[GWSG] Civil disobedience?; sub-gvts. active; consensus estimates; shy Trump; henhouse fox; NC suspicions; utilities sidestepped

[Tilley, Al]

1. George Monbiot makes the case that nonviolent disobedience is the only way left to bring about effective climate action—and his subject is not the US but governments in general. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/18/governments-no-longer-trusted-climate-change-citizens-revolt
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As the fracking protesters show, a people’s rebellion is ...<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/18/governments-no-longer-trusted-climate-change-citizens-revolt>
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In Australia, the new prime minister, Scott Morrison, has turned coal burning into a sacred doctrine.I would not be surprised if the only lump of coal he has ever handled is the one he flourished ...



2. Local, regional, and state governments are typically taking a more aggressive role in climate action than is the central US government.  The Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact, for example: “I’m a Republican,” Chip LaMarca, a Broward County commissioner, said at the conference. “And if you don’t believe in climate change, you don’t know what the hell is going on.” https://www.theinvadingsea.com/2017/12/19/counties-and-now-some-businesses-focusing-on-climate-threat/
[https://www.theinvadingsea.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Palm-Beach-County-Mayor-Melissa-McKinlay.jpg]<https://www.theinvadingsea.com/2017/12/19/counties-and-now-some-businesses-focusing-on-climate-threat/>

Counties, and now some businesses, focusing on climate threat | The Invading Sea<https://www.theinvadingsea.com/2017/12/19/counties-and-now-some-businesses-focusing-on-climate-threat/>
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In a state where the governor is famous for reportedly banishing the words “climate change” from state employees’ vocabularies, you might think that no one is preparing for a world where sea levels are rising. A rise that poses a vital threat to that very same low-lying coastal state. You’d be surprised. For the last …



3. Americans greatly underestimate the 97% scientific consensus on climate, from the dismissive who estimate 44% in agreement to an estimate of 84% among the alarmed. 75% of the disengaged responded that they could not estimate the figure. https://mailchi.mp/yale/latinos-and-global-warmings-six-americas-2621541?e=4dee1d8b35

4. The Trump administration is moving to prevent public knowledge of its deliberations on endangered species. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/18/trump-administration-us-endangered-species-discussions-secret
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Revealed: US moves to keep endangered species discussions ...<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/18/trump-administration-us-endangered-species-discussions-secret>
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The Trump administration is moving to restrict the release of information about its decisions on endangered species, according to a confidential internal document obtained by the Guardian. It ...



5. A lawyer who has been dedicated to defending private encroachment on public lands has been appointed the deputy solicitor at the Interior Department. (Just below that story, you will read that Trump has a natural instinct for science and does not require further advice.) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2018/10/17/the-energy-202-outspoken-critic-of-federal-land-policy-will-now-help-oversee-it-in-trump-administration/5bc617b21b326b7c8a8d1a02/?utm_term=.6bca1ab6158d
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/pbox.php?url=https://palomaimages.washingtonpost.com/pr2/213049e0751e292ef15f14f1b45d59b8-3000-2250-70-8-AP_17330711933218.jpg&w=250&op=resize&opt=1&filter=antialias&t=20170517]<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2018/10/17/the-energy-202-outspoken-critic-of-federal-land-policy-will-now-help-oversee-it-in-trump-administration/5bc617b21b326b7c8a8d1a02/?utm_term=.6bca1ab6158d>

Analysis | The Energy 202: Outspoken critic of federal land policy will now help oversee it in Trump administration<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2018/10/17/the-energy-202-outspoken-critic-of-federal-land-policy-will-now-help-oversee-it-in-trump-administration/5bc617b21b326b7c8a8d1a02/?utm_term=.6bca1ab6158d>
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Karen Budd-Falen will help write legal opinions about land policy.



6. Hurricanes are leading some North Carolina Republicans to suspect that global warming might be a real thing. (It’s still a minority position.) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-north-carolina-hurricanes-do-what-scientists-could-not-persuade-republicans-that-climate-change-is-real/2018/10/17/45136c56-d0ac-11e8-8c22-fa2ef74bd6d6_story.html?utm_term=.c7d14f61ee67
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In North Carolina, hurricanes did what scientists could ...<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-north-carolina-hurricanes-do-what-scientists-could-not-persuade-republicans-that-climate-change-is-real/2018/10/17/45136c56-d0ac-11e8-8c22-fa2ef74bd6d6_story.html?utm_term=.c7d14f61ee67>
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WILMINGTON, N.C. — It took a giant laurel oak puncturing her roof during Hurricane Florence last month for Margie White to consider that perhaps there was some truth to all the alarm bells over ...



7. The Australian government is implementing a Rocky Mountain Institute plan to support five gigawatts of wind and solar power by 2030 outside of utilities through direct power purchase agreements by private companies and local councils. https://cleantechnica.com/2018/10/18/australian-renewable-energy-agency-invests-in-5-gigawatt-wind-solar-push/
[https://cleantechnica.com/files/2014/02/Australian-Wind-Farm.jpg]<https://cleantechnica.com/2018/10/18/australian-renewable-energy-agency-invests-in-5-gigawatt-wind-solar-push/>

Australian Renewable Energy Agency Invests In 5 Gigawatt ...<https://cleantechnica.com/2018/10/18/australian-renewable-energy-agency-invests-in-5-gigawatt-wind-solar-push/>
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The Australian Renewable Energy Agency announced this week that it will invest in the country's first Business Renewables Centre which will aim to help businesses and local governments procure 1 ...



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