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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-what-do-the-scientists-really-say_us_59026a98e4b03b105b44b718
*Climate Change: What Do The Scientists Really Say? 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-what-do-the-scientists-really-say_us_59026a98e4b03b105b44b718>*
Future of Life Institute, Contributor
"You don't actually have to go a hundred years or a thousand years into 
the future before things can get quite disrupted relative to today."
I recently visited the National Center for Atmospheric Research in 
Boulder, CO and met with climate scientists Dr. Kevin Trenberth and CU 
Boulder’s Dr. Brian Toon to have a different discussion. I wanted better 
answers about what climate change is, what its effects could be, and how 
can we prepare for the future...
The discussion that follows has been edited for clarity and brevity, and 
I’ve added occasional comments for context. You can also listen to the 
podcast here 
<https://soundcloud.com/futureoflife/climate-change-with-brian-toon-and-kevin-trenberth> 
or read the full transcript here 
<https://futureoflife.org/2017/04/27/transcript-climate-change-scientists-really-say/> 
for more in-depth insight into these issues...
Our discussion began with a review of the scientific evidence behind 
climate change.
Audio: 
https://soundcloud.com/futureoflife/climate-change-with-brian-toon-and-kevin-trenberth
Transcript: 
https://futureoflife.org/2017/04/27/transcript-climate-change-scientists-really-say/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/04/28/mystery-of-antarcticas-blood-falls-is-finally-solved/

    Mystery Of Antarctica's Blood Falls Is Finally Solved
    <https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/04/28/mystery-of-antarcticas-blood-falls-is-finally-solved/>

Forbes 	 -‎9 hours ago‎ 	

    The longstanding mystery surrounding Antarctica's Blood Falls has
    finally been solved. The deep red falls were first discovered in
    Antarctica in 1911 where scientists noticed a river had stained the
    surrounding cliff of ice with a dark red color. Previously, they had
    believed it was due to algae discoloring the water, however that
    hypothesis was never verified...
    Now, thanks to research by the University of Alaska Fairbanks, we
    know the true origin of the Blood Falls flowing from the Taylor
    Glacier. The deep red coloring is due to oxidized iron in brine
    saltwater, the same process that gives iron a dark red color when it
    rusts. When the iron bearing saltwater comes into contact with
    oxygen the iron oxidizes and takes on a red coloring, in effect
    dying the water to a deep red color...
    The research team transected the glacier in a grid using radio-echo
    sounding (RES) to map out the features below the glacier.
    Thankfully, the super saturated brine that makes up the river allows
    for a stark density contrast in RES compared to the non-saline
    (fresh) ice. The research team calculates that the brine water takes
    approximately 1.5 million years to finally reach the Blood Falls as
    it makes its way through fissures and channels in the glacier...
    More at:
    https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/article/an-englacial-hydrologic-system-of-brine-within-a-cold-glacier-blood-falls-mcmurdo-dry-valleys-antarctica/B5C197906AD54619AEA26068AD92989A/core-reader

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/04/28/antarctic-ice-sheet-draining-huge-quantities-water-sea/

    The Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Draining Huge Quantities Of Water Out To
    Sea
    <https://cleantechnica.com/2017/04/28/antarctic-ice-sheet-draining-huge-quantities-water-sea/>

CleanTechnica 	 -‎4 hours ago‎ 	

    When climate scientists look at Antarctica, they see a ticking time
    bomb. If the ice sheet melts, it will raise sea levels by tens of
    feet, flooding coastal cities around the globe..
    ...Greenland has started melting from the middle. Pools of water are
    forming atop the ice sheet in the warmer months and then draining
    out to sea...
    Scientists have now discovered the same thing is happening in
    Antarctica. Two new studies published in the journal Nature
    catalogue the melting and explain what it could mean for sea-level rise.

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/worry-it-does-body-and-mind-good
*Worry - it does the body (and mind) good? 
<https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/worry-it-does-body-and-mind-good>*

    Worry - it does a body good. And, the mind as well. A new paper by
    Kate Sweeny, psychology professor at the University of California,
    Riverside, argues there's an upside to worrying.
    "Despite its negative reputation, not all worry is destructive or
    even futile," Sweeny said. "It has motivational benefits, and it
    acts as an emotional buffer."
    In her latest article, "The Surprising Upsides of Worry," published
    in Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Sweeny breaks down the
    role of worry in motivating preventive and protective behavior, and
    how it leads people to avoid unpleasant events. Sweeny finds worry
    is associated with recovery from traumatic events, adaptive
    preparation and planning, recovery from depression, and partaking in
    activities that promote health and prevent illness. Furthermore,
    people who report greater worry may perform better - in school or at
    the workplace - seek more information in response to stressful
    events, and engage in more successful problem solving.
    Worry as a motivator
    The motivational power of worry has been studied and linked to
    preventive health behavior, like seatbelt use. In a nationally
    representative sample of Americans, feelings of worry about skin
    cancer predicted sunscreen use. And participants who reported higher
    levels of cancer-related worries also conducted breast
    self-examinations, underwent regular mammograms, and sought clinical
    breast examinations.
    "Interestingly enough, there are examples of a more nuanced
    relationship between worry and preventive behavior as well," Sweeny
    said. "Women who reported moderate amounts of worry, compared to
    women reporting relatively low or high levels of worry, are more
    likely to get screened for cancer. It seems that both too much and
    too little worry can interfere with motivation, but the right amount
    of worry can motivate without paralyzing...
    "Extreme levels of worry are harmful to one's health. I do not
    intend to advocate for excessive worrying. Instead, I hope to
    provide reassurance to the helpless worrier - planning and
    preventive action is not a bad thing," Sweeny said. "Worrying the
    right amount is far better than not worrying at all."

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http://climatenewsnetwork.net/american-climate-refugees-flee-inland/
*American climate refugees could flee inland 
<http://climatenewsnetwork.net/american-climate-refugees-flee-inland/>*

    The population of inland American cities will alter drastically if
    predictions of dramatic sea level rises by 2100 are correct, new
    report suggests.
    By Tim Radford
    LONDON, 27 April, 2017 – If humans go on burning ever greater
    volumes of fossil fuel, then dramatic rises in sea levels could turn
    13 million US citizens into climate refugees
    <http://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=605ba3c571&e=30dc80e2f6>
    and send them fleeing inland – many of them to Atlanta, Houston and
    Phoenix.
    This latest study, in Nature Climate Change
    <http://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=2f012a4a3b&e=30dc80e2f6>,
    builds on an earlier assessment of what could happen in 319 American
    coastal counties if sea levels rise 1.8 metres by 2100.
    <http://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=7c25958bff&e=30dc80e2f6>
    American refugees
    The calculation at the time was that overall sea level rise could
    threaten the properties of 13.1 million people. This raised the
    question: where could they all go?
    "We typically think about sea level rise as a coastal issue, but if
    people are forced to move because their houses become inundated, the
    migration could affect many landlocked communities as well," says
    the study's author, Mathew Hauer, a population scientist
    <http://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=a09f3b082e&e=30dc80e2f6>
    in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia. He also
    led the original county-by-county estimates of the numbers at risk.
    The point of such research is to alert planners and civic
    authorities to what could happen. However, climate change and
    population growth will combine to amplify the risk from coastal
    windstorms and surges along the littoral, and cause very different
    problems inland.
    "Some of the anticipated landlocked destinations, such as Las Vegas,
    Atlanta and Riverside, in California, already struggle with water
    management or growth management challenges," Dr Hauer says.
    "Incorporating accommodation strategies in strategic long-range
    planning could help alleviate the potential future intensification
    of these challenges."
    http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/highlights/report-findings/widespread-impacts/graphics/katrina-diaspora
    *National Climate Assessment  Katrina Diaspora
    <http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/highlights/report-findings/widespread-impacts/graphics/katrina-diaspora>*
    This map illustrates the national scope of the dispersion of
    displaced people from Hurricane Katrina. It shows the location by
    zip code of the 800,000 displaced Louisiana residents who requested
    federal emergency assistance. The evacuees ended up dispersed across
    the entire nation, illustrating the wide-ranging impacts that can
    flow from extreme weather events, such as those that are projected
    to increase in frequency and/or intensity as climate continues to
    change. (Figure source: Kent 2006).
    see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_diaspora
    https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/webdis

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=20398
*RealClimate Snow Water Ice and Water and Adaptive Actions for a 
Changing Arctic <http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=20398>*

    The Arctic is changing fast, and the Arctic Council recently
    commissioned the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)
    to write two new reports on the state of the Arctic cryosphere
    (snow, water, and ice) and how the people and the ecosystems in the
    Arctic can live with these changes...
    The two reports have now just been published and are called Snow
    Water Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic Update (SWIPA-update) and
    Adaptive Actions for a Changing Arctic (AACA)....
    The message from these reports is that the Arctic temperatures
    increase rapidly, in line with the notion of 'polar amplification'...
    The increased temperatures have been accompanied with changes in
    snow, sea-ice, precipitation, permafrost, icebergs, landice, river
    runoff, polar lows, synoptic storms, cloudiness, avalanches, ocean
    circulation, and ocean acidification...
    For some of these aspects, there have been clear evidence for
    changes, such as precipitation, snow, ice, and permafrost. For
    others, such as polar lows, synoptic storms, and cloudiness, the
    evidence is more ambiguous.
    The number of polar lows and the frequency of fog over the Barents
    sea, however are believed to diminish as the sea ice cover retreats..
    The changing conditions in the Arctic have an impact on both the
    ecosystems and the people living there.

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2017/04/arctic-ocean-track-be-ice-free-summer-2040-say-scientists
*Arctic Ocean on track to be ice-free in summer by 2040, say scientists 
<https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2017/04/arctic-ocean-track-be-ice-free-summer-2040-say-scientists>*

    The Arctic Ocean is now on track to become ice-free in summers as
    soon as two decades from now, while autumn and winter temperatures
    in the Arctic, if carbon emissions are not controlled, will be about
    22 degrees higher in 2100 than they were at the end of the 20th century.
    Yereth Rosen /Alaska Dispatch   April 26, 2017
    The new forecasts of accelerated warming mark the condition of the
    Arctic at the end of the two-year U.S. chairmanship of the
    eight-nation Arctic Council, according to reports released by the
    organization's Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program...
    Scientists are warning the pace of climate change demands a quick
    response against its causes...
    The reports come two weeks ahead of the council's ministerial
    meeting in Fairbanks, an event that will cap U.S.' two-year tenure
    and pass leadership to Finland. The reports were released at a
    four-day Arctic science conference in Reston, Virginia, and outlined
    in a pair of teleconferences held Tuesday...
    With Arctic warming outpacing climate change in the rest of the
    world, the reports show why immediate action is needed to reduce
    global carbon emissions, said one of the scientists involved...
    "The changes are cumulative, and so what we do in the next five
    years is really important on slowing down the changes that will
    happen in the next 30 or 40 years," said Jim Overland, a National
    Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration oceanographer and a co-author
    of the Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic report, or
    SWIPA. "The emphasis on action and immediacy is one of the key
    findings" of the report, he said.

http://wildfiretoday.com/2017/04/28/firefighters-make-progress-on-the-sawmill-fire-in-arizona/
*Firefighters make progress on the Sawmill Fire in Arizona 
<http://wildfiretoday.com/2017/04/28/firefighters-make-progress-on-the-sawmill-fire-in-arizona/>*

    Firefighters battling the 46,954-acre Sawmill Fire 23 miles
    southeast of Tucson have been able to slow the spread over the last
    two days in spite of strong winds. Satellite imagery from early
    Friday morning did not show any large concentrations of heat over
    the previous 24 hours. This does not mean the fire is out, and there
    is no doubt a lot of line building and mopup work still has to be
    accomplished.
    A Red Flag Warning for strong winds is still in place for the fire
    area as well as most of southern Arizona and southwest New Mexico.
    http://tucson.com/news/local/photos-of-sawmill-fire-south-of-tucson/collection_2f85f920-2938-11e7-a3c4-6f0d93449130.html
    60 photos of Sawmill Fire south of Tucson
    <http://tucson.com/news/local/photos-of-sawmill-fire-south-of-tucson/collection_2f85f920-2938-11e7-a3c4-6f0d93449130.html>
    http://tucson.com/news/local/photos-of-sawmill-fire-south-of-tucson/collection_2f85f920-2938-11e7-a3c4-6f0d93449130.html
    https://www.ready.gov/wildfires
    Ready.GOV  Wildfires <https://www.ready.gov/wildfires>
    This page explains what actions to take if you receive a fire
    weather watch alert from the National Weather Service for your local
    area and what to do before, during, and after a wildfire.
    http://wildfiretoday.com/2017/04/28/new-satellite-aided-firefighters-during-fire-siege-in-kansas-and-oklahoma/
    New satellite aided firefighters during fire siege in Kansas and
    Oklahoma
    <http://wildfiretoday.com/2017/04/28/new-satellite-aided-firefighters-during-fire-siege-in-kansas-and-oklahoma/>
    ...While this was going on a few meteorologists with access to the
    new, still being tested GOES-16 satellite were monitoring the
    emerging wildfire situation. This game-changing satellite orbiting
    hundreds of miles overhead has a baseline imager that will view the
    Earth with 16 different spectral bands (compared to five on current
    GOES satellites) and it will provide three times more spectral
    information, four times the spatial resolution, and more than five
    times faster temporal coverage than the current system. It also has
    the first satellite sensor dedicated to detecting real time lightning.

https://thinkprogress.org/bret-stephens-climate-flip-flop-c05c6230e36c

    NY Times' new columnist: Global warming can't be serious if
    activists have kids
    <https://thinkprogress.org/bret-stephens-climate-flip-flop-c05c6230e36c>

ThinkProgress 	 -‎16 hours ago‎ 	

    The New York Times' indefensible hire of a climate denier keeps
    getting worse.
    The ...effort to stem the growing criticism they have received for
    hiring extreme climate science denier Bret Stephens is going about
    as well as United Airlines initial attempts to defend dragging a
    customer off one of their planes. ..
    Stephens was most recently deputy editorial page editor for Rupert
    Murdoch's deeply conservative, climate-denying Wall Street Journal.
    In 2015, he wrote that climate change - along with hunger in
    America, campus rape statistics, and institutionalized racism - are
    "imaginary enemies." They aren't.
    When Vox interviewed Stephens this week, and asked him to defend his
    extreme denial of climate science, he replied with this jaw-dropper:
    A guy I know just had a baby and he's a big global warming, climate
    change activist. If he thinks in 20 years we'll be heading toward
    unsustainable climates and there will be tens of millions of people
    being displaced, presumably including himself, at the most
    apocalyptic level, then presumably he wouldn't be having children.
    It contradicts the belief that we are heading ineluctably for an
    apocalyptic environmental future.

/*This Day in Climate History April 29,1999 
<http://cei.org/op-eds-and-articles/warming-diplomacyat-what-cost> -  
from D.R. Tucker*
/BetsyRosenberg.com presents:

    The ExxonMobil-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute names former
    Rep. Jack Kemp (R-NY) its first "Distinguished Fellow." Two years
    later, in a Washington Times op-ed, Kemp asserts that the scientific
    evidence pointing to human-caused climate change is inconclusive.
    http://cei.org/news-releases/jack-kemp-named-distinguished-fellow-competitive-enterprise-institute
    http://cei.org/op-eds-and-articles/warming-diplomacyat-what-cost

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