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/March 7, 2017 5 Ways of Climate Change - by Any Other Name//:
Resilience & Wildfires /
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/climate-change/how-to-live-with-it/index.html
*5 Ways Climate Change Will Affect You - National Geographic
<http://www.nationalgeographic.com/climate-change/how-to-live-with-it/index.html>*
Greater access to clean water, refined sanitation systems, and
modern farming methods are just some ways innovation will save us.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/climate-change/how-to-live-with-it/water.html
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/climate-change/how-to-live-with-it/crops.html
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/climate-change/how-to-live-with-it/heat.html
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/climate-change/how-to-live-with-it/weather.html
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/climate-change/how-to-live-with-it/health.html
"The annual mean air temperature of a city can be 4° to 11°F warmer
than surrounding rural areas during the day, and 4° to 9°F warmer at
night. Vegetation-rich green roofs can mitigate this urban
heat-island effect, lowering the temperature by more than 5°F on the
hottest days; plants also help manage excess storm water."
<http://www.slate.com/articles/business/metropolis/2017/03/cities_are_throwing_out_climate_change_in_favor_of_resilience.html>
A Threat by Any Other Name
<http://www.slate.com/articles/business/metropolis/2017/03/cities_are_throwing_out_climate_change_in_favor_of_resilience.html>
Slate Magazine -4 hours ago
Climate change is political. Should planners talk about something else?
These changes are the result of climate change, after all, a
phenomenon dismissed by the Republican Party as a political scheme
of United Nations bureaucrats.
The word they are using to do so, more and more, is resilience. Once
seen as a kind of stopgap strategy, resilience has become the modus
operandi of climate planning. To be resilient now means to encompass
all previous climate change strategies: to resist, to mitigate, and
to adapt. Its use in international climate research and U.S.
academic papers has multiplied over the past few decades...
The 2015 PREPARE Act, a bipartisan bill to help the federal
government recover from extreme weather events, does not mention
climate change or global warming. But it uses the term resilience 40
times.
"We see this word more and more, and the more we see it, the less we
know what it means," added her colleague Gregor Schuurman.
"Somewhere there is a danger of saying to the lay public,
'Everything is going to be resilient.' "
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/climate-change-global-warming-history-health/
*Past Disasters Reveal Terrifying Future of Climate Change
<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/climate-change-global-warming-history-health/>*
Plagues, famines, heat waves—sudden changes in climate have been
deadly for humans.
Human activity is altering our climate. The vast majority of
scientists agree on that. But there is disagreement about the rate
at which it is happening and how it will impact us. Surprisingly,
the answers to what our future holds with climate change may lie in
the past, especially how it will affect our health. This is the path
that Australian public health expert Anthony McMichael sought to
pursue in Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers,
and the Fate of Populations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/science/donald-trump-data-rescue-science.html
*Activists Rush to Save Government Science Data — If They Can Find It
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/science/donald-trump-data-rescue-science.html?hpw&rref=science&_r=0>*
"Destroying federal records is a crime," said Patrice McDermott, who
heads a public advocacy organization called Open the Government.
"Taking them off of the internet does not have the same penalty."
"In a Trump administration that has made clear its disdain for the
copious evidence that human activity is warming the planet,
researchers feared a broad crusade against the scientific
information provided to the public. Reports last week that the
administration is proposing deep budget cuts for government agencies
including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and
the Environmental Protection Agency have fueled new fears of
databases being axed, if only as a cost-saving measure.
"'We'll probably be saying goodbye to much of the invaluable data
housed at the NCEI,' Anne Jefferson, a water hydrology professor at
Kent State University, wrote on Twitter Saturday, referring to the
National Centers for Environmental Information. "Hope it gets
rescued in time."
It is illegal to destroy government data, but agencies can make it
more difficult to find by revising websites and creating other
barriers to the underlying information.
"Already there have been a handful of changes to the websites of
federal science agencies, according to the Environmental Data and
Governance Initiative, a new organization with researchers
monitoring the content. On the E.P.A.'s website, for instance, the
science and technology office had described as its mission the
development of 'scientific and technological foundations to achieve
clean water.' Now the office says the goal is to develop
'economically and technologically achievable performance standards.'
"Pie charts on a Department of Energy website illustrating the link
between coal and greenhouse gas emissions also have disappeared. So
has the description on an Interior Department page of the potential
environmental effects of hydraulic fracturing on federal land.
"Changes like these appear only to reflect the publicly stated
priorities of the new administration and there have been few signs
as yet that federal databases are being systematically manipulated
or restricted.
"But concern about the vulnerability of scientific information has
also focused attention on a nonpartisan problem of digital-age
government: Much of the scientific information so painstakingly
collected over the decades, at a cost of hundreds of billions of
dollars, remains held only by the government, scattered on thousands
of servers in hundreds of departments where it may not be backed up
and could be impossible to find."
In a recent letter to the federal Office of Management and Budget,
Ms. McDermott's group cited a clause in the 1995 Paperwork Reduction
Act that requires agencies to "provide adequate notice when
initiating, substantially modifying, or terminating significant
information dissemination products."
But what that means for the age of big data has not been defined.
To make secure copies of government research that researchers can
trust is no easy task, librarians say. But many of those who have
been trying for years to find funding and a system to do it reliably
hope to harness the current wave of interest.
"At the moment, more people than ever are aware of the risk of
relying solely on the government to preserve its own information,''
two government document librarians, James A. Jacobs, of the
University of California, San Diego, and James R. Jacobs of Stanford
University, wrote in an essay circulated online last week. "This was
not true even six months ago.''
At the archiving events, participants are typically divided into
groups. One uses a web browser extension to flag government web
addresses for the Internet Archive, an existing service that
operates an automated "web crawler" that can make copies of federal
websites but typically not the databases that store information in
more exotic formats.
Another group is tasked with scrutinizing data sets that researchers
have identified as particularly useful or vulnerable. Those are
"tagged" with a description of where they came from and what they are.
At one of last month's events, at New York University, many marveled
at the breadth and depth of the research they were sorting through,
even as they worried about its future.
"Look, you can get temperature and salinity readings from any one of
these buoys,'' said Barbara Thiers, the vice president for science
at the New York Botanical Garden, another participant. "This is the
raw data for tracking ocean warming.'' thanks D.R.
Tucker
Harvard disburses $1 million for*climate change*research
<http://harvardmagazine.com/2017/03/harvard-climate-change-solutions-grant>
Harvard Magazine -3 hours ago
The*Climate Change*Solutions Fund has awarded $1 million in grants to
multidisciplinary research programs across five different schools at
Harvard.
*Global Warming's*Threat to Trump's Mar-a-Lago
<https://consortiumnews.com/2017/03/05/global-warmings-threat-to-trumps-mar-a-largo/>
Consortium News -20 hours ago
Methane is an exceptionally potent greenhouse gas, capable of trapping
84 times more heat than comparable quantities of carbon dioxide.
http://carboncounter.com/
*An App to Help Save Emissions (and Maybe Money) When Buying a Car
<http://carboncounter.com/>*
How much is your car contributing to climate change? A new study can
tell you.
The research looks at 125 cars on today's roads and measures not
just their mileage and the type of fuel they use, but also the
greenhouse gases generated in making the cars and, if they are
electric vehicles, the greenhouse gases produced by the power plants
that provide their juice.
Our results show that you don't have to pay more for a
low-carbon-emitting vehicle. Many electric vehicles are the same
price, or cheaper, than similar gasoline cars. The average
greenhouse gas emissions of all cars shown here are more than 50%
higher than the 2030 climate target, with no internal combustion
vehicles meeting the target. Most hybrid and electric vehicles, on
the other hand, already meet the 2030 goal today.
http://www.news9.com/story/34679760/wildfires-burn-nw-ok-into-kansas-prompt-evacuations
*Wildfires Burn NW OK Into Kansas, Prompt Evacuations*
<http://www.news9.com/story/34679760/wildfires-burn-nw-ok-into-kansas-prompt-evacuations>
Woodward, Oklahoma - Multiple wildfires in northwest Oklahoma are
prompting evacuations of multiple towns, authorities told News 9
StormTracker Marty Logan.
The Woodward County emergency manager said the residents in Buffalo,
Laverne and north central Woodward County are being evacuated. The
City of Woodward is currently safe but residents are asked to
monitor conditions in case there is a change of wind direction...
About 7:30 p.m., an evacuation warning was issued for the town of
Fort Supply. Residents are asked to go to a shelter at the Pioneer
Room, 1212 9th Street, in Woodward...
The prison at Fort Supply was not included in the evacuation warning
but the department of corrections said they are monitoring the
situation...
Multiple fires were reported near Laverne and Buffalo, the Harper
County emergency manager reported. The Laverne fire moved into
Woodward County, and the fire line is about 25 miles in length. The
Freedom, Dacoma and Greenleaf fire departments from Woods County
responded to the fire. Major and Custer counties also sent task
forces to assist with Harper and Woodward county fires...
A fire in Beaver County east of Forgan has reportedly burned more
than 10,000 acres in Oklahoma and more than 40,000 acres in Kansas,
the the state emergency management department reported. ..
At least nine homes were lost due to the fire in Laverne and
Woodward County, Logan said. At least 200 heads of cattle were lost
as well.
/http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/03/07/study-how-broadcast-networks-covered-climate-ch/208881//
*This Day in Climate History March 7, 2016
<http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/03/07/study-how-broadcast-networks-covered-climate-ch/208881>
- from D.R. Tucker
*/MediaMatters.org reports:
"ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox collectively spent five percent less time
covering climate change in 2015, even though there were more
newsworthy climate-related events than ever before, including the
EPA finalizing the Clean Power Plan, Pope Francis issuing a climate
change encyclical, President Obama rejecting the Keystone XL
pipeline, and 195 countries around the world reaching a historic
climate agreement in Paris. The decline was primarily driven by ABC,
whose climate coverage dropped by 59 percent; the only network to
dramatically increase its climate coverage was Fox, but that
increase largely consisted of criticism of efforts to address
climate change. When the networks did discuss climate change, they
rarely addressed its impacts on national security, the economy, or
public health, yet most still found time to provide a forum for
climate science denial. On a more positive note, CBS and NBC -- and
PBS, which was assessed separately -- aired many segments that
explored the state of scientific research or detailed how climate
change is affecting extreme weather, plants, and wildlife."
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