[TheClimate.Vote] April 2, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News - Chilean calamity, Climate history, Russia and Exxon,
Richard Pauli
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Sun Apr 2 11:03:16 EDT 2017
/April 2, 2017 Chilean calamity, Climate history, Russia and Exxon
pacts/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/opinion/a-message-from-the-end-of-the-world.html?_r=0
*(NYTimes opinion) A Message From the End of the World
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/opinion/a-message-from-the-end-of-the-world.html?_r=0>*
SANTIAGO, Chile - by ARIEL DORFMAN
Here in Chile, in the far south of the Southern Hemisphere, it has
been the summer of our discontent. Never have so many natural
catastrophes in a row hit this country at the end of the world. For
once, it is not the earthquakes that have assailed us since time
immemorial or the tsunamis that often follow, devastating land and
coast, mountainscapes and ocean. This time, our unprecedented woes
have all been man-made.
It is hardly strange, therefore, that Chile does not close its eyes
to what is happening to our water, forests and coastline. Everyone
here - and I mean everyone, from extreme right to extreme left -
understands that in this land, whose name comes from the Aymara
language for the place where the earth ends, we are witnessing a
cataclysm of epic proportions that presages another sort of end, the
end of the world as we know it. And so we all are conscious that
something just as epic must be done to change course before it is
too late....
We also understand, of course, that such a change depends on what
other international actors do elsewhere.
What is truly intolerable, what enrages and saddens me - as the
fires rage in the forests and the rain falls when and where it
should not and the rivers are choked with mudslides and the fish
disappear from the ocean and the Antarctic breaks up - is what is
transpiring simultaneously in the remote United States. Precisely at
this dire moment in Chile's natural history, precisely now I am
forced to watch how the government of the powerful country that my
wife and I have adopted as our home is gutting the very
environmental policies that, even if insufficient, were at least
steps in the right direction.
As we get ready to return to the United States, our friends and
relatives ask, over and over, can it be true? Can President Trump be
beset with such suicidal stupidity as to deny climate change and
install an enemy of the earth as his environmental czar? Can he be
so beholden to the blind greed of the mineral extraction industry,
so ignorant of science, so monumentally arrogant, not to realize
that he is inviting apocalypse? Can it be, they ask.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2016/06/11/environment/waves-dead-sea-creatures-hit-chile-beaches/#.WN_g9FXsJph
https://www.voanews.com/a/chile-climate-change-defense/3788381.html
*Chile to Shore Up Capital's Climate-Change Defenses
<https://www.voanews.com/a/chile-climate-change-defense/3788381.html>*
Voice of America-Mar 29, 2017
Reducing inequality, securing water supplies and strengthening
disaster prevention is crucial to bolster Chile's quake-prone
capital against climate change and ...
Reducing inequality, securing water supplies and strengthening
disaster prevention is crucial to bolster Chile's quake-prone
capital against climate change and other hazards, Santiago's
authorities said...
In a new strategy to make the city more resilient, they laid out
plans this week to cut congestion and air pollution, improve public
transport and build more parks in low-income areas...
But better governance is essential to the strategy, said Claudio
Orrego, governor of the Santiago metropolitan region, which has 34
municipal districts and mayors...
"Santiago is a city of disasters - we have had in the last year the
worst fires ever, we had two floods in the city [and] two important
water supply cuts," said Orrego by telephone from Santiago, which is
home to more than 6.1 million people.
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/03/30/climate-change-managed-retreat
*Climate Change Threats, Managed Retreats*** 47:55
March 30, 2017Share
As President Trump dismantles climate change protections, some
coastal communities are now planning a "managed retreat" from sea
rise. We'll look at what that means.
American efforts to help stall climate change, thrown into reverse
this week as President Trump went to the EPA to announce a new way
ahead. Communities on the front lines of climate change are
watching. On the coasts, with sea level rise already an issue, some
are now talking about "managed retreat." An orderly surrender to
rising oceans. A new study looks at how that works. This hour On
Point, if we don't stop the change, the realities of "managed
retreat" from the sea. - Tom Ashbrook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW08t9fwmbI
*(YouTube) Glacier Change & Sea Level Rise: Dr Alex Gardner (February
2017) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW08t9fwmbI>*
JPL-NASA - Lecture and slides of fundamental and current climate
science.
Our group develops and uses the remotely sensed data products and
measurements for sea level change analysis as well as Earth system
models for ocean and ice...
How fast is sea level rising and how large are the different
contributions (ocean heat vs. water mass flux)?
What are the processes forcing the regional distribution of sea
level change and water mass contributions from land hydrology and
melting ice?
How do the ocean and ice sheets interact to drive sea level change?
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2017/04/uw-professor-information-war-is-real.html
*UW professor: The information war is real, and we're losing it
<http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2017/04/uw-professor-information-war-is-real.html>*
It started with the Boston marathon bombing, four years ago.
University of Washington professor Kate Starbird was sifting through
thousands of tweets sent in the aftermath and noticed something strange.
Too strange for a university professor to take seriously.
"There was a significant volume of social-media traffic that blamed
the Navy SEALs for the bombing," Starbird told me the other day in
her office. "It was real tinfoil-hat stuff. So we ignored it."
"After every mass shooting, dozens of them, there would be these
strange clusters of activity," Starbird says. "It was so fringe we
kind of laughed at it.
"That was a terrible mistake. We should have been studying it."
Starbird is in the field of "crisis informatics," or how information
flows after a disaster. She got into it to see how social media
might be used for the public good, such as to aid emergency responders.
Instead she's gone down a dark rabbit hole, one that wends through
the back warrens of the web and all the way up to the White House.
Starbird argues in a new paper, set to be presented at a
computational social-science conference in May, that these "strange
clusters" of wild conspiracy talk, when mapped, point to an emerging
alternative media ecosystem on the web of surprising power and reach.
It features sites such as Infowars.com, hosted by informal President
Donald Trump adviser Alex Jones, which has pushed a range of
conspiracies, including that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a
staged fake...
http://faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Alt_Narratives_ICWSM17-CameraReady.pdf*
Examining the Alternative Media Ecosystem through the Production of
Alternative Narratives of Mass Shooting Events on Twitter
<http://faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Alt_Narratives_ICWSM17-CameraReady.pdf>
*
ABSTRACT: This research explores the alternative media ecosystem
through a Twitter lens. Over a ten-month period, we collected tweets
related to alternative narratives-e.g. conspiracy theories-of mass
shooting events. We utilized tweeted URLs to generate a domain
network, connecting domains shared by the same user, then conducted
qualitative analysis to understand the nature of different domains
and how they connect to each other. Our findings demonstrate how
alternative news sites propagate and shape alternative narratives,
while mainstream media deny them. We explain how political leanings
of alternative news sites do not align well with a U.S. left-right
spectrum, but instead feature an antiglobalist (vs. globalist)
orientation where U.S. Alt-Right sites look similar to U.S. Alt-Left
sites. Our findings describe a subsection of the emerging
alternative media ecosystem and provide insight in how websites that
promote conspiracy theories and pseudo-science may function to
conduct underlying political agendas.
The facts on*climate change*-- and what to do about it
<http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/climate-change-facts/>
PBS NewsHour -5 hours ago
In advance of Earth Day on April 22, National Geographic Magazine
released its latest edition this week featuring the guide, "Seven Things
You Need to Know about*Climate Change*." It includes facts from
scientists about the causes of*climate change*and ...
https://skepticalscience.com/scientists-understood-climate-150-yr-ago-better-than-pruitt.html
*Scientists understood the climate 150 years ago better than the EPA
head today
<https://skepticalscience.com/scientists-understood-climate-150-yr-ago-better-than-pruitt.html>*
Posted on 31 March 2017 by John Abraham
The current head of the US Environmental Protection Agency Scott
Pruitt does not believe or understand long-known principles of
climate science and basic physics. Recently he claimed on CNBC that
carbon dioxide is not a primary contributor to global warming:
I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate
is something very challenging to do, and there's tremendous
disagreement about the degree of impact. So, no, I would not agree
that's a primary contributor to the global warming that we see. But
we don't know that yet. We need to continue the debate and continue
the review and the analysis...
There are two undeniable ironies in this statement. First, taken at
face value it would suggest that we actually need to do more
analysis – but the current administration is proposing draconian
cuts in our climate science research budget. They are doing just the
opposite of what he recommends...
The second irony is that scientists have known about the importance
of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas for well over 100 years. There
is no debate among any reputable scientists that carbon dioxide is
the most important human emitted greenhouse gas. Furthermore, humans
have increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by
43%. These are facts....
Arrhenius also noted that humans were increasing the amount of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. One significant part of his work
is that he was able to make predictions without the use of
high-power supercomputers. In fact, there are many ways to make
climate predictions – using techniques like those from the 1800s,
using the history of temperature changes of the Earth to predict the
future, using computer climate models, and others. It is a fallacy
to say that our current predictions rely totally upon computer
models. Of course, during his age, the rate of increase of carbon
dioxide was very very slow. Shockingly, Arrhenius knew more about
climate change than does the current head of the EPA.
http://www.dailyimpact.net/2017/03/31/lets-watch-50-minutes
*(audio+text) Let's Watch 50 Minutes
<http://www.dailyimpact.net/2017/03/31/lets-watch-50-minutes>*
Posted: 31 Mar 2017 07:20 AM PDT
On their evening and Sunday news programs during 2016, the four major
American television networks devoted 50 minutes of their airtime to
covering climate change. No, that's not 50 minutes a week, or each, it's
all of them combined for the whole year. 50 minutes (according to a
study by …
http://climateinvestigations.nationbuilder.com/exxon_mobil_rosneft_russia_partnership_video
*Exxon Mobil - Rosneft - Russia Strategic Partnership [2012 lost VIDEO
recovered]
<http://climateinvestigations.nationbuilder.com/exxon_mobil_rosneft_russia_partnership_video>*
http://climateinvestigations.nationbuilder.com
<http://climateinvestigations.nationbuilder.com/exxon_mobil_rosneft_russia_partnership_video>
Does Exxon have a "strategic partnership" with the United States?
Not according to Exxon. They have no political allegiance to their home
country...
But they do have one with Russia, at least according to Rosneft, a
company 70 percent owned by the Russian government.
The slick promotional voice-over narrative is bold, unapologetic,
unguarded, lacking the PR greenwash we are used to in the United States. ..
Give it a look and let us know what you think.
ehttp://web.archive.org/web/20120503222549/http://rosneft.com/news/video/exmvideo/
4Min
*(lost video- taken down)unvarnished Russian PR, zero green washing,
zero spin, straight up domination.
<http://web.archive.org/web/20120503222549/http://rosneft.com/news/video/exmvideo/>
It was taken down on Rosneft's site so mine links to WayBackMachine now.
http://youtu.be/6NcSOUJUBfY
*This Day in Climate History April 2, 2007 <http://youtu.be/6NcSOUJUBfY>
- from D.R. Tucker*
The US Supreme Court rules 5-4 in Massachusetts v. EPA that the EPA has
the authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant.
(Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, 549 U.S. 497
(2007),[1] is a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court case in which twelve states and
several cities of the United States brought suit against the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to force that federal agency to
regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) as pollutants.)
http://youtu.be/6NcSOUJUBfY
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/car-emissions-to-be-reviewed/
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