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*Report: United States Mid-Century Strategy for Deep Decarbonization
<https://twitter.com/GeoffreySupran/status/798933692781502465>*
US reveals 2050 climate strategy. Takeaways: Act now, We can do it,
Multiple pathways, pro-growth, Human activities, particularly CO2
emissions from fossil fuel combustion, have driven atmospheric
greenhouse gas (GHG), concentration levels higher than at any time
in at least 800,000 years (IPCC 2013). As a result, the Earth has
warmed at an alarming rate over the past century, with average
temperatures increasing by more than 0.8°C (1.5°F) (NCA 2014).
The consequences are already severe. Heat waves and droughts are
more common, wildfire seasons are longer and
fires larger and more costly, and extreme weather is becoming more
intense and unpredictable. Left unchecked, from 2000 to
2100, global average temperature increases of 2 to 5°C (3.6 to 9°F)
and sea level rise of two to four feet are likely, and much larger
increases are possible (USGCRP 2014, IPCC 2013). Climate change will
reduce long-run economic growth and jeopardize national
security. report https://t.co/Iy6RAoGfNE
*Supermoon Flooding
<https://tamino.wordpress.com/2016/11/16/supermoon-flooding/>*
it’s not just Miami and Boston, it’s lots of places. Yesterday’s
“supermoon” exaggerated the effect, because the moon was especially
close to the Earth so its gravitational influence was stronger than
usual. Minor flooding followed, from Miami to Maine ....
it’s going to get worse. Not just in Miami and Boston and Portland,
ME, but around the world. Humans live near the sea, and for
thousands of years the level of the ocean’s waters has changed only
imperceptibly … now it’s changing, not just perceptibly, but
threateningly. I repeat, the economic damage is considerable.... Th
This kind of minor flooding, that can happen even when there’s no
storm or wind or rain, is only part of the problem. When storm and
wind do hit, they can bring about the kind of storm surge that means
massive flooding. The kind of flooding that costs hundreds of
billions of dollars like in New Orleans (hurricane Katrina) and New
York/New Jersey (superstorm Sandy). The kind of flooding that costs
lives.
*Future nuisance flooding at Boston caused by astronomical tides
alone <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016EF000423/full>*
Accepted manuscript online: 25 October 2016
Abstract
Sea level rise necessarily triggers more occurrences of minor, or
nuisance, flooding events along coastlines, a fact well documented
in recent studies. At some locations nuisance flooding can be
brought about merely by high spring tides, independent of storms,
winds, or other atmospheric conditions. Analysis of observed water
levels at Boston indicates that tidal flooding began to occur there
in 2011 and will become more frequent in subsequent years. A
compilation of all predicted nuisance-flooding events, induced by
astronomical tides alone, is presented through year 2050. The
accuracy of the tide prediction is improved when several unusual
properties of Gulf of Maine tides, including secular changes, are
properly accounted for. Future mean sea-level rise at Boston cannot
be predicted with comparable confidence, so two very different
climate scenarios are adopted; both predict a large increase in the
frequency and
the magnitude of tidal flooding events.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016EF000423/epdf
*Democracy Now - from Marakesh, Morocco. Bernie Sanders' Surprise Speech
Outside the White House on Rejecting Dakota Pipeline & Trump
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE-0wEjfGgs>*
http://democracynow.org - We feature a surprise address by Senator
Bernie Sanders outside the White House on Tuesday during a global
day of action against the Dakota Access pipeline that included
demonstrations in over 300 cities. "Today we are saying it is time
for a new approach to the Native American people, not to run a
pipeline through their land," Sanders said, demanding that their
sovereign rights be honored. He also spoke about the need for
politicians to protect access to clean water, recognize that climate
change is real, and support an aggressive shift away from fossil
fuels to sustainable energy sources....Democracy Now! is an
independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly 1,400 TV
and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM
ET: http://democracynow.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE-0wEjfGgs
*Bernie Sanders speaks out in front of White House on #NoDAPL 'day
of action' <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9FS56zwvas>*
Protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline are happening across the
country as the construction company has sought relief in court. With
more than 200 demonstrations planned, the Day of Action is expected
to be the largest anti-DAPL protest in months. Senator Bernie
Sanders joined in to deliver a speech for those marching from the US
Army Corp of Engineers building in Washington, DC to the White
House. Video by RT America's Alexander Rubinstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9FS56zwvas
*Climate Science Deniers With Organisation of Donald Trump’s EPA
Pick Booted From UN Marrakech COP22 Talks
<http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/11/16/climate-science-deniers-representing-organisation-donald-trump-s-epa-pick-booted-un-cop22-talks>*
Climate science denier Marc Morano just got himself kicked out of
the UN climate talks in Marrakech. Of course, that was probably his
aim all along....Morano stood in a Trump hat, next to a life-size
cut-out of the president-elect, waving shredded copies of the Paris
Agreement....
The stunt gave Canadian outlet The Rebel the footage it has been
craving since it arrived, and got Morano kicked out of the talks....
But there’s a number of things that are weird about the story...To
start with, Morano (who is Communications Director of well know
climate deniers Commitee For A Constructive Tomorrow) was actually
here on a Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) badge...DeSmog
understands CFACT executive director Craig Rucker was also ejected,
along with one other person. All three were accredited with CEI
badges....The CEI’s Director of Energy and Environment is Myron
Ebell, who has been picked by Donald Trump to head the
USEnvironmental Agency’s transition. Ebell, who was also accredited
to attend the talks but has not been seen, is also a climate science
denier.
China to Trump: Why are you blaming us for*climate change*?
<http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/16/13653732/china-climate-change-hoax-donald-trump-morocco>
The Verge -54 minutes ago
Four years later, Trump was elected president of the United States -
and so China decided to address the preposterous claim, telling the
president-elect that China didn't concoct the “*global
warming*hoax.” China's vice foreign minister Liu Zhenmin*...*
*The Enormous Damage Caused to the World By the Climate Change
Disinformation Campaign Which Began in the United States and Spread To
Other Countries
<https://ethicsandclimate.org/2016/11/15/the-enormous-damage-caused-to-the-world-by-the-climate-change-disinformation-campaign-which-began-in-the-united-states-and-spread-to-other-countries/>*
The following are slides presented on the enormous damage to the
world caused by the climate change disinformation campaign
The program will begin with a briefing on what peer-reviewed social
science has revealed about the climate change disinformation
campaign’s structure, funding, tactics, successes in blocking
climate policies, and main participants. This will be followed by a
discussion of:
Why despite fact that scientific skepticism is good and should be
encouraged, this is not responsible skepticism?
Why this behavior cannot be excused as an exercise in free speech?
What damage has been caused by this campaign?
What kind of malfeasance is this? Tort, crime, fraud?
How to increase public international awareness of these developments?
What should be done about it?
"Program at the UNFCCC COP 22, Marraketch Morroco" Tuesday, November
15, 2016 Donald A. Brown, Widener University Commonwealth Law School
Broadcast Networks Largely Ignored*Climate Change*This Election Year
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elliott-negin/broadcast-networks-largel_b_13002776.html>
Huffington Post -4 hours ago
Secretary of State John Kerry, in Marrakesh this week for
international*climate*talks, recently said it “pissed him off” that
there wasn't a single question asked about*climate change*during the
six hours of televised presidential and vice presidential*..*
How much longer can Antarctica's hostile ocean delay*global
warming*?
<http://www.nature.com/news/how-much-longer-can-antarctica-s-hostile-ocean-delay-global-warming-1.20978>
Nature.com -3 hours ago
In 2007, a team led by Corinne Le Quéré, now director of the Tyndall
Centre for*Climate Change*Research in Norwich, UK, published a study
in Science indicating that the rate of carbon uptake by the Southern
Ocean decreased between 1981 and 2004...The waters of the Southern
Ocean have absorbed much of the excess heat and carbon generated by
humanity....“The Southern Ocean is doing us a big climate favour at
the moment, but it’s not necessarily the case that it will continue
doing so in the future,” says Michael Meredith, an oceanographer
with the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK. Meredith is
heading a series of expeditions over the next five years to help
document the uptake of heat and carbon. “It really is the key place
for studying these things....With the new data, Sarmiento and his
team can test their models and refine estimates of how CO2 moves
between the seas and the sky. Indirect evidence suggests that the
Southern Ocean is a net carbon sink and has absorbed as much as 15%
of the carbon emissions emitted by humanity since the industrial
revolution. But at some times of year and in specific places in this
region, carbon-rich surface waters release CO2 into the atmosphere.
Alison Gray, a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton who is leading
the study. “It would imply that potentially there is a much weaker
carbon sink in the Southern Ocean than has been estimated.”...
The speed of those winds had increased during that time, probably as
a result of the hole in the stratospheric ozone layer over
Antarctica and possibly because of global warming. Stronger winds
are better able to pull up deep, ancient water, which releases CO2
when it reaches the surface. That would have caused a net weakening
of the carbon sink....If that trend were to continue, atmospheric
CO2 levels would rise even faster in the future....
In January 2015, oceanographers aboard the Australian icebreaker
Aurora Australis were cruising off the coast of Antarctica when they
were presented with a unique opportunity. Following a crack in the
sea ice, they were able to reach the edge of the Totten Glacier, one
of the biggest drainage points for the East Antarctica ice sheet. No
other expedition had reached within 50 kilometres of the glacier...
The team deployed floats and gliders into the waters around and
underneath the glacier, which is 200 metres thick at its front edge.
What they found came as a shock. The water at the front of the
glacier was 3 °C warmer than the freezing point at the base of the
glacier...
“We always thought Totten was too far away from warm water to be
susceptible, but we found warm water all over the shelf there,” says
Steve Rintoul, an oceanographer at the Antarctic Climate and
Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre in Hobart, Australia...
Scientists had already shown7, 8 that warm-water currents are
undercutting the West Antarctic ice sheet in many areas along the
peninsula where the glaciers extend into the ocean. But Rintoul says
that this expedition provided some of the first hard evidence that
these same processes are affecting East Antarctica, raising new
questions about the longevity of the mammoth ice sheets that blanket
the continent.
*We Finally Know How London's Famous Killer Fog Formed
<http://gizmodo.com/we-finally-know-how-londons-famous-killer-fog-formed-1789015786>*
...By the time the fog lifted on December 9th [1952], 150,000 people
had been hospitalized. Experts now estimate that over 12,000 men,
women, and children died from exposure to the befouled air....
London’s Great Smog, as the disaster is now known, was immediately
(and correctly) blamed on coal. But the details of what exactly
happened remained elusive for decades. Now, through laboratory
experiments and atmospheric measurements in two pollution-prone
Chinese cities, Xi’an and Beijing, a team lead by Texas A&M’s Renyi
Zhang has worked out a likely explanation for the Great Smog and
other deadly air pollution events around the world. Their work is
published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academies of
Sciences
<http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/11/09/1616540113.full>..."...our
results explain the outstanding sulfur problem during the historic
London Fog formation and elucidate the chemical mechanism of severe
haze in China."
How Capt. James Cook's intricate 1778 records reveal global warming
today in Arctic
<http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/science/how-capt-james-cooks-intricate-1778-records-reveal-global-warming-today-in-arctic/>
The Seattle Times -4 hours ago
British explorer Capt. James Cook is usually associated with the
tropics, but records from his 1778 voyage north reveal the extent of
the Arctic ice pack and contrast with today’s ice-free summer route
through the Northwest Passage....The British expedition was halted
north of the Bering Strait by “ice which was as compact as a Wall
and seemed to be ten or twelve feet high at least,” according to the
captain’s journal. Cook’s ships followed the ice edge all the way to
Siberia in their futile search for an opening, sometimes guided
through fog by the braying of the unpalatable creatures the crew
called Sea Horses...
More than two centuries later, scientists are mining meticulous
records kept by Cook and his crew for a new perspective on the
warming that has opened the Arctic in a way the 18th century
explorer could never have imagined...
*Polar maps: Captain Cook and the earliest historical charts of the
ice edge in the Chukchi Sea
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1088937X.2016.1236845?journalCode=tpog20>*
The British expedition was halted north of the Bering Strait by “ice
which was as compact as a Wall and seemed to be ten or twelve feet
high at least,” according to the captain’s journal. Cook’s ships
followed the ice edge all the way to Siberia in their futile search
for an opening, sometimes guided through fog by the braying of the
unpalatable creatures the crew called Sea Horses.
More than two centuries later, scientists are mining meticulous
records kept by Cook and his crew for a new perspective on the
warming that has opened the Arctic in a way the 18th century
explorer could never have imagined.
*Unified Sea Ice Thickness Climate Data Record
<http://psc.apl.washington.edu/sea_ice_cdr/>*
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/sea_ice_cdr/Summaries.html
*This Day in Climate History November 16, 2004:
<http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15814614/ns/msnbc-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/t/worst-person-world-sen-james-inhofe/>
- from D.R. Tucker *
November 17, 2006: MSNBC's Keith Olbermann calls out Oklahoma Senator
James Inhofe for simultaneously trafficking in climate denial and blasphemy:
"But our winner, Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, who until January
will remain the chairman of the Senate Committee on the Environment and
Public Works. This morning he declared that any global warming is owed
to 'natural causes' and is 'due to the sun.'
'God’s still up there,' he added.
"So, Senator, you’re blaming global warming on God?
"Senator James 'Is it just me or is it hot in here' Inhofe, [designated
as] Friday’s 'Worst Person in the World.'"
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15814614/ns/msnbc-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/t/worst-person-world-sen-james-inhofe/
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