[TheClimate.Vote] June 19, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News

[Richard Pauli]

/June 19, 2017
/
*(VIDEO) Climate & Extreme Weather News #35 (June 15th-June 18th 2017)* 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FylyfHeVzmg>
Surging wildfire activity in a grassland biome
Portugal fire news video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FylyfHeVzmg


    We Can't Fight*Climate Change*if We Keep Lying to Ourselves
    <http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/we_cant_fight_climate_change_if_we_keep_lying_to_ourselves_20170618>

By Chris Hedges
We must embrace a despair that unflinchingly acknowledges the bleak 
future that will be created by climate change. We must see in any act of 
resistance, even if it appears futile, a moral victory. 
African-Americans understand, in a way perhaps only the oppressed can 
grasp, that our character and dignity will be measured by our ability to 
name and resist the malignant forces that seem to hold us in a death 
grip. Catastrophic climate change is inevitable. Our technology and 
science will not save us. The future of humanity is now in peril. At 
best, we can mitigate the crisis. We cannot avert it. We are fighting 
for our lives. If we do not rapidly build militant movements of 
sustained revolt, movements willing to break the law and attack the 
structures of the corporate state, we will join the 99.9 percent of 
species that have vanished since life first appeared on earth.
"In these circumstances refusing to accept that we face a very 
unpleasant future becomes perverse," Clive Hamilton writes in "Requiem 
for a Species." "Denial requires a willful misreading of the science, a 
romantic view of the ability of political institutions to respond, or 
faith in divine intervention."
"The fear is that at a certain point we cross the line and there's a 
tipping point," he said. "The primary cause of greenhouse gas emissions 
will become the breakdown of these natural systems, and then it really 
is out of our control."..
Failed states, proliferating in Latin America, Asia, Africa and the 
Middle East, are ruled by phantom governments...
One of the great dangers of state failure in the global south in the 
short term is the hardening and drift towards increasingly 
authoritarian, xenophobic, quasi-fascist type of politics in the global 
north and developing states."..
On one July night in 1977 the power went out in New York City. There 
were citywide riots. Arsonists started 1,037 fires. Looters smashed 
their way into 1,616 stores. There was over $300 million in damage. This 
Hobbesian nightmare will become normal in more and more parts of the 
globe as we traverse the sixth great mass extinction, brought on by the 
activity of human beings...
The greatest existential crisis of our time is to at once accept the 
tragic reality before us and find the courage to resist.
  It is comforting to pretend this is not happening, to foster false 
hopes and fool ourselves with the myth of human progress, but these 
illusions only tranquilize us at a moment when we should be rising in 
collective fury against those who are orchestrating our doom...
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/we_cant_fight_climate_change_if_we_keep_lying_to_ourselves_20170618


*The latest threat to Antarctica: an insect and plant invasion 
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/17/antarctica-insect-plant-invasion-house-flies-mosses-warmer-climate>*
Rise in tourism and warmer climate bring house flies - and the growth of 
mosses in which they can live
Antarctica's pristine ice-white environment is going green and facing an 
unexpected threat - from the common house fly. Scientists say that as 
temperatures soar in the polar region, invading plants and insects, 
including the fly, pose a major conservation threat.
More and more of these invaders, in the form of larvae or seeds, are 
surviving in coastal areas around the south pole, where temperatures 
have risen by more than 3C over the past three decades. Glaciers have 
retreated, exposing more land which has been colonised by mosses that 
have been found to be growing more quickly and thickly than ever before 
- providing potential homes for invaders. The process is particularly 
noticeable in the Antarctic peninsula, which has been shown to be the 
region of the continent that is most vulnerable to global warming.
As a result, the Antarctic's scarce plant life - which currently grows 
on only 0.3% of the continent - has responded dramatically, according to 
British researchers writing in Current Biology. The group, led by Dan 
Charman of Exeter University, studied cores drilled into moss banks on 
islands off the peninsula and found that the rate of moss growth is four 
or five times higher than it was before 1950. "The sensitivity of moss 
growth to past temperature rises suggests that ecosystems will alter 
rapidly under future warming, leading to major changes in the biology 
and landscape of the region," said Charman. "In short, we could see 
Antarctic greening to parallel well-established observations in the Arctic."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/17/antarctica-insect-plant-invasion-house-flies-mosses-warmer-climate


*Researchers voice concern about warmer Arctic waters and effects on 
fish 
<https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/ecology/2017/06/researchers-voice-concern-about-warmer-arctic-waters-and-effects-fish>*
"We have never before been in this situation", says marine researcher 
Mette Skern-Mauritzen
ByAtle Staalesen
The waters in the Arctic are warming at an alarming pace, researchers 
from the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research say. That has 
consequences for life in the sea, and for the work of the marine 
researchers, the Marine Research Institute informs.
"When assessing the changes over the last 15 years, we see that the 
development has progressed incredibly quickly", says Mette Skern-Mauritzen.
She is heading a research group at IMR which looks at consequences of 
the warmer Arctic sea water.
"When the temperature increases, the fish species move towards the 
north", she says. "The stocks which are fond of warm water spread out 
over bigger areas and increase in numbers", she adds
That concerns the Atlantic cod, the key fish in the Norwegian and 
Barents Seas.
Especially the traditional Arctic species come in squeeze from the 
trend. These are normally small fish which live close to the sea bottom. 
The have to move further north to survive, because their traditional 
water are simply becoming too warm, the researchers say.
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/ecology/2017/06/researchers-voice-concern-about-warmer-arctic-waters-and-effects-fish

*/This Day in Climate History June 19,//1984 / 
<http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/61984a.htm> - from 
D.R. Tucker*

    In remarks that would prompt Fox News to butcher him as a RINO
    /(Republican In Name Only)/ today, President Ronald Reagan declares:

    "What is a conservative after all but one who conserves, one who is
    committed to protecting and holding close the things by which we
    live. Modern conservatives in America want to protect and preserve
    the values and traditions by which the Nation has flourished for
    more than two centuries.

    "We want to protect and conserve the idea that is at the heart of
    our national experience, an idea that can be reduced to one word:
    freedom. And we want to protect and conserve the land on which we
    live - our countryside, our rivers and mountains, our plains and
    meadows and forests. This is our patrimony. This is what we leave to
    our children. And our great moral responsibility is to leave it to
    them either as we found it or better than we found
    it."http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/61984a.htm

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