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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>November 7, 2020</b></font></i></p>
[Dave Roberts insight]<br>
<b>Joe Biden will be president, but there will be no Green New Deal</b><br>
Without Congress, he'll be limited to executive action, just like
Obama.<br>
<br>
By David Roberts <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:david@vox.com">david@vox.com</a> Nov 6, 2020<br>
Biden can make climate progress without Congress<br>
But there is an enormous amount that Biden can do with the
presidency alone.<br>
<br>
He can immediately begin reversing Trump's massive deregulatory
moves, restoring the more than 125 rules Trump has reversed or
weakened.<br>
<br>
He can instruct the Environmental Protection Agency to develop a
more ambitious version of Obama's Clean Power Plan for the
electricity sector, to work toward his goal of net-zero emissions
electricity by 2035, and the Department of Transportation to
develop, as his plan promises, "rigorous new fuel economy standards
aimed at ensuring 100% of new sales for light- and medium-duty
vehicles will be electrified." He can grant California the waiver it
needs (which Trump is now in court trying to block) to pursue its
own ambitious vehicle standards.<br>
<br>
He can end Trump's oil and gas development bender on public land,
reimposing protections and encouraging safe development of renewable
energy, and restore the "waters of the United States" (WOTUS) rule
to prevent water pollution. He can restore and strengthen the rules
on methane leakage from oil and gas operations that Trump rolled
back.<br>
<br>
One of the most important structural moves Biden can make is to use
the powers granted to him by the Dodd-Frank financial reform
legislation to ensure that the Federal Reserve, and the financial
system more broadly, takes climate risk into account, channeling
investment away from carbon-intensive projects. (More on how to do
that here.)<br>
<br>
If he is feeling particularly bold, it is within Biden's powers to
declare climate change a national security emergency, which would
give him the power to implement industrial policy directly, boosting
the production of electric vehicles, EV charging infrastructure,
long-distance electricity transmission lines, solar panels, or other
materiel needed to address the emergency.<br>
Perhaps most importantly, Biden can reassure America's international
partners that it is back in the climate game. His foreign policy
powers as president are limited only by his ambition. Rejoining the
Paris agreement is only the first step.<br>
<br>
Beyond that, he could rejoin the World Health Organization and push
it to better address climate health risks. He could convene smaller
"clubs" of willing nations to hasten the development of key clean
energy technologies or develop policies to address environmental
migration. He could push forward international agreements around
hydrofluorocarbons, deforestation, plastics, or other
climate-adjacent issues.<br>
<br>
There's no way around it, though: To implement anything close to
what's needed, to muster the necessary investments and properly
protect affected communities, Biden would need Congress. (If
Democrats don't win the Senate in 2020, Democrats have their next
chance at a majority in two years, but it's not a sure bet.) Without
it, his climate accomplishments, like Obama's, will be partial and
inadequate.<br>
<br>
Republican climate intransigence is not a problem Biden can solve...<br>
more at -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/21547245/joe-biden-wins-2020-climate-change-clean-energy-policy">https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/21547245/joe-biden-wins-2020-climate-change-clean-energy-policy</a><br>
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[Listen to big money talking]<br>
<b>Long concerned about climate change, VC Steve Westly is feeling
electrified</b><br>
Connie Loizos - November 6, 2020<br>
A former controller and CFO of the state of California, Steve Westly
is passionate about government. The onetime eBay exec and early
Tesla board member has also been a proponent of clean energy for
roughly 30 years, so he's feeling optimistic right now, with former
U.S. VP Joe Biden amassing a growing number of electoral votes and
widening his leading Donald Trump as he inches toward an election
win.<br>
<br>
We talked earlier today with Westly, who founded the venture firm
The Westly Group 13 years ago and which is currently raising up to
$250 million for a fourth fund, according to SEC paperwork filed
earlier this week. We wanted to know whether he thinks Biden will be
able to achieve any part of his climate plan in the likely scenario
that Republicans continue to control the Senate...<br>
<b>- -</b><br>
<b>TC: It's looking like Joe Biden is going to win the election, but
there's also a strong chance that he'll be working with a
Republican-controlled Senate. Meanwhile, climate change was not in
the top five concerns for voters of either party. Does this can
get kicked down the road again?</b><br>
No, it just means they'll have to work together and that he'll have
to go directly to the issues that are most popular to get them
through.<br>
<br>
Trump had no clue that sustainable energy is immensely popular today
and that some of the states that used to block green initiatives --
including Texas, North Dakota, and South Dakota -- are increasingly
becoming wind and solar powers, such that their senators who used to
say, 'natural gas forever' are also saying that solar and wind are
employing more and more people in their states.<br>
<br>
<b>TC: What do you see as first steps?</b><br>
SW: Biden will bring the U.S. back into the Paris climate agreement.
You'll also see him at the front of this global movement toward the
electrification of everything, and there will be support for EVs and
support for sustainable energy.<br>
<br>
You'll also see some sort of penalties or restrictions on
carbon-based fuels because of the increased data we have that carbon
in the atmosphere is causing public health problems, reducing air
quality and that large insurance companies are having to pay for
[these things]. Now that Munich Re and others say, 'We pretty much
know what the cost is, and we're charging you back,' the government
can use that data to charge carbon producers appropriately.<br>
<br>
<b>TC: Traditional energy companies– the biggest carbon emitters --
say they've resolved to address this problem. Do you think that's
mostly optics?</b><br>
SW: A lot is optics, but it's also a realization that you either
change your business model or you go down with the ship. You don't
want to take the Kodak approach. You want to be Apple and reinvent
yourself.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/06/vc-and-former-politician-steve-westly-is-feeling-electrified-right-now-heres-why/">https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/06/vc-and-former-politician-steve-westly-is-feeling-electrified-right-now-heres-why/</a><br>
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[Wise old man gives us some fundamentals of activism]<br>
<b>Noam Chomsky - Our Stark, Cruel Dilemma</b><br>
Nov 5, 2020<br>
Facing Future<br>
The 'lost videos' from our conversation with #NoamChomsky before the
2018 climate negotiations in which he skewers the 'guilty parties,'
while advising those activists who would rise to the occasion and
change humanity's fate. He outlines the #CrimesAgainstHumanity
being committed by #CorruptLeaders who would sacrifice all future
generations for their personal gain and ideologies of 'unending
economic growth.'<br>
(c) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://FacingFuture.Earth">http://FacingFuture.Earth</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19Ix-bNmudk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19Ix-bNmudk</a>
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[Andy Revkin in discussions with Samantha Montano ]<br>
<b>Disasterologists' Dissect Our Pandemic-Shaped Political Moment -
Sustain What</b><br>
Streamed live Nov 6, 2020<br>
Andrew Revkin<br>
Sustain What host Andy Revkin leads a solution-seeking brainstorm on
paths to resilience amid the interlaced, and continuing disasters
shaping American's political decisions – and amplified or mitigated
by the outcome of #Election2020.<br>
<br>
Our special guests are: <br>
- Samantha Montano, assistant professor in the Department Emergency
Management at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and a passionate
voice for public education and preparedness on social media via
@SamLMontao. <br>
Her website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.disaster-ology.com/">http://www.disaster-ology.com/</a><br>
<br>
- Jevin West, Director of Center for an Informed Public at the
University of Washington and co-author, with Carl Bergstrom, of
"Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World."
Follow Jevin at @jevinwest.<br>
<br>
- Joshua DeVincenzo, project coordinator and instructional designer
at the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia
University and author of a recent paper on new paths to public
education and engagement on climate change. Follow Josh at
@j_devincenzo. Here's his new paper on climate pedagogy:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://j.mp/climatepedagogy">http://j.mp/climatepedagogy</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNfSKPkncog&feature=youtu.be&t=399">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNfSKPkncog&feature=youtu.be&t=399</a><br>
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[UCSF press release November 4, 2020]<br>
<br>
<br>
<b>Climate Change Will Give Rise to More Cancers </b><br>
UCSF Study Focuses on Global Impact for Major Cancers and Steps
Needed to Lessen Risks <br>
<br>
By Elizabeth Fernandez<br>
Climate change will bring an acute toll worldwide, with rising
temperatures, wildfires and poor air quality, accompanied by higher
rates of cancer, especially lung, skin and gastrointestinal cancers,
according to a new report from UC San Francisco. <br>
<br>
In an analysis of nearly five dozen published scientific papers, the
researchers provided a synopsis of future effects from global
warming on major cancers, from environmental toxins to ultraviolet
radiation, air pollution, infectious agents and disruptions in the
food and water supply. <br>
<br>
Ultimately, the most profound challenge to the global cancer picture
could come from the disruption of the complex health care systems
required for cancer diagnosis, treatment, and care, the authors
wrote. The review appears in The Lancet Oncology. <br>
<br>
"In the worldwide battle to mitigate climate change, the
international community is not on track to slow emissions of
greenhouses gases," said lead author Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD, UCSF
professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and associate director
for population science at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive
Cancer Center. "2015-2019 were the five warmest years on record, and
2020 has seen tremendous climate impacts, from wildfires to
hurricanes." <br>
<br>
The impacts of climate change on health are large and are expected
to continue growing without rapid action. High temperatures, poor
air quality and wildfires cause higher rates of respiratory and
cardiovascular diseases. Warmer temperatures and changing rainfall
patterns raise the risk and spread of vector-borne disease, such as
malaria and dengue. "Extreme weather events cause death, injury,
displacement, and disrupt health-care delivery," the authors wrote.
<br>
<br>
Cancer is widely predicted to be the leading cause of death in the
21st century. Worldwide, there were 24.5 million new cases of cancer
and 9.6 million deaths in 2017, a striking increase from 2008 with
12.7 million cases and 7.6 million deaths. <br>
<br>
The authors said the biggest cancer threats are likely to be from
air pollution, exposure to ultraviolent radiation and industrial
toxins, and disruptions in food and water supply. Lung cancer,
already the primary cause of cancer deaths worldwide, is expected to
increase as a result of escalating exposure to particulate matter in
air pollution, estimated to be responsible for as much as 15 percent
of new cases. <br>
<br>
While the overall effects of climate change on nutrition-related
cancers are difficult to determine, the authors said, one
comprehensive modeling study predicted more than half a million
climate-related deaths worldwide, including cancer deaths, as a
result of changes in food supply by 2050, such as reduced
consumption of fruits and vegetables. <br>
<br>
Climate change is already exacerbating social and economic
inequities, leading to higher rates of migration and poverty. The
authors note that poor people and communities of color are
disproportionately affected by cancer and have a higher cancer
mortality. World Bank estimates that climate change will push 100
million people globally back into poverty by 2030. <br>
<br>
Major disruptions are also expected to take place in the
infrastructure of health care systems for cancer control, which
could affect all cancers. The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a clear
example of this disruption, shifting medical resources away from
cancer and causing thousands of patients to delay cancer screenings
out of fear of contracting the virus. <br>
<br>
"Extreme weather events such as storms and flooding can destroy or
damage health-care infrastructure, reducing health care quality and
availability," said the authors. These events also interrupt service
delivery by causing power shortages, disrupting supply chains,
transportation, and communication, and resulting in staff shortages.
Ironically, COVID-19 also revealed a ray of hope in reversing the
damage. <br>
<br>
"The early pandemic response resulted in a striking reduction in air
pollution," Hiatt said, "showing the potential of extreme measures
to result in rapid environmental change." <br>
<br>
It could take decades to fully understand the impact of climate
change on cancer, given a sometimes lengthy delay from exposure to
clinical diagnosis. But the authors said that shouldn't prevent
acting now, as the harmful impacts from air pollution and other
climate risks will continue to grow during that time. <br>
<br>
"There is a lot we can be doing to mitigate climate change and to
mitigate the impact on cancer," said co-author Naomi Beyeler, MPH,
co-director of the Evidence to Policy Initiative and Lead for
Climate and Health at the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences.
"We should be doing both, and we should be doing both with urgency."
<br>
<br>
By reducing pollution, deaths from lung cancer could decline, the
authors said, and there are numerous clinical, behavioral, and
policy solutions to slow climate change, and prevent cancer cases
and deaths. <br>
<br>
"The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us the importance of science and
public health," said Beyeler, "and we have seen over the past months
that as a global health community, we are able to mobilize the
investments, research, and collective action needed to solve health
problems on a global scale. Now is the time to apply this ambition
to tackling the climate crisis." <br>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/11/418976/climate-change-will-give-rise-more-cancers">https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/11/418976/climate-change-will-give-rise-more-cancers</a><br>
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[source matter]<br>
<b>Cancer and climate change</b><br>
Prof Robert A Hiatt, MD <br>
Naomi Beyeler, MPH<br>
Published:November, 2020 DOI:<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30448-4">https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30448-4</a><br>
<br>
Summary<br>
The acute impact of climate change on human health is receiving
increased attention, but little is known or appreciated about the
effect of climate change on chronic diseases, particularly cancer.
This Review provides a synopsis of what is known about climate
change and the exposures it generates relevant to cancer. In the
context of the world's cancer burden and the probable direction we
could expect to follow in the absence of climate change, this
scoping review of the literature summarises the effects that climate
change is having on major cancers, from environmental exposures to
ultraviolet radiation, air pollution, disruptions in the food and
water supply, environmental toxicants, and infectious agents.
Finally, we explore the effect of climate change on the possible
disruption of health systems that have been essential to cancer
control practice. We conclude with potential responses and
opportunities for intervention.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(20)30448-4/fulltext">https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(20)30448-4/fulltext</a><br>
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[GM and Sexism - Scientific American]<br>
<b>A Woman Warned GM about Warming, But Men Didn't Listen</b><br>
Ruth Reck did pioneering climate change research at the automotive
giant, where she says she faced sexism<br>
<br>
By Maxine Joselow, E&E News on November 4, 2020<br>
A General Motors scientist who conducted pioneering research on
climate change in the 1960s says she faced sexism that made it
difficult to do her job.<br>
<br>
Ruth Reck's allegations raise questions about whether GM executives
dismissed or downplayed her findings on global warming because of
her gender.<br>
<br>
Reck joined GM Research Laboratories in Warren, Mich., in 1965 and
soon began studying the effects of car emissions on the climate,
E&E News reported as part of a monthslong investigation
(Climatewire, Oct. 26).<br>
<br>
As the first female scientist in the lab, she encountered an
environment in which male co-workers evaluated her body rather than
her brains.<br>
<br>
"I had a very difficult time working at GM in general. They told me
I was a distraction because I was a shapely woman. I don't want to
go into detail, but it was really hard. Really, unbelievably
embarrassing," Reck recalled in one of several phone interviews with
E&E News...<br>
- - <br>
<b>CO2 AND THE CEOS</b><br>
Throughout the 1970s, Reck researched the effects of greenhouse
gases such as carbon dioxide. Her work offered strong evidence that
CO2 heated the planet and could trigger dire consequences on Earth,
such as melting ice sheets and sea-level rise.<br>
<br>
Despite her expertise, Reck was passed over for the opportunity to
lead GM's task force on global warming in 1989. That distinction
went to Joseph "Joe" Colucci, an engineer who specialized in
automotive fuels and lubricants -- and who had not published any
papers on climate change in peer-reviewed journals.<br>
<br>
Led by Colucci, the task force drafted and released a report on the
technologies needed to address global warming. Reck was never asked
to review the document.<br>
<br>
After learning from Reck that CO2 emissions from car tailpipes
warmed the planet, the CEOs largely declined to alter GM's business
model and lobbying practices in response. Both Smith and Stempel
presided over periods in which the automaker invested in
gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs while fighting fuel economy regulations
that would have made those vehicles cleaner.<br>
<br>
At first, Johnston appeared to take a keen interest in Reck's
research, and the two forged an unusual friendship. But in 1989, he
orchestrated GM's involvement in the Global Climate Coalition, a
lobbying group that opposed actions to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions during the George H.W. Bush administration, said Marina
von Neumann Whitman, who was GM's vice president and group executive
for public affairs at the time.<br>
<br>
Johnston "felt his major obligation was to 'protect the product
plan.' And he was the one that got General Motors into the Global
Climate Coalition," said Whitman, who is now a professor at the
University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.<br>
<br>
After leaving GM, Johnston joined the American Enterprise Institute,
a conservative think tank whose scholars have said concern about
climate change is overblown. While at AEI, he published a book
titled "Driving America: Your Car, Your Government, Your Choice"
that argued the science was not settled on "whether the climate is
warming and, if so, whether the warming is the result of human
activity."...<br>
<br>
- -<br>
<br>
'ENRAGING AND HEARTBREAKING'<br>
Women have been overlooked in the field of climate science, as well.<br>
<br>
Eunice Newton Foote, the first woman in climate science, posited in
1856 that CO2 affected the Earth's temperature. But the Irish
physicist John Tyndall widely gets credit for the theory, which he
suggested three years later, wrote Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and
Katharine Wilkinson in their recent book "All We Can Save: Truth,
Courage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis."<br>
<br>
"We have to wonder if Eunice Newton Foote ever found herself
remarking, as so many women have: 'I literally just said that,
dude,'" Johnson and Wilkinson wrote in the book, which serves as a
call to action for women to become leaders in the climate activism
movement.<br>
<br>
In an interview with E&E News, Wilkinson said many female
climate scientists who are active today have had experiences similar
to the one endured by Foote.<br>
<br>
Wilkinson -- who serves as vice president at Project Drawdown, a
nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reduce
greenhouse gas emissions -- pointed to a 2018 study in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on female scientists
who authored U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
assessments.<br>
<br>
The study found that while some female authors had a positive
experience, others felt they were "poorly represented and heard" on
the powerful scientific body...<br>
- -<br>
After 27 years at GM, Reck left the automaker in 1992 to become head
of the global climate change program at Argonne National Laboratory.
She was the first female senior scientist at Argonne who hadn't been
recommended by her husband.<br>
<br>
Now 88 years old and retired, Reck identifies as a feminist and
believes gender equality -- in addition to climate change --
represents a defining issue of the century.<br>
<br>
"I'm a feminist, and that changes how I think about things. There
were women who were not feminists and disagreed with me, thinking
men deserved higher pay because they brought more to the scene. I
did not think that," Reck said in a follow-up text message to
E&E News.<br>
<br>
"I believe God intended us to be how we are," she added. "There's no
reason we should be criticized for how we are. I am proud to be
female. The men should be professional enough to act in a grown-up
way."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-woman-warned-gm-about-warming-but-men-didnt-listen/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-woman-warned-gm-about-warming-but-men-didnt-listen/</a><br>
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[cute, sarcastic, insightful video screed]<br>
<b>Climate Grief | Philosophy Tube</b><br>
Premiered Aug 22, 2019<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqCx9xU_-Fw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqCx9xU_-Fw</a><br>
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<br>
[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
November 7, 2012 </b></font><br>
<p>The 350.org "Do the Math" tour commences in Seattle.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2012/11/08/bill-mckibben-kicks-do-math-tour-seattle">http://www.desmogblog.com/2012/11/08/bill-mckibben-kicks-do-math-tour-seattle</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbdJRb7yaWY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbdJRb7yaWY</a><br>
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