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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>February 20, 2021</b></font></i> <br>
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[World view from the Washington Post]<br>
<b>Texas’s cold-weather catastrophe is a global warning</b><br>
Broadcast around the world, the scenes in Texas are another blow to
America’s global image, already smeared by the pandemic and the Jan.
6 insurrection. But there may be lessons for everyone in what is
happening to the Lone Star state — and a warning for anyone not
prepared for a changing climate.<br>
At this stage, it is hard to provide a simple answer for why an
energy-producing state so quickly turned into a belt of blackouts.
Some Republicans in Texas have already pointed toward the shift to
renewable energy, saying wind turbines in the state had failed
because of the icy conditions.<br>
<br>
“Texas’s biggest mistake was learning too many renewable energy
lessons from California,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Tex.) tweeted
Tuesday. Experts, however, noted that Texas was only receiving
around 10 percent of its energy from wind turbines...<br>
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There are turbines inside the Arctic Circle that can work at
temperatures as low as -22 degrees Fahrenheit. Newer models of wind
turbines have carbon fiber attached to the wings, which allows them
to be automatically heated in cold weather.<br>
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Texas doesn’t use these models, for an obvious reason: It generally
doesn’t get that cold. What happened this week is really unusual. On
Monday, the temperature in Dallas was a high of 14 degrees, about 50
degrees lower than normal for February. Experts have attributed this
weather to a mass of cold air from the Arctic...<br>
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Texas, a state where many pride themselves on low taxes and small
government, had not budgeted for a freak cold snap. But this was not
just felt in renewable energy sources. Jinjoo Lee at the Wall Street
Journal noted that natural gas- and coal-fired power supplies had
not fully winterized, while the “fairly market-driven” approach used
by the grid, known as the Electric Reliability Council of Texas,
offers little incentive for excess electricity generation.<br>
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In another unhelpful quirk, Texas’s electricity grid has only
minimal connection to the United States’ two main power grids. That
move, designed to sidestep federal oversight, also makes it harder
to be supplied power by neighbors.<br>
<br>
Some experts say a broader disinvestment has befallen the U.S.
electricity production sector. Edward Hirs, an energy fellow at the
University of Houston, told The Washington Post this week that it
reminded him of the last days of the Soviet Union or today’s
Venezuelan oil sector. “They hate it when I say that,” he said...<br>
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Preparing for this new era of climate unpredictability won’t be fun.
But the pandemic has shown the folly of not preparing for an
unexpected crisis. As Sam White, a professor of history at Ohio
State University, noted last year about the economic woes caused by
the coronavirus: “Historically, people haven’t had the luxury of
dealing with their disasters one at a time.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/02/18/texas-cold-global-climate-change/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/02/18/texas-cold-global-climate-change/</a><br>
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[...we have a problem]<br>
<b>'California and Texas are warnings': blackouts show US deeply
unprepared for the climate crisis</b><br>
...Over the past two decades, across the United States, severe
weather has been the main cause of sustained power outages, Nateghi
said.<br>
An analysis of Department of Energy data published in September
found weather-related power outages are up by 67% since 2000.
Climate change is expected to continue fueling hotter heatwaves,
more bitter winter storms and more ferocious hurricanes in the
coming decades. As both California and Texas have discovered in
recent years, power plants, generators and electrical lines are not
designed to withstand the catastrophes to come. And all the while,
the fossil fuels that both states rely on to power these faulty
systems are driving the climate crisis, and hastening
infrastructural collapse.<br>
<br>
“We’re already seeing the effects of climate change,” said Sascha
von Meier, a professor of electrical engineering at the University
of California, Berkeley. “There will be more of this and it will get
worse.”...<br>
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To address all of these issues, scientists and advocacy groups are
increasingly pushing for a decentralized power system that empowers
communities to generate and store their own energy, using renewable
sources – while investing in infrastructure that will allow regions
to share power when disaster strikes.<br>
<br>
Microgrids – small self-contained power systems that could draw from
rooftop solar panels, nearby wind turbines and other sources, as
well as larger regional grids – would allow communities to generate
and ration their own electricity, von Meier said. “A neighborhood
could essentially operate as a small power island,” she said. When
the larger grid goes down due to natural disasters, a community
could still keep basic infrastructure, hospitals and other
necessities running with locally-sourced energy.<br>
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Von Meier herself loses power often due to shutoffs, and was without
electricity at her home in Bay Area hills for nearly 24 hours last
fall during fire season. “With a local grid, rather than having
these very clumsy rotating power outages, where an entire
neighborhood gets shut up completely, our neighborhood could have
kept at least the basics running,” she said.<br>
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“What’s happened in California and Texas are warning signs,” said
Nateghi. “These are signs we need to act now, and rethink our
systems.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/19/power-outages-texas-california-climate-crisis">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/19/power-outages-texas-california-climate-crisis</a><br>
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[news media briefing paper]<br>
<b>KEY CONCEPTS</b><br>
-- Extreme weather is causing frequent damage to our aging
electrical grid, costing Americans and the economy tens of billions
of dollars each year and impacting public health. <br>
-- Climate Central updated an analysis of national power outage
data, which shows a 67% increase in major power outages from
weather-related events since 2000. Two-thirds of states (34 states
and Washington, D.C.) experienced an increase in outages caused by
extreme weather in recent years. <br>
-- The frequency of weather-related power outages varies by region
of the country, with the greatest number of outages occurring in the
Northeast and Southeast. The largest increases in outages over the
last two decades happened in states in the Northeast, followed by
the Southwest and the Southern Great Plains.<br>
-- While upgrading the nation’s grid to become more resilient is
expensive and challenging, there are a number of promising solutions
to help us adapt to increasingly extreme weather, and many that can
even lower carbon emissions.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://medialibrary.climatecentral.org/resources/power-outages">https://medialibrary.climatecentral.org/resources/power-outages</a><br>
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[From the Washington Post]<br>
<b>Opinion: Texas is making the case for the Green New Deal</b><br>
Opinion by Helaine Olen<br>
Columnist Feb. 18, 2021<br>
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) knows who and what to blame for the fact
that a subfreezing cold snap and winter storm has left millions of
people in his state without access to heat, water and electricity
for days. It’s not him. It’s not the climate change-denying
Republican Party. Instead, it’s the Green New Deal.<br>
<br>
He’s wrong, of course: The Texas climate catastrophe makes the case
for a Green New Deal.<br>
<br>
Abbott, faced with an ongoing human catastrophe — according to
reports, several hundred people in the Houston area have been
treated for carbon monoxide poisoning as a result of the rolling
blackouts — decided the best use of his time was to appear on Sean
Hannity’s Fox News program Tuesday night. He ducked any
responsibility for the crisis, instead pinning the blame on the
state’s renewable solar energy, which froze up in the cold weather.
“This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the
United States of America,” he claimed. “Fossil fuel is necessary for
the state of Texas.”<br>
Abbott isn’t the only one making that claim. The “wind turbines did
it” is becoming the Republican rallying cry and talking point:
Former Texas governor Rick Perry (R) says it; Sen. Steve Daines
(R-Mont.) believes it; controversial freshman Rep. Lauren Boebert
(R-Colo.) is parroting it, too. But this jeremiad of the
environmental culture war is not just wildly inaccurate: If
anything, the situation in Texas reveals the exact opposite to be
true. It demonstrates exactly why we need massive government action
on the climate and infrastructure — what a Green New Deal would
provide.<br>
<br>
What is happening in Texas is a confluence of bad weather — of the
sort we can expect more of as the pace of climate change quickens —
and a lack of investment in infrastructure, combined with the
downside of a go-it-alone mentality.<br>
<br>
Yes, many of the state’s wind turbines froze up, but that’s because
of a failure to put in place the equipment to keep them going in
cold weather. The state’s utilities did not make the investment —
something Abbott failed to mention. In other places, these
investments are made, which is why this isn’t a nonstop issue in
colder climes. And at the same time, solar energy is only
responsible for a small portion of state’s energy needs. Oil and
natural gas are responsible for providing a majority of the Texas’s
energy, and, what do you know, those utilities froze up, too. In the
view of many experts, Texas prioritizes low electricity prices over
preventive maintenance and worst-case-scenario planning.<br>
Well, it happens, you must be thinking. It’s Texas: It’s almost
always warm, and it practically never snows, so why spend the money
on something unlikely to happen? But climate change means we will
experience such severe weather events more frequently. Our planet’s
increasing temperature means everyone will experience extremes of
temperature. It’s why we’re seeing both record heat waves in the
summer and more severe snowstorms in the winter. This is why the
term “global warming” doesn’t fully convey the scope of the
environmental catastrophe we are facing.<br>
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We’ve already become so used to these localized climate emergencies
that we quickly forget them. The West Coast was on fire in the late
summer and early fall. Remember that? It happened in 2017 and 2018,
too. Since Abbott was first elected to the governorship in 2014,
Houston has experienced three floods so severe that they would
previously have been considered once-in-500-years events. No more.<br>
<br>
Despite the increasing number of severe weather crises, the
Republican Party and its politicians continue to deny the impact of
climate change and claim that they are protecting jobs and local
economies. Abbott recently promised aggressive legal challenges if
President Biden, as expected, attempts to further regulate the
natural gas and oil industries. “Texas is not going to stand idly by
and watch the Biden administration kill jobs,” he proclaimed. He
continues to claim that the case for climate change is still not
settled.<br>
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All this needs to be called out for the appalling ignorance and
political expediency that it is. The consequences of climate denial
are getting more severe. A Green New Deal is needed to combat
extreme weather, as well as upgrade, modernize and improve our
infrastructure so it works better and we ultimately become less
reliant on fossil fuels.<br>
<br>
What’s happening in Texas this week is exactly what we can expect to
happen more often as the accelerating pace of climate change
continues to collide with the United States’ deteriorating
infrastructure and continuing Republican inaction, intransigence and
excuse-making. It’s leaving us all out in the cold.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/18/texas-is-making-case-green-new-deal/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/18/texas-is-making-case-green-new-deal/</a><br>
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[Well summed]<b><br>
</b><b>Kerry: Climate change among 'most complex security issues
we've ever faced'</b><br>
Special envoy John Kerry called climate change “among the most
complex security issues we've ever faced” at the virtual Munich
Security Conference on Friday.<br>
<br>
Kerry pointed to Texas’s struggle to keep the power on this week
amid unusually cold temperatures, an unprecedented number of
tropical storms last year that quickly exhausted naming conventions
and a melting Arctic creating competition over new shipping
passageways as proof people “just have to look out the window” to
see the effects of climate change. <br>
<br>
“What these extreme weather events translate to on the ground should
concern every single one of us,” the former secretary of State said,
calling climate change a threat multiplier. <br>
Kerry’s speech to the conference comes as the U.S. officially
rejoined the Paris climate accord, an automatic result following the
request President Biden made on his first day in office.<br>
Kerry’s first-of-its-kind position in the Biden administration
affords him a seat on the National Security Council, putting him in
a position to engage not only on international climate negotiations
but also to ensure climate change is incorporated into U.S. security
policy. <br>
<br>
He noted how changing weather patterns can cause desperation for
farmers while natural disasters can push people from places they’ve
lived a lifetime, driving humanitarian crisis.<br>
<br>
“When we talk about the impacts of climate change, we're talking
about security, energy security, economic security, food security,
even physical security. And the question now is, pregnantly, what
will the world do about it?” Kerry said, noting the need to limit
the planet's warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/539619-kerry-climate-change-among-most-complex-security-issues-weve-ever">https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/539619-kerry-climate-change-among-most-complex-security-issues-weve-ever</a><br>
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[More]<br>
<b>The crisis in Texas underscores the deadly risks when the grid
goes down</b><br>
Feb 17, 2021<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://grist.org/energy/the-crisis-in-texas-underscores-the-deadly-risks-when-the-grid-goes-down/">https://grist.org/energy/the-crisis-in-texas-underscores-the-deadly-risks-when-the-grid-goes-down/</a>
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[video lecture summaries <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/_HcABNcc5x0">https://youtu.be/_HcABNcc5x0</a>]<br>
<b>Brutally Cold US Outbreak Connections to Climate Change Mangled
Jet Streams and Polar Vortex</b><br>
Feb 17, 2021<br>
Paul Beckwith<br>
The ongoing cold in the USA extending as far south as the Gulf of
Mexico and the Mexican border continues to wreak havoc on much of
the US, with Texas being affected the most due to its third world,
rickety, totally unreliable privately run electrical power grid.
Many millions of people are still without power (for days), and the
water treatment plants in places including Houston are not
operating. People in the suburbs of major cities are freezing in the
dark, with pipes in their homes bursting, no potable water from the
taps, while skylines in the nearby cities are still lit up like
Christmas trees. Completely dystopian.<br>
<br>
In this video I chat all about the polar vortex (this term refers to
the stratospheric polar vortex) and the role of the jet streams in
covering most of the USA with a persistent trough causing the brutal
cold snap. I show, using graphics from a website ironically called
Tropical Tidbits, how the surface temperature anomalies have changed
from Feb 14th to today, and how they are forecast to change in the
next 3 weeks. This thing is not over yet.<br>
<br>
I then introduce 3 peer reviewed scientific papers that I will
discuss in further videos, on the linkages between the stratosphere
and troposphere, leading to mangling of the jet streams and extreme
weather.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/_HcABNcc5x0">https://youtu.be/_HcABNcc5x0</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WMsbnSVG-Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WMsbnSVG-Q</a><br>
<b>Review: Arctic Temperature Amplification Influence on Polar
Vortex Causing Severe Winter Weather</b><br>
Feb 18, 2021<br>
Paul Beckwith<br>
In my last few videos I discussed the brutal cold snap that has
extended downward in the USA, as far south as the Mexican border and
the Gulf of Mexico. It temporarily wiped out about 1/3 of the Texas
power grid, plunging 4.5 million Texas households into extended cold
and darkness. If you assume that each household has an average of 3
people, that’s 13.5 million people. As bad as it was, it came very
close to knocking out the entire state power grid.<br>
<br>
In this video I get into the scientific details on how abrupt
climate system change has warmed the Arctic much faster than the
lower latitudes (Arctic Amplification) and this in turn is leading
to frequent disruptions of the polar vortex. I discuss a review
paper that examines the various process that lead to observations of
slowing and wavier (more meridional) Jet Streams, which are in turn
leading to more likely Sudden Stratospheric Warming which then
fractures (splits) the polar vortex causing cold Arctic air to spill
far southward in North America and in Eurasia. <br>
<br>
Essentially, the Arctic is warming like crazy on its own. This
warming near the surface and near the troposphere-stratosphere
border region of the Jet Streams is rising even higher into the
stratosphere fracturing the stratospheric polar vortex.
Consequently, the cold Arctic air spills southward. Of course, when
you think about it, massive amounts of cold air moving from the
Arctic to the deep southern latitudes is simply another
manifestation of a greatly warming Arctic, since the cold air lost
there in the far North is replaced by warmer air moving into the far
north. <br>
<br>
Of course, most people have not cared in the least that the Arctic
is warming like crazy. However, they do care, even in Texas, when
the Arctic breaks and the cold Arctic air spills into their cities
and takes out their power grid. <br>
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I can guarantee you that people will care, when the broken Arctic
disrupts the global air circulation and ocean circulation patterns
enough to take out much of the global food supply in the near
future, as we plunge towards a total loss of summer Arctic sea ice
BOE (Blue Ocean Event).<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WMsbnSVG-Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WMsbnSVG-Q</a><br>
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[Of course]<br>
<b>What if net-zero isn’t enough? Inside the push to ‘restore’ the
climate.</b><br>
By Emily Pontecorvo on Dec 11, 2020<br>
Disagreements about how to tackle the climate crisis abound, but in
2020, it seemed much of the world finally reached consensus about at
least one thing: getting to net-zero by 2050, or sooner. Net-zero is
a state where greenhouse gases are no longer accumulating in the
atmosphere — any emissions must be counterbalanced by sucking some
carbon out of the air — and this year, a tidal wave of<span> </span><a
href="https://grist.org/beacon/moons-net-zero-moonshot/"
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ease-out 0s;">governments</a>,<span> </span><a
href="https://grist.org/climate/microsoft-cant-achieve-its-climate-goals-alone-so-its-enlisting-other-companies-to-go-net-zero-nike-starbucks-mercedes-unilever/"
style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
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href="https://grist.org/beacon/barclays-banks-on-net-zero/"
style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
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ease-out 0s;">financial institutions</a><span> </span>pledged to
reach it.<br>
But for a new movement of young activists, the net-zero rhetoric is
worrisome. “Hitting net-zero is not enough,” they wrote in a<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/13/hitting-net-zero-is-not-enough-we-must-restore-the-climate?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other"
style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
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ease-out 0s;">letter</a><span> </span>published in the Guardian
last month. Instead, the group behind the letter, a youth-led
organization called<span> </span><a
href="https://www.worldward.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box;
background-color: transparent; color: rgb(5, 74, 97); line-height:
inherit; text-decoration: none !important;
text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid
rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">Worldward</a>,
urges the world to rally around a different goal, one they call
“climate restoration.” The letter was co-signed by prominent climate
scientists James Hansen and Michael Mann, in addition to writers,
artists, and other activists.<br>
“The climate today is not safe,” said Gideon Futerman, the
17-year-old founder and president of Worldward, who lives in a
suburb north of London. “Millions of people are suffering and
millions more will.” By the time net-zero is achieved, he said, the
climate will be considerably more dangerous.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://grist.org/climate/can-we-restore-the-climate-these-young-activists-want-us-to-try/">https://grist.org/climate/can-we-restore-the-climate-these-young-activists-want-us-to-try/</a><br>
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[Center for Research on Environmental Decisions]<br>
<b>4. Beware the Overuse of Emotional Appeals</b><br>
It may be tempting to conclude that an effective way to communicate
climate change information is to place a greater emphasis on its
possible consequences. Some go even further, accentuating the risks
by declining to mention the uncertainties involved. Such an approach
evokes strong reactions in audiences, including fear of worst-case
climate change scenarios and even heightened interest in what can be
done to avoid them. But while an emotional appeal may make people
more interested in a presentation on climate change in the short
run, it may backfire down the road, causing negative consequences
that often prove quite difficult to reverse.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://guide.cred.columbia.edu/guide/sec4.html">http://guide.cred.columbia.edu/guide/sec4.html</a><br>
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[Meanwhile, the fires]<br>
<b>How fires have spread to previously untouched parts of the world</b><br>
Fires have always been a part of our natural world. But they’re
moving to new ecosystems previously untouched by fire – and this is
concerning scientists<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/feb/19/how-fires-have-spread-to-previously-untouched-parts-of-the-world">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/feb/19/how-fires-have-spread-to-previously-untouched-parts-of-the-world</a><br>
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[New Yorker on Nukes]<br>
<b>The Activists Who Embrace Nuclear Power</b><br>
By Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow<br>
February 19, 2021<br>
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Our energy system is in flux. There are innovations under way in the
renewables sphere—advances in battery storage, demand management,
and regional integration—which should help overcome the challenges
of intermittency. Nuclear scientists, for their part, are working on
smaller, more nimble nuclear reactors. There are complex economic
considerations, which are inseparable from policy—for example,
nuclear power would immediately become more competitive if we had a
carbon tax. And there are huge risks no matter what we do.<br>
<br>
To be fervently pro-nuclear, in the manner of Hoff and Zaitz, is to
see in the peaceful splitting of the atom something almost
miraculous. It is to see an energy source that has been steadily
providing low-carbon electricity for decades—doing vastly more good
than harm, saving vastly more lives than it has taken—but which has
received little credit and instead been maligned. It is to believe
that the most significant problem with nuclear power, by far, is
public perception. Like the anti-nuclear world view—and perhaps
partly in response to it—the pro-nuclear world view can edge toward
dogmatism. Hoff and Zaitz certainly seem readier to tout studies
that confirm their views, and reluctant to acknowledge any flaws
that nuclear energy may have. Still, even if one does not embrace
nuclear power to the same extent, one can recognize its past
contributions and question the wisdom of counting it out in the
future.<br>
<br>
One of the last times I spoke with Zaitz, she noted that a lot of
people seemed to be feeling discouraged at this moment, overwhelmed
by the scale of the challenges ahead. But she counselled against
despair. “The hopeful way to go into that is, ‘Oh, wow, we actually
have technology that can do this,’ ” she said. “And that’s nuclear.
And so I’d rather stay hopeful.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-activists-who-embrace-nuclear-power">https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-activists-who-embrace-nuclear-power</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 -
February 20, 2013 </b></font><br>
<p>Associated Press reporter Dina Cappiello notes that President
Obama, "who rarely uttered the words 'climate change' or 'global
warming' during the second half of his first term and during the
re-election campaign, has re-inserted it boldly back into his
lexicon. In his latest State of the Union address before Congress,
Obama sounded like he did in his first, urging lawmakers to limit
gases blamed for global warming 'for the sake of our children and
our future.' Those words followed his inaugural address, in which
he said, 'We will respond to the threat of climate change.'<br>
<br>
"The difference between then and now is that Obama knows Congress
is unlikely to agree. He said that if Congress won't act, he will
through executive action. The question is: What will he do?"<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/20/choices_loom_for_obama_on_climate_change_117082.html">http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/20/choices_loom_for_obama_on_climate_change_117082.html</a><br>
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