[TheClimate.Vote] May 3, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Wed May 3 11:06:53 EDT 2017
/May 3, 2017 /
https://www.wunderground.com/news/severe-storms-heavy-rain-gulf-coast-south-early-may
*Severe Storms, Heavy Rain to Sweep Through the South Midweek
<https://www.wunderground.com/news/severe-storms-heavy-rain-gulf-coast-south-early-may>*
A vigorous storm system will sweep across the South on Wednesday and
Thursday bringing the risk of severe storms and heavy rainfall.
This weather system is being spawned by a strong southward dip in
the jet stream that will move into the Plains.
https://www.wunderground.com/news/flood-threat-forecast-south-mississippi-valley-april2017
*More Heavy Rain Will Aggravate Record Flooding in Missouri,
Arkansas, Illinois and Oklahoma Wednesday and Thursday
<https://www.wunderground.com/news/flood-threat-forecast-south-mississippi-valley-april2017>*
Published: May 2, 2017
After flooding smashed records that had stood for over 100 years,
more heavy rain is headed toward the Ozarks and mid-Mississippi
Valley, bringing a threat of renewed flash flooding and adding to
already swollen rivers and reservoirs.
Flash flood watches have been reissued from northeast Oklahoma and
southeast Kansas into parts of northern Arkansas and a swath of
central and southern Missouri and Illinois.
A total of 267 reports of flooding or flash flooding were received
by the National Weather Service in a 36-hour period ending 6 a.m.
CDT Sunday, from Oklahoma to Ohio. The majority of those occurred on
April 29 and 30...Some locations saw as much as 11 inches of rainfall.
https://www.wunderground.com/news/before-after-images-flooding-midwest
*Before and After Images of Major Flooding in the Midwest
<https://www.wunderground.com/news/before-after-images-flooding-midwest>
*Torrential rainfall has caused major to record flooding in parts of
southern Missouri, northern Arkansas, northeast Oklahoma and
southern Illinois. The floodwaters have inundated homes, businesses
and a major interstate.
Here's a look at some before and after images
<https://www.wunderground.com/news/before-after-images-flooding-midwest>
of the flooding.
http://www.heraldextra.com/concern-for-global-warming-varies-across-us/article_0f4a2e29-4b0f-5b55-885f-47eaa1ecbaf0.html
Concern for*global warming*varies across US
<http://www.heraldextra.com/concern-for-global-warming-varies-across-us/article_0f4a2e29-4b0f-5b55-885f-47eaa1ecbaf0.html>
Daily Herald -12 hours ago
Americans' views on*global warming*provide something of a twist on the
classic NIMBY phenomenon. That's according to a recent survey conducted
by Yale University's Program on Climate Change Communication.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ZQS6pAoIs
*Why aren't news outlets talking about climate change?*
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ZQS6pAoIs> (short video 2:15)
The future of the planet is at stake. Every news outlet should be
talking about that.
https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/859032442342166528
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ZQS6pAoIs
https://mediamatters.org/research/2017/03/23/how-broadcast-networks-covered-climate-change-2016/215718
*MediaMatters Report: How Broadcast Networks Covered Climate Change In
2016*
<https://mediamatters.org/research/2017/03/23/how-broadcast-networks-covered-climate-change-2016/215718>
In 2016, evening newscasts and Sunday shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC, as
well as Fox Broadcast Co.'s Fox News Sunday, collectively decreased
their total coverage of climate change by 66 percent compared to
2015, even though there were a host of important climate-related
stories, including the announcement of 2015 as the hottest year on
record, the signing of the Paris climate agreement, and numerous
climate-related extreme weather events. There were also two
presidential candidates to cover, and they held diametrically
opposed positions on the Clean Power Plan, the Paris climate
agreement, and even on whether climate change is a real,
human-caused phenomenon. Apart from PBS, the networks also failed to
devote significant coverage to climate-related policies, but they
still found the time to uncritically air climate denial -- the
majority of which came from now-President Donald Trump and his team.
http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/news/newsletters/222-cpa-newsletter-may-2017-the-perfect-storm
*The Perfect Storm
<http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/news/newsletters/222-cpa-newsletter-may-2017-the-perfect-storm>
- **CPA Newsletter May 2017
<http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/news/newsletters/222-cpa-newsletter-may-2017-the-perfect-storm>*
*Just how bad are things looking and what can climate psychology
contribute to the current picture?*
Climate change was being defined as a super-wicked problem years
before an orange nightmare started casting its shadow over 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue. The ingredients of 'super wicked' can be
summarised as severe time pressure that is nevertheless discounted -
thereby pushing responses further into the future. This is
compounded by the fact that those causing the problem are required
to provide a solution and that the coordinated authority that is
needed to address the situation is weak or non-existent. To that
can be added the 'boundary-crossing' nature of the problem -
economic, technological, cultural or ecological solutions cannot
work on their own - it must be addressed at all these levels....
...Carbon Brief interview
<https://www.carbonbrief.org/carbon-brief-interview-michael-gerrard>
with Professor Michael Gerrard, teacher of environmental law at
Columbia Law School. On the result of last November’s presidential
election he could not be more blunt: "In short, it’s been
catastrophic." ...His assessment implicitly recognises the
importance of both psychology and activism. ...
The key, if not ground-breaking, psychological point in the
interview emerges in response to a question as to why so many
Republicans reject climate science. It has an unmistakeably Tea
Party flavour: ideology against government in general is challenged
by the fact that human activity is causing climate change and poses
a massive threat: "If you don't want government action, then one
psychological mechanism is to deny there's a problem that requires
government action." There can be no doubt that this inverted logic
is in force (along with corruption and other factors) and what
better confirmation could we have of the need for scientists to
mobilise and to involve themselves in politics?...
The psychological element here is that human casualties of more
directly toxic air pollutants are, by definition, more immediate and
measurable than the consequences of CO2 build up. But for the
fundamentalists, protection of air, water and land are seen as
unwelcome interferences with freedom and entitlement. For them, the
whole subject is a can of worms. Once you go there, where do you
stop? Client Earth's advocac <https://www.clientearth.org/>y has
profound connections with Gerrard's hopeful point about the wider
impact of 'Our Children's Trust'. The law, like our economics and
our minds, is still weighted heavily in favour of exploitation and
consumption. But Earth consciousness is a growing force and Earth
advocacy is not toothless.
INTERVIEW 19 April 2017
https://www.carbonbrief.org/carbon-brief-interview-michael-gerrard
The Carbon Brief Interview: Michael Gerrard
<https://www.carbonbrief.org/carbon-brief-interview-michael-gerrard>
Michael Gerrard is the Andrew Sabin professor of professional
practice at Columbia Law School in New York, where he teaches
courses on environmental law, climate change law and energy
regulation. He is also the director of the Sabin Center for Climate
Change Law. His books include Global Climate Change and US Law.
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060053793
*SEA-LEVEL RISE (Florida) Gentrification fears grow as high ground
becomes hot property <https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060053793>*
Erika Bolstad, E&E News reporter Climatewire: Monday, May 1, 2017
... he thinks he may have coined the term "climate gentrification."
In Miami, it's the reverse of the process in many other parts of the
United States, or even in the developing world, where the poorest
people most vulnerable to flooding and sea-level rise often live on
low ground most vulnerable to flooding.
"Oh, Miami Beach is going under, the sea level is coming up,"
Harewood said. "So now the rich people have to find a place to live.
My property is 15 feet above sea level, theirs is what? Three under?
"So OK," he said, taking on the voice of a rich developer, "let's
knock down the projects, and we move in and push them out."...
If there's anything more complicated than the global forces of
thermal expansion, ice sheet melt and ocean circulation that
contribute to worldwide sea-level rise, it might be the forces of
real estate speculation and the race-based historical housing
patterns that color present-day gentrification in Miami....
One of the great ironies of those historic housing patterns in Miami
is that for decades under Jim Crow, laws and zoning restricted black
people to parts of the urban core, an older part of the community
that sits on relatively higher ground along a limestone ridge that
runs like a topographic stripe down the eastern coast of South
Florida. Now, many of those neighborhoods, formerly redlined by
lenders and in some places bound in by a literal color wall, have an
amenity not yet in the real estate listings: They're on higher
ground and are less likely to flood as seas rise...
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/02/the-fingerprints-of-global-warming-on-extreme-weather_partner/
*Global warming's* fingerprints are all over extreme weather
<http://www.salon.com/2017/05/02/the-fingerprints-of-global-warming-on-extreme-weather_partner/>
Salon -9 hours ago
Given the findings of previous so-called attribution studies as well
as long-term warming trends, those results aren't surprising, but
they do show how much human-caused global warming has affected
weather extremes already, the study authors and ...
Not surprisingly, our views on global warming as revealed by the
Yale survey largely fall along either side of predictable political
fault lines. In the West, for instance, Utah residents are the most
skeptical about humankind's contribution toward rising temperatures.
Most in the state aren't concerned about global warming, with the
exception of the Salt Lake City area.
https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/blog/Immigration%20Factsheet.pdf
*No One Should Be Forced from Home
<https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/blog/Immigration%20Factsheet.pdf>*
Corporate Trade Deals, Climate Change, and Mass Deportation
In the debate over immigration, one critical question is often
missing: Why? Why do people decide to leave their family, friends,
and community; embark on a long and life-threatening journey; and
start over in a country that may treat them as second-class citizens?
Forced from Home by Climate Change
Climate change is emerging as another factor that is pushing people
to migrate. Evidence suggests that droughts - which are becoming
more frequent with climate change - may have played a role,
alongside NAFTA, in pushing Mexico's family farmers to migrate north
during the 1990s. One study finds that states in Mexico that endured
drought-related declines in corn harvests tended to see more
migration to the U.S. than other states.22 A multi-year drought,
likely exacerbated by climate change,23 also has contributed to the
recent wave of immigration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and
Honduras.24 The drought has devastated harvests in the region,
causing more than 3 million people to need humanitarian aid.25 In a
United Nations survey of the three countries, families repeatedly
cited the drought as a reason that their family members had decided
to leave home and migrate north.26
While climate change is contributing to forced migration, corporate
trade deals like NAFTA and CAFTA are contributing to climate change.
Such deals have empowered corporations to attack climate protections
in private tribunals, while encouraging increased dependency on
climate-polluting industrial agriculture and fossil fuels.27 The
struggles to transform trade, tackle climate change, and achieve
justice for immigrant workers cannot be separated.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/warming-warning-1981-tv-documentary-warned-climate-change
*The 1981 TV documentary that warned about global warming*
<https://www.carbonbrief.org/warming-warning-1981-tv-documentary-warned-climate-change>
Thames Televisions 'Warming Warning' First Shown: 08/12/198
Once the film returns from the first commercial break, it introduces
two more US experts. Dr William Kellogg is captioned as a
"climatologist", but he played a key role researching climate change
in the 1970s, in particular, based at the US National Center for
Atmospheric Research. Earlier in the same year that Warming Warning
aired, Kellogg also co-authored one of the earliest books on the
topic, titled "Climate Change and Society: Consequences of
Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide".
Next comes (a very young looking) Stephen Schneider, a seminal
figure for alerting the world to the potential dangers of
human-caused climate change. At the time, Schneider was also based
at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research, but he would go
on to be among the world's most prominent scientists warning about
climate change (and, in the process, was the target of a campaign of
abuse, intimidation and even death threats).
The documentary intersperses the interviews with lots of stock
footage showing human dependence on fossil fuels - aircraft taking
off, coal mining, modern agriculture, etc.
video clip #1 https://youtu.be/DMjnvfkeJJ0
video clip #2 https://youtu.be/9zHAbYOXjzk
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170502095105.htm
Antarctic ice rift spreads: New branch revealed in latest data from
ice shelf
<https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170502095105.htm>
Science Daily -12 hours ago
The rift in the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica now has a second
branch, which is moving in the direction of the ice front, Swansea
University researchers revealed after studying the latest satellite
data.
The main rift in Larsen C, which is likely to lead to one of the
largest icebergs ever recorded, is currently 180 km long. The new
branch of the rift is 15 km long.
Last year, researchers from the UK's Project Midas, led by Swansea
University, reported that the rift was growing fast. Now, just 20km
of ice is keeping the 5,000 sq km piece from floating away....
(WAPO)
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/02/a-new-crack-in-one-of-antarcticas-biggest-ice-shelves-could-mean-a-major-break-is-near/>
The biggest concern is not whether the chunk will break off — that
seems to be inevitable at this point — but what will happen after it
does. The break will sweep away about 10 percent of the ice shelf's
total area, and scientists have previously speculated that the shelf
will become increasingly unstable after this point.
"We have previously shown that the new configuration will be less
stable than it was before the rift, and that Larsen C may eventually
follow the example of its neighbor Larsen B, which disintegrated in
2002 following a similar rift-induced calving event
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/02/a-new-crack-in-one-of-antarcticas-biggest-ice-shelves-could-mean-a-major-break-is-near/
https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/05/02/ukraine-and-germany-urge-un-security-council-to-address-climate-change-threat/
*Ukraine, Germany, Sweden Urge UN Security Council to Address Climate
Change Threat
<https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/05/02/ukraine-and-germany-urge-un-security-council-to-address-climate-change-threat/>*
Last month, the United Nations Security Council held the latest in
what has become a series of Arria formula meetings on climate change
and security. These informal consultations allow Security Council
members to discuss issues threatening international peace and
security without putting the full diplomatic weight of the Council
behind a specific course of action, or obligating individual
member-states to endorse specific statements issued by the Security
Council on an issue which may be sensitive to their national
interests. Ukraine, with the assistance of Germany, convened this
particular meeting, with a specific emphasis on sea-level rise as a
threat to international peace and security, a theme Janani
Vivekananda and I explored in a CCS briefer on climate change and
megacities.
...many of the remarks by UN member-states focused on the
responsibility inherent in the Security Council to act on the threat
of climate change. And for that action to be effective and timely,
Braun continued, the UN system as a whole needs a lot more
information, particularly "[how] climate policies account for peace
and security consequences and (2) [ensure] that peacemaking and
peacebuilding efforts do reflect climate consequences."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/climate-change-is-turning-dehydration-into-a-deadly-disease/
*Climate change is turning dehydration into a deadly disease
<https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/climate-change-is-turning-dehydration-into-a-deadly-disease/>*
Climate change makes a new chronic kidney disease worse, "and it
will grow and grow."
A mysterious kidney disease is striking down labourers across the
world and climate change is making it worse. For Mosaic, Jane Palmer
meets the doctors who are trying to understand it and stop it.
The patients at the Hospital Nacional Rosales in San Salvador all
have the same story: until three months ago they were perfectly
fine. Most of them had never seen a doctor in their life before, and
had ignored any early signs of ill health this time as well. The
turning point came only when they were too sick to work.
Renting a car and equipment, he drove from Mexico to Nicaragua,
stopping by fields and taking urine samples from outdoor labourers
toiling under the sun. His study indicated that many of the workers
were already in the first stages of chronic kidney disease.
Far from being local, says García-Trabanino, "we realised the
problem was bigger than we thought, and it was all across Central
America and southern Mexico." (thanks Prof Lee Harrison)
http://www.ajkd.org/article/S0272-6386(15)01156-7/abstract
Heat Stress Nephropathy From Exercise-Induced Uric Acid
Crystalluria: A Perspective on Mesoamerican Nephropathy
<http://www.ajkd.org/article/S0272-6386%2815%2901156-7/abstract>
Mesoamerican nephropathy (MeN), an epidemic in Central America, is a
chronic kidney disease of unknown cause. In this article, we argue
that MeN may be a uric acid disorder. Individuals at risk for
developing the disease are primarily male workers exposed to heat
stress and physical exertion that predisposes to recurrent water and
volume depletion, often accompanied by urinary concentration and
acidification. Uric acid is generated during heat stress, in part
consequent to nucleotide release from muscles. We hypothesize that
working in the sugarcane fields may result in cyclic uricosuria in
which uric acid concentrations exceed solubility, leading to the
formation of dihydrate urate crystals and local injury. (-- Prof
Lee Harrison)
https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/programs/geh/climatechange/health_impacts/heat_related_morbidity/index.cfm
Heat-Related Morbidity and Mortality
<https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/programs/geh/climatechange/health_impacts/heat_related_morbidity/index.cfm>
Health Impacts of Climate Change
Prolonged exposure to extreme heat can cause heat exhaustion, heat
cramps, heat stroke, and death, as well as exacerbate preexisting
chronic conditions, such as various respiratory, cerebral, and
cardiovascular diseases. These serious health consequences usually
affect more vulnerable populations such as the elderly, children,
and those with existing cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.
(- Prof Lee Harrison)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvCJi9Nhvik
(video) State of Denial (2017) An Al Jazeera Documentary
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvCJi9Nhvik> ( April 26, 2017 25 mins)
"Science has become the target"
Within the first few days of Donald Trump's presidency,
environmental activists and scientists watched with alarm as the
Obama administration's data on climate change simply vanished from
government websites.
It was the first of many steps that made it clear that this
administration would be taking a vastly different approach to
confronting global warming than its predecessor.
For Republicans, having a friend in the White House means they now
have an open door to strike down key regulations that will be a boon
to the energy industry. It's a path they had been building well
before Trump took office, with Republicans not only denying that
humans are increasing global warming - but accusing scientists of
lying to the public.
As a new administration takes power in Washington, Phil Torres
explores what the Trump era will mean for the scientific community -
and the future of the planet.
No one wants climate change, so everyone is motivated to receive
contrary evidence.
https://vimeo.com/86030268
Food Security *Lecture: David Battisti: "Global Food Production and
Climate Change" <https://vimeo.com/86030268>*
David Battisti, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, and Tamaki Endowed
Chair, UW
By the end of the century, the season averaged growing temperature
will very likely exceed the highest temperature ever recorded
throughout the tropics and subtropics. By 2050, the increase in
temperature alone will cause a 20% reduction in the yield of all of
the major grains (maize, rice, wheat and soybeans). The breadbasket
countries in the midlatitudes will experience marked increases in
year-to-year volatility in crop production. Increasing stresses on
the major crops due to climate change, coupled with the increasing
demand for food due to increasing population and development,
present significant challenges to achieving global food security.
(geo-engineering 1:06:30)
http://www.dailyhowler.com/h050399_1.shtml
*This Day in Climate History May 3, 1999
<http://www.dailyhowler.com/h050399_1.shtml>- from D.R. Tucker* (hat
tip to Michael E. Mann)/
/
May 3, 1999: Bob Somerby of the Daily Howler debunks an April 15,
1999 column by right-wing Washington Times writer Ben Wattenberg
falsely suggesting that NASA scientist James Hansen viewed Vice
President Al Gore as an alarmist on climate change. In addition,
Somerby notes:
"Of course, if spinners like Wattenberg get their way--and the
larger press corps never speaks up--those common sense steps [to
reduce carbon pollution] may never be taken. And reasoned debate, in
the coming campaign, could give way to a lot of hot air. So that’s
why we offer a global *warning*, against believing facile spin from
these types. There’s a whole lot of hoo-hah floating around
concerning Gore and [his views on] global warming. And we hope that
the press corps will get off its duffs, and bring some clarity to
the whole sorry mess."
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