[TheClimate.Vote] April 21, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Fri Apr 21 10:43:35 EDT 2017
/April 21, 2017 /
https://www.bloomberg.com/climate-changed
*Bloomberg News today announces site devoted to climate change
<https://www.bloomberg.com/climate-changed>*
/Offers easy to understand, visual explanations of climate change
issues. /
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-19/how-to-drive-the-world-0ff-a-cliff
Press release:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bloomberg-climate-change_us_58f7e640e4b0cb086d7dd9e5
w-rising-temperatures-can-fry-the-economy-video
Be sure to see:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-04-19/how-rising-temperatures-can-fry-the-economy-video
Climate Changed gives Bloomberg a leg up on The Wall Street Journal,
arguably its chief competitor in the market for prestige journalism.
The Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper's hard-line conservativism
appears to have bled over from the opinion pages to the news
section. A study published in 2015 by researchers at Rutgers
University, the University of Michigan and the University of Oslo
found that from 2006 to 2011, the Journal's news reporting rarely
mentioned threats or effects of climate change, compared with the
country's other leading broadsheet newspapers.
http://www.thetelegram.com/news/local/2017/4/20/media-outlets-around-the-world-fascinated-by-ferryland-iceberg.html
*Media outlets around the world fascinated by Ferryland iceberg
<http://www.thetelegram.com/news/local/2017/4/20/media-outlets-around-the-world-fascinated-by-ferryland-iceberg.html>*
Image:
http://www.thetelegram.com/content/dam/tc/the-telegram/images/2017/4/20/tel-a04-21042017-icebergmedia1.png
Since it floated south into shallow water off the coast of
Ferryland, the towering iceberg that had everyone clamouring for
selfies last weekend has made its way around the world.
Media outlets across the globe seem to be fascinated with the
gigantic berg, said to measure more than 150 feet tall.
"Iceberg in Canada taller than one that sank Titanic draws tourists
to Newfoundland town," reads a headline in the U.K.'s Telegraph.
Over the past few days, photos of the now-famous Ferryland iceberg
<http://www.thetelegram.com/content/dam/tc/the-telegram/images/2017/4/20/tel-a04-21042017-icebergmedia1.png>
have popped up on news sites such as Time, CNN, the New York Times
and the BBC, as well as sites in Italy, Russia, India, Germany,
Japan, El Salvador and New Zealand. Some have called it
"Newfoundland's new tourist attraction."
Locals and regulars to the province know the berg is magnificent,
but hardly part of a new attraction — these glacial masses are more
than 10,000 years old, according to "Icebergs of Newfoundland and
Labrador" author Stephen Bruneau, and up to 800 of them can make
their way down to St. John's from western Greenland every spring.
... the Province's Icebergfinder.com <http://icebergfinder.com/>
website, which currently shows close to 40 icebergs in a range of
sizes mapped between southern Labrador and the southern portion of
the Avalon Peninsula. Pack ice — of which there's been plenty this
year — protects the icebergs from being beaten by the waves and
allows them to last longer, Bruneau states.
http://icebergfinder.com/
*IcebergFinder.com 90% of them are underwater, Find the rest here
<http://icebergfinder.com/>*
The icebergs you see on IcebergFinder.com come from two sources:
visual sightings from our on-the-ground ambassadors and satellite
detections from C-CORE using data from the European Space Agency
(ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
also:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/world/canada/iceberg-ferryland-newfoundland.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tiq_XcsikYE
*(video) Climate Change and Post-Truth Politics (UK)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tiq_XcsikYE>*
2016 was a good and bad year for efforts to tackle climate change.
The good news is that 120 parties have ratified the Paris
Convention; the bad news is the emergence of post-truth politics and
the associated denial of the evidence that climate change is a
threat to our future. Leading environmentalist and Member of UK
House of Lords John Krebs discusses the trends and their
implications for global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Recorded on 01/25/2017. Series: "Bren School of Environmental
Science & Management" [4/2017] [Show ID: 31961] 57 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MqTOEospfo
*(video) Science in America - Neil deGrasse Tyson
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MqTOEospfo>*/ ( 4 mins - recent
viral momentum/)
"Exercise in finding what is true" We offer this 4min video on
"Science in America", containing what may be the most important
words Neil deGrasse Tyson has ever spoken. Redglass Pictures is an
award-winning production studio co-founded by Sarah Klein and Tom
Mason and based in New York City. Their body of work is defined by a
simple idea: that short, cinematic storytelling has the power to
touch, teach, and change people. No matter the story or subject,
their vision remains the same: give viewers something to care about
– something that sticks with them long after the end frame.
http://www.redglasspictures.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/magazine/why-the-menace-of-mosquitoes-will-only-get-worse.html
*Why the Menace of Mosquitoes Will Only Get Worse
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/magazine/why-the-menace-of-mosquitoes-will-only-get-worse.html>*
Climate change is altering the environment in ways that increase the
potential for viruses like Zika.
West Nile was not new to the United States. It had been a minor
summer threat since August 1999, when it made 17 people sick in New
York City. That was the virus's first entry into the country, and it
expanded through it thereafter. It landed in Dallas in 2002,
sickening 202 people and killing 13. ..
... Warmer weather encourages food-borne organisms like salmonella
to multiply more rapidly, and warmer seas foster the growth of
bacteria like Vibrio that make oysters unsafe to eat. Spikes in heat
and humidity have less visible effects, too, changing the numbers
and distribution of the insect intermediaries that carry diseases to
people...
...in the year since that first Houston case, it has become clear
that the United States is more vulnerable to Zika than anyone
thought....The best defense against Aedes mosquitoes turns out to be
not big municipal gestures but small individual actions: destroying
their habitat by emptying the pools of water where they reproduce,
and keeping them from eating by repairing windows screens and
wearing bug repellent.
"Climate change is a threat multiplier," Katharine Hayhoe, one of
those researchers and a director of Texas Tech's Climate Science
Center, told me. "If there's one overarching theme that connects
almost every way that climate change impacts us, it's that climate
change takes a risk that already exists and enhances it. It's not
inventing something new. It's taking something that we've already
dealt with before, but giving it that extra oomph that makes it a
bigger problem."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-20/natural-gas-moves-to-the-naughty-list
*Natural gas moves to the naughty list.
<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-20/natural-gas-moves-to-the-naughty-list>*
By Jennifer A Dlouhy, Mark Chediak Bloomberg Businessweek Apr 20
Power plants around the world are stepping up their use of gas as a
fuel because it burns cleaner than coal—and in the U.S., at least,
it's cheaper. Gas now supplies about a third of the country's power,
up from just 17 percent a decade ago.
U.S. environmentalists have vowed to go after gas-fired power plants
with the same vengeance they've used to force the retirements of
hundreds of coal facilities. Even coal miners are warning their
fossil fuel kin to beware. more…
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170418-how-western-civilisation-could-collapse
*How Western Civilisation Could Collapse*
Some possible precipitating factors are already in place. How the West
reacts to them will determine the world's future.
By Rachel Nuwer 18 April 2017
The political economist Benjamin Friedman once compared modern
Western society to a stable bicycle whose wheels are kept spinning
by economic growth. Should that forward-propelling motion slow or
cease, the pillars that define our society – democracy, individual
liberties, social tolerance and more – would begin to teeter. Our
world would become an increasingly ugly place, one defined by a
scramble over limited resources and a rejection of anyone outside of
our immediate group. Should we find no way to get the wheels back in
motion, we'd eventually face total societal collapse...
Such collapses have occurred many times in human history, and no
civilisation, no matter how seemingly great, is immune to the
vulnerabilities that may lead a society to its end. Regardless of
how well things are going in the present moment, the situation can
always change....
It should come as no surprise that humanity is currently on an
unsustainable and uncertain path – but just how close are we to
reaching the point of no return?...
...there are two factors that matter: ecological strain and
economic stratification. The ecological category is the more widely
understood and recognised path to potential doom, especially in
terms of depletion of natural resources such as groundwater, soil,
fisheries and forests – all of which could be worsened by climate
change... imply because it is more expensive in the short term to
solve the problem than it is to just keep acting as usual," says
Jorgen Randers, a professor emeritus of climate strategy at the BI
Norwegian Business School, and author of 2052: A Global Forecast for
the Next Forty Years. "The climate problem will get worse and worse
and worse because we won't be able to live up to what we've promised
to do in the Paris Agreement and elsewhere."..
according to Joseph Tainter, a professor of environment and society
at Utah State University and author of The Collapse of Complex
Societies, one of the most important lessons from Rome's fall is
that complexity has a cost. As stated in the laws of thermodynamics,
it takes energy to maintain any system in a complex, ordered state –
and human society is no exception. By the 3rd Century, Rome was
increasingly adding new things – an army double the size, a cavalry,
subdivided provinces that each needed their own bureaucracies,
courts and defences – just to maintain its status quo and keep from
sliding backwards. Eventually, it could no longer afford to prop up
those heightened complexities. It was fiscal weakness, not war, that
did the Empire in....
Western civilisation is not a lost cause, however. Using reason and
science to guide decisions, paired with extraordinary leadership and
exceptional goodwill, human society can progress to higher and
higher levels of well-being and development,
See also:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161124-how-to-cope-with-the-end-of-the-world
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008674K64/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
https://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Complex-Societies-Studies-Archaeology/dp/052138673X
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800914000615
Human and nature dynamics (HANDY): Modeling inequality and use of
resources in the collapse or sustainability of societies
http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/explorations/book-reviews/220-the-madhouse-effect-how-climate-change-denial-is-threatening-our-planet-destroying-our-politics-and-driving-us-crazy
*THE MADHOUSE EFFECT: HOW CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL IS THREATENING OUR
PLANET, DESTROYING OUR POLITICS AND DRIVING US CRAZY By Michael E.
Mann and Tom Toles
<http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/explorations/book-reviews/220-the-madhouse-effect-how-climate-change-denial-is-threatening-our-planet-destroying-our-politics-and-driving-us-crazy>*
Book Review by Adrian Tait
Here perhaps is the book's hidden message to our hearts:
climate scientists have to pay a price, explored by Hoggett and
Randall, for holding the knowledge they do in a world that does not
respond as it should. And those who speak out strongly are liable to
pay a still heavier price. The cartoons, as well as oiling the
wheels of communication, are part of a counter-attack against the
denial industry. The narrative – on both the science and the denial
game - is reasoned and well substantiated, but between every line we
necessarily find ourselves at the interface of reason and passion.
This is important reading for climate psychologists. The observable
validity of the madhouse effect is enhanced rather than diminished
by the passion. The word 'despicable' to describe oil-soaked
politics is not used once, but is present throughout."
Despite the adverse political tide, there is one important
source of hope which unites Mann and Toles with many others. This is
the pace of transition to renewable energy and other 'clean'
technologies. Many pundits have agreed that the combination of
technological development and market forces will defeat efforts by
vested interests to halt the decline in fossil fuel use. This
transition is a necessary condition for any chance of containing the
climate emergency. It may also be essential as a hopeful narrative
to help sustain the climate movement. But as Kevin Anderson and
others have repeatedly explained, technology alone cannot get us out
of the mess we're in, given cumulative emissions. The Madhouse
Effect covers important parts of the picture. After politics and
technology comes the third dimension, psychology. The task of
connecting that dimension with the others and of doing so with
sufficient depth continues. /Review by Adrian Tait/
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/04/explaining_science_won_t_fix_information_illiteracy.html
Scientists, Stop Thinking Explaining Science Will Fix Things. It
Won't.
<http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/04/explaining_science_won_t_fix_information_illiteracy.html>
Slate Magazine -6 hours ago
The theory many scientists seem to swear by is technically
known as the deficit model, which states that people's opinions
differ from scientific consensus because they lack scientific
knowledge. In 2010, Dan Kahan, a Yale psychologist, essentially
proved this theory wrong. He surveyed over 1,500 Americans,
classifying each person's "cultural worldview" on a scale that
roughly correlates with politically liberal or conservative. He then
assessed each person's scientific literacy with questions such as
"True or False: Electrons are smaller than atoms." Finally, he asked
them about climate change. If the deficit model were correct, Kahan
reasoned, then people with increased scientific literacy, regardless
of worldview, should agree with scientists that climate change poses
a serious risk to humanity...
"If you repeat the myth, that's the part people remember even
if you immediately debunk it," she says. A better approach, she
suggests, is to reframe the issue. Don't just keep explaining why
climate change is real—explain how climate change will hurt public
health or the local economy. Communication that appeals to values,
not just intellect, research shows, can be far more effective...
It's very logical... - and the deficit model perfectly
explains how a scientist learns science. But the obstacles faced by
science communicators are not epistemological but cultural. The
skills required are not those of a university lecturer but a
rhetorician...
more from NYTimes Magazine
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/magazine/how-a-warming-planet-drives-human-migration.html
*How a Warming Planet Drives Human Migration
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/magazine/how-a-warming-planet-drives-human-migration.html>*
Climate displacement is becoming one of the world's most powerful — and
destabilizing — geopolitical forces.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/magazine/our-climate-future-is-actually-our-climate-present.html
*Our Climate Future Is Actually Our Climate Present
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/magazine/our-climate-future-is-actually-our-climate-present.html>*
How do we live with the fact that the world we knew is going and, in
some cases, already gone?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/magazine/when-rising-seas-transform-risk-into-certainty.html
*When Rising Seas Transform Risk Into Certainty
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/magazine/when-rising-seas-transform-risk-into-certainty.html>*
Along parts of the East Coast, the entire system of insuring coastal
property is beginning to break down.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-as-genocide-inaction-equals-annihilation_us_58f8c4a3e4b0cb086d7eaf4e
*Climate Change*As Genocide: Inaction Equals Annihilation
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-as-genocide-inaction-equals-annihilation_us_58f8c4a3e4b0cb086d7eaf4e>
Huffington Post -14 hours ago
This goes beyond indifference. This is complicity in mass extermination.
Here's the question I think we all should be asking: Is this what a
world battered by climate change will be like - one in which tens
of millions, even hundreds of millions of people perish from
disease, starvation, and heat prostration while the rest ...
History and social science research indicate that, as
environmental conditions deteriorate, people will naturally compete
over access to vital materials and the opportunists in any society
- warlords, militia leaders, demagogues, government officials, and
the like - will exploit such clashes for their personal
advantage. "The data suggests a definite link between food
insecurity and conflict," points out Ertharin Cousin, head of the
U.N.'s World Food Program. "Climate is an added stress factor." In
this sense, the current famines in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan,
and Yemen provide us with a perfect template for our future, one in
which resource wars and climate mayhem team up as temperatures
continue their steady rise.
Inaction Equals Annihilation
In this context, consider the moral consequences of inaction on
climate change. Once it seemed that the process of global warming
would occur slowly enough to allow societies to adapt to higher
temperatures without excessive disruption, and that the entire human
family would somehow make this transition more or less
simultaneously. That now looks more and more like a fairy tale.
Climate change is occurring far too swiftly for all human societies
to adapt to it successfully. Only the richest are likely to succeed
in even the most tenuous way. Unless colossal efforts are undertaken
now to halt the emission of greenhouse gasses, those living in less
affluent societies can expect to suffer from extremes of flooding,
drought, starvation, disease, and death in potentially staggering
numbers.
Also posted Tomgram: Michael Klare, Do African Famines Presage
Global Climate-Change Catastrophe?
<http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176269/>
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176269/
*This Day in Climate History April 21, 2007
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/22/AR2007042200353.html?hpid=moreheadlines>
- from D.R. Tucker*
At the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, White House
senior advisor Karl Rove reacts scornfully to a request by
environmentalist Laurie David to have the George W. Bush
administration reconsider its approach to the climate-change issue.
Global warming was the talking point last night at the White
House Correspondents' Association dinner when singer Sheryl Crow
and "Inconvenient Truth" producer Laurie David walked over to
Table 92 at the Hilton Washington to chat with Karl Rove -- and
the resulting exchange was suitably heated.
"I am floored by what I just experienced with Karl Rove," David
reports. "I went over to him and said, 'I urge you to take a new
look at global warming.' He went zero to 100 with me. . . . I've
never had anyone be so rude."
Rove's version: "She came over to insult me and she succeeded."
Things got so hot that Crow stepped in to defuse the situation
and then got into it with Rove herself. "You work for me," she
told the presidential adviser, according to singed bystanders.
"No," was his response. "I work for the American people."
News of the dust-up filtered quickly through the room. Some
witnesses said David was very aggressive with Rove; a shaken
Crow later said that Rove was "combative and unresponsive."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/22/AR2007042200353.html?hpid=moreheadlines
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/46501
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/washington/23rove.html?_r=0
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