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<font size="+2"><i><b>November 26, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ wind danger forces power line shutdown ]</i><br>
<b>Thousands Without Power on Thanksgiving Due to Wildfire Dangers</b><br>
In North Hollywood, a tree crashed down on two parked vehicles as
strong winds whipped Southern California<br>
Tens of thousands of Southern California electrical customers had
their power cut on Thanksgiving and more than 156,000 others faced
the same prospect as utility companies sought to prevent wildfires
as Santa Ana winds developed.<br>
Southern California Edison said it turned off power to more than
63,000 customers as a precautionary measure. As of 11 a.m. those
customers included:<br>
<blockquote>Riverside County: 20,322 customers<br>
Los Angeles County: 15,556 customers<br>
Ventura County: 14,987 customers<br>
San Bernardino County: 8,843 customers<br>
Orange County: 4,127 customers<br>
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More customers from Riverside to Kern counties could also have their
power cut off.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/santa-ana-winds-to-raise-southern-california-fire-danger/2766871/">https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/santa-ana-winds-to-raise-southern-california-fire-danger/2766871/</a><br>
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<i>[local news video reports]</i><br>
<b>h fire danger leads to safety power shutoffs in Southern
California</b><br>
Nov 25, 2021<br>
ABC News<br>
As strong Santa Ana winds whip through the area, power companies
carried out electricity shutoffs as a last resort attempt to prevent
downed power lines from sparking more wildfires.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScFcLe-V1vo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScFcLe-V1vo</a><br>
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<i>[ opinions of following the money NYTimes ]</i><br>
<b>Bankers Took Over the Climate Change Summit. That’s Bad For
Democracy.</b><br>
Nov. 25, 2021<br>
The big annual United Nations forum for debate on climate change
ended this month in Glasgow in a way that left many attendees
bewildered. Money men have taken the thing over...<br>
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A banker, too, is someone to whom you have yielded a part of your
dreaming self. You have handed him control of your savings. And
fighting climate change requires predicting the future — or at least
making reasonable assumptions about it. That is just what you trust
your investment adviser to do, at least with that narrow part of
your future that is measured by the Dow Jones industrial average.
What is more, if rewiring the world is really our goal, then it will
take resources of the sort that only the financial system controls.
“There’s no budget of any country that can do what we need to do,”
said John Kerry, the Biden administration’s climate envoy, at an
early meeting of Glasgow Financial Alliance in April.<br>
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But that is the problem. Governments lack the money to do these
things because they lack the legitimacy. The money that Mr. Kerry
proposes using for a climate-rescue program has not been levied in
taxes for that purpose. It is people’s personal property, their
private investments, their life savings. People might be willing to
surrender it for the noble purpose of saving the planet, but in a
democracy the government must first ask their permission. Until they
assent, it is not the government’s money.<br>
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In most cases, it is not the banks’ money either. Mr. Carney, for
one, seems to have lost sight of that. “We have all the money
needed,” he said at the summit. No. Bankers “have” the money in the
sense of holding it, but not in the sense of being free to do what
they will with it. A banker merely stands at one of the choke points
through which other people’s money passes. In most cases he is
permitted to stand there only so long as he is selfless. He is a
“fiduciary.” He is bound by law and custom to protect only the
interest of the people whose money he is holding. He cannot wield
that money in his own interest — whether financial or ideological.<br>
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Bankers have always chafed at these traditions. Certain investment
consultants in the alliance forthrightly declare that
shilly-shallying while the world overheats is itself a violation of
fiduciary responsibilities. The Biden administration shares this
view. Earlier this fall, the Labor Department drafted a rules change
in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act that would require
fiduciaries to consider “environmental, social and governance”
factors as well as the interest of the depositor.<br>
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Banks have a hard time ignoring traditional fiduciary rules as long
as they have competitors who obey them — because, in theory at
least, depositors will flock to other banks that are focused more
single-mindedly on returns. A project such as the Glasgow Financial
Alliance therefore comes with the expectation of government
protection, protection from competition. At the April meeting of the
alliance, the Morgan Stanley managing director Thomas Nides said,
“This is a time for financial institutions not to compete but to
work together.” Deciding whether this is a good idea depends on
whether you believe financial institutions, acting in concert, are
more likely to promote decarbonization or protect their own
prerogatives.<br>
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At Glasgow a few self-nominated representatives from a very rich
industry laid claim to a special role in shaping the human future.
In doing so, they opened a rift. Climate activists were skeptical,
noting that many alliance members continue to be involved in
financing oil extraction. The bankers of the alliance, on the other
hand, seem to believe society is ready to follow their lead. Voters,
not bankers, should be the judge of that.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/25/opinion/cop26-gfanz-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/25/opinion/cop26-gfanz-climate-change.html</a><br>
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<i>[ 6 min Classic Peter Sinclair/Yale video briefing fundamentals
2013 ] </i><br>
<b>Permafrost: The Tipping Time Bomb</b><br>
Feb 28, 2013<br>
YaleClimateConnections<br>
One of the most feared of climate change "feedbacks" is the
potential release of greenhouse gases by melting arctic permafrost
soils. New research indicates a critical threshold of that feedback
effect could be closer than we once thought.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLCgybStZ4g">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLCgybStZ4g</a>
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<i>[ Science lesson - modern explorations - also fundamentals ]</i><br>
<b>Introduction to the permafrost climate feedback</b><br>
ben abbott - Feb 6, 2020<br>
This is a short lecture on how climate change is affecting Arctic
and Boreal Ecosystems, and how the response of those ecosystems is
starting to influence the global climate system. <br>
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Multiple permafrost experts talk about the magnitude and timing of
the permafrost climate feedback:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/01/methane-time-bomb-isnt-actually-a-bomb/">https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/01/methane-time-bomb-isnt-actually-a-bomb/</a><br>
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Footage of permafrost degradation and interviews with multiple
experts: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLCgybStZ4g&t=0s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLCgybStZ4g&t=0s</a><br>
Time lapse video of permafrost degradation at Horn Lake: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVKsZhrsAec&t=0s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVKsZhrsAec&t=0s</a><br>
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Excellent, vetted information on permafrost, sea ice, and other
polar questions: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://searcharcticscience.org/arctic-answers/">https://searcharcticscience.org/arctic-answers/</a><br>
Webinar on subsea permafrost by Sara Sayedi: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://searcharcticscience.org/arctic-answers/">https://searcharcticscience.org/arctic-answers/</a><br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6y9e5CVOfE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6y9e5CVOfE</a><br>
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<i>[ advanced briefing panel on Permafrost - John Holdren ]</i><br>
<b>Science Session: Thawing Arctic Permafrost--Regional and Global
Impacts</b><br>
May 11, 2020<br>
National Academy of Sciences<br>
Temperatures across the Arctic are increasing two to four times
faster than the global average. The dramatic consequences that are
already apparent include reduction of sea-ice cover, accelerating
loss of land ice from glaciers and the Greenland Ice Sheet,
proliferating wildfires, and—the topic of this panel—ongoing heating
and thawing of the permafrost that underlies most of the land area
of the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions across the globe. Permafrost
thaw is a direct threat to buildings, roads, and pipelines, and it
can greatly accelerate erosion along rivers and coastlines with
severe consequences for communities located there. But an impact
with much wider consequences is the release of carbon dioxide and
methane by the decomposition of previously frozen organic matter,
affecting the rate of growth of global warming and all of its
impacts everywhere. (There is estimated to be something like 2.5
times as much carbon in the as in the entire global atmosphere; the
key question is how fast it will come out.) The panelists, leading
Arctic experts all, explain the complex science of thawing
permafrost and elucidate the implications both regionally and
globally.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nGECF2qSO4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nGECF2qSO4</a><br>
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<i>[ Oxfam asks for action ]</i><br>
<b>We want action on climate change, not empty promises | Oxfam GB</b><br>
Nov 26, 2021<br>
Oxfam GB<br>
The COP26 is over, but the fight for climate justice goes on. We
want action on climate change, not just hot air. We want more
funding for communities on the front lines of the crisis, not empty
promises. We want a greener, fairer future, not just blah blah blah.
Join us and take action:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://actions.oxfam.org/great-britain/cop26-mp-action/email-representative/">https://actions.oxfam.org/great-britain/cop26-mp-action/email-representative/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPAxBh7GWl0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPAxBh7GWl0</a><br>
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[The news archive - looking back]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
November 26, 2006</b></font><br>
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November 26, 2006: In an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) notes that fellow Republican Sen. James
Inhofe of Oklahoma is someone who has his "thinking in the Stone
Age" on climate.<br>
"Gov. Schwarzenegger talks about why it's important that the United
States act on global warming and why the states have had to do so in
the absence of leadership by the federal government."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/gcZ7DWMeyQA">http://youtu.be/gcZ7DWMeyQA</a><br>
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