[TheClimate.Vote] May 24, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News

[Richard Pauli]

/May 24, 2017/

*Climate Troubles in Trump Country 
<https://climatecrocks.com/2017/05/23/climate-trouble-in-trump-country/>*
More weather extremes.
While climate communicators are trying to figure out the magic formula 
to snap people out of denial, the Earth continues to speak in ever more 
convincing ways.
(video) Weather, or Climate Change <https://youtu.be/ABcG-QCBr6k>? 
https://youtu.be/ABcG-QCBr6k
"It's absolutely devastating, especially when you work with tight 
budgets we currently have," Walker said.
Add climate change to the common bouts of inundation, and towns along 
the Mississippi are confronting a new reality, Walker said, one that 
compounds the misery of previous floods. The 180-year-old town has had 
five flood events in the past four years, he said, and four of those 
have been in the top 10 flooding disasters in Alton's history.
"We're now living in a world of extremes on the Mississippi River," he 
said. "We just don't get normal spring rains anymore. We get huge 
downpours."
https://climatecrocks.com/2017/05/23/climate-trouble-in-trump-country/

*New Video: Despite Dilbert, it's Data, not Models  -  Climate Denial 
Crock of the Week 
<https://climatecrocks.com/2017/05/23/new-video-despite-dilbert-its-data-not-models/>*
I was already working on this video when Scott Adam's laughably unfunny 
attempt to have Dilbert do climate science appeared 
<https://climatecrock.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/dilb_mannsara.jpg>, 
and set the denia-sphere atwitter.
Some will still prefer the cartoon version of science, but fortunately, 
there are real experts to set the record straight, and I talk to them 
regularly.
I promised Mr Adams that a video was coming to help him out.
Here 'tis.  (Video https://youtu.be/ZY-pO_zTVvU )
Below, compare model projections from 40 years ago, via archival 
footage, with actual observations from today.  Eye Opening.   (video 
https://youtu.be/ox5hbkg34Ow   )
https://climatecrocks.com/2017/05/23/new-video-despite-dilbert-its-data-not-models/


    More people heading to court to spur action on*climate change*,
    study finds
    <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/23/climate-change-government-court-cases-study>

The lion's share of the litigation is in the US, but the number of 
countries with such cases has tripled since 2014.
UN Environment and Columbia law school, which undertook the research, 
<http://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/20767/climate-change-litigation.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y> 
found a "proliferation" of cases instigated by citizens and 
environmental groups demanding action on areas such as sea-level rise, 
coal-fired power plants and oil drilling.
"It's patently clear we need more concrete action on climate change, 
including addressing the root causes and helping communities adapt to 
the consequences," said Erik Solheim, head of UN Environment. "The 
science can stand up in a court of law, and governments need to make 
sure their responses to the problem do too."
The US has been the staging ground for 654 climate-related cases, almost 
three times that of the rest of the world combined. Some of these cases 
have proved pivotal, such as a 2007 case where various states and cities 
demanded the Environmental Protection Agency regulate carbon dioxide and 
other greenhouse gas emissions.
Other cases are continuing, such as the 21 children who are represented 
in a lawsuit against the federal government, claiming that its failure 
to sufficiently cut emissions violates their constitutional right to 
life, liberty and property. The Sierra Club, an environmental group, 
said the case would "upend climate law as we know it" should it be 
successful.
Australia, with 80 cases, and the UK, with 49 cases, are the next 
largest national sources of climate litigation, although the report 
notes that legal action is starting to emanate from all corners of the 
world.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/23/climate-change-government-court-cases-study
http://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/20767/climate-change-litigation.pdf

*Estimating hurricane damage in an era of global warming 
<https://journalistsresource.org/studies/environment/climate-change/hurricane-damage-global-warming-climate-change>*
(Journalist Resource)
The changing climate is expected to breed fiercer hurricanes. As the 
dollar value of the damage increases over time, the cleanup will become 
harder for America to afford.
  A new paper looks at the combined effect, over the next 60 years, of 
stronger storms and a growing population along America's vulnerable East 
and Gulf coasts. It finds that cleanup will cost a small but growing 
share of economic output.
An academic study worth reading: "Projected Increases in Hurricane 
Damage in the United States: The Role of Climate Change and Coastal 
Development," in Ecological Economics, 2017.
Key takeaways:
- Dinan finds that the damage from hurricanes, measured as a share of 
economic output (GDP), will increase. That means not only that future 
hurricanes will cost more dollars to clean up, but that the cleanup will 
be harder for the country to afford. She expects the annual cost of 
damage, in constant 2015 dollars, to rise from an estimated $28 billion 
(0.16 percent of GDP) these days to $151 billion (0.22 percent of GDP) 
in 2075. She notes, however, that exact numbers are uncertain.
- The absolute damage will increase because Americans are building more 
and denser communities along the coasts.
- Taken together, she estimates the increase in climate change-related 
hurricane damage and damage to new coastal development at $123 billion 
(the difference between $151 billion and $28 billion).
- That is a synergistic effect. Separating them, she finds damage from 
climate change increases by $35 billion; damage to the new coastal 
development increases by $41 billion.
-  She estimates the value of hurricane damage to new coastal 
developments alone at $47 billion: "That $47 billion reflects the 
additional damage that climate change has on the additional property 
exposure attributable to coastal development."
- By comparing the number of people currently living in counties facing 
"substantial" expected storm damage (defined as "expected per capita 
damage that is greater than 5 percent of the county's average per capita 
income") to the number of people expected in such counties in 2075, 
Dinan estimates that this at-risk population will grow eight-fold over 
the model period.
https://journalistsresource.org/studies/environment/climate-change/hurricane-damage-global-warming-climate-change
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014EF000239/abstract


*Climate Signals*‏@*ClimateSignals* 
<https://twitter.com/ClimateSignals>46 minutes ago 
<https://twitter.com/ClimateSignals/status/867157720910110720>
More

Extreme rains driving flooding in Charleston right now consistent with 
global trend driven by #*climatechange* 
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/climatechange?src=hash> #**chswx** 
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/chswx?src=hash> 
http://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals/increased-extreme-precipitation… 
<https://t.co/kODJZ3gjRm>



*Seven in 10 Brits support 'world government' to protect humanity from 
global catastrophes 
<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/climate-change-global-warming-nuclear-war-asteroid-pandemic-volcano-global-catastrophe-a7752171.html>*
(The Independent)   The report warned that if the bleakest scientific 
estimates of how bad global warming could get turned out to be correct 
there was  "a high likelihood of human civilization coming to an end".
Nearly seven out of 10 people in the UK support the creation of a form 
of world government that would be able to force countries to deal with 
major risks facing the world such as climate change and nuclear weapons, 
according to a major new survey.
Sixty-two per cent felt the world had become more insecure in the last 
two years and 69 per cent said they would support the creation of a new 
"supranational organisation to make enforceable global decisions" about 
major threats.
A lower proportion, but still a majority (54 per cent), said they would 
be happy for the UK to give up some of its sovereignty to address the 
world's most serious problems.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/climate-change-global-warming-nuclear-war-asteroid-pandemic-volcano-global-catastrophe-a7752171.html

*States, Voters, Pushing Back on Trump Team's Doomsday Agenda – and They 
Don't Like it 
<https://climatecrocks.com/2017/05/23/states-voters-pushing-back-on-trump-teams-doomsday-agenda-and-they-dont-like-it/>*
by greenman3610
"Whatever they do in Washington, they can't change the facts"
Old enough to remember when conservatives advocated "states rights". Oh, 
wait. That's only when they want to stop black people from voting. It's 
a slave-owner thing. Got it. Nowadays, when states want to acknowledge 
science and fact - the administration has a problem. Fortunately, 
aroused voters, and mega-uprisings like the March for Science,  are 
helping science-savvy politicians push …
https://climatecrocks.com/2017/05/23/states-voters-pushing-back-on-trump-teams-doomsday-agenda-and-they-dont-like-it/


    'Put up or shut up': WRAL's Greg Fishel goes off on*climate change
    *deniers
    <http://www.newsobserver.com/news/weather/article152016942.html>

RALEIGH   Popular local weatherman Greg Fishel had strong words for 
climate change deniers on his Facebook page on Sunday.
Fishel, chief meteorologist at WRAL, went off on people who question the 
science behind climate change, telling them to "put up or shut up." The 
post had earned more than 3,500 reactions by Monday afternoon.
"You know everybody reaches their breaking point and quite frankly I 
have reached mine with the folks who post all over the internet about 
the scientific fallacies of man induced climate change," Fishel wrote. 
"All of them are guest bloggers or essayists. None of this stuff has 
ever been published in a peer reviewed atmospheric science or climate 
journal. But we live in an age today where higher education and research 
are no longer respected. Heck, think of all the money my parents wasted 
on my education when I could have waited for the age of twitter and 
Facebook and declared myself as an expert in the field of my choice."
For most of his 36 years broadcasting the weather in the Triangle, 
Fishel also held a contrarian view about climate change. He didn't 
believe that humans had much to do with warming the Earth's atmosphere 
and would say as much when the topic came up on the air.
But several years ago, he says he decided he wasn't being open-minded 
about the issue and began to study what climate scientists were saying 
about it. He now approaches the issue on the air and on social media 
with the zeal of a convert.
If someone does have "a critical piece to the puzzle no other scientist 
has," Fishel implored them to submit their findings to one of the 
American Meteorological Society's peer reviewed journals for publication.
"If they are rejected, and the author feels unfairly, then make public 
each and every one of the reviewers' comments for the entire world to 
see," Fishel wrote. "If there is bias and corruption in the peer review 
process, everyone needs to know about it so this flawed process can be 
halted and corrected."
But Fishel said he doubts any of the climate change deniers "has the 
guts to do this" and said he thinks they'll continue "with their 
pathetic excuse for science education.
"So prove me wrong bloggers and essayists. Submit your work the way real 
scientists do, and see where it takes you," he wrote. "Uncover that bias 
and corruption you're so convinced is present. If you end up being 
correct, society will owe you a huge debt of gratitude. If you're wrong, 
stop muddying the scientific waters with ideological trash."
Abbie Bennett: @AbbieRBennett
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/weather/article152016942.html

*WEBINAR: Climate Risk Resilience in U.S. Cities and Towns--Current 
Processes and Emerging Trends 
<https://nasevents.webex.com/mw3200/mywebex/default.do?nomenu=true&siteurl=nasevents&service=6&rnd=0.876687590895166&main_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnasevents.webex.com%2Fec3200%2Feventcenter%2Fevent%2FeventAction.do%3FtheAction%3Ddetail%26%26%26EMK%3D4832534b00000004b48bc2f40fcd3e572b8fe196e628b96b422b1155d2863104df5032072e844606%26siteurl%3Dnasevents%26confViewID%3D61591430597999930%26SourceId%3Dmailchimp%26encryptTicket%3DSDJTSwAAAARrghTw79ZSfp5LhByfaDPcU6OCYmo084f91plrJ7xQdg2%26&utm_source=America%27s+Climate+Choices&utm_campaign=a663f82bf8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_321b36af61-a663f82bf8-243681765&mc_cid=a663f82bf8&mc_eid=7f758defc9>*
Thursday, May 25, 2017   2:00-3:00 pm EDT

    The Geographical Sciences Committee of the National Academies of
    Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine invites you to join the webinar
    Climate Risk Resilience in U.S. Cities and Towns: Current Processes
    and Emerging Trends, presented by Dr. William D. Solecki.
    Increased climate variability and climate change has encouraged U.S.
    communities to review and enhance their environmental risk and
    hazard mitigation strategies. Much of this effort has focused on
    resiliency efforts, defined as the capacity to withstand or absorb a
    shock or stress and quickly recover from an extreme event. Cities
    are developing climate adaptation plans, policies, and other tactics
    to improve their resiliency to climate risks and have started to
    implement some of these efforts. The objective of the presentation
    is to review and assess these city-level activities, define key
    concerns that city stakeholders and practitioners have regarding
    climate resiliency, and evaluate significant challenges and
    opportunities that are faced. Emerging best practices and lessons
    learned will be reviewed. The role of science-policy linkages,
    co-production strategies, city-level knowledge networks, and
    federal-state-municipal connections will be examined. A case study
    of post-Hurricane Sandy New York and the extended urban Northeast
    U.S. will be used to illustrate these points.


*This Day in Climate History May 24, 2006 
<http://youtu.be/8ZUoYGAI5i0>-  from D.R. Tucker*
"An Inconvenient Truth" is released in the United States. 
BoxOfficeGuru.com's Gitesh Pandya notes:
"Setting the limited release box office on fire was the global warming 
documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth' which opened in only four theaters 
but grossed a hefty $367,311. That gave the Al Gore pic a stunning 
average of $91,827 per location over four days. Distributed by Paramount 
Vantage, the new incarnation of Paramount Classics, Truth collected 
$281,330 over the Friday-to-Sunday portion averaging a scorching 
$70,332. Total since Wednesday stands at $490,860. Opening this weekend 
on multiple screens at a pair of theaters in both New York and Los 
Angeles, Truth will add about 60 more playdates on Friday and expand 
throughout June hoping to become the dominant doc of the summer."
(Al Gore and director Davis Guggenheim would appear on the June 2, 2006 
edition of "EcoTalk" on Air America to discuss the film.)
http://youtu.be/8ZUoYGAI5i0
http://www.boxofficeguru.com/052906.htm
http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2006/06/al_gore_about_a.html
http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2006/06/davis_guggenhei.html/

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