Re: Climate Negotiators Hail ‘Historic’ Paris Draft Agreement - Bloomberg Business

Wed Dec 16 16:25:43 CST 2015

Misc. just learned today serendipitously. Sorta relevant. 5 years ago
ARCH COAL $350 a share. Today the NYS Exchange just sent them word
they were going to be delisted. Under 90c a share.

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Peter M. Fitzpatrick
> <petopoet at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here is a short summary of the history of global warming.
>>
>> -Pete
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/12/16/3731098/food-agriculture-climate-agreement-paris/
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > http://www.democracynow.org/2015/12/14/a_turning_point_for_the_climate
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> The movement of difference and hope from Paris  is that there are now
>>> >> World-Organized incentives for business and countries to leave fossil
>>> >> fuel
>>> >> in the ground because investing
>>> >> In other forms of energy, in sucking c02 from the atmosphere--there is
>>> >> technology to do that---
>>> >> will accelerate. Hansen mentions this in a Sci Amer article and
>>> >> elsewhere
>>> >> which Joseph did not send around)
>>> >> "It will take the international business community" ---JohnKerry.
>>> >> (Paraphrase surely)
>>> >>
>>> >> I personally, Polyanna that I am, prefer the former skeptic who
>>> >> foresees
>>> >> an accelerating cascading effect of change because Paris. Look up all
>>> >> the
>>> >> Good that has recently been effected.
>>> >>
>>> >> few I've ever talked to can talk scale of effect and change.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> I like toting up all the positive changes the world has made to feel
>>> >> better for the future. Another massively complex problem. Many must not
>>> >> believe there are ongoing positive changes.
>>> >>
>>> >> But we, the whole world, have  to do more than we can NOW AND FOREVER
>>> >> more
>>> >> ASAP
>>> >> To save the planet...new book coming with that premise.....and I am now
>>> >> barely reading
>>> >> An intelligent philosopher on how,the world will change in the near
>>> >> future
>>> >> because climate change and what we need to know to do.
>>> >>
>>> >> Climate change is happening. Real bad shit. Q is Can we save the world?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Sent from my iPad
>>> >>
>>> >> On Dec 16, 2015, at 6:44 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> We are talking about governments here, i.e., massive business
>>> >> aggregates.
>>> >> They are not eager to drop immediate profits in the interest of
>>> >> long-term
>>> >> survival. Business is not conducted with the next generation in mind,
>>> >> only
>>> >> the profit margin, ergo governments act in kind. Pulled out The Sacred
>>> >> and
>>> >> the Profane again the other day and came across a passage that struck
>>> >> me as
>>> >> particularly applicable in these times, if only we acknowledge that our
>>> >> leaders today honor the gods, not of pre-history, but of recent
>>> >> history. The
>>> >> world they know was made by gods such as Pierce Inverarity, not those
>>> >> old
>>> >> gods of the Nile, of Beth-el, or of Olympus. Profit, i.e., the stronger
>>> >> hand
>>> >> in trade, is the only environment that concerns them.
>>> >>
>>> >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> > On Dec 12, 2015, at 5:58 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > If all the pledges are actually fully met it will still lead to a
>>> >>> > temperature rise between 3 and 4 degrees C global average( land
>>> >>> > temps will
>>> >>> > be more extreme) That will produce massive global catastrophes.
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/10/climate-2c-global-warming-target-fail
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >  Naomi Klein: We know, from doing the math and adding up the targets
>>> >>> > that the major economies have brought to Paris, that those targets
>>> >>> > lead us
>>> >>> > to a very dangerous future. They lead us to a future between 3 and 4
>>> >>> > degrees
>>> >>> > Celsius warming. These are figures from the Tyndall Centre and Kevin
>>> >>> > Anderson, who have analyzed those numbers. It does not lead us to 2
>>> >>> > degrees
>>> >>> > Celsius, which is what many of our governments pledged to do in
>>> >>> > Copenhagen
>>> >>> > in 2009.
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > KEVIN ANDERSON: The message is that the voluntary submissions that
>>> >>> > have
>>> >>> > been put forward by all of the countries, when you add all of these
>>> >>> > up, they
>>> >>> > are far, far above the level of what we call dangerous climate
>>> >>> > change, that
>>> >>> > all of our leaders have committed to, to avoid going above this 2
>>> >>> > degrees C
>>> >>> > rise, I think about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. But actually, when you
>>> >>> > add up
>>> >>> > all of the commitments that the countries are making in terms of
>>> >>> > their
>>> >>> > reductions in emissions, then actually it’s far, far above that,
>>> >>> > nearer 3 or
>>> >>> > 4 degrees C temperature rise, which is a huge increase. That’s a
>>> >>> > global
>>> >>> > average. Remember, that is a global average. And most of the globe
>>> >>> > is
>>> >>> > covered in water, so on land that’s an average of, if we carry on
>>> >>> > like we’re
>>> >>> > going now, 4, 5, possibly even as high as 6 degrees C temperature
>>> >>> > rise.
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > James Hansen also agreed with this estimate
>>> >>> >> On Dec 12, 2015, at 6:56 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>> >>> >> wrote:
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-12/climate-envoys-prepare-for-broadest-deal-yet-limiting-pollution
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >>
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