[TheClimate.Vote] May 18, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News

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https://ww2.*kqed.org*/science/2017/05/17/most-of-californias-salmon-and-trout-could-be-extinct-in-100-years-report/

    Most of California's Salmon and Trout Could be Extinct in 100 Years,
    Report Says
    <https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/05/17/most-of-californias-salmon-and-trout-could-be-extinct-in-100-years-report/>

Conservation groups, fishing organizations and biologists have been 
working tirelessly for decades to protect California's trout and salmon..

http://www.*washingtonpost.com*/sf/brand-connect/ucdavis/a-climate-change-solution-beneath-our-feet/

    A climate change solution beneath our feet - Washington Post
    <http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/brand-connect/ucdavis/a-climate-change-solution-beneath-our-feet/>

There's too much carbon in the atmosphere and not enough in the ground 
where it's useful. Healthy soil can help flip the picture.

http://*grist.org*/article/climate-change-spells-dry-times-ahead-for-the-west/

    Climate change spells dry times ahead for the West | Grist
    <http://grist.org/article/climate-change-spells-dry-times-ahead-for-the-west/>

Picture a snowflake drifting down from a frigid February sky in western 
Colorado and settling high in the Rocky Mountains. By mid-April, the 
alpine snowpack is ...

https://www.*theatlantic.com*/science/archive/2017/05/go-west-my-sap/526899/
*American Trees Are Moving West, and No One Knows Why 
<https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/go-west-my-sap/526899/>*

    Climate change only explains at least 20 percent of the movement.
    As the consequences of climate change strike across the United
    States, ecologists have a guiding principle about how they think
    plants will respond. Cold-adapted plants will survive if they move
    “up”—that is, as they move further north (away from the tropics) and
    higher in elevation (away from the warm ground).
    A new survey of how tree populations have shifted over the past
    three decades finds that this effect is already in action. But
    there’s a twist: Even more than moving poleward, trees are moving
    west...
    The results are fascinating in part because they don’t immediately
    make sense. But the team has a hypothesis: While climate change has
    elevated temperatures across the eastern United States, it has
    significantly altered rainfall totals. The northeast has gotten a
    little more rain since 1980 than it did during the proceeding
    century, while the southeast has gotten much less rain. The Great
    Plains, especially in Oklahoma and Kansas, get much more than
    historically normal...
    “Different species are responding to climate change differently.
    Most of the broad-leaf species—deciduous trees—are following
    moisture moving westward. The evergreen trees—the needle species—are
    primarily moving northward,” said Songlin Fei, a professor of
    forestry at Purdue University and one of the authors of the study...
    “This is not a modeling exercise, there are no predictions, this is
    empirical data,” said Fei. “This study is looking at everything
    everywhere in the eastern United States.”..
    What concerns the team is that—if deciduous trees are moving
    westward while conifers move northward—important ecological
    communities of forests could start to break up in the east. Forests
    are defined as much by the mix of species, and the interaction
    between them, as by the simple presence of a lot of trees. If
    different species migrate in different directions, then communities
    could start to collapse...

http://www.*ecowatch.com*/pope-francis-trump-climate-change-2411311764.html

    Vatican Bishop Confident Pope Will Change Trump's View on*Climate
    Change*
    <http://www.ecowatch.com/pope-francis-trump-climate-change-2411311764.html>

A senior papal official is confident that Pope Francis will be able to 
change President Donald Trump's views on*climate change*when they meet 
at the Vatican on May 24. "In the election campaign, he even said it was 
a Chinese invention to criticize*...*

http://www.*climatechangenews.com*/2017/05/15/ocean-acidification-global-warmings-forgotten-crisis/

    Ocean acidification is*global warming's*forgotten crisis
    <http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/05/15/ocean-acidification-global-warmings-forgotten-crisis/>

But a UN meeting this week about climate change and oceans reminds us a 
related crisis is unfolding largely away public attention: the one-two 
punch of ocean*warming*and acidification. With record temperatures 
sweeping over continents year after year*...*

http://*economictimes.**indiatimes.com*/news/environment/global-warming/many-nations-pin-climate-hopes-on-china-india-as-hopes-from-trump-fade/articleshow/58719135.cms

    Many nations pin climate hopes on China, India as hopes from Trump
    fade
    <http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/environment/global-warming/many-nations-pin-climate-hopes-on-china-india-as-hopes-from-trump-fade/articleshow/58719135.cms>

BONN, Germany: Many countries are pinning their hopes on China and India 
to lead efforts to slow. climate change. amid a growing sense of 
resignation that...

https://www.*usatoday.com*/story/opinion/2017/05/15/treat-climate-change-carbon-tax-flood-control-column/101445670/

    Treat climate change symptoms with carbon tax and flood control
    <https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/05/15/treat-climate-change-carbon-tax-flood-control-column/101445670/>

Ignoring causes might get us moving on concrete actions to deal with the 
consequences of global warming. We will need them no matter what...

https://www.*guelphtoday.com*/local-news/u-of-g-prof-to-head-international-climate-change-study-616954

    U of G prof to head international*climate change*study
    <https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/u-of-g-prof-to-head-international-climate-change-study-616954>

Threats to food security and safety may be the biggest peril posed 
by*climate change*, according to Sherilee Harper, a University of Guelph 
Department of Population Medicine professor...

http://*hppr.org*/post/kansas-researchers-say-climate-change-will-deteriorate-midwest-water-quality

    Kansas Researchers Say*Climate Change*Will Deteriorate Midwest Water
    Quality
    <http://hppr.org/post/kansas-researchers-say-climate-change-will-deteriorate-midwest-water-quality>

*Climate change*is expected to increase the frequency of these 
fluctuations between drought and flood, though, according to new 
research published by scientists at the University of Kansas, and this 
"weather whiplash" will deteriorate the quality of*...*

https://youtu.be/OYwSGiowEzs
Lewis Black  Climate Change <https://youtu.be/OYwSGiowEzs> humor (rare)

https://www.*climate.gov*/news-features/climate-qa/which-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-volcanoes-or-human-activities
*This Day in Climate History May 18, 1980 
<https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/which-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-volcanoes-or-human-activities> 
*

    On this day Mt St Helens volcano violently erupts after months of
    warnings from quakes, fumeroles and steam venting.  Because it was a
    Sunday, forest workers were off duty and so the loss of human life
    was less than it could have been.  The plume of ash from the
    eruption rose 15 miles up and spread downwind shading much of the
    Pacific Northwest.  Traces of ash made it as far as Oklahoma. The
    eruption released 24 megatons of thermal energy and ejected more
    than 0.67 cubic miles (2.79 km3) of material.
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_St._Helens>  It devastated 596
    square kilometers (229 square miles).   USGS scientists estimate
    "that the eruptions of Mount St. Helens (1980) and Pinatubo (1991)
    both *released carbon dioxide on a scale similar to human output for
    about nine hours.*  Human emissions of carbon dioxide continue day
    after day, month after month, year after year."  The world's
    volcanoes, both on land and undersea, generate about 200 million
    tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually, while our automotive and
    industrial activities cause some 24 billion tons of CO2 emissions
    every year worldwide.  Human carbon dioxide emissions are more than
    90 times greater than global volcanic carbon dioxide emissions.
    "Today, rather than warming global climate, volcanic eruptions often
    have the opposite effect.
    <https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/which-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-volcanoes-or-human-activities>That's
    because carbon dioxide isn't the only thing that volcanoes inject
    into the atmosphere.  Even small eruptions often produce volcanic
    ash and aerosol particles."
    https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/which-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-volcanoes-or-human-activities
    Volcano Eruption Mount St. Helens May 18, 1980 USGS
    <https://youtu.be/xP2dreOI8gI> https://youtu.be/xP2dreOI8gI
    Mount St. Helens Disintegrates in Enormous Landslide
    <https://youtu.be/UK--hvgP2uY> https://youtu.be/UK--hvgP2uY
    Best Video of Mount St Helens Volcano Eruption footage
    <https://youtu.be/ZhvkITCGqK4> https://youtu.be/ZhvkITCGqK4
    Minute by Minute: The Eruption of Mount St. Helens
    <https://youtu.be/fArB5Jz2wos>  https://youtu.be/fArB5Jz2wos

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