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Louisiana Faces Faster Levels of*Sea-Level Rise*Than Any Other Land
on Earth
<http://www.ecowatch.com/louisiana-sea-level-rise-2178631264.html>
EcoWatch -6 hours ago
From 2004 through 2008 alone, more than 300 square miles of
marshland were lost to Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav, and Ike,"
the report states.
Analysis Shows 'Dangerous' Pipeline Mega-Merger Threatens Climate
and Consumers
<http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/04/analysis-shows-dangerous-pipeline-mega-merger-threatens-climate-and-consumers>
Common Dreams (press release) -4 hours ago
New analysis says merger, which would create country's largest
energy-infrastructure firm, would give pipeline giants unchecked power
Shareholders for both companies approved the deal last
month....between pipeline giants Enbridge and Spectra...
....the merger would give the companies control of 79 percent of the
offshore Gulf of Mexico-Louisiana natural gas pipeline network; 92
percent of the pipelines crossing the U.S.-Canada border; and 100
percent of the pipelines in and out of Michigan....It would also
enable Enbridge-Spectra to raise prices on consumers or increase
costs for its rivals in those key regions at will...
Both companies also have a history of safety issues, with a track
record of leaks and spills that have impacted surrounding
communities and environments. From 1996 to 2015, Enbridge
unintentionally released more than 54,000 barrels of oils and
natural liquids. Its leaks and other releases doubled during that
time, from 54 to 117, the analysis states...
A notorious 2010 incident saw one of its pipelines spill up to 1
million gallons of crude in Michigan's Kalamazoo River and Talmadge
Creek, contaminating the local environment. Nearby residents
reported neurological, gastrointestinal, and respiratory problems,
while Enbridge was ordered to pay $75 million in cleanup costs alone...
"The merger would create a sprawling 38,000-mile oil and gas
pipeline network—and with both firms carrying disturbing safety and
service records, this deal would put the wellbeing of countless
communities at risk," Hauter said. "The FTC must extend its review
of this dangerous, anti-consumer merger, and ultimately reject it."
*(YouTube video) The Bible doesn’t talk about climate change, right?*
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpjL_otLq6Y>
Global Weirding with *Katharine Hayhoe* Published on Jan 4, 2017
Global Weirding is produced by KTTZ Texas Tech Public Media and
distributed by PBS Digital Studios. New episodes every other
Wednesday at 10 am central. Brought to you in part by: Bob and Linda
Herscher, Freese and Nichols, Inc, and the Texas Tech Climate
Science Center.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpjL_otLq6Y
The Republicans Who Want Trump to Fight Climate Change - "The
Eco-Right"
<https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/01/green-republican/512111/>
The Atlantic -11 hours ago
"We hope," says Bob Inglis, "that Donald Trump sees an opportunity
to complete the sentence this way: Richard Nixon went to China, Bill
Clinton signed welfare reform, and Donald Trump did climate change."..
...Inglis—a former Congressman from South Carolina—has emerged as a
spokesperson of sorts for "the eco-right," a suite of think tanks,
activists and politicos making the case for a free-market approach
to environmentalism, grounded in conservative values. He now serves
as the Executive Director of RepublicEn, a small advocacy outfit of
self-described "energy optimists," keen to dispel rumors that the
GOP is the province of climate denialism....
The holy grail of Inglis’s brand of eco-conservatism is a
"revenue-neutral, border-adjustable" carbon tax. This kind of
pricing mechanism offers a more elegant solution to the eco-right
than the patchwork of regulations involved in Obama’s landmark
climate rule, wherein each state arrives at its own plan....
... 54 percent of Republicans now believe that the climate is
changing and that humankind has played a hand in it. By contrast,
just 14 of the 247 Republicans in the House of Representatives
signed on to the Gibson Resolution, stating the urgency of climate
change and the body’s commitment to addressing it.
... in fact, climate change was this year’s least important issue,
according to Gallup...
...of the president-elect. "I would not be totally surprised if he
were to give some speech announcing that [climate change] was a
major crisis, announcing a new Manhattan Project to deal with it.
And I’d be equally unsurprised if he reiterated his comment that
it’s a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese."...
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/01/green-republican/512111/
Millennials Sit-in at Governor's Office: "Trump's
a*Climate*Emergency, Cuomo Show Some Urgency"
<http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/01/04/millennials-sit-governors-office-trumps-climate-emergency-cuomo-show-some>
Common Dreams (press release) -4 hours ago
ALBANY, N.Y. - Today, Dozens of young New Yorkers risk arrest,
urging the Governor to reject Trump’s climate denial ..
"Climate change is a civilizational crisis. Yet our federal
government is now in the hands of oil magnates and Wall Street
billionaires who profit at the expense of our planet, who are
foreclosing on our futures right in front of our eyes," said Jamie
Tyberg, 24-year-old climate activist from NYC. "We’re wielding our
moral authority as young people to demand Governor Cuomo do the
right thing as a father, as a New Yorker, and as the Governor of a
state with a carbon footprint larger than most nations. If now is
not the time for him to be the leader we need, what would it take?"...
"Donald Trump is a climate emergency, so we’re calling on Governor
Cuomo to show some urgency," said Samantha Nephew, a 27-year-old
member of the Seneca Nation. "New York needs to invest in the
communities most vulnerable to climate change and commit to an
economy-wide transition to 100% renewable energy. We need to shift
how we interact in our relationship with the elements before there's
nothing left to extract."...
House Science Committee's Twitter Account Is Now Just
Another*Climate Science*Denial Troll
<https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/04/house-science-committee-s-twitter-account-now-just-another-climate-science-denial-troll>
DeSmog (blog) -3 hours ago
... there’s a new addition to the climate science denial trollerati
— the Twitter account of theUnited States House of Representatives
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
<https://science.house.gov/>....The @HouseScience Twitter handle has
been pushing out partisan talking points and attacking "climate
alarmists" in a series of posts in recent months. ... the
committeeTweeted a link to an article on the hyper-partisan
conservative Breitbart website
<https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/12/01/gop-science-committee-sends-twitter-followers-breitbart-climate-misinformation>written
by climate science denial activistJames Delingpole
<https://www.desmogblog.com/james-delingpole>.
Delingpole’s polemic was itself based on an article in theUK’s
Sunday Mail newspaper, written by David Rose, thatseven climate
scientists rated "very low" on Climate Feedback’s credibility scale
<http://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/stunning-new-data-indicates-el-nino-drove-record-highs-global-temperatures-david-rose-daily-mail/>.
..in its latest missive, the @HouseScienceTwitter handle has claimed
<https://twitter.com/HouseScience/status/816356348443193344>the
global satellite temperature data "tells a story climate alarmists
don’t want to hear."
Pointing to a blog post by contrarian scientist and creationist Dr.
Roy Spencer, @HouseScience said the data "doesn’t fit their
climate narrative."
This was peculiar because the chart the committee wants its
followers to look at shows that the planet has warmed since
satellites started collecting data in the late 1970s.
The data, compiled by contrarian scientistsSpencer
<https://www.desmogblog.com/roy-spencer>andDr. John Christy
<https://www.desmogblog.com/john-christy>at the University of
Alabama, Huntsville, tend to be a favorite of climate science
deniers because they suggest less warming than other data sets.
... the data still shows that all but one of the ten hottest years
on the 38-year-long satellite record have occurred since 2002....
Climate scientist Dr. Victor Venema of the University of Bonn in
Germanyresponded to the committee’s Tweet
<https://twitter.com/VariabilityBlog/status/816367813946392576>with
a chart showing how the satellite data it uses shows much less
warming than other sets of data....Climate scientists, including
those who manage the data that Spencer and Christy use, have
explained how land-based, rather than atmospheric, temperatures are
more relevant for climate change discussions. Temperatures taken on
land go through fewer analytical adjustments, are more direct than
the proxy measurements taken by satellites, and are taken on the
ground where humans live.
Pointing to just one set of data to back your argument — while
ignoring all the other evidence that shows you’re wrong — is
calledcherry picking
<https://www.skepticalscience.com/graphics.php?g=16>, and the
@HouseScience tweet was a classic example.
The committee has not posted links to the many lines of evidence
that contradict its points, such as the warming oceans, temperatures
taken on land, melting ice sheets, melting glaciers, heat records,
or the rising sea levels...TheGOP-led committee is chaired by Texas
RepublicanLamar Smith <https://www.desmogblog.com/lamar-smith>— a
climate science denier who has built a reputation for attacking
government scientists while defending oil giantExxonMobil’s funding
of attacks on climate science
<https://www.desmogblog.com/exxonmobil-funding-climate-science-denial>.
The Twitter account’s posts have not gone unnoticed, with hundreds
describing the Tweets as shameful, embarrassing, anti-science,
appalling, shocking, irresponsible, and misleading.
And those are just the nice comments.
https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/04/house-science-committee-s-twitter-account-now-just-another-climate-science-denial-troll
(YouTube Video) How Reliable are Satellite Temperatures? <v>
We often hear from climate deniers that satellite measurements of
global temperature are "the best data we have"?
But is that true?
Here, interviews with leading climate scientists, including Carl
Mears, who keeps the dataset that he says Senator Ted Cruz, and
others, are misusing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVMsYXzmUYk
New study confirms NOAA finding of faster*global warming*
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jan/04/new-study-confirms-noaa-finding-of-faster-global-warming>
The Guardian -14 minutes ago
This paper is another reminder why it is so important to invest in
the temperature measurements that are needed to create
long-term*climate*records. We really need uninterrupted measurements
that span many years/decades if we want to truly understand*...
*These and many other questions make measuring global warming
challenge. Different groups of scientists make different decisions
so that depending on the institution, they will get a slightly
different temperature result...
But this diversity is also a good thing. It turns out that it
doesn’t matter whose results you use – NASA, NOAA, The Hadley Centre
in the UK, the Japanese Meteorological Agency, or the Berkeley Earth
group – they all report a warming world. However, the rates are
slightly different. So, one persistent question is, which group is
most accurate? Whose methods are best?*
*...Finally, and for those who read my posts regularly,*I am
sounding like a broken record. Global warming is happening, it never
stopped, it never paused, and the models have gotten it right.**...**
**It reminds me of a debate between creationists and scientists. One
scientist whose name I cannot remember stated, "we have the fossil
record, we win." Well, a similar quote works here. "We have the
data, we win." Now let’s move on to solving the problem*.*- Jo*hn
Abraham*
*
*(video) Recent Ocean Warming has been Underestimated
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnyX32nkYBs>*
In a paper published in Science Advances, we used data from buoys,
satellites, and Argo floats to construct separate instrumentally
homogenous sea surface temperature records of the past two decades.
We compared them to the old NOAA ERSSTv3b record, the new ERSSTv4
record, the Hadley Centre’s HadSST3 record, and the Japanese
COBE-SST record. We found a strong and significant cool bias in the
old NOAA record, and a more modest (but still significant) cool bias
in the Hadley and Japanese records compared to buoy, satellite, and
Argo float data. The new NOAA record agrees quite well with these
instrumentally homogenous records. This suggests that the new NOAA
record is likely the most accurate sea surface temperature record in
recent years, and should help resolve some of the criticism that
accompanied the original NOAA study.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnyX32nkYBs
*New Study Shows (Again): Deniers Wrong, NOAA Scientists Right
<https://climatecrocks.com/2017/01/04/new-study-shows-again-deniers-wrong-noaa-scientists-right/>*
Peter Sinclair videos - Once again, Science FTW. I interviewed UC
Berkeley’s Zeke Hausfather in December, and one of the things we
discussed was his latest research study, now public....I described
the Anti-Science Committee’s witch hunt against NOAA and NASA a few
months ago, in this must-see vid....My video from last year explains
in more detail what the new study proved.
https://climatecrocks.com/2017/01/04/new-study-shows-again-deniers-wrong-noaa-scientists-right/
Miami Beach: property market braced for change in*climate*
<https://www.ft.com/content/de73b604-c12b-11e6-81c2-f57d90f6741a>
Financial Times -8 hours ago
Rising sea levels are a concern but it is new transparency rules
that are having the biggest impact on sales
Climate change or not, the daily high-water marker at Virginia Key
in Miami has been rising by an average of almost an inch a year for
the past five years, nearly 10 times the rate of the global average,
although that high rate is not expected to continue. Even so,
according to a report by the National Wildlife Federation, Greater
Miami — with all those pricey condo buildings on Miami Beach —
stands to lose $3.5tn in assets by 2070 if damage from rising tides
cannot be mitigated.
Did Exxon launch a*climate science*'disinformation campaign'?
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-exxon-gansler-20170104-story.html>
Baltimore Sun -2 hours ago
Many Americans, including many influential lawmakers, still don't
believe in*global warming*. As a result, the United States has
delayed taking meaningful action to address*climate change*, and
Exxon has enjoyed decades of record-breaking profits ...Almost four
decades ago, Exxon knew that the build-up of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere could have catastrophic effects on the world's
climate....Yet, in the late 1980s, instead of giving an honest
assessment of its views on climate change — or even remaining silent
on the topic — the company apparently embarked on what appears to be
a multi-million dollar disinformation campaign to raise doubts about
global warming. ...
The costs of Exxon's misdirection, if that's what it indeed was,
could be staggering. More than half of all industrial carbon dioxide
emissions have been released into the atmosphere since 1988. Delay
has made the problem of climate change a lot harder to solve now
than it was then. States owe it to their residents to hold Exxon
accountable for the costs of any misrepresentations. Fighting fraud
should not be a partisan issue...
While the federal government seems unlikely to investigate Exxon's
actions any time soon, the states should not let Exxon slide. The
attorney general of every state is charged with both preventing
consumer fraud and protecting consumer safety. Both responsibilities
are in play here...
First, if the company knowingly made false statements to the public
about climate change in order to sell its products, fossil fuels,
that conduct was potentially fraudulent. Second, Exxon's products
imperil consumer safety when produced in large quantities because
global warming will cause widespread health problems...
If attorneys general don't take action, their states may be left
picking up the tab. Because of climate change, state governments
will have to field teams of first responders to assist victims of
bigger floods and more intense wildfires. State-owned infrastructure
will also be put at risk. Ports must be defended against rising sea
levels, and wastewater treatment plants must be redesigned to handle
bigger storms. These costs have only gotten bigger with time. If
Exxon perpetuated a fraud in order to stall action on climate change
so that it could continue selling a potentially dangerous product,
it should be liable for its share of the costs of the delay...Every
state is affected by this potential fraud, so every state attorney
general should take a seat at the table by joining the
investigations into Exxon.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-exxon-gansler-20170104-story.html
The fire through the smoke: Working for transparency
in*climate*projections
<http://phys.org/news/2017-01-transparency-climate.html>
Phys.Org -3 hours ago
For that reason, a group of preeminent*climate*scientists have
evaluated the consequences of the most recent projections from the
world's foremost*climate-science*organization, the Intergovernmental
Panel on*Climate Change*(IPCC), as to how the impact*...*
Bright Ideas 2017: Publicize and fund*climate*research
<http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/environment/bright-ideas-publicize-and-fund-climate-research/article_668756ef-82da-5617-8a04-5d188bfa30ba.html>
Madison.com -16 hours ago
We will lose our ability to identify large ice sheets melting,
events that could rapidly accelerate*sea level rise*. We will lose
the human expertise that was critical to identifying the lead in
Flint's drinking water.
Fossil leaves suggest*global warming*will be harder to fight than
scientists thought
<http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/fossil-leaves-suggest-global-warming-will-be-harder-fight-scientists-thought>
Science Magazine -5 hours ago
... to go up and up, driving*global warming*. But it won't be the
first time that CO2 has surged. In Earth's ancient atmosphere,
scientists see the faint outlines of a CO2 roller coaster, climbing
and dipping across deep time in repeated bouts of*...*
*The overwhelming whiteness of US environmentalism is hobbling the fight
against climate change
<https://qz.com/877447/the-overwhelming-whiteness-of-the-us-environmentalist-movement-is-hobbling-the-fight-against-climate-change/>*
Immediate and significant actions must be taken to reach these
communities of color who reflect the new socio-political landscape
of the United States. Given that people of color are largely
supportive of ameliorative actions to address climate change, and
that they are potentially less swayed by political ideologies
regarding climate change, climate messages should prioritize people
of color as essential allies in the climate-change mitigation movement.
https://qz.com/877447/the-overwhelming-whiteness-of-the-us-environmentalist-movement-is-hobbling-the-fight-against-climate-change/
*Computer models find ancient solutions to modern problems
<https://news.wsu.edu/2016/12/20/computer-models-find-ancient-solutions-modern-problems/>*
Washington State University archaeologists are at the helm of new
research using sophisticated computer technology to learn how past
societies responded to climate change...
... demonstrates how drought, hunting and habitat competition among
growing populations in Egypt led to the extinction of many
large-bodied mammals around 3,000 B.C. In addition, d’Alpoim Guedes
and Bocinsky, an adjunct faculty member in anthropology, are
investigating how settlement patterns in Tibet are affecting erosion....
"Our models showed Hopi corn could grow well in the Ethiopian
highlands where one of their staple foods, the Ethiopian banana, has
been afflicted by emerging pests, disease and blasts of intense
heat," Bocinsky said. "Cultivating Hopi corn and other traditional,
drought-resistant crops could become crucial for human survival in
other places impacted by climate change."
https://news.wsu.edu/2016/12/20/computer-models-find-ancient-solutions-modern-problems/
*Village Ecodynamics Project
<https://www.crowcanyon.org/index.php/village-ecodynamics-projecthttps://www.crowcanyon.org/index.php/village-ecodynamics-project>*
The Village Ecodynamics Project (VEP) is a multidisciplinary and
multi-institutional collaboration among scientists and other
researchers studying the long-term (A.D. 600–1760) interaction
between Pueblo Indians and their environment. Funded by National
Science Foundation (NSF) grants awarded to Washington State
University, the project employs an innovative approach to
manipulating large, diverse data sets to "predict" the past.
https://www.crowcanyon.org/index.php/village-ecodynamics-project
*As Seas Rise, Miami Development Continues Unabated
<https://skepticalscience.com/seas-rise-miami-development-continues.html>*
Posted on 3 January 2017 by greenman3610
"Miami, as we know it today, is not going to exist."...
That’s because the ocean is rising, and it will be hard to keep the
water out. Some Miami neighborhoods already flood during high tides.
And yet, "the building here is going on at a record rate …
high-rises all along the beach. Basically, nothing has changed,"
Goodell says in this month’s "This Is Not Cool" video by independent
videographer Peter Sinclair.
Describing how extensive parts of South Florida are "built on a big
porous sponge," he says levees cannot mitigate the problem. "It’s
just a big flat limestone pancake."
*(video) The Perfect Tide: Sea Level and the Future of South
Florida* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRGuQKv4gPU>
YaleClimateConnections https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRGuQKv4gPU
*Climate Change*Is Raising Flood Risk in the Northern U.S.
<https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-is-raising-flood-risk-in-the-northern-u-s/>
Scientific American -Jan 3, 2017
Shifting rainfall patterns and the amount of water in the ground are
likely causes for the heightened risk...
Scientists who combined an on-the-ground look at stream gauge data
and an above-the-ground view from satellites have determined that as
the Earth warms, the threat of flooding is growing in the northern
half of the United States....
Climate scientists know that the intensity of extreme precipitation
events is on the rise because there’s more water vapor in the
atmosphere caused by higher global and sea temperatures. With rising
global temperatures, the 2014 National Climate Assessment predicts
that many communities will see more frequent extreme precipitation
events like the one that hit Baton Rouge, La., last year....
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-is-raising-flood-risk-in-the-northern-u-s/
*
****10 Years of Kicking Denier Butt: Climate Crocks Year in Review
<https://climatecrocks.com/2017/01/04/10-years-of-kicking-denier-butt-climate-crocks-year-in-review/>*
Just a quick look back on 2016’s work educating and communicating on
global climate change. This year marks a decade that I’ve been
bringing the fight to professional Climate Deniers and purveyors of
Fake News.
I wanted to share this because so many readers and viewers helped
out to make it happen this year with tax-deductible donations to
Dark Snow Project – thanks to all who helped out....The year started
out with a bang, when my collection of interviews on satellite
temperature measurements (above) was immediately attacked by a
(then) little known Neo-nazi website,
Breitbart....https://climatecrocks.com/2017/01/04/10-years-of-kicking-denier-butt-climate-crocks-year-in-review/
*This Day in Climate History January
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20998-2004Dec22.html> -
from D.R. Tucker*
January 5, 2000: During a Democratic Presidential debate with former
New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, Vice President Al Gore notes that
as a Congressman, "...I decided to take on the issue of global
warming and make it a national issue, when everybody was saying 'You
know, you're going to run a lot of risk there. People are going to
think that that's kind of off the edge there.' Well, now more and
more people say, 'Yes, it is real,' and the next president has to be
willing to take it on."
http://c-spanvideo.org/program/DemocraticCandidatesDebate10
(29:28-29-50)
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