[GWSG] 2071; Mulkey: Now What?; dropped pages; Censored; value of solar; no zero; misaligned species; Caribbean orgs.

[Tilley, Al]

1.  British climate scientist Chris Rapley is presenting 2071, a play about what the earth will be like when his granddaughter is his age if we do not act to control climate disruption.  His argument is that we should justify expenditures on renewable energy as insurance.  http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/01/royal-court-play-2071-global-warming

2.  Stephen Mulkey shares his thoughts on the prospect which now presents itself to us:  So Now What?  An Open Letter to the Environmental Community After the Midterm Elections 2014.  http://sustainabilitymonitor.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/so-now-what-an-open-letter-to-the-environmental-community-after-the-midterm-elections-2014/

3.  Two pages dropped from the IPCC synthesis report would have addressed the carbon budget and the time remaining before it is exhausted—twenty to thirty years at current usage rates.  One difficulty with the excised material was its mention of the 2° target set by the 2009 Copenhagen Accord.  Many scientists maintain that it must be reset to 1.5°; the issue is due to be resolved next year.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/04/why-two-crucial-pages-were-left-out-of-the-latest-u-n-climate-report/

4.  Project Censored has picked ocean acidification as the most ignored story among the US press.  The connection between extreme weather and climate disruption was number eight.  http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-9445-project-censored.html

5.  Calculating the value of solar power is essential to planning but badly needs standardization.  Minnesota is the first state to set conditions for valuation. http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Theres-Still-No-Consistent-Way-to-Value-Solar-on-the-Grid?utm_source=Daily&utm_medium=Headline&utm_campaign=GTMDaily

6.   Poland, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Latvia oppose the IPCC’s goal of zero emissions by 2100, preventing the EU from adopting it.  http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/07/poland-rejects-ipcc-target-of-zero-emissions-by-2100

7.  Species which depend on one another for such necessities as pollination and food can be thrown out of sync by climate change.  http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-bees-pollination-18292?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed

8.  Community groups in the Caribbean are organizing against the impacts of climate disruption by promoting such sustainable practices as water harvesting and household gardens.  They are said to take “a more integrated approach than any other part of the world.”   http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/08/responding-climate-change-grassroots
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