[TheClimate.Vote] Jan 11, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News for voters, candidates and officials
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Businesses and investors renew plea to Trump: don't ignore*climate
change*
<https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jan/10/donald-trump-climate-change-letter-businesses-investors>
The Guardian -33 minutes ago
More than 600 businesses and investors....companies including
Campbell Soup and Johnson & Johnson, ...signed and released a letter
on Tuesday urging president-elect Donald Trump to continue policies
that combat*global warming*, such as the Clean Power Plan created by
the Obama administration to cut emissions from ...evidence continues
to emerge that points to the substantial business risks posed by
rising global temperatures, such as dwindling supplies of raw
materials and water....
Extreme heat, for example, is bad for the economy, causing crop
failure and reduced worker productivity, according to a new study
from Stanford University and the University of California at
Berkeley....
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, a nonprofit group
that sets standards for corporate sustainability disclosures to
investors and is chaired by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg,
estimates that significant climate risks – such as severe weather
events – exist for most of the companies it tracks, which represent
$27.5tn, or 93%, of US stocks as measured by market value...
There is also evidence that companies that embrace sustainability
actually perform better financially than those that do not. A 2014
study ... corporations that actively manage and plan for climate
change achieved an 18% higher return on investment than companies
that weren’t planning for climate change, and 67% higher than
companies that refused to disclose their emissions.
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jan/10/donald-trump-climate-change-letter-businesses-investors
Ticking Carbon Clock Warns We Have One Year to Avert
*Climate*Catastrophe
<http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/10/ticking-carbon-clock-warns-we-have-one-year-avert-climate-catastrophe>
Common Dreams (press release) -4 hours ago
That's according to the ticking carbon budget clock created by the
Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and*Climate
Change*(MCC). The clock's countdown now shows that only one year is
left in the world's carbon budget before the planet heats ...just
one year until global temperatures surpass 1.5ºC of warming..... the
clock shows that time is running out: it is not enough to act
sometime in the future, but it is necessary to implement more
ambitious climate policies already in the very short-term," ...
"Take all of the most difficult features of individual pathways to
2ºC—like fast and ambitious climate action in all countries of the
world, the full availability of all required emissions reduction and
carbon removal technologies, as well as aggressive energy demand
reductions across the globe—the feasibility of which were so
heatedly debated prior to Paris," Löhe said. "This gives you an idea
of the challenge associated with the more ambitious 1.5°C goal."
*It's Been 25 Years Since World's Prominent Scientists Released 'Warning
to Humanity
<https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/05/it-s-been-25-years-world-s-prominent-scientists-released-warning-humanity>**'*
"World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity
<http://www.ucsusa.org/about/1992-world-scientists.html#.WEcTfdUrK70>."
Fundamental changes are urgent if we are to avoid the collision our
present course will bring about.
Five inextricably linked areas must be addressed simultaneously:
We must bring environmentally damaging activities under control to
restore and protect the integrity of the earth's systems we depend on.
We must, for example, move away from fossil fuels to more benign,
inexhaustible energy sources to cut greenhouse gas emissions and the
pollution of our air and water. Priority must be given to the
development of energy sources matched to Third World needs --
small-scale and relatively easy to implement.
We must halt deforestation, injury to and loss of agricultural land,
and the loss of terrestrial and marine plant and animal species.
We must manage resources crucial to human welfare more effectively.
We must give high priority to efficient use of energy, water, and
other materials, including expansion of conservation and recycling.
We must stabilize population.
This will be possible only if all nations recognize that it requires
improved social and economic conditions, and the adoption of
effective, voluntary family planning.
We must reduce and eventually eliminate poverty.
We must ensure sexual equality, and guarantee women control over
their own reproductive decisions.
http://www.ucsusa.org/about/1992-world-scientists.html#.WHV-A1Xadph
Obama Just Quietly Authored a Wonky Study on*Climate Change*…
<http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/09/obama-authors-climate-change-emissions-study-science-trump/>
Foreign Policy -Jan 9, 2017
On Monday, Science published a new policystudy titled, "The
Irreversible Momentum of Clean Energy."
<http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/01/06/science.aam6284.full>
The study's author says curbing*greenhouse gas*emissions no longer
has to come at the cost of economic growth, and suggests being green
is good for.......
Obama published the new, footnote-laden study in a wonky journal for
scientists. But his intended audience could be his successor, U.S.
President-elect Donald Trump, and his coterie of cabinet picks from
the world of fossil fuels.
On the campaign trail, Trump, an avid climate change skeptic, said
Obama and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s climate policies were
job killers. ...
Trump also said he would "cancel" the landmark Paris climate change
pact
<http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/12/12/paris-conference-climate-agreement-final-obama/>,
an international agreement to dramatically curb global emissions
that Obama touted as a hallmark legacy of his presidency.
Apparently Obama’s State of the Union warning
<http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/president-calls-climate-change-greatest-threat-future-generations-state-union/>
that climate change was the "greatest threat to future generations"
didn’t resonate with the president-elect, who called climate change
"an expensive hoax" and "bullshit" in the past....
So Obama is trying a different tack; if raising the alarm bells on
its danger didn’t work, maybe an economic argument will work. In
Science, Obama says economic growth can continue hand-in-hand with
falling emissions. Energy sector carbon emissions fell by 9.5
percent from 2008 to 2015, writes Obama, while the U.S. economy grew
by 10 percent in the same timeframe....
Part of that was due to the fracking revolution, which unleashed
lots of cleaner-burning natural gas that pushed coal out of power
plants. Part was due to the fact that the United States was emerging
from the fiscal crisis and recession, which hammered demand for
electricity and thus meant lower emissions.
"This ‘decoupling’ of energy sector emissions and economic growth
should put to rest the argument that combating climate change
requires accepting lower growth or a lower standard of living,"
Obama writes. He also warns that ignoring the damaging impacts of
global climate change will be hazardous to U.S. economic health.
"Estimates of the economic damages from warming of 4°C over
preindustrial levels range from 1% to 5% of global GDP each year by
2100," he writes, "which could lead to lost U.S. federal revenue of
roughly $340 billion to $690 billion annually."...
... Obama notes in the conclusion of the study, ... "We have long
known, on the basis of a massive scientific record, that the urgency
of acting to mitigate climate change is real and cannot be ignored."
... Obama is hoping that someone — anyone — close to the
president-elect does, and that the new reality that tackling climate
change is not at odds with economic growth might just get through....
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/09/obama-authors-climate-change-emissions-study-science-trump/...
*The irreversible momentum of clean energy
<http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/01/06/science.aam6284.full>*
The release of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases
(GHGs) due to human activity is increasing global average surface
air temperatures, disrupting weather patterns, and acidifying the
ocean (1). Left unchecked, the continued growth of GHG emissions
could cause global average temperatures to increase by another 4°C
or more by 2100 and by 1.5 to 2 times as much in many midcontinent
and far northern locations (1). Although our understanding of the
impacts of climate change is increasingly and disturbingly clear,
there is still debate about the proper course for U.S. policy—a
debate that is very much on display during the current presidential
transition. But putting near-term politics aside, the mounting
economic and scientific evidence leave me confident that trends
toward a clean-energy economy that have emerged during my presidency
will continue and that the economic opportunity for our country to
harness that trend will only grow. This Policy Forum will focus on
the four reasons I believe the trend toward clean energy is
irreversible.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/01/06/science.aam6284.full
UK*Climate Change*Minister says Donald Trump poses 'very big
challenge' to the world
<http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/uk-climate-change-minister-nick-hurd-donald-trump-very-big-challenge-to-world-president-elect-global-a7519501.html>
The Independent -1 hour ago
Speaking to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee -
which deals with*global warming*following the abolition of the
Department for Energy and*Climate Change*by Theresa May - Nick Hurd
said the UK would seek to use some of its .
At Sundance, the Theme Is*Climate Change*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/movies/at-sundance-the-theme-is-climate-change.html>
New York Times -6 hours ago
the Sundance Film Festival will open its 33rd edition with a
climate-change documentary starring Al Gore....Mr. Trump has mocked
the science of*global warming*as a Chinese hoax and selected
a*climate-change*denialist to run the Environmntal Protection
Agency....We stay free of politics," Robert Redford, who founded
Sundance, said by telephone. "It just happened to coincide."
He added: "We don’t want to be tied into the current political
cycle. That would be a terrible mistake, if we start to drive the
story, when our whole mission is to support filmmakers who have
stories they want to tell."
Sundance finds itself navigating some unusually slippery terrain
this year. Mr. Redford, who recuses himself from programming
decisions, bristles when his festival is seen as having an agenda.
"We don’t take a position," he insisted. At the same time, his top
programmers, John Cooper and Trevor Groth, say they are taking a
specific stance, one that is political by nature: For the first time
in the festival’s history, there will be a spotlight on one theme —
global warming and the environment. Their goal?
"To change the world," Mr. Groth, programming director, said with a
grin over lunch here recently. Mr. Cooper, Sundance’s director,
added quickly, "Or die trying."
Alaskan Village, Citing*Climate Change*, Seeks Disaster Relief In
Order To Relocate
<http://www.npr.org/2017/01/10/509176361/alaskan-village-citing-climate-change-seeks-disaster-relief-in-order-to-relocate>
NPR -3 hours ago
The tiny village of Newtok near Alaska's western coast has been
sliding into the Ninglick River for years. As temperatures increase
- faster there than in the rest of the U.S.
White House Urges Research on Geoengineering to Combat*Global
Warming*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/science/geoengineering-climate-change-global-warming.html>
New York Times -7 hours ago
A White House road map for federally funded*climate*research has for
the first time recommended research into geoengineering, the concept
of intervening in nature to slow or reverse*global warming*. The
document, an update of a report that lays out a*...*
Trump Nominees Should Answer These*Climate*Questions
<http://www.climatecentral.org/news/trump-nominees-climate-change-hearings-21042>
Climate Central -5 hours ago
One potential flashpoint for a number of nominees is*climate
change*and clean energy. Many of Trump's nominees - and Trump
himself - have widely expressed*climate science*denialism and
questioned the value of clean energy. Senator Jeff Sessions ...
A heatwave in the Arctic, a Trump in the White House | | Al Jazeera
<http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2017/01/heatwave-arctic-trump-white-house-170107145243990.html>
Aljazeera.com -5 hours ago
As the planet is approaching a climate catastrophe, Trump is to take
office with a climate change denial agenda.
Conservative media can't stop ( claiming there's been a ) *global
warming*'pause'
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jan/10/conservative-media-cant-stop-denying-there-was-no-global-warming-pause>
The Guardian -4 hours ago
One of those allies is the anti-*climate*policy advocacy
group*Global Warming*Policy Foundation (GWPF), which tries to make
the case that aggressive*climate*policy isn't needed. ...This
particular myth has been a favorite of deniers over the past decade
for one simple reason – if people can be convinced that global
warming stopped, they won’t consider it a threat that we need to
urgently address by cutting fossil fuel consumption. It’s thus
become one of the most common myths peddled by carbon polluters and
their allies...The answer is that global warming has continued
unabated over the past 18 years. There are of course natural
temperature influences superimposed on top of that human-caused
warming trend. It just so happens that 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2012
were all influenced by La Niña cooling, which along with some other
factors, acted to temporarily dampen the warming.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXcA9oq04n4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWdJuNYLTLs.
China Wants to Be a*Climate Change*Watchdog, but Can It Lead by
Example?
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/world/asia/china-wants-to-be-a-climate-change-watchdog-but-cant-yet-lead-by-example.html>
New York Times -24 minutes ago
BEIJING - President-elect Donald J. Trump has called*climate
change*a "hoax" created by China and said he would withdraw from the
global Paris Agreement to curb*greenhouse gas*emissions. That threat
has lent new urgency to a question that has ...
*Global warming*could see rise in toxic shellfish that can lead to
memory loss and potentially kill
<http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/global-warming-climate-change-oceans-acidity-toxic-shell-fish-a7518021.html>
The Independent -19 hours ago
Rising ocean temperatures are leading to a rise in shellfish
infected with a potentially deadly toxin, according to new research.
There have been a number of vast blooms of algae - so large they can
be seen from space - off the west coast of the US*...scientists
warned that if ocean temperatures rise because of global warming,
this could lead to an increase in the numbers of poisonous shellfish...
*"*Our observations reveal a common relationship: the warmer the
ocean conditions, the more likely domoic acid is to surpass alert
thresholds during upwelling season, and the more toxic and/or more
widespread a domoic acid event has the potential to become,*"* *...*
*"*The risk parameters presented in this work as indicative of
elevated domoic acid in shellfish … can be applied to future
examination of relationships between warm regimes and domoic acid
along the [US] West Coast, as well as other eastern boundary
currents worldwide.*"*
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/global-warming-climate-change-oceans-acidity-toxic-shell-fish-a7518021.html
*Climatic regulation of the neurotoxin domoic
acid**http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/01/03/1606798114* We
investigate regulation of domoic acid, a potent marine phycotoxin,
at the climate scale. Due to the threat domoic acid can pose to
public health, marine wildlife, and coastal economies, decades of
laboratory experiments have examined controls on domoic acid
production without reaching consensus on reliable toxin-producing
conditions. Our findings reveal an association between domoic acid
in shellfish and climate-scale warm ocean conditions, a unique,
large-scale perspective relative to previous work.*
U.N.*Climate*Fund Could Take a Big Hit if Trump Keeps Election
Promise
<https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-n-climate-fund-could-take-a-big-hit-if-trump-keeps-election-promise/>
Scientific American -3 hours ago
Trump has called*global warming*a hoax and has said he would
withdraw the U.S. from the landmark 2015 Paris agreement
on*climate*(although he subsequently told The New York Times he is
keeping an "open mind" on these issues). In Trump's "Contract with*...*
Eric Holthaus Podcast "Warm Regards"
<https://soundcloud.com/warmregardspodcast>
Warm Regards is a podcast about the warming planet. The show is
hosted by meteorologist Eric Holthaus. Co-hosts are Jacquelyn Gill,
a paleoecologist at the University of Maine, and Andy Revkin, a
veteran journalist at the New York Times. The show is produced by
Stephen Lacey. Our theme music comes from WJLP.
Climate Anxiety in the Trump Era (15:15)
<http://reneelertzman.com/2016/11/climate-anxiety-in-the-trump-era/>
http://reneelertzman.com/2016/11/climate-anxiety-in-the-trump-era/
*This Day in Climate History January 11, 2013
<http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/01/11/conservatives-once-again-cite-extreme-cold-to-d/192202>
- from D.R. Tucker*
January 11, 2013: Media Matters notes: "After ignoring reports
that 2012 was the hottest year on record in the U.S., Rush Limbaugh
and Fox Business host Stuart Varney tried to push back against
well-established evidence of climate change by citing instances of
cold weather."
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/01/11/conservatives-once-again-cite-extreme-cold-to-d/192202
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