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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/26/cdcs-canceled-climate-change-conference-is-back-on-thanks-to-al-gore/
CDC's canceled climate change conference is back on — thanks to Al Gore
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/26/cdcs-canceled-climate-change-conference-is-back-on-thanks-to-al-gore/>
It turns out there will be a conference in Atlanta next month about
climate change and its effects on public health. It just won't
have the federal government behind it. The reason? Former vice
president Al Gore.
News of a revived conference comes days after the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention abruptly canceled its long-planned
Climate and Health Summit in the lead-up to the change in White
House administrations. Benjamin called the move a "strategic
retreat" given the climate skepticism of the incoming administration.
The meeting now planned for Feb. 16 will take place outside of any
government circles. Rather than at CDC, it will be held at the
nonprofit Carter Center in Atlanta. It will be a one-day event
rather than the three days originally planned. Its sponsors now
include nongovernmental groups such as the Harvard Global Health
Institute, the Turner Foundation and the Climate Reality Project, an
education and advocacy group founded by Gore. Organizers say they
are aiming to attract as many as 200 attendees from around the
country to talk about the mounting risks to human health posed by
climate change....
... researchers writing in the Lancet last year argued that
addressing the problem of climate change could be "the greatest
global health opportunity of this century." Not adequately
addressing the problem, however, "threatens to undermine the last
half century of gains in development and global health."
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-exxonmobil-climate-scientist-board.html
ExxonMobil names climate scientist to its board
<https://phys.org/news/2017-01-exxonmobil-climate-scientist-board.html>
Phys.Org -13 hours ago
Oil giant ExxonMobil, long criticized over its stance on climate
change and production of fossil fuels, has appointed a leading
climate scientist to its board of directors.
Susan Avery, an atmospheric physicist and former president of the
famed Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, will join the board of
the petroleum giant on February 1, the company announced late Wednesday.
Avery's research priorities have included climate variability, and
she has said that "Clearly climate science is telling us (to) get
off fossil fuels as much as possible."
She has a "keen interest in scientific literacy and the role of
science in public policy," according to the website for Woods Hole,
which is based in the northeastern state of Massachusetts.
ExxonMobil remains a primary target of environmentalists for its
contribution to fossil fuel consumption. It was the subject of 2015
investigative reports by environmental news nonprofit Inside Climate
News and others, charging it "manufactured doubt" about climate
science even while contradicted by research by its own climate
scientists.
...Earlier this month, a Massachusetts court ruled the oil giant
must turn over 40 years of documents on climate change, in a win for
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, who has described the
probe as a fraud investigation.
(Naomi Oreskes, author of "Merchants of Doubt"
<https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured/dp/1608193942/ref=sr_1_1ords=manufacturing+doubt>
notes that only ExxonMobil - for decades, spent so much to influence
public opinion and persisted to manufacture doubt about global
warming -Naomi Oreskes in a video discussion in December
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHMoa_dqBdc>.
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured/dp/1608193942/ref=sr_1_1ords=manufacturing+doubt
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHMoa_dqBdc )
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/symbolic-doomsday-clock-moves-closer-to-midnight/ar-AAmhcYy
*Doomsday Clock: Countdown to catastrophe? - now *
<http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/symbolic-doomsday-clock-moves-closer-to-midnight/ar-AAmhcYy>*23:57:30
<http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/symbolic-doomsday-clock-moves-closer-to-midnight/ar-AAmhcYy>*
26 January 2017 The minute hand on the Doomsday Clock is a metaphor
for how vulnerable the world is to catastrophe.
Amid concerns over climate change, the clock has been close to
midnight for the past few years.
"Never before has the Bulletin decided to advance the clock largely
because of the statements of a single person," two scientists at the
Bulletin, Lawrence Krauss and David Titley, said in an opinion piece
published by The New York Times. "But when that person is the new
president of the United States, his words matter....The minute-hand
on the clock was moved amid concerns about "a rise in strident
nationalism worldwide, President Donald Trump's comments on nuclear
arms and climate issues, a darkening global security landscape that
is colored by increasingly sophisticated technology, and a growing
disregard for scientific expertise," the group said in a statement
"On pipelines, Donald Trump looks backward (New York Times, Bill
McKibben op-ed
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=3c9ea1e7e6&e=95b355344d>
$)
Strangling nation's huge climate policy machine won't be easy for Trump
(InsideClimate News, Johh Cushman Jr, Lisa Song & Zahra Hirji analysis
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=40634ec9b1&e=95b355344d>)
The Keystone pipeline will create just 35 permanent jobs. Don't believe
the lies (The Guardian, Raúl M Grijalva op-ed
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=3b579e4dd6&e=95b355344d>)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-26/trump-wants-to-downplay-global-warming-louisiana-won-t-let-him
Trump Wants to Downplay /Global Warming/. Louisiana Won't Let Him
<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-26/trump-wants-to-downplay-global-warming-louisiana-won-t-let-him>
Bloomberg- Trees stick out of a marsh in Venice, La. Sea-level rise
threatens the future of homes and businesses in Plaquemines Parish
and surrounding coastal areas.
http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2017/01/world-meteorological-organization-reiterates-global-warming-message.html
*World Meteorological Organization reiterates global warming message
<http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2017/01/world-meteorological-organization-reiterates-global-warming-message.html>*
The World Meteorological Organization is standing over the data
recently released, which is reinforcing the message that man-made
activities are contributing to adverse global climate change.
Clare Nullis, spokesperson for the WMO told Power Engineering
International her organisation was not in agreement with dissent on
the findings expressed by former Innogy chief Dr Fritz Vahrenholt,
who claimed that El Nino was the true cause of temperature changes.
Last week Vahrenholt was dismissive of the science propelling what
he believes is a disastrous energy policy, Energiewende, in his home
country, Germany. Data produced by the UK Met Office, Nasa and Noaa
confirmed the link between human activity and global warming.
Carbon dioxide and methane concentrations surged to new records.
Both contribute to climate change. The Arctic is /warming/ twice as
fast as the /global/ average...
*The Resistance Also Wears Lab Coats: *Planned resistance to President
Trump's anti-climate agenda grew Wednesday, as social media accounts
proposing a scientists' march on Washington garnered significant media
attention and thousands of new followers. The People's Climate Movement
also announced Wednesday they will be hosting a multi-coalition march on
DC in late April, building off its 2014 march in New York City that drew
over 400,000 people. And high above DC, Greenpeace activists climbed a
crane downtown to hang a banner flying over the White House reading
"Resist." (Scientists march: Washington Post
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=a2ebb4aee9&e=95b355344d>
$, The Hill
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=d7fdccb6e4&e=95b355344d>,
Climate Central
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=2dbbe95dc2&e=95b355344d>.
Climate march: Huffington Post
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=4a12f09c4e&e=95b355344d>,
Greenwire
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=35fc740bbf&e=95b355344d>
$, DCist
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=077874dedd&e=95b355344d>.
Greenpeace: New York Times
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=64e65fe475&e=95b355344d>
$, Washington Post
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=b4f563eb73&e=95b355344d>
$, TIME
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=1751670de6&e=95b355344d>.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHMoa_dqBdc
(Video )A Discussion with Naomi Oreskes & Steven Chu (December 2016)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHMoa_dqBdc>
Everyone will be affected.
*"It could be bad, it could be really bad, or it could be catastrophic"*
The high risks are to the collapse of agriculture, producing of
food, water supply, sea level rise (which is a slower change)
Oreskes says there's "Three things we can do: Stop building the
fossil fuel infrastructure, eliminate subsides for fossil fuels, put
a price on carbon"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jan/26/we-may-be-closer-than-we-thought-to-dangerous-climate-thresholds
We may be closer than we thought to dangerous climate thresholds
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jan/26/we-may-be-closer-than-we-thought-to-dangerous-climate-thresholds>
The Guardian-2 hours ago
We don't want the Earth to warm more than 1.5–2°C (2.7-3.6°F)
compared to the pre-industrial climate. These targets are not
magical; they are expert judgements about what it takes to avoid
some of the more serious effects of climate change. We know the seas
will rise (they already are). We know droughts and flooding will get
more severe (they already are). We know there will be more heat
waves, more intense storms, and ocean acidification (all happening
now). We cannot stop some of the changes. But if we keep climate
change to these limits, we think we can avoid the worst effects.
First, they attempted to select a period prior to significant
/global warming/ – before many greenhouse gases and land changes
occurred. Second, it would be best ...
http://modernfarmer.com/2017/01/gag-order-not-heres-trump-cracking-government-science-scary/
Gag Order Or Not, Here's Why Trump Cracking Down On Government
Science is So Scary
<http://modernfarmer.com/2017/01/gag-order-not-heres-trump-cracking-government-science-scary/>
Modern Farmer -4 hours ago
...the administration on Monday directed the USDA to stop all
"outward-facing" communications. But by Tuesday night, the gag-order
had been "rescinded." So what's going on? And what could happen if
scientists can't speak to the public?
It all started yesterday, when BuzzFeed obtained a memo distributed
on Monday within the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS). The
memo was written by Sharon Drumm, chief of staff for ARS, and it
informed the more than 2,000 ARS scientists—who study everything
from methane emissions to the economy of rural America and have a
major focus on climate change—to, essentially, keep quiet. Here's
the text, provided to Modern Farmer by the Christopher Bentley,
director of the office of communications at ARS:
"Starting immediately and until further notice, ARS will not release
any public-facing documents. This includes, but is not limited to,
news releases, photos, fact sheets, news feeds, and social media
content."
According to reports today, however, a second email went out to ARS
late Tuesday evening stating that Drumm's note should have never
been issued and has been "hereby rescinded."
Wait, what?
https://library.ecc-platform.org/publications/climate-fragility-risks-global-perspective
https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/01/26/g7-workshop-on-climate-change-fragility-and-international-security-in-tokyo/
*Climate-Fragility Risks - The Global Perspective
<https://library.ecc-platform.org/publications/climate-fragility-risks-global-perspective>*
Climate change is the ultimate threat multiplier. It will aggravate
fragility, contribute to social upheaval and even violent conflicts.
The problem is the seven compound risks that emerge when the impacts
of climate change interact with problems that many weak states are
already facing. Single-sector interventions alone will not suffice
to deal with the systemic nature of compound climate-fragility
risks. Integrating policies and programmes in three key
sectors—climate change adaptation, development and humanitarian aid,
and peacebuilding—are crucial to help strengthen resilience to
climate-fragility risks and achieve significant co-benefits.
>
> The papers are available in English as well as Japanese (日本語) and
> can be accessed here:
>
> * Climate-Fragility Risks – The Global Perspective
> <https://library.ecc-platform.org/publications/climate-fragility-risks-global-perspective>
> * Climate Fragility Risks in Japan
> <https://library.ecc-platform.org/publications/climate-fragility-risks-japan>
> * Climate-Fragility Risks in Asia – The Development Nexus
> <https://library.ecc-platform.org/publications/climate-fragility-risks-asia-development-nexus>
> * Foreign Policy Implications of Climate-Fragility Risks for
> Japan
> <https://library.ecc-platform.org/publications/foreign-policy-implications-climate-fragility-risks-japan>
> * Climate and Fragility-Risks in Japanese Development
> Cooperation: Implications of Adaptation and Peacebuilding
> Experiences
> <https://library.ecc-platform.org/publications/climate-and-fragility-risks-japanese-development-cooperation-implications-adaptation>
> * Workshop Documentation: Climate-Fragility Risks in Japan and
> the Asia-Pacific Region
> <https://www.climate-diplomacy.org/publications/workshop-documentation-climate-fragility-risks-japan-and-asia-pacific-region>
>
Responding to the global strategic threat posed by climate change is
too great a task for any single
government. The G7 have started by committing to respond to one of
the great challenges of our time
and taken first steps by deepening cooperation amongst themselves
and the national level.
http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/25/powerful-images-show-impact-of-global-warming-on-greenlands-ice-sheet-6405627/
*Powerful images show impact of /global warming/ on Greenland's ice
sheet
<http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/25/powerful-images-show-impact-of-global-warming-on-greenlands-ice-sheet-6405627/>*
Metro-The overwhelming impact of /global warming/ on Greenland's
enormous ice sheet has been documented in a series of powerful
images. Photographer Timo Lieber took the pictures while flying over
the 695,000 square mile expanse and has now put them on display in
London.
'I visited the scientists in the camp on the ice cap and was
overwhelmed by the scale of the landscape and the enormity of
associated problems.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/01/25/white-house-fires-back-amid-claims-it-told-epa-to-erase-climate-change.html
*White House Fires Back Amid Claims it Told EPA to Erase Climate Change*
<http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/01/25/white-house-fires-back-amid-claims-it-told-epa-to-erase-climate-change.html>
Fox Business
Reuters was the first to report that Trump's team instructed EPA's
communications team to remove links containing scientific *global
warming* research, ...
http://www.ibtimes.com/trump-climate-change-president-tells-epa-scrap-global-warming-page-website-bans-2480891
*Trump On Climate Change: President Tells EPA To Scrap Global Warming
Page From Website, Bans Agency From Tweeting, Speaking To Press
<http://www.ibtimes.com/trump-climate-change-president-tells-epa-scrap-global-warming-page-website-bans-2480891>*
International Business Times
Myron Ebell, who was in charge of the EPA transition for the Trump
administration, confirmed the *news* to ProPublica. ... to
scientific studies proving the existence of human-induced *global
warming* and data on carbon emissions.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/01/25/510571835/if-these-trees-dont-get-time-to-chill-farmers-will-be-out-on-a-limb
*If These Trees Don't Get Time To Chill, Farmers Will Be Out On A Limb
<http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/01/25/510571835/if-these-trees-dont-get-time-to-chill-farmers-will-be-out-on-a-limb>*
NPR-17 hours ago
Crops have failed because of warming temperatures. ... "I know that
there are people that think that /global warming/ is not man made,
but regardless we have to .
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/letters/2017/01/26/can-just-adapt-our-way-free-global-warming-impact/grLSh9buJIbqfs8gMJghDM/story.html
*(letter) We can't just adapt our way free of global warming's impact
<https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/letters/2017/01/26/can-just-adapt-our-way-free-global-warming-impact/grLSh9buJIbqfs8gMJghDM/story.html>*
The Boston Globe-5 hours ago
David Abel's article on the rising sea level in Palm Beach, Fla.,
highlights the tension between adaptation to the present-day effects
of climate change and ..
But the crucial thing to acknowledge here is that we can't allow
urgent adaptation demands to distract us from the need to redouble
our efforts at mitigation. The case of Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump's
Florida estate, signals that a failure to drastically reduce our
greenhouse gas emissions today may result in the consequences of
climate change overwhelming our ability to adapt to it successfully
in the future.
http://youtu.be/x70eamuF8EA
http://youtu.be/vg_qI3yzCLk*
This Day in Climate History January 27, 1998, 2000
<http://youtu.be/x70eamuF8EA> - from D.R. Tucker*
January 27, 1998: In his State of the Union address, President
Clinton declares, "Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is
the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the
gathering crisis that requires worldwide action. The vast majority
of scientists have concluded unequivocally that if we don’t reduce
the emission of greenhouse gases, at some point in the next century,
we’ll disrupt our climate and put our children and grandchildren at
risk." http://youtu.be/x70eamuF8EA
...
January 27, 2000: In his State of the Union address, President
Clinton declares, "The greatest environmental challenge of the new
century is global warming. The scientists tell us the 1990′s were
the hottest decade of the entire millennium. If we fail to reduce
the emission of greenhouse gases, deadly heat waves and droughts
will become more frequent, coastal areas will flood, and economies
will be disrupted. That is going to happen, unless we act. Many
people in the United States, some people in this Chamber, and lots
of folks around the world still believe you cannot cut greenhouse
gas emissions without slowing economic growth. In the industrial
age, that may well have been true. But in this digital economy, it
is not true anymore." http://youtu.be/vg_qI3yzCLk
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