[TheClimate.Vote] June 24, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News

[Richard Pauli]

/June 24, 2017/
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****Record high temperatures grip much of the globe, more hot weather to 
come - UN agency 
<http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=57024#.WU24aOv1Bph>*
20 June 2017 - Extremely high May and June temperatures have broken 
records in parts of Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the United 
States, the United Nations weather agency reported today, warning of 
more heatwaves to come.
The heatwaves have arrived unusually early, the World Meteorological 
Organization (WMO) said, noting at the same time that average global 
surface temperatures over land and sea are the second highest on record 
for the first five months of 2017, according to analyses by the US 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=57024#.WU24aOv1Bph
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*Early Heatwaves in Parts of the World - UN World Meteorological 
Organization* 
<Early%20Heatwaves%20in%20Parts%20of%20the%20World%20-%20UN%20World%20Meteorological%20Organization>
The UN World Meteorological Organization expressed concerns over climate 
change and long-term warming, noting the high temperatures recorded 
across parts of Europe, the Middle East and the US in the past two months.
https://youtu.be/yUpxe4C4kaI
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*World Meteorological Organization: Records fall amid heatwaves 
<https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/records-fall-amid-heatwaves>*
Parts of Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and southwestern USA have 
seen extremely high May and June temperatures, with a number of records 
broken. The heatwaves in Europe, which started unusually early, is now 
forecast to move eastwards to the eastern Mediterranean.  They come as 
the Earth experiences another exceptionally warm year.
Average global surface temperatures over land and sea were the second 
highest on record for the first five months of 2017, according to 
analyses by NOAA, NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the 
European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting Copernicus Climate 
Change Service.
Only 2016 saw higher global temperatures due to a combination of a very 
powerful El Niño event, which has a warming impact, and long-term 
climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions. So far in 2017 there 
has been no El Niño event....
https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/records-fall-amid-heatwaves

*Fossil Fuel Companies Could Lose Over $2 Trillion in Global Shift to 
Renewables* 
<https://www.seeker.com/earth/energy/fossil-fuel-companies-could-lose-over-2-trillion-in-global-shift-to-renewables>
If governments make good on the Paris Agreement on climate change and 
power their economies on clean-burning sources of energy, the fossil 
fuel industry stands to lose 30 percent of planned investment in oil and 
gas deposits, according to a new analysis....
The 2°C (3.6°Fahrenheit) target is the cornerstone of the 196-nation 
Paris Agreement, inked in 2015.
Projects worth $2.3 trillion (two trillion euros) could become 
unprofitable as energy shifts toward renewables and if fossil fuel 
prices stagnate, according to an analysis of investment budgets for 69 
publically traded oil and gas companies...
"Investors in oil and gas companies have been in the dark about their 
exposure to climate risk - now they will be able to confront companies 
with precise information."..
PRI produced the report in collaboration with Carbon Tracker, a 
financial think tank that assesses the impact of climate change on 
capital markets and investment...
ExxonMobil, Total, Eni, and Shell are all involved in the single biggest 
uneconomic asset flagged by the report, the $33.5 billion (30 billion 
euro) Kashagan Phase 2 project in Kazakhstan. Analysts estimate it would 
require oil prices of at least $110 a barrel to break even.
London Brent crude closed at just over $45 (40 euros) a barrel on June 21.
https://www.seeker.com/earth/energy/fossil-fuel-companies-could-lose-over-2-trillion-in-global-shift-to-renewables


*Xi Jinping Is Set for a Big Gamble With China's Carbon Trading Market 
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/world/asia/china-cap-trade-carbon-greenhouse.html?_r=0>*
By CHRIS BUCKLEYJUNE 23, 2017
BEIJING - As other countries look to China to take the lead in fighting 
global warming after President Trump's rejection of the Paris climate 
agreement, President Xi Jinping is pushing ahead with an ambitious plan 
to build the world's largest market for carbon emissions permits...
The start of a national carbon trading market in China by late this year 
has been years in the making, but is now shaping up as Mr. Xi's big 
policy retort to Mr. Trump's decision to quit the Paris accord. The 
Chinese government said in a greenhouse gas policy guide released on 
Wednesday that the 2017 start was on track...
"Carbon trading on a national scale will send a signal to the world that 
China is serious about this," said Wang Yi, a professor at the Chinese 
Academy of Sciences in Beijing who also belongs to the national 
legislature and advises the government on climate policy...
But this is a high-visibility, high-stakes gamble for Mr. Xi. He seems 
eager to take the initiative from the United States on trade, 
multilateral cooperation and climate change. His record on the 
environment and market reforms, though, is mixed, and China's carbon 
trading plan is not a sure bet to succeed...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/world/asia/china-cap-trade-carbon-greenhouse.html?_r=0


    Rick Perry and Al Franken exchange heated words on*global warming*
    <https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/6/23/15861476/perry-franken-exchange-global-warming-climate-science>

Franken's pushback was less than perfect. He slightly overstated the 
scientific consensus on the matter, saying, "100 percent of 
peer-reviewed scientists have a consensus, and that is that this is 
happening."
The actual number is 97 percent, though that hardly helps Perry's case 
for skepticism.
Exchanges like this can be extremely infuriating for climate scientists 
to watch or read. Any small exaggeration can give the skeptics fodder to 
continue demanding more evidence for phenomena that are already known to 
exist.
Franken also wanted to make a point about the overwhelming extent to 
which humans are contributing to climate change, since Perry suggested 
multiple times this week that climate change is naturally occurring. But 
when Franken did so, he misquoted Dr. Richard Muller of the Berkeley 
Earth surface temperature project, leaving out the crucial word "almost" 
when he referenced Muller's New York Times op-ed on the subject.
Franken said Muller wrote, "Last year, following an intensive research 
effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was 
real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct, 
and I'm now going to step further: humans are entirely the cause."
This allowed Perry to say that he didn't believe it: "100 percent? Every 
bit of that global warming? I don't buy it. ... To stand up and say that 
100 percent of global warming is because of human activity, I think on 
its face, is just indefensible."
What Muller actually wrote in 2012 was this: "Humans are almost entirely 
the cause," emphasis mine.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/6/23/15861476/perry-franken-exchange-global-warming-climate-science


    *Global warming* blamed as summer skiing on Whistler glacier is
    cancelled for first time in 30 years
    <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/ski/news/shrinking-glacier-whistler-cancels-summer-ski-snowboard-camp/>

An annual coaching programme in Whistler has been cancelled for the 
first time in almost 30 years, with the founder commenting that "global 
warming has decimated the glacier and our ability to run a summer camp."
Ken Achenbach founded Camp of Champions in 1989, and has organised 
freestyle coaching sessions for skiers and snowboarders every summer at 
the Canadian resort. In a recent Facebook post, Achenbach said that 
conditions on Whistler's Horstman glacier had made it impossible to 
build a terrain park to an acceptable standard. As a result, the 2017 
camp has been cancelled and all bookings are being refunded. He says 
Camp of Champions is filing for bankruptcy.
To give you an idea of how much melting has happened the last few years, 
in 2015 alone the glacier lost 35 vertical feet [10 metres] of ice."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/ski/news/shrinking-glacier-whistler-cancels-summer-ski-snowboard-camp/


    Living with climate change: Can we limit *global warming*to 2°C?
    <https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23431310-400-living-with-climate-change-can-we-limit-global-warming-to-2c/>

Current commitments from the world's nations mean we will overshoot the 
2°C target agreed in Paris. More radical strategies are needed - and we 
need to work on them now...
There are some grounds for optimism: energy and industry emissions may 
already be peaking as the world moves away from the dirtiest of fossil 
fuels, coal (see "Living with climate change: Turning the corner"). But 
this needs to be seen in context. We are still emitting almost 42 
gigatonnes of carbon dioxide each year. Change is not yet happening fast 
enough or on a large-enough scale to meet the world's growing energy 
demand...
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23431310-400-living-with-climate-change-can-we-limit-global-warming-to-2c/


    Explore 150 years of global warming data in Switzerland
    <https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/just-how-hot-_explore-150-years-of-global-warming-data-in-switzerland/43279510>

Global warming naturally comes to mind as a topic for reflection while 
Switzerland swelters in a Europe-wide heatwave. To help inform our 
thinking about this, swissinfo.ch compiled more than 150 years of Swiss 
temperature data in graphics. It illustrates both the changing climate 
and hotter temperatures in Switzerland in recent decades.
The Swiss meteorological office, MeteoSwiss, said it expected to record 
at least eight days of extraordinary temperatures in June 2017, compared 
to an average of two over recent past decades. ..
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/just-how-hot-_explore-150-years-of-global-warming-data-in-switzerland/43279510


*(video) WMO Year of Polar Prediction (video press release) 
<https://youtu.be/iNBwlH3LGJA>*
A concerted international campaign is launched to improve predictions of 
weather, climate and ice conditions in the Arctic and Antarctic. See 
also: https://goo.gl/6hKG94
https://youtu.be/iNBwlH3LGJA
*Year of Polar Prediction - from research to improved environmental 
safety <https://goo.gl/6hKG94>*
Rapid change in polar regions necessitates global response
A concerted international campaign to improve predictions of weather, 
climate and ice conditions in the Arctic and Antarctic has been launched 
to minimize the environmental risks and maximize the opportunities 
associated with rapid climate change in polar regions and to close the 
current gaps in polar forecasting capacity...
The Year of Polar Prediction takes place from mid-2017 to mid-2019 in 
order to cover an entire year in both the Arctic and Antarctic and 
involves the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Germany's Alfred 
Wegener Institute (AWI) and a wide array of partners around the globe...
During the next two years, a large international and interdisciplinary 
network of scientists and operational forecasting centers will jointly 
undertake intensive observation and modeling activities in the Arctic 
and Antarctic. As a result, better forecasts of weather and sea-ice 
conditions will reduce future risks and enable safety management in the 
polar regions, and also lead to improved forecasts in lower latitudes 
where most people live...
https://goo.gl/6hKG94
A new animation on the Year of Polar Prediction is available at 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMKo5zlzx9A&feature=youtu.be More 
information on the Year of Polar Prediction including a media kit 
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l8o73rha5fbdw2e/AAAUvgWceD53UERXmSFB-uMHa?dl=0 
is available here http://www.polarprediction.net/
See  https://twitter.com/WMO


*Freak Weather Hits Siberia (dramatic pictures) 
<http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/large-hailstone-deluge-marks-midsummer-in-altai-breaking-car-windows-ruining-harvests/>*
*Large hailstone deluge marks midsummer in Altai, breaking car windows, 
ruining harvests 
<http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/large-hailstone-deluge-marks-midsummer-in-altai-breaking-car-windows-ruining-harvests/>*
By The Siberian Times reporter22 June 2017
Female resident killed in Novosibirsk by falling tree as freak weather 
continues to grip Siberia.
A woman in Troitsky village posted on Instagram account told of lumps of 
ice falling from the sky.
'We had expected rain for a long time but it came with shapeless pieces 
of ice,' she said. 'I would hardly call it hail.
'I am scared to go home now. You keep taking care of your garden and in 
one moment all is gone.'
She called it 'force majeure' adding:  'Let's not cry and believe in 
ourselves.'
Citizens of neighbouring Altai Republic also complained on storms with 
huge pieces of hail.
Further north, the city of Novosibirsk suffered strong winds with a dust 
storm.
One reader of The Siberian Times shared a video of the clouds of dust in 
the city after a deterioration in weather at around 7pm on 22 June, a 
day when Russians mark the longest day of the year in midsummer.
In the city's academic satellite town a female resident was reported to 
have been killed by a falling birch tree.
http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/large-hailstone-deluge-marks-midsummer-in-altai-breaking-car-windows-ruining-harvests/


*Welcome to Worldview! <https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/>*** 
https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/   Version 1.4.5
This application allows you to interactively browse global satellite 
imagery within hours of it being acquired. Use the features described 
below to find interesting imagery, save and share what you find, and 
download the underlying data.
This tool from NASA's EOSDIS <https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about> provides 
the capability to interactively browse global, full-resolution satellite 
imagery and then download the underlying data. Most of the 150+ 
available products are updated within three hours of observation, 
essentially showing the entire Earth as it looks "right now". This 
supports time-critical application areas such as wildfire management, 
air quality measurements, and flood monitoring. Arctic and Antarctic 
views of several products are also available for a "full globe" 
perspective. Browsing on tablet and smartphone devices is generally 
supported for mobile access to the imagery.
Powered by GIBS Worldview uses the Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS) 
<https://earthdata.nasa.gov/gibs> to rapidly retrieve its imagery for an 
interactive browsing experience. While Worldview uses OpenLayers 
<http://openlayers.org/> as its mapping library, GIBS imagery can also 
be accessed from Google Earth, NASA World Wind, and several other 
clients. We encourage interested developers to build their own clients 
or integrate NASA imagery into their existing ones using these services.
https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/
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*Heat Dome over Siberia is much worse today 
<https://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/imagery/single.cgi?image=crefl1_143.A2017174031000-2017174031500.1km.jpg>*
https://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/imagery/single.cgi?image=crefl1_143.A2017174031000-2017174031500.1km.jpg
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Plot you own Worldview <https://go.nasa.gov/2t1yUP6>
https://go.nasa.gov/2t1yUP6



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