[TheClimate.Vote] April 30, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Sun Apr 30 10:04:09 EDT 2017
/April 30, 2017 /
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/04/29/marchers-use-trumps-100th-day-protest-climate-policies/101070064/
*Thousands march against Trump climate policies in D.C., across USA
<https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/04/29/marchers-use-trumps-100th-day-protest-climate-policies/101070064/>*
WASHINGTON - Thousands of people across the U.S. are marching on
President Donald Trump's hundredth day in office to demand action on
climate change.
In Washington, D.C., large crowds on Saturday made their way down
Pennsylvania Avenue in sweltering heat. Later, they encircled the
White House. Organizers say about 300 other protest marches are
expected around the country.
Participants in the People's Climate March say they're objecting to
Trump's rollback of restrictions on mining, oil drilling and
greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired power plants, among other things.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/04/29/epa-removes-climate-change-data-other-scientific-information-website/101072040/
*EPA removes climate change data, other scientific information from
website
<https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/04/29/epa-removes-climate-change-data-other-scientific-information-website/101072040/>*
WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency is updating its
website and, in the process, has removed a page that explained the
causes and effects of climate change..
http://nypost.com/2017/04/29/epa-scrubs-climate-change-information-from-website/
EPA scrubs*climate change*information from website
<http://nypost.com/2017/04/29/epa-scrubs-climate-change-information-from-website/>
New York Post -8 hours ago
The heavy edits came hours before tens of thousands of
climate-change activists marched to the White House during a
Saturday protest....
The agency eliminated EPA.gov pages relating to climate science,
projections of the future impacts of human-caused climate change,
and descriptions of the Obama administration's signature climate
program, the Clean Power Plan.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/29/here-are-our-top-8-climate-change-stories-of-2017/
Here are our top 8 climate change stories of 2017 - Washington Post
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/29/here-are-our-top-8-climate-change-stories-of-2017/>
Washington Post -15 hours ago
For the 2017 Peoples Climate March, ... tens of thousands of people
descend on the Mall to speak out on climate change and policy, here
are a few important global warming articles from The Washington Post
staff.
*How much will the oceans rise? Scientists keep increasing their
projections*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/26/scientists-keep-increasing-their-projections-for-how-much-the-oceans-will-rise-this-century/>
A report by a leading research body monitoring the Arctic has found
that previous projections of global sea level rise for the end of
the century could be too low....
*Without action, say bye-bye to polar bears*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/09/without-action-on-climate-change-say-goodbye-to-polar-bears/>
... the rapid decline of sea ice as "the primary threat to polar
bears"...
*The nation is immersed in its warmest period in recorded history*
<The%20nation%20is%20immersed%20in%20its%20warmest%20period%20in%20recorded%20history>
The U.S. is enduring a stretch of abnormally warm weather
unsurpassed in the record books, and it shows no immediate sign of
ending....
*Carbon dioxide levels could reach their highest point in 50 million
years by the end of the century*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/05/carbon-dioxide-levels-could-reach-their-highest-point-in-50-million-years-by-the-end-of-the-century/>
... to burn fossil fuels at the current rate could bring atmospheric
carbon dioxide to its highest concentration in 50 million years,
jumping from about 400 parts per million now to more than 900 parts
per million by the end of this century..,...
*Scott Pruitt causes an uproar - and contradicts the EPA's own
website on climate change
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/09/on-climate-change-scott-pruitt-contradicts-the-epas-own-website/>*
**"...climate is something very challenging to do and there's
tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact, so no, I would
not agree that it's a primary contributor to the global warming that
we see,"*...*
*While Trump promotes coal, other countries turn to the sun
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/world/2017/03/31/while-trump-promotes-coal-other-countries-are-turning-to-cheap-sun-power/>*
**...in fact, that something extraordinary happened last year when
the Chilean government invited utility companies to bid on public
contracts.*..*
*By 2030, half the world's oceans could be reeling from climate
change
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/07/by-2030-half-the-worlds-oceans-could-be-reeling-from-climate-change-scientists-say/>*
**More than half the world's oceans could suffer multiple symptoms
of climate change over the next 15 years, including rising
temperatures, acidification, lower oxygen levels and decreasing food
supplies, new research suggests. *..*
***Top Trump advisers at odds over Paris climate deal*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/19/top-trump-advisors-at-odds-over-paris-climate-deal/>
Top Trump officials are feuding over whether the United States
should stay in the historic Paris climate agreement...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/apr/29/ny-times-hired-a-hippe-puncher-to-give-climate-obstructionists-cover?CMP=share_btn_tw
*Bret Stephens' first piece for the Times showed exactly why some
climate realists are canceling their subscriptions
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/apr/29/ny-times-hired-a-hippe-puncher-to-give-climate-obstructionists-cover?CMP=share_btn_tw>*
Yesterday, New York Times subscribers were treated to an email alert
announcing the first opinion column from Bret Stephens, who they
hired away from the Wall Street Journal. Like all Journal opinion
columnists who write about climate change, Stephens has said a lot
of things on the subject that could charitably be described as
ignorant and wrong. Thus many Times subscribers voiced bewilderment
and concern about his hiring, to which the paper's public editor
issued a rather offensive response.
Justifying the critics, here's how the paper announced Stephens'
first opinion column in an email alert (usually reserved for
important breaking news):
"In his debut as a Times Op-Ed columnist, Bret Stephens says
reasonable people can be skeptical about the dangers of climate change"
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2957590
*Bill McKibben's Effect on the US Climate Change Debate: Shifting the
Institutional Environment Through Radical Flank Effects
<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2957590>*
Todd Schifeling University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Erb Institute
Andrew John Hoffman University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School
of Business
Date Written: April 2017 Abstract:
This paper investigates the presence and influence of radical flanks
on field-level debates. We study the ability of radical flank actors
to shift the focus of these debates by increasing the legitimacy of
pre-existing but peripheral issues. We apply this conceptual model
to the empirical context of the climate change debate in the United
States and the efforts of Bill McKibben and 350.org to pressure
major Universities and Colleges to divest their financial
investments in fossil fuel assets. As these new actors and issue
entered the debate, we find that, while divestment itself gained
limited traction, liberal policy ideas, which had previously been
marginalized in the U.S. debate, gained increased attention and
legitimacy. Using network text analysis, this paper expands theories
of how social movements affect organizational fields through a
discursive radical flank mechanism while also illuminating key
dynamics in climate change politics.
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http://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals/increased-extreme-heat-and-heat-waves
*Increased Extreme Heat and Heat Waves
<http://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals/increased-extreme-heat-and-heat-waves>*
One of the strongest findings of climate science is that global
warming amplifies the intensity, duration and frequency of extreme
heat events. These events occur on multiple time scales, from a
single day or week, to months or entire seasons. The more extreme
the heatwave, the more likely the event can be attributed to global
warming. Roughly 75% of extreme heat events globally are attributed
to climate change. The signal of climate change is particularly
reflected in record-breaking heat waves. Records are more likely to
be broken when natural variation runs in the same direction as
climate change - in this instance, towards hotter temperatures. 85%
of recent record-hot days globally are attributed to climate change.
*Record hot days: record cold days*
In a stable climate, the ratio of days that are record hot to days
that are record cold is approximately even. However in our warming
climate, record highs have begun to outpace record lows, with the
imbalance growing for the past three decades.[1] 85% of recent
record-hot days globally are attributed to climate change.
*The More Extreme the Heatwave, the More Likely the Event is Due to
Global Warming*
A small shift in climate leads to a dramatic increase in the
frequency of temperatures at the high end. The very most extreme
events are the events most affected by climate change. As the
average global temperature rises and the climate shifts, hot
temperatures that were extreme under the old climate are closer to
the middle of the new temperature range. Under the earth's climate
system, events closer to the midpoint of the climate range occur
much more frequently than events closer to the extremes, as shown in
the graphic on the right.
...it is the rarest and the most extreme events - and thereby the
ones with typically the highest socio-economic impacts - for which
the largest fraction is due to human-induced greenhouse gas
emissions.[6]
*Global trends*
Since 1950, the number and duration of heat waves worldwide has
increased due to global warming. The hottest days and nights have
become hotter and more frequent, and the most extreme heat events
now impact a global area 10 times greater than in the period
1951-1980...
An April 2017 study found that anthropogenic global warming has had
a significant hand in the temperatures seen during the hottest month
and on the hottest day on record throughout much of the world from
1931-2016. The study found that climate change made heat records
were more likely and more severe for about 80 percent of the area of
the globe with good observational data.
*US trends*
In the United States, exposure to extreme heat is already a
significant public health problem and a leading cause of
weather-related mortality...
Heat waves have generally become more frequent across the US in
recent decades, with western regions setting records for numbers of
these events in the 2000s. There has also been a dramatic increase
in nighttime temperatures in the US, reducing the number of
critically important relief windows during heat waves...
New record high temperatures now regularly outnumber new record lows
by a ratio of 2:1.[1] This trend is one of the clearest signals of
climate change that we experience directly. There has also been a
dramatic increase in nighttime temperatures in the US, reducing the
number of critically important relief windows during heat waves...
Model simulations using the A2 emissions scenario found that by
mid-century, people in the US can expect a four to sixfold increase
in the number of days exceeding 95°F (35°C).
http://tucson.com/news/local/climate-change-likely-aggravated-tucson-s-record-march-heat-researcher/article_dda3332c-434e-5d29-8563-8ce3ea085152.html
*Climate change*likely aggravated Tucson's record March heat,
researcher says
<http://tucson.com/news/local/climate-change-likely-aggravated-tucson-s-record-march-heat-researcher/article_dda3332c-434e-5d29-8563-8ce3ea085152.html>
Arizona Daily Star -7 hours ago
Van Oldenborgh's analysis illustrates a new trend in*climate
change*research: showing that human-produced, greenhouse gas emissions
cause extreme weather events.
https://climatecrocks.com/2017/04/29/new-york-times-rocked-angry-readers-cancel-following-climate-denier-hire/
*New York Times Rocked: Angry Readers Cancel following Climate Denier
Hire
<https://climatecrocks.com/2017/04/29/new-york-times-rocked-angry-readers-cancel-following-climate-denier-hire/>*
Willful ignorance may be protected speech, but it does not deserve a
place in the United State's most important newspaper of record.
They let us down historically over Iraq.
They apparently felt that Clinton's emails were more important than
Trump's Russian mafia connections. They covered up FBI investigation
of #Russiagate prior to election.
I was giving them a chance to recover - and they had hired some new
reporters for for climate issues.
The column is so deeply flawed that New York Times reporters and
news editors immediately started slamming it on twitter. Even Andy
Revkin, the former Times climate reporter and blogger whom Stephens
quotes twice in his piece, slammed Stephens' piece on twitter as
featuring "straw men" and other flaws.
https://youtu.be/4i--Uq8VXas
*(YouTube Video) Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens REFUSES to
acknowledge science in climate change debate <https://youtu.be/4i--Uq8VXas>*
On Real Time with Bill Maher, guest Bret Stephens from the Wall
Street Journal simply refuses to acknowledge science in a debate
about man made global warming and climate change
The Stephens column proves three things:
Bret Stephens doesn't understand the first thing about climate
science (and he provides no actual facts to support his claims).
The NY Times editorial page staff apparently also doesn't understand
climate science.
Editorial page editor James Bennet was not telling the truth when he
told Huffington Post last week that the opinion side of the Times
applies the "same standards for fairness and accuracy."
Indeed, the basic errors in Stephens' piece are so basic it is
stunning that the New York Times published them - especially in
the Trump era, where the paper advertises itself as a defender of truth.
*https://twitter.com/HunterCutting/status/858064484484603904/photo/1*
@BretStephensNYT Yes, there's a small chance #climatechange won't be as
bad as proj. BUT also a good chance to be MUCH worse: @theresphysics
https://t.co/NIZQEwCLxw
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/29/climate-alarmist-global-warming-crime-humanity
Yes, I am a climate alarmist.*Global warming *is a crime against
humanity
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/29/climate-alarmist-global-warming-crime-humanity>
The Guardian -13 hours ago
Lawrence Torcello
...I'm a climate alarmist because there is no morally responsible
way to downplay the dangers that negligent policies - expected to
accelerate human-caused climate change - pose to humankind...
There can be no greater crime against humanity than the foreseeable,
and methodical, destruction of conditions that make human life
possible - hindsight isn't necessary....
Scientists confirm, in overwhelming consensus, the fundamental facts
that make anthropogenic global warming a clear and present threat to
humanity and other species...
There is no amount of ideological deception capable of altering
basic physics, chemistry and biology. It is ethically untenable for
intelligent people to look the other way while elected officials
deny reality, and our opportunity to avoid catastrophe slips away...
We know that the continued acceleration of climate change will bring
more droughts, rising seas, more extreme weather, longer forest fire
seasons and destructive storm surges. This in turn would lead to
more water stress, crop failures, poverty, starvation, warfare and
ever worsening refugee crises....
The moral, and existential, implications of human-caused climate
change should by now have triggered full-scale, World War II style
effort to end fossil fuel dependence and associated greenhouse gas
emissions...
The global community ought to have engaged in a renewable energy
"arms race" years ago. Instead, we burn away time while fossil fuel
interests fund negligent campaigns of disinformation and politicians
stage fake debates over the science of climate change....
The climate policies of the Trump administration, backed by many
Republican leaders, are rooted in culpable ignorance and transparent
corruption. And they place us all at risk on a scale that previous
crimes against humanity never have...
Civility and fair mindedness do not require hospitality to policies
that hasten the destruction of a livable planet. We don't depend on
hindsight to recognize the moral gravity of our current situation...
We will search in vain for a better reason to depose elected
officials. Every legal resource to remove such leaders is justified.
We can't pretend we don't know the nature of what is unfolding. We
are witnessing a crime against humanity - and the potential prelude
to future genocide.
We are the bystanders who must choose to intervene or be defined by
our failure.
/Lawrence Torcello is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rochester
Institute of Technology in the United States. He specializes in
moral and political philosophy./
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2001-05-01-cheney-usat.htm
*This Day in Climate History April 30, 2001
<http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2001-05-01-cheney-usat.htm>*/*-
from D.R. Tucker*
/
//Speaking in Toronto at an annual meeting of the Associated Press,
Vice President Dick Cheney asserts, "Conservation may be a sign of
personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound,
comprehensive energy policy."
Among Cheney's proposals:
• Increased domestic production of crude oil.
• Stepped-up construction of natural gas pipelines.
• Massive expansion of the electrical power grid.
• Renewed construction of nuclear, hydroelectric, oil- and
coal-fired power plants.
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