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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Trump White House to investigate U.S. military assessment that global warming is a national security threat; India to curtail water to Pakistan; Iceberg twice the size of Manhattan set to break off Antarctica; PLUS: Kids around the world are protesting and striking for action on climate change... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): The hard lessons of Dianne Feinstein's encounter with the young Green New Deal activists; If climate change makes the clouds disappear, we're screwed; Today's Earth looks a lot like it did 115,000 years ago, except for the massive sea level rise; The New Black? The making of the "Green" stereotype; Hurricanes are strengthening faster in the Atlantic, and climate change is a big reason why; Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard'; Coal plant crisis in South Africa raises concerns about stranded assets; Plastics: The New Coal in Appalachia?... PLUS: Consumers' use of toilet paper wiping out habitat, heating planet, report says... and much, MUCH more! ...

STORIES DISCUSSED ON TODAY'S 'GREEN NEWS REPORT'...

• NASA: iceberg twice the size of NYC about to break off of Antarctica:
• An iceberg twice the size of New York City is about to break off of Antarctica (Washington Post):
  
  A chasm and a crack on the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica are creeping closer and closer to one another, and when the two finally meet, a slab of ice twice the size of New York City will break away and float out to sea...Its size is not what makes it noteworthy - it's what the break itself says about the natural process of iceberg calving, the way climate change might be destabilizing ice shelves similar to the Brunt, and how the movement could jeopardize the critical scientific research human residents have conducted there for more than 60 years.
• An Iceberg Twice the Size of NYC Could Soon Break Off Antarctica (Live Science):
  
  Depending on where the cracks merge, the stability of the entire shelf could be jeopardized, Joe MacGregor, a glaciologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, told Earth Observatory.
• White House panel to scrutize US military's threat assessment on climate change:
• White House prepares to scrutinize intelligence agencies' finding that climate change threatens national security (Washington Post):
  
  The initiative represents the Trump administration's most recent attempt to question the findings of federal scientists and experts on climate change and comes less than three weeks after Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats delivered a worldwide threat assessment that identified it as a significant security risk.
• VIDEO: Climate Denier William Happer: CO2 is Just Like Jews (Climate Crocks)
• VIDEO: Princeton's William Happer explains why CO2 is no pollutant (John Locke Institute)
• Trump's New Climate Czar: Carbon Dioxide Has Been Treated Just Like "Jews Under Hitler" (Vanity Fair):
  
  William Happer, who is spearheading a proposed White House panel on climate change, believes CO2 "has undergone decade after decade of abuse, for no reason."
• Does Rising CO2 Benefit Plants? (Scientific American):
  
  Climate change's negative effects on plants will likely outweigh any gains from elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.
• The great nutrient collapse: The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat, for the worse. And almost nobody is paying attention. (Politico)
• Yes, climate change is an threat to international and national security:
• Climate change an 'imminent' security threat, risk experts say (Reuters):
  
  The threat of worsening violence related to climate change also extends to countries and regions not currently thought of as insecurity hot spots, climate and security analysts at the conference warned.
• U.S. Intelligence Officials Warn Climate Change Is a Worldwide Threat (Inside Climate News)
• Chronology of U.S. Military Statements and Actions on Climate Change and Security: 2017-2019 (Center for Climate and Security)
• The global threat of climate change and its effects on our local military (WECT-Wilmington, NC)
• India announces it will curtail water to Pakistan:
• India Threatens a New Weapon Against Pakistan: Water (NY Times):
  
  India vowed Thursday to cut back on water flowing through its rivers to arid Pakistan, a threat it has made before but now seems more determined to carry out in the wake of a suicide bomb attack last week for which India has blamed Pakistan.
• India to cut water to Pakistan as Kashmir conflict escalates (Deustche-Welle News):
  
  Most of Kashmir, located in the Himalayas, is split between Pakistan and India, with both sides also claiming the right to the other's portion. The first full-blown insurrection in the region erupted in 1989, with insurgents demanding independence or unification with Pakistan. Both issues, water and borders, have been the cause of war between the nuclear neighbors in the past. They have gone to war twice over Kashmir and have been engaged in talks over water rights for decades.
• VIDEO: India to block Kashmir water supply from Pakistan (Al Jazeera English):
  
  India has stepped up its response against Pakistan, a week after an attack in Indian-administered Kashmir that killed 40 members of their security forces. A senior minister has announced that New Delhi will block the flow of its share of water from rivers originating in the disputed region into Pakistan.
• India reiterates plan to stop sharing water with Pakistan (Al Jazeera English):
  
  New Delhi's move to halt water flows to Pakistan is to pressure its neighbour after a militant attack in Kashmir.
• Balakot: Pakistan vows to respond after Indian 'air strikes' (BBC)
• #FridaysForFuture: School Strikes for climate action gain momentum around the world:
• Global #ClimateStrike: March 15 - Join us! (School Strike 4 Climate)
• Playing hooky to save the climate: why students are going on strike (Vox):
  
  Greta Thunberg's #FridaysforFuture movement has inspired kids in dozens of countries to demand action on climate change.
• How a 7th-grader's strike against climate change exploded into a movement (Washington Post)
• Climate strike: thousands of students take to UK streets in call to stop global warming - as it happened (Guardian UK)
• VIDEO: School strike against climate change in London (BBC)
• VIDEO: Students, teachers will be punished if they leave school for climate rallies: Rob Stokes (Sky News Australia)
• VIDEO: Theresa May criticises pupils missing school to protest over climate change (Sky News UK):
  
  As thousands walk out of classes, Downing Street says their absence "increases teachers' workloads and wastes lesson time".
• VIDEO: Students, teachers will be punished if they leave school for climate rallies: Rob Stokes (Sky News Australia)
• VIDEO: Greta Thunberg to politicians: 'We're fighting for everyone's future' (Guardian UK)
• Thousands of Kiwi school students join global 'school strike for climate' (NZ Herald)
• The Hard Lessons of Dianne Feinstein's Encounter with the Young Green New Deal Activists (The New Yorker) [emphasis added]:
  
  The irony is that, when Feinstein said she's been "doing this for thirty years," she described the precise time period during which we could have acted...If we'd moved thirty years ago, moderate steps of the kind that Feinstein proposes would have been enough to change our trajectory. But that didn't get done, in large part because oil and gas companies that have successfully gamed our political system didn't want it to get done. And the legislators didn't do anywhere near enough to fight them. So now we're on the precipice.
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'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (Stuff we didn't have time for in today's audio report)...

For a comprehensive roundup of daily environmental news you can trust, see the Society of Environmental Journalists' Daily Headlines page

• The Hard Lessons of Dianne Feinstein's Encounter with the Young Green New Deal Activists (The New Yorker)
• If climate change makes the clouds disappear, we're screwed (Grist)
• Today's Earth looks a lot like it did 115,000 years ago. All we're missing is massive sea level rise. (Washington Post)
• The New Black? The Making of the "Green" Stereotype (Climate Crocks)
• Hurricanes are strengthening faster in the Atlantic, and climate change is a big reason why, scientists say (Washington Post)
• Judge OKs settlement from nation’s largest natural gas leak (AP)
• Consumers' use of toilet paper wiping out habitat, heating planet, report says (Reuters)
• Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard': scientists (Reuters)
• The strongest February typhoon on record packs 180 mph gusts, sideswiping Guam (Washington Post)
• The Green New Deal doesn’t need to choose between planes or trains. Here’s why. (Climate Progress)
• Plastics: The New Coal in Appalachia? (Inside Climate News)
• Coal plant crisis in South Africa raises concerns about stranded assets (Axios)
• Time to Panic: The planet is getting warmer in catastrophic ways. And fear may be the only thing that saves us. (David Wallace-Wells op-ed, NY Times)
• SEJ Backgrounder: Green New Deal Proposes Sweeping Economic Transformation (Society of Environmental Journalists)
• Explainer: The 'Green New Deal': Mobilizing for a just, prosperous, and sustainable economy (New Consensus)
• Fourth National Climate Assessment, Vol. 2: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States [PDF] (U.S. Global Change Research Program)
• What genuine, no-bullshit ambition on climate change would look like: How to hit the most stringent targets, with no loopholes. (David Roberts, Vox)
• A Global Shift To Sustainability Would Save Us $26 Trillion (Vox)
• Project Drawdown: 100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming (Drawdown.org)
• An Optimist's Guide to Solving Climate Change and Saving the World (Vice)
• The great nutrient collapse: The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat, for the worse. And almost nobody is paying attention. (Politico)
• The world's bleak climate situation, in 3 charts: We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there. (Vox)
• The Climate Risks We Face (NY Times):
  
  To stabilize global temperature, net carbon dioxide emissions must be reduced to zero. The window of time is rapidly closing to reduce emissions and limit warming to no more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit or 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, the goal set in the Paris climate accord. The further we push the climate system beyond historical conditions, the greater the risks of potentially unforeseen and even catastrophic changes to the climate - so every reduction in emissions helps.
• The Uninhabitable Earth: When will climate change make earth too hot for humans? (New York Magazine):
  
  Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak - sooner than you think.
• A beginner's guide to the debate over 100% renewable energy (Vox):
  
  Clean-energy enthusiasts frequently claim that we can go bigger, that it's possible for the whole world to run on renewables - we merely lack the "political will." So, is it true? Do we know how get to an all-renewables system? Not yet. Not really.

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• NASA Video: If we don't act, here's what to expect in the next 100 years:
• NASA climate change video: This is the U.S. in 2100 (NASA).






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