[TheClimate.Vote] July 5, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News

Wed Jul 5 10:41:47 EDT 2017

/July 5, 2017/

*4 Climate Scientists & Their Fears for the Future (July 2017) (from ABC 
News Australia) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwsDOWjn0tA>*
/Climate scientists talk personally about the future.
"I don't think there will be any safe places"... "so I plan to be mobile"
/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwsDOWjn0tA

*Climate change will worsen US poverty 
<http://climatenewsnetwork.net/22601-2/>*
Yet another study has exposed the cruel cost of climate change as it 
increases US poverty. It could be worse than the Great Recession.
By Tim Radford
LONDON, 4 July, 2017 - US researchers have calculated the detailed cost 
of climate change for all of the 3,143 counties in the country. The 
outlook is bleak, and US poverty is set to grow...
  If global warming continues unabated, then near the end of this 
century the poorest third of the counties in the US could suffer 
economic damage that could cost up to 20% of their income...
And they concluded that, although*some counties in the Pacific Northwest 
and New England might benefit*, unless greenhouse gas emissions from 
fossil fuel use are slowed, then the projected 3°C to 5°C warming in the 
last two decades of this century could have costs comparable to the 
Great Recession of 2008, with the cruellest impact upon the poorest..
"The emissions coming out of our cars and power plants are reshaping the 
American economy. Here in the Midwest, we may see agricultural losses 
similar to the Dustbowl of the 1930s." - Climate News Network.
http://climatenewsnetwork.net/22601-2/
-more:
Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States 
<http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6345/1362>
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6345/1362

*
**United Church of Christ approves emergency resolution on climate 
change 
<https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/07/04/united-church-christ-approves-emergency-resolution-climate-change/pgzKhYbm3UEyJcxA21GPAI/story.html>*
The biennial national gathering of the United Church of Christ approved 
an emergency resolution on climate change on Monday, denouncing 
President Trump's plans to withdraw the United States from the Paris 
climate accord and urging the church to take action...
...the resolution urges clergy to preach on "the moral obligation of our 
generation to protect God's creation" and exhorts individuals to take 
political action and "make decisions of integrity on our energy 
choices." It appears to be the first formal action taken by a major 
denomination in response to Trump's decision on the Paris agreement...
"It was important that the church be on record as declaring we are now 
in a new moral era because of the administration and the ways in which 
it is compromising truth," in particular on denying the science of 
climate change, Antal said.
But he said the resolution is also important because it is directed at 
the church: "What's the church going to do differently?"
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/07/04/united-church-christ-approves-emergency-resolution-climate-change/pgzKhYbm3UEyJcxA21GPAI/story.html

*Q&A With the Host of CBC's Badass New Podcast About Climate 
<https://www.desmog.ca/2017/07/04/qa-host-cbc-s-badass-new-podcast-about-climate-change>*
A new podcast series by CBC Vancouver paints a dramatic picture of what 
life in British Columbia will look like after 30 years of climate change.
More frequent heat waves, more extreme forest fires, a massive drop in 
the snow pack and brutal storms are just some of the consequences 
British Columbians will feel 33 years from now. In other words: say 
goodbye to skiing and pond hockey and say hello to flooding and air 
quality advisories.
The series, 2050: Degrees of Change 
<http://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcasts/2050-degrees-of-change/>, is divvied 
up into six episodes, which look at everything from the water cycle and 
agriculture to forests and what climate change means for our cities.
The series looks at a scenario in which British Columbia has warmed an 
average of 2.5 degrees and the world has cut its emissions by half.
"We wanted listeners to end off realizing this is a middle of the road 
scenario and things could be worse and they could be better depending on 
what we choose to do now," said Johanna Wagstaffe, podcast host and CBC 
senior meteorologist.
DeSmog Canada asked Wagstaffe some questions about the making of the series.
*Why did you choose to look at the year 2050?*
We were trying to think of how to tell the story of British Columbia 
changing over the years and our original thought was 2100 because that's 
when so many of the climate models project out to …but 2100 just seemed 
a little bit out of reach and 2050 is a year when some of us may 
actually still be alive. It's a little bit more tangible when we think 
about our children. It's only 33 years away.
Being able to see the changes within a lifetime is powerful.
https://podcast-a.akamaihd.net/mp3/podcasts/2050_20170608_49800.mp3
https://www.desmog.ca/2017/07/04/qa-host-cbc-s-badass-new-podcast-about-climate-change
-more:
*2050: Degrees of Change 
<http://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcasts/2050-degrees-of-change/>*
CBC Meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe guides a journey to our future in a 
CBC Vancouver original podcast  that explores how our world and lives 
will adapt to climate change within a few decades.
Updated: Weekly
Download episodes from this podcast for: 3 years
Visit Show Site: 
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/events/2050degreesofchange-1.4135842
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcasts/2050-degrees-of-change/

*(audio) A Continual State of Emergency: Climate Change and Native Lands 
in Northwest Alaska 
<http://www.thearcticinstitute.org/continual-state-emergency-climate-change-native-lands-northwest-alaska/>*
/As part of The Arctic Institute's Summer Reading Series, we are 
reposting 10 stories from Victoria Herrmann's National Geographic-funded 
project, America's Eroding Edges.//
//The edges of our country are eroding, raising difficult questions 
about adaptation, relocation, and what it means to be an American 
experiencing climate change today. To connect the shared experiences of 
Americans facing these dramatic transformations, the National Trust for 
Historic Preservation has partnered with Victoria as she travels around 
the U.S. and its territories interviewing communities directly affected 
by shoreline erosion and climate change.../
...amid the discussion around the cumulative impacts, the complexities 
and differences of each individual community can get lost. While the 
environmental challenges arising across Alaska are similar, even 
similarly situated communities approach these changes with different 
histories, economic backgrounds, lands, natural resources, and 
relationships between native corporations and other bodies of local 
government. In the month we spent interviewing community members and 
leaders in five coastal Alaska Native villages, the most salient 
takeaway was the diversity in each community's experiences.
Alaska has generated more "crisis headlines" about climate change than 
any other region except the Pacific Islands. But do those headlines help 
people understand the challenges faced by an individual communit
http://www.thearcticinstitute.org/continual-state-emergency-climate-change-native-lands-northwest-alaska/

*
**Extreme weather conditions and climate change account for 40% of 
global wheat production variability 
<https://phys.org/news/2017-07-extreme-weather-conditions-climate-account.html>*
JRC scientists have proposed a new approach for identifying the impacts 
of climate change and extreme weather on the variability of global and 
regional wheat production. The study analysed the effect of heat and 
water anomalies on crop losses over a 30-year period.
JRC scientists studied the relative importance of heat stress and 
drought on wheat yields between 1980 and 2010. They developed a new 
Combined Stress Index in order to better understand the effects of 
concurrent heat and water stress events...
The study 'Wheat yield loss attributable to heat waves, drought and 
water excess at the global, national and subnational scales' was 
published in Environmental Research Letters earlier this month. It finds 
that heat stress concurrent with drought or water excess can explain 
about 40% of the changes in wheat yields from one year to another....
One finding is that in contrast to the common perception, water excess 
affects wheat production more than drought in several countries. 
Excessive precipitation and greater cloud cover, especially during 
sensitive development stages of the crop, are major contributors to 
reduced yields, as they help pests and disease proliferate and make it 
harder for the plants to get the oxygen and light they need.
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-extreme-weather-conditions-climate-account.html
-more:
*Climate change will cut cereal yields, model predicts—technological 
advances could offset those losses 
<https://phys.org/news/2017-05-climate-cereal-yields-predictstechnological-advances.html>*
https://phys.org/news/2017-05-climate-cereal-yields-predictstechnological-advances.html

*Shane Smith Investigates The True Cost of Climate Denial (VICE on HBO: 
Season 5, Episode 1) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9suO4jrwfDE>*
VICE News  (28 min video)   Published on Jun 2, 2017
President Trump announced the U.S.'s intent to withdraw from the 
landmark Paris climate agreement – what many said was the world's best 
chance to collectively limit the impact on the planet.
Watch Season 1: http://bit.ly/2s1T4Zs
Watch Season 2: http://bit.ly/2qJRA6j
Watch Season 3: http://bit.ly/VICE-HBO-S3
The first effects of climate change are already being felt, and 
projections show that if the world does not take action there could be 
over $40 Trillion of damage worldwide over the next five decades.
As costs begin to mount, so do allegations that an effort led by 
ExxonMobil and other powerful interests, have denied climate science and 
delayed corrective measures for years. In the face of scientific 
consensus, the Trump administration has ushered some of the people most 
responsible for denying climate science into the highest levels of 
government just as states Attorney Generals across the country have 
sought to hold Exxon, and others, accountable for the damage this 
misinformation campaign has wrought.
As bills caused by climate change begin to mount, Shane Smith 
investigates the true cost of denial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9suO4jrwfDE

*This Day in Climate History July 5, 2012 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/opinion/a-carbon-tax-sensible-for-all.html>  
-  from D.R. Tucker*
July 5, 2012: Economist Yoram Bauman and law professor Shi-Ling Hsu 
point out the benefits of a federal carbon tax in a New York Times article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/opinion/a-carbon-tax-sensible-for-all.html

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