[TheClimate.Vote] March 2, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News for All -
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Thu Mar 2 09:32:55 EST 2017
/March 2, 2017 Deception maneuvers in Executive and House/
https://thinkprogress.org/ivanka-trump-isnt-greening-her-dad-753f140603cc#.nhwqn4w5j
*Ivanka Trump isn't greening her dad, she's greenwashing him
<https://thinkprogress.org/ivanka-trump-isnt-greening-her-dad-753f140603cc#.nhwqn4w5j>*
Memo to media: Talk is cheap. Focus on what the president is doing.
Joe Romm -- On Tuesday, President Donald Trump began the process of
gutting EPA clean water rules....
...the president has been busy keeping his campaign pledge to kill
environmental protections, and he will reportedly propose a budget
with crippling cuts to the EPA. In Tuesday's speech, he bragged
about his efforts to push more coal and oil into the market, which
will make the air and water dirtier, while destroying a livable
climate...
But The Hill framed the story with this absurd headline: "Ivanka
Trump pushed for family leave, environment in Trump speech: report."..
This is not the first time the media has inflated Ivanka's
policymaking role based on anonymous sources. Last week, E&E News
ran a story titled, "Ivanka and Jared saved the Paris
Agreement — for now," in which we learned Ivanka and her husband
"worked to remove references to the global climate deal from a new
executive order, according to a source." The draft order described
would still reverse several Obama administration climate policies,
however.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/02/28/members-of-congress-met-to-discuss-the-costs-of-climate-change-they-ended-up-debating-its-existence/
Members of Congress met to discuss the costs of*climate change*.
They ended up debating its existence.
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/02/28/members-of-congress-met-to-discuss-the-costs-of-climate-change-they-ended-up-debating-its-existence/>
Washington Post -16 hours ago
Yet by its close, the conversation had disintegrated into yet
another debate about the extent to which man-made climate change
exists. It's not the first time such an incident has occurred under
the new Congress. Just a few weeks ago, the House Science ..
....Up to this point, experts have been skeptical about the Trump
administration's ability to eliminate the social cost of carbon
altogether, or even significantly reduce its value, without being
struck down in court.*But with members of both the Trump
administration and Congress increasingly questioning its very
purpose — to help account for the dangers of climate change — its
future is looking ever more uncertain.*
*
*http://blog.ucsusa.org/rachel-cleetus/the-social-cost-of-carbon-setting-the-record-straight-ahead-of-todays-house-hearing-181
*The Social Cost of Carbon Underscores an Obvious Fact: Climate Change
is Costly*
<http://blog.ucsusa.org/rachel-cleetus/the-social-cost-of-carbon-setting-the-record-straight-ahead-of-todays-house-hearing-181>
RACHEL CLEETUS, LEAD ECONOMIST AND CLIMATE POLICY MANAGER
This morning the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology is
holding a hearing on the social cost of carbon (SCC). Past
experience indicates that the majority members on this committee are
not big fans of science or facts. Hopefully, some of the witnesses
at the hearing will get some real economic facts on the table. The
most important one: climate change is costly and our policies need
to reflect that reality.
The social cost of carbon is metric that helps quantify the costs of
climate change related to our carbon emissions, in terms of dollars
per ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted. It can also be used to
quantify the benefits of reducing carbon emissions. The current
value of the social cost of carbon is roughly $36/ton of CO2...
Our global warming emissions are already contributing to climate
impacts such as flooding from sea level rise and increased heavy
precipitation; longer, more intense wildfire seasons; heat waves;
and droughts. The risks of these types of impacts will grow as
emissions rise...
In 2016 alone there were 15 extreme weather and climate-related
disasters that cost more than a billion dollars apiece (see map).
Climate change is contributing to worsening risks of many of these
types of events. If you go to this EPA site, you can click on the
map to see the impacts of climate change where you live in the
nation. (Assuming that webpage is allowed to stay on line of course
https://science.house.gov/legislation/hearings/subcommittee-environment-and-subcommittee-oversight-hearing-what-cost-examining
*Subcommittee on Environment and Subcommittee on Oversight Hearing - At
What Cost? Examining the Social Cost of Carbon
<https://science.house.gov/legislation/hearings/subcommittee-environment-and-subcommittee-oversight-hearing-what-cost-examining>*
Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 10:00am
Location: 2318 Rayburn House Office Building
Subcommittees: Subcommittee on Oversight (115th Congress)
Hearing: At What Cost? Examining the Social Cost of Carbon
<https://youtu.be/g69JW08G408?t=35m48s>
Video https://youtu.be/g69JW08G408?t=35m48s
https://skepticalscience.com/patrick-michaels-history-getting-climate-wrong.html
*Patrick Michaels: Cato's Climate Expert Has History Of Getting It Wrong
<https://skepticalscience.com/patrick-michaels-history-getting-climate-wrong.html>*
by dana1981
This is a re-post of a devastating debunking of Patrick Michaels'
history of wrong climate predictions by Shauna Theel at Media Matters.
A review of claims made by the Cato Institute's Patrick Michaels
over the last quarter century shows that he has repeatedly been
proven wrong over time. Michaels is one of a few contrarian climate
scientists who is often featured in the media without disclosure of
his funding from the fossil fuel industry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEvkEABSq1g
*(video) A simple and smart way to fix climate change - Dan Miller -
TEDxOrangeCoast <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEvkEABSq1g>*
If we don't act quickly the climate bus is going to whack all our
children in the head that's why you need to push through the crowd now
and learn about climate change and talk to your family friends
colleagues and elected leaders. Don't wait for others. Demand
action. Together we can make it happen
http://grist.org/briefly/here-are-4-ways-climate-change-is-messing-with-our-brains-for-the-worse/
Here are 4 ways*climate change*is messing with our brains — for the
worse.
<http://grist.org/briefly/here-are-4-ways-climate-change-is-messing-with-our-brains-for-the-worse/>
Grist -9 hours ago
Here are 4 ways climate change is messing with our brains — for the
worse. We might think of climate change as purely physical:
wildfires blazing through forests, rising seas lapping at the doors
of coastal homes.
But those brutal conditions also affect our mental health, changing
how we think and act. Mental health professionals are paying
attention to the link between climate change and emotional health —
and health insurance companies are, too.
Here are some of the impacts they're concerned about. (Hat tip: CBS.)
-- Disasters like floods, tornadoes, and drought have been found to
trigger PTSD, anxiety, depression, and drug abuse.
-- Slight increases in heat or rainfall have been found to raise the
risk of riots and civil wars, as well as crimes like rape and murder.
-- Babies in the womb who are exposed to urban air pollutants from
fossil fuels are more likely to develop anxiety or depression later
in life.
-- Many people now experience "climate anxiety" — feeling depressed
and overwhelmed by you-know-what — and support groups have emerged
to help them.
That's just the beginning of what we're in for. So time to calm
down, screw our heads on straight, and get to work fixing the
climate problem.
Forests to play major role in meeting Paris climate targets
<https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170227120341.htm>
Science Daily -21 minutes ago
Date: February 27, 2017; Source: University of Bristol; Summary: Forests
are set to play a major role in meeting the objectives of the Paris
Climate Agreement -- however, accurately monitoring progress toward the
'below 2°C' target requires a*...*
http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=5316&method=full
*This Day in Climate History March 2, 2005
<http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=5316&method=full>
- from D.R. Tucker*
Rick Piltz resigns from the US Climate Change Science Program after
relentless, extensive efforts by Bush White House officials to
censor scientific reports on climate change.
"The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) is the vehicle
through which U.S. Government agencies coordinate their support for
research on climate change and associated issues of global
environmental change. "..
"Global climate change is a problem with great potential
consequences for society. This administration has acted to impede
honest communication of the state of climate science and the
implications for society of global climate change. Politicization by
the White House has fed back directly into the science program in
such a way as to undermine the credibility and integrity of the
program in its relationship to the research community, to program
managers, to policymakers, and to the public interest."...
"In the case of this administration, it seems clear that high-level
policymakers will take up any source on the scientific assessment of
climate change that they perceive as congenial to their
predetermined political and policy positions and will discount or
ignore any source that states implications and draws conclusions
that might be taken to imply the need for a reconsideration and
strengthening of U.S. climate change policy regardless of where
the material comes from. "
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