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IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Making history and rewriting the future: Donald Trump declared winner of the U.S. Presidential election. What that means for the environment, energy and the UN climate agreement; PLUS: Environmental measures win and lose on statewide ballots…and 2018 is just two years away… All that and more in today’s Green News Report!
Green News Report
with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen
11/10/2016
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IN ‘GREEN NEWS EXTRA’ (see links below): Santa Monica is creating a low-carbon city only rich people can enjoy; Enviros Sue BNSF To Cover Coal Trains, Prevent Water Pollution; Exxon Widens Climate Battle, May Depose 17 State AGs; Greens Prepare For Battle With Trump; Charges Dropped Against Pair Who Filmed Pipeline Protest… PLUS: Welcome to the Fight… and much, MUCH more! …
STORIES DISCUSSED ON TODAY’S ‘GREEN NEWS REPORT’…
- Donald Trump, climate science denier, declared the winner of U.S. presidential election:
- Trump’s election marks the end of any serious hope of limiting climate change to 2 degrees (David Roberts, Vox):
Widespread suffering and misery from climate change are now effectively inevitable.
- Trump Picks Climate Skeptic For EPA (Daily Beast)
- The Global Dangers of Trump’s Climate Denial (National Geographic)
- Here Is What Donald Trump Wants To Do In His First 100 Days (NPR)
- ‘Trump’s Election Is a Disaster’ (EcoWatch):
My email inbox is stuffed full with reactions from the environmental community and Twitter is on fire. Here are some of those reactions…
- Trump’s election marks the end of any serious hope of limiting climate change to 2 degrees (David Roberts, Vox):
- Hillary Clinton urges Americans to keep up the fight to protect people, planet:
- VIDEO: Hillary Clinton’s concession speech full transcript: 2016 presidential election (Vox)
- Sanders Statement on Trump (Senator Bernie Sanders)
- Environmental measures win & lose on the ballot:
- Florida voters reject utility-backed solar amendment (Climate Progress)
- Washington state rejects carbon tax (Climate Progress)
- Monterey Becomes California’s First Major Oil-Producing County to Ban Fracking (EcoWatch)
- California Voters Saved the First Statewide Plastic Bag Ban (Take Part)
- Colorado Passes Measure Making Fracking Bans Almost Impossible (Daily Caller)
- Food and Ag Related Election Results (Jayson Lusk)
- UN climate negotiators ‘determined’ in spite of Trump win:
- Trump Victory in Presidential Race Stuns Climate World (Inside Climate News)
- Trump Win Will Not Derail Global Climate Effort, Activists Vow (Thompson Reuters Fdn):
Grim-faced activists at U.N. climate negotiations in Morocco pledged on Wednesday that the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president would not derail global action to curb climate change and deal with its worsening consequences.
- AS IT HAPPENED: UN climate talks reaction as Trump wins US presidency (Climate Home)
- VIDEO: 16 Climate Scientists React to Donald Trump’s Victory (Carbon Brief)
- Climate Talks in Morocco Aim to Set Paris Agreement in Motion (Inside Climate News):
It lacks the pizazz of last year’s landmark negotiations, but the talks in Marrakech will help determine whether the world can reach Paris’ goals.
- World On Track For 3C Of Warming Under Current Pledges, Warns UNEP (Guardian UK):
The commitments made by governments on climate change will lead to dangerous levels of global warming because they are incommensurate with the growth of greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said that pledges put forward to cut emissions would see temperatures rise by 3C above pre-industrial levels, far above the the 2C of the Paris climate agreement, which comes into force on Friday.
- WMO: Five hottest years on record have occurred since 2011 (BBC)
‘GREEN NEWS EXTRA’ (Stuff we didn’t have time for in today’s audio report)…
- Welcome to the Fight (The Nation):
If we withdraw into our grief and abandon those most threatened by Trump’s win, history will never forgive us.
- Santa Monica is creating a low-carbon city only rich people can enjoy (Vox):
Without density, urban “greening” is mostly symbolic.
- Enviros Sue BNSF To Cover Coal Trains, Prevent Water Pollution (Seattle Times):
The trial in a lawsuit by a broad coalition of environmental groups seeking to force BNSF to cover its coal-train loads to prevent water pollution began Monday in federal court in Seattle.
- Exxon Widens Climate Battle, May Depose 17 State AGs (Inside Cliamte News):
Court ruling in Texas, company says, opens the opportunity to inquire about the motivations of all states investigating the oil giant for potential climate fraud.
- Greens Prepare For Battle With Trump (The Hill):
Environmental groups are shifting into battle mode, preparing for inevitable policy fights with President-elect Donald Trump, his administration and the next GOP Congress.
- Charges Dropped Against Pair Who Filmed Pipeline Protest (AP):
Prosecutors have dropped charges including burglary and sabotage against two filmmakers who recorded a protest at an oil pipeline in Washington state last month.
- Oklahoma Agency Plans to Shut Disposal Wells After Earthquake (Bloomberg):
Oklahoma’s oil and gas regulator plans to shut some disposal wells and reduce the volume of others as its initial response to Sunday’s earthquake near the oil hub of Cushing.
- When Bats Look for Meals Near Wind Power, Bats Die (NY Times):
Wind power can help the world fight climate change, but it’s not so great for bats.
- Behind Dakota Pipeline Protest: Native American Religious Revival (CS Monitor):
The protests are about water, fossil fuels, and questions of tribal sovereignty. But beneath all that, tribes from across the US say they’re unifying around revitalized Indian traditions and religion.
- Regulators: Dakota Pipeline Co. Failed To Disclose Native Artifacts (Guardian UK):
North Dakota regulators accuse company of failing to disclose the discovery of Native American symbolic stones on a site where construction was planned.
- No country on Earth is taking the 2 degree climate target seriously (Vox):
If we mean what we say, no more new fossil fuels, anywhere.
FOR MORE on Climate Science and Climate Change, go to our Green News Report: Essential Background Page
As climate change fraud is fully exposed it will be painful for some.
I saw Lord Christopher Monckton did some nice math debunking that I have yet to see anyone here respond to.
Lord Christopher Monckton
http://www.lordmoncktonfoundation.com/home
this the video in question with the math formula errors being exposed. Gonna have to dig if you want the papers he holds in his hand. But from an electronics standpoint this thing looks bad for the people asking me to buy into climate change and give all my rights up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58MEotH79rg
Very Kind thanks be to you if you already have responded to issue, might put up the link back up to said response since I don’t SEE it.
Until then, I say there is a problem with the foundation of this “settled science”, when both sides of an equal sign are not equal.
so Lord Christopher Monckton found SEVERAL algebraic equation errors in the Climate Science Math. This pretty much goes hand in hand with the problem that what they expected has not happened actually out in the field in real life. I can see running this past the senate with some crunching down to 8th grade level and boom this will be going away like a squash plant after first frost leaving an goopy brown husk.
I have yet to see anyone speak on this here
These are errors on the root of the math equations of the CLIMATE SCIENCE and based on my knowledge in math alone I agree.
I welcome a show on it, debunk it.
Till then,
I will be boycotting anyone that supports such criminal fraud, and that’s going to be a big list, maybe you could help explain how big of a list we are talking about? Really it would be cool to just know who supports the fraud math? I am not judging, it’s strictly the way I am going forward. Those that believe in fraud math vs those who do not. not a hard choice there.
Broken Spell, your anti-science arguments are hilariously outdated and were debunked years ago. We don’t waste time with climate science deniers anymore because it’s boring. You guys bring up the same retread arguments over and over and over again.
It is clear that you are the one who believes in ‘fraud math’ because you place more credibility on the ravings of a non-scientist, non-mathemetician rather than the peer-reviewed studies of tens of thousands of scientists over the last 150 years.
Boycott whomever you like. No one is fooled by your transparent attempt to peddle disinformation. If you have any interest in real science, educate yourself at SkepticalScience.com.
BROKENSPELL @ #1 says:
Really it would be cool to just know who supports the fraud math? I am not judging, it’s strictly the way I am going forward. Those that believe in fraud math vs those who do not. not a hard choice there.
Well, when you put it that way, how can I say I believe in “fraud math?” I proclaim the argument is hereby resolved!
But seriously, in the world of climatology, “Lord” Monckton is widely regarded as a pseudo-scientific buffoon. A fraud. Throwing in with the likes of Monckton tells me you aren’t interested in science at all. You’re only looking for some nefarious political machination, the puppeteers behind climate science.
Yes, Christopher Monckton is a fraud, liar, misrepresenter, a snake oil salesman posing as a learned intellectual. I refer to him as global warming’s answer to Bill Krystal, the chief architect of neoconservatism. And like Bill Krystal, Monckton’s 99% wrong about everything. Am I clear? Yes, you hitching your wagon to Monckton tells me you can’t help yourself–there’s a conspiracy under every rock. “It’s there, I just know it!”
Let’s discover the amazingly error-riddled and dishonest world of “Lord” Monckton:
Check out this PDF of Monckton quotes versus the scientists who in their own words explain how Monckton misrepresents their research.
For a comprehensive rebuttal of many of Christopher Monckton’s arguments, check out this presentation by Professor John Abraham.
Favourite climate myths by Christopher Monckton
Lord Monckton’s Rap Sheet
The Church of Monckton
Over on Lord Monckton’s Rap Sheet, I showed quite clearly that Christopher Monckton is not the most”¦ reliable source of information. Usually he would be the kind of person one would politely ignore, but I decided to publicly document his antics because he is constantly being touted as an expert on (what’s wrong with) climate science by some very powerful politicians and media personalities, foundations, and even by a few scientists (who almost invariably are not climate specialists.) The purpose of this page is to document who the politicians, media personalities, foundations, and scientists are, who have treated Monckton as if he were a credible source of information about climate science.
Christopher Monckton is a fraud and he’s good at getting people like you, people who can’t see what’s in front of their eyes, people who prefer to look for the ulterior motive in the most unlikely of places.
What Desi and Jim said.
BrokenSpell has chosen his trances carelessly (Choose Your Trances Carefully).
As a member of Oil-Qaeda, his attitude endangers robust seaports, which are economically unreproducible organs of commerce (The Extinction of Robust Sea Ports – 9).
The smoke and fumes clogging Oil-Qaeda’s heart and mind (Smoke & Fumes).
BrokenSpell,
You are anti-military (Military On Climate Change).
NPR and other commercial media are reporting extensively on the earthquakes and devastation on both the north and south islands of New Zealand. However, there is never a mention of the vast amount of fracking in this immediate area that has been ongoing for 30 years. This is the perfect laboratory for discussion of the connection between fracking and earthquakes, but there is never a report – maybe Green News could amend that.