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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/pentagon-fights-climate-change-sea-level-rise-defense-department-military/
Who's Still Fighting *Climate Change*? The US Military
<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/pentagon-fights-climate-change-sea-level-rise-defense-department-military/>
National Geographic -11 hours ago
This visibly*changing*geography made Norfolk the natural poster
child for the*climate*challenges confronting the Defense
Department—and seems as good a setting as any to consider the fate
of*climate*science and the military in the new political era in ...
http://time.com/4663995/republicans-gop-climate-change-council/
Republicans Tell Their Party It's Time to Address*Climate Change*
<http://time.com/4663995/republicans-gop-climate-change-council/>
TIME -5 hours ago
A group of Republican elder statesmen called on their party's
leadership to address*climate change*by enacting a carbon tax to
replace much of the Obama-era environmental regulation.
"Crazy as it may sound, this is the perfect time to enact a sensible
policy to address the dangerous threat of climate change,"
Feldstein, Mankiw and Halstead in a New York Times op-ed. "This
would be pro-growth, pro-competitiveness and pro-working class."
The plan's backers propose a "sensible" carbon tax that begins at
$40 per ton and increases with time. They estimate that the average
family of four would receive $2,000 annually in dividend payments.
The plan—even with the elimination Obama-era regulations—would allow
the U.S. to meet its emissions reduction commitment to the Paris
Agreement without any other policies, according to the report.
"Theory suggests a nationwide price on carbon would lead to even
more economically efficient outcomes."Republicans in Congress have
largely balked at measures to address climate change, though a small
contingent continues to push the issue. The backers of the new plan
said they believe even current skeptics will eventually have to face
the reality of climate change. "This will become the inevitable
climate solution," said Halstead. "We cannot tell you when, but we
can tell you that eventually, this country has to deal with this
issue, and we think that our solution will be front and center."
http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/management-accountants-see-negative-impact-from-global-warming
Management accountants see negative impact from*global warming*
<http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/management-accountants-see-negative-impact-from-global-warming>
Accounting Today -6 hours ago
*Global warming*isn't just a concern of environmentalists. Nearly
two-thirds of management accountants think*global warming*is having
an impact on the environment, according to a new survey, and a
quarter of them are seeing a negative impact on the*.*
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-extreme-increasingly-global-landscape.html
*Research predicts extreme fires will increasingly be part of our global
landscape
<https://phys.org/news/2017-02-extreme-increasingly-global-landscape.html>*
Increasingly dangerous fire weather is forecast as the global
footprint of extreme fires expands, according to the latest research...
"The projections suggest an increase in the days conducive to
extreme wildfire events by 20 to 50 per cent in these disaster-prone
landscapes, with sharper increases in the subtropical Southern
Hemisphere, and the European Mediterranean Basin," Professor Bowman
said...
"We can't stop big, intense fires from happening here, and they are
increasing under climate change. However, in the western US, we can
reduce the potential for fire disasters by both reducing forest
density and improving mitigation and preparedness through the
development of fire-resilient communities."
http://inhabitat.com/bill-gates-warns-against-climate-change-denial/
Bill Gates warns against*climate*-*change*denial
<http://inhabitat.com/bill-gates-warns-against-climate-change-denial/>
Inhabitat -14 hours ago
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates recently spoke out against
denying climate change during a student question-and-answer session
at Columbia University in New York City earlier this month. Joined
by fellow monied person Warren Buffett, the Microsoft founder also
called for greater innovation in clean energy. He said, “Certain
topics are so complicated like climate change that to really get a
broad understanding is a bit difficult and particularly when people
take that complexity and create uncertainty about it”.
We need to find energy that’s “reliable, cheap, and clean,” he said,
before promising that “the innovations there will be profound.”
He added, “There are many paths to get to where we need to go”.
Perhaps another billionaire we know should pay attention?.
https://thinkprogress.org/no-bill-gates-we-dont-need-energy-miracles-to-solve-climate-change-60ac8fbb9e2e#.5j51tgt00.
*No Bill Gates, We Don’t Need ‘Energy Miracles’ To Solve Climate Change
(2016)
<https://thinkprogress.org/no-bill-gates-we-dont-need-energy-miracles-to-solve-climate-change-60ac8fbb9e2e#.5j51tgt00>*
For six years, Bill Gates has been arguing that we need “energy
miracles” to avoid catastrophic climate change. For six years, he
has been wrong.
In fact, Gates is more wrong now than he was in 2010. Why? Because
in the last six years, we have seen that aggressive deployment of
clean energy technology driven by government policies has — as was
predicted — led to precisely the kind of game-changing cost-slashing
innovation that Gates mistakenly thinks happens primarily from basic
energy research and development (R&D;).
For six years, Gates has claimed we were wildly under-investing in
basic energy R&D.; Yet, somehow the very thing Gates says he
wanted — huge price drops in key low-carbon technologies (like
renewables and efficiency) and key enabling technologies (like
batteries for storage) — kept happening. The fact is that
accelerated deployment policies around the world created economies
of scale and brought technologies rapidly down the learning curve,
as the DOE reported last November...
...What is particularly unfortunate about Gates’ mistaken rhetoric
is that it can disempower people and policymakers and pundits into
thinking that individual or even government action is not the
central weapon needed to win the climate fight and that our only
hope is some long-term deus ex machina strategy to avoid
catastrophic warming. Nothing could be worse than leaving people
with the impression that humanity’s only hope is future
miracles — especially since a quarter-century of largely ignoring
the warnings of climate scientists has left us with quite literally
no time left to dawdle in exponentially ramping up deployment....
...The world needs about 100 times as much money for deployment of
carbon-free energy as it does for R&D; right now;
Key developing countries like India are making decisions about
building coal vs. carbon-free power right now that could lock in
carbon pollution for decades; and
Genuine technology breakthroughs are exceedingly rare in the energy
arena and generally take decades and vast resources to deploy once
they do make it to market.. - Joe Romm
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-major-global-defended.html
*Major global warming study again questioned, again defended
<https://phys.org/news/2017-02-major-global-defended.html>*
Another round of bickering is boiling over about temperature
readings used in a 2015 study to show how the planet is warming.
The issue is about how readings gathered decades ago were adjusted
to try to get a clearer picture of how the Earth's*...*
...
Here's our piece on the Daily Mail story -- rounds up several of the
rebuttals and shows the spread to Breitbart and other right-wing
media outlets:
http://mediamatters.org/research/2017/02/07/bogus-daily-mail-story-spearheads-latest-right-wing-assault-climate-change-science/215257
https://twitter.com/aseifter/status/828992596869517312
The Bates semi-retraction <http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060049630>
is important given the likelihood that this will be used in the Make
EPA Great Again hearing today:
He specified that he did not believe that they manipulated the
data upon which the research relied in any way.
"The issue here is not an issue of tampering with data, but
rather really of timing of a release of a paper that had not
properly disclosed everything it was," he said.
http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/35255824-75/judge-suggests-lawyers-simplify-their-case-to-keep-climate-change-trial-on-track.html.csp
Judge suggests lawyers simplify their case to keep*climate
change*trial on track
<http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/35255824-75/judge-suggests-lawyers-simplify-their-case-to-keep-climate-change-trial-on-track.html.csp>
The Register-Guard -9 hours ago
A federal judge on Tuesday told lawyers for a group of youths who
are suing the federal government over climate policy to consider
simplifying their case, if they want to keep it on track for trial
later this year in Eugene.
During a pretrial hearing in U.S. District Court, Magistrate Judge
Tom Coffin urged the plaintiffs to “see to what extent you can
narrow” aspects of the potential landmark case, which seeks a court
order that requires the government to drastically and quickly reduce
carbon dioxide emissions that many scientists say drive global warming.
Coffin has said the case could be headed for trial later this year,
which is what the plaintiffs want.
But attorneys for the government and trade groups representing many
of the world’s largest energy companies say that schedule wouldn’t
give them enough time to prepare. They say a request from the
plaintiffs to retain all climate change-related documents in their
possession is particularly onerous.
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-coal-hastens-arctic.html
*Coal mine dust hastens Arctic snow melt
<https://phys.org/news/2017-02-coal-hastens-arctic.html>*
Dust released by an active coal mine in Svalbard, Norway, reduced
the spectral reflectance of nearby snow and ice by up to 84 percent,
according to new University of Colorado Boulder-led research.
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-hidden-lakes-west-antarctica-thwaites.html
*Hidden lakes drain below West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier
<https://phys.org/news/2017-02-scientists-current-climate-understate-problem.html#jCp>*
Thwaites Glacier on the edge of West Antarctica is one of the
planet's fastest-moving glaciers. Research shows that it is sliding
unstoppably into the ocean, mainly due to warmer seawater lapping at
its underside....
The new study supports previous UW research from 2014 showing that
*Thwaites Glacier will likely collapse within 200 to 900 years to
cause seas to rise by 2 feet.*
Read more at:
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-hidden-lakes-west-antarctica-thwaites.html#jCp
Researchers at the University of Washington and the University of
Edinburgh used data from the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 to
identify a sudden drainage of large pools below Thwaites Glacier,
one of two fast-moving glaciers at the edge of the ice sheet. The
study published Feb. 8 in The Cryosphere finds four interconnected
lakes drained in the eight months from June 2013 and January 2014.
The glacier sped up by about 10 percent during that time, showing
that the glacier's long-term movement is fairly oblivious to
trickles at its underside.
For the new study, the authors use a new technique to discover drops
at the glacier's surface of up to 70 feet (20 meters) over a 20
kilometer by 40 kilometer area. Calculations show it was likely due
to the emptying of four interconnected lakes, the largest about the
size of Lake Washington, far below. The peak drainage rate was about
8,500 cubic feet (240 cubic meters) per second, about half the flow
of the Hudson River—the largest meltwater outflow yet reported for
subglacial lakes in this region.
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-climate.html
*Study rehabilitates climate models
<https://phys.org/news/2017-02-climate.html>*
With new methods of reconstruction, climate researchers in Bern have
been able to demonstrate that some 9,000 to 5,000 years ago, the
Mediterranean climate was considerably warmer than previous studies
had suggested. Among ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/world/asia/china-coal-gas-plants-climate-change.html
'Irrational' Coal Plants May Hamper China's*Climate Change *Efforts
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/world/asia/china-coal-gas-plants-climate-change.html>
New York Times -8 hours ago
But in those towers, a rare and contentious process is underway,
spewing an alarming amount of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse
gas accelerating*climate change*. The plant and others like it
undermine China's aim of being a global leader on efforts
https://createclimate.com/2017/02/05/how-climate-change-created-humans/
*How climate change created humans
<https://createclimate.com/2017/02/05/how-climate-change-created-humans/>*
Have you ever wondered if humans will give birth to a more evolved
species? Or would we rather destroy the planet before that happens?
In this post I explore the climatic change that gave place to the
transition Autralopithecus --> Homo habilis.
Several hundreds of thousands of years passed until the Earth
rotation axis changed sufficiently to decrease the temperatures in
the summer and prevented the high latitude snow from melting. Giving
origin to ice sheets formation in the north and to a completely new
era in which the Earth would be shifting for glacial to interglacial
periods, starting 2.5 million years ago. This new global climate
dramatically reduced the moisture of Africa and converted it into an
arid region...
In summary, a change in oceanic circulation generated high latitude
snow precipitation that with the right conditions formed the ice
sheets and resulted in a great step on the history of human
evolution. This case study reflects the great implications that
climate change could have on ecosystems and species, as well as the
key roles of different components of the climate, such as insolation
and ocean circulation.
So do you think current climate change will give place to a more
evolved species than humans? Or we would rather destroy the world
before that happens?
http://bit.ly/climateandevolution Best regards, Bernardo Bastien
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-gop-carbon-tax-20170207-story.html
Senior GOP figures are pushing the White House to consider carbon
tax to fight*climate change*
<http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-gop-carbon-tax-20170207-story.html>
Los Angeles Times -3 hours ago
A group of Republican senior statesmen is pushing for a carbon tax
to combat the effects of*climate change*and hoping to sell the plan
to the White House.
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-climate-underestimate-future-tropical-mountains.html*
**Climate models may underestimate future warming on tropical mountains
<https://phys.org/news/2017-01-climate-underestimate-future-tropical-mountains.html>*
In few places are the effects of climate change more pronounced than
on tropical peaks like Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, where
centuries-old glaciers have all but melted completely away. Now, new
research suggests that ...
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-globe-trotting-pollutants-cancer-higher.html
*Globe-trotting pollutants raise some cancer risks four times higher
than predicted
<https://phys.org/news/2017-01-globe-trotting-pollutants-cancer-higher.html>*
A new way of looking at how pollutants ride through the atmosphere
has quadrupled the estimate of global lung cancer risk from a
pollutant caused by combustion, to a level that is now double the
allowable limit recommended ...
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/issues/kerr020903spenv.html
http://c-spanvideo.org/program/DemocraticPolicy
*This Day in Climate History February 9, 2003
<http://www.gwu.edu/%7Eaction/2004/issues/kerr020903spenv.html> - from
D.R. Tucker*
In a speech at Harvard University, Democratic presidential candidate
and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry declares:
"We should be the world's environmental leader. Our global
environmental policy should be driven by our convictions, not our
constraints. America has not led but fled on the issue of global
warming. The first President Bush was willing to lead on this issue.
But the second President Bush's declaration that the Kyoto Protocol
was simply Dead on Arrival spoke for itself - and it spoke in dozens
of languages as his words whipped instantly around the globe. What
the Administration failed to see was that Kyoto was not just an
agreement; it represented the resolve of 160 nations working
together over 10 years. It was a good faith effort - and the United
States just dismissed it. We didn't aim to mend it. We didn't aim to
sit down with our allies and find a compromise. We didn't aim for a
new dialogue. The Administration was simply ready to aim and fire,
and the target they hit was our international reputation. This
country can and should aim higher than preserving its place as the
world's largest unfettered polluter. We should assert, not abandon
our leadership in addressing global economic degradation and the
warming of the atmosphere that if left unchecked, will do untold
damage to our coastline and our Great Plains, our cities and our
economy."
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/issues/kerr020903spenv.html
http://c-spanvideo.org/program/DemocraticPolicy
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