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Mick Mulvaney, U.S. President Trump’s budget director (March 2016):

“Regarding the question as to climate change, I think the President was fairly straightforward —

We’re not spending money on that anymore; we consider that to be a waste of your money to go out and do that.”

We're Not Spending Money On Climate Change Anymore (Video)

 

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On to the New Year

January 17, 2019

Lost in the Daily News Cycle: US Environmental Protection Nominee Loves Coal, Thinks Climate Change is Not Crisis

Andrew Wheeler, Trump's EPA pick says climate change 'not the greatest crisis'. The former coal lobbyist took over the EPA when his predecessor Scott Pruitt resigned after months of controversy. Wheeler says, in confirmation hearings (reported on by few media outlets) that "he is carrying out the president’s “regulatory reform agenda” and that the US the “gold standard for environmental progress”.

The environment could become a top issue in the 2020 presidential race. Asked if he agreed with the president’s past statements that climate change is a Chinese “hoax”, Wheeler said he would “not use the hoax word, myself”. The latest major Trump resignations and firings. But Wheeler said he would “not call it the greatest crisis”.

“I consider it a huge issue that has to be addressed globally.”

Wheeler also told the New Jersey senator Cory Booker, a likely presidential contender, that he is “still examining” a November report from US government scientists showing the country will suffer from heat-related deaths, coastal flooding and infrastructure damage.

Booker said Wheeler’s regulatory changes “fly in the face” of that science, and the Massachusetts senator Ed Markey called it “unacceptable” that Wheeler would seek confirmation without being familiar with the report.

Wheeler was a lobbyist at Faegre Baker Daniels, where he represented coal company Murray Energy until August 2017. Murray Energy wrote the administration a list of rule changes that would help the industry, and they are largely under way.

January 14, 2019

• https://www.ewg.org/release/mining-industry-pro-trump-s-promises-bring-back-coal-he-s-lying

More coal powered US power plants were shutting the first two years of President Donald Trump's presidency than in President Obama's entire first term. According to Data from Reuters and the US Energy Information Administration nearly 15,000 megawatts of coal-fired power retired from 2009 to 2012, while from 2017 to 2018 that number jumped to about 23,000...

Via Reuters News (TV) / Trump can't stop coals decline

Coal plants closing

January 5, 2019

Policymakers, act now

The new normal is abnormal.

January 4, 2019

In St. Pete/Clearwater, GreenPolicy360's terrestrial home base

January 3, 2019

Why Brazil's new president poses an unprecedented threat to the Amazon

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• Right wing, left wing and in-between, local/state governments prepare for climate/severe weather event impacts

USA Today / Natural disasters in Texas on the scale of Hurricane Harvey's deadly destruction last year will become more frequent because of a changing climate, warns a new report Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018, ordered by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in a state where skepticism about climate change.

From the Texas Governor’s report https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/RebuildTexasHurricaneHarveyEyeOfTheStorm_12132018.pdf

"We need to stop making the old mistakes in local development that expose homes and businesses to risks that only become apparent when disaster strikes. To paraphrase the old saying, an ounce of preparation is worth a pound of cure."

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While climate change has largely broken down along partisan lines at the state and federal level, the nation's mayors have overwhelmingly put aside political parties to address the issue. A survey of mayors this year found that 57 percent of cities are planning to take climate-related actions in 2019. And dozens of the country's largest cities have committed to meeting the terms of the 2025 Paris Agreement on climate change, which Trump is withdrawing from on a national level.

"I think every mayor in the country would say it's their responsibility to do something," said James Brainard, the longtime mayor of Carmel, Indiana. "Our mayors are not sitting back. The mayors are the closest elected officials to the people and the mayors can make this happen regardless of what the federal government does."

Brainard, a Republican, said he doesn't consider climate change a political issue, but he acknowledged he sometimes has to tailor his message for different audiences. Liberal groups, for instance, love that the city replaced it's streetlights with LEDs, reducing electricity consumption and therefore the emission of greenhouse gasses. Conservative groups, he said, are usually more interested in the fact that the switch saves the city 20 percent on its electricity bill annually.

January 2, 2019

Steel Manufacturing: Huge Emissions, Huge Challenge

Globally, steel is responsible for 7 per cent to 9 per cent of all direct emissions from fossil fuels, with each tonne produced resulting in an average 1.83 tonnes of CO2, according to the World Steel Association.

And as the world’s population grows, demand is only predicted to increase....

“In principle there are technology routes to lower emissions from steelmaking,” said David Clarke, head of strategy and chief technology officer at ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest producer by tonnage. The catch, he added, was that “society would have to accept higher costs of steel production”....

A well-established alternative to blast furnaces are electric arc furnaces (EAFs) that melt down scrap, instead of using raw materials. EAFs are smaller, less expensive and, because they do not consume coke, pump out less CO2 than blast furnaces. They already account for about one-quarter of global steel output.

However, renewable energy sources alone cannot meet their enormous electricity demands — enough to power a town of 100,000 people. Another limitation is the supply of scrap, while the grades produced in EAFs are often not the right quality for certain applications, like automotive....

Swedish steel group SSAB is building a €150m pilot facility, scheduled for 2020, that would make the Nordic country the first to manufacture the metal without fossil fuels.

Hydrogen produced by electrolysis from Sweden’s abundant renewable energy resources will be used to reduce ore into a product called sponge iron, which can be converted into steel through arc furnaces.

But clean hydrogen production is expensive and would require a huge expansion of renewable energy generation capacity. South Korea’s Posco and Voestalpine of Austria are pursuing similar projects, although the latter said it could take two decades to become reality.

Until then, steelmakers are taking intermediary steps. Tata’s system removes several stages of pre-processing raw materials and, if combined with the capture and storage of waste gases, the company said it could lower CO2 emissions by 80 per cent.

December 30, 2018

Meet the Press (Transcript): Gov. Jerry Brown, Michael Bloomberg and science experts confront challenges of climate disruption / global warming

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• https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060109689

Philip Shabecoff, a longtime environment reporter, has covered Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton and every president in between.

Now, at age 84, he'd like to return to the news business to cover President Trump.

Shabecoff recently spoke to E&E News about his start in environmental journalism, why he thinks the Times owes him an apology and why he labels the Trump administration an "unmitigated disaster."

How did you get the environment beat?

I was assigned to the Washington bureau, and they asked me what I wanted to write about, and I said the environment. That was in 1970. ... The bureau chief told me at the time, "Well, that's not important enough for a full-time reporter in the Washington bureau, and besides, we need some help covering economics." It was not until I'd covered the White House that they let me cover the environment. And at first, not full-time. ... It wasn't until Reagan became president and Anne Gorsuch became EPA administrator and James Watt headed the Interior Department that it became a political issue as well as an environmental issue that they let me cover it full-time.

What were the most interesting storylines that you covered on that beat?

I think my first climate change story was in '78 or '79, and that was buried. The Times held it for a couple of months and put it on page 42 of the Saturday paper, which is as deeply as you can bury a story in the Times.

(SJS / GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: The climate change story of '78 referred to here was a historic event, the first US Congressional legislation passed to study Climate Change. George E. Brown of the House science committee put forward the National Climate Program Act. A memorable moment in time --- National Climate Program Act, Public Law 95-367 --- National Climate Program Act, Public Law 95-367, Sept.17, 1978 95th Congress)

Philip Shabecoff interview continues:

A decade later, I covered the hearing with [Colorado Democratic Sen.] Tim Wirth ... [and NASA climate change expert] Jim Hansen. I had interviewed [Hansen] and knew him, and it was the first major splash. It led the newspaper. ... I fully thought at that point there would be action on climate change, that the world governments would start doing something about it. How wrong I was.

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Hansen-testimony-1988.jpg

Of course, there was the whole Gorsuch-Watt era, when they were trying to dismantle environmental regulations. ... Eventually, they both had to resign, even in the Reagan administration.

What was environmental journalism like in those days?

There was hardly anybody, just a handful [of reporters]. A few of us started the Society of Environmental Journalists with just a handful, and now there's about 1,500 or so, I don't know the exact number. There's a lot of talented environmental journalists out there now.

You know, I had to resign from the Times. Officially I retired, but I resigned because I was taken off the environmental beat in 1990 because my coverage about things like climate change was considered alarmist.

What's your take on the Trump administration?

It is an unmitigated disaster, and he should be — what he's doing to the rollback of environmental regulations and particularly what he's doing to ignore climate change and build up the fossil fuel industry should be considered a crime against humanity, and he should be sent to The Hague and tried.

How do you think Trump has influenced environmental journalism?

I think he's prodded it; I think he's energized it. I think it was sort of fading for a while. I think there's a lot of good reporting coming out of what he's doing. Unfortunately, most of the journalism about the environment is horror stories.

You've seen administrations come and go. Do you think that the Trump administration's environmental policies will be long-lasting?

They can certainly restore a lot of regulations, but the damage that is being done to the climate now, it cannot be reversed. The dumping of toxins into waterways cannot be reversed. I don't think the selling off of public lands can be reversed. The damage by oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge cannot be reversed. One could go on and on. I hope that — and God willing, there will be a next administration in 2020 — they can go back to having a sane environmental policy, but the damage will have been done.

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Via Gizmodo as forwarded by Earther / Washington D.C (the city) just passed the 'strongest climate legislation'

The Trump administration isn’t about renewable energy, but thanks to the Washington, D.C., city council, it could soon be running on clean power. The council passed one of the most ambitious climate bills in the country on Tuesday requiring the District to get all of its energy from renewables by 2032.

The bill was introduced in July by City Councilmember Mary Cheh and was spurred along by a group of more than 110 environmental, justice and faith groups as well as unions. While it includes a host of new climate rules, chief among them is the renewable requirement.

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December 21, 2018, the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 launch

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo.jpg

• http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181220-the-nasa-mission-that-broadcast-to-a-billion-people

• https://qz.com/1501935/photos-apollo-8-brought-us-the-moon-as-never-seen-before/amp/

• https://petapixel.com/2018/12/20/how-nasas-iconic-earthrise-photo-was-shot/

Today, Bill Anders says that the most striking image to him was not the Earth as seen from the moon, so much as it was the Earth receding in the distance as they left it behind on their outbound voyage. Arguably, that view has changed us — colored our attitude toward the environment, international affairs, our place in the universe — more than Apollo’s other accomplishments.

“It took a while to affect me,” Anders says, “this beautiful blue ball against the darkest black you could imagine, getting smaller and smaller as we went. It made me realize how insignificant our little planet was.”

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Climate Negotiators Reach an Overtime Deal

Another Step toward International Cooperation: U.S. resists but chooses to sign agreement

The deal requires every country to follow uniform standards for measuring emissions. Analysts said it was now up to the countries to honor their commitments

Alden Meyer, director of policy and strategy at the Union of Concerned Scientists summed up the need for action as the 24th international climate meeting concluded:

“The real test is what happens when countries go home. All the decision text in the world doesn’t cut a molecule of carbon. You need action on the ground.”

• https://cop24.gov.pl

• https://unfccc.int/event/cop-24

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference

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Clean Air Cuts, Now Clean Water Act Rollbacks

Environmental Protections Agency reports show the rollback of Obama-era regulations will leave 51 percent of the nation's wetlands unprotected

• Slashing Clean Water Act Protections

• Via The Nation / Trump Moves to Gut the Clean Water Act

• Via AccuWeather / Trump administration proposes rollbacks to Obama's Clean Water Act

• Via Tampa Bay Times / Trump wetlands rule rollback makes about 6 million acres in Florida unprotected ... Florida has 12 million acres of wetlands, more than all but one other state

• Via E&E News / Trump administration breaks with its predecessors by using a 2006 opinion by the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia...

 

Global carbon emissions reached record high in 2018

Washington Post today as nations hold climate talks in Poland... Latest evidence of the chasm between international goals for combating climate change and what countries are actually doing.

More: https://twitter.com/greenpolicy360/status/1070404767892103168

Via The Guardian / 'Brutal news': global carbon emissions jump to all-time high in 2018

Donald Trump Only World Leader to Reject Climate Change in G20 Statement

The US got its own section in the G20 statement on climate change

In a communiqué released at the end of the summit, the signatories of the Paris climate agreement reaffirmed that the international accord “is irreversible” and that they are committed to its “full implementation,” promising to “continue to tackle climate change, while promoting sustainable development and economic growth.”

Except for the US, which got its own clause restating President Trump’s decision over the summer to remove the US from the agreement.

“The United States reiterates its decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and affirms its strong commitment to economic growth and energy access and security, utilizing all energy sources and technologies, while protecting the environment,” the U.S. clause reads.

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Air Quality / Air Pollution

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Quality

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Pollution

#WorstAirQuality

Air Quality Real-time Map

AirNow / International Air Quality

World Air Quality Index / World's Air Pollution: Real-time Air Quality Index

Air Quality Life Index (AQLI)

• https://aqli.epic.uchicago.edu/the-index/

Particulate air pollution is the single greatest threat to human health globally.

Climate News

As the U.S. President thanks himself on a Thanksgiving holiday in November of 2018, and gives himself an "A+" grade on his environmental record, we recall his factual environmental record and his state denial of climate change and its proliferating dangers and risks. Since his administration entered office in 2017, decades of policies put in place to protect the environment have come under assault by federal agencies. The President has not 'done his homework' and has failed in his work. The reality presents a stark contrast to how the U.S. President sees himself and his 'success'.

U.N. climate report card: When it comes to cutting emissions, a dog ate the world’s homework / Via Grist

On Tuesday (Nov. 27, 2018), the U.N. released its annual report card on climate change (The Emissions Gap). The bad news is we’re failing to address the biggest problem facing humanity. The good news? There’s so much room to improve! — and cities and businesses could help pick up the slack.

First, our failing marks: After a three-year plateau, global emissions are rising again “with no signs of peaking,” according to the report. Countries aren’t hitting their Paris goals. In fact, we’re failing at those goals to such a degree that we are making the climate problem worse at an accelerating rate.

And, even if we hit our current targets, it wouldn’t be enough. Factoring in the most ambitious stated climate goals of every nation on Earth, we are still on track for emissions to keep rising beyond 2030. If you’ll recall, the recent IPCC report found that global emissions need to be half their current levels by that year for a shot at keeping warming below catastrophic levels. The U.N. report found that the countries of the world would need to increase the carbon-cutting power of climate policies five-fold in order to meet that goal of 1.5 degrees C warming.

Emissions Gap Report 2018

27 November 2018

Authors: UN Environment

The goal of the Paris Agreement on climate change, as agreed at the Conference of the Parties in 2015, is to keep global temperature rise this century to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. It also calls for efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

The annual UN Environment Emissions Gap Report presents an assessment of current national mitigation efforts and the ambitions countries have presented in their Nationally Determined Contributions, which form the foundation of the Paris Agreement.

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_Summit_Paris

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/INDCs

View the Full Int'l Report on CO2 Emissions

File:UN Climate Agr Emissions Gap FullReport EN.pdf

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Trump Says He’s Too Intelligent to Believe Climate Change Report / Via NY Magazine

White House: Federal climate change report 'not based on facts'

2018 / U.S. National Climate Assessment / Federal Climate Report

U.S. Global Climate Change / 4th National Climate Assessment (PDFs)

U.S National Climate Assessment: A Bleak Report, a Bleak Government Response

The New Abnormal / E&E News: Not Good, Bad, Very Bad, Soon to be Worse

Via the Washington Post / From Donald Trump's 'gut interview

President Trump Says He’s Too Intelligent To Believe In Climate Change

The government’s own climate report predicts the planet will warm dramatically by 2100 without urgent efforts to rein in emissions. Trump responds, “I don’t see it.”

President Donald Trump asserted that he had “very high levels of intelligence,” and as such, did not believe in the scientific consensus surrounding climate change in a sweeping interview with The Washington Post published Tuesday (Nov 27).

“One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence but we’re not necessarily such believers,” said Trump, speaking to the Post’s Josh Dawsey and Philip Rucker. “You look at our air and our water and it’s right now at a record clean. ... As to whether or not it’s man-made and whether or not the effects that you’re talking about are there, I don’t see it — not nearly like it is.”

"You look at our air and our water, and it's right now at a record clean."

(We do not have 'record clean' and the Trump record is one of increasing atmospheric emissions and loosening clean air rules'.)

"And when you're talking about an atmosphere, oceans are very small. And it blows over and it sails over."

("Oceans are very small"? Oceans cover over 70% of the Earth's surface. And "sailing over?... What should one make of this comment?)

"It just flows right down the Pacific, it flows, and we say where does this come from. And it takes many people to start off with."

(The president has blamed China for creating the "myth" of climate change and global warming. Is he now saying that air pollution from China flows to the U.S. and "sails over"? Who knows what the president is saying as he says "where does this come from"...)

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UN partners with 16 global re/insurers to develop climate risk assessment tools

16th November 2018 / Reinsurance News

The UN Environment’s Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has announced a partnership with a group of 16 large, global insurers and reinsurers, to develop a new generation of risk assessment tools that enable the risk transfer industry to better understand the impacts of climate change on their business.

The 16 companies represent around 10% of global insurance premiums and $5 trillion in assets under management, and the pilot group will be tasked with developing analytical tools that they will use to pioneer insurance industry risk disclosures that fall in line with the guidelines and recommendations of the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

The UNEP FI states that this will require member insurers and reinsurers to leverage the latest climate science, which includes the most advanced, and forward-looking climate scenarios that are out there.

The member re/insurers includes: Allianz, AXA, IAG, Intact Financial Corporation, Länsförsäkringar Sak, MAPFRE, MS&AD, Munich Re, NN Group, QBE, Sompo Japan Nipponkoa, Storebrand, Swiss Re, TD Insurance, The Co-operators, and Tokio Marine & Nichido.

UN Environment Chief, Erik Solheim, commented: “For generations, the insurance industry has served as society’s early warning system and risk manager by understanding, reducing, pricing and carrying risk. Its message now is loud and clear: climate change risk is intensifying and is a serious threat to the insurability of communities and economies around the world.

“An uninsurable world is a price that society could not afford. This is why UN Environment is working with leading insurers to understand and reduce risk, to seize unprecedented business opportunities in climate action, and to ensure an insurable, resilient and sustainable world.”

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7 ways towns and cities are turning from grey to green

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Results of the US Mid-term Congressional Election

• Big Oil v the planet is the fight of our lives. Democrats must choose a side / by David Sirota via The Guardian

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Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Tex.) is poised to take control of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Johnson was the first registered nurse elected to Congress, and will be the first chair of the committee with a STEM background since the 1990s, when it was led by former engineer George Brown (D-Calif.). She has a strong positive rating from the League of Conservation Voters...

• Remembering George Brown, chairman of the US House Science Com't over the years when it was committed to advancing science

• Rep. Dana Rohrabacher loses: The man who could've been chair of the House Science Com't

Nov 6, 2018

Press Release

House Science, Space, and Technology Committee

(Dallas, TX) – Ranking Member Eddie Bernice Johnson’s (D-TX) statement:

“I am heartened that Democrats will be in the Majority in the 116th Congress, and I cannot wait to get to work. If I am fortunate enough to be elected Chair of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, a Committee that I like to call the ‘Committee of the Future,’ I know that there is much that we can accomplish as Democrats and Republicans working together for the good of the nation. There is much to be done in the next Congress, and I believe that at a minimum we need to pursue an agenda that will:

• Ensure that the United States remains the global leader in innovation, which will require attention to a wide range of activities: promoting effective STEM education solutions, engaging the underrepresented minorities and blue collar workers in the STEM fields, supporting a robust federally funded R&D enterprise and emerging areas of science and technology, defending the scientific enterprise from political and ideological attacks, and challenging misguided or harmful Administration actions;

• Address the challenge of climate change, starting with acknowledging it is real, seeking to understand what climate science is telling us, and working to understand the ways we can mitigate it; and finally,

• Restore the credibility of the Science Committee as a place where science is respected and recognized as a crucial input to good policymaking.

“These three priorities will keep us very busy both legislatively and in carrying out the serious oversight that has been neglected by our Committee the past few Congresses. If appointed as Chair, I will work tirelessly to advance this agenda for the good of our nation.”

https://democrats-science.house.gov/

115th Congress

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The EPA's Climate Change Page Is Just Gone Now

November 1, 2018 / Via Environmental Data & Governance Initiative / Motherboard

A report released this week by the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative reveals that the removal of climate change information from the EPA website is set to be a long-term policy of the Trump administration.

EPA.gov pages that previously provided information about climate change have been changed from claiming that they are "updating" to an error message that reads, "We want to help you find what you are looking for," as revealed by a report released this week by the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative. The change indicates that information related climate change is not being “updated,” but removed entirely.

In April 2017, the EPA put out a press release announcing that EPA.gov would be changing to “reflect the agency’s new direction under President Donald Trump and Administrator Scott Pruitt.”

“The process, which involves updating language to reflect the approach of new leadership, is intended to ensure that the public can use the website to understand the agency's current efforts,” the April 2017 press release reads. “The changes will comply with agency ethics and legal guidance, including the use of proper archiving procedures.”

At that point, the EPA’s climate change subdomains were removed and were replaced by a page that said that the subdomains were being “updated.” The pages remained like this until the night between October 16 and 17, when the pages were updated to read “We want to help you find what you are looking for.”

There is no information related to climate change on any of the EPA’s climate change subdomains, and per the language of the EPA’s April 2017 press release, this reflects the priorities of the Trump Administration.

This is far from the first time that the Trump administration has removed information relating to climate change and environmental hazards. Shortly after Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, all references to climate change were removed from the White House website. In April of that year, the Department of the Interior removed references to climate change from its public-facing website. The Federal Emergency Management Agency does not even mention climate change in its five year plan released earlier this year.

The Trump administration has also taken tangible steps toward undermining environmental regulations. For instance, earlier this year, the Trump Administration revoked state waivers to the national Clean Air Act that allows states such as California, a major automobile manufacturer, to enforce stricter policies than the Clean Air Act Demands.

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Earth's oceans have absorbed up to 60 percent more heat than previously thought

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0651-8

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Bugcalypse

Toward Biological Annihilation

Living Planet Report 2018

• Animal populations have declined an astonishing 60 percent since 1970

We live in an age of rapid and unprecedented planetary change. Indeed, many scientists believe our ever-increasing consumption, and the resulting increased demand for energy, land and water, is driving a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. It’s the first time in the Earth’s history that a single species – Homo sapiens – has had such a powerful impact on the planet.

This rapid planetary change, referred to as the ‘Great Acceleration’, has brought many benefits to human society. Yet we now also understand that there are multiple connections between the overall rise in our health, wealth, food and security, the unequal distribution of these benefits and the declining state of the Earth’s natural systems. Nature, underpinned by biodiversity, provides a wealth of services, which form the building blocks of modern society; but both nature and biodiversity are disappearing at an alarming rate. Despite well-meaning attempts to stop this loss through global agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, we are failing; current targets and consequent actions amount, at best, to a managed decline. To achieve climate and sustainable development commitments, reversing the loss of nature and biodiversity is critical...

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93 percent of the world’s children breathe toxic, polluted air each day

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Pollution

Nearly 2 billion children – about 93 percent of the world’s children under the age of 15 – breathe toxic, putrid air that’s so polluted it puts their health and well-being at serious risk, according to a new report by the World Health Organization.

Many of the children die: The United Nations' World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 600,000 children died in 2016 from lower respiratory infections caused by dirty air.

“Polluted air is poisoning millions of children and ruining their lives,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO. “This is inexcusable. Every child should be able to breathe clean air so they can grow and fulfill their full potential.”

Air pollution can affect children's cognitive ability and can also trigger asthma as well as cancer. Children who have been exposed to high levels of air pollution may be at greater risk for chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease later in life...

• http://www.who.int/news-room/detail/29-10-2018-more-than-90-of-the-world%E2%80%99s-children-breathe-toxic-air-every-day

• Children's Health Report: World Health Organization

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LA Times / Trump administration gives itself A plus grade on environment

Few would agree with the self assessment

Never mind the facts. White House says it gets an A+ on environmental issues

A recent essay in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. by Harvard University researchers concluded that Trump’s environmental agenda “is likely to cost the lives of over 80,000 U.S. residents per decade and lead to respiratory problems for many more than 1 million people.”

Yet the heads of Trump’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children characterized the administration this week as being singularly focused on keeping Americans, and particularly kids, safe from dangerous industrial practices.

The task force’s activities are “a continuation of the Trump administration’s commitment to preventing future generations from being affected by lead exposure,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, citing “great progress” in safeguarding public safety.

Andrew Wheeler, a former coal-industry lobbyist who now serves as the acting head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said reducing exposure to toxic lead “is a top priority for EPA.”

Not really. Not if you define “reducing exposure to toxic lead” as reducing exposure to toxic lead.

“Like meat bees on baloney, the pollution lobby has swarmed the Trump administration from its inception,” said Ken Cook, president of Environmental Working Group, an advocacy organization.

“No number of press releases and statements by Mr. Wheeler or others claiming environmental and public health protection is a ‘top priority’ for this administration can change that indisputable fact.”

The Trump administration depicting itself as a champion of the environment is as ludicrous as its recent attempts to portray itself as a defender of protections for people with preexisting medical conditions.

It’s neither. The opposite, in fact.

“This rhetoric from the Trump administration is just painting over its refusal to keep our kids safe, not just from lead poisoning, but from toxic air and water pollution,” said Melinda Pierce, legislative director of the Sierra Club.

“Propaganda won't disguise the reality that Trump is responsible for the most serious attacks on clean air and water by any administration ever.”

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Quality

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Clean_Water

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Turning the Toxic Tide is a series of editorials published collectively by the six editorial boards of USA TODAY Network-Florida.

October 18, 2018 / Today's editorial, Florida is at historic crossroads is the first in the series.

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Chris Mooney / Washington Post:

Climate scientists have begun to focus on hurricane rapid intensification as an increasingly prevalent feature in the world we’re entering.

In a recent study in the Journal of Climate, researchers found more rapid intensifications in a simulation of a human-warmed world, and also that this would prove a key pathway toward more intense hurricanes... #RapidIntensification

October 12, 2018

Did global warming 'supercharge' Hurricane Michael?

Hurricane Michael exploded in intensity this week, from a rather nondescript tropical depression Sunday with winds of 35 mph to a Category 4 monster Wednesday with 155 winds.

When it hit land, it became the most powerful hurricane on record to slam Florida's Panhandle and the third-strongest U.S. landfall of all time.

Along with other weather factors, Michael's rapid intensification was fueled in part by unusually warm sea water in the Gulf of Mexico. Warm water of at least 80 degrees fuels hurricanes, and the water in the eastern Gulf this week was as much as 4 to 5 degrees warmer than normal.

Although random weather patterns certainly played a role, the warm waters in the Gulf have a “human fingerprint” of climate change, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate and hurricane expert Jim Kossin.

Penn State University climatologist Michael Mann told ThinkProgress that "once again we see a storm undergoing extreme rapid intensification over unusually warm ocean waters. We saw this pattern last year with Harvey and earlier this year with Florence and now, with my namesake, Michael.”

Weather.us meteorologist Ryan Maue said "there's no doubt the ocean water encountered by Michael was quite warm compared to the last three decades, especially near the coast."

A 2015 study on how ocean temperatures affect hurricane intensity in the North Atlantic found intensification increases by 16 percent for every 1.8 degree increase in average sea-surface temperatures... #HumanFingerprint

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• US Senate confirms climate skeptic to head Dept. of Justice Environment office

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Americans win Nobel Prize of work on climate, growth

Paul Romer: "Many people think that dealing with protecting the environment will be so costly and so hard work that they just want to ignore the problem. They want to deny it exists; they can't deal with it. I hope the prize today could help everyone see that humans are capable of amazing accomplishments when we set about trying to do something."

Romer said that his research has left him optimistic that society can solve even a threat as deeply challenging as the warming of the planet.

William Nordhaus: Nordhaus has been called "the father of climate-change economics" developing models that suggest how governments can combat global warming. One key step he has endorsed is a universal tax on carbon, which would require polluters to pay for the costs that their emissions impose on society. By using a tax rather than government edicts to slash emissions, the policy encourages companies to find innovative ways to reduce pollution -- and their tax burdens.

Nobel Prize Links Up the Environment & Climate-Change Economics

Foreign Policy Magazine

The Nobel Prize for Climate Catastrophe

The economist William Nordhaus will receive his profession’s highest honor for research on global warming that’s been hugely influential — and entirely misguided.

The stakes couldn’t be higher. After all, this isn’t just a matter of abstract academic debate; the future of human civilization hangs in the balance.

In the 1990s, Nordhaus invented the first integrated assessment models to explore how economic growth affects carbon emissions, and how climate change in turn affects economic growth. The basic mechanisms that Nordhaus described continue to inform the models that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) uses today. No one disputes that this qualifies as a significant contribution to the field. The question, rather, has to do with how Nordhaus has used his models to argue for a particular policy agenda.

The models showed that if we were to rapidly reduce carbon emissions in line with what scientists say is necessary to avoid climate breakdown – by putting a high tax on carbon, for instance – it would significantly slow down the rate of economic growth. As far as scientists are concerned, that’s not a problem; we should obviously do whatever it takes to avoid climate catastrophe. But for economists like Nordhaus, this is not acceptable. After all, the whole point of neoclassical economics is to do whatever it takes to grow economic output.

So, Nordhaus’ career has been devoted to finding what he calls a “balance” between climate mitigation and GDP growth. In a famous 1991 paper titled “To slow or not to slow,” he argued firmly for the latter option: Let’s not be too eager to slow down global warming, because we don’t want to jeopardize growth.

To justify this conclusion, Nordhaus manipulates what is known as the “discount rate,” which is how economists value the costs of climate breakdown in the present as compared to the future. It might sound arcane, but it’s really quite straightforward. A discount rate of zero means that future generations are valued equally to the present; a high discount rate means that future generations are valued less, or “discounted,” compared with nearer generations.

Nordhaus prefers a high discount rate—very high. Discounting the future allows him to argue that we shouldn’t reduce emissions too quickly, because the economic cost to people today will be higher than the benefit of protecting people in the future. Instead, we should do the opposite: Focus on GDP growth now even if it means locking in future climate catastrophe. This is justifiable, he says, because future generations will then be much richer than we are and therefore better able to manage the problem.

Using this logic, Nordhaus long claimed that from the standpoint of “economic rationality” it is “optimal” to keep warming the planet to about 3.5 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels—vastly in excess of the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold that the IPCC insists on.

It sounds morally problematic and flies in the face of scientists’ warnings, but economists and policymakers have lined up behind Nordhaus’s argument. They like it because it gives them license to carry on with the status quo and delay difficult decisions. President Trump, for instance, has been aggressive in his preference for growth over climate action. This is in large part what explains the fact that nearly 30 years after the first IPCC report was published, global emissions are still going up. It also helps explain why even with the Paris climate agreement in place, and with all of the plans promised by the world’s governments, we’re still headed for about 3.3 degrees Celsius of warming. It’s all eerily similar to the Nordhaus trajectory.

So how do economists get away with believing that these extreme temperatures are somehow okay? Because the Nordhaus model tells us that even the worst catastrophes will not really hurt the global economy all that much. Maybe a percentage point or two at the most, by the end of the century—much less than the cost of immediate action.

Read more at FP - https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/06/the-nobel-prize-for-climate-catastrophe/

and at GreenPolicy360 and Strategic Demands

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_full-cost_accounting

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Externalities

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Time_for_a_Price_on_Carbon

• https://www.strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/

• https://www.strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/

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Special International Report Released / October 8, 2018

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change / IPCC

• Not doing enough to combat climate change

• World Leaders & Climate Change Action Plans

• Don't be fooled or foiled by Climate Change Deniers

• Here's what you can do, actions to make a difference

• Trump ignores impacts of climate changes and our peril

• Clock is ticking to stop catastrophic global warming

• The media must cover this like it's the only story that matters

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_full-cost_accounting

• Climate Summit Paris, 2015

• National Climate Plans

The #IPCC Special Report #s on Global Warming

Thousands of scientists gather to bring together the last five years of advances in climate science to answer key questions for policymakers.

• http://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/

• https://twitter.com/hashtag/SR15 #SR15

• https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateAction?src=hash

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The Environmental Protection Agency: In Retreat from Its Core Mission

"Repeal of everything the Obama administration did."

Under Pruitt, "There was utter contempt for the career staff and the commitment to do whatever industry asked them to do."

"Today, the environmental field is suffering from the temporary triumph of myth over truth."

Elizabeth Southerland (Former director of science and technology in the Office of Water): What I perceived is that the new administration came into the EPA with complete contempt for the career staff in the agency. Not once did they talk to any of us about all these rules that they’ve been requested by industry to repeal.

"It’s not just that the actions of this administration failed to follow science and evidence and facts, but they are also in many cases unlawful."

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Pathways Forward, Changing the World

• http://conference.bioneers.org

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bioneers

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The Climate Group Gathers in New York

New climate pledges announced by global leaders at the 10th Climate Week.

California Governor Brown opens the conference with a call to action. Taking innovation and solutions to scale ... pathways, policy action, transparency.

The Climate Group, bringing together over 200 governments and businesses spanning six continents and 43 countries with the goal of reducing GHG emissions toward net-zero by 2050.

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U.S. National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Releases Climate Science Statement

More than 50,000 members received the education group's position ... In part it reads: “Given the solid scientific foundation on which climate change science rests. . . any controversies regarding climate change and human-caused contributions to climate change that are based on social, economic, or political arguments—rather than scientific arguments—should not be part of a science curriculum.”

As an official position statement, it's definitely worth reading in its entirety.

• http://www.nsta.org/about/positions/climatescience.aspx

One portion of the teachers’ guidance stands out as a 'clear warning to deniers to stop trying to infect our science with cynical politics'.

The appeal by some to “teach the controversy,” the statement asserts, is a rhetorical tactic not based on science.

“Scientific explanations must be consistent with existing empirical evidence or stand up to empirical testing. Ideas based on political ideologies or pseudoscience that fail these empirical tests do not constitute science and should not be allowed to compromise the teaching of climate science.”

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Global Climate Action Summit

Closing the Global Climate Action Summit, Governor Brown announces a partnership with Planet Labs

New Space Earth Science here we go ...

September 12-14, San Francisco, California

https://globalclimateactionsummit.org

https://globalclimateactionsummit.org/program

Global Action

Green Politics in Action: California Builds Bridges to Extend International Cooperation

Global Climate Action Summit

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Renewable Works for Orlando

Get Going Florida! Your Energy Future Is Now

• From Rooftops to Algae Pools: Orlando’s Vision for Carbon-Free Energy

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Ecology and the Cerrado of Brazil

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Envisioning 'Big Picture' Climate Solutions

• Looking back at the environmental thoughts of Andrew Revkin and looking forward at human intervention to treat climate crisis: What About "Geoengineering"?

Geoengineering

Who sets the global thermostat?

Imagine scenarios, the big picture, sequencing of engineering steps to slow climate change if global consensus on mitigation and prevention cannot be reached. To put it another way, if short-term thinking prevails and governments/business/human actions fail to prevent worsening climate-induced impacts, then what proactive actions can be taken before 'all hell breaks out' ...

HuffPost US to Kim Stanley Robinson

How do you define geoengineering and what are the forms it will most likely take?

I guess the definition would be something like “a deliberate planned attempt by human beings to mitigate the damages of climate change, of carbon dioxide and methane buildup in the atmosphere, and of ecological damage generally, by way of some action that is large-scale” — if not global in reach, then regional in ways that might have global repercussions.

Are you afraid for the future?

Yes.

What makes you most hopeful for a future in which humans who aren’t ultrarich can still thrive?

Progressive taxation, progressive politics, the Paris Accords, the Endangered Species Act, leftists everywhere on Earth including China, environmentalists everywhere, the growing green-red coalition or united front of environmentalists and leftists, the creative power of STEM, the humanist traditions in philosophy, people’s concern for their children, the growing sense of a “global village” we are all part of, the urge to survive. These are some of the things that make me hopeful. Hope is stubborn. It exists in us at the cellular level and works up from there, as part of the urge to live. So hope will persist. The question is, can we put it to use?

GreenPolicy360 / Geoengineering Planet Earth

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Ride along with the 2018 Nautilus Expedition

http://NautilusLive.org

This expedition takes the Nautilus team, and us, to little-known and unexplored regions of the Eastern Pacific ocean. #NautilusLive

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U.S. Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Will Mean Challenging Times For Environmental Laws

“I call him Lord Voldemort,” conservation lawyer Bill Snape said about Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh...

This may be pushing artistic license just a touch, but... the multiple questions about the Heritage Foundation/Federalist Society choice for SCOTUS are now top of mind... the question of independent judicial review and/or money behind the nominee are out-of-the-starting-gate questions...

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Laudato Si

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Laudato_Si

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Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the US EPA, Resigns

(Pink tinting added above by Josh Marshall / via TPM)

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The Last Act

Pruitt seeks to limit EPA's authority to block water pollution permits

The proposed regulation would likely be the most significant change to how the EPA enforces the Clean Water Act’s restrictions on dredging or filling waterways in four decades.

• http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/394381-epa-to-seek-to-limit-its-authority-to-block-water-pollution-permits

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June 23, 2018, a Thirty Year Anniversary

June 23, 1988, an epochal day, a history-making day

On June 23rd, 1988, James Hansen testified to the US Senate.

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:James_Hansen_-_NY_Times_Opinion_-_June_23,_2018.pdf

Siterunner: Your GreenPolicy360 siterunner remembers back over the 1970s and 80s working environmental politics with George Brown as he pushed thru the first federal climate act, the National Climate Program Act of 1978 with a climate research program, this after his earlier work to establish the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts with California and Congressional legislators at the start up of the modern environmental movement.

More of James Hansen and George Brown --

James Hansen / Washington Post

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Hansen-testimony-1988.jpg

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr

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US Environmental Protection Agency Updates

• “@EPAScottPruitt is the most corrupt administrator in the @EPA’s history.”

A demoralized workforce watching as its agency is dismantled by the very people charged to lead it: That is the grim state of affairs depicted by John J. O’Grady, a longtime employee in the Chicago field office of the Environmental Protection Agency, which is tasked with protecting the nation’s air and water, while preventing the exposure of citizens to harmful chemicals. The agency is doing none of that, in O’Grady’s telling, with career officials watching in dismay as EPA administrator Scott Pruitt seemingly lurches from one scandal to another while doing the bidding of oil barons and the chemical lobby.

“Morale is not good,” O’Grady said of the agency’s 14,000 employees. “It’s so low, you need a ladder to get out of the gutter.”

O’Grady, an EPA engineer who is also a chapter leader in the American Federation of Government Employees, a public sector union, made his remarks in an on-the-record breakfast with journalists at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C. Nearby, a television screen was tuned to CNN, where an anchor discussed Pruitt’s most recent alleged transgression: According to a Washington Post report published that morning, Pruitt had his most influential aide urging Republican donors to hire his wife Marlyn.

Judge Orders EPA to Produce Science

Via E&E News-Scientific American

June 5, 2018 / Freedom of Information Request To Be Acted Upon

EPA must produce the opposing body of science Administrator Scott Pruitt has relied upon to claim that humans are not the primary drivers of global warming, a federal judge has ruled.

The EPA boss has so far resisted attempts to show the science backing up his claims.

Not long after he took over as EPA administrator, Pruitt appeared on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” where he was asked about carbon dioxide and climate change. He said, “I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.”

The next day, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking the studies Pruitt used to make his claims. Specifically, the group requested “EPA documents that support the conclusion that human activity is not the largest factor driving global climate change.”

On Friday, the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Beryl Howell, ordered the agency to comply.

“Particularly troubling is the apparent premise of this agency challenge to the FOIA request, namely: that the evidentiary basis for a policy or factual statement by an agency head, including about the scientific factors contributing to climate change, is inherently unknowable.”

If the case proceeds, it could mean that Pruitt would have to produce such research in the coming months or next year.

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• Senior EPA officials collaborated with climate change denial group, emails show

Trump’s NASA Chief: 'I Fully Believe and Know the Climate Is Changing'

“I also know that we human beings are contributing to it in a major way”

Via The Atlantic

“As far as my position on climate change and how it’s evolved, I’ll be very open...” the new administrator of NASA said at a town hall Thursday (May 17) at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.

“I don’t deny that consensus that the climate is changing,” he said. “In fact, I fully believe and know that the climate is changing. I also know that we humans beings are contributing to it in a major way. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. We’re putting it into the atmosphere in volumes that we haven’t seen, and that greenhouse gas is warming the planet. That is absolutely happening, and we are responsible for it.”

... whether Bridenstine’s views on climate change have changed or not, the views of his bosses haven’t, and this remains a point of concern for Bridentine’s critics. The Trump White House has proposed cutting or canceling many of nasa’s earth-science missions. So far, they’ve been spared. Republicans don’t have enough seats in the Senate to pass their dream budgets, so they’ve had to negotiate bipartisan budget legislation with Democrats. This setup has preserved most of nasa’s climate funding, but not all. The latest budget deal didn’t specifically mention nasa’s Carbon Monitoring System, a $10-million program to track greenhouse-gas emissions around the world. The Trump administration took that as an opportunity to terminate the program.

• Trump dismantles NASA climate change program

• Americans want NASA to focus more on our home planet: Survey

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• Senior EPA officials collaborated with climate change denial group, emails show

US EPA Administrator Back in the News

• Environmental Protection Agency Bars Reporters from Toxic Chemicals Summit

EPA staff Wednesday morning barred POLITICO and reporters from at least two other publications from entering a national summit on toxic chemicals, a day after a partial media blackout at the same event brought criticism from congressional Democrats and a pledge by the White House to investigate the incident... the Associated Press (reported) that one of its journalists was forcibly ejected from the building.

Pruitt scheduled the PFAS summit months ago, but it has attracted increased attention after POLITICO reported that senior EPA officials had helped block the release of an HHS study that would have increased warnings about the chemicals. EPA stepped in after the White House warned in January that releasing the study would create a "public relations nightmare."

Pruitt said he was unaware of that intervention, but it has added to the criticism he has faced from lawmakers and the public in recent months. The embattled administrator is facing more than a dozen federal investigations over his first-class travel, sweetheart condo rental from a lobbyist, heavy security spending and other matters.

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By 2030, China and Taiwan are planning to ban all plastic bags,

straws, disposable food containers, plastic cutlery and cups.

Earth Science & Environmental Security

May 22 / News Reports / California

The New GRACE satellites are launched and on their way...

Two Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On -- GRACE-FO -- satellites were released from the Falcon 9's second stage about 11-and-a-half minutes after takeoff. The five Iridium NEXT satellites followed suit about an hour later, after an orbit-raising maneuver by the second stage.

As the name indicates, the GRACE-FO satellites are replacements for an earlier pair that spent 15 years monitoring how water is distributed globally, measuring changes in Earth's oceans, glaciers and ice sheets while tracking sub-surface aquifers and soil moisture.

The original GRACE mission found that Greenland, for example, is losing 281 billion tons of ice per year on average while Antarctica is losing another 125 "gigatons" annually. One gigaton is the mass of water in 400,000 Olympic-size swimming pools.

"GRACE was really a revolutionary mission for us understanding the water cycle and how the climate behaves and the trends that are taking place," said Frank Webb, GRACE-FO project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

"This was a view we didn't have before of water on the Earth. We were able to see how water has moved from different parts of the Earth by actually measuring its mass. ... We were able to detect things like loss of ice mass from glaciers, ice sheets, Greenland, places like that, we were able to see storage of water on land where there were floods or depletion of water on land where there are large aquifers and we've been pumping water out."

Satellite study finds major shifts in global freshwater

The NASA-led research team ... used 14 years of observations from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission to track global trends in freshwater in 34 regions around the world.

The study, published in the May 17, 2018 issue of the journal Nature, also incorporated satellite precipitation data from the ESSIC-led Global Precipitation Climatology Project; Landsat imagery from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey; irrigation maps; and published reports of human activities related to agriculture, mining and reservoir operations. The study period spans from 2002 to 2016.

• https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6984

"This is the first time we've assessed how freshwater availability is changing, everywhere on Earth, using satellite observations," said Matt Rodell, lead author of the paper and chief of the Hydrological Sciences Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "A key goal was to distinguish shifts in terrestrial water storage caused by natural variability—wet periods and dry periods associated with El Niño and La Niña, for example—from trends related to climate change or human impacts, like pumping groundwater out of an aquifer faster than it is replenished."

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Loss of Permafrost: Ripple Effects Head South

The Great Thaw of America's North Is Coming

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Permafrost

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Texas Becoming Greener?

What About Pennsylvania?

May 6, 2018

From Pennsylvania / the Post-Journal

By James Colby / EARTHx

Here is my Earth Day reflection: No single person, politician, political party, or nation can solve the climate-change or sustainability crisis. The responsibility falls on every human being on planet Earth. Young and old, left and right, and rural and urban citizens must unite, collaborate, and cooperate.

Business and industry, and federal, state, and local politicians must enact public policy that reflects sustainability. The first Earth Day” (1970) was excellent, in that the left and right united to change the American landscape and the world. Clean water, air, and soil became priorities, and the EPA was established to advance these goals.

Today, many citizens feel helpless and ask this: “how can I help?”

Planet Citizens

Some individuals think environmental issues are not important or real… or not concerns of their friends, family, church members, or talk-show hosts. If you are in this group, please consider this fact: Texas is not only Red, but Green. Many Texas Republicans view green living as excellent political and business goals, and reflect fiscal responsibility.

It is a fact: clean, renewable energies, economies, and jobs are now embraced by Americans of all ideologies. Texas, known for big business, big oil, and all sizes of pickup trucks is transforming into an environmental beacon...

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• Bill McKibben: The Question I Get Asked the Most

The questions come after talks, on twitter, in the days' incoming tide of email—sometimes even in old-fashioned letters that arrive in envelopes...

"What can I do?" I bet I've been asked it 10,000 times by now... "What can I do to make a difference?"

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Macron Speaks to US Congress

April 25, 2018

"Let us face it, there is no Planet B..."

"I am sure one day the U.S. will come back and rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement."

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Environmental protection

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Methane, We're Watching

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Copernicus_EU

Detecting methane from space

There has been quite a buzz around this unique advancement in space, and the valuable data it will provide on methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that accounts for a quarter of the warming our planet is experiencing today. Curbing anthropogenic methane emissions is one of the most efficient and economical options available to slow the rate of warming over the next few decades, while efforts continue to reduce CO2 emissions worldwide.

"As a pollutant, methane is 84 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-yr period and responsible for a quarter of the global warming happening today. That is a risk not just to emitters in the oil and gas sector, but to investors everywhere."

Re: Methane Management / Harvard Investment Endowment Fund

-- Environmental Defense Fund + Business

• Update: US environmental group wins millions to develop methane-monitoring satellite

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) planning to be the first environmental group to send its own satellite into space. The group's efforts are being funded through the Audacious Project, a joint effort of the non-profit group TED and philanthropic organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

“We need good solid data so that we really can support global action on climate change, and we’ve got to do it fast,” says Steven Hamburg, the EDF’s chief scientist.

The most detailed measurements currently available of atmospheric methane concentrations currently come from a sensor aboard the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-5P spacecraft, which launched in October 2017. The Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument provides global coverage at a resolution of nearly 50 square kilometres, but those measurements do not capture the dispersed sources of emissions from oil and gas fields.

Commercial firms have developed high-resolution sensors that can be placed aboard 10-centimetre-sided CubeSats to measure emissions from individual wells or other facilities. Those data are proprietary, however, and the measurements cannot be scaled up to the level of an entire oil and gas field.

The Environmental Defense Fund team is designing MethaneSAT to provide more-precise measurements, at a resolution of 1 square kilometre, with global coverage at least once a week.

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Imaging-New_Space

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April and Birds On the Wing

Migration Tracking (Animation)

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Daphne with an Orphan

Orphans No More

https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/

https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/about_us.asp

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• Climate skeptics, science doubters

• The biggest oil deal: a driving force behind the Trump election

• Rex Tillerson has been fired. Experts say he did damage that could last “a generation.”

• Why Did Trump Fire Tillerson Now?

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The Oil/Gas Deal in the Arctic

"It was bigger than sending a man to the moon", re: US / Russia to drill in the Arctic

It's a big story, a 'follow the money' story, the story of oil/gas profits and global environmental costs...

Looking at Rosneft/Exxon's $500 billion Arctic deal, Rex Tillerson's appt as US Secretary of State, US/Russia oil/gas interests...

The political-economic reality in a warming North offers a rich bounty -- and pressing challenge to global security.

• Arctic has warmest winter on record

• 'Heat Wave': Extreme Weather in the Arctic

• Monthly-Yearly Arctic sea ice chart (2008-2018)

• Record-breaking temperatures reach the North Pole

• A Farewell to Ice, book by Peter Wadhams (2016)

• The Arctic via GreenPolicy360: What happens in the North doesn't stay in the North

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https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Starlink-nasa_image.jpg

"Starlink"

• Elon Musk announces launch of Starlink satellites

February 22, 2018, the beginning of a SpaceX planetary network...

Micro-satellites to deliver low-cost Internet access around the globe...

SpaceX's ultimate goal is to provide gigabit broadband services worldwide...

GreenPolicy360: Digital Citizens, Digital Rights

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Blue-Green Connection to Life on Earth

"The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One"

Blue Planet II

"A single kind of blue-green algae in the ocean ('Prochlorococcus') produces the oxygen in one of every five breaths we take"

~ The Fate of Small Species and the Oceans -- Sylvia Earle

Going Green

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/TinyBlueGreen

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Global_Fishing_Watch

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Oceans

 

Planet Citizen, Bioneer and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio joins w/ Planet to launch an amazing ocean imaging, earth science project

Reefscape

Reefscape

Satellite Doves to Aid Coral Conservation

Planet API

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US Nuclear Posture Review Released

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US Slaps Tariff on Solar Energy Panels

• http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-solar-tariffs-20180122-story.html

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World Bank to end financial support for oil and gas extraction

Bank announces in Paris it ‘will no longer finance upstream oil and gas’ after 2019 in response to threat posed by climate change

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European Union unveils plan to make all plastic packaging recyclable by 2030

The EU wants to make all plastic packaging recyclable, reduce single-use plastic and restrict microplastics. The plan would "lay the foundations for a new plastic economy."

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Green Networking, Going Global

GreenPolicy360: Greening Our Blue Planet

• Green Best Practices

• World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice

• One Year of Attacking Science: How the Trump Administration Measures Up

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Rein In Trump's Ability to Launch Nuclear First Strike

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Pope Francis on the Environment

VATICAN CITY, January 8, 2018 (Reuters) - Pope Francis called on Monday for all nations to support dialog to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula and to work for a legally binding ban on nuclear weapons.

“Nuclear weapons must be banned,” Francis said, quoting a document issued by Pope John XXIII at the height of the Cold War and adding that there is “no denying that the conflagration could be started by some chance and unforeseen circumstance.”

He noted that the Holy See was among 122 states that last year agreed to a United Nations treaty to ban nuclear weapons. The United States, Britain, France and others boycotted the talks that led to the treaty, instead pledging commitment to a decades-old Non-Proliferation Treaty.

“It is of paramount importance to support every effort at dialog on the Korean peninsula, in order to find new ways of overcoming the current disputes, increasing mutual trust and ensuring a peaceful future for the Korean people and the entire world,” Francis said, addressing the nuclear crisis beween North Korea and the United States.

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Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters

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Getting Down to Earth

Regenerative Green Best Practices

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Regenerative_Agriculture

Via the Lancet

"The World's First Professor of Planetary Health" / #PlanetaryHealth

https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/planetaryhealth?src=hashtag

Be a Planet Citizen / Measuring "Vital Signs"

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2017 Green Stories of the Day / Edited/Re-published February 2018

New Definitions of National & Global Security

• New Definitions of National Security

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Weapons

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Global_Security

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Nonproliferation

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Proliferation

Environmental Security Organizations

Environmental Security

Environmental Security, National Security

Rethinking Nuclear Risks

@GreenPolicy's associate, Strategic Demands

• The Doomsday Machine by Dan Ellsberg

When Carl Sagan Warned the World About Nuclear Winter

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/when-carl-sagan-warned-world-about-nuclear-winter-180967198/

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#OnePlanet

News from the Int'l One Planet Summit

December 2017, Paris, France

Climate commitments at the 'One Planet Summit' in Paris

World Bank Group pledges to stop investing in oil and gas exploration

China/Xinhua -- France hosts climate change summit

World is losing the battle against climate change

Euronews "One Planet" Global Summit Meet Up Video

Macron Holds a Climate Summit, and Trump Casts a Shadow

More than 50 US mayors just signed a charter to meet the Paris agreement goals

Investors aim to clean up corporate emissions in line with Paris 2015 international climate agreement

With fossil fuel subsidies, humanity investing in 'own doom': UN chief

France wants America’s best climate scientists because our government won’t want them

France launches Make Our Planet Great Again grants

EU announces €9bn in funding for climate action

EU funds will be focused on clean energy, and sustainable cities and agriculture

John Kerry: US 'will come back' to Paris climate accord

UK: World’s space agencies to set up climate observatory

The heads of several of the world’s space agencies have agreed to set up a climate observatory to pool data and share it with scientists across the world. The UK Space Agency has joined other organisations to commit to working together on activities such as increasing observations of key climate variables and validating the data.

They aim to improve long term sustainability and accessibility of climate data captured by satellites.

Graham Turnock, Chief Executive of the UK Space Agency, who signed the agreement in Paris said: “The UK is working with international organisations to encourage the use of space data and technology to tackling climate change. It’s important we come together and agree to work towards improving the quality and sustainability of climate data from space and ensuring it is made freely available to researchers around the world.”

In September 2018, a follow on Global Climate Action Summit will be held in San Francisco.

Co-chaired by Jerry Brown, the governor of California said of the next Summit:

If we all work together, humanity can rise to the existential threat of climate change.

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News from the Int'l Climate Conference in Germany

• Looking Back at the Bonn Climate Conference

• UN Climate Change@UNFCCC

@JerryBrownGov joins Facebook UN event at #COP23 in Bonn:

"The #ParisAgreement was a miracle - we must build on this miracle. We are on the road to hell without full Paris Agreement implementation"

• Andy Revkin@Revkin

• Read @ElizKolbert

• FutureEarth

International research for global sustainability - https://mobile.twitter.com/FutureEarth

• GreenPolicy360

Climate News - https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News

Resilience - https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:GreenPolicy360_-_Resilience.png

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Carbon Dioxide and the "Thin Blue" Atmosphere

NASA OCO-2, critical measurements, critical mission - https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12478

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most important greenhouse gas released to the atmosphere through human activities...

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syU1rRCp7E8

The OCO-2 mission represents an important advance in the ability to observe atmospheric carbon dioxide. OCO-2 collects high-precision, total column measurements of carbon dioxide (from the sensor to Earth’s surface) during daylight conditions.

Scientists can also use model results to understand and predict where carbon dioxide is being emitted and removed from the atmosphere and how much is from natural processes and human activities.

Carbon dioxide variations are largely controlled by fossil fuel emissions and seasonal fluxes of carbon between the atmosphere and land biosphere.

OCO-2's unprecedented science is "a step toward answering critical questions about carbon dioxide and Earth's climate future."

Cities Mapping CO2

CO2 Molecule

https://science2017.globalchange.gov/

US Climate Science Special Report

• http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/358655-federal-report-blames-humans-for-global-warming-and-its-effects
• https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/climate/us-climate-report.html
• http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-pol-climate-change-report-20171103-story.html
• https://thinkprogress.org/trump-national-climate-assessment-9ae0781f7a9a/
• https://www.salon.com/2017/11/03/climate-change-is-happening-because-of-human-activity-trump-administration-admits/
• https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/us-government-climate-report-climate-change-is-real-and-our-fault/
• https://www.rt.com/usa/408764-climate-report-contradicts-trump/
• https://thedailybanter.com/2017/11/white-house-approves-climate-change-report/
• http://grist.org/briefly/the-u-s-government-just-released-a-report-confirming-everything-we-know-about-climate-change/
• http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-11/04/c_136727069.htm

International Cooperation, Framework Convention on Climate Change

http://unfccc.int/2860.php

https://cop23.unfccc.int/

https://cop23.unfccc.int/news/cop23-kicks-off-with-strong-calls-to-hold-to-paris-agreement-path

https://cop23.unfccc.int/news/un-climate-change-conference-2017-aims-for-further-faster-ambition-together

Only One Country Refuses to Support the Int'l Climate Agreement

November 7, 2017

• http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-paris-agreement-us-climate-change-donald-trump-world-country-accord-a8041996.html

California Gov. Jerry Brown delivers a blunt climate change message in Germany

Brown has been hailed in German media as the “anti-Trump” for his efforts to keep the United States engaged in the 2015 Paris agreement’s commitments to cut greenhouse emissions...

“It’s hard to get your mind around something so extensive,” said Brown, who was appointed by Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, the U.N. conference president, to serve as a special advisor for states and regions...

“Let’s lead the whole world to realize this is not your normal political challenge,” he added. “This is much bigger. This is life itself. It requires courage and imagination.”

Record Surge in CO2

https://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/3020046/wmo-greenhouse-gas-concentrations-reach-highest-level-in-800-000-years

Planet Citizens with an Earth Point of View

www.earthpov.com

Dawning Thin Blue Perspective

New Definitions of National And Global Security

Fragile edge of our planet

Thin blue line

Mysterious rhythm

Our next breath

Heart struck with wonder

Mind dizzy with awe

-- Astronaut Douglas Wheelock‏ @Astro_Wheels

www.thinbluelayer.com

"Climathon"

To highlight the global collaboration happening across the world -- http://www.climate-kic.org/

https://eit.europa.eu/newsroom/climate-kic-malm%C3%B6-encourages-children-in-climathon

http://www.climate-kic.org/

War on the Rocks

Look deeply at the threat -- https://warontherocks.com/2017/10/trumps-threat-to-nuclear-order/

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Proliferation

Ikigai

https://www.treehugger.com/culture/ikigai-japanese-art-finding-ones-purpose-life.html

Endangered Species

Destroying the Environment, a "Sin"

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Tree_of_Life -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Endangered_species

Greenbuild

https://www.greenbuildexpo.com/en/home.html

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Smart_home-energy-3d.png

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Building_Standards

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:SmartHomeOntology.jpg

http://www.mcdonough.com/ / "Cradle-to-Grave"

Nowhere Is a Place

Today's 'Sunday Services' visits Patagonia, with a special thanks to Danny Moses, long-time, now retired, Editor-in-Chief of Sierra Club Books

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/t-magazine/bruce-chatwin.html

I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones. ― Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia

There were no voices here. There was this, what I saw; and though beyond it were mountains and glaciers and albatrosses and Indians; there was nothing to speak of, nothing to delay me further. Only the Patagonian paradox: tiny blossoms in vast space; to be here, it helped to be a miniaturist, or else interested in enormous empty spaces. There was no intermediate zone to study. Either the enormity of the desert or the sight of a tiny flower. In Patagonia you had to choose between the tiny and the vast. ― Paul Theroux

There is a saying in Patagonia -- que asegura a la persona que come el fruto del calafate, su regreso a estas tierras -- those who taste the fruit of the calafate will return to this land. I have tasted the calafate berry. ― Jeff Gnass

 

Bugs Be Gone / October 21

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/20/insectageddon-farming-catastrophe-climate-breakdown-insect-populations

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Microbiomes_at_Risk

http://www.tinybluegreen.com

Pollute Me, Not / October 20

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Pollution

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Pollution

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Water_Pollution

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Externalities

Environmental Security reasons why environmental protection regulations exist around the world --

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_protection

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Protection

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Laws

National & Global Security / October 19

New Visions of Security

Deconstructing the Environmental Protection Agency / October 18

https://futurism.com/the-epa-just-removed-climate-change-from-their-climate-change-website/

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:UCS-EPA-Oct16,2017.png

A Frontline Public Broadcasting Investigation

• (Videos) Scott Pruitt's 'War on the EPA'

Green Quotes / October 17

Earthviews from Astronauts

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect

Prevent Nuclear First Use / October 16

From our associate #StratDem -- http://strategicdemands.com/

http://strategicdemands.com/prevent-nuclear-first-use/

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'Sunday Services' - @Earth360 / October 15

How thin our atmosphere

Mars Journey & Radiation / October 14

Pre-publication excerpt from Scott Kelly's "Endurance" / Via the Brisbane Times

Planet Earth's "thin blue layer", strategic necessity

Living Earth / October 13

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Algae_release_-nikon-small-world-competition-2017-winners.jpg

http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/subjects/main/algae

 

"War on the EPA" / October 12

Frontline / Public Broadcasting / WGBH

Revisiting environmental national & global security

Planet Earth Flag Proposal / October 11

http://www.flagofplanetearth.com/ -- http://www.flagofplanetearth.com/press/

Google Earth Goes Social / October 10

https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/07/13/google-earth-will-soon-let-anyone-share-stories-and-photos-on-virtual-globe/

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-brazil/google-earth-to-let-users-post-stories-photos-in-coming-years-idUSKBN19X01P

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Virtual_Earth

Green Business Investing / October 9

Investing with Green Values -- Green Money Journal

http://greenmoney.com/ -- http://greenmoneyjournal.com/

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Sun-day / October 8

https://www.inquisitr.com/4543144/carbon-emissions-from-soil-could-lead-to-unstoppable-global-warming/

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Soil

"Ban the Bomb" / October 6

Nobel Committee Abiding by Nobel’s Will?

Nobel Peace Prize goes to the "International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons" -- ICAN -- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-41528743

http://www.lasg.org/press/2017/press_release_06Oct2017a.html

Landmark Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons Bans Research, Possession, Use, Nuclear Deterrence

http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-weapons-treaty-adopted-historic-moment/

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Nonproliferation

How Much Carbon Are We Emitting into Our Atmosphere? / October 5

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/the-crazy-scale-of-human-carbon-emission/

"How thin is our atmosphere?"

Observing Carbon Levels from the OCO-2 Satellite

Planet Earth, Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists / October 4

Union of Concerned Scientists Speaks Out

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics

Planet Citizen-Scientists

 

Carbon Storage, Soil-Based / October 3

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Carbon_Sequestration -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Carbon_Sequestration

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Soil_Loss -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Soil-vs-dirt-infographic.jpg

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/California_out_in_front_in_a_Green_future -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Regenerative_Agriculture

Solar On Water, China on Top / October 2

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Renewable_Energy

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Solar_Energy

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'Sunday Services' - Looking Out / October 1

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations

http://www.earthpov.com -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/HelloEarth

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Above.png -- https://www.pinterest.com/stratdem/environmental-security/

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Earth's_atmosphere_3840x2160.jpg -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:ThinBlue.png

NASA Earth Science in Danger / September 30

http://www.earthpov.com -- http://www.planetcitizen.org

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Vital_Signs

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News

Forests: Sinks or Sources / September 29

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Forests

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Rainforest

Four Times the Size of Manhattan / September 28

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Antarctica

Global Threats to Food Supply / September 27

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Food_Pages:_On_Earth_Food_Politics

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Alternative_Agriculture

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Seed_Saving

A Chinese Professor says 'Prepare' / September 26

Time to Prepare for the Worst in Korea

• Updates on Nuclear Threat on the Korean Peninsula @ www.strategicdemands.com

Threat Horizon

http://strategicdemands.com/us-president-talks-un/

http://strategicdemands.com/a-nuclear-meme/

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Proliferation

http://strategicdemands.com/oversight-us-nuclear-arsenal/

http://strategicdemands.com/no-one-should-have-singular-nuclear-launch-authority/

http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-hair-trigger/

Before the Deluge / September 25

From yesterday's stormy seas to today's performance by Jackson Browne and his band

Some of them were angry

At the way the earth was abused

By the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power

And they struggled to protect her from them

Only to be confused

By the magnitude of her fury in the final hour

And when the sand was gone and the time arrived

In the naked dawn only a few survived

And in attempts to understand a thing so simple and so huge

Believed that they were meant to live after the deluge

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'Sunday Services' - Stormy Weather/ September 24

Rough waves, rough times

China's Solar Future / September 23

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Solar_Energy

Warning from StratDem / September 22

http://strategicdemands.com/a-nuclear-meme/

Green360 Trending News / September 21

https://twitter.com/UNFCCC/status/910376712030052357

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GTN_GreenLinks_Trending_News

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News

After the US Speech / September 20

After the US president threatens at the UN to "totally destroy" North Korea, the UN continues with its vote to totally ban nuclear weapons...

http://www.lasg.org/press/2017/press_release_20Sep2017.html

Discord Before the US President's UN Speech / September 19

The US president's speech at the UN -- Transcript

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/09/19/trumps-menacing-united-nations-speech-annotated/

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-trump-united-nations-address-transcript-20170919-htmlstory.html

GreenPolicy360 / Strategic Demands:

A New Security Vision for the 21st Century

http://www.strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/

Remember the Nuclear War 'Close Calls' / September 18

Stanislav Petrov: Russia remembers - https://www.rt.com/news/403625-nuclear-soviet-officer-died/

US remembers

UK remembers

and then there's Vasily Arkhipov http://strategicdemands.com/remembering-a-day-in-1962/

Nuclear Weapons

http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/

http://strategicdemands.com/?s=HairTrigger

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'Sunday Services' / Against the Tide

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sea-Level_Rise

100% Renewable? Doable? Yes. Going Green / September 16

GreenPolicy360 launches Net Zero Energy Policy (take that Irma) www.netzeropolicy.com

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Going_Green

With synchronicity @work, a "1000 Cities Initiative" is announced -- https://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/patti-smith-rising-above-and-fighting-climate-change-art.html

"Patti Smith's daughter explains, "that if 1000 cities come together and commit to becoming 100% renewable and transition off fossil fuels by 2040, we can turn the Paris Agreement into action."

Patti Smith remembers an inspiration: “When I worked with Ralph Nader, one of the things that he taught us was that nothing productive comes from negativity or pessimism. So it’s important not to be drawn into a state of pessimism or paralysis, one has to take a breath and rise above it. I’m not saying that as rhetoric, I’m saying it as an action, as what I have to do myself. I feel the same way that you feel, that everyone else feels, but I refuse to be trampled by it, I refuse to be demoralized; I just keep on doing my work, our work.”

Nothing to Worry About (Until It Comes for You) / September 15

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Merchants_of_Doubt

We're Back in Clearwater / September 14

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/09/14/trump-weighs-in-on-climate-change-hey-there-have-been-big-hurricanes-before/

http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2017/09/12/fighting-back-against-scott-pruitts-relentless-distortions-of-climate-science-and-law/

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-florida-governor-climate-change-20170908-story.html

From Clearwater, Evacuating / September 8

Time to evacuate. Will be back online next week. Stay safe all!

Extreme Weather from Above / September 7

Strategic Demands / #StratDem

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Strategic_Demands

http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/  

Quote: "Extreme Weather Events" / September 6

 

A Losing Choice for NASA / September 5

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-names-climate-science-denier-to-run-nasa-c9a46a6f4a52/

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:NASA -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/09/05/trump-nominates-oklahoma-politician-and-climate-skeptic-to-run-nasa/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-set-to-unveil-high-level-council-for-coordinating-space-policy-1498848039

NextGen Batteries / September 4

Vanadium Flow Batteries - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium_redox_battery / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NanoFlowcell

Fuel Cell Batteries & News - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell / https://energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/fuel-cells / https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/matter_energy/fuel_cells/

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) - https://www.nrel.gov/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Renewable_Energy_Laboratory

Renewable Energy World - http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/index.html / http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-storage/top-news.html

The Green Goal: A Clean Energy Economy - https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Renewable_Energy

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'Sunday Services' / Religious Leaders Speak Out

World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation

http://catholicclimatemovement.global/world-day-of-prayer/

http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/prayers-and-devotions/prayers/prayers-to-care-for-creation.cfm

“The annual World Day of prayer for the Care of Creation offers to individual believers and to the community a precious opportunity to renew our personal participation in this vocation as custodians of creation, raising to God our thanks for the marvelous works that He has entrusted to our care...”

Not Just Another Climate Speech / September 2

By Dr. Joseph Romm, creator of climateprogress.org -- http://www.climateprogress.org

Joe Romm -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_J._Romm -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_and_High_Water_(book)

Going Solar, Going Green / September 1

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Going_Green

Extreme Weather / August 31

Hurricane Risks

Extreme Hurricane Harvey

Boomtown Houston, Flooding Times / August 30

H/t to ProPublica's investigative series on Houston in danger. Note the series beginning publication date, December 2016...

Now Comes 'Hell and High Water' Harvey...

Harvey marks the most extreme rain event in U.S. history

Over Texas / August 29

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Harvey_Houston.png

https://assets.rbl.ms/10607706/980x.jpg

Facts Count - PolitiFact / August 28

Global Fact-Checking Projects in Countries -- PolitiFact is a networking model...

"There are 96 fact-checking projects in 37 countries", beginning with the original PolitiFact project from Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida

http://www.poynter.org/2016/there-are-96-fact-checking-projects-in-37-countries-new-census-finds/396256/

http://reporterslab.org/fact-checking/

http://reporterslab.org/category/fact-checking/#article-1384

http://reporterslab.org/global-fact-checking-up-50-percent/

'Sunday Services' / Eco-Schism in the Christian Faith

Now there are some who believe in a 'global warming hoax', evangelism, prophecy, end times -- and there are those more 'on earth', who believe in 'our common home' and in a moral imperative to 'care for our common home'. Take a look at a profound schism growing within the Christian church, a 'split' in beliefs that will act to shape our future life, our future common life on earth, however we look at faith and religion. The actual number of Christians in the world is estimated in the range of 2 - 3 billion, with over 1.2 billion Catholics ...

Here is US Senator Jim Inhofe, perhaps the most powerful man on environmental policy in the US Senate, his philosophy of a scientific 'hoax' and why he believes as he does, and why he wields his power to fit his religious beliefs...

Senator Jim Inhofe's Hoax Theory

In stark contrast to the US evangelical religious views like Senator Inhofe of the oil/gas state of Oklahoma, here's Pope Francis, the first pontiff to name himself after the Catholic Church's patron saint of the environment, St. Francis. The Jesuit pope is promulgator of a first Catholic eco-encyclical and doctrine ... Laudato Si'

Poper Francis & the Environment

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Laudato_Si

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/religion/sen-jim-inhofe-issues-statement-on-pope-s-global-warming/article_1575fd35-e52e-5140-8f89-2d116c6bef45.html

Senator Inhofe (R-Oklahoma): "I disagree with the pope's philosophy on global warming. I am concerned that his encyclical will be used by global warming alarmists..."

"My point is, God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous."

New Views from Above / August 26

https://www.outsideonline.com/2103761/birds-eye-tour-our-national-parks#slide-1

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:A_window_view.jpg

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Above.png

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earthviews

 

The US President, Nuclear Codes & 'First Use' / August 25

Continuing On Topic / World-US News in Depth:

Nukes, Clapper, Trump

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-should-have-sole-authority-to-launch-a-nuclear-attack/

The US President & 'First Use' / August 24

Update: GreenPolicy360 and the Strategic Demands team are reviewing a proposed bill that goes further than the Lieu/Markey 'first-use' proposal. Stay tuned. We'll be back...

https://livableworld.org/senator-markey-rep-lieu-introduce-restricting-first-use-nuclear-weapons-act-2017/

The US President & Nuclear Codes / August 23

James R. Clapper Jr., former director of US national intelligence, questioned president Trump’s fitness for office following the president's speech in Phoenix on Tuesday, August 22.

“I really question his ability to be — his fitness to be — in this office... I also am beginning to wonder about his motivation for it — maybe he is looking for a way out.”

Clapper continued in an interview after he watched Trump’s speech, saying that he is very worried about the president’s access to nuclear codes...

“In a fit of pique he decides to do something about Kim Jong Un, there’s actually very little to stop him,” Clapper said, referencing the president and the North Korean leader.

“The whole system is built to ensure rapid response if necessary. So there’s very little in the way of controls over exercising a nuclear option, which is pretty damn scary.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/23/james-clapper-questions-trumps-fitness-worries-about-his-access-to-nuclear-codes/

http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Proliferation

#HairTrigger

http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-hair-trigger/

 

“U.S. national security policy rests on the assertion that 'forward presence' contributes directly to global peace and security. In Base Nation, David Vine examines, dismantles, and disproves that claim. He demonstrates that America's sprawling network of overseas bases imposes costs — not only financial but also political, environmental, and moral — that far exceed what the Pentagon is prepared to acknowledge. Base Nation offers a devastating critique, and no doubt Washington will try to ignore it. Citizens should refuse to let that happen.” --- Andrew J. Bacevich

Strategic Demands of the 21st Century by Roger Morris & Steven Schmidt

http://strategicdemands.com/costsofwar/

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Surviving_Victory.png

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Green On an August Eve / August 21

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_Quotes

Visiting Strategic Demands / August 19 & 20

GreenPolicy360's associate ... www.strategicdemands.com

Monitoring the Global Climate Accord / August 18

Follow the Climate Plans & Progress of Nations

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:INDC

Trump's Climate Rejection / August 17

https://twitter.com/KHayhoe/status/895987382909943808

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-has-broad-power-to-block-climate-change-report

@GreenPolicy, Trump's Rejection of the US Climate Report

"Ignorance" / An Understatement / August 16

The "Donald Trump Forest" project has been started by campaigners upset at what they call the US president's "ignorance" on climate science.

Trump Forest allows people either to plant trees locally or pay for trees to be planted.

Currently the campaign to compensate for the impact of President Trump's climate policies has 120,000 pledges...

http://www.bonnchallenge.org/content/challenge -- http://www.bonnchallenge.org/content/get-involved

"Billion Tree Tsunami"

Pakistani province plants one billion trees

One billion trees and more on the way...

Fifty million reforestation

Sixty-six million trees in 12 hours

Two billion trees along the highways

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'Sunday Services' - Shinrin-Yoku

Overcoming Nuclear Crisis / August 12

GrnPolicy Siterunner: Thinking of nuclear this morning when I woke and after checking Google News to see if nuclear war had broken out w/ N Korea ... and w/ China (China 'official' news yesterday: “If the U.S. and South Korea carry out strikes and try to overthrow the North Korean regime and change the political pattern of the Korean Peninsula, China will prevent them from doing so”) and knowing the US and Chinese pres spoke by phone late yesterday, I began thinking of recent expert opinions I've read (w/ a h/t to Tom Nichols).

Thinking about a Falk and Krieger piece who talked of a nuclear 'flamenco' a couple months ago, I began thinking about the current US Pacific Fleet admiral, Scott Swift, who last wk said he'd shoot off atomic weapons toward China if ordered by the president. The admiral's statement in Australia was then explained by a US Navy spokesman named Charlie Brown (not kidding). Here's the May 30th Hill op-ed, still timely:

Averting the Ticking Nuclear Time Bomb

Singular Authority to Launch Nuclear Weapons

With an "On the Beach" reminder of an aftermath

Sympatheia: Reflective Life & Walk with Beauty / August 11

It's All Connected -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Relational_Reality.jpg

Visiting GreenPolicy Associate, StratDem / August 10

As nuclear war talk heats up...

http://strategicdemands.com/stewards-of-the-apocalypse/

http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/

http://strategicdemands.com/costsofwar/

http://strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/

The Nuclear Brink / August 9

#HairTrigger http://strategicdemands.com/?s=nuclear+hair+trigger

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:My_First_Order.png

What Climate Change Report? / August 8

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/climate/climate-change-drastic-warming-trump.html

NY Times Climate Special Report

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News

Earth Science Research from Space and Politics of Earth Science

On 'First Use' and Banning Nukes / August 7

Preemptive, Preventive, and/or First-Use Strikes: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-should-have-sole-authority-to-launch-a-nuclear-attack/

http://strategicdemands.com/?s=hair+trigger -- http://strategicdemands.com/?s=nuclear+weapons+treaty

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Nonproliferation

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'Sunday Services' - Jacques Cousteau's Grandson Speaking at the Bioneers Conference

This past week GreenPolicy looked more closely at the Earth's seas and oceans

Now, reflecting, we listen to a presentation by an environmental ocean exploring family

http://conference.bioneers.org/ -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bioneers

 

Atlantic 'Meridional' / August 5

Ocean Circulation / What? "Nothing to See Here", Keep Paddling

https://news.yale.edu/2017/07/31/loss-arctic-sea-ice-impacting-atlantic-ocean-water-circulation-system

http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v7/n8/full/nclimate3353.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/08/02/this-strange-spot-over-the-atlantic-isnt-getting-warmer-scientists-think-they-may-know-why/

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/climate-model-suggests-collapse-atlantic-circulation-possible

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturning_circulation

Kelp 'n Ocean Agriculture / August 4

http://www.oceanapproved.com/sustainability

Kelp, "forests of the sea", habitat for biodiversity, producer of oxygen, food, 'aquaforestry' about to become a tradeword

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/12/162728509/kelp-for-farmers-seaweed-becomes-a-new-crop-in-america

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture_of_giant_kelp

Sustainable Fisheries / August 3

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Global_Fishing_Watch

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:GlobalFishingWatch.jpg

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:G_Earth_Outreach.jpg

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Fisheries -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisheries_management

Earth Protection, Asteroids, Aliens etc... / August 2

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Asteroid_Watch_JPL.jpg -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/253476-nasa-new-six-figure-job-opening-protect-earth-aliens-us

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Extinction

Wild Florida / August 1

http://www.pbs.org/video/2365987527/

http://floridawildlifecorridor.org/

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sea-Level_Rise

"To see Wild Florida you've got to get down into the mud & back into the trees & up into the rivers & into the backwaters & dig around"

Clearwater, Florida, GreenPolicy360's terrestrial home base, geo-located on a limestone/karst peninsula that is still wild here & there...

 

Save a Butterfly, Save a Species / July 31

http://www.boredpanda.com/rare-blue-swallowtail-pipevine-butterfly-repopulation-tim-wong/

https://www.treehugger.com/conservation/pipevine-swallowtail-butterfly-conservation-san-francisco-tim-wong.html

http://www.sfchronicle.com/thetake/article/S-F-biologist-s-passion-for-butterflies-soars-9138329.php#photo-10742592

https://m.facebook.com/CaliforniaPipevineSwallowtail/?hc_ref=ARSW45o6LUperxuN2SrJMOD1SySTFKd-yU4NStZkJ-Xk0NhvAopTgdJUMKXGpcpKqwo&fref=nf

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_protection -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Whole_Earth_One_Connected_System_Astro-Gerst_2014.png

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Biodiversity -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Extinction

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'Sunday Services' - Plastic in the Sand & Water

Plastic Pollution

Food Is Med, Eat Healthy, Be Healthy / July 29

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Food -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Slow_Food_(Alternative_to_Fast_Food)

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Food_as_medicine.jpg -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Via_Dr_Stacey_Robinson.JPG

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Farm-to-Table -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Food_Pages:_On_Earth_Food_Politics

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Index#Agriculture -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Broccoli_;-.jpg

Save Food. Don't Waste It / July 28

https://businessconnectworld.com/2017/07/12/5-ways-wasting-food-hurts-the-environment-and-5-ways-you-can-fix-it/

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Food_Saving -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Food_wasted-lost.png

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Stop_Wasting_Food.jpg -- (Video) The Big Waste: Why Do We Throw Away So Much Food?

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:FOOD_politics-health.jpg

Safe Water? See Your City / July 27

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Clean_Water

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Water_Pollution

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Laws

 

Another Day of Lamar / July 26

Lamar Goes to Greenland, Comes Back with a Message / July 25

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics

https://www.buzzfeed.com/zahrahirji/lamar-smith-tours-the-arctic

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Greenland

WASHINGTON — Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) — who has spent his career cozying up to fossil fuel interests, dismissing the threat of climate change and harassing federal climate scientists — is now arguing that pumping the atmosphere full of carbon dioxide is “beneficial” to global trade, crop production and the lushness of the planet.

Rather than buying into “hysteria,” Americans should be celebrating the plus sides of a changing climate, Smith argues in an op-ed published July 24th in The Daily Signal, a news website published by the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Smith — who has used his power as chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology to push his anti-science views — kicks off his op-ed by claiming Americans’ perception of the phenomenon is “too often determined by their hearing just one side of the story.”

“The benefits of a changing climate are often ignored and under-researched,” Smith said. “Our climate is too complex and the consequences of misguided policies too harsh to discount the positive effects of carbon enrichment.”

Increased carbon dioxide, Smith writes, promotes photosynthesis, resulting in a “greater volume of food production and better quality food” and “lush vegetation” that “assists in controlling water runoff, provides more habitats for many animal species, and even aids in climate stabilization, as more vegetation absorbs more carbon dioxide.” Warmer temperatures, he notes, results in longer growing seasons.

Smith goes as far as to make a case for why a rapidly melting Arctic, which scientists warn could cost tens of trillions of dollars by the end of this century, is a positive thing.

“Also, as the Earth warms, we are seeing beneficial changes to the earth’s geography,” he writes. “For instance, Arctic sea ice is decreasing. This development will create new commercial shipping lanes that provide faster, more convenient, and less costly routes between ports in Asia, Europe, and eastern North America. This will increase international trade and strengthen the world economy.”

Other Blue-Green Planets? / July 24

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pale_blue_dot

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Hubble -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:1.2-million-galaxies-map-slice.jpg

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:The_James_Webb_telescope_modeled_at_SXSW_2015.jpg

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Webb_Telescope_construction_completed-Nov2016.jpg

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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Melted Nuclear Waste

Decommissioning the Fukushima reactors will cost 8 trillion yen ($72 billion), according to an estimate in December from the Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Removing nuclear fuel waste from destroyed reactors may take as long as 40 years.

Seven years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japanese town rebounds from zero

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/21/national/fukushima-robot-finds-potential-fuel-debris-hanging-like-icicles-reactor-3/

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-robot-fuel-fukushima-reactor.html -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Fukushima-Tokyo_was_on_brink_of_nuclear_catastrophe

A Photo App to ID Nature / July 22

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/All_Species_Day

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Global_Biodiversity_Information-Data.png

 

Welcome to Outer Space / July 21

https://www.google.com/streetview/#international-space-station/cupola-observational-module

Thomas Pesquet, ESA astronaut: “Looking at Earth from above made me think about my own world a little differently, and I hope that the ISS on Street View changes your view of the world too.”

http://www.thinbluelayer.com

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Orbital_Perspective

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations

Bioneers, Looking Back, Looking Forward / July 20

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bioneers

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Book_Reviews_@GreenPolicy

Law & Environmental Protection / July 19

http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2017/07/18/local-governments-in-california-file-common-law-claims-against-largest-fossil-fuel-companies/

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_Summit_Paris -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News

https://www.nrdc.org/about/litigation -- https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/litigation-at-nrdc.pdf

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Laws -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_environmental_lawsuits

Brits/World Look at Calif & Climate News / July 18

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-climate-change-vote-republicans-20170717-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/climate/california-cap-and-trade-approved-jerry-brown.html

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article161905518.html

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Governor_Jerry_Brown

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Jerry_Brown_AGU-Dec14,2016.png

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/California_out_in_front_in_a_Green_future

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/PlanetCitizen

Act2Be & Become a Planet Citizen / July 17

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/PlanetCitizen

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now

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On This Day 72 Years Ago, the Nuclear Weapons Era Is Born / July 16

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Trinity_monument_m.jpg

http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-weapons-treaty-adopted-historic-moment

http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/library/correspondence/oppenheimer-robert/corr_oppenheimer_1945-08-17.htm

Watch J. Robert Oppenheimer

"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

 

Lamar Goes to Greenland on a Denial Quest / July 15

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Greenland

Revealing the thinking of the House Science Committee chairman

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Lamar_Smith_Denial_Offensive.png

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Lamar-smith-press_2015.jpg

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News

Bugs on Earth and in Space / July 14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W194GQ6fHI

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150313-the-toughest-animals-on-earth

 

 

Green Crowdpowered Air-Q Mapping / July 13

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Networking -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Citizen_Science

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp,_OCO-2,_June_2014_m.jpg

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Mapping_Our_Air.png -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Tzoa-air_quality_monitoring.jpg

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sharing_Economy -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Virtual_Earth

US Is More than DC on Climate Action / July 12

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_Summit_Paris

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:G-20_19%2B1.png

Doom 'n Gloom or What? / July 11

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Extinction

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Extinction

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Anthropocene

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Anthropocene

Mapping the Air Quality / July 10

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Going_Green

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Virtual_Earth

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Green Ideas on a Sunday in July

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_full-cost_accounting

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/The_Commons

G-20_19+1 / July 8

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News

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Banned: Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Adopted

Diplomatie.gouv.fr

Los Alamos Study Group

July/August / Special Issue of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

http://thebulletin.org/press-release/after-midnight-julyaugust-issue-available10924

2017 Doomsday Clock Statement

It is two and a half minutes to midnight

Draft Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Treaty / @ United Nations / July 5

http://www.undocs.org/en/a/conf.229/2017/L.3/Rev.1

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Trinity_monument_m.jpg

http://www.lasg.org/press/2017/press_release_5July2017.html

https://www.apnews.com/6732780e340f4fc785c9c4ab846b2f65/First-treaty-banning-nuclear-weapons-expected-to-be-adopted

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Nuclear_Nonproliferation

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Moving To Renewable Energy and Away from Oil/Gas Strategic Conflicts

Volvo Goes Full EV / July 6

http://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2017/07/6.htm -- http://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/volvo-going-all-electric-first-automaker-ditch-combustion-engine-n779791

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jul/05/volvo-cars-electric-hybrid-2019 -- http://www.cbsnews.com/news/volvo-electric-cars-combustion-engines-fate/

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-05/tesla-is-starting-to-face-serious-competition -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Tesla,_electric_cars

Moving Toward Electoral Choice and Away from Global Conflict

Your Vote, Your Voice

http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article159113369.html

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/11/presidential-executive-order-establishment-presidential-advisory

https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-takes-legal-action-over-trump-election-commission-executive-order -- http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/01/trump-election-panel-fraud-tweets-240165

https://www.thenation.com/article/the-trump-administration-is-planning-an-unprecedented-attack-on-voting-rights/ -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/30/how-trumps-nationwide-voter-data-request-could-lead-to-voter-suppression -- http://www.wsls.com/top-stories/demand-for-voter-rolls-shows-ugly-truth-about-trumps-voter-fraud-commission -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression

 

Strategic Demands: New Definitions of Security, National & Global

http://strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/

New Arms Race Qua Old Arms Race / June 29

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/24/nuclear-arms-treaty-russia-trump-239923

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Proliferation

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Extinction

Winless War, Endless War / June 28

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Surviving_Victory_Conf_contributors.jpg

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Strategic_Demands_of_the_21st_Century_A_New_Vision_for_a_New_World.jpg

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Surviving-Victory-conference-Washington-DC-2006.pdf

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Thirty-seconds-closer-to-midnight.png

 

 

Putin, Trump, Nuclear Risks / June 27

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Weapons

http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-hair-trigger/

http://strategicdemands.com/status-nuclear-ban-negotiations/

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Nuclear_Nonproliferation

At the UN: Abolish Nuclear Weapons

https://www.un.org/disarmament/ptnw/president.html

Los Alamos Study Group / Ban the Bomb

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Sunday 'Earth Services' / ThinBlueLayer.com

Space 'Macroscope', Earth Science / June 24

Ecologists “are going to have this epiphany.” A University of California scientist describes the rapidly improving satellite view from outer space as a “macroscope.”

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Planet_API_PlanetLabs_2.png -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Planet_Lab_Flock_1c_CubeSats.jpg

Environmental Data & Blockchain / June 23

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/3-ways-blockchain-can-accelerate-financial-inclusion/

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenPolicy360-eOS#World_Wide_Web_.26_Digital_Rights_Movement

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EOS_eco_Operating_System

Green Driving / June 22

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Going_Green#Venture_On_with_Best_Green_Ideas

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:EVs.png

Saving Species in Kauai, Jurassic Land / June 21

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Extinction

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Biodiversity

"New Space", Democratizing Earth Observations / June 20

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratization_of_Space -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:New_Space -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Landsat_data_users_handbook

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Imaging -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Imaging-New_Space

SCOTUS to Decide on Gerrymandering / June 19

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Redistricting_-_Opposing_Gerrymandering

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Redistricting

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Your_vote.png

To Fathers & Mothers & Stardust / June 18

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Hubble

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Hubble_NGC-1376-22811500-2560-1705.jpg

Carl Sagan

Oppo Science @Work in Schools / June 17

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/devos-is-questioned-about-campaign-to-influence-climate-change-education/

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Money_in_Politics

At the UN: Abolish Nuclear Weapons / June 16

https://www.un.org/disarmament/ptnw/president.html

http://www.lasg.org/BAN/LASG_comments_draft_ban2.pdf

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/13/no-more-con-games-abolish-nuclear-weapons-now/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/14/no-more-con-games-abolish-nuclear-weapons-now-part-two/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/15/no-more-con-games-abolish-nuclear-weapons-now-part-three/

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US G7 Climate 'Footnote' / June 14

June 12 / Reuters -- The U.S. said it would not sign up to a pledge by Italy, Canada, Japan, France, Britain and Germany which called the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change "irreversible" and key for the "security and prosperity of our planet."

As a consequence, Washington formally refused to back multilateral development banks — bodies designed to finance poorer nations and help them reduce their pollution emissions.

"The U.S. is now left as a footnote to climate action and that's very sad," said Canadian Environment Minister Catherine McKenna. "Everyone expressed their deep disappointment with the U.S. decision," she said.

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Sustainable Soil / June 13

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Soil

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Soil_Loss

Global/Local Smog / June 12

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Quid_graphs_Smog_2017.png

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Pollution

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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Protecting 'The Commons'

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:GreenLinks_as_of_December2015_via_GreenPolicy360.net.pdf

 

Over the Edge / June 10

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:DJT_-_US_message_to_world.jpg

Opening Up the Arctic to Oil/Gas? / June 9

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/06/08/trump-new-fbi-director-chris-wray-russian-ties-rosneft-gazprom-column/102603214/

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-rex-tillerson-vladimir-putin-russia-exxon-2016-12/#putin-shakes-hands-with-toasts-with-tillerson-after-their-meeting-in-the-novo-ogaryovo-residence-outside-moscow-monday-april-16-2012-3

Pacific Coast States Act / June 8

http://pacificcoastcollaborative.org/

More on China and Calif Gov Brown / June 7

China and California sign agreements

"It's not a time for inertia, it's a time for radical change" -- https://www.gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=19834

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"Simple" / June 6

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/world/asia/xi-jinping-china-jerry-brown-california-climate.html

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/California_out_in_front_in_a_Green_future

New Space, #EarthScience / June 5

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:New_Space

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratization_of_Space

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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Global Security / June 4

New Definitions of National Security

Wonder Why Russia? / June 3

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic

Yesterday Was a Bad Day

• US Retreats from International Cooperation

• The Decision Announced on June 1st, 2017

The Consequences Start Now / June 1

The US will be judged, this day will be long remembered.

National Security & Global Security are interrelated. He doesn't know this. There's so much he doesn't know & so much he doesn't know that he doesn't know.

Trump just betrayed the world. Now the world will fight back

• Brown: The Rest of the World Is Against Trump

• A Surreal Setting, Strike Up the Band

• Leadership? What Leadership?

• Our Disgraceful Exit

• Governor Brown Statement on White House Paris Climate Agreement Announcement

• "Donald Trump has absolutely chosen the wrong course."

“This current departure from reality in Washington will be very short-lived, that I promise you,” Brown told POLITICO in an interview. “I’ve spoken with Republicans here in the Legislature, and they’re beginning to get very serious about climate action, so the momentum is all the other way. And I think Trump, paradoxically, is giving climate denial such a bad name that he’s actually building the very movement that he is [purporting] to undermine...”

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China Responds

Premier Li Keqiang of China said on Thursday that his country remained committed to the fight against climate change and to participating in international efforts for a greener world.

“China will continue to uphold its commitments to the Paris climate agreement,” Mr. Li said, confirming a position his country agreed to alongside the United States in 2014, in what proved to be a watershed moment for the ultimate passage of the landmark accord the following year.

“Step by step, and very arduously, together with other countries, we will work toward the goals set” by global leaders in 2015, Mr. Li said, standing beside Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany in Berlin.

Ms. Merkel, who welcomed the Chinese commitment as “encouraging,” has been a leader in the global push for climate action since 1992, when she played a crucial international role in passage of the world’s first climate treaty, the Kyoto Protocol.

US business leaders point at downside -- http://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/big-business-urges-trump-stick-paris-climate-accord-n766641 -- http://lowcarbonusa.org/business

“If you have to go to a board of directors and say, ‘I have to make a multibillion-dollar investment that is multi-year,’ are you going to base it on two or four years in the political cycle or … on long-term economic, technological, and consumer trends?” -- Melissa Lavinson / The Atlantic

The GOP must own the consequences.

Future of Humanity at Risk / May 31

Forward or back? -- https://www.axios.com/scoop-trump-is-pulling-u-s-out-of-paris-climate-deal-2427773025.html

Backwards looking -- "The 22" -- https://www.axios.com/scoop-top-republican-senators-urge-trump-to-exit-paris-climate-deal-2421530161.html

A policy direction from the US president that will live up to the challenges or deliver economic, environmental disasters.

“I’ve always made more money in bad markets than in good markets.” -- DJ Trump, Quoted 05/23/16 - MSNBC

Reflecting on Next Steps:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/31/trump-nearing-a-decision-on-whether-to-pull-u-s-from-paris-climate-deal-breaking-ranks-with-more-than-190-countries/

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-trump-paris-climate-change-20170531-story.html

The Trump administration: A bump on the road?

Remember that a future president can rejoin the Paris global climate agreement with a 'flick of a pen'.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/05/31/the-planet-loses-but-u-s-is-bigger-loser-if-it-withdraws-from-paris-climate-agreement/

"The noose tightens," Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer, co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Climatic Change, told The Independent. The US withdrawing from the Paris Agreement would only aggravate the climate change problem and make it much more difficult to prevent the crossing of a global temperature to a dangerous threshold. Three billion tonnes of additional carbon dioxide could be released into the air every year...

Little Big Politics / May 30

http://billmoyers.com/topics/democracy-government/

"America’s Little Big Man -- http://billmoyers.com/story/little-big-man/

Trump is teaching us how deeply disturbed our American world actually is"

Memorial Day, Peace Day / May 29

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Dove_of_peace.jpg

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Sunday 'Earth Services' / Be Kind / May 28

G7 Split w/ US on Climate / May 27

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News

As the Dean of Tech Writing Moves On / May 26

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenPolicy360-eOS#Digital_Rights_Movement

Axe Earth Science Missions / May 25

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News

Pope & a President Meet / May 24

http://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/05/24/i-wont-forget-what-you-said-trump-tells-pope-after-meeting-vatican

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Laudato_Si -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pope_Francis_on_the_Environment

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Pope_Francis_and_Donald_Trump-May24,2017.jpg

Laudato Si

Integral Ecology

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California Fights Washington / May 23

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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Be Kind

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Eco-Spirituality

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Eco-Theology

Costs of War via StratDem / May 20

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Strategic_Demands

http://strategicdemands.com/costsofwar/ -- http://strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/

Freaky Friday, Nukes 'n Space Weather / May 19

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Nonproliferation

http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/

China & Energy, Not What You Think / May 18

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/China

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Pollution

Nuclear Power Blues / May 17

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Energy

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Radioactive_Pollution

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Fukushima-Tokyo_was_on_brink_of_nuclear_catastrophe

Earth, Sagan & DSCOVR / May 16

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EarthPOV -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pale_blue_dot

http://astrobiology.com/2017/05/glint-from-ice-particles-in-earths-atmosphere-could-be-used-to-study-exoplanets.html

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Future Energy Trends

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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Over the Horizon

Origins of Mother's Days Around the World

Better Climate Observation Needed / May 13

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now -- http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratization_of_Space -- http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic -- http://www.tinybluegreen.com

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Virtual_Earth -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earthviews

100 Climate Solutions / May 12

http://www.drawdown.org/solutions/ -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/ProjectDrawdownCO2

Pope, No Nuclear Weapons / May 11

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Laudato_Si

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pope_Francis_on_the_Environment

Money, Politics & Climate / May 10

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Money_in_Politics

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Money_in_Politics

Global Climate Politics / May 8

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space

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Sunday 'Earth Services' / May 7 / "Road Map to Health"

Food & Health -- Farm-to-Table -- Market Gardening -- Farmers Markets

'Slow Food' Alternative to 'Fast Food' -- Community Supported Agriculture

Stop Treating Soil Like 'Dirt' / May 6

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Agriculture

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Soil_Loss

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Soil

http://civileats.com/2017/05/05/the-leopold-center-for-sustainable-agriculture-faces-a-shut-down/

Northern Route thru the Arctic / May 5

http://www.wibbitz.com/watch/?id=b31daa04078844d7f96142701c5f80a6e

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Arctic-swipa-spm.pdf

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic

Where Goes Miami?

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sea-Level_Rise

Climate Plans, International (as of May 2017)

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:INDC

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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Mustard Greens / April 30

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Mustard_greens_bloom_-_Carrizo-San_Luis_Obispo-March2017.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Brassica_juncea_-_K%C3%B6hler%E2%80%93s_Medizinal-Pflanzen-168.jpg

#ClimateMarch 2017

April 29

Snapshot Goodbye to the EPA Climate Change Website

EPA removes climate science website from public view after two decades in operation -- Here's the Pruitt #EPA "kicks" explanation -- https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-kicks-website-updates

An Archived Website of http://epa.gov/climatechange/ can be found at the Wayback Machine

https://www.epa.gov/climatechange

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Seagrass and Ocean Forests: Your Oxygen

Get Involved in Climate Action

https://peoplesclimate.org/

Sea-Level Projection / April 26

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Sea-Level_Rise_%26_Mitigation

Blockchain and Shared Solar / April 25

Blockchain Distribution of Renewables

Facts Matter! Science Matters!! / April 24

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_for_Science

https://satellites.marchforscience.com/

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:March_for_Science-2.png

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Bill_nye-march_for_science-earth_day.jpg

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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Pale Blue Dot / April 23

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pale_blue_dot

 

April 22nd -- Earth Day

GreenPolicy360.net -- Greening our Blue Planet

GTN Climate / April 20

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GTN_GreenLinks_Trending_News

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/27/climate-change-human-fingerprint-found-on-global-extreme-weather

https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2017/apr/18/climate-change-surely-the-most-important-news-story-of-our-age

Visit NASA's Image Archive

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:NASA

Virtual Earth Maps / April 17

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Google_Earth_invite-just_in_time_for_Earth_Day.jpg

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Virtual_Earth

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Virtual_Reality

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Maps

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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Virtual Reality Overview / Week 15

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Astronaut-chris-hadfield-earth-photo.jpg

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/new-solar-powered-device-can-pull-water-straight-desert-air

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Water_Saving

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Citizen_Science

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/donald-trump-kathleen-hartnett-white-climate-skeptic-job-237172

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_full-cost_accounting

https://climatesecurity101.org/on-the-record/

https://www.PlanetCitizen.org

https://www.PlanetCitizens.org

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/09/trump-smog-offshore-drilling-rules-climate

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/states-challenge-trump-over-clean-power-plan/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/05/climate-change-legal-challenge-donald-trump

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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Under the Stars / Week 14

April 8th

Visualize Environmental Security <-> National Security

April 7th

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Strategic_Demands

April 6th

Drawdown, Climate Challenge/Solutions

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Project_Drawdown_Bioneers.png

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/ProjectDrawdownCO2

Paul Hawken - Project Drawdown | Bioneers (Video)

Visit the Bioneers, Make a Difference

April 5th

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Pollution

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Quality

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/trumps-epa-cuts-budget/521223/

April 4th

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/frigate-birds-fly-nonstop-months

April 3rd

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect

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April 1st

"Physics... a framework for thinking" https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Tesla,_electric_cars

Climate Politics / March 30th

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/326380-house-votes-to-restrict-epas-use-of-science

https://thinkprogress.org/house-honest-act-limit-epa-science-244a132bdee

House Science Committee attacks the science

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http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/27/15073162/fcc-broadband-internet-privacy-rules-congress-vote

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/congress-debates-reversing-course-decades-consumer-privacy-protections

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/28/internet-service-providers-sell-browsing-history-house-vote

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/republicans-in-congress-will-not-protect-your-internet-privacy-so-protect-it-yourself

"Results of the Privacy Protection Vote" / http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2017/roll202.xml

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenPolicy360-eOS#Digital_Rights_Movement

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https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Virtual_Earth

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Block_Island_Wind_Farm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_versus_butter_model

http://strategicdemands.com/costsofwar/

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March 17th

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Climate_Change -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security

http://www.thinbluelayer.com -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security,_National_Security

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations

March 16th

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/15/car-pollution-carbon-emissions-obama-trump-epa

https://electrek.co/2017/03/15/trump-epa-fuel-rules/

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/trump-set-challenge-obama-era-fuel-standards-detroit/

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Quality -- http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Fossil_Fuels

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Full-cost_Accounting -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Gas-Powered_Transportation

http://cait.wri.org/indc/#/map -- Worldwide Climate Policy Plans (PDF Graphic) including the US and its status upholding or retreating from commitments

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March 14th

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Anthropocene

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/PlanetCitizen

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics

March 13

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Beginning_of_WWW_89_TimBerners-Lee_CERN.jpg - Web Foundation

Open Letter from WWW founder Tim Berners-Lee

Digital Rights Movement

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March 11th | #Fukushima

Gary Schmidt prepping emergency pump for flight to Japan

Fukushima on brink of nuclear catastrophe

March 10th | #Pruitt #EPA

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Pruitt_talks_EPA_-_CO2.png

March 9th | #ClimateChange #ClimatePolicy #US #California

https://www.wired.com/2017/03/want-gut-emission-rules-prepare-war-california/

California Out in Front

California Governor Jerry Brown

(Re: New actions threaten the US 'Clean Power Plan')

http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060051196

March 8 | #DeepState #SecurityState

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Digital_Rights

March 7 | #Pollution

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Pollution

March 6 | #Expertise #Science

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now

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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Above / Week 9

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Above.png

March 3

http://www.strategicdemands.com

March 2

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Book_Reviews_@GreenPolicy

March 1

Facts & Science, the basis of knowledge

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Stats_-_Green_Research_&_Science

February 27

US National Parks Maps

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Sunday 'Earth Services' - "Thin Blue" / Week 8

"Fragile edge of our planet" / www.ThinBlueLayer.com

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:ThinBlue.png

February 24

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Planetary_Science

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:The_James_Webb_telescope_modeled_at_SXSW_2015.jpg

February 23

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Webb_Telescope_construction_completed-Nov2016.jpg

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Hubble

February 22

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:NASA_Climate_Feb16,2017.png

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Arctic1_by_Timo_Lieber_800x480.jpg

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Sunday 'Earth Services' / Week 7

Watch the Forests of the Seas & Listen to Philip Glass

February 16

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Stats_-_Green_Research_&_Science

February 15

LANDSAT

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Sunday 'Earth Services' / Week 6

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Trumbull_vfx_master.jpg

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:2001_pic3.jpeg

February 11

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Pollution

February 10

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic

February 9

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics

February 8

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Tree_of_Life

February 7

A View of Our Home Planet (w/ VFX 2001 thanks to our friend Doug Trumbull)

February 6

Planet, Alphabet-Google, Terra Bella -- Democratization of Space

Earth Observations, Earth Data for Generations to Come

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Sunday 'Earth Services' / Week 5

'Bridges to Babylon', recorded in Los Angeles @ Ocean Wave Studio w/ Billy Preston on Hammond. 'Saint of Me' - Live in Rio

February 3

Japan has more car charging stations than gas stations

February 2

Earth Science from Space

February 1

GPS satellites, distributed over 6 orbital planes, provide important context for ongoing and historical science missions, and enable new types of #EarthScience research not previously possible

The data are publicly available, hosted by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information and can be found by searching the data.gov portal or at https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/space-weather/satellite-data/satellite-systems/gps/

January 31

"Earth in Human Hands"

January 30

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Tillerson-Putin_mtg.jpg

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Sunday 'Earth Services' - GOES / Week 4

GOES "First Light": http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=89506&src=eoa-iotd

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GOES-16

January 28

National Resources Defense Council launches "onEarth-Trump V. Earth" to track environmental policy moves of the US president

January 27

Nuclear Issues / Cold War 2.0 -- Strategic Demands, GreenPolicy's associated site, investigates escalating #nuclear #proliferation

http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/

January 26

Climate Mirror: https://climate.daknob.net/

The Climate Mirror Project is working to mirror and safely archive U.S. Govt. websites/datasets related to climate, climate change, and global warming

January 25

Powerpak: 80 MWh Powerpack station from TESLA & Southern California Edison, biggest energy storage project in the world using lithium-ion batteries

Coming online soon -- http://www.utilitydive.com/news/inside-construction-of-the-worlds-largest-lithium-ion-battery-storage-faci/431765/

California Out in Front in a Green Future

January 24

The REINS (Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny) Act of 2017

The 'Most Dangerous Bill You've Never Heard Of Just Passed the House of Representatives'

January 23

Bill McKibben, former GreenPolicy360 advisor, speaks to challenges with Trump as the US president

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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Arctic Warming Eye / Week 3

"THAW" in the Arctic: "It’s almost as if global warming is looking right back at you"

http://mchannelonline.com/2017/01/21/2017-dawns-thaw-arctic/

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic

January 21

"Divisive Times" and the "Overview Effect"

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect

January 20

"Earth Right Now": Far Beyond an Inauguration Day

Earth Right Now

January 19

Environmental Protection Agency confirmation hearings: Does Scott Pruitt believe in the mission of the EPA?

• https://gizmodo.com/scott-pruitts-epa-confirmation-hearing-was-a-surreal-ni-1791337353

• http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-epa-pick-scott-pruitt-renews-climate-1484758778-htmlstory.html

January 18, 2017

US House Science Committee continues down the path of science denial

January 16, 2017

• "Science on trial". Scott Pruitt comes to the Senate for confirmation hearings to head up the Environmental Protection Agency

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Sunday 'Earth Services' - EO / Week 2

About Us in Clearwater, Florida

January 14, 2017

"Being clever". Cities/states/countries confronting the risks of climate change by being out in front with clean energy action

Tags: #EarthScience #PlanetCitizen #Green360 #ClimatePolicy #EnvironmentalProtection #NewDefinitionsofSecurity

January 13, 2017

Skyscrapers in China in 2016 going up, up and up. Count 'em beginning with Shenzhen

January 12, 2017

Alliances at risk, national/global security at risk: President-elect promises to dismiss the international climate agreement

January 11, 2017

Pulling into the local supermarket parking lot, what do I see? An EV i3

January 10, 2017

Smoking killing millions a year, trillions in costs

January 9, 2017

First ongoing study of the Earth's upper atmosphere #EnvironmentalSecurity #Earth360

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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Oahu / Week 1

January 7, 2017

William Perry, 'prophet of doom', warns of nextgen nuclear weapons, proliferation and a new Cold War turning hot

• Visit GreenPolicy's associated site, Strategic Demands

January 6, 2017

NASA Climate Resource Center (and vital national/global security programs the Trump administration is threatening)

January 5, 2017

Offshore Wind Energy starts up on the East Coast of the US (illustrated with vivid images)

January 4, 2017

From the Obama administration's top science advisor, John Holdren, words of caution

January 3, 2017

Cornelia Dean, writer of "Against the Tide" #RisingSeas #ClimateChange

January 2, 2017

Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist at Texas Tech #PlanetCitizen

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