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http://motherboard.vice.com/read/all-references-to-climate-change-have-been-deleted-from-the-white-house-website
*References to Climate Change Have Been Deleted From the White House
Website
<http://motherboard.vice.com/read/all-references-to-climate-change-have-been-deleted-from-the-white-house-website>*
At 11:59 am eastern, the official White House website had a lengthy
information page about the threat of climate change and the steps
the federal government had taken to fight it. At noon, at the
instant Donald Trump took office, the page was gone, as well as any
mention of climate change or global warming.
... the only mention of climate on President Trump’s new website is
under his “America First Energy Plan” page, in which he vows to
destroy President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, ...
It is normal that the site is completely new; it is notable that
climate change is not mentioned on any one of Trump's new pages.
"President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary
policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S.
rule," the site says. A search of the website found no mention of
"global warming," and the only mentions of "climate change" were
archived pages that, after clicking on the links, led to scrubbed pages.
*The Internet Archive, too, has been keeping a close watch on the
White House website;*
https://archive.org/search.php?query=whitehouse.gov
https://www.whitehouse.gov/america-first-energy
The Trump Administration web site now in its place: An America First
Energy Plan <https://www.whitehouse.gov/america-first-energy>
"Sound energy policy begins with the recognition that we have vast
untapped domestic energy reserves right here in America. The Trump
Administration will embrace the shale oil and gas revolution to
bring jobs and prosperity to millions of Americans. We must take
advantage of the estimated $50 trillion in untapped shale, oil, and
natural gas reserves, especially those on federal lands that the
American people own. We will use the revenues from energy production
to rebuild our roads, schools, bridges and public infrastructure.
Less expensive energy will be a big boost to American agriculture,
as well.
The Trump Administration is also committed to clean coal technology,
and to reviving America’s coal industry, which has been hurting for
too long."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-day-1-global-warmings-fate/
Trump Day 1:*Global Warming's*Fate
<https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-day-1-global-warmings-fate/>
Scientific American -4 hours ago
... rest of the world can delay*climate*action for a presidential
term or two, and catch up later. But such a scenario is highly
unlikely because cumulative*greenhouse gas*emissions control
temperature rise and effects such as*sea level rise*and*..*
*The largest blow to U.S. mitigation efforts will be if Trump
rescinds or weakens the Clean Power Plan—a rule that requires power
plants to reduce their carbon emissions, which was finalized in 2015
but is currently tied up in court. “I can’t see us reaching our
Paris commitment without adopting some form of the Clean Power
Plan,” says Rob Jackson, a professor of Earth sciences at Stanford
University. The Nature Climate Change study estimates the Clean
Power Plan accounts for about half of emissions cuts from the U.S.’s
current and proposed policies...*
*
http://gizmodo.com/how-long-until-sea-level-rise-prevents-inauguration-fro-1791427991*
How Long Until*Sea Level Rise*Prevents an Inauguration From
Happening in DC?
<http://gizmodo.com/how-long-until-sea-level-rise-prevents-inauguration-fro-1791427991>
Gizmodo -5 hours ago
Scientists are confident that global mean sea level will rise at
least 8 inches (0.2 meter) but no more than 6.6 feet (2.0 meters) by
2100, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration-funded*Climate*Program Office, so there's no*...*
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/20/top-climate-experts-give-their-advice-to-donald-trump
Top*climate*experts give their advice to Donald Trump
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/20/top-climate-experts-give-their-advice-to-donald-trump>
The Guardian -4 hours ago
The omens are not encouraging. Trump has called*global warming*a
hoax and is filling his administration with*climate change*deniers
and oil barons. But reversing action on*climate change*and
championing fossil fuels will only “make China great again”,
*-- Michael Liebreich, founder of analyst firm Bloomberg New Energy
Finance*. "*If I had one minute with president elect Trump my
message would be that the best way to ‘Make America great again’ is
by owning the clean energy, transportation and infrastructure
technologies of the future. Not only will this create countless
well-paid, fulfilling jobs for Americans, but will also lock in the
US’s geopolitical leadership for another generation.*
*--Prof John Schellnhuber, at the Potsdam Institute for Climate
Impact Research in Germany, and who has advised Angela Merkel, the
Pope and the EU:*
*“Mr President, if you want to make China great again, you have to
stay the course you have promised. I think it would be the end of US
domination in innovation, in economics. If you try to take the US
backwards to the days of mountain top removal [for coal] in West
Virginia and all those things, then you will just make sure China
becomes No 1 in all respects. In the end, you would produce
precisely what you promised to avoid to your electorate.”*
**--Prof John Schellnhuber, at the Potsdam Institute for Climate
Impact Research in Germany, and who has advised Angela Merkel, the
Pope and the EU:
“Mr President, if you want to make China great again, you have to
stay the course you have promised. I think it would be the end of US
domination in innovation, in economics. If you try to take the US
backwards to the days of mountain top removal [for coal] in West
Virginia and all those things, then you will just make sure China
becomes No 1 in all respects. In the end, you would produce
precisely what you promised to avoid to your electorate.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-19/climate-change-threatens-to-cut-some-u-s-grain-harvests-by-half
*(Bloomberg text & video) Climate Change*May Reduce Some U.S. Grain
Harvests by Half
<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-19/climate-change-threatens-to-cut-some-u-s-grain-harvests-by-half>
Bloomberg -6 hours ago
... wheat to soybeans, are at risk of substantial damage
from*climate change*. Higher temperatures may cut the wheat harvest
by 20 percent by the end of the century without efficient carbon
reductions, according to a study by researchers including the*..*
*With one to three metric tons of water needed to grow one kilogram
of cereal, farming accounts for about 70 percent of the world’s
fresh water withdrawals, according to the United Nations’ Food and
Agriculture Organization. Competition for water will intensify as
the global population grows, the agency said Friday.*
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2017/jan/20/australias-conservative-government-fiddles-on-climate-policy-while-the-country-burns
Australia's conservative government fiddles on*climate*policy while
the country burns
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2017/jan/20/australias-conservative-government-fiddles-on-climate-policy-while-the-country-burns>
The Guardian -11 hours ago
The disconnect is glaring but perhaps dimmed in the eyes of some
readers because Australian politicians have been dissembling
on*climate change*for decades, pretending it will be possible to do
what we must without any impact on our position as the*...
*
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2017/jan/20/writing-about-climate-change-my-professional-detachment-has-finally-turned-to-panic
Writing about*climate change*: my professional detachment has
finally turned to panic
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2017/jan/20/writing-about-climate-change-my-professional-detachment-has-finally-turned-to-panic>
The Guardian -7 hours ago
.I’ve maintained a wall between my job and my emotional response to
it, but this month I’ve felt dread rising about looming disaster,
and it’s an awakening...The experience of becoming completely
responsible for a person who will see first-hand the major changes
wrought by*climate change*towards the end of the 21st century made
consideration of what would happen in those decades impossible to
ignore...
Feeling numb to something that deserves an emotional response is
disconcerting. I used to nod along as people expressed their pain at
watching the world drown itself in CO2. But I harboured a guilt at
the lack of appropriate emotional response I had to something I knew
was objectively a disaster....
Indeed, that ability for humans to not react emotionally to climate
change is undoubtedly one of the things that is making this
collective form of species-level suicide possible....
While I can’t say with confidence that bringing a child into the
world we are creating is the right thing to do, I maintain a hope
that those children will find a way to undo what we have imposed on
them. And if nothing else, it has given me a renewed passion for to
do my part in fighting for a just world for future generations..
http://gizmodo.com/how-long-until-sea-level-rise-prevents-inauguration-fro-1791427991
An Inconvenient Sequel review – Al Gore's new*climate change*film
lacks heat
<https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jan/20/an-inconvenient-sequel-review-al-gore-climate-change-documentary>
The Guardian -4 hours ago
Al Gore knows everybody. He can whip out his cell phone and dial the
treasury secretary or the head of a giant solar panel manufacturer
and say things such as “I'll check with President Hollande” or “Elon
suggested I call. It’s amazing, then, that nowhere in his contacts
is the number of a documentary film-maker that knows a thing or two
about keeping audiences awake.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38686626
Larsen ice crack continues to open up
<http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38686626>
BBC News -5 hours ago
The crack that looks set to spawn a giant iceberg in the Antarctic
has continued to spread. The rift in the Larsen C Ice Shelf has
grown a further 10km since 1 January. If the fissure propagates
just 20km more, it will free a tabular berg one-quarter the size of
Wales.
That would make it one of the biggest icebergs ever recorded,
according to researchers at Swansea and Aberystwyth universities,
and the British Antarctic. Survey."Sea ice in the region circulates
clockwise with the Weddell Gyre, rather than remaining in one place,
and icebergs can be carried with this, sometimes out into the
Southern Ocean," explained Prof Luckman.
"It all rather depends on how soon the iceberg breaks up, and how
the iceberg draft compares with ocean depths.
"Ocean depths are not perfectly known in the region precisely
because the near continuous ice cover makes ship operations
difficult." .
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170119084622.htm
Harvests in US to suffer from*climate change*
<https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170119084622.htm>
Science Daily -12 hours ago
To better assess how*climate change*caused by human*greenhouse
gas*emissions will likely impact wheat, maize and soybean, an
international team of scientists now ran an unprecedentedly
comprehensive set of computer simulations of US crop yields..
Some of the most important crops risk substantial damage from rising
temperatures. To better assess how climate change caused by human
greenhouse gas emissions will likely impact wheat, maize and
soybean, an international team of scientists now ran an
unprecedentedly comprehensive set of computer simulations of US crop
yields. The simulations were shown to reproduce the observed strong
reduction in past crop yields induced by high temperatures, thereby
confirming that they capture one main mechanism for future
projections. Importantly, the scientists find that increased
irrigation can help to reduce the negative effects of global warming
on crops -- but this is possible only in regions where sufficient
water is available. Eventually limiting global warming is needed to
keep crop losses in check. Source: Potsdam Institute for Climate
Impact Research (PIK)..
http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/sea-level-rise-could-have-water-lapping-at-tampas-edges-in-2040-study-says/2310269
*Sea level rise* could have water lapping at Tampa's edges in 2040,
study says
<http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/sea-level-rise-could-have-water-lapping-at-tampas-edges-in-2040-study-says/2310269>
Tampabay.com -3 hours ago
.TAMPA — Rising sea levels could swell Tampa Bay 5 to 19 inches over
the next quarter-century, sending more water to lap at the edges of
the city of Tampa..
"This is actually one of the biggest challenges, if not the biggest
challenge, that this region has," says Tampa City Council member
Harry Cohen, whose low-lying South Tampa district already is
checkered with flood-prone neighborhoods. He ticks off the
challenges affected by rising water: transportation, infrastructure,
development, having clean drinking water...
.In 2015, Pinellas and Pasco county governments had representatives
on a Tampa Bay-wide*Climate Science*Advisory Panel that concluded
the region's nearly 700 miles of shoreline could see sea levels rise
between 6 inches and 2.5 feet in 2050 ...At the high end of the
projections, more than a thousand residential properties could be
affected. In all, more than 15,000 people live in the areas expected
to see rising tides...
"The moral of the story is that as sea levels rise (and) as
communities evaluate the impact of rising sea levels ... we may have
to adjust the way we do land development and the way we plan for the
future," he said.
.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-wisconsin-climate-change-20170119-story.html
Wisconsin agencies deleting talk of human-caused*climate change*
from their websites
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-wisconsin-climate-change-20170119-story.html>
Chicago Tribune -15 hours ago
According to local news reports, both the Wisconsin Department of
Natural Resources and Public Service Commission have either altered
or removed web pages devoted to*global warming*in recent months. And
some of these changes suggest the existence of a scientific debate
about the causes of climate change. In 2015, former DNR employee
Sally Kefer told Scientific American that discussion of climate
change was also being suppressed within the agency. "I was being
told to quit contacting the communities to determine their level of
interest in having a discussion about climate adaptation," she
reportedly said...
For now, it's unclear whether the recent web changes are related to
any long-term efforts to change state policies surrounding the
communication of climate change. But it looks like more changes may
still be coming. The Journal Sentinel reports that it recently
queried the DNR about its waste management web page, which still
contains information about the role of greenhouse gas emissions in
global warming.
http://www.ppehlab.org/datarescue/
*ORGANIZING A DATARESCUE <http://www.ppehlab.org/datarescue/>*
Larger events are perhaps easier to organize in institutional and/or
organizational settings via partnerships with librarians,
archivists, scientists, researchers, community activists,
application developers, software engineers, and/or others
specialists. DataRescue events proceed in accordance with a
negotiated set of protocols to ensure trustworthiness and safety.
Most of these events will employ web harvesting as well as other
methods to target data at special risk.
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/perry-dodges-climate-questions-defends-energy-21085
<http://www.climatecentral.org/news/perry-dodges-climate-questions-defends-energy-21085>
Perry Dodges*Climate*Questions, Defends Energy Dept.
<http://www.climatecentral.org/news/perry-dodges-climate-questions-defends-energy-21085>
Climate Central -6 hours ago
Energy secretary nominee Rick Perry fiercely defended the mission of
the U.S. Department of Energy on Thursday, and told senators at his
confirmation hearing that while he now believes in
human-caused*climate change*, he questions the extent to which*...*
http://www.popsci.com/more-extreme-weather-today-and-climate-change-is-reason-why
It's not in your head: The weather is weirder, and*climate change*is
the reason why
<http://www.popsci.com/more-extreme-weather-today-and-climate-change-is-reason-why>
Popular Science -13 hours ago
“*Climate*models have predicted amplified warming at high latitudes
and increasing intensity of precipitation and flooding,” says Ken
Davis, who studies Earth's weather and atmosphere at Penn State
University.
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-humans-climate-australian-megafauna.html
Humans, not*climate change*, wiped out Australian megafauna
<https://phys.org/news/2017-01-humans-climate-australian-megafauna.html>
Phys.Org -6 hours ago
A menagerie of megafauna that inhabited Australia some 45,000 years
ago. Credit: Peter Trusler, Monash University. New evidence
involving the ancient poop of some of the huge and astonishing
creatures that once roamed Australia indicates the primary .
https://www.c-span.org/video/?24448-1/earth-balance-ecology-human*
(video) This Day in Climate History January 21, 1992
<http://www.c-span.org/video/?24448-1/Ecol> - from D.R. Tucker*
"Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit" by Senator Al
Gore is released. Six days later, Gore discusses the book on
C-SPAN's "Booknotes." 58 minutes:
"It's about a global ecological crisis that is, in my opinion, the
most serious problem our world faces. It covers a lot of seemingly
separate problems that are all part of the same underlying crisis.
You know the old parable about the blind men and the elephant. One
had ahold of the leg, the other the trunk, the other the tail and it
took them some time to realize that all of these separate parts were
parts of the same large entity. When I first got involved in
studying about problems relating to the environment, I had so--some
similar difficulties. I saw the problem of ozone depletion and
climate change, toxic waste disposal, the rain forest destruction,
all as seemingly separate problems. I've now come to the conclusion
that they are all symptoms of a deeper underlying crisis, which is a
collision between our civilization, as it's currently constituted,
and the ecological system of the Earth."
http://www.c-span.org/video/?24448-1/Ecol
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