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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>November 8, 2020</b></font></i></p>
[follow the money]<br>
<b>Companies defy investor demands on climate change</b><br>
Analysis of 6,000 listed groups shows few businesses are close to
meeting targets set by Paris accord<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ft.com/content/798f752a-5db1-498c-8d1d-6389b66f317d">https://www.ft.com/content/798f752a-5db1-498c-8d1d-6389b66f317d</a><br>
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[mixing resources]<br>
<b>Climate Deniers Boost Pro-Trump Efforts to Cast Doubt on US
Election</b><br>
By Sharon Kelly • Friday, November 6, 2020<br>
In unusual remarks made during a corporate earnings call today,
Friday, November 6, Continental Resources founder and executive
chairman Howard Hamm referred to counting "all legal votes" -- a
phrase used by President Donald Trump to suggest that some votes
cast in the 2020 election are not legitimate. The founder and
executive chairman of the Oklahoma-based oil and gas company joined
others who dispute mainstream climate science in taking up this
language in the wake of this week's slowly unfolding presidential
election.<br>
<br>
"Finally, I wanted to provide my thoughts on the current state of
the election," Hamm said after discussing Continental Resources'
financial performance. "The election process is not final and we
like you are waiting to see the results when all legal votes are
counted."<br>
<br>
Fact-checking website Politifact notes that the Trump campaign
declined to clarify specifically which, if any, votes President
Donald Trump believes were "illegal." Trump's unsupported claims of
wrongdoing in this year's elections have proved too much for
observers across the political spectrum, including those at Fox News
and the Wall Street Journal, which categorized such claims as
"lashing out" by Trump.<br>
<br>
Hamm hastened to assure investors that Republicans would serve as a
bulwark against laws that the oil and gas industry opposes. "While
we wait to see the final results of the presidential election, the
Senate will more than likely remain in the hands of Republican
leadership and the House Republican representation will be
strengthened," he said. "This should serve as a backstop for any
legislation that would be harmful for U.S. oil and gas producers."<br>
- - <br>
FreedomWorks posted photographs of rally attendees in Philadelphia,
many not wearing masks, carrying printed signs with messages like
"count legal votes" and encouraging people to text the word "stolen"
to sign up, with the FreedomWorks logo printed below.<br>
<br>
FreedomWorks and its related organizations grew from an organization
founded by the petrochemical billionaire Koch brothers in the early
1980s and have, over their histories, received millions of dollars
in Koch and dark money funding, DeSmog's database profile of the
organizations shows.<br>
<br>
FreedomWorks and its related organizations have historically
received funding from the Koch network, the American Petroleum
Institute, ExxonMobil, and others tied to fossil fuels and promotion
of climate science denial, DeSmog's profile indicates.<br>
<br>
More recently, the organization appears to have distanced itself
from Koch. "While [Citizens for a Sound Economy, one of
FreedomWorks' predecessors] was founded by the Koch brothers in 1984
as special interest group promoting deregulation and was originally
affiliated with Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation (CSEF), Koch
does not appear active in FreedomWorks itself," DeSmog's database
notes.<br>
<br>
There is evidence that the organization has maintained ties to
fossil fuel companies during President Trump's time in office. In
2019, FreedomWorks received $50,000 from coal company Murray Energy,
formerly owned by Bob Murray (recently deceased), bankruptcy filings
revealed. Since Trump took office, FreedomWorks Foundation has taken
over $384,000 in funding via DonorsTrust, the notorious conduit for
dark money (a role so central to its existence that it's famously
been dubbed the "dark money ATM of the conservative movement" by
Mother Jones.) <br>
<br>
FreedomWorks -- which is often cited as having helped to create the
Tea Party movement last decade -- also has a long history of
promoting climate disinformation. "While FreedomWorks does not have
an official statement on climate change, they regularly publish
articles on their website questioning the existence of man-made
climate change," DeSmog's profile indicates.<br>
<br>
Charlie Kirk, founder and executive director of the conservative
youth activist group Turning Point USA, also called for the counting
of "every LEGAL vote" on Twitter. Kirk has also opposed action on
climate change (calling the Paris Climate Agreement, which the U.S.
formally exited on November 4, a "BAD Deal" on Twitter).<br>
"Charlie Kirk has admitted to soliciting funds from the fossil fuel
industry," DeSmog's database entry on Kirk notes. "He acknowleded in
an interview that some donors of [Turning Point USA] 'are in the
fossil-fuel space.'" <br>
<br>
The entry of well-funded organizations into the election fray runs
counter to the suggestion that pro-Trump rallies intended to
delegitimize the democratic voting process sprang up entirely from
the grassroots.<br>
<br>
"This is definitely not just organic, up-from-the-grassroots
disinformation," Alex Stamos, director of the Stanford Internet
Observatory told Politico. "There are professionals here who are
pushing some of this stuff based upon exactly what is going on in
the polls and in the real-world arguments over the election."<br>
<br>
FreedomWorks has not immediately responded to a request for comment.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/11/06/climate-deniers-trump-us-election-harold-hamm">https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/11/06/climate-deniers-trump-us-election-harold-hamm</a><br>
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[New science]<br>
NOVEMBER 7, 2020<br>
<b>Mystery of glacial lake floods solved</b><br>
by Marcie Grabowski, University of Hawaii at Manoa<br>
<br>
The hot water drill used to drill through the glacier to the
subglacial lakes. The drill stem is hundreds of meters below in the
ice, suspended on a rubber hose through which hot water is pumped
down. Credit: Eric Gaidos<br>
A long-standing mystery in the study of glaciers was recently -- and
serendipitously--solved by a team led by University of Hawai'i at
Mānoa astrobiologist and earth scientist Eric Gaidos. Their findings
were published this week in the journal Geophysical Research
Letters.<br>
<br>
The mystery involves floods or "jokulhlaups" that emerge suddenly
and unpredictably from glaciers or ice caps like those in Iceland
where volcanic heat melts the ice and water accumulates in lakes
underneath the glaciers. Scientists have long studied the
development of these floods, which are some of the largest on Earth.<br>
<br>
"These floods may affect the motion of some glaciers and are a
significant hazard in Iceland," said Gaidos, professor at the UH
Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST). "But
the mechanism and timing of the initiation of these floods has not
been understood."<br>
<br>
Then, in June 2015, an unexpected series of events revealed how
these floods start.<br>
<br>
That summer, Gaidos and colleagues drilled a hole to one of the
Icelandic lakes to study its microbial life. While collecting
samples through the borehole, the team noticed a downwards current,
like a bathtub drain, in the hole.<br>
<br>
"The flow was so strong we nearly lost our sensors and sampling
equipment into the hole," said Gaidos. "We surmised that we had
accidentally connected a water mass inside the glacier to the lake
beneath. That water mass was rapidly draining into the lake."<br>
<br>
Illustration of the water movement that may have triggered the flood
of June 2015 (arrows indicate flow direction): the subglacial lake,
warmed to 4 C by geothermal input, the perched reservoir fed by
summer melt through the firn layer, a water-filled system of
crevasses and conduits (moulins), our borehole, and the outlet under
the ice dam. Credit: Gaidos, et al. (2020)<br>
A few days later, after the team had left the glacier, the lake
drained in a flood. Fortunately, the flood was small and Icelanders
have an elaborate early-warning system on their rivers so no people
were hurt, nor infrastructure damaged in this event, Gaidos assured.<br>
<br>
The researchers used a computer model of the draining of the flow
through the hole , and its effect on the lake, to show that this
could have triggered the flood.<br>
<br>
"We discovered that the glacier can contain smaller bodies of water
above the lakes fed by summer melting," said Gaidos. "If this water
body is hydraulically connected to the lake then the pressure in the
lake rises and that allows water to start draining out underneath
the glacier."<br>
<br>
In June 2015, a team led by Gaidos used hot water to melt a hole
through 250 meters of ice to sample a lake beneath a glacier in
Iceland. Credit: Eric Gaidos<br>
While the team made an artificial connection to the lake in 2015,
natural connections can form when water from rain or melting snow
accumulates in crevasses and the pressure eventually forces a crack
through the glacier to the lake. This discovery provides a new
understanding of how these floods can start and how this depends on
weather and the season.<br>
<br>
Collaborators in Iceland are continuing to research this phenomenon
using radio echo-sounding to search for water bodies within the ice,
as well as study the larger lake below it.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://phys.org/news/2020-11-mystery-glacial-lake.html">https://phys.org/news/2020-11-mystery-glacial-lake.html</a><br>
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[oddly wise standout]<br>
Capital Weather Gang<br>
<b>Trump administration taps mainstream climate scientist to run key
climate review</b><br>
Amid climate science skepticism at the Trump White House, pick may
encourage scientific community.<br>
By Jason Samenow and Andrew Freedman<br>
November 4, 2020<br>
The next National Climate Assessment, the federal government's most
definitive and comprehensive report on climate change and its
consequences for the United States, will be directed by atmospheric
scientist Betsy Weatherhead, currently a senior scientist at Jupiter
Intelligence, a company that helps businesses and governments
prepare for the impacts of climate change.<br>
<br>
Weatherhead, who has decades of experience as a climate scientist in
the academic and private sectors, accepts human-induced climate
change is happening and is a serious physical, ecological and
economic threat.<br>
<br>
Her appointment stands in sharp contrast to two recent high-level
political hires at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), David Legates and Ryan Maue, who are on the
record challenging the seriousness of climate change. It also is in
contrast to the climate change views of President Trump, who
downplays humans' role in causing global warming, despite the
scientific consensus on the topic...<br>
more at -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/11/04/national-climate-assessment-director/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/11/04/national-climate-assessment-director/</a><br>
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[3 year old video gives political understanding that now applies]<br>
<b>A World in Revolution: The Inevitable Backlash against Global
Elites</b><br>
Mar 10, 2017<br>
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs<br>
<br>
Skip ahead to main speaker at 3:20<br>
<br>
The Trump election and populist movements in Europe and Asia can be
considered akin to true revolutionary movements--ideologically
driven; brought about by a slow-down in social mobility, elite
factionalization and decline in public goods; and pursuing a
revolutionary agenda including propagandist reshaping of reality and
a radical reconfiguration of international relations. This talk will
show the common demographic factors behind these developments, and
examine whether historical lessons can be drawn regarding the
durability of such revolutionary movements in modern democratic
states.<br>
<br>
Jack A. Goldstone is the Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr.
Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, a Senior
Fellow of the Mercatus Center, and a Public Policy Scholar at the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C.
Previously, Dr. Goldstone was on the faculty of Northwestern
University and the University of California, and has been a visiting
scholar at Cambridge University, Stanford University, UCLA, the Hong
Kong University of Science and Technology and the California
Institute of Technology. He has received the Distinguished
Contribution to Scholarship award from the American Sociological
Association, the Arnoldo Momigliano Prize, the Barrington Moore Jr.
Award, the Myron Weiner Award, and fellowships from the MacArthur
Foundation, the JS Guggenheim Foundation, the U.S. Institute of
Peace and the Mellon Foundation. He also served as the Richard C.
Holbrooke Distinguished Visitor to the American Academy in Berlin.<br>
<br>
A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. Goldstone is
also an Academic Fellow of the European Policy Council, and serves
on the International Advisory Board of the Gaidar Institute
(Moscow). He led a National Academy of Sciences study of USAID's
democracy assistance policies, and has served as a consultant on
state fragility to USAID, Britain's DFID, and the OECD. He helped
lead the Political Instability Task Force initiated by the office of
the U.S. Vice-President, and co-developed in State Fragility Index
now published by the Center for Systemic Peace.<br>
<br>
Dr. Goldstone's research focuses on the impact of global population
changes on social and economic development. His 2010 essay in
Foreign Affairs - "The New Population Bomb: The Four Megatrends that
will Change the World" - has been widely cited as a critical guide
to the impact of future population change. He has been a keynote
speaker at events in Oslo, Moscow, Antalya, Delhi, Beijing, Berlin,
Aspen and New York, and appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, Russia
Today, and Fox News.<br>
<br>
His recent books include Political Demography: How Population
Changes are Reshaping International Security and National Politics
(Oxford U. Press, 2011) and Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction
(Oxford U. Press 2014). Prof. Goldstone blogs on global politics and
economic trends at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.newpopulationbomb.com">www.newpopulationbomb.com</a>.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxdi67nF4zM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxdi67nF4zM</a>
- 3:20<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 -
November 8, 1989 </b></font><br>
<p>Margaret Thatcher delivers an address to the UN General Assembly
on global warming, noting that societies should have economic
growth "which does not plunder the planet today and leave our
children to deal with the consequences tomorrow."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107817">http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107817</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnAzoDtwCBg&sns=em">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnAzoDtwCBg&sns=em</a><br>
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