[TheClimate.Vote] August 5, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Sat Aug 5 10:06:38 EDT 2017
/August 5, 2017/
*
Climate Change Could Get You Bumped from a Future Flight
<https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-could-get-you-bumped-from-a-future-flight/>*
Major airports will see more frequent takeoff weight restrictions in the
coming decades due to increasingly common hot temperatures
By Ethan Coffel, Radley Horton August 4, 2017
Hot weather has forced dozens of commercial flights to be canceled at
airports in the Southwest this summer. This flight-disrupting heat is a
warning sign. Climate change is projected to have far-reaching
repercussions-including sea level rise inundating cities and shifting
weather patterns causing long-term declines in agricultural yields. And
there is evidence that it is beginning to affect the takeoff performance
of commercial aircraft, with potential effects on airline costs.
National and global transportation systems and the economic activity
they support have been optimized for the climate in which it all
developed: Machines are designed to operate in common temperature
ranges, logistical plans depend on historical weather patterns and
coastal land development is based on known flood zones. In the aviation
sector, airports and aircraft are designed for the weather conditions
experienced historically. Because the climate is changing, even
fundamental infrastructure elements like airports and key economic
sectors like air transportation may need to be redesigned and reengineered.
As scientists focused on the impacts of climate change and extreme
weather on human society and natural ecosystems around the world, our
research has quantified how extreme heat associated with our warming
climate may affect flights around the world. We've found that major
airports from New York to Dubai to Bangkok will see more frequent
takeoff weight restrictions in the coming decades due to increasingly
common hot temperatures.
On most affected flights, the amount of cargo, passengers and fuel that
must be removed to allow for takeoff will usually be small-between 0.5
percent and 4 percent of the total load. That means fewer paying
customers on airplanes, and less cargo on board. When those restrictions
add up across the global air transport system, the costs can be significant.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-could-get-you-bumped-from-a-future-flight/
see also
https://theconversation.com/how-hot-weather-and-climate-change-affect-airline-flights-80795
*
Every second we waste denying climate change exists is time we steal
from the next generation who will suffer the terrible consequences
<http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/climate-change-global-warming-environment-dadly-killed-forest-fires-heatwave-europe-a7877781.html>
*What is most devastating of all is that those with wealth and power,
who have such a disproportionate effect on the planet, will pay little
attention until it is their livelihood under threat from extreme weather
oyed. But it is not only the forests and the oceans, the wildlife and
the Arctic sea ice that is being wiped out – soon it will be the people,
too.
The Lancet has today published a report that lays bare the devastating
impact climate change will have on populations across Europe. Between
1981 and 2010, extreme weather events killed about 3,000 people a year.
According to the research, this will increase 50 times to an estimated
152,000 people who will die in weather-related disasters every year
between 2071 and 2100.
There are people alive today who will witness these deaths. I could be
one of them – in 2071, I would be approaching my 86th birthday. Climate
change is not a far-off problem of the future. It is happening right now
– and if we do not take action, our lives, and the lives of our children
and grandchildren, will be put at risk.
Every second we waste denying climate change exists and ignoring its
deadly impact is time we steal from the next generation, who will suffer
the terrible consequences.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/climate-change-global-warming-environment-dadly-killed-forest-fires-heatwave-europe-a7877781.html
*Schwarzenegger launches climate change project
<https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/08/04/Schwarzenegger-launches-climate-change-project/9531501861395/>
*By Ed Adamczyk Aug. 4 (UPI)
Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday
unveiled an environmental initiative to answer President Donald Trump's
withdrawal from the Paris climate accords.
Called the Digital Environmental Legislative Handbook, it is a
searchable database of environmental bills and laws designed to help
legislators create their own climate change laws.
The initiative is a cooperative effort between the Schwarzenegger
Institute at the University of Southern California and the National
Caucus of Environmental Legislators.
Although it's a California project, advocates said it can be used to
fight climate change nationwide.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/08/04/Schwarzenegger-launches-climate-change-project/9531501861395/
*Recent Climate Change Impacts on Mountain Glaciers
<http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119068118.html>*
Mauri Pelto
ISBN: 978-1-119-06811-2
January 2017
Glaciers are considered a key and an iconic indicator of climate change.
The World Glacier Monitoring Service has noted that global alpine
balance has been negative for 35 consecutive years. This highlights the
dire future that alpine glaciers face.
The goal of this volume is to tell the story, glacier by glacier, of
response to climate change from 1984-2015. Of the 165 glaciers examined
in 10 different alpine regions, 162 have retreated significantly. It is
evident that the changes are significant, not happening at a "glacial"
pace, and are profoundly affecting alpine regions. There is a consistent
result that reverberates from mountain range to mountain range, which
emphasizes that although regional glacier and climate feedbacks differ,
global changes are driving the response. This book considers ten
different glaciated regions around the individual glaciers, and offers a
different tune to the same chorus of glacier volume loss in the face of
climate change.
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119068118.html
see also: http://blogs.agu.org/fromaglaciersperspective/
*How Climate Change Could Lead To More Grim Discoveries Among Europe's
Peaks*
<http://www.euronews.com/2017/08/04/how-climate-change-could-lead-to-more-grim-discoveries-among-europe-s-peaks>
Chris Harris
Climate change means increasing numbers of missing people are expected
to be found among Europe's melting peaks, it's been claimed.
Global warming and its subsequent hotter-than-normal summers is seeing
glaciers recede, opening the door to more discoveries of human remains,
an expert has told Euronews.
Two climbers alerted Swiss police last week after spotting a hand and
two shoes on the Hohlaub glacier.
Rescuers later freed a mummified body that police say is likely to be a
German walker, born in 1943, who went missing on a hike in August 1987.
A week earlier the bodies of a Swiss couple were discovered, 75 years
since they were last seen taking their cattle to high ground.
It comes after the remains of a victim of an Air India crash more than
50 years ago was discovered on Mount Blanc in the French Alps.
Hubertus Fischer, a glaciologist at the University of Bern's Oeschger
Centre for Climate Change Research, said the discoveries had not been
caused by one hot summer, but rather the long-term global warming that
has seen glaciers recede.
..it is the continuously warmer summers related to anthropogenic climate
change, that lead to the net shrinking of the glaciers.
http://www.euronews.com/2017/08/04/how-climate-change-could-lead-to-more-grim-discoveries-among-europe-s-peaks
*(movie review) 'Inconvenient Sequel' follows up on Oscar-winning
'Inconvenient Truth'*
<http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2017/08/02/inconvenient-sequel-follows-oscar-winning-inconvenient-truth/V4MTpEzb4Nh0GFf2DfzBjP/story.html>
"Energy is a basic human need."
So's survival, and the documentary makes plain that this is what's at
stake for tens of millions. The number of hurricanes is increasing, as
is their severity. The incidence of drought is rising, as are crop
shortages (as temperatures go up, moisture evaporates from the soil more
quickly). "Climate refugees" are becoming increasingly common. With the
shrinkage of polar ice caps, rising sea levels are inevitable. We see
Gore wade through some oceanside flooding in Miami Beach. "Kind of hard
to pump the ocean," he mutters.
"Sequel" has a number of such memorable moments. The mayor of
Georgetown, Texas - a Republican, mind you - gives Gore a tour of his
small city near Austin; it now gets all its energy from renewable sources.
But even under the best of circumstances, climate change offers no quick
solutions. "This is a mission I have dedicated myself to," Gore says, a
mission that remains "a constant struggle between hope and despair."
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2017/08/02/inconvenient-sequel-follows-oscar-winning-inconvenient-truth/V4MTpEzb4Nh0GFf2DfzBjP/story.html
*(movie review) The Missed Opportunities of 'An Inconvenient Sequel'
<https://www.thenation.com/article/the-missed-opportunities-of-an-inconvenient-sequel/>*
Al Gore's latest film draws climate change back into the political
limelight, but fails to draw connections between environmental and
economic justice.
Kate Aronoff
There's a compelling case to be made that taking on climate change could
transform the lives of people still reeling from the fallout of the
recession, and respond to both the ecological crisis and the economic
pain that drove many to vote for Trump. An Inconvenient Sequel-Al Gore's
latest documentary-never makes that case, opting instead for at-length
explanations of glacial ice melts and the sausage-making behind
international agreements. As both a film and a political treatise, its
biggest problem might be just how much the story revolves around Gore
and his outdated view of how politics work...
Gore goes to great pains to point out the obscenity of the climate
crisis. Fond of saying in recent press junkets that "every night on the
evening news is like a nature hike through the Book of Revelations," he
plays the role of dutiful tour guide through a battery of disasters and
sobering statistics.
He's right about all this, of course: Extreme weather is killing more
people every year, and warming forecasts seem to grow more bleak by the
day. The simulations he presented us with 10 years ago have come to life...
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-missed-opportunities-of-an-inconvenient-sequel/
*This Day in Climate History August 5, 2013
<http://www.edf.org/blog/2013/11/14/our-economists-cost-climate-change-100-years-now>
- from D.R. Tucker*
August 5, 2013: Environmental Defense Fund's Thomas Sterner explains the
concept of the "social cost of carbon":
"One of the first things you do when faced with a new problem is to try
to judge how big or serious it is. The SCC is one way of expressing this
– as the estimated cost to society of each ton of carbon emitted. This
cost, in the abstract world of textbook economics, would be the price
that everyone paid when emitting a ton of carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere. The trouble, of course, is that the world doesn’t work this
way. Everyone doesn’t pay the SCC price, or any price, when they, say,
switch on a lamp or drive to work.
"There are two ways to bring reality into line with economic theory:
either a cap and trade system for carbon (and other greenhouse gases) or
a carbon tax. Both make the world pay for carbon emissions, which will
drive those emissions downward. But even without those tools in place,
it still makes sense for policymakers to make large, long run decisions
in a sustainable manner that correctly takes into account the real costs
of climate damage. That is why a number of countries, and even some
large companies, use a SCC in the cost benefit analyses that inform
public policy. In the U.S., the official government value for the SCC is
just over $40, in today's dollars, per metric ton of carbon dioxide
emitted."
http://www.edf.org/blog/2013/11/14/our-economists-cost-climate-change-100-years-now
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