[TheClimate.Vote] May 9, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Tue May 9 09:13:08 EDT 2017
/May 9, 2017/
http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/paris_agreement_by_state/
*Majorities of Americans in Every State Support Participation in the
Paris Agreement
<http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/paris_agreement_by_state/>*
Using methods developed for the Yale Climate Opinion Maps
<http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us-2016/>,
we find that:
1. A majority of Americans in every state say the U.S. should
participate in the Paris Climate Agreement.
2. By a more than 5 to 1 margin, voters say the U.S. should
participate in the Paris Agreement.
3. About half of Trump voters say the U.S. should participate in the
Paris Agreement.
Will President Trump side with the nationalists on his advisory team
who want to withdraw from the Paris Agreement? Or will he side with
the moderates, including his family members, a majority of
Americans, majorities in every state, and a plurality of his own
voters, who want the U.S. to continue to participate in the Paris
Agreement? This decision may be an important turning point in the
future history of Earth.
/from: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication/
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2017/05/08/chicago-launches-website-climate-change
Chicago Launches Website on*Climate Change*
<http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2017/05/08/chicago-launches-website-climate-change>
The city of Chicago has launched a website dedicated to climate
change
<https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/sites/climatechange/home.html>
based on information formerly found on the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's website.
According to a press release, the launch was sparked by an April 29
announcement from the EPA that its own website was being updated "to
reflect EPA's priorities under the leadership of President [Donald]
Trump and Administrator [Scott] Pruitt."
"The Trump administration can attempt to erase decades of work from
scientists and federal employees on the reality of climate change,
but burying your head in the sand doesn't erase the problem," Mayor
Rahm Emanuel said in a statement. "We are going to ensure Chicago's
residents remain well informed about the effects of climate change."
Topics related to climate change on the EPA website are today buried
inside an "a to z" index, although most of the information available
on the site before April 29 – including how and why the climate is
changing – has been removed. A snapshot of what the site looked like
on Jan. 19 is available for viewing, in addition to a press release
about the changes.
On Chicago's site, users can find information on the science behind
climate change, how climate change impacts weather, and actions the
federal government has taken to reduce the impact of climate change,
according to the release.
"Cities are becoming central in the climate fight. In the absence of
federal leadership, this is a key moment for local action," Henry
Henderson, Midwest director for the Natural Resources Defense
Council, said in a press release.
The city also announced Sunday the creation of a tool that enables
users to save, archive and preserve open data from public portals,
such as the EPA site.
https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/sites/climatechange/home.html
*The City of Chicago - Climate Change
<https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/sites/climatechange/home.html>*
The City of Chicago wishes to acknowledge and attribute this
information to the United States Environmental Protection Agency and
other federal agencies for the decades of work that they have done
to advance the fight against climate change. While this information
may not be readily available on the agency's webpage right now, here
in Chicago we know climate change is real and we will continue to
take action to fight it.
see also: Climate Impacts in the Midwest
<https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/sites/climatechange/home/climate-impacts-in-the-midwest.html#Overview>
https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/sites/climatechange/home/climate-impacts-in-the-midwest.html#Overview
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39841255
*Canada floods: Montreal declares state of emergency
<http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39841255>*
The measure was declared on Sunday afternoon and will remain in
place for 48 hours, city officials said.
Across the province of Quebec, in Canada's east, nearly 1,900 homes
have already been flooded across 126 towns and cities, authorities say.
Some 1,200 troops have reportedly been deployed to help evacuate people.
"Our troops are responding quickly and professionally and are
already beginning to deliver critical support to Canadians affected
by the flooding," Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said.
The emergency was declared in Montreal after three dikes gave way in
the city's north.
Montreal declares state of emergency over flooding - CNN.com
<https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0ahUKEwiS9bWw8uDTAhVY8WMKHYhJAisQFgg5MAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2017%2F05%2F08%2Famericas%2Fcanada-floods-quebec-montreal%2F&usg=AFQjCNEGEEEwt3tOAD7lrjSgCKw0ivxndA&sig2=hLj76UG812ssbA5V-ZgDtQ&cad=rja>
www.cnn.com/2017/05/08/americas/canada-floods-quebec-montreal/
<https://www.google.com/search?q=montreal+floods&rlz=1C1GGGE_enUS439US439&oq=montreal+floods&aqs=chrome..69i57.6592j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#>
1.
8 hours ago -(CNN)/Montreal's/mayor has declared a state of
emergency as rising/flood/waters threaten dikes and breakwaters and
force residents from their ...
https://news.mongabay.com/2017/05/trump-failure-to-lead-on-climate-doesnt-faze-un-policymakers-in-bonn/
*Trump failure to lead on climate doesn't faze UN policymakers in Bonn
<https://news.mongabay.com/2017/05/trump-failure-to-lead-on-climate-doesnt-faze-un-policymakers-in-bonn/>*
8 May 2017 / Justin Catanoso
As Trump ponders withdrawal from Paris Agreement, U.S. creates
climate leadership vacuum likely to be filled by China; other
nations remain utterly committed to Paris, say UN negotiators
meeting in Bonn this week.
... have not heard any country yet suggesting that if the U.S. is
out, they'll be out, too. Or that they'd roll back their climate
action. On the contrary, the global transition to clean energy will
continue with or without the U.S. because it is embedded in
economic, social and technological trends that are bigger than any
one country."
"Obviously, we need the U.S. to engage actively in solving this
problem [of global warming]. And that's what a clear majority of
Americans want, too, across party lines. But it doesn't seem like
Trump will listen to his people, his top scientists or even American
business," which has lobbied loudly for the U.S. to stay in the
Paris Agreement, as have some Republican lawmakers.
"Trust and verify are at the heart of the Paris Agreement. If the
U.S. pulls out, the transparency rules - which help determine if
countries are meeting their pledges - are not likely to be as
strong. If we're not at the table, you don't get to influence what's
on the table. That's a key loss for the U.S."
https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/05/08/military-and-security-leaders-call-on-tillerson-mattis-to-lead-together-on-climate-security/
*Military and Security Leaders Call on Tillerson & Mattis to Lead
Together on Climate Security*
RELEASE: U.S. Military and National Security Leaders Encourage
Secretaries Tillerson and Mattis to Lead Together on Climate Change and
Security
Washington, D.C., May 8, 2017 - The Center for Climate and Security
(CCS), a policy institute with an Advisory Board of retired senior
military officers and national security experts, today released two
companion letters, one to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the
other to Secretary of Defense James Mattis, encouraging them both to
lead on addressing the security implications of climate change, and
to work together in that effort. The letters were signed by a
bipartisan group of senior retired military officers and national
security officials with significant experience across Republican and
Democratic Administrations (some of whom served directly with
Secretary Mattis in the past). The letters come at a critical time,
as the current Administration begins to plot its international
engagement strategy on this important security challenge...
The letters show that the military and national security community
views climate change as a strategically-significant risk. The
current Administration should take serious note of that in their
deliberations going forward. They also point to an opportunity for
both Secretaries Tillerson and Mattis to work together on this
challenge, and in doing so, demonstrate U.S. leadership on the
international stage.
Read the letter to Secretary Tillerson:
<https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/letter-to-secretary-tillerson_center-for-climate-and-security_2017_05_081.pdf>
https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/letter-to-secretary-tillerson_center-for-climate-and-security_2017_05_081.pdf
Read the letter to Secretary Mattis:
<https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/letter-to-secretary-mattis_center-for-climate-and-security_2017_05_08.pdf>
https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/letter-to-secretary-mattis_center-for-climate-and-security_2017_05_08.pdf
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-26/how-climate-evangelists-are-taking-over-your-local-weather-forecast
*Climate Evangelists Are Taking Over Your Local Weather Forecast
<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-26/how-climate-evangelists-are-taking-over-your-local-weather-forecast>*
Sunny with a scientific certainty of climate change. More at 11.
Amber Sullins gets a minute or two to tell up to two million people
about some extremely complicated science, using the tools of her
trade: a pleasant voice, a green screen, and small icons denoting
sun, clouds, rain, and wind. She is the chief meteorologist at ABC15
News in Phoenix, so her forecasts mostly call for sunshine. Within
this brief window, however, Sullins sometimes manages to go beyond
the next five days. Far beyond.
Broadcast television still commands enormous attention within the
U.S. weather industry, even at a time when the curious can summon
the temperature and forecast by pulling a device out of their
pockets. But weather apps haven't digitized weather prediction.
Despite the hype about artificial intelligence, it still takes an
actual human to predict the weather-and, for millions of people,
there's just no substitute for a photogenic and trustworthy
meteorologist.
video:
https://youtu.be/wRD1KayKlww 5:30
TV Meteorologists Warming to Climate Science 6:30
https://youtu.be/lM_XwDKhsas
https://climatecrocks.com/2017/05/08/amber-sullins-has-a-bully-pulpit-on-climate-communication/
New Bloomberg piece
<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-26/how-climate-evangelists-are-taking-over-your-local-weather-forecast>
profiling Amber Sullins, a Phoenix TV Meteorologist I met last year
for my piece on how America's weather people are attacking climate
change, and denial.
Americans are realizing that, in a Trump administration, if they
don't deal with climate, no one will. (Watch for new video this week
on that one..)
Meanwhile, more and more TV mets are being forced to look seriously
at the underlying causes of the increasingly bizarre weather events
they are covering.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/07/fix-climate-change-put-cities-not-countries-in-charge-oslo-seoul
*How to fix climate change: put cities, not countries, in charge
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/07/fix-climate-change-put-cities-not-countries-in-charge-oslo-seoul>*
Benjamin Barber
It can't be left to dysfunctional nation states to tackle – but as
Oslo and Seoul have shown, metropolitan centres can rise to the
challenge of global warming
Is it because the consequences of carbon emissions seem
hypothetical, or too far off? Politicians pay few costs for doing
nothing, and receive little credit for acting aggressively. In the
US, a nation that contributes one-fifth of all global greenhouse
emissions (China is responsible for another fifth), Donald Trump has
promised to reopen coal mines and free up oil drilling.
The problem isn't the science. The merchants of doubt who claim
there is a climate science that is open to scientific debate are not
scientific adversaries at all. They are political adversaries,
mostly bought and paid for. It is in the realm of politics that the
struggle for sustainability must be fought and won.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html
<https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?_r=0&referer=>
WASHINGTON - *The Environmental Protection Agency has dismissed at
least five members* of a major scientific review board, the latest
signal of what critics call a campaign by the Trump administration
to shrink the agency's regulatory reach by reducing the role of
academic research.
A spokesman for the E.P.A. administrator, Scott Pruitt, said he
would consider replacing the academic scientists with
representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is
supposed to regulate, as part of the wide net it plans to cast. "The
administrator believes we should have people on this board who
understand the impact of regulations on the regulated community,"
said the spokesman, J. P. Freire.
The dismissals on Friday came about six weeks after the House passed
a bill aimed at changing the composition of another E.P.A.
scientific review board to include more representation from the
corporate world.
President Trump has directed Mr. Pruitt to radically remake the
E.P.A., pushing for deep cuts in its budget - including a 40 percent
reduction for its main scientific branch - and instructing him to
roll back major Obama-era regulations on climate change and clean
water protection. In recent weeks, the agency has removed some
scientific data on climate change from its websites, and Mr. Pruitt
has publicly questioned the established science of human-caused
climate change...
Representative Lamar Smith, the Texas Republican who is the chairman
of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, wrote the
House-passed bill intended to restock the Science Advisory Board
with more members from the business world.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/energy/investors-worth-20-trillion-call-for-climate-change-action-20170507-gvzpk4.html
Investors worth $20 trillion call for*climate change *action
<http://www.smh.com.au/business/energy/investors-worth-20-trillion-call-for-climate-change-action-20170507-gvzpk4.html>
The Sydney Morning Herald -5 hours ago
Some of the world's biggest investors have pleaded with governments of
the world's largest economies, including Australia, to stick with their
commitments to tackle*climate change*and to introduce carbon pricing to
help achieve them. There is strong ..
https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/05/ad-campaign-raises-climate-awareness-with-humor/
(video) Ad campaign raises climate awareness with humor An advertising
campaign by the government of Ontario puts climate change in a humorous
light.
<https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/05/ad-campaign-raises-climate-awareness-with-humor/>
Murray: "We have so little time, you really gotta throw everything at
it. Your wit, your humor and your sober, serious, heavy duty
conversations about the reality of what we are facing."
Murray says that he was blown away by how many people liked the videos –
proving that a little laughter can go a long way.
http://grist.org/article/murdoch/
*This Day in Climate History May 9, 2007
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20998-2004Dec22.html> -
from D.R. Tucker*
May 9, 2007: Grist.org reports on News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch's plans
to make his company carbon-neutral and conscious of climate risk, plans
that apparently did not involve ending the Fox News Channel's fixation
on attacking climate science.
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