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*The Pope adds tasks on global warming:  Show Mercy to our Common Home *
<http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/pont-messages/2016/documents/papa-francesco_20160901_messaggio-giornata-cura-creato.html> 


    "..let me propose a complement to the two traditional sets of seven:
    may the works of mercy also include care for our common home"... As
    a spiritual work of mercy, care for our common home calls for a
    "grateful contemplation of God’s world" which "allows us to discover
    in each thing a teaching which God wishes to hand on to us"  As a
    corporal work of mercy, care for our common home requires "simple
    daily gestures which break with the logic of violence, exploitation
    and selfishness" and "makes itself felt in every action that seeks
    to build a better world".

*Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/science/flooding-of-coast-caused-by-global-warming-has-already-begun.html>*

    NYTimes Scientists' warnings that the rise of the sea would
    eventually imperil the United States’ coastline are no longer
    theoretical...Huge vertical rulers are sprouting beside low spots in
    the streets here, so people can judge if the tidal floods that
    increasingly inundate their roads are too deep to drive
    through....Five hundred miles down the Atlantic Coast, the only road
    to Tybee Island, Ga., is disappearing beneath the sea several times
    a year, cutting the town off from the mainland...And another 500
    miles on, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., increased tidal flooding is
    forcing the city to spend millions fixing battered roads and drains
    — and, at times, to send out giant vacuum trucks to suck saltwater
    off the streets....For decades, as the global warming created by
    human emissions caused land ice to melt and ocean water to expand,
    scientists warned that the accelerating rise of the sea would
    eventually imperil the United States’ coastline...Several studies
    have concluded that Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval
    base, is profoundly threatened by rising seas, as are other coastal
    bases. The Pentagon has managed to build floodgates and other
    protective measures at some facilities. But attempts by the military
    to develop broader climate change plans have met fierce resistance
    in Congress...He is, though, under no illusions about the long-term
    fate of the region he calls home...."We’re putting enough heat in
    the ocean to send water over us, no question," Dr. Stoddard said.
    "Ultimately, we give up and we leave. That’s how the story ends."

*Can We Predict a Society's Doom? Study Reveals Signs 
<http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/27984/20160902/can-we-predict-a-societys-doom-study-reveals-signs.htm>*

    Results found ... a "major reorganization" or movement within the
    ecosystem that may be a sign that it will soon
    "collapse."....researchers studied 2,378 archaeological sites from
    nine regions of Neolithic Europe.The researchers from the University
    of Maryland and University College London
    <http://www.pnas.org/content/113/35/9751.full> attempted to find out
    if early signs have already exist once an ecosystem starts to reveal
    a "declining resilience."...After studying the archaeological
    records of the communities living in Neolithic Europe, the
    researchers were able to identify early warning signs. Thus, locking
    the search to these two signals: critical slowing down (CSD) and
    flickering. These signals will direct them to the system's ability
    to strongly fight back against factors such as warfare, diseases and
    crop failure...According to the journal PNAS, "CSD describes a
    general increase in the time it takes a system to recover from
    external shocks such as population loss due to disease, warfare, or
    crop failure."..''Flickering describes increasing directional bias
    in a system's response rate to such perturbations, such as a society
    stuck in a socio-ecological trap where strong reinforcing behaviour
    and a lack of innovation prevents adaptation," the researchers said.
    http://www.pnas.org/content/113/35/9751.full

*(Australia) Gaping chasm between Coalition's climate mantra and the 
real debate 
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/03/gaping-chasm-between-coalitions-climate-mantra-and-the-real-debate>*

    Almost every group with a financial, intellectual or ethical
    interest in salvaging a workable climate policy is now deep in an
    urgent debate about how Australia can break a decade of policy
    paralysis. Everyone except the Turnbull government, that is...The
    debate, involving big business, small business, investors, the
    government’s own independent climate advisers, academics,
    environmentalists, the welfare lobby and the unions, is predicated
    on the obvious conclusion that our policy – as it stands – cannot
    deliver the cuts to greenhouse emissions that are domestically
    necessary and which Australia has promised internationally.

*NASA - A Strange Thing Happened in the Stratosphere 
<http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/a-strange-thing-happened-in-the-stratosphere>*

    High above Earth's tropics, a pattern of winds changed recently in a
    way that scientists had never seen in more than 60 years of
    consistent measurements...This disruption to the wind pattern...
    Thequasi-biennial oscillation (video)
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_-QlDmicIw>  has a wide influence
    on stratospheric conditions. The amount of ozone at the equator
    changes by 10 percent between the peaks of the easterly and westerly
    phases, while the oscillation also has an impact on levels of polar
    ozone depletion....With this disruption now documented, Newman and
    colleagues are currently focused on studying both its causes and
    potential implications. They have two hypotheses for what could have
    triggered it – the particularly strong El Niño in 2015-16 or the
    long-term trend of rising global temperatures. Newman said the
    scientists are conducting further research now to figure out if the
    event was a "black swan," a once-in-a-generation event, or a "canary
    in the coal mine," a shift with unforeseen circumstances, caused by
    climate change. Mysterious Anomaly Interrupts Stratospheric Wind
    Pattern
    <https://eos.org/research-spotlights/mysterious-anomaly-interrupts-stratospheric-wind-pattern>  
    For the first time, scientists have observed a deviation from the
    typical alternating pattern of easterly and westerly winds in the
    equatorial stratosphere.

*(TV news video) UCCS climate change class makes waves 
<http://www.krdo.com/news/uccs-climate-change-class-makes-waves/41493700>*

    This whole thing became a talker when a student at Notre Dame wrote
    an article for a college paper after getting a letter from a student
    at UCCS....The student claims in an email sent by his professors,
    the class was told if they didn't believe in man-made climate change
    they should drop the course...University officials say that's not
    what happened..."The faculty did offer to meet with students if they
    had differing opinions about the course," UCCS spokesman Tom Hutton
    said. "But, in my eyes this is very much like a math teacher saying
    this a course about algebra not geometry."...Hutton knows the
    professors simply wanted to be specific about the theme of the class.

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