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*Climate Change*Is Turning Allergy Season Into Hell, and It's
Getting Worse
<https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/hay-fever-pollen-allergy-season-worse-climate-change-global-warming>
Thrillist -2 hours ago
It's not just you, allergy seasons are getting worse. Not only that
but more people are poised to start suffering from hay fever due
to*climate change*, according to a new study from the University of
Anglia published in Environmental Health Perspectives...40 percent
of Europeans suffer from hay fever at some point in their lives
already. Doubling that could put the total number upwards of 77
million.....Hay fever is one thing, but the study may indicate that
similar increases for allergies not included in the study are
possible. "It is also important to add that climate change
consequences will not be restricted to ragweed — and a range of
other pollen-producing species are likely to be affected," he said.
"Our methods provide a framework for other studies investigating the
impacts of climate change on pollen allergy for other species."
U.S. Says Global*Climate*Pact May Cover Most Plane Emissions
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-29/airline-climate-deal-likely-to-cover-most-emissions-u-s-says>
Bloomberg -11 hours ago
If approved by a majority of 191 countries this fall, it would be
the first global*climate*accord for a single industry. Airline
emissions account for about 2 percent of global greenhouse gases and
are forecast to more than triple over the next few*decades as
flights increase in Asia, Latin America and elsewhere. Airlines were
not included in the Paris climate accord because delegates feared
the intricacies of divvying up responsibility for international
flights could derail the broader agreement. ...The accord would take
effect in 2020. It was brokered last week at a meeting convened by
the Civil Aviation Organization’s president, Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu
of Nigeria, and attended by the U.S., China and more than 50 other
nations. The 15-year deal seeks to cap emissions through a system
requiring airlines to purchase credits to offset emissions growth
beyond 2020.*
Climate change is slow, making it hard to grasp. - Slate
<http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/08/29/climate_change_is_slow_making_it_hard_to_grasp.html>
Slate Magazine (blog) -9 hours ago
Why do we have such a hard time really grasping the scale of climate
change? Because it's slow, and the world is big...We humans have a
miserable sense of scale. We see what’s immediately around us, and
have difficulty extrapolating to the greater world. Even those of us
who travel around the country and the world can still easily fail to
grasp the scale of humanity’s presence. There are more than 7
billion of us! And billions of cars, millions of buildings, billions
of houses, all of which use up energy and contribute to the emission
of carbon dioxide...The Republican Party has made it clear how they
feel about climate change. Their official platform only mentions it
a few times, and that’s to dismiss it, and their presidential
candidate, Donald Trump, calls it a “hoax” and chose a denier as his
energy consultant and another as his vice presidential pick. The
Democratic Party platform talks about it much more realistically,
categorizing it as a threat to our nation and our world. I have
issues with Hillary Clinton’s climate change strategy, but those are
minor to the point of nonexistent compared with the flat-out denial
and active promotion of fossil fuels from the GOP. Accepting there’s
a problem is step one, and even a slow approach is better than
fueling the fire. Literally...Look up your senators, your
representative. Find out where they stand on this issue. Contact
them, write a letter (that’s the most effective means of getting
your voice heard), supporting them if they understand the reality of
climate change, or briefly and politely letting them know how you
feel if they don’t...And if you hear someone denying climate change,
may I humbly suggest searching this very blog for more info with
which to give them facts, and links to more information? Other good
sources include NASA’s climate site, NOAA’s climate site, Skeptical
Science, DesmogBlog, RealClimate, and Climate Central...It’s not too
late. If we choose wisely, that is..
AP:*Climate Change*Matters This Election
<http://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change-election-1991013400.html>
EcoWatch -7 hours ago
Government action can make a difference on*climate*issues, as
evidenced by the Reagan-approved Montreal Protocol and George H.W...
*Climate*simulations show effects of releasing permafrost carbon
<http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/climate-simulations-show-effects-of-releasing-permafrost-carbon/>
Ars Technica -5 hours ago
During the last deglaciation, between roughly 21,000 and 10,000
years ago, there was a rise in atmospheric carbon. This surge
brought CO2 levels up to where they were in preindustrial times and
contributed to the warming that ended the glacial
period....Consequently, the researchers conclude that the melting
permafrost is probably a major factor in carbon fluxes during
glacial periods....The simulations also estimated the effects of
this permafrost feedback on the present-day environment and into the
future and determined that the effect should increase the amount of
future emissions by about 10 percent to 40 percent. This increase is
dependent on how much humans contribute to warming—the more we heat
things up, the more permafrost melts, and thus the more CO2 is
released....Without humans’ effects on the CO2 levels, the
simulation predicts the soil will absorb more carbon, the permafrost
would expand, and the global climate would cool slightly...LETTERS
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 22 AUGUST 2016 | DOI: 10.1038/NGEO2793 Permafrost
carbon as a missing link to explain CO2changes during the last
deglaciation
California is about to find out what a truly radical*climate*policy
looks like
<http://www.vox.com/2016/8/29/12650488/california-climate-law-sb-32>
Vox -8 hours ago
It’s hard to overstate how ambitious this is. Few countries have
ever achieved cuts this sharp while enjoying robust economic growth.
(Two exceptions were France and Sweden in the 1980s and ’90s, when
they scaled up nuclear power.) The EU is also aiming for a similar
40 percent cut below 1990 levels by 2030, though they’ve got a head
start....California has a confusing welter
of*climate-change*policies, but the place to start is with AB 32,
the “*Global Warming*Solutions Act," passed by the legislature and
signed into law by Arnold Schwarzenegger back in 2006. AB 32,
weighing in at a svelte*...The state is already on track to nudge
its greenhouse-gas emissions back down to 1990 levels by the year
2020. Then last week, after much fierce debate, the California
Assembly and Senate passed a new bill, known as SB 32, that would go
much further, mandating an additional 40 percent cut in emissions by
2030: ...The stakes are enormous: Policymakers everywhere will be
watching to see if California can pull this off. Getting a 40
percent cut will require more than bucking up wind and solar and
putting more electric cars on the road. It will mean reshaping
virtually every facet of the state’s economy, from buildings to
transportation to farming and beyond.*
A climate of cash in votes on global warming | OpenSecrets Blog
<http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2016/08/a-climate-of-cash-in-votes-on-global-warming/>
Center for Responsive Politics -8 hours ago
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) has received the most money from the oil
& gas and coal mining industries, over $1.6 million since 2010....So
why, during the first month of the current Congress, did nearly half
the Senate – all Republicans – vote against an amendment stating
that human activities contribute significantly to climate
change?...We don’t know...But we can say that those who voted for
the amendment received less than one-fifth as much in campaign
contributions from the oil & gas and coal industries as those who
voted against it...Senators who have publicly denied that humans
have had a significant impact on climate change took in an average
of $467,022 more from the coal mining and oil & gas industries since
2010 than those who have publicly accepted humans’ role in the
global rise in temperature.
Amazon forests: Biodiversity can help mitigate*climate*risks
<https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160829122237.htm>
Science Daily -3 hours ago
..this is a significant step forward in Earth system
modelling....A forest with greater diversity of plants can better
adjust to climatic stress. Now for the first time, a team of
scientists can show this in computer simulations of the Amazon
region by accounting for its amazing diversity of trees.
Biodiversity can hence be an effective means to mitigate climate
risks and should not only be seen in the context of nature
conservation. ...."Plant trait diversity may enable the Amazon
forests, the world's greatest and maybe most fascinating tropical
ecosystem, to adjust to some level of*climate change*-- certain
trees dominant today could decrease and their place will be taken by
others*... "Despite the encouraging findings on biodiversity's
functional value, the Amazon rainforest unfortunately remains one of
the critical hotspots on the planet that demand very rapid decreases
in CO2 emissions."*
A changing sun, a changing*climate*?
<http://phys.org/news/2016-08-sun-climate.html>
Phys.Org -9 hours ago
...In 2011, European researchers set up TOSCA, a COST-funded
international network aiming to offer a better understanding of the
sun's effect on*climate*, against the backdrop of*global warming*.
Over 100 ... trigger*global warming*. Looking at time
scales*......They found mechanisms by which solar variation can
alter climate variability regionally , but none that would trigger
global warming. Looking at time scales longer than a century, the
impact of solar variability on climate change is evident, but the
effect of greenhouse gases has been proven much more considerable in
the short run.*
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