[TheClimate.Vote] April 18, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News

Tue Apr 18 10:24:45 EDT 2017

/April 18, 2017 /

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/scientists-wildfires-warming-world-21360
*Scientists: Get Used to Wildfires in a Warming World 
<http://www.climatecentral.org/news/scientists-wildfires-warming-world-21360>*

    Communities across the Western U.S. and Canada may have to adapt to
    living with the ever-increasing threat of catastrophic wildfires as
    global warming heats up and dries out forests across the West,
    according to a University of Colorado study published Monday...
    Residents living in neighborhoods adjacent to forests — known as
    "wildland-urban interface" zones — will have to accept that many
    wildfires may have to be allowed to burn and that building new homes
    in fire-prone forests should be discouraged, the study says.
    Firefighters and policymakers will also have to adapt in new ways as
    catastrophic wildfires burn more land and destroy more homes than
    ever before...
    Officials have long tried to cut wildfire risk by spending billions
    of dollars annually to "manage fuels" — physically removing some
    trees and underbrush from dense forests and intentionally setting
    some forests ablaze in controlled "prescribed burns." In the dry
    season, firefighters rush to fight, or "suppress," nearly all blazes
    to prevent them from spreading.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Y2IjMrgf8
*(video) Greenland Ice Sheet Melting 600 Percent Faster Than Predicted 
by Current Models <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Y2IjMrgf8>*

    The climate is very capable of changing to another stable state
    unfavorable to the human species, and this is a real danger of our
    global experiment with unmitigated greenhouse gas emissions, says
    Arctic ice specialist David Barber.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/bearing-witness-to-climate-change/

    Bearing Witness to*Climate Change*
    <https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/bearing-witness-to-climate-change/>

Scientific American (blog) 	 -‎13 hours ago‎ 	

I am an artist devoted to communicating issues of*climate change*through 
my practice. For the past decade, I've been documenting the dramatic 
disappearance of glaciers in large-scale series of paintings and 
photographs developed in close collaboration ...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/apr/17/humans-on-the-verge-of-causing-earths-fastest-climate-change-in-50m-years

    Humans on the verge of causing Earth's fastest*climate change*in 50m
    years
    <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/apr/17/humans-on-the-verge-of-causing-earths-fastest-climate-change-in-50m-years>

The Guardian 	 -‎17 hours ago‎ 	

The authors found that on our current path, by mid-century humans will 
be causing the fastest*climate change*in approximately 50 million years, 
and if we burn all available fossil fuels, we'll cause the fastest 
change in the entire 420 million year record.

https://phys.org/news/2017-04-early-out-of-control-climate.html
*Early warnings of an out-of-control climate 
<https://phys.org/news/2017-04-early-out-of-control-climate.html>*

    Phys.Org...Global warming is edging perilously close to
    out-of-control, according to a growing number of scientific reports
    from round the planet ...
    "Time is running out if we want to preserve our world in a stable,
    healthy and productive state, capable of feeding and supporting us
    all," says Julian Cribb, author of Surviving the 21st Century, a
    book on the ten greatest challenges facing humanity and what we can
    do about them.
    "The great concern is the rapid rise, over the last three years, in
    methane levels in the atmosphere. Methane is a gas with 28 times the
    planet-heating power of carbon dioxide. Scientists estimate there
    may be as much as 5 trillion tonnes of it locked in permafrost and
    seabed deposits.
    Read more at:
    https://phys.org/news/2017-04-early-out-of-control-climate.html#jCp

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/climate-change-is-turning-dehydration-into-a-deadly-disease-a7680856.html

    *Climate change*is turning dehydration into a deadly disease
    <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/climate-change-is-turning-dehydration-into-a-deadly-disease-a7680856.html>

The Independent 	 -‎2 hours ago‎ 	

*Climate change*is turning dehydration into a deadly disease. A 
mysterious kidney disease is striking down labourers across the world 
and*climate change*is making it worse. Jane Palmer meets the doctors who 
are trying to understand it and stop it.

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/04/16/fearing-global-warming-disaster-hollywood-stars-run-for-the-hills-literally/

    Fearing*global warming*disaster, Hollywood stars run for the hills —
    literally
    <http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/04/16/fearing-global-warming-disaster-hollywood-stars-run-for-the-hills-literally/>

TheBlaze.com 	 -‎Apr 16, 2017‎ 	

Historically, these millionaire celebrities and those who want to be 
close to them have spent fortunes to live close to the area's gorgeous 
coastline, but fears over*global warming*are now transforming this 
important real estate market—one of the*...*

http://globalnews.ca/news/3383633/canada-glacier-melt-global-warming/
*Scientists blame global warming for new phenomenon called 'river 
piracy' 
<http://globalnews.ca/news/3383633/canada-glacier-melt-global-warming/>*

    Scientists have witnessed the first modern case of what they call
    "river piracy" and they blame global warming. Most of the water
    gushing from a large glacier in northwest Canada last year suddenly
    switched from one river to another.
    That changed the Slims River from a 10-foot (3 meters) deep, raging
    river to something so shallow that it barely was above a scientist's
    high top sneakers at midstream. The melt from the Yukon's Kaskawulsh
    glacier now flows mostly into the Alsek River and ends up in the
    Pacific Ocean instead of the Arctic's Bering Sea.
    http://komonews.com/weather/scotts-weather-blog/uw-study-first-modern-case-of-river-piracy-observed-global-warming-blamed
    UW study: First modern case of "river piracy" observed; Global
    Warming blamed
    <http://komonews.com/weather/scotts-weather-blog/uw-study-first-modern-case-of-river-piracy-observed-global-warming-blamed>
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have witnessed the first modern case of
    what they call "river piracy" and they blame global warming. Most of
    the water gushing from a large glacier in northwest Canada last year
    suddenly switched from one river to another..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/justin-trudeau-climate-change_us_58f4be6ee4b0b9e9848cf9a0

    Justin Trudeau A 'Stunning Hypocrite' On*Climate Change*, Says Top
    Environmentalist
    <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/justin-trudeau-climate-change_us_58f4be6ee4b0b9e9848cf9a0>

Huffington Post 	 -‎13 hours ago‎ 	

    In December, Trudeau announced a nationwide minimum price on carbon
    of about 10 Canadian dollars, or about $7.53 per metric ton. By next
    year, the administration plans to roll out either a tax on fossil
    fuels or a cap-and-trade system to exact the levy...
    Still, McKibben urged Trudeau's gushing fans to "stop swooning" over
    the prime minister, whom he called a "disaster for the planet."..
    "Trump is a creep and a danger and unpleasant to look at, but at
    least he's not a stunning hypocrite," McKibben wrote, before
    concluding: "Trump's insulting the planet, in other words. But at
    least he's not pretending otherwise."

http://waer.org/post/esf-speaker-bill-mckibben-climate-change-biggest-thing-human-beings-have-ever-done

    ESF Speaker Bill McKibben on*Climate Change*: "The Biggest Thing
    Human Beings Have Ever Done"
    <http://waer.org/post/esf-speaker-bill-mckibben-climate-change-biggest-thing-human-beings-have-ever-done>

WAER 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

    "That's it, we can't; it's not fair to demand that young people
    solve this problem. They need the rest of us working hard. We're the
    first generations that are going to leave the planet worse for our
    children than we found it," McKibben proclaims. "And that's a bad
    thing."
    "re people putting on solar panels than mining coal – hell, there
    are more people who work at Arby's Roast Beef Sandwiches in America
    than mining coal – so the idea that this is a central preoccupation
    of our economy is as silly as everything else Trump says."

http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2017/4/18-32504_Issues-Authors-Propose-Ways-to-Mitigate-Climate-Ch_story-wide.html?WT.mc_id=NewsHomePage

    'Issues' Authors Propose Ways to Mitigate*Climate Change* Effects
    <http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2017/4/18-32504_Issues-Authors-Propose-Ways-to-Mitigate-Climate-Ch_story-wide.html?WT.mc_id=NewsHomePage>

University of Texas at Dallas (press release) 	 -‎7 hours ago‎ 	

    The spring edition of Issues in Science and Technology features a
    special editorial package on climate engineering. The authors of
    three articles offer solutions for preventing catastrophes including
    directly intervening in the climate...
    In the first article, Dr. David Keith, a leading researcher in
    geoengineering with Harvard University, outlines a responsible
    research agenda for solar geoengineering...
    In the second article, Dr. Jane C.S. Long, the former associate
    director for energy and environment at Lawrence Livermore National
    Laboratory, describes a systems approach to climate change,
    beginning with limiting greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to
    unavoidable climate disruptions, while researching the feasibility
    of geoengineering...
    In the third article, Dr. Klaus Lackner with Arizona State
    University and Christophe Jospe, founder of Carbon A List, propose
    treating carbon dioxide emissions like other forms of waste. They
    write that direct carbon capture may offer a pragmatic way to remove
    greenhouse gases from the atmosphere...

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930418&slug=1696475
*This Day in Climate History April 18, 1993 
<http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930418&slug=1696475> 
-  from D.R. Tucker*

    "The Fire Next Time," a two-part miniseries depicting the damage
    brought about by global warming, premieres on CBS...Set "sometime in
    the future," the Morgans live in a world where air conditioning is
    rationed, where the heat, at least in the
    Southern U.S., has become nearly unbearable, where water has become
    a precious commodity and the Colorado River has all but disappeared...
    Now add to this a California that seems to be perpetually on fire, a
    devastating hurricane, a flood and the existence of various cults,
    from one that believes there's no hope for the future, to a more
    militant group called Eco-Survivalists. In short, life, as lived in
    "The Fire Next Time,' is pretty grim - but never dull...
    Writer Henerson and director Tom McLoughlin obviously (and
    correctly) believed few would be willing to sit through a four-hour
    lecture on ecology, so they turned "The Fire Next Time" into a saga
    every bit as epic as "Evangeline" (which told of French-Canadians'
    trek from Nova Scotia to Louisiana to settle, the ancestors of
    today's Cajuns)...
    It includes plenty of family conflict, a long sequence with Mexican
    immigrants and the destruction of irrigation equipment, a
    startlingly realistic hurricane (which, incidentally, was filmed
    several weeks before last year's Hurricane Andrew - talk about life
    imitating art!)...
    There's the journey of homeless refugees up the Mississippi on a
    flat barge, a visit to an ecologically-perfect town that looks like
    it was created by Disney and sequences set in Canada that make it
    look like paradise after scenes in the battered U.S.A...
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105998/
    http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930418&slug=1696475

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