This was the document leaked to the press this week ahead of a White House meeting assessing whether President Trump should create a committee to assess conclusions about links between global warming and national security.
A recommended national program in weather modificationLex Pit
This document from 1966 proves that the Federal Government has been engaging in Weather Modification and Geoengineering for many decades. According to the document, the Weather Modification program had hundreds of millions of dollars of funding back in 1966.
A recommended national program in weather modificationLex Pit
This document from 1966 proves that the Federal Government has been engaging in Weather Modification and Geoengineering for many decades. According to the document, the Weather Modification program had hundreds of millions of dollars of funding back in 1966.
Policy-oriented recommendations resulting from guidance for the implementation of land degradation neutrality, under sub-objectives 1.1 and 1.2 of the Science-Policy Interface work programme for the biennium 2018–2019
Synthesis report by the Executive Secretary
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Conference of the Parties Committee on Science and Technology Fourteenth session New Delhi, India, 3–6 September 2019
Sustainable Manufacturing (MIT 2.008x Lecture Slides)A. John Hart
Slides accompanying 2.008x* video module on Sustainable Manufacturing, Prof. Tim Gutowski, MIT, 2016.
*Fundamentals of Manufacturing Processes on edX: https://www.edx.org/course/fundamentals-manufacturing-processes-mitx-2-008x
Andrew Revkin's 1994 profile of the masterful luthier Linda Manzer. Blending spruce, sweat and sawdust, Linda Manzer builds guitars that
dazzle.
Photos by Peter Sibbald https://petersibbald.visura.co
Linda Manzer:
https://manzer.com
Andy Revkin:
http://j.mp/revkinlinks
Policy-oriented recommendations resulting from guidance for the implementation of land degradation neutrality, under sub-objectives 1.1 and 1.2 of the Science-Policy Interface work programme for the biennium 2018–2019
Synthesis report by the Executive Secretary
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Conference of the Parties Committee on Science and Technology Fourteenth session New Delhi, India, 3–6 September 2019
Sustainable Manufacturing (MIT 2.008x Lecture Slides)A. John Hart
Slides accompanying 2.008x* video module on Sustainable Manufacturing, Prof. Tim Gutowski, MIT, 2016.
*Fundamentals of Manufacturing Processes on edX: https://www.edx.org/course/fundamentals-manufacturing-processes-mitx-2-008x
Similar to The Plan for a Trump Committee on Climate and Security (20)
Andrew Revkin's 1994 profile of the masterful luthier Linda Manzer. Blending spruce, sweat and sawdust, Linda Manzer builds guitars that
dazzle.
Photos by Peter Sibbald https://petersibbald.visura.co
Linda Manzer:
https://manzer.com
Andy Revkin:
http://j.mp/revkinlinks
In 1985, my editor, Scott DeGarmo, asked me to write a cover story on the future of the automobile - when the future was the Ford Taurus. It's now kind of a museum artifact and I hope you enjoy it and offer feedback.
This is the core of a webinar Andy Revkin conducted with folks at Columbia Climate School to explore how scientists, scholars and others seeking to craft a better human journey can make the most of Twitter even as Elon Musk's purchase disrupts things. We also talked about alternatives, none of which Revkin sees as remotely competing with the capacities Twitter offers for a long time. (It took a decade of relentless programming, regulatory and other work to build the Twitter we know.)
Subscribe to Revkin's Sustain What newsletter and webcasts to engage and drive the conversation further:
https://revkin.substack.com/subscribe #socialmedia #sustainability #climate
This is a fantastic case study and overview showing how businesses can prepare for the hazards around them to cut the scope of impacts - preventing a natural hazard from becoming an unnatural disaster.
It centers on the experience and work of Parsons Manufacturing, a company that suffered a direct hit from an EF-4 tornado in 2004 but avoided any deaths.
Learn more at the company website:
https://www.parsonscompany.com/about/
A #COP26 presentation by Zainab Usman of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Katie Auth of Energy for Development, building on this paper: September 28, 2021
REFRAMING CLIMATE JUSTICE FOR DEVELOPMENT: SIX PRINCIPLES FOR SUPPORTING INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE ENERGY TRANSITIONS IN LOW-EMITTING ENERGY-POOR AFRICAN COUNTRIES
By Mimi Alemayehou, Katie Auth, Murefu Barasa, Morgan Bazilian, Brad Handler, Uzo Iweala, Todd Moss, Rose Mutiso, Zainab Usman
Advancing inclusive and equitable energy transitions is one of this century’s most vital global challenges, and one in which development finance will play a crucial role. References to justice and equity are widespread in international climate policy, and are increasingly being used by development organizations to guide their own work, including support for energy transitions.
But prevailing definitions of climate justice rarely fully capture the priorities, challenges and perspectives of low-emitting energy-poor countries, the vast majority of which are in sub-Saharan Africa. When applied to development policy, this gap risks prioritizing near-term emissions reductions over broader support for economic development and energy transformation, with comparatively little climate benefit. This could severely hinder poverty alleviation, development, and climate resilience — the very opposite of justice. We need energy transitions that are truly ‘just and inclusive.’ What does this mean for development funders and financiers, and how should it drive their approach to supporting energy transitions in the lowest-income countries?
Rene Dubos was a masterful biologist, Pulitzer-winning essayist and humanist. Read the story behind this essay in Andy Revkin's homage to Dubos here: http://j.mp/despairingoptimist
This is a summary of the three-week international survey of the vaquita refuge in heavily fished waters of the northern Gulf of California of the coast of Mexico's Baja California state. It shows what can be accomplished with a fresh effort in the fall of 2021.
The expedition included scientists and conservationists from Mexico, the United States and Canada.
This chapter on climate change as news, by Andrew Revkin is from "Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren" - edited by Joseph F. C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman
MIT Press 2007, updated edition, 2014
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=xsxkAlEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=xsxkAlEAAAAJ:edDO8Oi4QzsC
Alice Bell's new book on the history of climate change knowledge and inaction is fantastic. Some have missed what is NOT in the CIA's 1974 assessment of climate change and security risk. There's no mention of global warming from carbon dioxide. Here's a Guardian excerpt from Alice's book: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/05/sixty-years-of-climate-change-warnings-the-signs-that-were-missed-and-ignored
Here's the original CIA document without text recognition: https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=725433
A deep early look at how supercomputer security became a prime concern of the Reagan administration - with climate science in the mix.
More context in Andrew Revkin's prize-winning March 1985 Science Digest article on nuclear winter:
https://www.slideshare.net/Revkin/hard-facts-about-nuclear-winter-1985
And Revkin's investigative report on the vanishing of Vladimir Alexandrov, a high-profile Soviet atmospheric scientist who'd become a fan of American cars and cuisine while visiting NCAR, a mountainside supercomputer lab in Colorado:
http://j.mp/alexandrovmissing
Here are emails showing exchanges between Dr. Will Happer, a senior Trump Administration science and security adviser, and the Heartland Institute -- which has long sought to cast doubt on the enormous body of science pointing to rising dangers from human emissions of climate-warming gases.
The emails were released under a Freedom of Information Act request by the Environmental Defense Fund: http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/files/2019/03/Climate-Review-FOIA-CEQ.pdf
Here's an Associated Press story:
https://www.apnews.com/4ec9affd55a345d582a4cc810686137e
EDF provided this copy to Andrew Revkin.
Here's an excerpt from a 2017 interview Revkin did with Happer for ProPublica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSpL5dziylo
A Physicist and Possible Adviser to Trump Describes His Love of Science, and CO2
https://www.propublica.org/article/a-physicist-and-possible-adviser-to-trump-describes-his-love-of-science-co2
More on Happer in National Geographic:
Does the U.S. need a ‘presidential climate security committee’?
A Trump adviser who sees rising CO2 as a good thing wants a panel to review government findings that climate change is a security threat.... https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/02/trump-presidential-climate-security-committee/
Some Globo coverage in 1990 from the trial of the Alves family members and associates charged with the assassination of Chico Mendes in December 1988, including an interview with Andrew Revkin, who'd just published The Burning Season, a book chronicling Mendes's life, death and legacy. More: http://bit.ly/revkinmendes
An Island Magazine feature by Andy Revkin provided an intimate look at changes in a Polynesian family and village as modern life intruded in the 1980s.
This cover story on climate change by Andrew Revkin was published in Discover Magazine in October, 1988. For more on the article visit this Dot Earth post: 1988-2008: Climate Then and Now http://nyti.ms/WIvLbH via @dotearth
Make sure to click to the last page, which was the back-cover advertisement that month - for cigarettes.
Shows things can change, sometimes slowly.
And read Andy's reflection on lessons learned in 30 years of climate coverage:
http://j.mp/revkin30yearsclimate
Enhancing LPG Use During Pregnancya collaboration between KEM Health Research Center, Sri Ramachanda University, and University of California, Berkeley
An explanatory presentation provided to ProPublica.org
Lewis Reznik, who spent his adult life as a dentist in Westchester County, New York, had a very different adolescence - on the run between Nazis and Russian troops in Poland as the Holocaust unfolded. This is is remarkable memoir. Lew died in 2013.
I edited the manuscript and helped Lew publish the book.
Please purchase a copy at j.mp/boysholocaust
Share and discuss the book on Facebook: j.mp/boysholocaustFB
Context:
"Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria: Where Do Responsibilities End?" Journal of Business Ethics, 2015
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-014-2142-7
Shell's plans for Nigeria (SPDC subsidiary), 2013: http://www.shell.com/media/news-and-media-releases/2013/spdc-sets-out-its-future-intent-for-nigeria.html
Business & Human Rights Resource Center on two landmark lawsuits:
https://business-humanrights.org/en/shell-lawsuit-re-nigeria-kiobel-wiwa
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‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
role of women and girls in various terror groupssadiakorobi2
Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
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हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
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In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
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(U) Attachments
Tab A (U) Agenda
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Joan V. O'Hara
Deputy Assistant to the President
and Executive Secretary
National Security Council
Tab B (U//fOUO} Discussion Paper on the Presidential Committee
on Climate Security Executive Order (NSC}
Tab C (U//fOUOl Draft of the Presidential Committee on Climate
Security Executive Order (NSC}
Tab D (U} 2017 Climate Science Special Report - Executive
Summary (USGCRP}
Tab E (UI 2018 National Climate Assessment - Summary findings
(USGCRP)
Tab f (U) 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment - Environment and
Climate Change (DNI)
5. LIMITED ACCESS
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(U//FOUO) DISCUSSION PAPER FOR DEPUTIES COMMITTEE MEETING ON THE
PRESIDENTIAL COMMITTEE ON CLIMATE SECURITY
EXECUTIVE ORDER
(U//FOUO) Purpose: To seek recommendations from Deputies
regarding the draft Executive Order (E.O.) to establish the
Presidential Committee on Climate Security (PCCS) (Tab C).
(U) Background
(U//FOUO) The United States Government has issued several
reports on the dangers posed by climate change. The United
States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) 2017 Climate
Science Special Report (Tab D) claims to authoritatively link
climate change to the emission of greenhouse gasses. The USGCRP
2018 National Climate Assessment (Tab E) articulates grave
implications for the United States. The Office of the Director
of National Intelligence 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment (Tab
F) identifies climate change as a national security threat.
However, these scientific and national security judgments have
not undergone a rigorous independent and adversarial scientific
peer review to examine the certainties and uncertainties of
climate science, as well as implications for national security.
(U) Discussion
(U//FOUO) The objective of this E.O. is to establish, in
accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, a committee
of distinguished experts to advise the President on the
scientific understanding of today's climate, how the climate
might change in the future under natural and human influences,
and how a changing climate could affect the security of the
United States. The PCCS will assess existing United States
Government reports on climate for scientific accuracy and advise
on the national security implications of climate change. The
National Security Council will fund and oversee this committee,
and the committee will operate in accordance with the Federal
Advisory Committee Act.
(U) Issue for Decision: Do Deputies endorse the attached draft
E.O. at Tab C and recommend submission to the President?
7. LIMITED ACCESS
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(U//FOUO) DEPUTIES COMMITTEE MEETING ON THE PRESIDENTIAL
COMMITTEE ON CLIMATE SECURITY EXECUTIVE ORDER
DATE: February 22, 2019
LOCATION: White House Situation Room
TIME: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
(U) AGENDA
I. (U) Introduction ........................................NSC
II. (U//FOUO) Discussion of the Presidential Committee on
Climate Change Executive Order .......................... All
III. (U) Conclusion ................•......................... NSC
9. •
EXECUTIVE ORDER
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LIMITED ACCESS
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PRESIDENTIAL COMMITTEE ON CLIMATE SECURITY
By the authority vested in me as the President by the
Constitution and the laws of the united States of America,
including the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended
(5 u.s.c. App.), and in order to establish a committee on
climate security, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Establishment. There is established the
Presidential Committee on Climate Security (PCCS). The PCCS
shall be composed of not more than 12 members, one of whom shall
be a Federal Government official (the Official) who shall be the
Deputy Assistant to the President for Emerging Technologies, and
up to 11 of whom shall be non-Federal or Federal members
appointed by the President. The membership should include
experts in national security and the science of climate and
related fields, including statistics, data reliability, fluid
motions of the atmosphere and oceans, radiation transfer, and
geophysics. The PCCS shall be co-chaired by two non-Federal
members designated by the President.
Sec. 2. Functions. (a) The PCCS shall, through the
Official, advise the President on the scientific understanding
of today's climate and how it might change in the future under
natural and human influences, including increasing greenhouse
gas concentrations, and how a changing climate could affect the
security of the United States in order to accurately inform
national security decisions.
Sec. 3. Administration. (a) The heads of the executive
departments and agencies shall, to the extent permitted by law,
provide the PCCS with scientific and national security
information related to climate, when requested by the PCCS
co-chairs.
(bl In consultation with the Official, the PCCS is
authorized to convene ad hoc working groups to provide
preliminary non-binding information and advice directly to the
PCCS.
10. (cl Members shall serve without compensation for their work
on the PCCS. However, members may be allowed travel expenses,
including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law
for persons serving intermittently in the government service
(5 u.s.c. 5701-5707).
(dl Any expenses of the PCCS shall be paid from the funds
available for the expenses of the National Security Council
(NSC).
(el The NSC shall provide such administrative services as
the PCCS may require, with the approval of the Official.
Sec. 4. General. (a) Notwithstanding any other
Executive Order, the functions of the President with respect to
the PCCS under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended,
except that of reporting to the Congress, shall be performed by
tha rise i::i. acccr,;le."'<:'"' w, t.h the cruidelines and procedures
established by the Administrator of General services.
(bl The PCCS shall terminate in 2 years from the date of
this order unless extended by the President prior to that date .
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