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*Global deal reached to limit greenhouse gases in effort to fight
climate change
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-hfcs-reduction-deal-global-warming-20161014-story.html>*
Chicago Tribune, Nations have reached a deal to limit the use of
greenhouse gases far more powerful than carbon dioxide in a major
effort to fight climate change...The talks on hydrofluorocarbons, or
HFCs, have been called the first test of global will since the
historic Paris Agreement to cut carbon emissions was reached last
year. HFCs are described as the world's fastest-growing climate
pollutant and are used in air conditioners and refrigerators...The
agreement announced Saturday morning, after all-night negotiations,
caps and reduces the use of HFCs in a gradual process beginning in
2019 with action by developed countries including the United States.
More than 100 developing countries, including China, will start
taking action in 2024...A small group of countries including India
and some Gulf states secured a later start in 2029, saying their
economies need more time to grow...
*
****Drone footage shows total devastation of Hurricane Matthew in N.
Carolina (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
<https://www.rt.com/usa/362709-nc-hurricane-matthew-flooding-rivers/>*
She was stranded in her house for three days with her two dogs ‒ one
of whom is still there ‒ before she was rescued by her son and
nephew, rather than by emergency responders.
https://www.rt.com/usa/362709-nc-hurricane-matthew-flooding-rivers/
They "saved me ‒ walking through the water, climbing through trees,
because there were trees down," she said. She doesn't know where her
horses are. "The water is up to your neck coming out of the house.
The house is destroyed."
*Hurricane Matthew Killed Millions of Farm Animals in North Carolina
<http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/10/hurricane-matthew-killed-animals-hog-poop?mc_cid=9f10947c5a&mc_eid=7e24fc0e68>*
It also likely caused massive amounts of toxic hog poop to flow
into rivers and streams....Rivers in eastern North Carolina, still
swollen from Hurricane Matthew's downpours, are flooding a region
that teems with hog and poultry farms. As many as 5 million chickens
and turkeys had already died as of Wednesday, Reuters reports. The
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has so far not
released an estimate of hog deaths, but they could be steep....In
recent years, North Carolina's eastern counties have seen hundreds
of industrial-scale chicken houses appear, adding yet another source
of concentrated manure. They, too, are prone to flooding, ...
*Environmentalists fear coal ash spills from flooding
<http://www.wral.com/environmentalists-fear-coal-ash-spills-from-flooding/16111388/>*
GOLDSBORO, N.C. — Thousands of gallons of water flowed out of a
cooling pond at a retired Duke Energy power plant on Wednesday after
part of the retaining wall on the 545-acre pond gave way.
*Donation pages Website:* www.foodbankcenc.org
<http://www.foodbankcenc.org> (Food Bank of Central and Eastern
North
Carolina)https://secure2.convio.net/fbnc/site/Donation2;jsessionid=00000000.app274b?df_id=10383&mfc_pref=T&10383.donation=form1&NONCE_TOKEN=B12C9C7FCF04B0F0060F94161D2BFB63
Here's a tweet from the food bank people can
RT.:https://twitter.com/FoodBankCENC/status/786209339682021376
<https://twitter.com/FoodBankCENC/status/786209339682021376>
*Climate scientists published a paper debunking Ted Cruz
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/oct/14/climate-scientists-published-a-paper-debunking-ted-cruz>*
Earth's atmosphere is warming faster and more in line with models
than Ted Cruz and his witnesses argued...A new study
<http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0333.1> has
just appeared in the Journal of Climate
<http://journals.ametsoc.org/toc/clim/current> which deals with an
issue commonly raised by those who deny that human-caused climate
change is a serious risk. As I have written many times, we know
humans are causing the Earth's climate to change. We know this for
many reasons....First, we know that certain gases trap heat; this
fact is indisputable. Second, we know that humans have significantly
increased the amount of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.
Again, this is indisputable. Third, we know the Earth is warming
(again indisputable). We know the Earth warms because we are
actually measuring the warming rate in multiple different ways.
Those measurements are in good agreement with each other....Of
course there is other evidence too. For instance, ice loss across
the globe is widespread: in the Arctic, the Antarctic ice shelves,
Greenland, and from land glaciers. Sea levels are rising as warm
water expands in volume and as melt waters flow into the ocean. We
are also seeing changes of weather patterns and climatic zones
shift. The point is, there is a whole body of evidence that proves
the climate is changing and the change is caused largely by human
emissions of greenhouse gases
*(book review) Climate*Emergency: Global Insurgency
<http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/14/climate-emergency-global-insurgency>
Common Dreams (press release) -13 hours ago
(Common Dreams editor's note: The new, updated 2016 edition of
Jeremy Brecher's*Climate*Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival, from
which the following is drawn, can be now be downloaded for free at
the author's website here <http://www.jeremybrecher.org/>... as Bill
McKibben has said, "Fighting one pipeline at a time, the industry
will eventually prevail."[1] Is there a plausible strategy for
escalating today's campaigns against fossil fuel infrastructure to
create an effective challenge to the escalating climate threat? How
can we get the power we need to counter climate catastrophe? My book
Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival (download) grapples with
that question and proposes a possible strategy: a global nonviolent
constitutional insurgency. Now that strategy is being tried – and
may even be overcoming some of the obstacles that have foiled
climate protection heretofore. ...A constitutional insurgency
declares a set of laws and policies themselves illegal but does so
on the basis of existing constitutional principles. Such an
insurgency, as described by legal historian James Gray Pope, "goes
outside the formally recognized channels of representative politics
to exercise direct popular power, for example through extralegal
assemblies, mass protests, strikes, and boycotts."[3] It is not
formally a revolutionary movement because it does not challenge the
legitimacy of the fundamental law; rather, it asserts that current
officials are in violation of the very laws that they themselves
claim provide the justification for their authority. ...world's
people have a right and a duty to protect the climate – and that no
government can legitimately stop them. The U.S. organizers of Break
Free From Fossil Fuels issued this "Public Trust Proclamation":
We Are Here to Defend the Climate, the Constitution, and the Public
Trust
We are here to help our community, our country, and the world Break
Free From Fossil Fuels.
While we may risk arrest, we commit no
crime.....http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/14/climate-emergency-global-insurgency
Calling All*Climate*Activists: "Go Out and Get Yourself in Some Holy
Trouble"
<http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/calling-all-climate-activists-go-out-and-get-yourself-in-some-holy-trouble-20161014>
YES! Magazine -5 hours ago
Necessity was also behind Tuesday's pipeline shutdown by activist
group*Climate*Direct Action, O'Hara said, pointing to research that
shows we cannot remain under the Paris agreement's*global
warming*limit of 2 degrees Celsius if we burn the fossil.. ...A
handful of climate activists turned off the flow of Canadian tar
sands oil through pipelines in Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, and
Washington on Tuesday, Oct. 11. Five who cut chains and turned
pipeline valves and five more supporters were arrested. They face a
range of charges, including criminal trespass, sabotage, burglary,
and criminal mischief. *...*
*The Courage to Embrace Radical Choices in the Face of the Climate and
Food Crisis
<http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/14/courage-embrace-radical-choices-face-climate-and-food-crisis>*
The theme for this year's World Food Day is "Climate is changing.
Food and agriculture must too." ....First, we must decrease
agriculture's contribution to the climate problem. Roughly 13% of
global emissions come directly from agricultural production, in
particular through industrial meat production and consumption and
the production and use of synthetic mineral nitrogen
fertilizers....Beef and dairy are particularly problematic.
Scientists have estimated that if we reduce meat consumption in the
global North to the world's average—about 35 kg/year/person—we could
cut in half the greenhouse emissions coming from the livestock
sector....If we switch from synthetic nitrogen sources—which require
very high temperatures as well as natural gas as feedstock in their
production, which alone contributes 1% of total global emissions
annually—to organic sources of nitrogen fertilizer, we can further
dramatically reduce emissions from the agriculture sector....The
other essential strategy is to build resilience in our farming
systems. One way to do this is by paying attention to the health of
our soils. By deliberately building soils with natural
fertility-enhancing technologies—including manure, compost, and
cover cropping—we can increase their fertility at the same time we
increase their water-holding capacity. Soils can withstand longer
dry periods and can absorb more rainwater in extreme precipitation
events. For example farmers in Zambia, working with the Kasisi
Agricultural Training Center, were able to increase their yields and
soil moisture using agroecological practices, which led to an
overall increase in household food security....Another essential
element of a resilience-building strategy is seed and crop
diversity. By increasing the diversity in their fields, farmers
create a buffer against variable weather and the changing climate.
One year might be drier and the next wetter. Growing a range of
crops, and different varieties of their staple crops, helps them
continue to produce food even as conditions change. But to keep pace
with changing climates, farmers not only need seeds, they need
knowledge of successful climate adaptation practices, and networks
to share knowledge and seeds. The Farmer-Scientist Partnership for
Development—MASIPAG in its Philippine acronym —is a shining example
of such a network: joining tens of thousands of farmers across the
Philippines, working together with scientists, to share both
knowledge and seeds better adapted to changing climatic conditions.
*Breakage of monumental BC iceberg quietly sounds climate change alarm
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/breakage-of-monumental-bc-iceberg-quietly-sounds-climate-change-alarm/article32341873/>*
The Globe and Mail-Oct 12, 2016
A massive chunk of ice – thought to be the largest iceberg to ever
break off a glacier in Canada – fell into a lake in British Columbia
this summer and no one noticed until a U.S. scientist saw it on a
NASA photo...The 1.2-square-km iceberg calved from the tongue of the
glacier in northwest B.C. in late summer. It was photographed when a
NASA Earth Observations (NEO) satellite passed over the remote
region on Aug. 27...*.Dr. Mauri Pelto,* professor of environmental
science at Nichols College in Massachusetts and director of the
North Cascade Glacier Climate Project for more than 25 years, said
the Porcupine Glacier retreated nearly two kilometres in one leap
when the iceberg broke off....But even in that northern latitude,
glaciers are undeniably feeling the heat of /climate change/, Dr.
Pelto said. "I have worked on over 200 glaciers ..
https://glacierchange.wordpress.com
*This day in Climate History **October 15, 2014 :* From D.R. Tucker
*Exxon, Shell Carbon Emissions Rise Though Pumping Drops
<http://www.wsj.com/articles/exxon-shell-carbon-emissions-rise-though-pumping-drops-1413329329>***
"Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC are emitting more
carbon dioxide despite tapping less oil and natural gas. ..."For
every barrel they pump, the two biggest Western oil companies
generated 10% more in greenhouse gases each last year than they did
in 2011, according to company data..."The rise in such emissions,
which trap heat in the atmosphere, in part stems from the mounting
difficulty of getting oil and gas out of the ground. Much of the
energy companies’ new production comes from projects that consume a
lot of fuel, such as cooling natural gas to a liquid state for
transport, or heating and processing oil that is too heavy to flow
on its own."The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription):
http://online.wsj.com/articles/exxon-shell-carbon-emissions-rise-though-pumping-drops-1413329329
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