GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2017

Story Archives at GreenPolicy360
; Popular pages/stories
US President Trump’s budget director/chief of staff: 
Mick Mulvaney: “Regarding the question as to climate change, I think the President was fairly straightforward —
We’re not spending money on that anymore; we consider that to be a waste of your money to go out and do that.” 
:::We're Not Spending Money On Climate Change Anymore (Video)
::: 
 
:::···········································································································
US Retreats from International Agreements, Cooperation & Environmental Protection
Rejecting Regional & Global Commitments, US Trump Administration Abandons Critical Obligation & Treaties
:The Hill / "Comments"
:In 2017, the White House abandoned the environment and public health
Decades of Progress Setback
Environmental Protection Agency Cut, Regulations Rescinded, Health & Safety Priorities Dropped 
How Scott Pruitt spent the first year at the EPA
How Director Pruitt turned the EPA into a Trump tool of deconstruction
In legal maneuvers and executive actions, in public speeches and closed-door meetings with industry groups, the Trump administration has moved to shrink the agency’s reach, alter its focus, and pause or reverse numerous environmental rules. The effect has been to steer the EPA in the direction sought by those being regulated.
Along the way, Pruitt has begun to dismantle former president Barack Obama’s environmental legacy, halting the agency’s efforts to combat climate change and to shift the nation away from its reliance on fossil fuels.
Tracking Environmental Deregulation, Climate Litigation 
Climate Litigation Database
 
* http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/resources/climate-deregulation-tracker | Climate Deregulation Tracker
* http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/ | Columbia Law School - Climate Change Law 
* http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/resources/silencing-science-tracker/ | Silencing Science Tracker
····································································································
Global Climate Action & United Nations (Minus the US)
Americans 'Google Searching' the Question of Climate Change
George Monbiot / Money-in-Politics
:George Monbiot on How 'Misinformation' Works (and Is Paid For)
Monbiot: Do We See Reasons for Green Optimism in New US Administration? No... It Will Be More Fossil Fuels
World Scientists’ Warning: A Second Notice
:* http://www.dw.com/en/opinion-what-actually-happened-at-the-bonn-climate-conference-and-why-it-matters/a-41424593
:* https://www.usnews.com/opinion/world-report/articles/2017-11-17/trumps-america-ignores-scientists-on-climate-change-and-the-environment
International Cooperation
Framework Convention on Climate Change
::* http://unfccc.int/2860.php
::* https://cop23.unfccc.int/
::* https://cop23.unfccc.int/cop23/global-climate-action-cop23-full-programme 
::* https://cop23.unfccc.int/news/cop23-kicks-off-with-strong-calls-to-hold-to-paris-agreement-path
::* https://cop23.unfccc.int/news/un-climate-change-conference-2017-aims-for-further-faster-ambition-together
United States only country to refuse climate change agreement
* http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-paris-agreement-us-climate-change-donald-trump-world-country-accord-a8041996.html
* https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/07/syria-signs-paris-climate-agreement-and-leaves-us-isolated
* http://e360.yale.edu/features/why-post-paris-climate-challenge-is-even-harder-than-we-thought
* http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=57807#.Wdga_1tSy70 
 US Climate Science Special Report
:https://science2017.globalchange.gov/
:https://fromtheprow.agu.org/4th-u-s-national-climate-assessment-reinforcing-scientific-consensus/
:https://eos.org/features/how-will-climate-change-affect-the-united-states-in-decades-to-come
Public Call/Science Comment Notice
The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) seeks public comment on the Third Order Draft of Volume II of the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4). 
 
NCA4 Vol. II is a technical, scientific assessment of climate change impacts, risks, and adaptation across the United States. The assessment uses a risk-based framework in placing a strong emphasis on regional information, while also evaluating climate change impacts, risks, and adaptation on 17 national-level topics. Case studies are used to provide additional context and showcase community success stories.
:https://review.globalchange.gov/
··································
New Insight from OCO-2
: https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2
: Courts Step In as US Interior, EPA, BLM Attempt to Go Around Environmental Laws
: Majority of American Now Believe Climate Change Makes Hurricanes More Intense
----
US Raises Nuclear War Threat: Warnings of Catastrophe Internationally
:Rethinking the Risks of Nuclear Weapons
:: The Doomsday Machine by Dan Ellsberg
:::Visit GreenPolicy360's Security Policy associate @StrategicDemands
Threats of War from the US President
StratDem: Need to Change Nuclear First-Strike Authority
:
Trump: "Calm Before the Storm... You'll Find Out"
War as 'Reality Show Cliffhanger' 
China News, War Fears
····················································································
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Weapons
:
"Calculus of War vs a Physics of Peace": Strategic Demands in the 21st Century
In Association with GreenPolicy360 / Strategic Demands
:"New Definitions of National & Global Security"
:Nuclear Issues / Cold War 2.0
:Environmental Security
·················································································
Nobel Peace Prize Goes to ICAN
:International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
US Departure from International Cooperation: 
"Sovereignty", the New Administration's Buzzword 
Trump's First Address at the UN - September 19, 2017
StratDem / The US President's Talk at the United Nations
A Nuclear Meme and StratDem Proposal to Limit First Use of Nuclear Weapons
○
US President announces his policy toward environmental security: 
Environmental consequences begin June 1, 2017
In the 'Rose Garden' at the White House: Gershwin's music plays, a 'Trump Doctrine' is read to the world
The International Climate Agreement goes forward without the US -- Nations around the world reject the US decision
The US will be judged, this day long will be remembered in world history
WaPo Op-Ed: "Trump just betrayed the world. Now the world will fight back"
Climate News / Climate Focus, Climate Politics
Strategic Demands: National Security & Global Security are interrelated 
World 'Citizenship' is More Popular than You Think
Scripps says climate change may represent "existential" threat to humanity
From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: What We're Reading
○
US Governors at UN Address the Global Risks of Climate Change
Calif Governor Brown speaks of political reactions: The Rest of the World Is Against Trump / Governor Brown Statement on White House Paris Climate Agreement Announcement 
: “This current departure from reality in Washington will be very short-lived, that I promise you,” Brown told POLITICO in an interview. “I’ve spoken with Republicans here in the Legislature, and they’re beginning to get very serious about climate action, so the momentum is all the other way. And I think Trump, paradoxically, is giving climate denial such a bad name that he’s actually building the very movement that he is [purporting] to undermine...”
Battle in the US Congress between the Climate Denial faction and Science Advocates
GreenPolicy360 and our associate Strategic Demands Advance New Definitions of National Security
:New Definitions of National Security
:Earth and Space, Politics
:"Fighting Back": 17 states file legal challenges
:"The law is clear ..."
:What's at Stake in Trump’s Proposed E.P.A. Cuts
:Trump's executive order to end/suspend/revise/rescind environmental protections and climate change regulations (PDF) 
:White House budget director Mick Mulvaney rejects climate as a security issue: 
:: “Regarding the question as to climate change, I think the president was fairly straightforward – we’re not spending money on that anymore. We consider that to be a waste of your money.”
:Science? Enough with Science 
::http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/326380-house-votes-to-restrict-epas-use-of-science
:
::https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News
:::https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics
::::https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/PlanetCitizen
:Climate Change Laws Around the World
:Trends in Climate Change Legislation
::○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ 
::Trending 'Eco-Tags' & Links
::On Being a Planet Citizen
Priorities: Weapons or Health Care, Wars or Education, Conflicts or Environmental Security
Nations of the World Choose their Direction
 
Classic 'guns or butter' case study -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_versus_butter_model
:
GreenPolicy360 and Strategic Demands: focusing on two 'big pictures' in 2017
1) The risks of nuclear weapons proliferation within a multi-national, fast-developing Cold War 2.0; and 
2) The existential challenge of moving to renewable energy and new definitions of national security, even as the election of Donald Trump and appointment of Exxon chief Rex Tillerson to head of the US State Dept. portend fast-moving oil/gas/fossil fuel developments and 'pipeline geopolitics'. 
On and off the record, US multinationals and the new US administration are negotiating with Russia over rights to the rapidly de-icing Arctic and the existing 'energy deals of the century' between Russia-China-Iran now loom large in an era of hostilities and entry onto the world stage of an unpredictable and temperamental US "Commander-in-Chief".
 Visit GreenPolicy360's Arctic Changes Site 
○ 
The Arctic and the New Oil/Gas Rush
Drill down into Arctic oil/gas
○
Rex Tillerson Is Confirmed as Secretary of State Amid Record Opposition
Push in the Arctic: Russia and US Prepare for Unprecedented Energy Exploration and Oil/Gas Production
 
○
Trump Appointment to Head the Energy Dept Is a Man Who Campaigned to Abolish the Energy Dept
*The US Energy Department is Responsible for Much of the Development & Oversight of the Nuclear Weapons Complex
*A Trillion Dollar Modernization of the Nuclear Weapons Complex Is a Factor in Spawning a New Nuclear Arms Race
A New Nuclear Arms Race: Cruise Missiles
Nuclear Weapons
Press Releases from the Los Alamos Study Group
: LASG has continued to deliver public interest research for over two decades on the US national labs, energy and nuclear policies
: Visit their online website and new page of press releases to follow developments in the US nuclear weapons complex, and disarmament, and Energy Dept actions by the president-elect
Nuclear Weapons: A 'Cold War 2.0' or New Treaties to Reduce Nuclear Arsenals
Nuclear Weapons: Nonproliferation or More 'Usable' Nuclear Weapons
@StrategicDemands: "New Definitions of National Security Necessary" 
Trump's offer to Russia: An End to Sanctions for Nuclear Arms Cut - London Times / January 17, 2017
"Let’s see if we can make some good deals with Russia," the Republican president-elect was quoted as saying.
"For one thing, I think nuclear weapons should be way down and reduced very substantially, that’s part of it. But Russia’s hurting very badly right now because of sanctions, but I think something can happen that a lot of people are gonna benefit."
:
 'Mixed Cold War 2.0 Signals': Nuclear Arms Reduction --- or Nuclear Arms Race
 
:"Nuclear-Policy-by-Tweet"
 
:······································································································
Trump to Scrap NASA Climate Research
Former NOAA Chief Scientist Warns of Threats to Science
NOAA
NASA
NASA’s Earth Science division is set to be stripped of funding... Via The Guardian
GreenPolicy360 addresses the upcoming Earth Science debate and decisions to be rendered in Congress. The consequences -- and legacy -- of this generation's actions and the votes of the US House Science committee and related Congressional representatives will be felt -- and judged -- for decades going forward. 
: Andrew Revkin completes his many yrs at Dot Earth and the New York Times...
:Under Trump, Will NASA’s Space Science Include Planet Earth? -- By Andrew C. Revkin / November 28, 2016
:○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Energy Data: Monitor and Manage
:: Interactive Map: How the US Generates Electricity
:○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
::Carbon Clock
::Visit the Interactive CO2 Mapping at Mauna Loa Observatory
400 PPM, Science Facts and Global Risks
April 2017 / Research Report: We are heading for the warmest climate in half a billion years. So what’s the big deal?
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/programs/keelingcurve/
Latest CO2 Data Reports from Mauna Loa 
··············································································
:
 Going Green 360°
·
Republicans in US Congress Vote to Block National & Global Security
:Attempt to Defund and Block Defense Dept. Studies and Work Related to Impacts of Climate Change
Trump v the World: Announces his Energy policy 
:Candidate Trump -- Cancel the Paris International climate agreement: More Fossil Fuels, Less Clean/Renewable Energy 
:In a speech laying out his energy agenda for the United States, Trump promised to undo essentially every major policy developed in last decade intended to slow human-caused global warming. 
Trump declares he doesn't believe the science, believes climate change a hoax and 'BS'
:Trump tweet: This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. 'Environmentalists are the problem', acc to the Republican candidate for president 
:Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice
::○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
::○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
In Canada, a political battle over energy & environment policy
:* http://strategicdemands.com/the-leap-manifesto/
:* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Leap_Manifesto
::○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
In the U.S., as attacks on climate science proliferate with deep pocket and dark money support, acting to undercut US & global security, strategies for continued and accelerating energy innovation emerge...
Energy Innovation: Batteries & the Grid
/ Tesla Electric Vehicles
/ At the ARPA-E Innovation Summit
::○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
After a Year in Space, Scott Kelly Says 'I'm More of an Environmentalist'... 
Welcome home Planet Citizen.... thanks for reminding us "how the atmosphere looks and how fragile it looks... It makes you more of an environmentalist... looking down at our planet from a great vantage point."
The 'Overview Effect': Experiencing Life Changing Realizations of the Home Planet and Us
Category:GP360_NewPages
Category:Planet Citizens
Category:Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists
Category:Additional Website Resources - Linked Data - Green Best Practices
Category:Agriculture
Category:Air Quality
Category:Air Pollution
Category:Antarctica
Category:Arctic
Category:Atmospheric Science
Category:Bioneers
Category:Biodiversity
Category:Biosphere
Category:China
Category:Citizen Science
Category:Civil Rights
Category:Clean Air
Category:Clean Water
Category:Climate Change
Category:Climate Policy
Category:Democracy
Category:Democratization of Space
Category:Digital Citizen
Category:Digital Rights
Category:Earth
Category:Eco-ethics
Category:Eco-nomics
Category:EOS eco Operating System
Category:Earth360
Category:EarthPOV
Category:Earth Observations
Category:Earth Science
Category:Earth System Science
Category:Ecofeminism
Category:Ecology Studies
Category:Economic Justice
Category:Election System Reform
Category:Endangered Species
Category:Energy
Category:Environmental Full-cost Accounting
Category:Environmental Laws
Category:Environmental Protection
Category:Environmental Security
Category:Environmental Security, National Security
Category:ESA
Category:European Union
Category:Externalities
Category:Food
Category:Forests
Category:Fossil Fuels
Category:Global Security
Category:Global Warming
Category:Greenland
Category:Green Best Practices
Category:Green Networking
Category:GreenPolicy360
Category:Green Politics
Category:Health
Category:Human Rights
Category:ISS
Category:Maps
Category:Money in Politics
Category:NASA
Category:Natural Resources
Category:Natural Rights
Category:Networking
Category:New Definitions of National Security
Category:New Space
Category:NOAA
Category:Nuclear Nonproliferation
Category:Nuclear Proliferation
Category:Nuclear Weapons
Category:Oceans
Category:Ocean Ecosystem
Category:Ocean Science
Category:Ocean Sustainability
Category:Overview Effect
Category:PlanetLabs
Category:Planet Citizen
Category:Planet Scientist
Category:Plastic Pollution
Category:Pollution
Category:Rainforest
Category:Renewable Energy
Category:Resilience
Category:Russian Federation
Category:Sea-Level Rise & Mitigation
Category:Seventh Generation Sustainability
Category:Social Justice
Category:Solar Energy
Category:Strategic Demands
Category:Sustainability
Category:Sustainability Policies
Category:ThinBlueLayer
Category:Threat Multiplier
Category:Transportation
Category:United Nations
Category:US
Category:Voting Rights
Category:Water Quality
Category:Whole Earth
Category:Women's Rights
Category:World Wide Web
Category:Youth