[TheClimate.Vote] April 27, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Thu Apr 27 09:07:36 EDT 2017
/April 27, 2017 /
https://www.good.is/slideshows/20-best-march-for-science-signs
*20 Of The Funniest Signs From The March For Science
<https://www.good.is/slideshows/20-best-march-for-science-signs>*
This is safe to open and will leave you laughing and more hopeful.
(Thanks Thalia and MG)
To combat this systemic rejection of the scientific process, tens of
thousands of people in over 600 cities on seven continents across the
globe came together last Saturday at the March for Science. Here, we
offer 20 of our favorite humorous signs from protesters around the world.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/bret-stephens-climate-change-nyt-flip-flop/524361/
The Newest New York Times Columnist Has Flip-Flopped on*Climate
Change*
<https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/bret-stephens-climate-change-nyt-flip-flop/524361/>
The Atlantic -1 hour ago
After he was hired, some critics labeled Stephens a "climate-science
denier." Stephens rejects this charge, but in fact his views are not
even so coherent as to be ruled denial.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/climate-change-is-turning-dehydration-into-a-deadly-disease/
*Climate change*is turning dehydration into a deadly disease
<https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/climate-change-is-turning-dehydration-into-a-deadly-disease/>
Ars Technica -1 hour ago
A mysterious kidney disease is striking down labourers across the world
and*climate change*is making it worse. For Mosaic, Jane Palmer meets the
doctors who are trying to understand it and stop it.
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2017/04/26/northwestern-expert-devises-method-quantifying-impact-global-warming
Northwestern Expert Devises Method for Quantifying Impact of*Global
Warming*
<http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2017/04/26/northwestern-expert-devises-method-quantifying-impact-global-warming>
Chicago Tonight | WTTW -3 hours ago
After almost any heat wave, drought, flood or other extreme weather
event, climate experts like Northwestern University's Daniel Horton
get a rush of phone calls and emails with some version of the
question, Was this caused by climate change?
Now, Horton and a team of climate scientists from Stanford
University have published a new study that offers a way to answer
the question that comes up after every big weather event. The study,
"Quantifying the Influence of Global Warming on Unprecedented
Extreme Climate Events," outlines a framework for measuring the
impact of global warming and climate change on major droughts,
floods and other weather events.
In the study, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, Horton's team cites "robust evidence"
that humans have contributed to the severity and probability of
extreme weather events, including California's recent drought and
catastrophic flooding in June 2013 in northern India.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/04/18/1618082114.abstract
*Quantifying the influence of global warming on unprecedented
extreme climate events
<http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/04/18/1618082114.abstract>*
Significance
Extreme climate events have increased in many regions. Efforts to
test the influence of global warming on individual events have also
increased, raising the possibility of operational, real-time,
single-event attribution. We apply four attribution metrics to four
climate variables at each available point on a global grid. We find
that historical global warming has increased the severity and
probability of the hottest monthly and daily events at more than 80%
of the observed area and has increased the probability of the driest
and wettest events at approximately half of the observed area. Our
results suggest that scientifically durable operational attribution
is possible but they also highlight the importance of carefully
diagnosing and testing the physical causes of individual events.
We find that historical warming has increased the severity and
probability of the hottest month and hottest day of the year at >80%
of the available observational area. Our framework also suggests
that the historical climate forcing has increased the probability of
the driest year and wettest 5-d period at 57% and 41% of the
observed area, respectively, although we note important caveats. For
the most protracted hot and dry events, the strongest and most
widespread contributions of anthropogenic climate forcing occur in
the tropics, including increases in probability of at least a factor
of 4 for the hottest month and at least a factor of 2 for the driest
year. We also demonstrate the ability of our framework to
systematically evaluate the role of dynamic and thermodynamic
factors such as atmospheric circulation patterns and atmospheric
water vapor, and find extremely high statistical confidence that
anthropogenic forcing increased the probability of record-low Arctic
sea ice extent.
https://theintercept.com/2017/04/26/donald-trump-is-slashing-programs-linking-climate-change-to-u-s-national-security/
Donald Trump Is Slashing Programs Linking*Climate Change* to US
National Security
<https://theintercept.com/2017/04/26/donald-trump-is-slashing-programs-linking-climate-change-to-u-s-national-security/>
The Intercept -6 hours ago
Over the last several decades, top government officials and even
military brass have come to view climate change as a national
security issue.
The Trump administration, however, has focused on security in purely
military and law enforcement terms, whether through $54 billion in
new Defense Department spending or increased funding for immigration
enforcement and border protection. Those efforts are likely to come
at the expense of environmental security. Despite his defense chief
James Mattis's public statements endorsing the links, Trump already
issued an order canceling Obama's push to consider climate change in
national security planning. And Trump's budget outline portends even
more drastic moves away from protecting the nation against
climate-related threats.
http://blog.ucsusa.org/shana-udvardy/president-trumps-new-anti-climate-executive-order-threatens-our-national-security
*President Trump's New Anti-Climate Executive Order Threatens Our
National Security
<http://blog.ucsusa.org/shana-udvardy/president-trumps-new-anti-climate-executive-order-threatens-our-national-security>*
...President Trump signed the Presidential Executive Order on
"Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth" which, as my
colleague states, represents an all-out attack on climate solutions...
While policy watchers had been expecting the Administration's attack
on climate policy for some time, what many of us are still amazed at
is that President Trump's anti-climate science and policy flies in
the face of the American people, who on average believe global
warming is happening (70%), is caused by humans (53%), is harming
people (51%), and will harm future generations (70%).
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/03/28/presidential-executive-order-promoting-energy-independence-and-economi-1
*Presidential Executive Order on Promoting Energy Independence and
Economic Growth
<https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/03/28/presidential-executive-order-promoting-energy-independence-and-economi-1>*
(c) Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that
executive departments and agencies (agencies) immediately review
existing regulations that potentially burden the development or use
of domestically produced energy resources and appropriately suspend,
revise, or rescind those that unduly burden the development of
domestic energy resources beyond the degree necessary to protect the
public interest or otherwise comply with the law.
(d) It further is the policy of the United States that, to the
extent permitted by law, all agencies should take appropriate
actions to promote clean air and clean water for the American
people, while also respecting the proper roles of the Congress and
the States concerning these matters in our constitutional republic.
*Sec. 2. *Immediate Review of All Agency Actions that Potentially
Burden the Safe, Efficient Development of Domestic Energy
Resources. (a) The heads of agencies shall review all existing
regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, and any other
similar agency actions (collectively, agency actions) that
potentially burden the development or use of domestically produced
energy resources, with particular attention to oil, natural gas,
coal, and nuclear energy resources. Such review shall not include
agency actions that are mandated by law, necessary for the public
interest, and consistent with the policy set forth in section 1 of
this order.
*Sec. 5.* Review of Estimates of the Social Cost of Carbon, Nitrous
Oxide, and Methane for Regulatory Impact Analysis. (a) In order to
ensure sound regulatory decision making, it is essential that
agencies use estimates of costs and benefits in their regulatory
analyses that are based on the best available science and economics.
(b) The Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Greenhouse
Gases (IWG), which was convened by the Council of Economic Advisers
and the OMB Director, shall be disbanded, and the following
documents issued by the IWG shall be withdrawn as no longer
representative of governmental policy:
(i) Technical Support Document: Social Cost of Carbon for
Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive Order 12866 (February 2010);
(ii) Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for
Regulatory Impact Analysis (May 2013);
(iii) Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for
Regulatory Impact Analysis (November 2013);
(iv) Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for
Regulatory Impact Analysis (July 2015);
(v) Addendum to the Technical Support Document for Social Cost
of Carbon: Application of the Methodology to Estimate the Social
Cost of Methane and the Social Cost of Nitrous Oxide (August 2016); and
(vi) Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for
Regulatory Impact Analysis (August 2016).
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-26/global-warming-costs-mount-as-heatwave-hits-chile-s-glaciers
*Global Warming*Costs Mount as Heatwave Hits Chile's Glaciers
<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-26/global-warming-costs-mount-as-heatwave-hits-chile-s-glaciers>
Bloomberg -8 hours ago
The melt will accelerate if the South American nation sees more record
breaking heatwaves as*global warming*increases. Eventually, the
shrinking glaciers may force the citizens of Santiago to follow their
counterparts in southern California and give up*...*
http://evidencesquared.com/
*EVIDENCE SQUARED: THE SCIENCE OF WHY SCIENCE FAILS TO PERSUADE
<http://evidencesquared.com/ep9/>*
(audio) We've just published Episode 9
<http://evidencesquared.us15.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8a0f5ded9e53e63b39b708165&id=b7b18f68ec&e=e9d6004e11>. On
the weekend, we both joined the March for Science in Washington D.C.
We spoke to the marchers (well, John spoke to the marchers, whenever
Peter tried to interview anyone, they understandably said no) about
how far they came to attend the march, why it's so important to
stand up for science and how else we can defend science after the march.
You can listen to our episode at http://evidencesquared.com/ep9/
<http://evidencesquared.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8a0f5ded9e53e63b39b708165&id=5bfc530743&e=e9d6004e11> or
download it directly from iTunes
<http://evidencesquared.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8a0f5ded9e53e63b39b708165&id=874f93a644&e=e9d6004e11>
or Soundcloud
<http://evidencesquared.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8a0f5ded9e53e63b39b708165&id=5eff4268f4&e=e9d6004e11>.
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2017/04/26/minnesotans-climate-march/
Minnesotans Take*Climate Change*Message To Washington
<http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2017/04/26/minnesotans-climate-march/>
CBS Minnesota / WCCO -6 hours ago
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - Minnesotans worried about global*climate
change*will be sending a powerful message to President Trump.
http://volanteonline.com/2017/04/global-warming-heating-politics/
*Global warming *unnecessarily heats up politics
<http://volanteonline.com/2017/04/global-warming-heating-politics/>
The Volante -12 hours ago
Across the country on April 22 thousands of people took part in the
"March for Science." Now the movement allegedly supports science in
general, but let's be honest: this was about*global warming*. And when
it comes to*global warming*, things can get heated.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39710313
Climate change could transform gardens - BBC News
<http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39710313>
BBC News -14 hours ago
Artificial lawns, plants from arid countries and flower beds designed to
cope with floods are among future features of UK gardens outlined in a
major new report.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4449136/Prints-global-warming-s-effect-National-Parks.html
Prints show *global warming's* effect on National Parks
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4449136/Prints-global-warming-s-effect-National-Parks.html>
Daily Mail -5 hours ago
Skeletal starving bears and forests ravaged by wildfires: Chilling
retro posters show how global warming could change America's
National Parks by 2050. Artist and author Hannah Rothstein has
created a series of posters showing how climate change will affect
America's National Parks in the year 2050. She based the posters on
classic, retro National Parks posters produced between 1938 and 1941.
By doing this, she hopes to make climate change feel closer to home
and hard to ignore.
*This Day in Climate History April 27, 2009
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103465542> - from
D.R. Tucker*
April 27, 2009: NPR reports (audio 3:29):
*'Major Emitters' Meet To Tackle Climate Change*
Sixteen nations are responsible for 80 percent of the world's
greenhouse gas emissions. Now those nations, dubbed the 'major
emitters,' are sending representatives to a conference beginning
Monday in Washington, D.C., to see if they can work together to slow
the pace of climate change.
The Obama administration has moved quickly to deal with climate
change in the international arena. It has joined the United Nations
talks that will take place in Copenhagen later this year and are
aimedat developing a climate-change treaty.
It is working one-on-one with China — which recently surpassed the
U.S. as the world's largest carbon emitter.
And in the meetings that start Monday, the Obama administration is
convening the 16 nations that contribute most to climate change...
Convening the top emitters, rather than working with all 192 U.N.
members who have pledged to deal with global climate change, is a
simpler and quicker way to make progress, says Wirth.
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