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*Uncharted waters: Mega-cruise ships sail the Arctic
<http://www.reuters.com/article/us-environment-shipping-arctic-idUSKCN12A14B>*
With a minimum ticket price of $19,755, the 1,700 passengers and
crew on board the Crystal Serenity....A surge in Arctic tourism is
bringing ever bigger cruise ships to the formerly isolated,
ice-bound region, prompting calls for a clamp-down to prevent
Titanic-style accidents and the pollution of fragile
eco-systems....Arctic nations should consider limiting the size of
vessels and ban the use of heavy fuel oil in the region, industry
players said, after a first luxury cruise ship sailed safely through
Canada's Northwest Passage this summer....The route, which connects
the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans via the Arctic, was once clogged
with icebergs but is now ice-free in summer due to global
warming....Cruise ships usually use heavy oil, a type of fuel that
takes longer to break down in the event of a spill. The Crystal
Serenity did not use heavy oil during its trip, its operator has said...
*Five Climate Change Questions Chris Wallace Could Ask At The Final
Presidential Debate
<http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/10/17/five-climate-change-questions-chris-wallace-could-ask-final-presidential-debate/213846>*
Fox News' Chris Wallace has selected "Debt and entitlements,"
"Immigration," "Economy," "Supreme Court," "Foreign hot spots," and
"Fitness to be President" as the topics for the final presidential
debate, which he will moderate on October 19. But ... would not
excuse Wallace if he fails to ask a question about climate
change.......If Wallace refuses to ask Hillary Clinton and Donald
Trump about climate change, it will mark the culmination of a
stunning media failure. It would mean that presidential debate
moderators failed to address climate change in two consecutive
election cycles, after climate questions were asked in two
presidential debates and the vice presidential debate in 2008. Even
worse, it would mean that Trump avoids fielding a single debate
question on climate change during the entire presidential campaign,
spanning 14 primary and general election debates over the last 14
months.
*1. Immigration:* ...Climate change worsened...the Syrian refugee
crisis, and..climate change..will drive millions of Mexicans to seek
entry into the United States ...Will you incorporate climate change
into your immigration policies, and if so, how?
*2. Economy:*...climate change is now the single greatest threat to
the global economy. What will you do to protect our economy from the
effects of climate change?
*3. Supreme Court:* ...how will your administration fulfill the
Supreme Court's mandate to cut greenhouse gas pollution?
*4. Foreign Hot Spots:* ...To what extent do you believe
climate-related risks should be integrated into military planning?
*5. Fitness To Be President*: ....Will you listen to the scientists
on climate change, and do you believe that those who refuse to do so
are unfit for our nation's highest office?
*Climate change*could drive 122m more people into extreme poverty by
2030
<https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/oct/17/climate-change-could-drive-122m-more-people-into-extreme-poverty-by-2030-un-united-nations-report>
The Guardian -2 hours ago
Up to 122 million more people worldwide could be living in extreme
poverty by 2030 as a result of*climate change*and its impacts on
small-scale farmers' incomes, a major UN report warned ...that
without measures to halt and reverse climate change, food production
could become impossible in large areas of the world....Climate
change is also expected to affect the nutrient content of food. The
higher the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, the lower the
nutritional content of crops like wheat...."So not only people's
ability to acquire food will be reduced, but also the nutrient
contents of whatever people will buy will be lower," he
said....Agriculture, forestry and changes in land use together
produce 21 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, making them
the second largest emitter after the energy sector....The raising of
livestock alone produces nearly two thirds of agriculture emissions,
FAO said on Monday.Soil stores carbon, so the more it is ploughed,
and the deeper, the more carbon is released into the atmosphere....
Without urgent action,*climate change*will push millions into
hunger: UN
<http://www.reuters.com/article/us-farming-climatechange-hunger-idUSKBN12H121>
Reuters -3 hours ago
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Farmers urgently need help to
adapt their methods of growing food if the world is to
curb*greenhouse gas*emissions and prevent*climate change*pushing
millions into hunger and poverty, the U.N. Food and
Agriculture*...There is, it says, *"*no doubt that climate change
will affect the agriculture sectors and food security and that its
negative impact will become more severe as it accelerates. In some
particularly vulnerable places, such as small islands or in areas
affected by large-scale extreme weather and climate events, the
impact could be catastrophic.*"*...In a best-case scenario,
slow-moving climate change would allow farming to adapt through
relatively simple techniques, at least in the near future. But it
warns that more abrupt changes would make adequate adaptation almost
impossible.*
*Psychosocial and Climate Psychology Research in IPCC Reports
<http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/explorations/papers/190-psychosocial-and-climate-psychology-research-in-ipcc-reports>*
"Although psychologists have been investigating climate change and
related subjects for decades… the value of psychological
contributions is not yet widely accepted, nor are psychological
insights and findings widely applied"....The next scheduled report
relevant to climate psychology is on 1.5 degrees (SR1.5), which is
due out in 2018. This interdisciplinary report was invited by the
governments coming out of COP21 last December. The background
document prepared for the recent scoping meeting on SR1.5 has much
to be excited about. I admit to being surprised about this. Reading
it I was particularly fired up by points made about challenging
scientific understanding beyond empirical evidence and underlying
assumptions, drawing on different knowledge systems including
learning from practitioner communities (and although not mentioned
explicitly here but it is in AR5 - indigenous knowledge), looking at
multiple ways to think of transformation and development, the
emphasis on equity and ethical dimensions, and a call to maintain a
holistic integrative systems perspective in the writing of the
report. It refers to 'psychological' underpinnings of human
responses, and 'psychosocial' is included as an area of expertise
sought in participants of the scoping meeting. These themes will
resonant I'm sure with many in the climate psychology community. A
key topic is transformative challenges, which I see as the main area
of contribution of psychosocial and climate psychology research.
This is a topic that will become even more pertinent as we approach
1.5 degrees warming within the timescale of production of SR1.5,
based on current trajectories. A comprehensive discussion of the
psychosocial dimensions of mitigation and adaptation decision-making
particularly in relation to maladaptive responses, and identifying
pathways for overcoming social inertia and resistance, seems an
important contribution that climate psychology can make to this report.
*Record levels of carbon dioxide to fuel disasters
<http://www.unisdr.org/archive/50437>*
GENEVA – The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for
Disaster Risk Reduction, Mr. Robert Glasser, today urged world
leaders to take note of the profound implications of this month's
record carbon dioxide readings and to increase their level of
commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...."It is deeply
disturbing to learn that global levels of 400 parts per million have
now been reached in September for the first time. The last time CO2
levels were this high was 15 to 20 million years ago....."September
is traditionally when the lowest levels are recorded. This means
that we are unlikely to see levels below 400 parts per million for
the foreseeable future. We know that the safe level is well below
this...."It also means that we are systematically raising levels of
disaster risk for future generations and we can expect more severe
weather events in the years ahead. Climate disasters already account
for 90% of all disasters caused by natural hazards...."This is
potentially catastrophic especially for low and middle-income
countries that contribute little to greenhouse gas emissions but
have huge populations exposed to drought, floods and storms...."Much
more vigorous action is necessary for a reasonable chance of
limiting global warming to 2°C while the Paris Agreement recognises
that limiting global warming to 1.5°C rather than 2°C would
significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change."...A
2009 study in the journal Science found that the last time in
Earth's history when CO2 levels in the atmosphere were this high for
a sustained period was between 15 and 20 million years ago. Then,
according to the study, temperatures were between 3C and 6C warmer
than today. Ice sheets, the study said, had melted to the point
where sea levels rose between 25 and 40 metres.
(letter) Coke, Pepsi and*Climate Change*
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/opinion/coke-pepsi-and-climate-change.html>
New York Times -7 hours ago
But they lobby Congress through the American Beverage Association,
which is moribund on*climate*(but very lively when a soda tax is
proposed), and through their association, they support the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, an implacable foe of any meaningful climate
legislation...A result is that Coke and Pepsi's net lobbying
presence in Congress is directly adverse to their stated policies.
They are not alone; the net lobbying presence in Congress of all the
companies that supported a strong Paris agreement is forcefully
opposed to the principles of that agreement...It's a problem, and if
they want climate action in Congress, it needs to be
solved....Senator SHELDON WHITEHOUSE (D, RI)
*100 Resilient Cities project*
<http://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/publications/49458>
The 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) project is dedicated to helping
cities around the world become more resilience to the physical,
social and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st
Century. The 100RC definition of resilience includes not just the
shocks but also the stresses that weaken the fabric of a city on a
day to day or cyclical basis....Lessons learned identified in this
publication are: The Chief Resilience Officer's (CRO) position is
placed ideally in the Mayor's office or equivalent that has an
overarching role in the city....This generally helps the CRO to work
effectively across other departments, avoiding siloing
challenges....Visible support from the Mayor or City Manager is also
vital.. this cross cutting thinking can be key to solving multiple
challenges with one solution in a cost effective way...This case
study is one of a series produced by members of ARISE, the UNISDR
Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient
Societies...http://www.unisdr.org/files/49458_aecom.americas.pdf
Full Document.
*This day in Climate History **October 18, 1983:* From D.R. Tucker
---------------------------------------------- *
**Last Known Recorded Broadcast - NBC News Digest With Jessica Savitch
(1983) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w4pFNCzhTg>*
from The Museum of Classic Chicago Television
<http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php?contentload=donate> - In
what would be one of her last "News Digest" broadcasts, NBC anchor
Jessica Savitch mentions a recently released EPA report on the
consequences of carbon pollution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w4pFNCzhTg
http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/#videoclip-3279
*A Greenhouse Effect Warning from 1983
<http://m.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/21/1101930/-A-Greenhouse-Effect-Warning-from-1983>*
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A potentially catastrophic warming of the Earth
will start in the 1990s, disrupting food production and raising
coastal waters as the polar icecaps melt, the federal government
said in a report released today....The study by the Environmental
Protection Agency said the climatic changes from the so-called
"greenhouse effect" are unavoidable and warned that the United
States and other countries must begin searching now for ways to
mitigate the impact...The report, titled "Can We Delay a Greenhouse
Warming?" concluded that even as drastic and unlikely a step as a
total ban on coal burning would delay by only 15 years a 3.6 degree
increase in average worldwide temperatures...While other government
studies have warned that the greenhouse effect was a potential
problem, the EPA report is the first to state with certainty that
the warming will occur no matter what...The EPA study is based on
earlier projections by the National Academy of Sciences that a
doubling of carbon dioxide in the air – which could occur by the
middle of the next century – would raise present world temperatures
within a range of 2.7 degrees to 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit...This
result is known as the greenhouse effect because carbon dioxide acts
like the glass in a greenhouse allowing the sun’s warming rays to
reach earth but not allowing the heat to escape.
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/21/1101930/-A-Greenhouse-Effect-Warning-from-1983
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