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*Dear Speaker Ryan: your 'forward-looking agenda' ignores climate
change
<http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/298671-dear-speaker-ryan-your-forward-looking-agenda-ignores>*
Considering the much-touted centrality of poverty to Speaker Ryan's
thinking, you'd expect "A Better Way" to acknowledge the economic
impacts of a changing climate. Unfortunately, not only would his
agenda make climate change harder to combat, it would make life more
difficult for many of the minority and low-income communities that
climate change has already harmed....His failure to address climate
change's national security impacts is just as glaring. "A Better
Way" claims to "tackle new threats" of "our time and beyond," but
only mentions climate change by way of complaining that President
Obama has supposedly prioritized it over "countering radicalization
at home." (In fact, he has rightly focused on both issues.) The
Department of Defense now formally treats climate change as a
"threat multiplier," since erratic precipitation patterns, rising
temperatures and extreme weather events will exacerbate global
instability and increase circumstances that breed terrorism. Speaker
Ryan's agenda simply ignores this....The danger of that approach is
clear for anyone who cares to look. In the Horn of Africa between
2008 and 2012 – a period of severe drought – more than 144 million
people were displaced by sudden onset disasters. Contrary to
Republican orthodoxy, efforts to curb emissions and bolster U.S.
security complement one another. Indeed, they often rely on each
other to succeed.
*// <http://phys.org/news/2016-09-global-2c-threshold.html>*
Runaway*Global Warming*
<http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx?sid=76339>
SDSU Newscenter -15 hours ago
As this permafrost melts, it sets off a biochemical chain reaction
in the soil that could dramatically increase the emission of
greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, accelerating
further*climate*change. San Diego State University biologist
Donatella*Zona wrote about this issue in a commentary article this
week in the journal Nature
<http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v537/n7622/full/537625a.html>...
the layer of permafrost typically acts as a barrier against moisture
drainage in the soil. As this permafrost melts, the moisture drains
out, leaving the top layers of the soil drier and warmer. This
warming kick-starts a biochemical process within organic matter
present in the soil that releases carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere. Atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases
are leading contributors to warming global temperatures....emission
of methane, another greenhouse gas, is highest in the Arctic during
the region*'*s cold season. That was surprising, as most scientists
thought little if any greenhouse gases escaped the frozen soil
during the cold season. Reshaping the Arctic Landscape
<http://universe.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx?sid=76086>
*
*($) Biogeochemistry: Long-term effects of permafrost thaw
<http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v537/n7622/full/537625a.html>*
Carbon emissions from the Arctic tundra could increase drastically
as global warming thaws permafrost. Clues now obtained about the
long-term effects of such thawing on carbon dioxide emissions
highlight the need for more data.
*(YouTube video )National Geographic's Dangerous Warming Documentary 1-6
degrees warming <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNk5xV1w0m0>*
This thought-provoking film tackles in startling detail the alarming
changes that may face us all....scientists are warning that the
global average temperature could increase by as much as 6 degrees
Celsius over the next century, which would cause our world to change
radically.... This documentary... take(s) a look at what effect each
rise of 1ºC could have on the world.... what if the global
temperature increased by another degree? ...the changes would no
longer be gradual. Greenland's glaciers and some of the lower lying
islands would start to disappear. ...At 3ºC higher the Arctic would
be ice-free all summer, the Amazon rainforest would begin to dry out
and extreme weather patterns would become the norm. An increase of
4ºC would see the oceans rise drastically. Then comes the twilight
zone of climate change, if the global temperature rises again by
another degree. ...Part of once temperate regions could become
uninhabitable, while humans fight each other for the world's
remaining resources. The sixth degree is what is called the doomsday
scenario as oceans become marine wastelands, deserts expand and
catastrophic events become more common. ...If we do nothing to
reduce this threat, where will the tipping point be that may mean we
are no longer able to stop global warming?
http://natgeotv.com/ca/six_degrees/about
*Global warming*set to pass 2C threshold in 2050: report
<http://phys.org/news/2016-09-global-2c-threshold.html>
Phys.Org -17 hours ago
Earth is on track to sail past the two degree Celsius (3.6 degrees
Fahrenheit) threshold for dangerous global warming by 2050 *Climate
change*is happening .. much faster than anticipated,...
Earth CO2 levels: Have we crossed a point of no return?
<http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0928/Earth-CO2-levels-Have-we-crossed-a-point-of-no-return>
Christian Science Monitor -3 hours ago
Earth CO2 levels: The annual low for atmospheric concentrations of
carbon dioxide has crossed the 400 parts per million threshold, a
level not seen for millions of years.
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