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Meet Jack Turner, Independent Candidate for County Commissioner, District 2 10/09/2020 [Video]

HELLO, I’M JACK TURNER, CANDIDATE FOR LA PLATA COUNTY COMMISSIONER. MY FAMILY’S BEEN HERE FOR SIX GENERATIONS AS RANCHERS, BUILDERS, AND ALL SORTS OF BUSINESSPEOPLE… AND WE’VE HAD A FEW RASCALS TOO. IN THE 160 YEARS SINCE JOHN C. TURNER FIRST ARRIVED IN THE ANIMAS VALLEY, OUR COMMUNITY HAS ENDURED AND SURVIVED MAN-MADE AND NATURAL DISASTERS – EPIC STORMS, WAR, A GREAT DEPRESSION, WILDFIRE, FLOODS AND ALL SORTS OF LESSER CRISES. TODAY WE’RE TASKED WITH REINVENTION AND RECOVERY FROM A WORLDWIDE PANDEMIC, ECONOMIC HARDSHIP, AND CLIMATE STRESS THAT’S WORSE THAN ANYTHING I REMEMBER HEARING ABOUT IN OUR FAMILY HISTORY. AND YET, I’M EXTREMELY OPTIMISTIC FOR OUR FUTURE. THE PROBLEMS HERE ARE SMALL COMPARED TO WHAT SO MANY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD FACE. THE REASON FOR MY HOPEFUL OUTLOOK IS THAT I HAVE GREAT CONFIDENCE IN OUR PEOPLE. I JUST FINISHED A 1,700-MILE, SIX-MONTH JOURNEY BY CAR AND BIKE ACROSS THE …

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Museum highlights climate change with tilted paintings [Video]

STORY: Activists from the group Last Generation smeared the screen in front of Klimt's "Death and Life" at the Leopold Museum in Vienna and glued one of their hands to it in the November protest calling for an end to drilling for oil."We found this way to be absolutely the wrong one," the museum's artistic director, Hans-Peter Wipplinger, told Reuters on the opening day of its response: a small exhibition with the full title "A Few Degrees More (Will Turn the World into an Uncomfortable Place)".It involves hanging 15 works by artists including Klimt and fellow Austrian great Egon Schiele at an angle, with texts calling attention to the effect that global warming of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) from pre-industrial levels would have on the landscapes depicted in them.According to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), emissions must be halved by the mid-2030s if the world is to have any chance of limiting the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels - a key target enshrined in the 2015 Paris Agreement."We wanted to initiate something productive, something communicative. That means conveying a message and not just in spectacular images (such as the protest) but by helping visitors learn about the situation and the various contexts of this global heating," Wipplinger said.The exhibition runs until June 26.

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IPCC scientists issue a "final warning" before global warming exceeds the point of no return | 7.30 [Video]

The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just completed its latest cycle of scientific reporting on the impacts of climate change. The findings boil down to a simple message - act now or it will be too late.The report lands as the Albanese Government's key policy for cutting emissions is being negotiated in the Senate. Chief political correspondent Laura Tingle reports.Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE ABC News provides around the clock coverage of news events as they break in Australia and abroad, including the latest coronavirus pandemic updates. It's news when you want it, from Australia's most trusted news organisation.For more from ABC News, click here: https://ab.co/2kxYCZYWatch more ABC News content ad-free on ABC iview: https://ab.co/2OB7Mk1Go deeper on our ABC News In-depth channel: https://ab.co/2lNeBn2Like ABC News on Facebook: http://facebook.com/abcnews.auFollow ABC News on Instagram: http://instagram.com/abcnews_auFollow ABC News on Twitter: http://twitter.com/abcnewsNote: In most cases, our captions are auto-generated.#ABCNews #ABCNewsAustralia