[TheClimate.Vote] April 10, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News

Mon Apr 10 10:33:57 EDT 2017

/April 10, 2017 /

http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=9083658996&e=30dc80e2f6
*Jet streams stumble as the world warms 
<http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=9083658996&e=30dc80e2f6>*
By Tim Radford,  LONDON, 9 April, 2017
The warming of the atmosphere by greenhouse gases is slowing the jet 
streams which drive the northern hemisphere's weather.
Researchers have once again linked a sequence of devastating climate 
events to global warming fuelled by prodigal human use of fossil fuels. 
And this time, they believe they have identified the agency behind 
theblazing summers that have claimed lives and destroyed livelihoods 
repeatedly 
<https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/pifc-weh032317.php> 
during this century.
They argue in the journal Scientific Reports 
<http://www.nature.com/articles/srep45242> that human impact on the 
climate now reaches high into the stratosphere,to influence the 
behaviour patterns of the giant jet streams 
<https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/ps-ewe032117.php> that 
carry heat and moisture around the northern hemisphere, and keep the 
weather on the move.
Warming driven by carbon dioxide emissions from car exhausts and power 
stations, they argue, tends to make these giant oscillating waves stall 
in their journey around the hemisphere - to create enduring episodes of 
high and low pressure and lingering hazards of drought and flood.
"The unprecedented 2016 California drought, the 2011 US heatwave and 
2010 Pakistan flood as well as the 2003 European hot spell all belong to 
a most worrying series of extremes," says Michael Mann from Pennsylvania 
State University in the US.

http://www.newsweek.com/quora-question-how-will-trump-affect-climate-change-579765

    Quora: Trump's Policies Will Only Accelerate Climate Change
    <http://www.newsweek.com/quora-question-how-will-trump-affect-climate-change-579765>

Newsweek 	 -‎12 hours ago‎ 	

A warmer planet may not be able to return to the balance we once enjoyed.

http://gizmodo.com/a-brain-invading-parasite-is-believed-to-be-spreading-b-1794144135

    A Brain-Invading Parasite Is Believed to Be Spreading Because
    of*Climate Change*
    <http://gizmodo.com/a-brain-invading-parasite-is-believed-to-be-spreading-b-1794144135>

Gizmodo 	 -‎Apr 8, 2017‎ 	

Health officials in Hawaii have been warning residents not to touch 
snails or slugs with their bare hands because of an increase in cases of 
people coming into contact with a rare parasitic infection known as a 
rat lungworm.

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21720306-some-flora-and-fauna-may-need-be-moved-around-how-alaska-coping-global-warming

    How Alaska is coping with*global warming*
    <http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21720306-some-flora-and-fauna-may-need-be-moved-around-how-alaska-coping-global-warming>

The Economist 	 -‎Apr 6, 2017‎ 	

Britons bash rhododendrons; New Zealanders drop rat poison from 
helicopters; Americans and Canadians are trying (and mostly failing) to 
stop Asian carp from spreading.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/05/carbon-dioxide-levels-could-reach-their-highest-point-in-50-million-years-by-the-end-of-the-century/?utm_term=.fc7ef7e4caa7
*Carbon dioxide levels could reach their highest point in 50 million 
years by the end of the century 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/05/carbon-dioxide-levels-could-reach-their-highest-point-in-50-million-years-by-the-end-of-the-century/?utm_term=.fc7ef7e4caa7>*
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 this century, a new study warns.
And if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated beyond that point, the 
climate could reach a warming state that hasn’t been seen in the past 
420 million years.
Some research suggests that, if humans burned through all fossil fuels 
on Earth, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations could hit 5,000 
parts per million by the year 2400.

http://wellesley.wickedlocal.com/opinion/20170409/tsongas-cost-of-climate-change-inaction-and-denial

    Tsongas: The cost of*climate change*inaction and denial
    <http://wellesley.wickedlocal.com/opinion/20170409/tsongas-cost-of-climate-change-inaction-and-denial>

Wicked Local Wellesley 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

Science backs her up, in particular when it comes to*climate change*. 
The vast majority of the scientific community tells us that threat is 
real, is caused by human activity, and could have devastating effects 
all over the world for this and future*.*

http://www.snopes.com/2017/04/08/epa-program-climate-change/

    EPA Reportedly Eliminates Program Helping Cities Deal With*Climate
    Change* <http://www.snopes.com/2017/04/08/epa-program-climate-change/>

snopes.com 	 -‎Apr 8, 2017‎ 	

The Office of Policy provides cross-agency leadership and coordination 
on*climate change*adaptation. Its goal is to build and strengthen the 
adaptive capacity of the EPA's Programs and Regions, and their partners 
in states, tribes, and local communities.

http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=50815f7395&e=30dc80e2f6
*Arctic meltwater pondsfeed climate concerns 
<http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=50815f7395&e=30dc80e2f6>*
Plankton blooms in the Arctic’s increasing number of meltwater ponds are 
enriching the ocean - but potentially accelerating global warming.
By Tim Radford   LONDON, 7 April, 2017
Even in the white-out world of ice, the Arctic is growing greener. 
Plankton blooms below the frozen ocean and in Greenland’s icy mountain 
meltwater ponds become little ecosystems that will eventually enrich the 
ocean.
And both entirely natural processes could be a measure of human impact 
on the planetary climate. In each case, what happens a little could 
increasingly happen a lot, to accelerate climate change still further.
The Arctic is the fastest-warming place on the planet. Green plants have 
begun to invade the frozen landscapes, and Greenland’s ice is in 
retreat. And scientists have begun to look in finer detail at the way 
the process happens.
Twenty years ago, no more than 4% of Arctic ice was thin enough to 
permit colonies of phytoplankton to bloom underneath. Now, in the summer 
months, 30% of the iced-over ocean covers a garden of green things, to 
be grazed by other forms of sea life.
"The metre decline in sea ice thickness in the Arctic in the past 30 
years has dramatically changed the ecology in that area," Horvat says.

http://mashable.com/2017/04/06/interior-department-changes-webpage-coal-pile/
*Public lands agency changes website from family visiting a park to a 
giant pile of coal 
<http://mashable.com/2017/04/06/interior-department-changes-webpage-coal-pile/>*
Even the smallest of symbolic details can't escape the changes of life 
in Trump's America. The government agency responsible for overseeing a 
staggering 258 million acres of land, including ecologically vital 
conservation areas, has changed the image on its homepage from a scenic 
park vista to a massive, tall pile of coal.
The website change, which happened in the past 24 hours, is in keeping 
with the Trump administration's push to drill for oil, natural gas, and 
minerals on public lands.
https://www.blm.gov/

http://www.law.umaryland.edu/faculty/bpercival/casebook/documents/epaco2memo1.pdf
*This Day in Climate History April 10, 1998 
<http://www.law.umaryland.edu/faculty/bpercival/casebook/documents/epaco2memo1.pdf> 
-  from D.R. Tucker
*

    EPA general counsel Jonathan Cannon writes a memo to
    EPA Administrator Carol Browner clarifying the EPA's ability to
    regulate CO2 as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.
    http://www.law.umaryland.edu/faculty/bpercival/casebook/documents/epaco2memo1.pdf

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