[TheClimate.Vote] April 9, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News

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/April 9, 2017 /

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42vU_wx55KE
*Animation: How much time is left before we use up our carbon budget for 
1.5C of global warming? <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42vU_wx55KE>*

    The Paris climate deal set a temperature limit of "well below 2C" of
    global warming, and says there should be "efforts" to limit it to
    1.5C. But how much time do we have left before our greenhouse gas
    emissions take us past these thresholds?
    Animation and data visualisation by Rosamund Pearce for Carbon
    Brief, featuring the voice of Jocelyn Timperley. Data from the IPCC.
    (video) How unusual are recent conditions in the Arctic and
    Antarctic? <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CVPFwIdon8>
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CVPFwIdon8
    See more CarbonBrief videos
    <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiXgvmQ2jUgUjRpJzvga5Tg>
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiXgvmQ2jUgUjRpJzvga5Tg

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/04/climate-change-mental-health-report

    Study:*Climate Change*Could Increase PTSD, Suicide, and Depression
    <http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/04/climate-change-mental-health-report>

Mother Jones 	 -‎7 hours ago‎ 	

On Wednesday, just a day after President Donald Trump signed an 
executive order undoing the Obama administration's*climate 
change*efforts, the American Psychological Association and the 
environmental group ecoAmerica published a report describing ...

http://grist.org/article/depressed-about-climate-change-theres-a-9-step-program-for-that/

    Depressed about*climate change*? There's a 9-step program for that.
    <http://grist.org/article/depressed-about-climate-change-theres-a-9-step-program-for-that/>

Grist 	 -‎7 hours ago‎ 	

The psychological consequences of*climate change*have been the subject 
of greater study in recent years, with the Obama White House releasing a 
report in 2016 that predicted growing numbers of people would experience 
direct mental-health effects from ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2QXMGYluzo
*(YouTube video) New Rule: What Would a Dick Do? | Real Time with Bill 
Maher (HBO) <https://youtu.be/P2QXMGYluzo>*
Real Time with Bill Maher  5 min video opinion
In his editorial New Rule, Bill Maher tells Republicans that they have 
to learn the difference between being a conservative and just being a dick.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/new-study-carbon-pollution-extreme-weather.html
*New study links carbon pollution to extreme weather 
<https://www.skepticalscience.com/new-study-carbon-pollution-extreme-weather.html>*
By John Abraham

    It was only a few weeks ago that I wrote about changes to extreme
    weathe
    <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/mar/22/global-warming-is-increasing-rainfall-rates>r
    in a warming world. That prior article dealt with the increase of
    extreme precipitation events as the Earth warms. I termed the
    relationship a thermodynamic one; it was driven by local
    thermodynamic processes. But extreme weather can also occur because
    of large-scale changes to the atmosphere and oceans. This issue is
    the topic of another just-published paper
    <http://www.nature.com/articles/srep45242> that makes a convincing
    case for a whole new type of influence of humans on extreme weather.
    In a certain sense, this study confirms what was previously reported
    here
    <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/jul/17/global-warming-causing-extreme-weather-jet-stream-waves>
    and
    Using measurements, the authors documented what conditions led to
    extreme weather patterns that persisted for extended durations. They
    found that many occur when the jet stream becomes stationary with
    the undulations stuck in place. They also saw that under certain
    situations, the jet stream undulations do not dissipate in time;
    they become trapped in a wave guide.
    Interestingly, this pattern of a stuck jet stream would occur when
    the number of undulations was between six and eight. When these
    circumstances all lined up, according to study co-author Stefan
    Rahmstorf:
    /the same weather persists for weeks on end in one region, then
    sunny days can turn into a serious heat wave and drought, and
    lasting rains can lead to flooding/
    . With the march of science, the tools, methods, and evidence get
    better each year...

http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=68dc4fc7fb&e=30dc80e2f6
*CO2 levels heading back to days of dinosaurs 
<http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=68dc4fc7fb&e=30dc80e2f6>*
Scientists predict that continued burning of fossil fuels could return 
CO2 levels and temperatures to heights not seen in hundreds of millions 
of years.    By Tim Radford  LONDON, 8 April, 2017

    If humans burn all the fossil fuels at their disposal - and this
    could happen in the next two centuries - researchers predict that
    the planetary atmosphere would match the one that witnessed the days
    of the dinosaurs at the dawn of the Jurassic period, around 200
    million years ago.
    By the 23rd century, planetary temperatures would be as high as
    those at the end of the Silurian, 420 million years ago. In this
    baking environment, plants had yet to begin to colonise the land,
    and almost all life was concentrated in the oceans.
    This torrid forecast is not based on any one piece of research: it
    is the outcome of an analysis of 1,200 estimates of ancient
    atmospheres, based on evidence of fossilised plants and shells, over
    a timespan of almost half a billion years.
    The consequence is that, if humans exhaust the resources of coal,
    oil and natural gas, conditions will follow that have no precedent
    in 420 million years of evolution.

https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/america-first-doesnt-cut-it-when-fighting-global-warming

    America First" Doesn't Cut It When Fighting*Global Warming*
    <https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/america-first-doesnt-cut-it-when-fighting-global-warming>

Natural Resources Defense Council 	 -‎19 hours ago‎ 	

But when it comes to setting our nation's climate policy, ignoring the 
"*global*" part of the phrase "*global*climate change" isn't just wrong. 
It's reckless. Which, unsurprisingly, isn't enough to dissuade President 
Trump, who seems perfectly happy to*...*

http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/8/15195064/new-york-2140-kim-stanley-robinson-book-review-climate-change

    Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 is a glorious thought
    experiment on*climate change*
    <http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/8/15195064/new-york-2140-kim-stanley-robinson-book-review-climate-change>

The Verge 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

It's surreal to be reading this book right now, especially against the 
backdrop of the Trump administration's dismissal of the dangers 
that*climate change*poses. There's already a number of fairly bleak 
novels out there about the affects of*climate change*.

http://www.gop.com/news/research/obamas-green-energy-nominee-ducks-questions-on-carbon-tax/
*This Day in Climate History April 8, 2013 
<http://www.gop.com/news/research/obamas-green-energy-nominee-ducks-questions-on-carbon-tax/> 
-  from D.R. Tucker*
In a sign of the Republican Party's dishonesty on environmental 
concerns, GOP.com attacks Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz for having 
supported a federal carbon tax, not acknowledging that there are 
prominent Republicans--most notably former Secretary of State George 
Shultz--who also support a federal carbon tax.

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