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The 'Madhouse Effect' of climate denial in America | Public Radio
(audio 21 mins)
<http://www.pri.org/stories/2017-01-15/madhouse-effect-climate-denial-america>
PRI -10 hours ago
In their new book, a climate scientist and a political cartoonist
team up to debunk the arguments against climate change..
Suddenly,*climate change*denial is back in style, he says - and back
in power. "We now encounter*climate change*denialism, an agenda of
inaction on*climate change*in all of our branches of government now,
in the Congress and in the presidency,"
**"*We now encounter climate change denialism, an agenda of inaction
on climate change in all of our branches of government now, in the
Congress and in the presidency,*"* he says. *"*It's worrying at a
time when we need to be accelerating this transition away from our
dependence on fossil fuels.*"**
*Climate science shows that global temperatures are careening
towards a critical checkpoint. The Earth shouldn't warm by any more
than 2 degrees Celsius or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit*"*. *
**"*Some scientists will point to [that] … as the level of truly
dangerous, irreversible changes in climate,*"* Mann says. *"*If we
don't dramatically bring down our emissions over the next decade,
then we will likely commit to warming the planet more than that
amount*"**
**"*It's a sort of gallows humor, I suppose, at times,*"* Mann says.
*"*Tom Toles, in my view, has found a way to make delay and denial
and despair funny, in an odd way. But without a message of hope,
without an avenue forward, gallows humor alone doesn't lead us in
the right direction*"**
**"*So we haven't yet committed ourselves to truly catastrophic
irreversible changes in our climate that go beyond our adaptive
capacity, but we don't have a lot of time left, and we do need to
make progress over the next few years,*"* he
says....http://www.pri.org/stories/2017-01-15/madhouse-effect-climate-denial-america*
(Britain) Leading scientists urge May to pressure Trump over*climate
change*
<https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/16/leading-scientists-urge-may-to-pressure-trump-over-climate-change>
The Guardian -1 hour ago
The letter urges the PM to press Donald Trump directly and through
international forums such as the G7 and G20 to accept the reality
of*climate change*and restate a commitment to the Paris agreement.
In rejecting the scientific evidence around*climate* ..
"We don’t know how bad it will be, and it seems that Trump has
slightly gone back on some of the rhetoric, but there are still
worrying concerns," said Prof Piers Forster, a signatory of the
letter and director of the Priestley International Centre for
Climate at Leeds University. "What concerns me is that if we don’t
have good scientific data and observations coming from America,
we’ll be flying blind."...
Scott Pruitt, who said the climate change debate was ‘far from
settled’, has been chosen by Trump to run the EPA. Photograph: Aaron
P. Bernstein/Reuters
The letter urges the PM to press Donald Trump directly and through
international forums such as the G7 and G20 to accept the reality of
climate change and restate a commitment to the Paris agreement. In
rejecting the scientific evidence around climate change, Trump is
disregarding the findings and advice from expert bodies around the
world, including the US National Academy of Sciences and the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the letter states.
It adds that the UK science community stands ready to back US
researchers in "resisting any political attempts to prevent, hamper,
or interfere with vital research on climate change.".
Climate change: The potential impacts of collective inaction
<http://www.redressonline.com/2017/01/climate-change-the-potential-impacts-of-collective-inaction/>
Redress Information & Analysis -3 hours ago
In the early 1900s, when the idea that industrialisation could
potentially result in global warming was first posited, the
consensus was ...
Steadily increasing emissions of greenhouse gases – particularly
carbon dioxide (CO2) – has meant that the last 10 years have been
the warmest on record. Every year trumps the previous one, setting
new record highs, resulting in more extreme weather patterns than
had previously been experienced: intense heat and driving cold,
tremendous storms, forest fires and life-threatening droughts,
seasonal shifts causing changes in wildlife activity and disruptions
to ecosystems...
In 2016 hundreds died in India as temperatures hit 51˚C (123.8˚F);
terrible flooding swept through Myanmar, Argentina, Indonesia, Spain
and Egypt, and in December the Arctic experienced a heat wave, the
second in the same year. Recorded temperatures were 15˚C above
normal – whatever that is now – at minus 7˚C. This in turn impacts
on wildlife, sea levels and weather patterns further south: all is
interconnected...
Bizarre weather patterns like these examples occur everywhere and
have become commonplace: destructive, extreme and forecast to
increase and intensify. They are set in motion by mankind’s
continued burning of fossil fuels – coal, oil and gas, reckless,
irresponsible human activity driven by rabid consumerism and the
ongoing obsession with material goods to satisfy a deep yet
unfulfilled longing for joy and contentment...
http://www.redressonline.com/2017/01/climate-change-the-potential-impacts-of-collective-inaction/.
Coping with Sea Level Rise (Tamino)
<https://tamino.wordpress.com/2017/01/16/coping-with-sea-level-rise/>
The people of Tampa Bay, in order to prepare for all the problems
that will come with sea level rise, responded to Florida’s 2015
Peril of Flood Act by having their Climate Science Advisory Panel
(CSAP) produce a Recommended Projection of Sea Level Rise in the
Tampa Bay Region...
Contrary to what Willis Eschenbach claims, this data set shows
significant acceleration. I wonder whether he’s not competent to
determine that, or he simply didn’t bother to find out before making
his claim.
Willis Eschenbach’s ridicule of the projections is contradicted by
observational evidence already. In my opinion, the worst aspect of
Willis Eschenbach’s criticism of the projections isn’t his utter
scientific incompetence, it’s the snotty attitude which pervades his
essay. Just my opinion...
I advise the people of Tampa Bay to begin their preparations
immediately. I also advise them to ignore any and all snotty critics
who deride the wisdom of actually getting prepared for the changes
that are coming.
https://tamino.wordpress.com/2017/01/16/coping-with-sea-level-rise/
'Race Against Time' to Protect*Climate Science*Data From Trump
<http://www.newsweek.com/protect-climate-science-data-donald-trump-542416>
Newsweek -3 hours ago
Soon after the election, Trump appointed Myron Ebell to lead the
EPA’s transition..Ebell has worked for years to stoke doubt
about*climate science*and is one of the most vocal opponents of the
EPA's plan to lower carbon emissions from power plants..Would the
Trump administration suppress or even tamper with decades of
government data to serve its political agenda? So an international
group of researchers decided to do what they could to protect
existing data. They formed the Environmental Data & Governance
Initiative, to coordinate data-saving efforts. With two colleagues,
Michelle Murphy, director of the University of Toronto’s
Technoscience research unit, spearheaded the first archiving
session, laying the groundwork for similar events in Philadelphia,
New York and Los Angeles before Trump’s inauguration..
http://www.newsweek.com/protect-climate-science-data-donald-trump-542416.
How 'letters to the future' are putting the spotlight
on*climate*action now (audio)
<http://www.pri.org/stories/2017-01-15/how-letters-future-are-putting-spotlight-climate-action-now>
PRI -1 hour ago
For activists Trisha Shrum and Jill Kubit,*climate change*isn't just
an abstract concept. Rather, it has faces and names: Eleanor and
Gabriel, their children..
DearTomorrow invites people to share letters, photos and videos
about how they’re working against climate disruption — the idea
being the notes will be seen decades in the future. Shrum got the
idea for the project in 2014, on the flight home from a climate
change conference in Iceland. At the conference, Christiana
Figueres, then head of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change, had given a talk that ended with a haunting story:...
"She has this dream where the eyes of these children who are living
in the future are looking at her and saying, ‘You knew about climate
change. What did you do about it?’" Shrum recalls. Hearing about it,
she says, "Something kind of clicked for me."..
Letters, videos and photographs from people around the world are
collected on the project’s website. Shrum says they’re looking for
an institution to archive the trove of messages as a time capsule,
to be exhibited "in 2030 and 2050, and potentially beyond."
http://www.deartomorrow.org/en/home/
My dear and precious little boy. I remember...
DEAR TOMORROW COLLECTION <http://www.deartomorrowcollection.com/>
http://www.deartomorrowcollection.com/
<https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/15/wisconsin-department-natural-resources-changed-mind-people-causing-climate-change>
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Changed Its Mind About
People Causing*Climate Change*
<https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/15/wisconsin-department-natural-resources-changed-mind-people-causing-climate-change>
DeSmog (blog) -2 hours ago
Wisconsin - the home of House Speaker Paul Ryan, Governor Scott
Walker, and Senator Ron Johnson - is having second thoughts about
the cause of*climate change*. Once convinced human activity had
something to do with*global warming*, the state's ..
I’m calling Wisconsin’s action a canary in the coal mine not for the
scientific fallacy I believe it is based on, but for the actions it
could portend in other states and at the federal level — revanchist
rewrites of science. That is: replacing credible conclusions flowing
from a preponderance of evidence with those based on a much smaller
series of suspect studies, conducted by a fringe element of the
scientific community.
.
*Climate change*: 90% of rural Australians say their lives are
already affected
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/16/climate-change-90-of-rural-australians-say-their-lives-are-already-affected>
The Guardian -6 hours ago
Ninety per cent of people living in rural and regional Australia
believe they are already experiencing the impacts of*climate
change*and 46% believe coal-fired power stations should be phased
out, according to a new study. A poll of 2,000 people*...*
Brisbane weather:*Heatwave*temperatures to return Wednesday
<http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/brisbane-weather-heatwave-temperatures-to-return-wednesday-20170115-gtrztc.html>
Brisbane Times -2 hours ago
Do you feel that sweet, sweet relief? Brisbane is expecting a chilly
31 degrees and 80 per cent humidity as the city rejoices in a brief
gap between heatwaves.
Trump supporters on environment: End U.S. support of*climate
change*, bring back coal
<http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/trump-supporters-on-environment-end-u-s-support-of-climate/article_63b5e282-d9d8-11e6-9c0e-9b5c39870ef6.html>
LancasterOnline -5 hours ago
They don't see*climate change*as a threat and the environment may
not be on the top of their agenda, but some Lancaster County
residents who voted for Donald Trump are all for more "clean coal,"
and less environmental regulations in the way of*...*
*This Day in Climate History January 16, 2006
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/16/AR2006011600779.html>
- from D.R. Tucker*
January 16, 2006: At a speech in Constitution Hall, Washington,
D.C., former Vice President Al Gore declares:
"[T]he American people, who have a right to believe that its elected
representatives will learn the truth and act on the basis of
knowledge and utilize the rule of reason, have been let down.
To take another example, scientific warnings about the catastrophic
consequences of unchecked global warming were censored by a
political appointee in the White House with no scientific training
whatsoever.
"Today one of the most distinguished scientific experts in the world
on global warming, who works in NASA, has been ordered not to talk
to members of the press; ordered to keep a careful log of everyone
he meets with so that the executive branch can monitor and control
what he shares of his knowledge about global warming.
"This is a planetary crisis. We owe ourselves a truthful and
reasoned discussion."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/16/AR2006011600779.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD_2e1dIl2s
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