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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>October 20, 2020</b></font></i></p>
[The Guardian makes a list]<br>
<b>75 ways Trump made America dirtier and the planet warmer</b><br>
In the past four years, Trump has shredded environmental protections
for American lands, animals and people<br>
This list was adapted from the <b>Harvard Law School's Regulatory
Rollback Tracker.</b><br>
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href="https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/regulatory-rollback-tracker/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/regulatory-rollback-tracker/</a><br>
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href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2020/oct/20/trump-us-dirtier-planet-warmer-75-ways"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2020/oct/20/trump-us-dirtier-planet-warmer-75-ways</a><br>
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[CNBC]<br>
OPINION - POWERING THE FUTURE<br>
<b>Op-ed: Climate change threatens U.S. banks far more than they're
disclosing</b><br>
PUBLISHED MON, OCT 19 2020<br>
Steven M. Rothstein and Dan Saccardi, Ceres<br>
<b>KEY POINTS</b><br>
- All six of the largest banks in the U.S. -- Bank of America,
JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Wells Fargo
-- face above-average loan risk related to climate change, according
to new research from Ceres.<br>
- Lending linked to fossil fuels and energy transition could
translate into more than $100 billion in losses for U.S. banks and
systemic financial risk.<br>
The financial world is beginning to reckon with a hard truth:
Climate change poses a clear threat to the entire U.S. financial
system...<br>
- -<br>
Banks, and regulators have their work cut out for them, as do the
investors and customers that rely on them, but the work will be far
harder and more expensive the longer they wait. Banks' vulnerability
to climate change will continue to mount regardless of the outcome
of the U.S. presidential election. To avoid another systemic-scale
crisis like the world experienced in 2008-2009, only concerted,
systemic, preventative action will do.<br>
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href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/19/climate-change-threatens-banks-far-more-than-theyre-disclosing.html"
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[Ceres recently released the report]<br>
<b>Financing a Net-Zero Economy: Measuring and Addressing Climate
Risk for Banks.</b><br>
October 19, 2020<br>
This report investigates banks' climate-related financial risks and
their exposure to a disorderly transition. Based on the finding that
a majority of bank lending is in climate-exposed sectors, the report
also lays out a blueprint for bank action with key recommendations
for how banks can discuss their climate risk exposure and the
mitigation strategies they can use to address this risk exposure and
broader climate-related societal impact.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ceres.org/resources/reports/financing-net-zero-economy-measuring-and-addressing-climate-risk-banks"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.ceres.org/resources/reports/financing-net-zero-economy-measuring-and-addressing-climate-risk-banks</a><br>
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[NYTimes Opinion]<br>
<b>I Am Watching My Planet, My Home, Die</b><br>
Our world cannot survive four more years of the Trump
administration's environmental policy.<br>
By Margaret Renkl<br>
Contributing Opinion Writer<br>
Oct. 19, 2020<br>
NASHVILLE -- I was writing a love letter to autumn and its perfect
miracle of timing -- the way berries ripen just as songbirds migrate
through berry-filled forests -- when the songbirds suddenly began to
die. With no warning at all, thousands and thousands of birds,
possibly millions of birds, were simply falling out of the sky.<br>
<br>
It's not yet clear why the birds were dying -- smoke from the
wildfires on the West Coast? an unseasonable cold snap? the
prolonged drought? -- but whatever its immediate reason, the die-off
was almost certainly related to climate change or some other
human-wrought hazard. Every possible explanation for the birds'
deaths leads back to our own choices.<br>
<br>
We think of songbirds as indicator species -- so sensitive to
environmental disruptions that they serve as an early warning of
trouble. But the fact that the environment has become increasingly
inhospitable to songbirds -- and to human beings -- is only one
measure of a planet under life-threatening stress.<br>
<br>
The earth is getting measurably hotter, each year breaking records
set the year before, while Arctic sea ice continues to thin.
Wildfires are growing hotter, more frequent, more widespread and
more deadly. Northeastern forests are sick. Our oceans are full of
plastic. The world's largest wetland is on fire, and the Amazon
rainforest is on its way to becoming a savanna. The pandemic that
has paralyzed global life is itself the manifestation of a
disordered relationship between human beings and the natural
world...<br>
None of this is new. We've seen it all happening, worsening with
every passing year, for decades now. Any chance of reversing climate
change is long since gone, and the climate will inevitably continue
to warm. The question now is only how much it will warm, how
terrible we will let it become.<br>
<br>
There are days when I lose all hope, when it feels as if the only
thing left to do is to sit quietly and bear witness to all that will
soon be gone: the rain forests and the tidal estuaries, the redwood
forests and the Arctic sea ice, the grasslands and the coral reefs.
Every wild place and every living thing that wild places harbor, all
gone. I held my father's hand as he died, and I held my mother's
hand as she died, and now it feels as though I am watching my planet
die, too.<br>
<br>
But that isn't how I feel most days. On most days I am still
fighting as hard as I can possibly fight, living as lightly on the
earth as I can manage. The only other option is surrender.<br>
<br>
But personal responsibility isn't going to save the planet by
itself. Saving the earth at this late date will also require us to
reform the entire global economy. It will require government
regulation. It will require industry innovation. It will require
companies to invest in the very planet they have been profiting
from.<br>
<br>
None of that can happen in a country governed by "leaders" in thrall
to the fossil fuel industry. Instead of getting serious about
climate change, Republicans have run headfirst into the fire,
repealing or weakening nearly 100 existing environmental
protections. Those changes alone, if left to stand, will add 1.8
billion metric tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere by 2035...<br>
We cannot let them stand, and I'm heartened by signs that we won't.
Money from philanthropic organizations is finally flowing into
planet-saving research. As the costs of failing to address climate
change have become increasingly clear, people on both sides of the
political aisle are beginning to wake up: Today, 72 percent of
Americans recognize that climate change is happening, a marked
departure from the position of the climate-denier in the White
House. Fewer than 10 percent share his view that climate science is
a hoax.<br>
<br>
Despite the Democratic Party's forward-thinking position on
conservation and Joe Biden's own $2 trillion plan to address climate
change, Mr. Biden is not an environmentalist's dream candidate:
There is just no responsible way forward that includes fracking,
which Mr. Biden would not move to end. Nevertheless, he represents
our only hope at the moment, and preserving hope is our only chance
to inspire change.<br>
<br>
Every single issue that matters to me -- education, social justice,
women's rights, affordable health care, criminal justice reform, gun
control, immigration policy etc. -- won't mean a single thing if the
planet becomes uninhabitable. The same is true for my brothers and
sisters across the political aisle: If they care about the right to
life, as they say they do, if they care about the economy, about
freedom, about national security, as they say they do, then they
have no choice in this election but to vote for candidates who are
committed to halting the rate at which the planet is heating up.<br>
<br>
For now and for the foreseeable future, there is only one issue, and
in this election there is only one choice. Because there is only one
planet we can call home.<br>
<br>
Margaret Renkl is a contributing opinion writer who covers flora,
fauna, politics and culture in the American South. She is the author
of the book "Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/opinion/trump-environment-vote.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/opinion/trump-environment-vote.html</a><br>
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[short video on cement technologies and CO2]<b><br>
</b><b>Concrete Carbon Capture. A pathway to net zero?</b><br>
Oct 18, 2020<br>
Just Have a Think<br>
Carbontech is a developing industry dedicated to drawing carbon
dioxide out of our atmosphere and locking it up in products,
buildings and infrastructure.One of the fastest growing of those new
developments - carbon capture in concrete - may prove to be one of
the most effective ways to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.<br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkE-2npiqFc"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkE-2npiqFc</a><br>
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<br>
[the possible will become the likely]<br>
<b>Alaska's new climate threat: tsunamis linked to melting
permafrost</b><br>
Scientists are warning of a link between rapid warming and
landslides that could threaten towns and tourist attractions<br>
Erin McKittrick - 18 Oct 2020<br>
In Alaska and other high, cold places around the world, new research
shows that mountains are collapsing as the permafrost that holds
them together melts, threatening tsunamis if they fall into the sea.<br>
<br>
Scientists are warning that populated areas and major tourist
attractions are at risk.<br>
<br>
One area of concern is a slope of the Barry Arm fjord in Alaska that
overlooks a popular cruise ship route.<br>
The Barry Arm slide began creeping early last century, sped up a
decade ago, and was discovered this year using satellite photos. If
it lets loose, the wave could hit any ships in the area and reach
hundreds of meters up nearby mountains, swamping the popular tourist
destination and crashing as high as 10 meters over the town of
Whittier. Earlier this year, 14 geologists warned that a major slide
was "possible" within a year, and "likely" within 20 years.<br>
<br>
In 2015, a similar landslide, on a slope that had also crept for
decades, created a tsunami that sheared off forests 193 meters up
the slopes of Alaska's Taan Fiord.<br>
<br>
"When the climate changes," said geologist Bretwood Higman, who has
worked on Taan Fiord and Barry Arm, "the landscape takes time to
adjust. If a glacier retreats really quickly it can catch the
surrounding slopes by surprise - they might fail catastrophically
instead of gradually adjusting."<br>
<br>
After examining 30 years of satellite photos, for instance,
geologist Erin Bessette-Kirton has found that landslides in Alaska's
St Elias mountains and Glacier Bay correspond with the warmest
years.<br>
Warming clearly leads to slides, but knowing just when those slides
will release is a much harder problem. "We don't have a good handle
on the mechanism," Bessette-Kirkton said. "We have correlations, but
we don't know the driving force. What conditions the landslide, and
what triggers it?"...<br>
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Over the past century, 10 of the 14 tallest tsunamis recorded
happened in glaciated mountain areas. In 1958, a landslide into
Alaska's Lituya Bay created a 524-meter wave - the tallest ever
recorded. In Alaska's 1964 earthquake, most deaths were from
tsunamis set off by underwater landslides.<br>
<br>
To deal with the hazard, experts hope to predict when a slope is
more likely to fail by installing sensors on the most dangerous
slopes to measure the barely perceptible acceleration of creeping
that may presage a slide.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/18/alaska-climate-change-tsunamis-melting-permafrost"
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<br>
[radical Socialist opinion - from theAnalysis - audio]<br>
<b>Trump Says Socialism is His Enemy - He's Right</b><br>
Meagan Day, a journalist for Jacobin Magazine and member of the DSA,
joins Paul Jay to discuss the challenges in building a broad
democratic front that focuses on the climate crisis and defeating
rising fascism; and organizing a socialist movement for a more
radical transformation of the society.<br>
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href="https://youtu.be/SXXlnG7R_fA?t=1841" moz-do-not-send="true">https://youtu.be/SXXlnG7R_fA?t=1841</a>
[cued up to section on global warming]<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 20, 2013 </b></font><br>
<p>MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry discusses the emotional and
financial toll of Superstorm Sandy, one year later.<br>
<br>
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href="http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/denial-cant-stop-climate-devastation-55061059573"
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href="http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/disasters-test-our-infrastructure-and-leaders-55059523943#"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/disasters-test-our-infrastructure-and-leaders-55059523943#</a><br>
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