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Obama eyes big finish on climate | TheHill
<http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/295260-obama-eyes-big-finish-on-climate>
The Hill -16 hours ago
President Obama is hoping to complete two more international
agreements to fight global warming in the coming months, shoring up
his climate change legacy....His landmark Paris agreement is certain
to go down as one of the most consequential — and controversial —
global pacts of Obama’s presidency. Now, he's also pushing world
leaders to agree to cut down on greenhouse gases from refrigeration
and from commercial aircraft....That would help seal Obama’s legacy
of securing sweeping agreements with world leaders to fight climate
change as part of his second-term global warming agenda.
But the deals to reduce hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and aircraft
emissions also add to Obama’s reputation for making major policy
decisions through unilateral action, and are sparking new anger from
Republican critics.
My student missed class... to sue the government over*climate
change*
<http://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article100925097.html>
Charlotte Observer -8 hours ago
The decision denied motions seeking to dismiss the*climate
change*lawsuit, which claims failure of the U.S. to protect youth
from*greenhouse gas*emissions is a violation of their constitutional
rights. This decision advanced the legal fight to require*.....This
federal lawsuit provides critical momentum for the work of my
students and greater hope that my own children aren’t powerless in
the face of our systemic addictions to fossil fuels and virtual
inaction by our legislators...The night after the April court case,
my student e-mailed me with an update from Oregon: She had said
goodbye to the other plaintiffs, who were heading home after having
a sleepover together. Sitting at my desk late at night, with my two
children asleep, I smiled at the image of youth suing the government
- and then staying up late to savor each other’s company, enjoying
their fundamental right to a healthy life.
Mallory McDuff, Ph.D. teaches at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC.
*
Leonardo DiCaprio's*global warming*doc is the most depressing world
tour ever
<http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/10/12870060/before-the-flood-leonardo-dicaprio-global-warming-tiff-2016>
The Verge -33 minutes ago
Directed by Fisher Stevens, Before the Flood documents DiCaprio as
he jet-sets from Greenland, to Indonesia, to Miami and beyond,
speaking to world...The film's message can be summed up in one
sentence: the environment is fucked, and we should do something —
anything — about it.....It's a worthy takeaway, but any viewer in
2016 who isn't already aware of most of the issues Before the Flood
raises is either uninterested in the subject, or willfully in
denial. And if they're in the latter camp, it's unlikely Before the
Flood will change their mind......Before the Flood's primary flaw: a
30,000-foot approach. Unlike well-honed environmental documentaries
like Gasland and Blackfish that pick a subject and dig in, Before
the Flood offers a smorgasbord of issues, breezing through subjects
like strip mining, deforestation, rising oceans, tar sands,
desertification, coral reef destruction, vanishing glaciers, and
more to paint an overwhelmingly dire vision.....Am I asking too much
of Before the Flood? Maybe. Ultimately, DiCaprio’s cause is
admirable, and some of the shots were legitimately stunning.
DiCaprio comes off as dilettantish, but well-intentioned. That said,
there are better documentaries out there that cover much of the same
material, in more rigorous, and interesting ways. You’ll just have
to forego the adventures with Leo.
*CBCRadio Day 6 "It's happening": Climate change is putting a way of
life at risk on P.E.I.'s Lennox Island
<http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-302-facing-climate-change-the-woman-behind-bob-ross-tourism-in-syria-comedy-roasts-and-much-more-1.3751344/it-s-happening-climate-change-is-putting-a-way-of-life-at-risk-on-p-e-i-s-lennox-island-1.3751371>*
For the small First Nations community of Lennox Island, P.E.I., the
changing climate is already putting their ancestral home at
risk...The community is being featured in "Facing the Change," a
special Day 6 series about the impact climate change is having right
now in cities and towns across the country....Battered by rising
seas and increasingly powerful storm surges, Lennox Island is in
danger. The island is composed mainly of sandstone, and its
shoreline is eroding twice as fast as the rest of Prince Edward
Island...In a single generation, Lennox Island has already lost
nearly 1 square kilometre of land. In another fifty years, with a
sea level rise of 3 metres, half the island could be gone. The
community is working hard to adapt, but the future of their island
remains uncertain....We speak to Adam Fenech, a Nobel Prize-winning
climate scientist and the director of the Climate Research Lab at
the University of Prince Edward Island, who has been working with
Lennox Island First Nation for years....We also hear from Gilbert
Sark, a local elder who worries about cultural artifacts being swept
away by the waves; Lennox Island resident and property manager Dave
Haley, whose own backyard is eroding before his eyes; and Matilda
Ramjattan, Chief of the Lennox Island First Nation, who is concerned
about the threat that extreme storms could have on her community's
infrastructure. Here is Lennox Island on Google Maps
<https://www.google.com/maps/@46.6149009,-63.889092,13z>
Does Washington, D.C., Need a*Climate-Change*Memorial?
<http://www.citylab.com/design/2016/09/does-washington-dc-need-a-climate-change-memorial/499262/>
CityLab -2 hours ago
That's the core idea of a new proposal for a*global-warming*memorial
on Hains Point, a riverside park area that's already a regular
victim of flooding.....The concept is simple enough, yet quietly
devastating. And compared to some of the other jarringly immense or
poorly considered memorials that crowd D.C., its sylvan beauty—with
no gold leaf or chiseled inscriptions in sight—is refreshing. Given
the pace of climate action in Congress, though, don’t expect this to
be any more than a concept for quite some time.... “Climate
Chronograph,” which has won the Memorials for the Future Competition
put on by the National Park Service and others, would install a
sloped grove of cherry trees along the Potomac. As the river gets
higher, the trees would drown row by row, creating a tangible
timeline of global warming from sublime blossoms and rotten,
leafless boughs....“Climate Chronograph,” along with proposed
memorials from contest finalists, is on display until October 20 in
the John F. Kennedy Center’s Hall of Nations.
World May Miss*La Nina's*Market-Rattling Effects as Odds Dim
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-08/la-nina-odds-dim-clouding-winter-forecast-for-u-s-gas-traders>
Bloomberg -Sep 8, 2016
The U.S. Climate Prediction Center said Thursday it was dropping its
La Nina watch and lowered the odds it will form this year to 35 to
45 percent from 75 percent in June...La Nina, a weather pattern that
can cause flooding in parts of Asia and colder weather in the U.S. ,
has set in and may continue through the winter, the Japan
Meteorological Agency said, a day after the U.S. dropped its watch
for the event....There is 70 percent chance that the event, which
also causes dry weather in Brazil, may continue through the winter
period, the Japanese forecaster said on its website Friday. The U.S.
Climate Prediction Center said Thursday it was dropping its La Nina
watch and lowered the odds it will form this year to 35 to 45
percent from 75 percent in June. The Australian Bureau of
Meteorology says a late and weak La Nina is still possible....from
two years of below average rains caused by El Nino. While there’s
little chance of the event forming this year, any event is unlikely
to affect commodity supplies, according to Olam International Ltd.
Still some investors may be caught off-guard if the weather event
materializes, according to Naohiro Niimura, partner at Market Risk
Advisory Co., a researcher in Tokyo...“Investors have built up short
positions in grains and oilseeds futures on an
outlook for record U.S. crops,” Niimura said. “They may be forced to
buy back them, sending Chicago prices surging, if the La Nina
phenomenon causes abnormal weather.”
*The Madhouse Effect, a book review
<https://critical-angle.net/2016/08/31/the-madhouse-effect-a-review/>*
Climate scientist Michael Mann has teamed up with cartoonist Tom
Toles to write The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Is
Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics and Driving Us
Crazy. It’s an excellent book, well-written, authoritative on the
science, revealing on the politics and laced with the wit of many
superb cartoons. Buy a copy for the climate science doubter in your
family. They will be drawn in by the cartoons and may well be unable
to resist dipping in to the text....Michael Mann has previously
written The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the
Front Lines, about how he was hounded for writing a paper that
featured the striking hockey-stick graph. He also authored Dire
Predictions: Understanding Climate Change with scientist Lee Kump.
At the same time that he turns out first-class books, Mann is a
prolific research scientist and has an active presence on social
media. ....Tom Toles is a Pullitzer -Prize winning cartoonist who
works for the Washington Post. His main focus is politics, but his
cartoons have often featured climate science and the absurd lengths
that many American politicians go to in avoiding the facing up to
the reality of global change...Writing about scientific subjects
like climate change for the non-specialist is not easy and authors
have to walk a fine line. Many readers expect scientists to be
detached about the implications of their work, but that would make
their message less engaging, less human. The science needs to be
explained in ways that the average person can understand, but
oversimplification can gloss over some of the important
complications. And treatments of the topic can so so easily be
depressing and dull. The Mann/Toles team have succeeded in bringing
their talents together to overcome these problems. The writing is
excellent and the cartoons add a much-needed satirical perspective.
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