[TheClimate.Vote] May 28, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News

[Richard Pauli]

May 28, 2017
*
(video) Climate and Hurricane Season 2017 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usT1Jw2uRA4>*
Climate Change is slowly but surely having and impact on global 
hurricane destructiveness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usT1Jw2uRA4

*(USA Today) What if U.S. quits climate deal? Doesn't look good for 
Earth 
<https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/05/27/what-if-us-quits-climate-deal-doesnt-look-good-earth/102235234/>*
WASHINGTON - Earth is likely to reach more dangerous levels of warming 
even sooner if the U.S. retreats from its pledge to cut carbon dioxide 
pollution, scientists said. That's because America contributes so much 
to rising temperatures.
President Trump, who once proclaimed global warming a Chinese hoax, said 
in a tweet Saturday that he would make his "final decision" this coming 
week on whether the United States stays in or leaves the 2015 Paris 
climate change accord in which nearly every nation agreed to curb its 
greenhouse gas emissions.
Leaders of seven wealthy democracies, at a summit in Sicily, urged Trump 
to commit his administration to the agreement, but said in their closing 
statement that the U.S., for now, "is not in a position to join the 
consensus."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/05/27/what-if-us-quits-climate-deal-doesnt-look-good-earth/102235234/

*Pope's climate essay won't convince Trump, it didn't even work on 
Catholics 
<http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/05/26/popes-climate-essay-wont-convince-trump-didnt-even-work-catholics/>*
By George Marshall     Pope's encyclical on climate change appealed to 
liberals, but conservative Catholics were driven away by the values it 
invoked.
Following their tense and grumpy meeting this week the Pope cheekily 
presented Donald Trump with a parting gift: his 165-page Encyclical on 
Care for our Common Home, better known as Laudato Si, in which he 
outlines his commitment to action on climate change.
Trump's face, shared widely on social media, hardly suggests any great 
delight and we cannot expect that a dense theological text will trigger 
his climate epiphany
But then Trump was never the intended audience. The critical question is 
whether, in the two years since it was released ahead of the Paris 
climate conference, the papal encyclical has shifted opinion among 
Catholics. And unfortunately the answer is "probably not".
What was more surprising, though, was that the encyclical actually 
increased polarisation. Research by Yale University found that following 
the publication of the encyclical the number of Catholics who strongly 
trusted the Pope as a source of information about global warming 
increased by a quarter. The number who strongly distrusted him doubled.
http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/05/26/popes-climate-essay-wont-convince-trump-didnt-even-work-catholics/


    Severe weather possible in parts of Alabama over the next three days
    <http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/05/severe_weather_possible_in_par.html>

The chance for severe storms will hang around for parts of Alabama for 
the next three days, according to forecasters.
NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has included Alabama in various severe 
weather risks for Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/05/severe_weather_possible_in_par.html
*Hail And Tornadoes Possible For Eastern Oklahoma 
<http://www.newson6.com/story/35531262/hail-and-tornadoes-possible-for-eastern-oklahoma>*
TULSA, Oklahoma - The weather will play a big role in your Saturday 
outdoor plans across eastern Oklahoma on two fronts. First, it is going 
to be hot and muggy, and second, there is the threat of significant 
severe weather, including hail and tornadoes later in the day.
http://www.newson6.com/story/35531262/hail-and-tornadoes-possible-for-eastern-oklahoma
*Tornadoes among dangers as severe weather outbreak targets central US 
<http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/severe-storms-flooding-to-threaten-holiday-festivities-across-central-us-this-weekend/70001767>*
An outbreak of severe weather will continue to threaten lives and 
property across the central United States into Saturday night.
Numerous thunderstorms capable of producing widespread damaging winds, 
destructive hail, flooding downpours and tornadoes will continue to bear 
down on the central U.S. from eastern Kansas to Arkansas and the lower 
Ohio River Valley.
"A far-reaching swath of wind damage may lead to widespread tree damage 
and power outages," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Kristina Pydynowski 
said. "Gusts could reach minimal hurricane-force strength."
"Clusters of violent thunderstorms are expected to race from eastern 
Kansas and Missouri into Tennessee and Arkansas into Saturday night," 
she said. "Western Arkansas and northeastern Texas will also face the 
severe weather that first erupts in eastern Oklahoma."
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/severe-storms-flooding-to-threaten-holiday-festivities-across-central-us-this-weekend/70001767


    NATO joins the Pentagon in deeming*climate change*a threat
    multiplier
    <http://thebulletin.org/nato-joins-pentagon-deeming-climate-change-threat-multiplier10790>

A new NATO special report concludes that climate change is the ultimate 
"threat multiplier"-meaning that it can exacerbate political instability 
in the world's most unstable regions-because by intensifying extreme 
weather events like droughts ...
http://thebulletin.org/nato-joins-pentagon-deeming-climate-change-threat-multiplier10790

*Leaders issue G7 declaration with U.S. a holdout on climate change 
<http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/27/trump-paris-climate-deal-238883>*
Trump posted on Twitter that he'll make a final decision next week, 
after he returns to Washington.
TAORMINA, Sicily - Leaders of the G7, the world's most exclusive 
geopolitical club, issued their 2017 declaration Saturday, with U.S. 
President Donald Trump refusing to join his counterparts in pledging 
commitment to the 195-nation Paris accord on climate change...
Trump, posting on Twitter, said he would make a decision on whether the 
U.S. would remain in the climate change accord next week, after he 
returns to Washington. The other six members of the G7 - Canada, France, 
Germany, Italy, Japan and the U.K. - reaffirmed "strong commitment" to 
the agreement, which Barack Obama signed in 2015.
While the declaration included remarkable language highlighting that the 
U.S. stood apart, the other G7 members expressed some relief that Trump 
had not outright rejected the accord and said they remained hopeful he 
would come around
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/27/trump-paris-climate-deal-238883

*(video) Climate & Extreme Weather News #27 (May 19th to May 27th 2017) 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fPxJSoSEuY>*
Understanding Climate Change  -(/compilation of world news)/
Published on May 27, 2017
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-could-slash-staple-crops-21460
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41885-017-0005-2
https://thinkprogress.org/pruitt-scientifically-wrong-a114a6492ed7
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-02520-7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fPxJSoSEuY

*(amusing) What if Baywatch were … better?  Baywatch - Rising Tides * 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=505eiGSOkz4>
The Baywatch cinematic reboot, starring god-among-men Dwayne "The Rock" 
Johnson, lesser deity Zac Efron, and Priyanka "Miss World 2000" Chopra, 
is out in theaters on Friday. We, the movie going public, should be 
blessed by this release, but early reviews suggest it's actually just 
too ridiculous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=505eiGSOkz4
http://grist.org/briefly/what-if-baywatch-were-better//
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*This Day in Climate History May 28, 2003 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/28/business/exxon-backs-groups-that-question-global-warming.html> 
-  from D.R. Tucker*
The New York Times reports on ExxonMobil's crucial role in the 
climate-denial industry:

    Exxon Mobil has publicly softened its stance toward global warming
    over the last year, with a pledge of $10 million in annual donations
    for 10 years to Stanford University for climate research.

    At the same time, the company, the world's largest oil and gas
    concern, has increased donations to Washington-based policy groups
    that, like Exxon itself, question the human role in global warming
    and argue that proposed government policies to limit carbon dioxide
    emissions associated with global warming are too heavy handed.

    Exxon now gives more than $1 million a year to such organizations,
    which include the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Frontiers of
    Freedom, the George C. Marshall Institute, the American Council for
    Capital Formation Center for Policy Research and the American
    Legislative Exchange Council.

    The organizations are modest in size but have been outspoken in the
    global warming debate. Exxon has become the single-largest corporate
    donor to some of the groups, accounting for more than 10 percent of
    their annual budgets. While a few of the groups say they also
    receive some money from other oil companies, it is only a small
    fraction of what they receive from Exxon Mobil.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/28/business/exxon-backs-groups-that-question-global-warming.html 
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