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*Scientists have long feared this ‘feedback’ to the climate system. Now
they say it’s happening*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/11/30/the-ground-beneath-our-feet-is-poised-to-make-global-warming-much-worse-scientists-find/?ct=t%28Carbon_Brief_Weekly_07_10_2016%29&utm_campaign=21200d37d6-Carbon_Brief_Weekly_02_12_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Weekly%20Carbon%20Briefing&utm_term=.835fc0af5052>
Chris Mooney, Washington Post ....That feedback involves the
planet’s soils, which are a massive repository of carbon due to the
plants and roots that have grown and died in them, in many cases
over vast time periods (plants pull in carbon from the air through
photosynthesis and use it to fuel their growth). It has long been
feared that as warming increases, the microorganisms living in these
soils would respond by very naturally upping their rate of
respiration, a process that in turn releases carbon dioxide or
methane, leading greenhouse gases.....
...Crowther argues that until now, the science community has often
left this potential carbon feedback from planetary soils out of its
calculations because it wasn’t well enough understood. "The entire
magnitude of this feedback was removed from several of the earth
system models, the models that inform [the United Nations’
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change], because of its massive
uncertainty," he says. ... The study gives "strong support to the
hypothesis that soils will release a substantial amount of carbon in
response to rising air temperatures,"...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/11/30/the-ground-beneath-our-feet-is-poised-to-make-global-warming-much-worse-scientists-find
Bernie Sanders mocks House Science Committee for promoting article
denying*climate change*
<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bernie-sanders-climate-change-denial-us-government-science-body-breitbart-article-a7451431.html>
The Independent -3 hours ago
The crux of the Breitbart article is that all changes in temperature
can be attributed to the natural global weather patterns*El Niño*-
which drove up temperatures in 2015, until the middle of this year -
and*La Niña*which is kicking in now, lowering*...*
Obama Quietly Undercutting*Climate*Legacy With Foreign Fossil Fuel
Investments: Investigation
<http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/11/30/obama-quietly-undercutting-climate-legacy-foreign-fossil-fuel-investments>
Common Dreams (press release) -Nov 30, 2016
President Barack Obama's*climate*credentials are being undermined by
a federal agency in his administration that is putting billions of
taxpayer dollars into foreign fossil fuel projects.
Statement by Attorney General Lynch on the Dakota Access Pipeline
Protests <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlvkb_8_OOE>
Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch released a video statement today
(12-2-2016) regarding the Dakota Access Pipeline protests...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlvkb_8_OOE
Desperate search for loved ones missing from Tennessee*wildfire*
<http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tennessee-wildfire-eleven-dead-many-missing-gatlinburg-sevier-county/>
CBS News -4 hours ago
Now with 11 confirmed deaths, the devastating*wildfire*in Tennessee
has killed more people than any other U.S.*wildfire*in the last 13
years. At least 80 people were injured, a number of people are still
missing -- exactly how many is unknown - *...*
House Science Committee's Twitter Promotes Article
Mocking*Climate*'Alarmists'
<http://www.snopes.com/2016/12/01/house-science-committees-twitter-promotes-article-mocking-climate-alarmists/>
snopes.com -12 hours ago
"The last three years may eventually come to be seen as the final
death rattle of the*global warming*scare" was the message promoted
by the influential congressional committee's official Twitter account.
Sorry, There's No Reason To Think Ivanka Trump Will Be Our*Climate
Change*Champion
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ivanka-trump-climate-change_us_5840609ee4b09e21702d3fda>
Huffington Post -18 hours ago
There's zero evidence Ivanka Trump will help make the fight
against*climate change*a pillar of her father's administration,
despite what some headlines may have led readers to believe.
*(audio) HEAL Utah Podcasts <http://www.healutah.org/heal-utah-podcast/>*
http://www.healutah.org/heal-utah-podcast/
Every week, the HEAL Utah Podcast takes a look at...Environmental
issues, controversies and people at the heart of them. Our host,
Executive Director, Matt Pacenza, interviews authors, activists,
elected officials and environmentalists from Utah — and beyond.
..If you'd like to subscribe to the podcast — and get each week's
new episode delivered magically to your phone or other device —
here's the link to the iTunes feed for the HEAL Utah Podcast. If you
use an Android app or another non iTunes method, paste this link —
http://www.healutah.org/feed/podcast — into whatever app you use.
* Episode #47: Derrick Jensen, "The Myth of Human Supremacy"
<http://www.healutah.org/episode-47-derrick-jensen-myth-human-supremacy/>
Episode #48: Kathleen Moore, "Great Tide Rising: Finding Clarity and
Moral Courage to Confront Climate Change"
<http://www.healutah.org/episode-48-kathleen-moore-great-tide-rising-finding-clarity-moral-courage-confront-climate-change/>
Episode #56: Dr. Michael Mann, "The Madhouse Effect"
<http://www.healutah.org/episode-56-dr-michael-mann-madhouse-effect/>
Jeff Sessions Thinks Fighting*Climate Change*Will Hurt Poor People,
Which, Huh?
<http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2016/12/jeff_sessions_says_fighting_climate_change_would_hurt_poor_people.html>
Slate Magazine -6 hours ago
In a November 2015 interview with a conservative Christian lobbying
group's in-house podcast, Sessions said investing trillions into
clean energy does "almost nothing" to fight*global warming*and makes
it harder for people in poor countries to afford*......In a November
2015 interview with a conservative Christian lobbying group*'*s
in-house podcast, Sessions said investing trillions into clean
energy does *"*almost nothing*"* to fight global warming and makes
it harder for people in poor countries to afford electricity,
according to audio obtained Thursday by the Huffington Post....*
*The interview, which has since been removed from Family Research
Council*'*s website, took place as world leaders gathered in Paris
for the United Nations climate conference that yielded the historic
climate agreement Trump now threatens to unravel..*.In a November
2015 interview with a conservative Christian lobbying group's
in-house podcast, Sessions said investing trillions into clean
energy does "almost nothing" to fight global warming and makes it
harder for people in poor countries to afford electricity, according
to audio obtained Thursday by the Huffington Post...
The interview, which has since been removed from Family Research
Council's website, took place as world leaders gathered in Paris for
the United Nations climate conference that yielded the historic
climate agreement Trump now threatens to unravel.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/11/28/interview_on_cbc_about_trump_s_plan_to_gut_earth_science_at_nasa.html
Your Money|You're Buying a Home. Have You Considered*Climate
Change*?
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/your-money/youre-buying-a-home-have-you-considered-climate-change.html>
New York Times -6 hours ago
That was my conclusion, at least, after reading my colleague Ian
Urbina's recent article about*climate change*and the residential
real estate market.
*Climate change*could spark major humanitarian crisis, experts say
<https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/02/military-experts-climate-change-humanitarian-crisis/>
Engadget -8 hours ago
The group said that even if the rise in*global warming*is held under
2 degrees Celsius, there still could be a major humanitarian crisis
to sort out...."We're going to see refugee problems on an
unimaginable scale, potentially above 30 million people,"
Muniruzzaman said. He also explained that with a 1 meter (3 foot)
rise in sea level, Bangladesh could lose 20 percent of its land
mass. "Climate change is the greatest security threat of the 21st
century," he continued. Environmental factors are one cause of the
massive European migration crisis and the group of military
officials say those issues will continue to pose security risks and
could provoke international conflict.
https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/02/military-experts-climate-change-humanitarian-crisis/
*This is the most dangerous time for our planet Stephen Hawking
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/01/stephen-hawking-dangerous-time-planet-inequality?utm_source=Weekly+Carbon+Briefing&utm_campaign=21200d37d6-Carbon_Brief_Weekly_02_12_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3ff5ea836a-21200d37d6-303430725&ct=t%28Carbon_Brief_Weekly_07_10_2016%29>*
...So the recent apparent rejection of the elites in both America
and Britain is surely aimed at me, as much as anyone. Whatever we
might think about the decision by the British electorate to reject
membership of the European Union and by the American public to
embrace Donald Trump as their next president, there is no doubt in
the minds of commentators that this was a cry of anger by people who
felt they had been abandoned by their leaders....
What matters now, far more than the choices made by these two
electorates, is how the elites react. Should we, in turn, reject
these votes as outpourings of crude populism that fail to take
account of the facts, and attempt to circumvent or circumscribe the
choices that they represent? I would argue that this would be a
terrible mistake...
For me, the really concerning aspect of this is that now, more than
at any time in our history, our species needs to work together. We
face awesome environmental challenges: climate change, food
production, overpopulation, the decimation of other species,
epidemic disease, acidification of the oceans....
Together, they are a reminder that we are at the most dangerous
moment in the development of humanity. We now have the technology to
destroy the planet on which we live, but have not yet developed the
ability to escape it. Perhaps in a few hundred years, we will have
established human colonies amid the stars, but right now we only
have one planet, and we need to work together to protect it.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/01/stephen-hawking-dangerous-time-planet-inequality
*This Day in Climate History December 3, 2009
<http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/380473>- from D.R. Tucker
*
**December 3, 2009: MSNBC host Keith Olbermann calls out the hosts
of the Fox News Channel program "Fox and Friends" for selectively
editing a segment of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" to imply that
host Jon Stewart rejected the evidence of human-caused climate
change. http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/380473
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