ALEC Works to Scuttle Global Climate Agreement

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In Paris, 120 world leaders are meeting under the auspices of the United Nations in an urgent effort to prevent catastrophic climate change, which threatens the lives and livelihoods of millions around the globe.

In Arizona, global fossil fuel companies and giant utility firms will go behind closed doors with American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) politicians in a continued effort to derail any global agreement with state lawsuits designed to sink President Obama’s Clean Power Plan with cement boots.”  www.truth-out.org

GR:  Serving special interests focused on profits for a few and the rest be damned, ALEC can no longer be trusted to serve as a government resource. Administrators and managers should all be aware of the biases that control this once valuable organization.

The Devastating Link Between Wildfire and Sprawl

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“On Tuesday at COP21, the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, global leaders are talking about forests, and how to protect and restore the world’s remaining wooded lands. The focus is primarily on halting global deforestation, which comes largely from industries like logging, agriculture, and ranching. But officials would be wise to keep in mind that deforestation is also occurring as a result of suburban housing development.”  From: www.citylab.com

GR:  Unfortunately, housing development in the U. S. is in the hands of local zoning authorities. Since building houses is a profitable business, it is not reasonable to assume that the locals can prevent continued sprawl into patented and deeded land.

It is interesting that urban-sprawl areas aren’t like closed-canopy or continuous forests yet they burn anyway. This raises real doubts about the efficacy of thinning and let-it-burn policies.

It is important to keep in mind that the real loss is not the burned houses; it is the loss of soil and vegetation destroyed during construction. People and houses are increasing, but wild animals and the natural habitats they need are declining.

U. S. leaders must grow the courage to insist that local zoning authorities force developers to build high-rise clustered housing and save the land for wildlife.  This reduces deforestation and protects biodiversity.

World leaders outline forest vision at climate change talks

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“World leaders at the climate summit today presented a joint statement in support of new partnerships for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions from deforestation while promoting forest restoration and sustainable rural development.”   wwf.panda.org

GR:  Until we achieve effective population control, deforestation will continue.

Partnerships, Progress to Protect & Restore Forest

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“Leaders in the global drive to protect and restore forests met on Tuesday to announce a new focus on implementing partnerships with additional resources to ensure healthy forests and the sustainable farming and livelihoods that depend on them.”   newsroom.unfccc.int

GR:  Until we achieve effective population control, deforestation will continue.

New Platform Reveals How Much Carbon is Locked in Tropical Forests – and How Much Was Lost « Global Forest Watch

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“Between 2001 and 2013, greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation across the world’s tropical forests were, on average, larger than Russia’s economy-wide emissions in 2012. That’s 2,270 million metric tons (Mt) of carbon dioxide every year.

“Emissions from tropical deforestation have significant implications for implementation of the new national climate plans (INDCs), as well as international initiatives like the New York Declaration on Forests, whose signatories aim to cut global deforestation in half by 2020.”  blog.globalforestwatch.org

Great graphics!

 

Paris Climate Conference ‘At the Limits of Suicide,’ Commitments Nowhere Near Enough to Miss 2 C

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It must be the disinformation team; never in my knowledge has everyone remained so indifferent to an impending disaster. How can we pull Congress out of it’s a** and get some help with this?

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We have a serious global problem. If we continue burning fossil fuels as we are, and if the fossil fuel industry continues to grow along its projected path, the world will see a catastrophic rate of warming between 3 and 7 degrees Celsius above 1880s values by the end of this Century. So much warming would likely mean a very bad end. A bad end for much of global civilization as we know it. A bad end for many of the innocent living creatures who inhabit our world. And a bad end for many of our children — those now being born today who will face the climate troubles we are locking in.

As the Pope succinctly noted in a recent statement seen here in Rueters:

“I am not sure, but I can say to you ‘now or never.’ Every year the problems are getting worse. We are at…

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bernie sanders | climate change quote

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Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) on Wednesday explained that Al Gore and the United Nations get most of the blame for what he called a global warming “hoax,” but …

GR:  Sanders lays it on the line.

Doomsday revisited: will warming deprive us of oxygen?

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“Global warming has triggered an array of apocalyptic scenarios for future generations, from worsening drought, storms and floods to melted icesheets and rising seas.”  From: phys.org

GR:  According to the article, greenhouse emissions continuing without reduction or a sudden release of methane could eliminate the phytoplankton that produces most of our oxygen. Curtains.

Brazil’s Great Amazon Rainforest Burns as Parched Megacities Fall Under Existential Threat

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“One need only look at today’s satellite image of Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest to notice something’s terribly wrong. A vast 1,000 mile swath of what should be some of the wettest lands on the globe running south of the world’s largest river is covered by a dense pall of smoke. Scores of plumes boil up out of the burning and sweltering forest. Pumping dark clouds into the sky, the fires’ tell-tale streaks out over a drought-parched Brazil, across the Atlantic, and over to Africa where the plume is again thickened by yet more wildfires.”  From: robertscribbler.com

GR:  AFTER THE FIRES:  Lightning-caused or human-caused forest fires destroy natural ecosystems when these occur:

  1. Soil-damaging land use (farming, grazing, recreation) begins immediately after the fire
  2. New fires occur before the original vegetation has time to recover
  3. Invasive plants are introduced
  4. OR, climate has changed to a regime more suited to a different vegetation (grassland or shrubland)

Any of these might lead to more or less permanent decline in biodiversity, productivity, and stability.  Combinations of two or more are highly likely to cause permanent decline.  (#desertification, #fire, #vegetation-change, and see:  https://garryrogers.com/?s=Fire&submit=Search).

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