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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, October 8.
- The world has just over a decade to get climate change under control, U.N. scientists say (Which means, among other things, NO NEW FOSSIL FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE. That includes fracked-gas pipelines. Do you understand this, Ralph Northam???)
- New climate change report issues a dire warning: 2040 is the beginning of the end
- IPCC climate change report calls for urgent action to phase out fossil fuels (“UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says coal-fired electricity must end by 2050 if we are to limit global warming rises to 1.5C”)
- Grim Forecast From U.N. On Global Climate Change
- Not Just CO2: These Climate Pollutants Also Must Be Cut to Keep Global Warming to 1.5 Degrees (“The warming can be stopped, the IPCC writes in its summary for policymakers. Doing so will require countries to reduce global net emissions of carbon dioxide to zero by around 2050 and to also significantly reduce short-lived climate pollutants, including methane, black carbon and hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs.” You got that, Ralph Northam? That means we need to ditch the fracked-gas pipelines. End of story. Do it or YOU will be partly responsible for an uninhabitable world in a few decades. What do you want your legacy to be???)
- We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN (By the way, anyone who doesn’t think climate change is the #1 issue facing humanity is utterly clueless.)
- Summary for Policymakers of IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC approved by governments
- U.N. report about global warming warns of “life-or-death situation”
- U.N. Climate Report: ‘Unprecedented Changes’ Needed to Avert Catastrophe
- Brazilian presidential election goes to a second round as far-right candidate narrowly misses an outright win (Ee gads, that is horrifying.)
- 2 American researchers win Nobel economics prize (“Nordhaus in the 1990s became the first person to create a model that ‘describes the global interplay between the economy and the climate,” the academy said. He showed that “the most efficient remedy for problems caused by greenhouse gases is a global scheme of universally imposed carbon taxes.'”)
- Liberals, This is War (“What’s at stake is much more than a single Supreme Court seat.”)
- Court Battle Shifts the Political Terrain for Senators in the Heartland
- Requiem for the Supreme Court (“Through the 20th century, the Court stood as an independent arbiter of the rule of law. It is a unifying, national institution no longer.”)
- We need answers on Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance
- Kavanaugh’s appointment isn’t a step backward. It’s a head-first plunge into an ugly past
- Scoop: White House begins prepping for Democratic legal storm
- Bulgarian TV host Victoria Marinova raped and killed (Horrible.)
- The disastrous choices journalists are making in the wake of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation (“The New York Times’ treatment seems particularly noxious, framing a dispute over whether the nominee had attempted to rape Christine Blasey Ford — and if it should matter if he had — as a ‘partisan battle’…Chuck Todd and right-wing pundit Danielle Pletka agree that both sides are participating in a ‘vulgarization’ of American politics”)
- Meet the Press panel agrees that both sides are embracing “the Trump style of politics” (“Conservatives on Meet the Press panel blame both sides for ‘vulgarization’ of American politics without any pushback”)
- Colin Powell: Trump Has Changed ‘We The People’ To ‘Me The President’
- Kavanaugh’s first vote could be in Trump executive power fight
- The lasting effect of Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings
- Juan Williams: The GOP can’t govern
- Dems look to women to take back the House after Kavanaugh fight
- Newlyweds, young couple among 20 killed in New York limousine crash, families say
- Riggleman, Cockburn to face off in live debate only on CBS19 Monday
- Kaine Speaks on Kavanaugh while Campaigning in Charlottesville
- Editorial: In Virginia, U.S. House seats in play
- “It’s way too early” to tell how Tropical Storm Michael will affect Hampton Roads
- Report takes a dim view of Dominion’s grid ‘transformation’ (“Among the major failings of the act, which allows Dominion to offset excess profits from its too-high base rates with spending on a grab-bag of eligible projects”)
- Editorial: Does Stewart’s angry persona help him or hurt him?
- The General Assembly has consistently stopped efforts to outlaw conversion therapy. But state licensing boards might be able to do it themselves.
- Hampton Roads lacks an identity and it’s hurting the region, experts say
- Richmond City Council headed for close vote on Confederate statue resolution
- Summer warmth before late week tropical rains and, then, fall
