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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/29/prince-charles-climate-change-trump-visit-britain
*Prince Charles may raise climate change during Trump's visit to Britain
<https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/29/prince-charles-climate-change-trump-visit-britain>*
Some in Whitehall are urging the prince to challenge US president's
pledge to abandon 2015 UN climate change deal
But the tour is now looking even more likely to generate controversy
as Prince Charles emerged as a possible challenger to the
president's views on climate change and faith issues....
The Guardian understands from royal sources that the prince will not
lecture Trump in relation to their starkly divergent views of what
needs to be done to tackle global warming but has not ruled out
addressing the topic. This poses a challenge not just for the
president, who has threatened to "cancel" the United Nations climate
change deal signed in Paris in 2015 and who has described climate
change as "created by and for the Chinese in order to make US
manufacturing non-competitive". It is also a conundrum for the
British government scrambling to work out how to address Trump's
radical programme and how to make use of a sometimes controversial
advocate for climate action....
An anonymous source, described as being close to Trump, said this
weekend that the president would not put up with being lectured by
the prince, according to the Sunday Times. The source warned against
the two men meeting at all....
He has been "gently primed" to assist diplomatic efforts on the
issue, a senior Whitehall source said and there is "a sympathetic
hearing" between Clarence House and the government on climate
change, with Charles's views considered "absolutely in line with
government policy".....
http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/sydneys-40plus-summer-of-sweat-the-record-scorchers-continue/news-story/761ed6af8dc7717ba0b2816661e63e3e
*Sydney's 40-plus summer of sweat: The record scorchers continue (that's
104 degrees F)
<http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/sydneys-40plus-summer-of-sweat-the-record-scorchers-continue/news-story/761ed6af8dc7717ba0b2816661e63e3e>*
With a warm-up of the hottest January on record behind it, the city
steamed into the first Sunday of February with temperatures topping
40C in several areas by 3pm....
Sydneysiders, fresh from the hottest January on record, are again
set to swelter with the brief respite of cooler days and nights set
to end on Saturday. Several areas of Sydney had topped 40C At
Bankstown at 1.45pm it was 42.7C, at Sydney Olympic Park, and
Penrith is was 42.3C, and Camden, Canterbury, Horsley Park and
Badgerys Creek Creek has all topped 41C.
https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/climate-science-denial-shifts-to-a-new-tactic-among-trump-appointees
*Climate Science Denial Shifts to a New Tactic Among Trump Appointees
<https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/climate-science-denial-shifts-to-a-new-tactic-among-trump-appointees>*
By: Jeff Masters , 5:29 PM GMT on February 03, 2017
Our planet has just experienced three consecutive warmest years on
record—2014, 2015, and 2016—which has made it difficult to find
politicians who continue to deny the reality of global warming and
climate change. However, denial of climate science has shifted to a
new tactic: to claim that the indisputable heating of the planet is
primarily a natural phenomenon, and that there is major uncertainty
among scientists on the issue. These assertions are false. Based on
the evidence, more than 97% of climate scientists have concluded
that human-caused climate change is happening; scientists' "best
estimate" is that ALL of the global warming since 1950 has been
human-caused, primarily through an increase in carbon dioxide due to
the burning of fossil fuels. Many prominent members of the Trump
administration, who all have ties to the fossil fuel industry, have
been making false claims about scientists' understanding that global
warming is human-caused...
"The best estimate of the human-induced contribution to warming is
similar to the observed warming over this period." In other words,
ALL of the observed warming after 1950 (0.6°C, 1.1°F) is due to
humans. A total of 0.85°C (1.5°F) total global warming has been
observed since 1880. The IPCC further quantified that human activity
is extremely likely (at least 95% chance) to be responsible for more
than half of Earth's temperature increase after 1950.
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-environment/317102-climate-denial-is-dead-long-live-climate-denial
Climate change denial is not dead
<http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-environment/317102-climate-denial-is-dead-long-live-climate-denial>
BY MICHAEL E. MANN, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR - 01/31/17 12:10 PM EST
For we are firmly back in the madhouse. Climate change denial is
once again in vogue in Washington, D.C. As of Jan. 20, it is now the
official policy of our executive branch....
Our new president, Donald Trump, has, of course, infamously
dismissed global warming as a Chinese hoax and “a big scam for a lot
of people to make a lot of money.” He has vowed to cancel U.S.
participation in the Paris climate agreement and has threatened to
block the Clean Power Plan, a measure to reduce carbon emissions in
the power sector. Among his key advisers are some of the most
notorious climate change deniers. One has suggested cutting NASA’s
entire climate research program dismissing it, with no apparent
sense of irony as, “heavily politicized.”
https://www.ft.com/content/a2402076-dd9d-11e6-86ac-f253db7791c6
Call to curtail exposure to*climate change*
<https://www.ft.com/content/a2402076-dd9d-11e6-86ac-f253db7791c6>
Financial Times -7 hours ago
With extreme weather events becoming more common, some asset
managers are urging investors to think more about*climate
change*when building their portfolios and to reduce their exposure
to companies that could be left behind in a shift to a ...
http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=87315a4da9&e=30dc80e2f6
*Call to unravel basic climate change
<http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=87315a4da9&e=30dc80e2f6>*
Science still cannot provide satisfactory explanations for some
features of basic climate change, experts argue – and they want a
global search for answers.
By Tim Radford
LONDON, 5 February, 2017 – A group of distinguished climate
scientists has called for a massive international co-operation to
understand absolutely basic climate change. And their call exposes
the uncertainties that still make long-term climate predictions
uncertain, unsatisfactory and sometimes unconvincing.
"Knowing that the globe is warming through human activity is like
understanding that cancer is caused by runaway cell division," said
Christian Jakob, a climate scientist at Monash University in
Australia, and one of the authors.
"It is just the start of the challenge. While global mean
temperature provides the canvas, the details of future changes will
emerge at regional levels. It's at these levels that we will feel
and need to adapt to the impact of climate change, economically and
socially."
The point is that there is no doubt that human action has set off a
process of accelerating climate change, by clearing the forests,
changing the natural cycles of the terrestrial landscape, and by
excavating and burning colossal quantities of fossil fuels to
release rising proportions of carbon dioxide into the Earth's
atmosphere.
But within that global understanding there remain three profound
questions that have yet to be answered in the kind of detail that
would permit accurate prediction.
http://mashable.com/2017/02/05/noaa-global-warming-hiatus-story/#ItL9F1bRosqV
Media falsely claims scientists fudged data to eliminate global
warming 'hiatus'
<http://mashable.com/2017/02/05/noaa-global-warming-hiatus-story/>
Mashable -1 hour ago
The whistleblower-scientist, John Bates, claimed that NOAA broke its
own rules for scientific integrity when it published a noteworthy
scientific study debunking the so-called "hiatus" in global warming...
The climate-denial camp has new ammunition: A widely refuted Daily
Mail article that claims top U.S. climate scientists exaggerated
their data for a 2015 study to "dupe" world leaders into adopting
the Paris Climate Agreement...
That agreement, which went into force in November 2016, for the
first time committed the world to reducing greenhouse gas emissions...
For his incendiary story, British journalist David Rose, who has
reported inaccurately on climate science and Iraqi weaponry in the
past, spoke to a "high-level whistleblower" in a top U.S. climate
agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The whistleblower-scientist, John Bates, claimed that NOAA broke its
own rules for scientific integrity when it published a noteworthy
scientific study debunking the so-called "hiatus" in global warming. .
U.S. and European scientists swiftly denounced the Daily Mail story
this weekend, pointing to multiple independent analyses supporting
NOAA's findings.
In fact, subsequent studies have shown the world may be experiencing
even more warming than the 2015 paper showed. Last year was the
warmest year on record, surpassing previous milestones set in 2015
and 2014, respectively.
Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at the nonprofit organization
Berkeley Earth, said Rose's story is "so wrong, it's hard to know
where to start."
Meanwhile, right-wing websites like Breitbart News and Daily Caller
shared the U.K. article to cast further doubt on the mainstream
scientific consensus that global warming is happening, and that
human activity is largely to blame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO4bOvxRQnI
(video) *Zeke Hausfather on NOAA Temperatures
<Zeke%20Hausfather%20on%20NOAA%20Temperatures>*
5 minutes. In January, an independent group of U.S. and British
scientists concluded that NOAA's temperature adjustments were accurate.
(background) Berkeley Earth scientist Hausfather led the study with
colleagues from NASA, the U.K.'s York University, George Mason
University in Virginia, plus one other independent researcher...
On Sunday, in response to Rose's article, Hausfather wrote, "The
fact that the new NOAA record is effectively identical with records
constructed only from higher quality instruments...strongly suggests
that NOAA got it right."..
Victor Venema, a German scientist with the World Meteorological
Organization, explained in his own blog post how Rose apparently
misconstrued the climate data to support evidence of a pause..
Irish climate scientist Peter Thorne, who worked on the landmark
2015 study, also penned a rebuttal to the newspaper article, noting
that at least seven key aspects of the story are a
"misrepresentation of the processes that actually occurred."..
He added that the accusations "do not square one iota with the
robust integrity I see in the work and discussions that I have been
involved in with them [NOAA] for over a decade."
https://www.inverse.com/article/27419-climate-change-data-edgi-trump-pruitt-epa-environment
The Race to Save*Climate Change*Data Runs Through NYC
<https://www.inverse.com/article/27419-climate-change-data-edgi-trump-pruitt-epa-environment>
Inverse -15 hours ago
-Citizen archivists are using their tech skills to save data from
the government.
-Whitington is not a man comfortable speaking in front of crowds -
his hands visibly shake when he addresses the buzzing, flannel-clad
group - but he gets steadier as he begins talking about EPA nominee
Scott Pruitt, a prominent*climate change*denier, ...
https://theconversation.com/meet-el-ninos-cranky-uncle-that-could-send-global-warming-into-hyperdrive-72360
*Meet El Niño's cranky uncle that could send global warming into
hyperdrive
<https://theconversation.com/meet-el-ninos-cranky-uncle-that-could-send-global-warming-into-hyperdrive-72360>*
It's called the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation, or IPO, a name
coined by a study which examined how Australia's rainfall,
temperature, river flow and crop yields changed over decades...
Since El Niño means "the boy" in Spanish, and La Niña "the girl", we
could call the warm phase of the IPO "El Tío" (the uncle) and the
negative phase "La Tía" (the auntie)...
These erratic relatives are hard to predict. El Tío and La Tía
phases have been compared to a stumbling drunk. And honestly, can
anyone predict what a drunk uncle will say at a family gathering?..
https://www.colorlines.com/articles/oaklanders-fight-gentrification-and-global-warming-north-pole-web-series
*Oaklanders Fight Gentrification and Global Warming in 'The North Pole'
Web Series
<https://www.colorlines.com/articles/oaklanders-fight-gentrification-and-global-warming-north-pole-web-series>*
The creators took to Kickstarter to crowdfund the comedy, which
features cameos from Ericka Huggins, W. Kamau Bell and Boots Riley.
A trio of Oakland residents fights against displacement and climate
change in the upcoming digital comedy series, "The North Pole."
http://www.thenorthpoleshow.com/
Series writer and producer Josh Healey (NPR's "Snap Judgment")
launched a Kickstarter campaign Wednesday (February 1) to crowdfund
production for the seven-episode show. Healey named "The North Pole"
after a term North Oakland residents use for their neighborhood. The
campaign's promotional video features a polar bear (or, rather, an
unidentified person in a polar bear costume using hella Bay Area
slang) interrupting Healey and show star Reyna Amaya ("All Def
Digital TV") as they pitch the series. ...
"The North Pole" focuses on three friends as they desperately try to
keep their hometown from becoming unrecognizable. "Facing both
gentrification and global warming, they combat evil landlords, crazy
geoengineering plots and ultimately each other," reads the
Kickstarter page description. Amaya stars alongside fellow Bay Area
performers, including poet Donte Clark ("Romeo is Bleeding") and
newcomer Santiago Rosas...
Healey works as creative director for Movement Generation, an East
Bay-based grassroots environmental justice organization that created
a 2015 TV spot with comedians and activists challenging California
governor Jerry Brown's record on fracking. ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/science/earth/06clim.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
*This Day in Climate History February 6, 2005
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/science/earth/06clim.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&>
- from D.R. Tucker
*
**In a New York Times article, former Times environmental reporter
William K. Stevens notes:
"The [American public's] awakening [on climate] has been energized
largely by dramatic reports on the melting Arctic and by fear —
generated by the spectacular horror of Hurricane Katrina — that a
warmer ocean is making hurricanes more intense...
"Politicians are weighing in on the subject as never before,
especially with the advent of a Democratic-led Congress. It appears
likely, if not certain, that whoever is elected president in 2008
will treat the issue seriously and act accordingly, thereby bringing
the United States into concert with most of the rest of the world.
Just last week, Senator John McCain of Arizona, a presidential
aspirant and the co-author of a bill mandating stronger action,
asserted that the argument about global warming 'is over.' Back in
the day, such words from a conservative Republican would have been
unimaginable, even if he were something of a maverick."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/science/earth/06clim.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
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