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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>October 28</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ "a future we need to prepare for" -- a
totally new monster for our world - Happy Halloween. Audio ]<br>
</i></font><font face="Calibri"><b>A New Threat: Surprise
Hurricanes<br>
</b></font><font face="Calibri">New York Times Podcasts<br>
Oct 27, 2023 The Daily<br>
Hurricane Otis, which killed more than two dozen people in
southern Mexico this week, exemplified a phenomenon that
meteorologists fear will become more and more common: a severe
hurricane that arrives with little warning or time to prepare.<br>
<br>
Judson Jones, who covers natural disasters for The Times, explains
why Hurricane Otis packed such an unexpected punch.<br>
<br>
Guest: Judson Jones... covers natural disasters and Earth’s
changing climate for The New York Times.<br>
<br>
Background reading: <br>
• On Tuesday morning, few meteorologists were talking about
Otis. By Wednesday morning, the “catastrophic storm” had left a
trail of destruction in Mexico and drawn attention from around the
globe. What happened?
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/world/americas/hurricane-otis-mexico-intensity-surprise.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/world/americas/hurricane-otis-mexico-intensity-surprise.html</a>)<br>
• The hurricane, one of the more powerful Category 5 storms to
batter the region, created what one expert called a “nightmare
scenario” (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7lfkQ7WquY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7lfkQ7WquY</a>)
for a popular tourist coastline.<br>
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For more information on today’s episode, visit
nytimes.com/thedaily (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-t">http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-t</a>....
Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next
workday.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/Qyszr5qHUzU?si=WFUg9vKaDFIWTfEn">https://youtu.be/Qyszr5qHUzU?si=WFUg9vKaDFIWTfEn</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ NYTimes article ]<br>
</i></font><font face="Calibri"><b>Why Hurricane Otis Caught Many
By Surprise</b><br>
Storms don’t normally go from a tropical storm to a Category 5
hurricane in a day.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/world/americas/hurricane-otis-mexico-intensity-surprise.html?unlocked_article_code=1.50w.aAl-.JuyZ0YCDJdMp&smid=url-share">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/world/americas/hurricane-otis-mexico-intensity-surprise.html?unlocked_article_code=1.50w.aAl-.JuyZ0YCDJdMp&smid=url-share</a><br>
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href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/world/americas/hurricane-otis-mexico-intensity-surprise.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/world/americas/hurricane-otis-mexico-intensity-surprise.html</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ NYTimes article ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>A ‘Nightmare Scenario’ Hurricane Batters
Mexico’s Western Coast</b><br>
Hurricane Otis defied forecasts when it quickly transformed from a
tropical storm into a Category 5 storm and slammed into the
coastal city of Acapulco.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/world/americas/hurricane-otis-mexico-impact.html?unlocked_article_code=1.50w.hv1H.fepWW-eR8T8I&smid=url-share">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/world/americas/hurricane-otis-mexico-impact.html?unlocked_article_code=1.50w.hv1H.fepWW-eR8T8I&smid=url-share</a><br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7lfkQ7WquY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7lfkQ7WquY</a><br>
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<i>[ Yale Climate Connections ]</i><br>
<b>Have we turbo-charged heatwaves?</b><br>
YaleClimateConnections<br>
Oct 27, 2023<br>
Heatwaves are off the charts. And they're getting weird, too. <br>
<br>
In this video, meteorologist Alexandra Steele explains what the deal
is with these heatwaves and what a relatively new field in science
can tell us about them.<br>
<br>
This is Episode 4 of our YouTube series on the wild world of extreme
weather with meteorologist Alexandra Steele. New episodes and shorts
coming every three weeks on Fridays.<br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7lfkQ7WquY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7lfkQ7WquY</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Criminality watch ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Environmental
crime money easy to stash in US due to loopholes, report finds</b><br>
Secrecy and lax oversight mean illegal loggers and miners in
Amazon can park billions in real estate and other assets</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Jonathan Watts @jonathanwatts<br>
Thu 26 Oct 2023 <br>
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<font face="Calibri">Secrecy and lax oversight have made the US a
hiding place for dirty money accrued by environmental criminals in
the Amazon rainforest, a report says.<br>
<br>
Illegal loggers and miners are parking sums ranging from millions
to billions of dollars in US real estate and other assets, says
the report, which calls on Congress and the White House to close
loopholes in financial regulations that it says are contributing
to the destruction of the world’s biggest tropical forest.<br>
<br>
“We are trying to show that the US is the easiest place to hide
dirty money, which is a major problem not just in terms of
national security, drug trafficking and kleptocratic corruption
but also environmental crime,” said Ian Gary, the executive
director of the Financial Accountability and Corporate
Transparency (Fact) Coalition, which produced the report...</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">For the first time in 2021, the US came top in
the world financial secrecy index released by the Tax Justice
Networks, as a result of money laundering and gaps in its
financial transparency laws.<br>
<br>
The study by Fact draws attention to the impact this has on
environmental crime in the Amazon, a region of global importance
due to its impact on the climate. The report lists six case
studies of links between forest destruction and companies in the
US...</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Florida, which has strong cultural and
linguistic connections to South America, was found to be a
hotspot. The report cites the case of Goldex, formerly the second
biggest gold exporter in Colombia, which supplied more than 45
tonnes of gold, worth $1.4bn, to two US refineries, including
Republic Metals Corp (RMC) in Miami.<br>
<br>
Colombian prosecutors later alleged that the gold was illegally
mined, transferred through shell companies and ultimately used to
launder money for organised crime groups. The company was hit with
sanctions by the Colombia government and one of its suppliers was
extradited to the US to face charges of drug trafficking and money
laundering. After an investigation by the US attorney’s office,
RMC agreed to tighten its internal money laundering guidelines.
Goldex has since filed for bankruptcy.<br>
<br>
A still more lucrative case linking Miami with Amazon nations was
that of NTR Metals, which pleaded guilty to charges that it failed
to maintain an adequate anti-money-laundering programme after
revelations that it dealt with $3.6bn (£3bn) of illegal gold and
fake ingots from Peru...</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">The problem was not isolated to Florida. In
Maryland, the former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo allegedly
bought properties to hide and launder $1.2m he received in bribes
from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht for a contract
to build the cross-Amazon interoceanic highway and other projects.
Odebrecht has admitted paying bribes and a US court has ordered
funds to be sent back to Peru. Toledo denies any wrongdoing.<br>
<br>
Other case studies linked a Nevada firm to purchases of illegal
timber from the Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon, and a
Connecticut company to forest clearance for a palm oil plantation
in indigenous land.<br>
<br>
Government regulators and watchdog groups in Peru said it was
common for their investigations into environmental crime to run
into a dead end with shell companies in the US. “We have had cases
where we can directly trace the dirty money route to US company
involvement,” Daniel Linares Ruesta, the director of Peru’s
financial intelligence unit, was quoted as saying.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">The report identifies two principal flaws in
the US regulation of financial flows from other countries:
permissive rules on identification that allow the use of anonymous
shell companies; and gaping holes in the anti-money-laundering
framework that enable estate agents and refineries to accept
payments without checking and disclosing the origin of funds.<br>
<br>
Earlier this year, the Igarapé Institute estimated that
environmental crime in the Amazon generated annual profits of
between $110bn and $281bn, though it has been a relatively low
priority for financial authorities in Latin America.
Investigations by the Insight Crime website suggest the problem
may be growing as links build between environmental crime,
narco-trafficking and money-laundering networks in Brazil,
Colombia, Peru and Ecuador.<br>
<br>
The Fact report urges the US to take more responsibility because
it is the primary destination for illegal funds, followed by the
UK and its crown dependencies such as the Cayman Islands.<br>
<br>
Among its recommendations are for the US administration to
establish anti-money-laundering obligations in the real estate
market, to provide support for Amazon nations to improve financial
oversight, and to implement the Corporate Transparency Act, which
would establish a database of true “beneficial” owners of all
companies. It also calls on the US Congress to pass the Forest
Act, which would add illegal deforestation to the US
money-laundering statute.<br>
<br>
Gary said he was encouraged that the Biden administration had
called out the threat posed by corruption. Now, he said, it needed
to act.<br>
<br>
“The US needs to step up,” Gary said. “Our report shows the
importance of the US cleaning up its own financial secrecy house
and the need to collaborate with law enforcement partners in the
Amazon region to combat illegal financial flows … for the US to
have such financial secrecy is a problem for the whole world.”<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/26/environmental-money-easy-to-stash-in-us-due-to-loopholes-report-finds">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/26/environmental-money-easy-to-stash-in-us-due-to-loopholes-report-finds</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ disinformation war ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>MICROSOFT ERROR OR EXTERNAL ATTACK CAUSING
DISRUPTION TO EMAIL COMMUNICATION ACROSS THE CLIMATE CHANGE
COMMUNITY<br>
</b></font><font face="Calibri">27 Oct 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Since 17 October, to our knowledge any email
with the NewClimate URL (newclimate dot org) in the email body,
link, signature, reply header or contained anywhere in an
attachment is unjustifiably quarantined by Microsoft email servers
without any notice, regardless of who sends or receives the email.<br>
<br>
That our own email flow is disrupted is the least of our problems:
all Microsoft tenants are afflicted by the same issue when this
URL appears in their emails, or any attachments they share, even
when we are not a party to the communications.<br>
<br>
Hundreds of governmental and non-governmental organisations
working on climate change appear to be experiencing disruption to
email communication when their communications contain any
reference to the NewClimate URL.<br>
<br>
For example, as per our understanding:<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">-- No organisation using Microsoft
email services can currently send the IPCC Sixth Assessment
Report of Working Group 3 as an attachment to anyone else
(newclimate dot org URL appears 11 times in the report). The
same applies to hundreds of other relevant scientific papers and
reports from any organisations, where NewClimate URLs appear on
the reference lists.<br>
<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">-- Any multi-organisation email chain
where any of the participants uses Microsoft email services is
breaking down in the case that NewClimate URLs are included.
This could arise either because a NewClimate colleague is on the
mailing list in the chat history, or if a NewClimate publication
is linked to, in the email or the chat history.<br>
<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">-- Even a link to this article on the
NewClimate website cannot be spread by email if the sender or
recipient uses Microsoft as email service.</font><br>
</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri">We understand that the majority of our partner
organisations within the climate community use Microsoft email
services, including the United Nations Framework Convention for
Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC).<br>
<br>
It came as a surprise to us that this is even possible. It remains
unclear whether this is the result of a targeted attack on
Microsoft’s infrastructure against NewClimate, or simply a highly
unfortunate error on the part of Microsoft. In our consultations
with Microsoft and a number of independent IT experts, we have
confirmed that we are not on any blacklist and our website is also
free of malware.<br>
<br>
We are fully dependent on Microsoft to prioritise and solve the
issue, but Microsoft support agents have been difficult to engage
and – to our understanding – disinclined to prioritise the issue.
It is not clear whether Microsoft is aware of the inconvenience
and disruption beyond our own organisation.<br>
<br>
Beyond being an existential threat to our own organisation, this
issue could significantly disrupt communication within the climate
community at a time when it is most critical in the run up to
COP28 in at the end of 2023 in Dubai. We greatly appreciate any
support to bring this issue to the attention of Microsoft’s senior
management so that it can be prioritised and resolved.<br>
<br>
This is extremely unfortunate and we apologise for any
inconvenience that this may cause or may have caused.<br>
<br>
We understand that partner organisations who use Microsoft email
exchange services and that are experiencing email deliverability
problems because of this issue may be able to apply a band-aid fix
for email flow, by reporting to Microsoft that the NewClimate URL
should not be blocked (see ‘Submission form for reporting false
positives for Microsoft’s URL detonation policy’, available in the
Microsoft admin center). This may help individual organisations to
improve issues with their own incoming and outgoing email flow,
but it does not help to resolve communication issues with other
organisations that use Microsoft.<br>
<br>
Emails are only quarantined when the text “newclimate(dot)org”
appears in the email and not if a diverted link to the NewClimate
website through e.g. tinyurl is included instead.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bit.ly/NewClimate_MicrosoftStatement">https://bit.ly/NewClimate_MicrosoftStatement</a><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://newclimate.org/news/microsoft-error-or-external-attack-causing-disruption-to-email-communication-across-the">https://newclimate.org/news/microsoft-error-or-external-attack-causing-disruption-to-email-communication-across-the</a></font>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back at oil production and
economics ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>October 28, 2005</b></i></font> <br>
October 28, 2005: The New York Times reports:<br>
<br>
"A sudden interruption in oil supplies sent prices and profits
skyrocketing, prompting Exxon's chief executive to call a news
conference right after his company announced that it had chalked
up record earnings. <br>
<br>
'I am not embarrassed,' he said. 'This is no windfall.'<br>
<br>
"That was January 1974, a few months after Arab oil producers cut
back on supplies and imposed their short-lived embargo on exports
to the United States. Oil executives, including J. K. Jamieson,
Exxon's chief executive at the time, were put on the defensive,
forced to justify their soaring profits while the nation was
facing its first energy crisis. <br>
<br>
"Three decades later, their successors are again facing
contentions that oil companies are making too much money and have
failed to expand production. <br>
<br>
"Politicians and other critics are asking why the industry allowed
its refining capacity to tighten. <br>
<br>
"Exxon Mobil, the world's largest oil company, said yesterday that
its third-quarter net income jumped 75 percent, to $9.92 billion.
Its profit in the first nine months of this year - $25.42 billion
- already equals its full-year earnings for 2004. This year's
sales, which topped $100 billion in the last quarter, are expected
to exceed those of Wal-Mart.<br>
<br>
"Another oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell, reported a 68 percent jump
in profits yesterday, to $9.03 billion. Chevron is expected to
post a profit of more than $4 billion today.<br>
<br>
"This year is shaping up as an exceptionally lucrative one for the
oil industry, thanks to strong global demand, tight supplies and
high prices for oil and natural gas. While the idea that the Bush
administration was considering imposing a windfall profits tax was
knocked down yesterday by officials, longstanding resentments
against Big Oil are resurfacing and could end up imposing some
additional burdens on the industry. <br>
<br>
"The sense that government should step in to curb the phenomenal
wealth and power often enjoyed by oil companies goes back to Exxon
Mobil's corporate ancestor from the late 19th century, the
Rockefeller oil trust known as Standard Oil.<br>
<br>
"Today, Republicans and Democrats alike, aware of the politically
sensitive issue of high energy prices, are putting increasing
pressure on the oil and gas industry to return some of its
profits. The ideas include forcing the industry to invest in more
refining capacity, to increase inventories to cushion energy
shocks, or to provide money directly to the government program
that helps low-income people pay heating bills."<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/business/28oil.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/business/28oil.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print</a><br>
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