[TheClimate.Vote] April 7, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News

Fri Apr 7 10:18:32 EDT 2017

/April 7 , 2017 /

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-world-needs-the-united-states-in-the-fight-against-climate-change/2017/04/06/4d4ed4a2-1981-11e7-bcc2-7d1a0973e7b2_story.html

    French foreign minister: The world can't fight*climate
    change*without the US
    <https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-world-needs-the-united-states-in-the-fight-against-climate-change/2017/04/06/4d4ed4a2-1981-11e7-bcc2-7d1a0973e7b2_story.html>

Washington Post 	 -‎2 hours ago‎ 	

*Washington Post -**Climate change*is already disrupting the 
environmental, economic and political balance across the world. We must 
face up to this reality.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/04/06/how-climate-change-may-lead-more-severe-airplane-turbulence/100115444/

    How*climate change*could mean more jet turbulence
    <https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/04/06/how-climate-change-may-lead-more-severe-airplane-turbulence/100115444/>

USA TODAY 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

Admit it. No matter how many times you've taken a flight, the quick 
up-and-down, side-to-side jolts brought by airplane turbulence can cause 
a tinge of panic.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2017/04/05/study-offers-dire-warning-climate-change/cyozAC0fjeamFAWhiEXAFL/story.html

    Study offers a dire warning on *climate change*
    <https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2017/04/05/study-offers-dire-warning-climate-change/cyozAC0fjeamFAWhiEXAFL/story.html>

The Boston Globe 	 -‎18 hours ago‎ 	

WASHINGTON - Continuing to burn fossil fuels at the current rate could 
bring atmospheric carbon dioxide to its highest concentration in 50 
million years, jumping from about 400 parts per million now to more than 
900 parts per million by the end of*...*

http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060052689

    *Climate change* booted from US-China agenda under Trump
    <http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060052689>

E&E News 	 -‎7 hours ago‎ 	

"I think the other thing that's been said about our*climate 
change*policy as far as the diplomacy goes, it requires international 
efforts," said Susan Thornton, acting assistant secretary for the State 
Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific

http://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-its-good-business-for-cities-to-prepare-for-climate-change

    Opinion: It's good business for cities to prepare for*climate
    change*
    <http://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-its-good-business-for-cities-to-prepare-for-climate-change>

Edmonton Journal 	 -‎7 hours ago‎ 	

"As the impacts of*climate change*become more significant, cities' 
resilience will become a factor of competitive advantage," Cynthia 
McHale from Ceres, a non-profit that promotes sustainability in the 
private sector, recently told the Los Angeles*...*

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/06/scientists-say-the-unique-arctic-ocean-is-being-transformed-before-our-eyes/
*Global warming is literally turning the Arctic ocean inside out* 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/06/scientists-say-the-unique-arctic-ocean-is-being-transformed-before-our-eyes/>
Unlike in the Atlantic or Pacific, where the water gets colder as it 
gets deeper, the Arctic is upside-down. The water gets warmer as it gets 
deeper. The reason is that warm, salty Atlantic-originating water that 
flows into the Arctic from the south is more dense, and so it nestles 
beneath a colder, fresher surface layer that is often capped by floating 
sea ice. This state of "stratification" makes the Arctic Ocean unique, 
and it means that waters don't simply grow colder as you travel farther 
north - they also become inverted.
"This whole thing about the ocean's role in sea ice retreat, it used to 
be minimal, but as sea ice retreats it's one of those positive feedback 
mechanisms," Carmack said. "And we're talking a lot of heat in the 
Atlantic layer, it could melt all the ice in the Arctic if it were to 
pop up to the surface."

https://thinkprogress.org/climate-change-trumps-border-wall-e2f79cef69b1

    *Climate change*would swamp Trump's border wall
    <https://thinkprogress.org/climate-change-trumps-border-wall-e2f79cef69b1>

ThinkProgress 	 -‎Apr 5, 2017‎ 	

The problem is that the vast majority of that border runs straight down 
the middle of 1,254 snaking miles of the Rio Grande River - and 
ever-worsening,*climate change*-fueled floods greatly complicate any 
plausible design. And that's on top of siting*...*

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/327492-gop-chairman-climate-change-alarmists-have-desire-to-control-peoples

    GOP chairman: Climate change alarmists want to 'control people's ...
    <http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/327492-gop-chairman-climate-change-alarmists-have-desire-to-control-peoples>

The Hill (blog) 	 -‎21 hours ago‎ 	

The chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee said 
Wednesday that people raising red flags about climate change have 
ulterior ...

http://www.texasmonthly.com/energy/exxon-loses-home-field-advantage-climate-change-lawsuit/

    Exxon Loses Home Field Advantage In*Climate Change*Lawsuit
    <http://www.texasmonthly.com/energy/exxon-loses-home-field-advantage-climate-change-lawsuit/>

Texas Monthly 	 -‎8 hours ago‎ 	

Exxon suffered a major blow late last week in its attempt to stymie 
state investigations by attorneys general of New York and Massachusetts 
into the company's alleged climate change fraud. The Dallas-based oil 
giant no longer has a home field advantage after a federal judge kicked 
the case out of Texas and over to a New York court, according to Reuters.
...will put the burden on Exxon to show why the AGs don't have the 
authority to conduct investigations, unlike Kinkeade who put the burden 
on the AGs to justify their investigations."
It remains to be seen how this case will play out, but it doesn't appear 
to be moving in a good direction for Exxon.

http://climatenewsnetwork.net/complacency-climate-change-action/
*Complacency threatens climate change action 
<http://climatenewsnetwork.net/complacency-climate-change-action/>*
Leading climate change scientist warns that it isn't only oil companies 
undermining hopes of meeting targets to limit global warming.
By Terry Macalister
LONDON, 6 April, 2017 – The world is "meandering into a failed future" 
because of its unwillingness to take decisive action on climate change, 
a leading UK academic has warned...
Kevin Anderson, a professor of energy and climate change at Manchester 
University, UK, criticises oil companies for pushing an agenda of 
complacency...
But, more unusually, he also blames academics, journalists and even some 
green groups for encouraging a belief that renewable power or other 
simple solutions can counter global warming...
In an interview with Climate News Network, Anderson denies he is being 
alarmist or hardline...
But he argues that there is a 95% chance that climate change action will 
not be robust enough to hold the growth in the Earth's warming below the 
1.5°-2°C target agreed at the UN climate conference in Paris in 2015.

http://evidencesquared.com/ep6/
*(audio + podcast) Ep 6: Lamar Smith's climate science hearing  w/ John 
Cook <http://evidencesquared.com/ep6/>*
Last week, Lamar Smith and the House Committee conducted a hearing 
(inquisition? witch hunt?) on climate science. In Episode 6, we review 
the hearing and explore the conflict between the Republicans' supposed 
dismay at the drop in public trust in science, versus their deliberate 
efforts to erode public trust in science. We also look at how the 
scientific consensus on climate change is built on many lines of 
independent evidence all converging on a single conclusion.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/06/AR2009040601634.html
*This Day in Climate History April 7, 2009 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/06/AR2009040601634.html> 
-  from D.R. Tucker
*In a story entitled "New Data Show Rapid Arctic Ice Decline," the 
Washington Post observes: "The new evidence -- including satellite data 
showing that the average multiyear wintertime sea ice cover in the 
Arctic in 2005 and 2006 was nine feet thick, a significant decline from 
the 1980s -- contradicts data cited in widely circulated reports by 
Washington Post columnist George F. Will that sea ice in the Arctic has 
not significantly declined since 1979."

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