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has repeatedly dodged
questions from Democrats and refrained from revealing her opinion
on hot-button issues such as abortion in this week's hearing.</p>
But Wednesday Barrett offered a clue into her view on climate change
after Sen. Kamala Harris, the California Democrat running for vice
president, cornered her with a series of science-based questions.<br>
Harris called climate change an "existential threat" and noted
California has had five of the largest fires in state history this
year with 31 people killed and 9,000 structures destroyed by flames
since August. She said Barrett has expressed that she doesn't
believe her views on climate change are related to her work as a
judge. Harris argued Barrett's views are relevant, especially
considering the scientific community's warnings about the impacts of
climate change on the planet.<br>
<p><b>video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/blkahn/status/1316490804152602624">https://twitter.com/blkahn/status/1316490804152602624</a></b></p>
"If a case that comes before you would require you to consider
scientific evidence, my question is will you defer to scientists and
those with expertise in the relevant issues before rending a
judgement?" Harris asked.<br>
<br>
Barrett responded that if a case came before her that involved
environmental regulation she would use applicable law, noting the
Administrative Procedure Act requires courts to defer to agency
fact-finding in a case.<br>
<br>
Harris followed up by asking Barrett if she believes COVID-19 is
infectious and smoking causes cancer, and the nominee responded yes
to both, suggesting these are established facts.<b><br>
</b><br>
<b>But when Harris threw out her third question, "Do you believe
climate change is happening and it's threatening the air we
breathe and the water we drink?" Barrett responded it is a "very
contentious matter of public debate."</b><b><br>
</b><b><br>
</b><b>"I will not express a view on a matter of public policy,
especially one that is politically controversial because that is
inconsistent with the judicial role, as I have explained," she
added.</b><b><br>
</b><b><br>
</b>Harris summed things up: "You've made your point clear that it's
a debatable point."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Amy-Coney-Barrett-Harris-climate-change-15648374.php">https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Amy-Coney-Barrett-Harris-climate-change-15648374.php</a><br>
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[Twitter summary for Amy Coney Barrett]<br>
<b>it's real, it's us, experts agree, it's bad, there's hope.</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/johnfocook/status/1298733983795154944">https://twitter.com/johnfocook/status/1298733983795154944</a>
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[advanced debunking by Skeptical Science]<br>
<b>Authors of seven climate consensus studies</b> -- including Naomi
Oreskes, Peter Doran, William Anderegg, Bart Verheggen, Ed Maibach,
J. Stuart Carlton, and John Cook -- co-authored a paper that should
settle this question once and for all. The two key conclusions from
the paper are:
<blockquote>1) Depending on exactly how you measure the expert
consensus, it's somewhere between 90% and 100% that agree humans
are responsible for climate change, with most of our studies
finding 97% consensus among publishing climate scientists.<br>
<br>
2) The greater the climate expertise among those surveyed, the
higher the consensus on human-caused global warming.<br>
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Expert consensus is a powerful thing. People know we don't have the
time or capacity to learn about everything, and so we frequently
defer to the conclusions of experts. It's why we visit doctors when
we're ill. The same is true of climate change: most people defer to
the expert consensus of climate scientists. Crucially, as we note in
our paper:<br>
<blockquote>Public perception of the scientific consensus has been
found to be a gateway belief, affecting other climate beliefs and
attitudes including policy support.<br>
</blockquote>
That's why those who oppose taking action to curb climate change
have engaged in a misinformation campaign to deny the existence of
the expert consensus. They've been largely successful, as the public
badly underestimate the expert consensus, in what we call the
"consensus gap." Only 16% of Americans realize that the consensus is
above 90%.<br>
<b>The Consensus Project</b><br>
The 2016 paper was a follow-up on Cook et al. (2013). This was a
survey of over 12,000 peer-reviewed climate science papers by our
citizen science team at Skeptical Science has found a 97% consensus
in the peer-reviewed literature that humans are causing global
warming.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-consensus-advanced.htm">https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-consensus-advanced.htm</a><br>
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[Elizabeth Warren and AOC in video interview]<br>
<b>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren on [...global
warming]</b><br>
The New Yorker<br>
The two progressive members of Congress talk about what it will take
to defeat Trump.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/4aMGbvds_sU?t=638">https://youtu.be/4aMGbvds_sU?t=638</a>
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[from now on]<br>
<b>UN report: Climate change means more weather disasters every year</b><br>
Oct 13, 2020 8:49 AM EDT<br>
GENEVA (AP) -- In the wake of heat waves, global warming, forest
fires, storms, droughts and a rising number of hurricanes, the U.N.
weather agency is warning that the number of people who need
international humanitarian help could rise 50% by 2030 compared to
the 108 million who needed it worldwide in 2018.<br>
<br>
In a new report released with partners on Tuesday, the World
Meteorological Agency says more disasters attributed to weather are
taking place each year. It said over 11,000 disasters have been
attributed to weather, climate and phenomena like tsunamis that are
related to water over the last 50 years -- causing 2 million deaths
and racking up $3.6 trillion worth of economic costs...<br>
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In one hopeful development over that period, the average number of
deaths from each separate weather disaster per year has dropped by
one-third, even as the number of such events and the economic costs
from them have both surged.<br>
<br>
The 2020 State of Climate Services report, compiled by 16
international agencies and financing institutions, calls on
governments to put more money into early-warning systems that can
improve countries' ability to prepare for, respond to and mitigate
the impact of such natural disasters...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/un-report-climate-change-means-more-weather-disasters-every-year">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/un-report-climate-change-means-more-weather-disasters-every-year</a><br>
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[World Meterological Organization press release]<br>
<b>State of Climate Services 2020 Report: Move from Early Warnings
to Early Action</b><br>
published 13 October 2020<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/state-of-climate-services-2020-report-move-from-early-warnings-early-action">https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/state-of-climate-services-2020-report-move-from-early-warnings-early-action</a><br>
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[PDF download the free report]<br>
<b>2020 State of Climate Services </b><br>
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)<br>
Published by: WMO ; 2020<br>
Between 1970 and 2019, 79% of disasters worldwide involved weather,
water, and climate-related hazards. These disasters accounted for
56% of deaths and 75% of economic losses from disasters associated
with natural hazards reported during that period. As climate change
continues to threaten human lives, ecosystems and economies, risk
information and early warning systems (EWS) are increasingly seen as
key for reducing these impacts. The majority of countries, including
88% of least developed countries and small island states, that
submitted their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to UNFCCC
have identified EWS as a "top priority".<br>
<br>
This latest WMO report highlights progress made in EWS capacity -
and identifies where and how governments can invest in effective EWS
to strengthen countries' resilience to multiple weather, water and
climate-related hazards. Being prepared and able to react at the
right time, in the right place, can save many lives and protect the
livelihoods of communities everywhere.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=21777#.X4elaNBKhqu">https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=21777#.X4elaNBKhqu</a><br>
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[Sea level rise and retreat -a matter for the courts - Inside
Climate News]<br>
<b>Maui Has Begun the Process of Managed Retreat. It Wants Big Oil
to Pay the Cost of Sea Level Rise.</b><br>
The county in Hawaii joins a long line of cities, counties and
states suing the fossil fuel industry for damages related to climate
change.<br>
BY DAVID HASEMYER - OCT 14, 2020<br>
With nearly 300 miles of coastline, the Hawaiian islands that make
up Maui County face the threat of sea level rise from all sides.
It's that assault that has formed the foundation of a lawsuit Maui
filed this week against 20 fossil fuel companies seeking
compensation for the rising costs of climate change.<br>
<br>
The lawsuit alleges that the companies, including ExxonMobil,
Chevron, Shell and ConocoPhillips, knew their products produced
warming greenhouse gases that threatened the planet but hid those
dangers from Maui's people and businesses to maximize corporate
profits.<br>
<br>
"Defendants have known for more than 50 years that greenhouse gas
pollution from their fossil fuel products would have significant
adverse impacts on the Earth's climate and sea levels," the lawsuit
said. "Instead of warning of those known consequences ... defendants
concealed the dangers, promoted false and misleading information,
sought to undermine public support for greenhouse gas regulation,
and engaged in massive campaigns to promote the ever-increasing use
of their products at ever-greater volumes."...<br>
Roadways, parks, infrastructure and buildings that hug the coastline
are vulnerable to billions of dollars in damages from sea level rise
caused by climate change, the lawsuit said. <br>
<br>
Some of Maui's most scenic and iconic highways are at risk,
including a stretch of Honoapiilani Highway from Papalaua State
Wayside Park to the Pali side of the town of Lahaina. <br>
<br>
Maui County, which consists of the islands of Maui, Lanai, most of
Molokai and two uninhabited islands, already has begun working on a
plan for managed retreat and new infrastructure to protect
communities from the impacts of rising sea levels. Fossil fuel
companies could have taken steps to reduce damage or warn people
about the danger from continued use of oil and gas products that
harm the environment, the lawsuit said.<br>
<br>
But now the county wants the industry to take responsibility. <br>
<br>
"It might be a David vs. Goliath case, but someone has to take a
stand and oil companies need to pay for the damage they knowingly
caused," Maui Mayor Michael Victorino said in a prepared statement.
"Our 'rock' is science, which clearly shows the impacts of burning
fossil fuels have led to sea level rise and other environmental
impacts that will get worse, perhaps much worse, in the years
ahead."<br>
<br>
Exxon did not respond to a request for comment.<br>
<br>
Shell spokesperson Anna Arata said the company supports the
transition to a lower-carbon future by lowering both the company's
emission and that of its customers.<br>
<br>
However, she said in a statement issued in response to previous
lawsuits, "We do not believe the courtroom is the right venue to
address climate change, but that smart policy from government,
supported by inclusive action from all business sectors, including
ours, and from civil society, is the appropriate way to reach
solutions and drive progress."<br>
<br>
Chevron spokesperson Sean Comey also restated the company's response
to previous climate lawsuits, saying the company is "working to find
real solutions to climate change." The climate lawsuits, he said,
seek "to punish companies that deliver affordable, reliable energy."<br>
<br>
Maui joins a growing list of cities, counties and states that have
filed lawsuits seeking to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable
for damages and mitigation costs attributable to climate change that
could severely strain taxpayer-funded budgets. <br>
<br>
The lawsuits cite a series of stories published by InsideClimate
News in 2015 based on internal Exxon documents that revealed the
extent of the company's knowledge about the central role of fossil
fuels in causing climate change going back to the 1970s. <br>
<br>
Sea level rise threatens Maui's five commercial harbors and five
airports, which will become increasingly exposed to chronic flooding
that will disrupt inter-island and transoceanic shipping and travel,
impacting the county's economic activities along with its residents
and visitors, the lawsuit said.<br>
<br>
"Since the County is almost entirely dependent upon imported food,
fuel, and material, the vulnerability of ports and airports to
extreme events, sea level rise, and increasing wave heights is of
serious concern," the lawsuit said.<br>
<br>
On the island of Maui alone, more than $3.2 billion in assets,
including more than 3,100 acres of land, 760 structures critical to
Maui's tourism-based economy, and 11.2 miles of major roads, are at
risk of inundation and destruction because of sea level rise
estimated to occur by the year 2100, the lawsuit said. <br>
<br>
Native Hawaiian cultural and historical resources, such as burial
grounds and home sites, and the habitat of native and endangered
species face destruction by rising seas, wildfires and rising
temperatures, the lawsuit said. <br>
<br>
The county's fire season runs year-round, rather than only a few
months of the year. In 2019, called the "year of fire" on Maui,
nearly 26,000 acres burned in the County--more than six times the
total area burned in 2018, according to the lawsuit.<br>
<br>
Heat continues to pound the islands with 2019 being the warmest year
on record across the county. Kahului, on the island of Maui, broke
or tied 61 daily record temperatures, leading to threats to human
health and the water supply, the lawsuit said.<br>
<br>
Maui's case comes at a time when nearly two dozen other climate
cases are wending through the legal system and facing stiff
opposition from the fossil fuel industry. The U.S. Supreme Court
recently agreed to consider whether the cases should be heard in
state or federal courts.<br>
<br>
The first round of cases was filed three years ago when five cities
and three counties in California sought damages from the industry.
Those cases were followed in quick succession by lawsuits in
Colorado, New York City, Baltimore, Kings County in Washington
state, the state of Rhode Island and the Pacific Coast Federation of
Fishermen's Associations. Most recently, Connecticut and Delaware
have filed climate lawsuits, as have Hoboken, New Jersey, and
Charleston, South Carolina.<br>
<br>
Generally, these cases embrace a range of state law violations that
include public nuisance, trespass, product liability and consumer
protection. <br>
<br>
Like the Maui case, most of the lawsuits have been filed in state
courts. But fossil fuel companies are fighting to have them heard in
federal court, where they have largely been successful in fending
off earlier climate lawsuits. Consequently, legal battle lines so
far have been drawn over jurisdictional questions rather than on
substantive issues addressing the fossil fuel industry's role in
climate change. <br>
<br>
The municipalities want the cases heard in state courts where they
can focus on arguments grounded in state laws they believe more
precisely relate to the cause and consequences of climate change.
Having cases tried in local courts gives them an advantage because
the courts are not constrained by prevailing federal laws that
sharply constrain climate-related claims.<br>
<br>
The industry is fighting to have the cases tried in federal court,
where the law gives them the upper hand to argue climate change
remedies are policy issues best left to Congress, not the courts, a
position that the federal courts have embraced in similar cases.<br>
David Hasemyer<br>
InsideClimate News reporter David Hasemyer is co-author of the
"Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard
Of," which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, and
co-authored the 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist series "Exxon: The Road
Not Taken."... He can be reached at
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:david.hasemyer@insideclimatenews.org">david.hasemyer@insideclimatenews.org</a>. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13102020/maui-big-oil-lawsuit">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13102020/maui-big-oil-lawsuit</a><br>
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[In Vogue]<br>
<b>What the Climate Movement Can Learn From Indigenous Values</b><br>
Tribal attorney and activist Tara Houska writes about the importance
of diversity of thought on the frontlines of the climate movement.<br>
BY TARA HOUSKA<br>
September 24, 2020<br>
Wild rice makes a tiny exploding sound when it is struck by a cedar
knocking stick. A burst, followed by the sounds of rice falling into
a canoe below.<br>
<br>
"It's the sound the universe made when it began," I was told by my
long-time teacher. It's the sound of life beginning, life
continuing. Wild rice, what we know as manoomin, is the food that
grows on water, the staple that lies at the heart of my people's
culture. It's what I've given my heart, mind, and body to protect
against yet another proposed tar sands pipeline, this time
Enbridge's Line 3, set to cut through Ojibwe territory in northern
Minnesota.<br>
<br>
It's what sits in my heart as I push through room after room of
decision-makers, legislators, financiers, corporate representatives,
fellow advocates, climate scientists, climate deniers, and the rest
of the cast of characters in the so-called environmental movement.
Here, our sacred manoomin becomes a number, a statistical data
point. The land that sustains every life on earth becomes a sum of
degrees Celsius, carbon emissions, forest acreage, and economic
impacts. Water is reduced from our literal lifeblood to a policy
concern, a partisan issue up for debate.<br>
<br>
The language of climate is part of the distancing we've broadly
internalized, as far as I can tell. It's a piece of the world full
of invisible barriers and entrenched pathologies. The story of our
self-destruction and what to do has been mostly told in cold,
statistical analysis recited by a handful of mostly male, mostly
non-POC, almost entirely non-Indigenous voices. The language of land
is largely absent or relegated to the category of pitiable
platitudes...<br>
When Dr. Katharine Wilkinson and Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
approached me about an anthology of women from many walks of life
grappling with the crisis unfolding all around us, I was immediately
drawn to being part of a less-familiar story, a narrative curated by
women thinking in non-square shapes. Surely a crisis at the scale of
eradicating all life requires diversity of thought, but I've heard
nuclear, renewables, carbon offsetting and electoral politics
presented as solutions more times than I can count. All We Can Save
is something different.<br>
<br>
Everything from climate grief to self-care to risking personal
safety for those to come exists in its pages. Women discuss making
new life during crisis; they imagine economies steeped in empathy
and life in balance with the natural world. "The world is on fire"
is right next to coping with trauma and taking action...<br>
I've lived on frontlines for years at this point. My days in a D.C.
office have morphed back into the forests I grew up with and an
off-grid existence that challenges and shapes my perspective every
day. I've faced down the banking industry behind Line 3 in their
board rooms, I've trained young people about how to exercise their
rights and challenge the system. All We Can Save offered space to
question the efficacy of comfortable, well-worn advocacy routes and
suggest we collectively assess our values lest we mimic the same
structures that are killing all life.<br>
<br>
Here in the wild rice, life's truths are clear. We will knock,
parch, roast, jig, and winnow to reach the place we can eat this
delicate, nourishing plant. It's hard work made easier by more
hands.<br>
<br>
Humans are not a plague on nature but integrated into manoomin
cycles. Poling canoes through a floating field of rice so thick you
cannot see a shoreline is carefully done, so as not to break the
stalks for the next canoes, the next generation. We reseed as we go,
by the falling rice that misses the canoe and by rice chiefs who
will drop mud balls packed with rice seeds in the lakes at harvest
end. Rice is weighed and tracked, to prevent over-consumption. Here,
balance as a value is in practice.<br>
<br>
Still, like for so many of the world's inhabitants, life here is
fragile. Disruption of water quality can wipe out an entire lake's
crop. Earlier this week, I looked up through the rice at the hazy
red sky, praying for all the beings burning and fleeing out west. I
thought of the piles of pipeline stacked a few miles north of this
lake, desperately clawing at a chance to expand the tar sands. I
wondered where we will go, whether human beings will pull it
together to put survival ahead of personal comfort. I listened to
the softly rustling rice and lifted up my cedar knockers, as my
ancestors have for millennia. There's work to be done.<br>
<br>
Tara Houska--Zhaabowekwe, JD, is Couchiching First Nation Ojibwe, an
attorney, environmental and indigenous rights advocate, and founder
of Giniw Collective. She lives in a pipeline resistance camp in
Minnesota.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vogue.com/article/what-the-climate-movement-can-learn-from-indigenous-values">https://www.vogue.com/article/what-the-climate-movement-can-learn-from-indigenous-values</a><br>
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[From Nature]<br>
<b>Prioritizing where to restore Earth's ecosystems</b><br>
Targets for ecosystem restoration are usually specified in terms of
the total area to be restored. A global analysis reveals that the
benefits and costs of achieving such targets depend greatly on where
this restoration occurs.<br>
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However, until now, the science of prioritizing where best to invest
in ecosystem restoration at global and national scales has lagged
behind the many notable scientific advances made in prioritizing
additions to protected areas...<br>
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One of the biggest challenges in prioritizing areas for restoration
(Fig. 1) is balancing the benefits for biodiversity conservation
against those for climate-change mitigation. Forests are usually the
biomes with the highest potential to sequester carbon. However, all
biomes, including non-forest biomes such as natural grasslands and
shrublands, can contain ecosystems in urgent need of restoration to
prevent the extinction of species found only in those ecosystems.
Even areas offering similar potential for carbon sequestration
within the same biome (for example, in tropical rainforests) can
vary greatly in terms of potential restoration benefits for
biodiversity conservation. This is because such benefits depend on
the number and uniqueness of the species associated with a given
area of that biome, and the extent to which these species have lost
habitat elsewhere across their range.<br>
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Strassburg et al. show that the benefits and costs of restoring a
given total area of land depend very much on where this restoration
is undertaken. Prioritizing the spatial distribution of restoration
using a single criterion of benefit or cost generally performs
poorly in achieving desirable outcomes for the other criteria. For
example, restoring 15% of the world's converted lands by focusing
solely on maximizing benefits for climate-change mitigation would
achieve only 65% of the gains potentially achievable for
biodiversity (assessed as the resulting reduction in risk of species
extinctions) if the restoration focused instead on maximizing
biodiversity benefits. Restoration focused solely on minimizing
costs would achieve only 34% of the maximum potential gain for
biodiversity and 39% of the potential gain for climate-change
mitigation. Encouragingly, however, optimizing for all three
criteria simultaneously yields a solution that would achieve 91% and
82% of potential gains for biodiversity and climate-change
mitigation, respectively, while maximizing cost-effectiveness.<br>
<br>
These findings have major implications for the setting and
implementation of global targets for ecosystem restoration. A key
discovery by Strassburg and colleagues is that the total area
restored is a relatively weak metric of how restoration might help
in reaching fundamental goals for biodiversity conservation and
climate-change mitigation. This is conveyed most compellingly by the
finding that the reduction in risk of species extinctions that is
achieved by different spatial allocations of the same total area of
restoration can vary by a factor of up to six. Thus, any high-level
goal for ecosystem restoration, and associated indicators for
assessing progress, should ideally be specified in a way that
ensures actions are directed towards areas that will contribute most
effectively to achieving fundamental biodiversity and climate goals.<br>
Strassburg and co-workers' study is particularly laudable for
linking perspectives on ecosystem restoration to bridge the domains
of biodiversity conservation and climate-change mitigation. However,
challenges remain in further linking such prioritization to other
key drivers and pressures, and other types of action beyond
restoration. Multiple interactions between these factors will
together determine overall global outcomes for biodiversity and
climate. Consider, for example, the scope of such interactions just
in relation to the goal of preventing species extinctions.
Strassburg and colleagues' extinction-risk modelling assumes that
the distribution of potentially suitable environments for species
will remain fixed, despite growing evidence that many of these
distributions are already shifting, or are likely to shift over
time, owing to climate change5. Research assessing the combined
effects of land use and climate change on biodiversity suggests that
not considering climate-change effects might lead to a severe
underestimation of extinction risk6.<br>
<br>
The authors' modelling also assumes that all habitat currently
provided by intact ecosystems will remain intact. But, given current
trends in ecosystem degradation worldwide7, it seems probable that
the area of habitat available for species will ultimately be
determined not only by gains made through restoration, but also by
the interplay of such gains with losses occurring elsewhere in the
extent and integrity of ecosystems8. The magnitude and spatial
configuration of future losses will, in turn, be determined by
ongoing interactions between socio-economic drivers of demand for
converted lands, and actions aimed at either reducing the demand
itself, or ameliorating the effect of this demand by protecting key
areas of intact habitat from conversion9.<br>
<br>
The role of such interactions in shaping ultimate outcomes
underscores the need to take these interactions into account when
defining, implementing and assessing progress in achieving global
targets10. The post-2020 global biodiversity framework (see
go.nature.com/36fqq44), currently being developed for adoption by
the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, offers a
timely opportunity to address this need by explicitly defining
interlinkages between any agreed ecosystem protection and
restoration targets and the framework's over-arching biodiversity
goals.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02750-2">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02750-2</a><br>
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[Record set]<br>
<b>September was world's 'hottest on record'</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54442782">https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54442782</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 -
October 15, 2007 </b></font><br>
<br>
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman ridicules right-wing outrage
over Al Gore's Nobel Prize win.<br>
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