[TheClimate.Vote] Feb 15, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News for All -
Richard Pauli
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox5hbkg34Ow
(video) *Climate: What did We Know and When Did We Know it?*
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox5hbkg34Ow>
YaleClimateConnections
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtZdUYUZr493AUh_EInBYxQ> video
Published on Feb 14, 2017
Climate models have a strong record in helping scientists foresee a
warmer world ... and its impacts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/opinion/what-californias-dam-crisis-says-about-the-changing-climate.html?_r=0
*What California's Dam Crisis Says About the Changing Climate
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/opinion/what-californias-dam-crisis-says-about-the-changing-climate.html?_r=0>*
Our water system was designed and built in an old climate, one in
which extremely warm years were less common and snowpack was more
reliable. Here in the West, we use the same dams and reservoirs for
both water storage and flood control, so during the wet season,
reservoir managers continuously balance the dual pressures of
storing as much water as possible for the dry summer and releasing
sufficient water to create room for the next storm...
This system relies on the natural reservoir of mountain snowpack,
which melts gradually over the spring and summer. While it is well
known that much of the West relies on snowpack for water storage,
the vital role of snowpack in flood control is considerably less
appreciated. When precipitation falls as snow, it stays in the
mountains rather than flowing into reservoirs. This leaves more room
in reservoirs to prevent flooding downstream during heavy rainfall.
/Noah S. Diffenbaugh is a senior fellow and professor of earth
system science at Stanford./
https://the-macroscope.org/im-a-scientist-this-is-what-i-ll-fight-for-554ccb15e99b#.qdczy1hco
*I'm a Scientist. This is What I'll Fight For.
<https://the-macroscope.org/im-a-scientist-this-is-what-i-ll-fight-for-554ccb15e99b#.qdczy1hco>*
The War on Science is more than a skirmish over funding, censorship,
and "alternative facts". It's a battle for the future, basic
decency, and the people we love...
Make no mistake: There is a War on Science in America.
The White House not only denies obvious, empirical facts on a
regular basis, but they have invented the Orwellian concept of
"alternative facts". In the past, we simply called them "lies", but
now they are used in the world's most powerful office. And that
should scare all of us...
What's worse is that the White House and many members of Congress
aren't just anti-fact, they are against the pursuit of facts, and
have tried to place draconian restrictions on what federal
scientists can research, publish, and even discuss. And god knows
what will happen to our nation's long-standing investments in
research and science education.
This attack on science, and on knowledge itself, goes beyond
anything we have seen in America before. And it is not only
dangerous to science, it is dangerous to our nation and the world....
"The greatness of America is strengthened by science—it helps us
lift people up, improve the human condition, and build a better world."
"Let's be clear: those who conduct a War on Science are also
declaring war on the people we love. If they get their way, people
will die. And I'm going to fight to make sure that doesn't happen.
You should too."
http://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/2/14/14601932/exxon-first-amendment-free-speech-citizens-global-warming
*Corporations like Exxon are using spurious free speech claims to fend
off regulation
<http://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/2/14/14601932/exxon-first-amendment-free-speech-citizens-global-warming>*
(Vox) In the latest instance of the corporate takeover of the First
Amendment — and other constitutional rights — Exxon Mobil, the
world's largest oil and gas corporation, has invented a
constitutional right to obstruct state investigations into
allegations of fraud...
Investigations by the Massachusetts and New York attorneys general
began late last year after the Los Angeles Times reported that Exxon
scientists and executives have known for decades about the
connection between fossil fuel consumption and the likelihood of
catastrophic changes in the Earth's atmosphere and climate...
The report alleged that as early as the 1980s, Exxon scientists were
warning the company in internal communications that global climate
change could "indeed be catastrophic (at least for a substantial
fraction of the earth's population)." According to the journalists'
report, Exxon's internal teams used that information for purposes of
assessing the potential for profitable investment in new oil
exploration and production. Yet these were the same climate models
that Exxon "dismissed as unreliable and based on uncertain science"
in statements to investors, consumers, and the general public.
https://news.mongabay.com/2017/02/counterintuitive-global-hydropower-boom-will-add-to-climate-change/
*Counterintuitive: Global hydropower boom will add to climate change
<https://news.mongabay.com/2017/02/counterintuitive-global-hydropower-boom-will-add-to-climate-change/>*
Mongabay.com - And it isn't good news. ... Over a 100-year
timeframe, methane's effect on global warming is more than 30 times,
and nitrous oxide's effect is almost ...
-- For many years new hydropower dams were assumed to be zero
greenhouse gas emitters. Now with 847 large (more than 100 MW) and
2,853 smaller (more than 1 MW) hydropower projects currently planned
or under construction around the world, a new global study has shown
that dam reservoirs are major greenhouse gas emitters.
-- The study looked at the carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4),
and nitrous oxide (N2O) emitted from 267 reservoirs across six
continents. Globally, the researchers estimate that reservoirs
contribute 1.3 percent of human-made greenhouse gas emissions,
comparable to those from rice paddy cultivation or biomass burning.
-- Reservoir emissions are not currently counted within the UN
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) emissions
assessments, but they should be, argue the researchers. In fact,
countries are currently eligible under the UN's Clean Development
Mechanism (CDM) to receive carbon credits for newly built dams.
-- The study raises the question as to whether hydropower should
continue to be counted as green power or be eligible for UN CDM
carbon credits...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/marine-ecosystems-are-preparing-for-climate-change/
Marine Ecosystems Are Preparing for*Climate Change*
<https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/marine-ecosystems-are-preparing-for-climate-change/>
Scientific American -15 hours ago
While countless scientific reports have documented the ravages
of*climate change*on oceanic life, a survey of the researchers who
wrote them provides a silver lining: An overwhelming majority
noticed examples of sea life withstanding*climate change*.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/what-a-relief-that-climate-change-doesnt-really-exist-20170214-gucb48.html
(sarcasm) What a relief that*climate change*doesn't really exist
<http://www.smh.com.au/comment/what-a-relief-that-climate-change-doesnt-really-exist-20170214-gucb48.html>
The Sydney Morning Herald -6 hours ago
As we've sweltered through this terrible summer - and lately, as
bushfires have raged - what a comfort it's been to know that*climate
change*doesn't exist and isn't happening. Or, if it does exist, it's
not caused by anything humans have done, so there*...*
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11800198
<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11800198>
Preparing New Zealand for*climate change*
<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11800198>
New Zealand Herald -3 hours ago
The funding, for five studies, is part of the Deep South National
Science Challenge, which aims to help Kiwis adapt to the effects
that*climate change*will bring, among them extreme weather events,
drought, changes in typical weather patterns and sea*...*
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-norwegian-ice-cap-exceptionally-sensitive.html
*Norwegian ice cap 'exceptionally sensitive' to climate change
<https://phys.org/news/2017-02-norwegian-ice-cap-exceptionally-sensitive.html>*
(Phys.Org) With global warming continuing, the glacier will most
likely …more ... But the implication of our study is that if climate
warming continues, this ice cap ...
https://www.inverse.com/article/24714-10-most-popular-climate-change-conspiracy-theories
*(misinformation) The 10 Most Popular Climate Change Conspiracy Theories
<https://www.inverse.com/article/24714-10-most-popular-climate-change-conspiracy-theories>*
There's such a fine line between paranoid and stupid.
10. Tesla Cars Pollute More Than Gas-Consuming Cars...
9. Ocean acidification isn't real...
8. Climate Change is Natural...
7. Deniers Are Going to be Put in Jail...
6. It's a Chinese Hoax...
5. Population Will Be Forced Into Cities...
4. It's a Grab for Taxpayer Dollars...
3. It's Anti-Russia Propaganda...
2. It's All a United Nations Power Play...
1. 97 Percent of Scientists Are Lying...
Congress Protects Coasts From*Climate Change*With Mud
<http://www.climatecentral.org/news/congress-protects-coasts-from-climate-change-21162>
Climate Central -10 hours ago
As California reels from record-breaking erosion following punishing
waves last winter, the federal government is turning to mud and sand
from dredging projects to slow land losses and ease flooding
nationwide as seas rise and storms intensify.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123671588&sc=emaf
*This Day in Climate History February 15, 2010
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123671588&sc=emaf>
- from D.R. Tucker*
NPR's Christopher Joyce reports: (Audio 4:00 )
"Most [climate scientists] don't see a contradiction between a
warming world and lots of snow. That includes Kevin Trenberth, a
prominent climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric
Research in Colorado.
"'The fact that the oceans are warmer now than they were, say, 30
years ago means there's about on average 4 percent more water vapor
lurking around over the oceans than there was, say, in the 1970s,'
he says.
"Warmer water means more water vapor rises up into the air, and what
goes up must come down.
"'So one of the consequences of a warming ocean near a coastline
like the East Coast and Washington, D.C., for instance, is that you
can get dumped on with more snow partly as a consequence of global
warming,' he says.
"And Trenberth notes that you don't need very cold temperatures to
get big snow. In fact, when the mercury drops too low, it may be too
cold to snow."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123671588&sc=emaf
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