<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Ryan Fortune</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryan.fortune2012@gmail.com">ryan.fortune2012@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 1:23 PM<br>Subject: US President Rants About Windmills and Birds While Planet Slides Towards Calamity (Jack Holmes, Esquire)<br>To: <<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>
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<div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">By <a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=9fd74a7f8d&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Jack Holmes</a> <br>
<a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=f354bc83cf&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Esquire</a><br>
<em>21 August 2018</em></span></span></div>
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<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">Perhaps the summer of 2018 will be remembered as the one that foretold the cataclysm. Maybe the cataclysm has already arrived. Nearly every day, </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=db13e7d9a4&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">there is some new bulletin</a> <span style="color:#ffffff">about a raging wildfire or a ferocious typhoon or a biblical flood.</span> <span style="color:#ffffff">Often, it's buried by news of a Presidential Porn Star Payoff, or a tape from Omarosa.<br>
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But it's still happening.</span><br>
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<span style="color:#ffffff">The American West is still on fire, even if we refuse to pay attention — except when the president is</span> <a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=cf6c5c592a&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">doling out moronic advice on how to deal with it</a>.<br>
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<span style="color:#ffffff">Large portions of Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent spent the summer drowning in floodwater. Greece, too, spent the month of July on fire. Europe fried in a heatwave, as</span> <a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=262511abcb&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">portions of the British Isles recorded their highest-ever June temperatures</a>, <span style="color:#ffffff">Sweden had its hottest July in 260 years, and</span> <a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=bcb305ee6f&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">the temperature in Siberia ticked up to 90 degrees</a>.<br>
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<span style="color:#ffffff">It's in that vein that Tuesday's news arrives, a startling report in </span><em><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=5b3fe40d67&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#daa520">The Guardian</span></a><span style="color:#daa520"> </span></em><span style="color:#ffffff">that even the portion of Arctic ice that scientists have long thought the most secure has already begun to falter:</span><br>
<strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000">The oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has started to break up, opening waters north of Greenland that are normally frozen, even in summer. This phenomenon – which has never been recorded before – has occurred twice this year due to warm winds and a </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=d881a130c8&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ff0000">climate-change driven</span></a><span style="color:#ff0000"> heatwave in the northern hemisphere ... The sea off the north coast of Greenland is normally so frozen that it was referred to, until recently, as “the last ice area” because it was assumed that this would be the final northern holdout against the melting effects of a hotter planet.</span></em></strong><br>
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<span style="color:#ffffff">While the most immediate worry around melting ice is rising sea levels that will endanger coastal communities, there's growing concern among scientists that it will also fuel feedback loops that accelerate warming. For instance, ice is lightly colored and reflective. But as it melts, it reveals the darker-colored land or ocean water below. </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=eb0ce32c57&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Those surfaces will absorb more heat</a>, <span style="color:#ffffff">accelerating the rate at which nearby ice melts and sea levels rise. </span><br>
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<span style="color:#ffffff">As the permafrost melts in Siberia and elsewhere, it will release methane — a gas that does not linger as long in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=5f001abbe8&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">but is about 30 times more powerful in trapping heat</a>.<br>
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<span style="color:#ffffff">Scientists are also increasingly worried that </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=fd4d8dce01&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">warming global temperatures are eroding the polar vortex</a>, <span style="color:#ffffff">the wind system that keeps the Arctic frozen.<br>
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The Gulf Stream, a </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=282f40fcc9&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">warm current in the Atlantic that</a> <span style="color:#ffffff">"has played an important part in abrupt climate change in the past," is at its weakest level in 1,600 years due to melting ice and warming ocean temperatures.</span><br>
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<span style="color:#ffffff">All this could push our planet towards what's called a "hothouse state," where feedback loops are sufficiently powerful that human attempts to reduce emissions and scale back warming may be essentially futile.<br>
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It is a point of no return.</span><br>
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<span style="color:#ffffff">So where, in this summer of emerging doom, does the world's most powerful country find itself? Well, to start with, its president offered his thoughts on windmills and "clean coal" last week:</span><br>
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<a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=7e025cfb0a&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><img height="303" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312/images/9465fa20-8c0f-4c44-a833-6ac3fa718d39.jpg" style="border:0px;width:400px;height:303px;margin:0px;outline:none;text-decoration:none" width="400"></a><br>
<strong><u><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=b1d5a0f590&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Daniel Dale</a></u></strong><br>
<u><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=5c63a6b02b&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">✔@ddale8</a> </u><br>
<span style="color:#ffffff">We seem to have gotten used to the idea that the President of the United States is a world-historical clown whose worldview is rooted in fragments of reality he internalized decades ago and now filters through the kaleidoscope of his severely limited reasoning faculties. He is an emblem of arrogant stupidity, a case study in the essentially destructive quality of stubborn anti-intellectualism that pervades American life.</span><br>
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<span style="color:#ffffff">There is an</span> <a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=e28d4c287b&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">emerging genre</a> <span style="color:#ffffff">of </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=18a024481a&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">journalism</a> <span style="color:#ffffff">just trying to parse what the hell Donald Trump said in this one instance. It appears to be a nest of falsehoods and decades-old personal beefs. After all, the indications are that Trump hates wind power so much </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=ec1226a2b5&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">because a Scottish firm tried to build a wind farm</a> <span style="color:#ffffff">off the coast of his golf course there, which he feared would ruin the views. He's spent the years since spreading misinformation about wind energy and fine-tuning his concern-trolling about dead birds. Yeah, the guy </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=637e836ae4&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">whose administration is dismantling the Endangered Species Act</a> <span style="color:#ffffff">is real worried about avian welfare.</span><br>
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<span style="color:#ffffff">But some of it is accurate. Coal exports</span> <a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=0f8602b293&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">were indeed up about 60 percent</a> <span style="color:#ffffff">from 2016 to 2017, though "clean coal exports" do not exist. ("Clean coal" does not refer to coal that doesn't pollute the atmosphere and contribute to global warming—such coal does not exist. Clean coal just means you attempt to capture some of the CO2 released when you burn it, and there's no telling if the places we export to will do that.)</span><br>
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<span style="color:#ffffff">More to the point, coal has gotten less competitive with the rise of cheap natural gas, so</span> <a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=fb5fde2b9d&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">the Trump administration has been propping it up</a> <span style="color:#ffffff">using a Cold War-era law to declare coal facilities as national security infrastructure. The policy mandates that energy distributors buy enough power from coal plants to keep them open. In effect, we are subsidizing perhaps the dirtiest fossil fuel as the climate crisis deepens. Yes, workers in many coal-producing areas are struggling. </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=407218b2e1&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Will this really save their livelihoods?</a> <span style="color:#ffffff">And at what cost?</span><br>
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<span style="color:#ffffff">Beyond that, Donald Trump has ensured that </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=9526511511&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">the United States of America is the only country in the world</a> <span style="color:#ffffff">that refuses to participate in the Paris climate accords, a non-binding global agreement to reduce emissions. </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=3723c7568e&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">He announced the U.S. was pulling out</a> <span style="color:#ffffff">in a </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=de3a613f21&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Rose Garden ceremony that will go down as a monumental national embarrassment</a>. <span style="color:#ffffff">His administration </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=78640e5cb2&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#daa520">is attempting to roll back the Obama-era Clean Power Plan</span></a><span style="color:#ffffff">, our nation's primary mechanism for abiding by its emissions reductions goals under the Paris agreement. It is </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=70923eb7a8&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ffffff">rolling back regulations on emissions of methane</span></a><span style="color:#ffffff">, the greenhouse gas 30 times as powerful as carbon dioxide, at drilling sites. It is </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=2699b7b03b&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">rolling back regulations on automobile emissions</a>. <span style="color:#ffffff">It is rolling back everything.<br>
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<span style="color:#ffffff">It is genuinely amazing that standing in the breach of history is a reality television star who knows nothing about anything and cares less, having proudly declared that a monumental threat to human civilization is</span> <a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=21bd0868af&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">a hoax created by the Chinese.</a> <br>
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<span style="color:#ffffff">He insists windmills are only good for killing birds.<br>
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He doles out advice to firefighters battling the wildfires feasting on western lands ravaged by drought in between rounds of golf.</span><br>
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<span style="color:#ffffff">Even before this new era of national disgrace, the Republican Party had established itself as the only major political party in the western world that denied the scientific consensus that climate change is real and man-made. Any Republican president would likely have plunged the nation further into self-defeating stupidity and greed. </span><br>
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<span style="color:#ffffff">But there is something uniquely jarring, and outrageous, about rants comparing windmills unfavorably to "clean coal" as a new region of the Arctic ice shelf lurches towards collapse.<br>
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If we make it that far, the history books will remember us for discussing Stormy Daniels and The National Debt while the world burned and flooded and weathered increasingly ferocious storms, such obvious signs of what is to come.<br>
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How will you explain it to your children?</span></span></p>
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