[TheClimate.Vote] July 22, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News

[Richard Pauli]

*July 22, 2017*

The wildfire-climate change feedback loop
<http://blogs.mprnews.org/updraft/2017/07/the-wildfire-climate-change-feedback-loop/>
Paul Huttner
Nearly 40 large wildfires and over 100 new fires are burning across the
western USA right now.
Wildfires have always been a part of the American landscape. But recent
data shows some worrying links between even small climate changes and
dramatic increases in wildfire activity. Just a few degrees rise in
temperatures in the western U.S has exponential impacts on wildfire
activity. The data is as alarming as it is clear.
Climate Central analyzed 45 years of U.S. Forest Service records from the
western U.S.. They found large fires on Forest Service land are increasing
dramatically. The average number of fires over 1,000 acres each year has
more than tripled since the 1970s.
http://blogs.mprnews.org/updraft/2017/07/the-wildfire-
climate-change-feedback-loop/


Climate change and sugarcane expansion expected to boost hantavirus cases
<https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170720142253.htm>
Rising global temperatures and changes to land use have both been shown to
have profound impacts on human health. Now researchers, reporting in PLOS
Neglected Tropical Diseases, have found one more infectious disease that's
expected to be affected. By 2050, the number of people in risk of
hantavirus in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, they found, will increase
by more than 20% due to climate change and land use changes.
Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS) is a severe disease caused by
hantavirus, a virus that's typically spread through the tropics by rodents.
More than 50% of people who contract HCPS die. Previous research has
suggested that converting native plants to sugarcane, a common occurrence
in the developing world, increases the population of hantavirus-carrying
rodents. Moreover, climate change has been hypothesized to boost both
rodent numbers and the amount of time hantavirus can remain in the
environment.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170720142253.htm


Climate Change Is Killing Us Right Now
<https://newrepublic.com/article/143899/climate-change-killing-us-right-now>
The most obvious effect of global warming is not a doomsday scenario.
Extreme heat is happening today, and wreaking havoc on vulnerable bodies.
BY EMILY ATKIN
“For heat waves, our options are now between bad or terrible,” Camilo Mora,
a geography professor at University of Hawaii at Manoa, told CNN last
month. Mora was the lead author of a recent study, published in the journal
Nature, showing that deadly heat days are expected to increase across the
world. Around 30 percent of the world’s population today is exposed to
so-called “lethal heat” conditions for at least 20 days a year. If we don’t
reduce fossil-fuel emissions, the percentage will skyrocket to 74 percent
by the year 2100. Put another way, by the end of the century nearly
three-quarters of the Earth’s population will face a high risk of dying
from heat exposure for more than three weeks every year.
https://newrepublic.com/article/143899/climate-change-killing-us-right-now


Actress Lucy Lawless joins climate change survivor in protest against
Arctic exploitation for Norwegian oil
<http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/press/releases/2017/Lucy-Lawless-Norwegian-oil-arctic-protest/>
Climate change survivor and activist Joanna Sustento from the Philippines,
and actress and activist Lucy Lawless from New Zealand, are among the 19
nationalities who have travelled to the high Northern waters onboard the
Arctic Sunrise. Sustento wants the Norwegian government to take
responsibility for its climate commitments and development of a new oil
frontier in the Arctic. She lost her entire family, except for her brother,
to Super-typhoon Haiyan in 2013 which left large parts of her hometown,
Tacloban, in ruins.
*Photos **from the protest can be seen here <http://act.gp/2uhXYjm>.*
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/press/releases/2017/Lucy-Lawless-
Norwegian-oil-arctic-protest/


*This Day in Climate History July 22, 2013
<http://www.politifact.com/new-jersey/statements/2013/jul/28/rush-holt/rush-holt-warns-millions-will-die-climate-change-g/>
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from D.R. Tucker*
Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), a carbon-tax advocate running for the seat left
vacant by the passing of Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), shocks the
Washington establishment by bluntly stating that "millions will die" if
something is not done to address carbon pollution. (Rep. Holt would go on
to lose the Democratic Senate primary to Newark, NJ mayor Cory Booker, who
won the seat in the general election.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_O4nEMAtP4&sns=em
http://www.politifact.com/new-jersey/statements/2013/jul/28/rush-holt/rush-holt-warns-millions-will-die-climate-change-g/

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