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*Is There a Climate "Spiral of Silence" in America?
<http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-spiral-silence-america/>*
YaleThere is a climate change "spiral of silence," (cultivated and
nurtured) in which even people who care about the issue, shy away
from discussing it because they so infrequently hear other people
talking about it – reinforcing the spiral.... we find that more
than half of those who are interested in global warming or think the
issue is important "rarely" or "never" talk about it with family and
friends (57% and 54% respectively)....So we pose the question to
you: Do you think there a spiral of silence about climate change in
America? Do you find yourself or others you know hesitant to talk
about it? If so, why? (see also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_of_silence)
**Instructions:***select *one story, *contact *one candidate, one
representative in your government, one friend, *discuss* the issue,
*forward* this email**
Oh great — scientists just confirmed a key new source of
greenhouse gases
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/09/28/scientists-just-found-yet-another-way-that-humans-are-creating-greenhouse-gases/>
Washington Post - It drew on studies(from August 2014
<http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es501871g>) on 267 reservoirs
around the world, which together have a surface area of close to
30,000 square miles, to extrapolate global data....Flooding large
areas of Earth can set off new chemical processes as tiny
microorganisms break down organic matter in the water, sometimes
doing so in the absence of oxygen — a process that leads to methane
as a byproduct.... nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorous flow into
reservoirs from rivers — being poured in by human agriculture and
waste streams — can further drive algal growth in reservoirs,
giving microorganisms even more material to break down ... for these
reasons, reservoirs emit more methane than "natural lakes, ponds,
rivers, or wetlands."...."If oxygen is around, then methane gets
converted back to CO2,"... "If oxygen isn’t present, it can get
emitted back to the atmosphere as methane."And flooded areas, he
said, are more likely to be depleted of oxygen. A similar process
occurs in rice paddies, which are also a major source of methane
emissions....and rice paddy emissions are of about the same
magnitude on a global scale — but rice paddy emissions have been
taken into account for some time. Reservoir emissions often have
not. Also from 2014 :
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/hydropower-as-major-methane-emitter-18246
How Obama Could Lose His Big*Climate* Case
<http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/obama-clean-power-plan-dc-circuit-legal/502115/>
The Atlantic -8 hours ago
On Tuesday, during the most important legal hearing
for*climate-change*policy in the United States this year (Politico
compared it to the Super Bowl, World Series, and Quidditch World Cup
happening all at once), a George W. Bush-appointed federal
judge*...*"*Why isn’t this debate on the floor of the Senate,
instead of in a courtroom in front of a panel of unelected
judges?*"*, Judge Thomas Griffith asked...He and nine of his
colleagues, who sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit, were hearing arguments about whether the Obama
administration’s signature domestic climate policy passes muster
under the Clean Air Act and the Constitution. No one doubted the
reality of the science, and they recognized their decision meant
more than just a change to federal administrative law....*"*The
earth is warming. Humans are contributing,*"* said Judge Brett
Kavanaugh, another George W. Bush appointee. *"*There is a moral
imperative. There is a huge policy imperative. The pope’s
involved.*"*...The enormity of global warming, they seemed to
say—should it really be fixed by us, sitting in this puny room?*
*Grass food crops facing climate change challenge - BBC News
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37489916>*
The study suggests climate change is projected to occur "thousands
of times faster" than grass species can adapt A study has
highlighted the risk posed by projected climate change on the
world's ability to grow enough food. A US team of researchers found
that forecasted shifts in climate by 2070 would occur too quickly
for species of grass to adapt to the ...
*DONALD TRUMP AND THE CLIMATE-CHANGE COUNTDOWN
<http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/donald-trump-and-the-climate-change-countdown>*
By Elizabeth Kolbert, Whoever is elected will, it seems, have the
chance to nominate the deciding Justice to the Supreme Court. This
could be seen as yet another reason to be terrified of a Trump
victory. Or it could be seen as the reason to be terrified of a
Trump victory. If the next four years are spent rolling back
whatever progress has been made on emissions, then almost certainly
the temperature targets that world leaders set last year in Paris
will be breached. In fact, even if the next four years are spent
making more progress, it’s likely that the targets will be breached.
In the case of climate change, to borrow from Dr. King once again,
tomorrow really is today.
*Climate*Commitments Be Damned, Trudeau OKs 'Carbon Bomb' LNG
Project
<http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/28/climate-commitments-be-damned-trudeau-oks-carbon-bomb-lng-project>
Common Dreams (press release) -20 hours ago
The Canadian government on Tuesday gave the greenlight to a
liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in British Columbia
which*climate*experts and advocacy organizations say tramples
Indigenous rights, threatens ecological damage, and essentially
throws the*...*
Ask a MacArthur 'genius': Could elusive deep-sea microbes help
fight*climate change*?
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/09/29/ask-a-macarthur-genius-could-elusive-deep-sea-microbes-help-fight-climate-change/>
Washington Post -5 hours ago
Both kinds of organisms play a fundamental role in gobbling up
methane, a*greenhouse gas*that gets trapped at the bottom of the
ocean in the form of an ice-like substance.
Would watching trees slowly drown make you acknowledge*climate
change*?
<http://qz.com/796090/washington-dc-cherry-tree-climate-change-park-proposal/>
Quartz -3 hours ago
The destruction of the cherry orchard in the eponymous 1904 play
written by Anton Chekhov was a melancholic symbol of the radical
political change hitting Tsarist Russia at the time that culminated
in the 1917 revolution.
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