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*The world is racing to stop climate change. But the math still doesn’t
add up
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/11/03/the-world-is-racing-to-stop-climate-change-but-the-math-still-doesnt-add-up/?wpisrc=nl_green&wpmm=1>*
Washington Post - The entire globe is moving fast to stop climate
change. The Paris climate agreement enters into legal force on
Friday, and then shortly afterwards comes a first global meeting to
start implementing it in Marrakech, Morocco. ...., because of the
unforgiving nature of carbon math — once you emit a ton of carbon
dioxide, you can't get it back, and it accumulates steadily in the
atmosphere — there is exceedingly little time to change course and
increase ambitions....."It's just too little, and it's not happening
quickly enough," said Jacqueline McGlade, UNEP's chief scientist.
"If we don’t see emissions peaking by 2020, then the chances of
getting to 1.5 degrees is vanishingly small."... this doesn’t mean
there is no hope — it just means that the world has to do massively
more, and it has to do it quickly. Every year, we bank more carbon
emissions in the atmosphere. Every year we fail to bend the curve
sharply downwards, it becomes that much harder to get on the right
course....emissions have to peak and start to decline by 2020 — just
four short years from now — or else the 1.5 degree target could be gone.
The Paris Agreement on*Climate Change*Is Official. Now What?
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/business/energy-environment/paris-climate-change-agreement-official-now-what.html>
New York Times -2 hours ago
PARIS -When the landmark Paris Agreement to address climate change
officially goes into effect on Friday, the Eiffel Tower and Arc de
Triomphe will be floodlit green to celebrate the occasion. Now comes
the hard work: figuring out the details....Top energy policy makers
and corporate leaders caution that it will be challenging to meet
even the deal’s modest goals to reduce planet-warming emissions of
greenhouse gases....Many companies have not even figured out yet how
much greenhouse gas they emit, much less made plans to curb these
emissions. Rapid technological advances in areas like electric cars
are not enough to stop the world’s long climb in oil consumption,
let alone reverse it.
Why Republicans Still Reject the Science of*Global Warming*
<http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/why-republicans-still-reject-the-science-of-global-warming-w448023>
RollingStone.com -8 hours ago
"It has always been amazing to me that the Republicans as a party
have taken the view that*climate change*- if it even exists - is not
caused by man-made pollutants, and it's not really much of a
problem," Waxman says.
*Poo power: Dutch dairy industry launches €150m biogas project
<https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/nov/02/netherlands-europe-dairy-industry-agriculture-biogas-cows-manure-poo-power>*
Will a scheme to turn cow manure into biogas help the Netherlands
lose its reputation as the ‘bad guy’ of Europe when it comes to
agricultural emissions?....The process is simple: the dung is broken
down by bacteria into biogas in an anaerobic digester. Other
machines then extract nitrates and phosphates to make fertiliser,
leaving organic matter, which is spread on the Heegs'
farm....Masterminded by FrieslandCampina, the country’s largest
dairy collective which buys milk from 13,500 of the Netherlands'
17,000 dairy farmers, the project has established an initial target
of getting 1,000 large farms across the country to make power from
cow manure within four years....Farmers lease an anaerobic digester
and are given a 12 year fixed price for the biogas they produce,
subsidised by the Dutch government. To date, the economic affairs
department has committed €150m (£135m) to the cow power
programme....*"*Before, we just spread [dung] on the land. Now I
process it, get energy from it and then fertiliser. This way, we
make everything useful," says 27-year-old Pieter Heeg. He expects to
make €10,000 a year selling excess energy to Jumpstart, a new
cooperative launched by FrieslandCampina to help farmers through the
process of leasing and installing an anaerobic digester....About 10%
of the Netherlands’ greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture,
mostly methane as a result of the dairy industry, and the country’s
livestock produces 74m tonnes of manure a year, according to
FrieslandCampina.
*Explore estimated solar potential of your community
<https://www.google.com/get/sunroof/data-explorer/>*
Today, Google announced Project Sunroof’s new data explorer tool
<https://www.google.com/get/sunroof/data-explorer/> a tool that
allows the public to map the solar potential of entire cities and
communities, not just specific buildings.....Customized savings
estimate, Solar savings are calculated using roof size and shape,
shaded roof areas, local weather, local electricity prices, solar
costs, and estimated incentives over time. Using a sample address,
take a look at the detailed estimate Project Sunroof can give you...
1 Search for your home We use Google Earth imagery to analyze your
roof shape and local weather patterns to create a personalized solar
plan....
2 Personalize your solar analysis. Adjust your electric bill to
fine-tune your savings estimate and the recommended number of solar
panels for your home....
3 Compare finance options.. Compare loan, lease, and purchase
options for your solar panels based on your results....
4 Contact solar providers..See a list of local solar installers and
ask for estimates from your top choices.
*also tool from Mapdwell, has higher resolution (but less area
mapped) than google:* <https://www.mapdwell.com/en/sola>
https://www.mapdwell.com/en/solar Work with the Sun ... Solar
System™ is the best solar mapping tool in the world. Technology
developed at MIT...The Mapdwell Project is about enabling
communities with information in order to drive sustainable
practices, community awareness, energy efficiency, and smart
development through the aggregate effort of individuals. Mapdwell
proposes an organic, bottom-up, collective approach to
sustainability by delivering accurate, open, and unbiased
information to increase education and spread knowledge.
ExxonMobil tells groups to preserve records of*climate*case
communications
<http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/exxonmobil-tells-groups-to-preserve-records-of-climate-case-communications/article_3054fabf-fd58-5b7e-9e4f-37fae272eab4.html>
STLtoday.com -1 hour ago
Lawyers for ExxonMobil have told a variety of non-governmental
organizations to preserve all communications regarding*climate
change*investigations with a sweeping array of other groups and
individuals - including members of the press. The letters*...*
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The oceans are suffocating:*Climate change*is causing low oxygen
levels
<http://www.salon.com/2016/11/03/the-oceans-are-suffocating-climate-change-is-causing-low-oxygen-levels_partner/>
Salon -14 hours ago
Global*climate change*produces many effects - warming air energizes
the atmosphere and intensifies storms; warmer water expands and
raises sea level; storage of more carbon dioxide in the oceans is
acidifying large realms.
*CPA Newsletter October 2016 - If The Oceans Die, We Die
<http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/news/newsletters/194-cpa-newsletter-november-2016-if-the-oceans-die-we-die>*
Humanity fails to grasp that the ocean ecosystem is a planetary life
support system.....The literal disaster story is widely known:
over-fishing, pollution, heating, acidification and reef loss,
microbeads and vast gyres of plastic. It is the Anthropocene, writ
large and ugly. President Obama has spoken on the subject, pointing
out that protecting the oceans is essential in the struggle to limit
climate change. He has also acted to create protected areas in both
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. And in the past week there has
been the announcement of the world’s largest marine park in the Ross
Sea, Antarctica. Such action can be likened to re-wilding on land –
manageable and perhaps ark-like steps to preserve and restore areas
of health and biodiversity, amidst destruction. Noah’s Ark is a
powerful survival myth which has undergone hundreds of variations
since the Old Testament story.... http://climatepsychologyalliance.org/
*As President Obama Hints At Dakota Access Possible Reroute, Tensions
Swirl at Standing Rock
<http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/11/02/president-obama-dakota-access-reroute>*
President Barack Obama,...said that the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers may consider a reroute of the hotly contested Dakota
Access Pipeline, one which would presumably not cross sacred Native
American sites. The Obama administration is currently holding
consultations with tribes across the US, and Obama alluded to the
fact that the consultation process will "play out for several more
weeks" before the administration takes action....Obama explained
that "right now the Army Corps is examining whether there are ways
we can reroute this pipeline, 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 is properly attentive to the tradition of First
Americans." He also commented on First Amendment concerns, calling
for restraint on the part of law enforcement and continued
non-violence for protestors....The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe — whose
land sits along the proposed Dakota Access route along the Missouri
River and Lake Oahe — praised what it described as Obama's
"commitment to protect our sacred lands, our water, and the water of
17 million others." The Tribe also called for a full environmental
review, as opposed to the previous expedited permit review it
received from the Army Corps.
*NASA's Antarctic Flyover Reveals Melting Continent
<http://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/fly-over-country-stunning-aerial-views-antarctica-n676866>*
For the past eight years, NASA's Operation IceBridge has been
tracking how polar ice is responding to climate change....Scientists
studying the data collected on the thickness and shape of Antarctic
snow and ice believe that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may be in
irreversible decline....humanity can seem like an insignificant
development in face of these endless landscapes. The paradox,
though, is that as vast and overwhelming as the Antarctic may be,
humans may be instrumental in the changes affecting it.....NASA
aircrew members work inside the cockpit of an IceBridge DC-8
research airplane on Oct. 27 while in flight off the coast of
Antarctica....Onboard the plane is a laser altimeter that records
minute changes in the height of the ice surface from one year to the
next. Accompanying the laser are three radars that analyze the
elevation and layer composition of the snow and ice, as well as the
shape of the land underneath.
*This day in Climate History November 4, 1995 *
<http://www.cnn.com/US/9511/clinton_radio/11-05/c_script.html>*: From
D.R. Tucker -----------------*
November 4, 1995: In his weekly radio address, President Clinton
declares:...."Because we believe that what God created we must not
destroy, each of us has a sacred obligation to pass on a clean
planet to future generations...."For nearly three decades, all
Americans have agreed we must do what we have to protect our
environment. And America is cleaner and healthier because of
it...."Since our environmental laws were put in place, toxic
emissions by factories have been cut in half; lead levels in
children's blood have dropped 70 percent; Lake Erie, for example,
once declared dead, is now teeming with fish...."But all this
progress is now at risk. In the last few months, a small army of
lobbyists for polluters has descended on Capitol Hill, mounting a
full-scale assault on our environmental and public health
protections. And this Congress has actually allowed these lobbyists
to sit down and rewrite important environmental laws to weaken our
safeguards.".....And now they're trying to use the budget bill to
further weaken these protections. It's an incredible fact that this
Republican budget actually singles out the environment and its
protections for extra cuts. This budget will mean dirtier water,
more smog, more illness, and a diminished quality of life....Here's
how. It's plain that there are two ways to legalize pollution. You
can change the laws or just stop enforcing them by firing the
enforcers. The pollution lobby knows it could never repeal half our
environmental protections, so the Republican budget cuts the
resources for environmental enforcement in half. Quite simply, it
just pulls the cop from the environmental beat....The budget also
would cut off money now going to communities to invest to keep their
drinking water clean. And the cuts mean that toxic waste clean-ups
across America would slow to a crawl....The Republican leadership
even tried to slip 17 special interest provisions into the spending
bill, loopholes that would end enforcement of the Clean Air and the
Clean Water Acts, let more dangerous arsenic into our drinking
water, allow raw sewage on our beaches.
...http://www.cnn.com/US/9511/clinton_radio/11-05/c_script.html
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