[TheClimate.Vote] May 10, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News

Wed May 10 08:50:22 EDT 2017

/May 10, 2017/

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/05/02/firestone-explosion-oil-wells-pipelines-inspected/
*Severed gas line is blamed for fatal explosion; Colorado orders 
thousands of wells, miles of pipelines inspected 
<http://www.denverpost.com/2017/05/02/firestone-explosion-oil-wells-pipelines-inspected/>*

    Regulators wonder why a flowline possibly severed during
    construction of Oak Meadows neighborhood was still attached to well
    Gov. John Hickenlooper ordered oil and gas operators throughout
    Colorado to inspect thousands of wells and miles of associated
    pipelines to prevent a repeat of a fatal home explosion in Firestone.
    Frederick-Firestone Fire Protection District chief Ted Poszywak on
    Tuesday blamed the April 17 blast on odorless gas that seeped from a
    severed 1-inch pipeline into French drains and a sump pit at 6312
    Twilight Ave.
    That flowline was connected to a nearby well owned by Anadarko
    Petroleum. Investigators found the valve for the line in the "on"
    position....
    "As more information has come to light, it has become clearer that
    these oil wells, pipes and tanks are simply too dangerous to be in
    close proximity to homes, businesses, and schools," Jones said. "We
    need to take steps to ensure a tragedy like this doesn't happen again."
    https://youtu.be/HMUqJ_qXK5A
    (video) Firestone house explosion traced to cut flow lines from
    nearby gas well
    <Firestone%20house%20explosion%20traced%20to%20cut%20flow%20lines%20from%20nearby%20gas%20well>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/climate/arctic-nations-to-meet-amid-unsettled-us-stance-on-climate-change.html

    Arctic Nations to Meet Amid Unsettled US Stance on*Climate Change*
    <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/climate/arctic-nations-to-meet-amid-unsettled-us-stance-on-climate-change.html>

    Mr. Tillerson's appearance Thursday morning at a meeting of the
    Arctic Council, with the foreign ministers of Russia, Canada and the
    five other nations with Arctic territory, is expected to be taken up
    largely by formalities. Officials will most likely approve a measure
    to improve scientific cooperation in the region, and Mr. Tillerson
    will turn over the rotating chairmanship of the intergovernmental
    organization, which the United States has held for two years, to
    Finland...
    If there is to be drama in Fairbanks, it may come in the form of the
    traditional closing statement, and how much it refers to global
    warming broadly or specifically to the landmark 2015 Paris climate
    accord, in which the United States and most other nations agreed to
    reduce their carbon emissions. Negotiations have been continuing for
    weeks on the language of the statement, which is approved by consensus.
    A new study
    <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/climate/alaska-carbon-dioxide-co2-tundra.html>
    this week suggests that Alaska's vast tundra is now releasing more
    carbon dioxide than it stores, adding to the warming effect in the
    atmosphere.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/climate/alaska-carbon-dioxide-co2-tundra.html
    *Tundra May Be Shifting Alaska to Put Out More Carbon Than It
    Stores, Study Says
    <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/climate/alaska-carbon-dioxide-co2-tundra.html>*
    As global warming continues, a big unknown is what will happen to
    the carbon balance between the atmosphere and the land, especially
    in the far north. Will Arctic and near-Arctic regions continue to
    take more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through plant activity
    than they release, or will they release more than they store?
    A new study
    <http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1618567114>suggests that
    Alaska, with its huge stretches of tundra and forest, may be
    shifting from a net sink, or storehouse, of carbon to a net source.
    The study focused on one possible cause: warmer temperatures that
    keep the Arctic tundra from freezing until later in the fall,
    allowing plant respiration and microbial decomposition - processes
    that release carbon dioxide - to continue longer....
    ... aircraft measurements, which include more of Alaska and were
    taken from 2012 to 2014, suggest that the boreal forest covering
    much of the southern half of the state remains a net storehouse of
    carbon dioxide. But the amounts stored are more than offset by the
    increasing tundra emissions, the researchers conclude...
    Their evidence does suggest that the state is turning from sink to
    source,...
    http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/05/02/1618567114
    *Carbon dioxide sources from Alaska driven by increasing early
    winter respiration from Arctic tundra
    <http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/05/02/1618567114>*
    *Significance*
    Rising arctic temperatures could mobilize reservoirs of soil organic
    carbon trapped in permafrost. We present the first quantitative
    evidence for large, regional-scale early winter respiration flux,
    which more than offsets carbon uptake in summer in the Arctic. Data
    from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Barrow
    station indicate that October through December emissions of CO2 from
    surrounding tundra increased by 73% since 1975, supporting the view
    that rising temperatures have made Arctic ecosystems a net source of
    CO2. It has been known for over 50 y that tundra soils remain
    unfrozen and biologically active in early winter, yet many Earth
    System Models do not correctly represent this phenomenon or the
    associated CO2 emissions, and hence they underestimate current, and
    likely future, CO2 emissions under climate change.
    Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1618567114
    Update policy: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.cm10313

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/09/frances-macron-will-fight-global-warming-and-wants-us-experts-to-help.html
France's Macron will fight global warming, and wants US experts to help 
<http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/09/frances-macron-will-fight-global-warming-and-wants-us-experts-to-help.html>

    CNBC - ‎15 hours ago‎
    In 2015, global leaders gathered in Paris for the COP21 summit.
    After hours of talks, leaders finally agreed to make sure global
    warming stayed "well below" 2 degrees Celsius and to "pursue
    efforts" to limit the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/methane-slowing-global-warming-arctic

    Are methane seeps in the Arctic slowing global warming? | Science...
    <http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/methane-slowing-global-warming-arctic>

    Methane bubbles speed up ocean photosynthesis and sequester carbon
    dioxide.
    To find out just how much methane the Arctic Ocean was contributing
    to the global balance, biogeochemist John Pohlman of the U.S.
    Geological Survey in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, set out to measure
    the gas close to the ocean surface above known methane seeps near
    Svalbard during the Arctic summer. He and his team were constantly
    surprised by how little methane they found. But the bigger surprise
    was that surface water CO2 levels dropped whenever their ship
    crossed a seep. "[The CO2 data] became the most important part of
    the story," Pohlman says.
    When combined with other data-sudden drops in water temperature,
    along with increases in dissolved oxygen and pH at the surface-the
    lower CO2 levels were telltale signs of bottom water upwelling and
    photosynthesis, Pohlman says. Pohlman and his team conclude that the
    same physical forces that are pushing the methane bubbles up are
    also pumping nutrient-rich cold waters from the sea bed to the
    surface, fertilizing phytoplankton blooms that soak up CO2, they
    write today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
    Such a "fertilization effect" would be "really surprising," says
    Thornton, who has studied methane emissions above seeps in the
    Laptev and East Siberian seas. "There are lots of nutrients in
    bottom water and bringing that to the surface could certainly
    [result in] draw down of CO2."..
    But Pohlman says one can't count on the methane fertilizing effect
    being the same everywhere. Even in his study area, it's apt to
    change with the seasons. He notes that his team's data were
    collected in the constant sunlight of Arctic summer. During the dark
    polar night, photosynthesis would drop to nearly nothing, and
    methane emissions wouldn't be offset by declining CO2.

http://www.crescent-news.com/columnists/syndicated_columnists/youdocs-global-warming-and-diabetes/article_5339e99c-fe3b-5312-ab73-d3341c252055.html

    YouDocs:*Global warming*and diabetes
    <http://www.crescent-news.com/columnists/syndicated_columnists/youdocs-global-warming-and-diabetes/article_5339e99c-fe3b-5312-ab73-d3341c252055.html>

Defiance Crescent News (subscription) 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

    Since BAT generates heat (and metabolizes blood glucose) in response
    to cold, a team of researchers from the Netherlands made the
    connection between global warming and increased cases of diabetes.
    In a study published in BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care, they
    concluded that rising global temperatures "negatively impact glucose
    metabolism via a reduction in brown adipose tissue activity." They
    surmised that a 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit rise in temperature would
    account for over 100,000 new diabetes cases per year in the U.S. alone.

http://www.npr.org/2017/05/09/527541032/there-must-be-more-productive-ways-to-talk-about-climate-change

    There Must Be More Productive Ways To Talk About*Climate Change*
    <http://www.npr.org/2017/05/09/527541032/there-must-be-more-productive-ways-to-talk-about-climate-change>

NPR 	 -‎7 hours ago‎ 	

Rachel Martin talks to*climate*scientist Katharine Hayhoe, who stresses 
how unproductive it is to label someone a "*climate*denier." Facebook; 
Twitter. Google+. Email. Get The Stories That Grabbed Us This Week. 
Delivered to your inbox every Sunday*...*

http://www.firstpost.com/world/climate-change-key-meeting-to-discuss-american-withdrawal-from-paris-accord-postponed-3432550.html

    *Climate change*: Key meeting to discuss American withdrawal from
    Paris accord postponed
    <http://www.firstpost.com/world/climate-change-key-meeting-to-discuss-american-withdrawal-from-paris-accord-postponed-3432550.html>

Firstpost 	 -‎10 hours ago‎ 	

"The US will remain engaged in the work that the Arctic Council does 
on*climate change*throughout," Balton said on Tuesday.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-39861589

    *Climate change*: China vows to defend Paris agreement
    <http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-39861589>

BBC News 	 -‎1 hour ago‎ 	

Chinese President Xi Jinping has vowed to protect the landmark Paris 
agreement, which aims to curb*climate change*and fossil fuel emissions.

http://bangordailynews.com/2017/05/08/news/nation/alaskas-tundra-is-filling-the-atmosphere-with-carbon-dioxide-worsening-climate-change/

    Alaska's tundra is filling the atmosphere with carbon dioxide,
    worsening*climate change*
    <http://bangordailynews.com/2017/05/08/news/nation/alaskas-tundra-is-filling-the-atmosphere-with-carbon-dioxide-worsening-climate-change/>

Even as the Trump administration weighs withdrawing the United States 
from the Paris*climate*agreement, a new scientific paper has documented 
growing fluxes of greenhouse gases streaming into the air from the 
Alaskan tundra, a long-feared occurrence ...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-08/ex-military-brass-back-tillerson-mattis-in-climate-change-fight

    Ex-Military Brass Back Tillerson, Mattis in*Climate*-*Change*Fight
    <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-08/ex-military-brass-back-tillerson-mattis-in-climate-change-fight>

A group of retired senior military officers is urging U.S. Secretary of 
State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary James Mattis to remain firm in 
their support for combating global warming as White House officials 
consider exiting the Paris*climate*accord.

https://thinkprogress.org/flooding-in-the-mississippi-delta-is-climate-change-in-action-ff0b8bd1bcad

    Flooding in the Mississippi Delta is*climate change*in action
    <https://thinkprogress.org/flooding-in-the-mississippi-delta-is-climate-change-in-action-ff0b8bd1bcad>

The moment Cherri Foytlin felt that familiar squish under her feet, she 
was overcome with dread. "As soon as I stepped into that water, I knew.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/us-climate-change-arctic-research-1.4105426

    US affirms commitment to Arctic*climate change*research
    <http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/us-climate-change-arctic-research-1.4105426>

The United States will participate in advancing*climate change*research 
in the Arctic, a State Department official said on Monday, ahead of a 
summit of Arctic nations later this week where Washington's commitment 
to tackling*climate change*will likely*...*

    Spring's early arrival is a troubling indicator of*climate change*
    <https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-05-08/springs-early-arrival-troubling-indicator-climate-change>

Primack explained to the students that about 17 years ago, he was trying 
to figure out a good way to measure the effects of climate change in the 
region. "And as I started looking, I heard about these records that 
Henry David Thoreau had made in the ...

http://trendintech.com/2017/05/08/investors-take-action-in-regards-to-climate-change-despite-what-trump-thinks/

    Investors Take Action in Regards to*Climate Change*Despite What
    Trump Thinks
    <http://trendintech.com/2017/05/08/investors-take-action-in-regards-to-climate-change-despite-what-trump-thinks/>

    So, we all know that Trump isn't a believer in climate change, but
    thankfully, investors aren't following suit. New research carried
    out by the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) revealed that 60%
    of the world's 500 biggest Asset owners are now ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip2D1LpvUrc
*(17 min video) Climate & Extreme Weather News #23 (May 6th to May 9th 
2017) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip2D1LpvUrc>*

    Paris 1.5°C target may be smashed by 2026
    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...
    Carbon dioxide sources from Alaska driven by increasing early winter
    respiration from Arctic tundra

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/09/barack-obama-says-no-country-immune-from-climate-change-as-trump-considers-pulling-out-of-key-deal.html

    Barack Obama says no country immune from*climate change*
    <http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/09/barack-obama-says-no-country-immune-from-climate-change-as-trump-considers-pulling-out-of-key-deal.html>

CNBC 	 -‎2 hours ago‎ 	

No nation, "whether it's large or small, rich or poor, will be immune 
from the impacts of*climate change*," former U.S.

https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060054182

    *Climate change*erodes thin safety margins at California dam
    <https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060054182>

After February's near catastrophe at Oroville Dam in Northern 
California, critics are questioning why the nearby Trinity Dam - which 
impounds the third largest reservoir in the state - does not have an 
emergency spillway.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-05-08/springs-early-arrival-troubling-indicator-climate-change

    Spring's early arrival is a troubling indicator of*climate change*
    <https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-05-08/springs-early-arrival-troubling-indicator-climate-change>

Primack explained to the students that about 17 years ago, he was trying 
to figure out a good way to measure the effects of*climate change*in the 
region. "And as I started looking, I heard about these records that 
Henry David Thoreau had made in the*...*

https://climatecrocks.com/2017/05/09/carbon-slowly-strangling-ocean/
*Carbon Slowly Strangling Ocean 
<https://climatecrocks.com/2017/05/09/carbon-slowly-strangling-ocean/>*

    Depletion of dissolved oxygen in our oceans, which can cause dead
    zones, is occurring much faster than expected, a new study finds.
    And by combining oxygen loss with ever-worsening ocean warming and
    acidification, humans are re-creating the conditions that led to the
    worst-ever extinction, which killed over 90 percent of marine life
    252 million years ago.
    Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology reviewed ocean data
    going back to 1958 and "found that oxygen levels started dropping in
    the 1980s as ocean temperatures began to climb."
    https://youtu.be/hrHGwFrqIgg
    *(5 min video)  Ocean Deoxygenation: Our Ocean's Oxygen Supply &
    Demand Issue <https://youtu.be/hrHGwFrqIgg>*
    Ocean Deoxygenation is the loss of oxygen from the oceans due to
    climate change, which fundamentally creates an issue of oxygen
    supply and demand imbalance for our oceans.  See also:
    oceanscientists.org

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/politics/10cnd-cheney.html?_r=0
*This Day in Climate History May 10, 2005 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/politics/10cnd-cheney.html?_r=0> -  
from D.R. Tucker*

    The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rules
    that the White House does not have to disclose information regarding
    the infamous 2001 Cheney Energy Task Force.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/politics/10cnd-cheney.html?_r=0
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4647599
    http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/05/11/court_backs_cheney_on_energy_meetings/

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