[GWSG] Falter; PBS on Ant.; Chicago pledges 100%; C tax argument; looters' tactics; Rich's backtalk; potatoes & power too; children's signs

Sat Apr 13 09:48:48 EDT 2019

1. How bad has it gotten, and how bad might it get? Bill McKibben’s new book Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? undertakes to answer. Rolling Stone provides an excerpt. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/bill-mckibben-falter-climate-change-817310/?fbclid=IwAR3kcTeT459goV7M--SzoQ7IfxSLXKiiGXF1nrOQHoA7JqkwJiMHdE7wbrw
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Bill McKibben Book ‘Falter’ Details Possibility of Human Extinction – Rolling Stone<https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/bill-mckibben-falter-climate-change-817310/?fbclid=IwAR3kcTeT459goV7M--SzoQ7IfxSLXKiiGXF1nrOQHoA7JqkwJiMHdE7wbrw>
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A 2017 study in Australia, home to some of the world’s highest-tech farming, found that “wheat productivity has flatlined as a direct result of climate change.”After tripling between 1900 ...

2. A 10-minute segment of the PBS News Hour profiles research into the Antarctic’s contributions to sea level rise. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/antarctica-is-losing-ice-at-an-accelerating-rate-how-much-will-sea-levels-rise
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Antarctica is losing ice at an accelerating rate. How much will sea levels rise?<https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/antarctica-is-losing-ice-at-an-accelerating-rate-how-much-will-sea-levels-rise>
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The frozen continent of Antarctica contains the vast majority of all freshwater on Earth. Now that ice is melting at an accelerating rate, in part because of climate change. What does this transformation mean for coastal communities across the globe? William Brangham reports from Antarctica on the troubling trend of ice loss and how glaciers ...

3. Chicago is the latest and largest US city to commit to 100% renewable energy by 2040. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/10/monumental-chicago-commits-100-renewable-energy-2040
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'Monumental': Chicago Commits to 100% Renewable Energy by 2040 - commondreams.org<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/10/monumental-chicago-commits-100-renewable-energy-2040>
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According to the Sierra Club, the city council unanimously passed a resolution that commits the city to 100 percent renewable energy in buildings by 2035 and electrification of the city's bus fleet by 2040.. The nonbinding resolution, backed by the Ready For 100 Chicago Collective, points to the kind of extreme weather including catastrophic flooding the region is already experiencing.

4. The Green New Deal does not include a carbon tax. In the NY Times, David Leonhardt provides a partial explanation of the strategy. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/09/magazine/climate-change-politics-economics.html?em_pos=large&emc=edit_ma_20190412&nl=magazine&nlid=43628374edit_ma_20190412&ref=headline&te=1
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The Problem With Putting a Price on the End of the World<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/09/magazine/climate-change-politics-economics.html?em_pos=large&emc=edit_ma_20190412&nl=magazine&nlid=43628374edit_ma_20190412&ref=headline&te=1>
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Economists have workable policy ideas for addressing climate change. But what if they’re politically impossible?

Among other emendations, I would include the observation that a climate solution presupposes the support of a community, which we now need to rebuild after the depredations of the market anarchists. The reconstructive, equity restoration, and social justice provisions of the Green New Deal are likely to be necessary preconditions of effective climate action in the US.

5. Many wealthy players are reacting to climate change by stepping up the looter’s tactics already implicit in the carbon economy. Some lie to themselves in the process, but most, like Rex Tillerson, do not bother. Others predict a bursting of the carbon bubble, with severe consequences. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/11/magazine/climate-change-exxon-renewable-energy.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_ma_20190412&nl=magazine&nl_art=2&nlid=43628374emc%3Dedit_ma_20190412&ref=headline&te=1
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How Big Business Is Hedging Against the Apocalypse<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/11/magazine/climate-change-exxon-renewable-energy.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_ma_20190412&nl=magazine&nl_art=2&nlid=43628374emc%3Dedit_ma_20190412&ref=headline&te=1>
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Investors are finally paying attention to climate change — though not in the way you might hope.

5. The NY Times Magazine provides links at the bottom of the previous item to other stories in this special issue. I recommend Nathaniel Rich, The Next Reckoning: Capitalism and Climate Change. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/09/magazine/climate-change-capitalism.html  After that you might revisit McKibben in item one.
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The Next Reckoning: Capitalism and Climate Change - The New York Times<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/09/magazine/climate-change-capitalism.html>
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The world’s most difficult problem has a solution so simple that it can be expressed in four words: Stop burning greenhouse gases. How exactly to pull this off is somewhat more complicated ...

6. Using a field for both solar power and potatoes was 186% more efficient than using it for either alone in a German study last year. The shade helped the soil retain moisture so that the potato production actually increased with partial solar cover. https://cleantechnica.com/2019/04/12/fraunhofer-reports-combining-farming-with-solar-186-more-efficient-in-summer-of-2018/?utm_source=CleanTechnica+News&utm_campaign=08f355e511-Daily+Email+CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b9b83ee7eb-08f355e511-331994013
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Fraunhofer Reports Combining Farming With Solar 186% More Efficient In Summer Of 2018 | CleanTechnica<https://cleantechnica.com/2019/04/12/fraunhofer-reports-combining-farming-with-solar-186-more-efficient-in-summer-of-2018/?utm_source=CleanTechnica+News&utm_campaign=08f355e511-Daily+Email+CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b9b83ee7eb-08f355e511-331994013>
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Frauhofer ISE's experimental agrophotovoltaic farm in Germany was 186% more efficient during the hot, dry summer of 2018 than the land would have been if it was devoted solely to agriculture or ...

7. Students struck internationally for climate change on Friday.  Their signs ranged from clever to heartbreaking. https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2019/apr/12/student-climate-change-protests-best-of-the-banners-in-pictures
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Student climate change protests: best of the banners - in pictures | Media | The Guardian<https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2019/apr/12/student-climate-change-protests-best-of-the-banners-in-pictures>
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Student climate change protests: best of the banners - in pictures Students take part in a strike for climate change as part of the YouthStrike4Climate movement in Canterbury, Kent, as protests ...

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