[TheClimate.Vote] March 18 , 2017 - Daily Global Warming News for All - Questions, seasons, governments

Sat Mar 18 10:11:07 EDT 2017

/March 18, 2017       Questions, seasons, deluges, governments /

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/03/17/520433017/-curiousgoat-ask-us-about-climate-change-and-global-well-being

    #CuriousGoat: What Do You Want To Know About Climate Change ...
    <http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/03/17/520433017/-curiousgoat-ask-us-about-climate-change-and-global-well-being>

NPR 	 -‎12 hours ago‎ 	

What questions do you have about the toll that climate change is taking 
- and about possible solutions?

http://www.postregister.com/articles/news-daily-email-todays-headlines-west/2017/03/16/legislature-holds-first-climate-change

    (Idaho) Legislature holds first*climate change *hearing
    <http://www.postregister.com/articles/news-daily-email-todays-headlines-west/2017/03/16/legislature-holds-first-climate-change>

Post Register 	 -‎15 hours ago‎ 	

    BOISE - The Idaho Legislature on Wednesday had its first-ever
    hearing on the issue of global climate change.
    Rubel said she organized the hearing because climate change is a
    large problem, and there is no indication the federal government is
    going to do anything about it...
    The meeting wasn't convened by the Senate Resources and Environment
    committee, nor by the House Environment, Energy and Technology
    Committee - though the chairman and vice chairman of the House
    committee, Rep. Dell Raybould, R-Rexburg, and Rep. Jeff Thompson,
    R-Idaho Falls, were in the audience. Instead, the House Democratic
    Caucus held the meeting...
    Attendance was heavy, more than for any other hearing this session.
    The largest hearing room was packed with perhaps 400 people, and
    another three overflow rooms were filled with those who couldn't fit.
    Rubel said she organized the hearing because climate change is a
    large problem, and there is no indication the federal government is
    going to do anything about it.
    Rubel said with federal inaction the state has several options it
    could pursue to rein in local carbon emissions, from incentives to
    switch to solar power to increasing fuel efficiency standards...
    "Many states are doing these things," Rubel said. "We are doing none
    of them."

http://billmoyers.com/story/did-california-figure-out-how-to-fix-global-warming/

    Did California Figure Out How to Fix*Global Warming*?
    <http://billmoyers.com/story/did-california-figure-out-how-to-fix-global-warming/>

BillMoyers.com 	 -‎22 hours ago‎ 	

At 77, Brown, whose long résumé includes a stint at seminary, is the 
rare American politician who muses openly about whether humanity has 
already "gone over the edge," calls climate change deniers "troglodytes" 
and blames*global warming*for every ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/opinion/sunday/the-seasons-arent-what-they-used-to-be.html
*The Seasons Aren't What They Used to Be - The New York Times 
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/opinion/sunday/the-seasons-arent-what-they-used-to-be.html>*

    It is not just timing that has changed, though. A recent global
    survey found that climate change had affected 82 percent of the
    biological processes that underpin all life...
    And yet, even when faced with mountains of scientific evidence that
    our actions are remaking the fabric of the world, our societal
    response has been, at best, modest. Why do we not act? The unusual
    spring teaches us not just about tree leaves and frog calls, but
    about the human psychology of climate change. The uneasy mix of
    pleasure and dread in weird spring weather reaches inside us in a
    way that trend lines on graphs never will. Lived experience moves
    us. Data does not...
    A necessary complement to the objectivity of science, then, is the
    subjectivity of experience. An enthusiastic openness to the lives of
    other species - the timing of tree blooms on city streets, the calls
    of frogs in wetlands or the arrival of migratory birds - is an act
    of resistance to deceptions and manipulations that work most
    powerfully when we're ignorant. "Post-truth" does not exist in the
    opening of tree buds...
    The next generations will have no living memory of our time. We must
    go outside and pay attention, then weave this experience into the
    future, telling our children, students and friends what we saw,
    heard and smelled in this season formerly known as spring.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/kids-sue-us-government-climate-change/

    'Biggest Case on the Planet' Pits Kids vs.*Climate Change*
    <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/kids-sue-us-government-climate-change/>

National Geographic 	 -‎12 hours ago‎ 	

    The case could prove even more consequential with the change of
    administration because of President Trump's efforts to roll back
    climate regulations put in place by his predecessor. Last week, the
    Trump administration shifted course on the case and asked that a
    federal appeals court review Judge Aiken's decision to proceed to
    trial...
    "Whatever happens next, this is a case to watch," says Michael
    Burger, a Columbia University law professor and specialist in
    climate law. "It's out there, ahead of the curve. And given the
    change in administration and President Trump's views on climate
    change, this may be a potential hook to keep things moving along the
    climate change front. It may be the opening salvo in what will be an
    increasing number of lawsuits that take a rights-based approach to
    climate change in the United States."...
    The climate change lawsuit makes essentially a straightforward
    request. It asks a federal judge to order the government to write a
    recovery plan to reduce carbon emissions to 350 parts per million by
    2100 (down from 400 parts per million) and stabilize the climate system.
    The courts are needed to step in, Olson argued, because the
    government has not—despite knowing for more than 50 years that the
    burning of fossil fuels causes global warming....
    The climate change lawsuit makes essentially a straightforward
    request. It asks a federal judge to order the government to write a
    recovery plan to reduce carbon emissions to 350 parts per million by
    2100 (down from 400 parts per million) and stabilize the climate
    system...
    The courts are needed to step in, Olson argued, because the
    government has not—despite knowing for more than 50 years that the
    burning of fossil fuels causes global warming...
    Two days after the government's motions were filed, EPA
    Administrator Scott Pruitt swept aside established science on the
    connection between carbon dioxide emissions and global warming and
    declared that "carbon dioxide is not a primary contributor to the
    global warming that we see."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170315125609.htm

    With*climate change*, shrubs and trees expand northwards in the
    Subarctic
    <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170315125609.htm>

Science Daily 	 -‎16 hours ago‎ 	

Field experiment in tundra vegetation in Northern Sweden. Open top 
chambers simulate future warming of soil and plants caused by*climate 
change*, and leaf litter is added to simulate enhanced litterfall caused 
by expansion of birch trees and willow shrubs.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/climate-change-makes-people-sick-doctors-warn-180962561/

    Doctors Warn That*Climate Change* Makes People Sick
    <http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/climate-change-makes-people-sick-doctors-warn-180962561/>

Smithsonian 	 -‎Mar 16, 2017‎ 	

A changing climate is hazardous to the planet's health—shrinking polar 
ice caps, eroding beaches, bleaching corals and more.

http://www.refinery29.com/2017/03/145544/global-warming-human-health

    Here's What*Global Warming*Actually Does To Your Body
    <http://www.refinery29.com/2017/03/145544/global-warming-human-health>

Refinery29 	 -‎Mar 15, 2017‎ 	

A report by the group lists numerous health complications that can 
result from*global warming*: rising temperatures can lead to heat 
stroke, dehydration, and the worsening of chronic diseases; extreme 
weather can cause injuries and death; pollution can ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/17/peru-floods-ocean-climate-change

    Peru floods kill 67 and spark criticism of country's*climate change
    *preparedness
    <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/17/peru-floods-ocean-climate-change>

The Guardian 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

    Devastating downpour, caused by high ocean temperatures, could not
    have been predicted, president said, months after state of emergency
    declared for wildfires..
    Sixty-seven people have been killed and thousands more forced to
    evacuate by intense rains which damaged 115,000 homes and destroyed
    more than 100 bridges in Peru's worst floods in recent memory...
    "We are confronting a serious climatic problem," said Peru's
    president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, in a broadcast to the nation on
    Friday afternoon. "There hasn't been an incident of this strength
    along the coast of Peru since 1998."..
    The disaster - which came after a period of severe drought - has
    been blamed on abnormally high temperatures in the Pacific Ocean,
    and fuelled criticism that the country is ill-prepared for the
    growing challenges of climate change....

http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/03/18/storm-surge-hurricane-climate-change-global-warming/1997113/ 

/*This Day in Climate History March 18, 2013 
<http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/03/18/storm-surge-hurricane-climate-change-global-warming/1997113/> 
-  from D.R. Tucker
*/

    /**/USA Today reports: "Could the USA deal with a Hurricane Katrina
    every two years? Such a scenario is possible by the end of the
    century due to climate change, according to a study published Monday
    in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."

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