[TheClimate.Vote] April 19, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Wed Apr 19 09:02:10 EDT 2017
/April 19, 2017 /
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/18/trump-paris-climate-agreement-climate-change
*Trump aides abruptly postpone meeting on whether to stay in Paris
climate deal
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/18/trump-paris-climate-agreement-climate-change>*
Unlikely coalition of fossil fuel firms, environmental groups and
Republicans are calling on president to stay despite his pledge to
'cancel' agreement
Donald Trump's aides have abruptly postponed a meeting to determine
whether the US should remain in the Paris climate agreement, with an
unlikely coalition of fossil fuel firms, environmental groups and
some Republicans calling on the president to stick with the deal...
Trump's top advisers were set to meet on Tuesday to provide the
president with a recommendation ahead of a G7 meeting in May.
However, a White House official said the meeting had been postponed
due to conflicting schedules. It is unclear when it will now take
place...
Trump has already signed executive orders to start the demolition of
the clean power plan, throw open federal land to coal mining, and
halt new vehicle emissions standards but has so far not acted on his
campaign pledge to "cancel" the Paris compromise....
Regardless of whether the US stays within the Paris deal, its
chances of making deep cuts in its emissions have receded since
Trump took office. Without the clean power plan, more stringent
emissions standards on vehicles and gas and oil drilling operations
or any sort of tax on greenhouse gases – a plan recently floated by
some Republicans – the US will pull back from the effort to help
avoid more severe heatwaves, droughts, the disappearance of coral
reefs and coastal inundation...
"Regardless of what Trump does on Paris, he has abrogated our
position," said Tom Steyer, a leading hedge fund manager and climate
campaigner. "This is an administration trying as hard as possible to
bring back coal mining; they have given up American leadership on
energy and climate. They have already walked away."
https://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/study-shows-that-climate-change-will-bring-thousands-of-floridians-to-new-york-041817
Study shows that*climate change*will bring thousands of Floridians
to New York
<https://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/study-shows-that-climate-change-will-bring-thousands-of-floridians-to-new-york-041817>
Time Out New York (blog) -5 hours ago
A new study published in Nature Climate Change
<https://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate3271.html>
by University of Georgia geographer Mathew Hauer looks into where
people will migrate when their waterfront dwellings are no longer
habitable, and it isn't exactly pretty. A previous study by Hauer
projected that sea levels rising by just 1.8 meters by 2100 would
put more than 900,000 residents in New York state at risk. The
findings are nuanced, but the broad strokes are clear: the
population of the New York-New Jersey area will reduce by 50,000
people if infrastructure is not adapted to handle the rising tides.
Further, New York state will see an influx of migrants from Florida.
That's right, New Yorkers - if the world doesn't drastically curb
the effects of climate change in the coming decades, thousands of
Floridians will move here.
The study points to the very real and terrifying impact that climate
change will have not only in New York, but the country as a whole.
If you want to help ensure that NYC will continue to be an amazing
city for future generations, there are plenty of opportunities to
volunteer and take action. If rising sea levels don't inspire you to
get involved, then perhaps the thought of thousands of Floridians
moseying through subway turnstiles will.
https://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate3271.html
Migration induced by sea-level rise could reshape the US population
landscape
<https://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate3271.html>
to date no studies have attempted to model the destinations of
these potentially displaced persons. With millions of potential
future migrants in heavily populated coastal communities, SLR
scholarship focusing solely on coastal communities characterizes SLR
as primarily a coastal issue, obscuring the potential impacts in
landlocked communities created by SLR-induced displacement
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/18/amazon-cto-werner-vogels-climate-change-driving-cloud-shift.html
Weather disasters from *climate change*are pushing some companies to
Amazon's cloud, says CTO
<http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/18/amazon-cto-werner-vogels-climate-change-driving-cloud-shift.html>
CNBC -1 hour ago
Amazon Web Services has been winning business worldwide from
companies that are stripping down their data centers and taking
advantage of emerging cloud technologies...
Some clients are signing on for a different reason: climate change...
From New Jersey to Japan, massive storms and earthquakes in recent
years have instantly wiped out technical infrastructures, leaving
businesses unable to retrieve critical data. Amazon Chief Technology
Officer Werner Vogels told CNBC on Tuesday that companies are
turning to the cloud to make sure their data is backed up and always
accessible...
Speaking in an interview from the AWS Summit in San Francisco,
Vogels said that banks and telecommunications companies in the
Philippines have been swarming into AWS facilities in Singapore of
late, "given the massive typhoons that have hit the country time
after time."...
As Amazon expands its global network of data centers, transitioning
to the cloud becomes an easier sell to big businesses. AWS has
facilities in 16 regions around the world, with Paris opening this
year and Stockholm in 2018...
"If a calamity happens in one of those regions, they can move their
customers to another region," Vogels said....
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/17/stop-swooning-justin-trudeau-man-disaster-planet
*(opinion) Stop swooning over Justin Trudeau. The man is a disaster for
the planet
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/17/stop-swooning-justin-trudeau-man-disaster-planet?CMP=share_btn_link>*
Bill McKibben
Donald Trump is a creep and unpleasant to look at, but at least he's
not a stunning hypocrite when it comes to climate change
Donald Trump is so spectacularly horrible that it's hard to look
away - especially now that he's discovered bombs. But precisely
because everyone's staring gape-mouthed in his direction, other
world leaders are able to get away with almost anything. Don't
believe me? Look one country north, at Justin Trudeau...
Look all you want, in fact – he sure is cute, the planet's only
sovereign leader who appears to have recently quit a boy band. And
he's mastered so beautifully the politics of inclusion:
compassionate to immigrants, insistent on including women at every
level of government. Give him great credit where it's deserved: in
lots of ways he's the anti-Trump, and it's no wonder Canadians
swooned when he took over.
But those words are meaningless if you keep digging up more carbon
and selling it to people to burn, and that's exactly what Trudeau is
doing. He's hard at work pushing for new pipelines through Canada
and the US to carry yet more oil out of Alberta's tar sands, which
is one of the greatest climate disasters on the planet.
Which is a fine thing to say – or would be, if your government
wasn't backing plans for the largest coal mine on Earth. That single
mine, in a country of 24 million people, will produce 362% of the
annual carbon emissions that everyone in the Philippines produces in
the course of a year. It is obviously, mathematically and morally
absurd...
Trump, of course, is working just as eagerly to please the fossil
fuel industry – he's instructed the Bureau of Land Management to
make permitting even easier for new oil and gas projects, for
instance. And frackers won't even have to keep track of how much
methane they're spewing under his new guidelines. And why should
they? If you believe, as Trump apparently does, that global warming
is a delusion, a hoax, a mirage, you might as well get out of the way...
Trump is insulting the planet, in other words. But at least he's not
pretending otherwise.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/magazine/is-it-ok-to-engineer-the-environment-to-fight-climate-change.html
Is It O.K. to Tinker With the Environment to Fight Climate Change?
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/magazine/is-it-ok-to-engineer-the-environment-to-fight-climate-change.html>
Scientists are investigating whether releasing tons of particulates
into the atmosphere might be good for the planet. Not everyone
thinks this is a good idea.
"We are doing an experiment now that we don't understand." He was
not talking about geoengineering; he was observing that the
uncertainty about the potential risks of geoengineering can obscure
the fact that there is uncertainty, too, about the escalating
disasters that may soon result from climate change.
https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/regulatory-reform
*Public Participation in EPA's Regulatory Reform*
<https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/regulatory-reform>
In accordance with Executive Order 13777, "Enforcing the Regulatory
Reform Agenda," EPA is seeking input on regulations that may be
appropriate for repeal, replacement, or modification.
On April 11, 2017, EPA announced it is soliciting public comments on
its evaluation of existing regulations per EO 13777. All public
comments will be accessible online in our docket on the
Regulations.gov website identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OA-2017-0190.
http://gizmodo.com/heres-what-our-food-might-look-like-in-a-climate-change-1794397326
*Here's What Our Food Might Look Like in a Climate Change-Induced
Dystopia
<http://gizmodo.com/heres-what-our-food-might-look-like-in-a-climate-change-1794397326>**
*
**That means local farming and foraging for ingredients, no red
meat, deserts made from agar (an algae-based gelatin), lots of
aquaculture, a proliferation of bivalves which play an important
role in filtering ocean water, and canned or preserved foods we
might need to turn to as crops shift.
"I want people not just to see food they eat," said Wist, "But that
it's intimately connected to our environment."
http://www.icenews.is/2017/04/18/icelands-flora-and-fauna-changing-tangibly-due-to-global-warming/
Iceland's flora and fauna changing tangibly due to*global warming*
<http://www.icenews.is/2017/04/18/icelands-flora-and-fauna-changing-tangibly-due-to-global-warming/>
IceNews -9 hours ago
The coming decades will see a rise of temperatures in Iceland by
approximately four degrees Celsius, if*global warming*caused by the
greenhouse effect continues uninterrupted and isn't counteracted urgently.
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/19/us/bush-denies-putting-off-action-on-averting-global-climate-shift.html
*This Day in Climate History April 19, 1990
<http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/19/us/bush-denies-putting-off-action-on-averting-global-climate-shift.html>
- from D.R. Tucker*
The New York Times reports:
"President Bush, responding to criticism that the United States had
delayed taking concrete steps to address the threat of global warming
linked to pollution, said today, 'We have never considered research a
substitute for action.'
"Closing a two-day White House conference on the issue, Mr. Bush said:
'To those who suggest we're only trying to balance economic growth and
environmental protection, I say they miss the point. We are calling
for an entirely new way of thinking, to achieve both while
compromising neither, by applying the power of the marketplace in the
service of the environment.'
"Mr. Bush also proposed a series of steps for integrating
international responses to the issue of global climate change. They
included an international 'charter' for cooperation in science and
economics related to global change, a statement of principles to guide
such research, the creation of international research institutes and a
communications network to monitor global changes."
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