[TheClimate.Vote] August 6, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News
Richard Pauli
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Sun Aug 6 09:32:47 EDT 2017
/August 6, 2017/
*How Congress Is Cementing Trump's Anti-Climate Orders into Law
<https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31072017/trump-climate-change-executive-orders-congress-turning-into-law-via-budget>*
Marianne Lavelle
These efforts are mostly flying under the radar, but they could
short-circuit lawsuits and make it harder to restore environmental
protections.
President Donald Trump marvels at his own velocity when he boasts about
dismantling the Obama climate legacy. "I have been moving at record pace
to cancel these regulations and to eliminate the barriers to domestic
energy production, like never before," he said at a recent White House
event.
But while Trump focuses on speed, his allies in Congress appear
increasingly concerned about the durability of the president's fossil
fuel directives.
In recent weeks, they have advanced a handful of legislative measures
that echo and extend various presidential orders meant to boost coal,
oil and gas production and set aside consideration of climate change.
These moves may seem redundant, but they could provide bulletproof armor
during future challenges to Trump's agenda.
"They are ... covering their bases by trying to legislate the rolling
back of these safeguards because the process to repeal, undo or rewrite
a regulation is as lengthy as the public process that helped establish
the standard in the first place," explained Melinda Pierce, chief
lobbyist for the Sierra Club. "And, of course, any attempt to roll back
environmental or public health standards can and will be challenged in
court."
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31072017/trump-climate-change-executive-orders-congress-turning-into-law-via-budget
*
Making climate change funny
<https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/08/making-climate-change-funny/>*
The Trump administration and House Science Committee members are among
regular (and easy?) targets of late-night TV hosts and comics.
Climate change isn't something you'd consider, well, funny.
But every now and again, a little gallows humor may come in handy … and
may even lead to improved communications and public understanding.
There are lots of examples, including a newly fashioned "An Inconvenient
Truth" newspaper comic strip first appearing July 24 and strategically
timed to help promote the July 28 opening in some theaters of "An
Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power."
Far from the mainstream print media, satirical periodicals and
late-night TV hosts often hold sway on climate … with a comical twist.
Take the satirical news site the Onion, with its recent intro to one story:
'The Time To Act Is Now,' Says Yellowing Climate Change Report Sitting
In University Archive
BERKELEY, CA - Warning society that it has reached a crucial tipping
point from which it may never be able to recover, a brittle, yellowing
report sitting in the archives of the University of California's
Bioscience & Natural Resources Library reportedly urged readers Friday
that "the time to act against climate change is right now." …
People who make jokes for a living mine all kinds of subjects for
inspiration, and some comedians have found humor in the steadfast
rejection by some of climate change science, and in the verbal
distortions people in power use to justify a do-nothing approach.
https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/08/making-climate-change-funny/
*(video humor) THE COLBERT REPORT SCIENCE CATFIGHT - JOE BASTARDI VS.
BRENDA EKWURZEL
<http://www.cc.com/video-clips/l4nkoq/the-colbert-report-science-catfight---joe-bastardi-vs--brenda-ekwurzel>
*4/6/2010 video 10:47
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/l4nkoq/the-colbert-report-science-catfight---joe-bastardi-vs--brenda-ekwurzel
*(video humor) Old People Don't Care About Climate Change
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FpihogHAQM>
*1:45 Funny Or Die Published on Apr 23, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FpihogHAQM*
(boring academic lecture) The Oxymoronic Possibilities of Climate
Change Comedy <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mme2OTto6Qw>*
video 37 mins . Cornell University - 2017 Climate Change Seminar by
Aaron Sachs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mme2OTto6Qw
*Trump Continues to Isolate Himself on Climate Change
<https://www.nrdc.org/experts/brendan-guy/trump-continues-isolate-himself-climate-change>*
August 04, 2017 Jake Schmidt Brendan Guy Han Chen
The Trump administration sent the first written notice that it intends
to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. This historic agreement
included, for the first time, clear emissions reduction commitments from
all the major countries in the world - including China and India - and a
system to keep track of progress towards those commitments. This notice
comes as no surprise, but it reinforces how President Trump intends to
walk America away from international leadership on climate change and
further isolate ourselves from the international community....
The United States cannot formally submit its intention to withdraw from
the Paris Climate Agreement until November 4, 2019; so in effect today's
notice is legally meaningless
<https://www.justsecurity.org/41612/trumps-so-called-withdrawal-paris/>
and serves as a "heads up to a heads up that we plan to exit." The
withdrawal would then formally take effect one year later on November 4,
2020 - one day after the next presidential election. Fortunately, even
if Trump does decide to pull the formal trigger to exit, the next
President can still rejoin the agreement as soon as 30 days after they
enter office - possibly as early as February 19, 2021.
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/brendan-guy/trump-continues-isolate-himself-climate-change
*Communication Regarding Intent To Withdraw From Paris Agreement
<https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2017/08/273050.htm>*
https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2017/08/273050.htm
*Climate change is turning cities into harsh, sweltering hotspots
<http://grist.org/article/climate-change-is-turning-cities-into-harsh-sweltering-hotspots/>*
As carbon pollution turns up the planetary heat, the impact is clearest
on what's happening to extremely hot days: They're becoming more common
and more intense.
New York has averaged three days above 95 degrees F over the past 20
years. If carbon pollution continues on its current trend, by 2075 that
number is likely to increase to 31, according to a new Climate Central
analysis.
Myriad cities across the country will be far worse off, though. Atlanta
is projected to see 69 days above 95 degrees F, Boise could spend 80
days above that threshold, while Dallas is on track to have 140 days
above 95 degrees F. Then there's Phoenix, where residents may have to
contend with more than half of the year above 95 degrees F (163 days in
case you're wondering).
Many small towns will suffer even more. Alva, Florida (population 2,182)
could see 142 days above 95 degrees F while Salton City, California
(population 3,763) could have to cope with a mind-bending 203 days where
the mercury tops out at 95 degrees F or higher.
The biggest factor in the number of future hot days is how fast the
world reins in carbon pollution today. However, even if emissions are
dramatically cut, every place across the U.S. will face more hot weather.
http://grist.org/article/climate-change-is-turning-cities-into-harsh-sweltering-hotspots/
*Global Warming Is Fueling Arizona's Monstrous Monsoons
<http://www.climatecentral.org/news/warming-fueling-arizonas-monstrous-monsoons-21679>*
Summer in Arizona and throughout the Southwest is monsoon season, which
means a daily pattern of afternoon thunderstorms, flash floods, dramatic
dust clouds and spectacular displays of lightning over the desert.
As the climate changes, Arizona's monsoon rainfall is becoming more
intense even as daily average rainfall in parts of the state has
decreased, according to a new study. Increasingly, extreme storms
threaten the region with more severe floods and giant dust storms called
haboobs.Every summer, rivers of moisture in the lower troposphere - the
monsoonal flow - stream into the Southwest from the Gulf of Mexico and
Gulf of California. Nearly every day in midsummer, the sun heats the
mountains and the deserts, creating convection. The rising warm air
allows thunderclouds to build during the day before exploding into
dramatic electrical storms in the afternoon and evening.
But today's monsoons aren't like the ones travelers on Route 66 would
have driven through 60 years ago.
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/warming-fueling-arizonas-monstrous-monsoons-21679
*How global warming will make you weak and sick*
<http://bgr.com/2017/08/03/global-warming-impact-crops-protein/>
http://bgr.com/2017/08/03/global-warming-impact-crops-protein/
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*Nutrition will suffer as warming affects diet
<http://climatenewsnetwork.net/22843-2/>*
By 2050, heat waves, floods and other climate change effects won't be
the only worry. There's also the evidence that warming affects diet.
By Tim Radford
LONDON, 5 August, 2017 - Global warming and climate change are not the
only threats linked to greenhouse gas emissions: there is also the
knowledge that warming affects diet.
Higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere also mean that wheat,
rice, maize, potatoes and other staples will grow with lower levels of
protein - and by 2050, an extra 150 million people in 47 countries will
be at greater risk of malnutrition.
Four out of five people on the planet depend mostly on grain staples and
legumes for dietary protein. The UN estimates that poor nutrition
already accounts for around 3 million deaths among young children every
year, and experiments show that higher carbon dioxide levels in the
atmosphere are associated with protein losses of around 5%.
"This study highlights the need for countries that are most at risk to
actively monitor their populations' nutritional sufficiency, and, more
fundamentally, the need for countries to curb human-caused CO2
emissions," said Samuel Myers, a research scientist in the department of
environmental health at Harvard University in the US.
Increased loss
He and colleagues report in the journal Environmental Health
Perspectives that tests of crops grown under high levels of atmospheric
carbon dioxide show protein decreases of up to 15%...
http://climatenewsnetwork.net/22843-2/
*This Day in Climate History August 6, 2010
<http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/extreme-heat-evidence-global-warming-11346623>
- from D.R. Tucker*
August 6, 2010: "ABC World News Tonight" reports on the link between
extreme heat and human-caused climate change.
Is Extreme Heat Evidence of Global Warming?
Clayton Sandell on the link between the hottest year ever and climate
change.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/extreme-heat-evidence-global-warming-11346623
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