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How a Changing*Climate*Is Shaping a Leaf Peeper's Paradise
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/science/climate-change-leaves.html>
New York Times -8 hours ago
*Climate change*is responsible, scientists say. As the seasonal
change creeps later into the year, not only here but all across the
northern United States and Canada, the glorious colors will last
longer, they predict - a rare instance where*global**...*
**(Interactive Map) See your city on sea level rise
<http://seeing.climatecentral.org/#12/40.7127/-74.0060?show=lockinAnimated&level=3&unit=feet&pois=hide>*
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**Explore our Surging Seas Seeing Choices map — even Leonardo
DiCaprio is doing it....Mapping Choices presents a split-screen view
of some of the same maps shown here, for comparing scenarios. From
Mapping Choices, click on “Learn About This Map” for more detailed
information about the science and sources behind both Mapping
Choices and this map. ... Most of the sea level rise mapped here
comes from the melting and decay of Greenland and Antarctic ice
sheets. The sea levels shown in this map come from the center of a
range of scientifically assessed possibilities; the true outcome
could be more or less severe....The elevation data used inside the
United States is compiled by NOAA and has high resolution and
accuracy......This map shows sea levels locked in by different
amounts of carbon pollution, according to recent scientific
research. If we burn enough fossil fuels to heat the planet by
4°C—continuing a path of unchecked pollution—we could drown coastal
cities worldwide... If we make a rapid transition to a global clean
energy economy and achieve the main goal of the Paris Agreement,
limiting warming to 2°C, some cities will be saved. .... it is
sobering to map the challenges following after 1°C of warming, a
level we have just passed....According to Climate Central’s
analysis, 470 to 760 million people (central finding, 627 million)
live on land that would be condemned by 4°C warming. The number
drops by more than half for 2°C, and more than half again for
1.5°C....These two efforts evaluate how much warming we can
currently expect in light of the national pledges made at Paris and
the policies developed since then. http://sealevel.climatecentral.org/
NASA/JPL: "*Sea-Level Rise*Underestimated"
<http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2016/11/nasajpl-sea-level-rise-underestimated-1.html>
The Daily Galaxy (blog) -10 hours ago
A new NASA study suggests that we've underestimated the amount
of*sea level rise*that occurred in the Northern Hemisphere during
the 20th century, finding that historical records have miscalculated
the increase by as much as 5 to 28 percent in certain ...
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**Army Corps considering pipeline reroute — Obama*
Ellen M. Gilmer, E&E reporter
Published: Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Federal officials are considering whether to reroute the contentious
Dakota Access pipeline, President Obama said yesterday.... In an
interview with the video news organization NowThis News, Obama said
he is closely monitoring tribes' and environmentalists' widespread
opposition to the oil pipeline and wants to find a way to
"accommodate sacred lands."... "We're monitoring this closely and,
you know, I think as a general rule, my view is that there is a way
for us to accommodate sacred lands of Native Americans," Obama said
in the interview, shared last night on "The Last Word with Lawrence
O'Donnell" on MSNBC....He added that the Army Corps of Engineers is
looking at rerouting options that would be "attentive" to tribal
tradition.... "And, you know, I think that right now the Army Corps
is examining whether there are ways to reroute this pipeline in a
way," he said. "So we're going to let it play out for several more
weeks and determine whether or not this can be resolved in a way
that I think is properly attentive to the traditions of the first
Americans."
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(YouTube video ) 10 Insane Solutions to China's Deadly Smog | China
Uncensored <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqdgU5-CcyA>*
Chinese officials concoct ridiculous plans to try and remedy the
nation's deadly air pollution....4000 people die per day from air
pollution in China. ..Well, there are a lot of...um,
brilliant...ideas... And here are 10 of my favorites.
# 10 Banning Stuff...
# 9 Vacuum it up!...
# 8 A drone will work, right?...
# 7 Let’s try shutting down more things....
# 6 Cover it up! Problem solved!...
# 5 No, literally, cover it up. When the world’s on your case for
spewing out so much pollution that it even reaches the United
States, Whaddya gonna do? Stuff cotton balls into your air
monitoring equipment. Because then, how will anyone know there’s
pollution? mwhaha.
#4 Turn on the sprinklers No, not just any sprinklers. Giant,
giant ones! Put them on top of skyscrapers. It’s like how you’d
spray water on a baseball diamond to keep the dust down...
# 3 Conversion—it’s not just for infidels anymore If coal is the
problem, then converting it to natural gas must be the solution!
...even though it won’t produce the same kind of air pollution as
coal, natural gas can "release 36-108% more greenhouse gases than
coal." It also takes loads of water to convert. So where should we
build these? Obviously in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, where
there’s almost no more water left. But you know, that was almost a
real idea....
# 2 Space Lasers. To reduce its reliance on dirty coal power,
China has drawn up plans to build a gigantic solar-powered
spacecraft. It would convert solar energy into microwave energy
that would then be shot down to the Earth like a giant laser beam,
and then converted to electricity. What could go wrong with giant
space lasers?...
And # 1 Change your thinking! Why all this negative talk about
pollution? You can’t solve it. So change your perspective! Party
mouthpiece CCTV did. In an article that’s now been removed from the
Internet, CCTV editor argued that pollution has many benefits...I
didn’t even have time to get to the giant floating jellyfish.
*Climate*Promises Can't Kill Asia's Coal Addiction
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-02/asia-s-coal-addiction-seen-growing-despite-promises-on-climate>
Bloomberg -3 hours ago
Asia's demand for coal is likely to increase for years to come even
though countries including China, Japan and India have agreed on
steps to limit fossil-fuel pollution damaging the*climate*. That's
the conclusion an analysis of Bloomberg New Energy*...*
Indigenous Rights are key to preserving forests,*climate
change*study finds
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/02/indigenous-rights-forests-climate-change-study>
The Guardian -10 hours ago
The world's indigenous communities need to be given a bigger role
in*climate*stabilisation, according to a new study that shows at
least a quarter of forest carbon is stored on communal land,
particularly in Brazil....The research by a group of academic
institutions and environmental NGOs is the most comprehensive effort
yet to quantify the contribution of traditional forest guardians to
reduce emissions of greenhouse gases....Authors say the expansion of
tribal land rights is the most cost-effective way to protect forests
and sequester carbon – an issue that they hope will receive more
prominence at the upcoming United Nations climate conference in
Marrakech
*(YouTube video) Noam Chomsky: The Alien perspective on humanity
<https://youtu.be/h0qdbsE3Jqo?t=15m51s>*
We meet Noam (and his wife) in his office at MIT in Cambridge. Tilo
asks Noam to pretend to be an alien for a moment. An alien who looks
down on Earth. What does he witness? Chomsky explains what the
objective observer from out of space would see: What is humanity up
to in the 21st century? Will it be our final century? Are we going
to survive? What existential dangers are we facing? What's the most
dangerous organization in human history?.... Tilo and "Alien
Chomsky" also talk about the American Empire: Is it going to last?
Is America the exception to the rule of Empires always falling?
..."It’s hard to find words to describe....that in the most powerful
country in world history, the most educated, with major advantages,
a major political party is saying let’s race to the precipice as
quickly as possible...And there’s no comment on it. Try to find a
comment on that fact. I mean what it really means is that this is
the most dangerous organization in world history....The Republican
Party? Take a look. Is that an exaggeration?"
https://youtu.be/h0qdbsE3Jqo
*This day in Climate History November 3, 2012 *
<http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.com/2012/11/chris-hayes-whats-at-stake-with-climate.html>*:
>From D.R. Tucker -----------------*
On MSNBC's "Up," Chris Hayes lays out the moral case for action
on climate change.... "The state cannot eliminate senseless death,
but it is its duty to reduce its likelihood. It’s a conservative
insight, really, the idea that government’s job before all else is
to keep its citizens secure, to protect them. Everything else comes
after. Lefty that I am, I’m reminded in this moment that it contains
an undeniable core truth.....And yet here we sit with a political
system that can barely bring itself to acknowledge or discuss the
tangible danger climate change poses to us, never mind undertake the
massive, sustained effort necessary to combat and adapt to
it....http://video.msnbc.msn.com/up/49672392#49672392....http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.com/2012/11/chris-hayes-whats-at-stake-with-climate.html
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