[TheClimate.Vote] May 30, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News
Richard Pauli
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Tue May 30 09:37:09 EDT 2017
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**(video) Cyclone Mora to Flood parts of Bangladesh and India
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej2woRthQ4g>*
Climate State Published on May 29, 2017
Bangladesh raises highest danger warning as cyclone takes aim
<http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sri-lanka-disaster-idUSKBN18O0PN>
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sri-lanka-disaster-idUSKBN18O0PN
Cyclonic Storm Mora threatens to flood parts of Bangladesh, northeastern
India with up to 300 mm of rain
<http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/cyclonic-storm-mora-threatens-to-flood-bangladesh-northeastern-india/70001774>http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/cyclonic-storm-mora-threatens-to-flood-bangladesh-northeastern-india/70001774
Tropical Cyclone Mora to Landfall in Bangladesh With Storm Surge
Flooding, Rainfall Flooding, Damaging Winds
<https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/tropical-cyclone-mora-bay-of-bengal-may2017>https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/tropical-cyclone-mora-bay-of-bengal-may2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej2woRthQ4g
*Urban 'heat islands' seen doubling city costs for climate change
<https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-cities-idUSKBN18P1KS>*
"The focus has been so long on global climate change that we forgot
about the local effects," co-author Richard Tol, economics professor at
the University of Sussex, England, said.
"Ignoring the urban heat island effect leads to a fairly drastic
under-estimate of the total impact of climate change," he said. About 54
percent of the world's population lives in cities, which cover just one
percent of the Earth's surface.
Overall, costs for cities to limit climate change including the local
heat impacts could be 2.6 times higher than without the urban heat
island effect, the survey in the Nature Climate Change journal said.
For the worst-off city, accumulated losses could be up to 10.9 percent
of a city's gross domestic product by 2100, they wrote of the survey of
1,962 cities including Tokyo, New York, Beijing, Lagos, Sao Paulo,
London and Moscow.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-cities-idUSKBN18P1KS
Urban 'heat island' effect could intensify*climate change*, making
cities up to 7C warmer
<http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/urban-heat-island-cities-climate-change-worse-global-warming-7-degrees-cool-roofs-pavements-a7761846.html>
In the journal Nature Climate Change, the researchers, from Sussex
University, Mexico and The Netherlands, wrote: "Between 1950 and 2015,
27 per cent of cities and 65 per cent of the urban population warmed
more than the world average (about 0.6C).
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/urban-heat-island-cities-climate-change-worse-global-warming-7-degrees-cool-roofs-pavements-a7761846.html
Wildfires on the rise due to drought and*climate change*
<http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wildfires-on-the-rise-due-to-drought-and-climate-change/>
Fighting wildfires in America cost federal agencies almost $2 billion
last year including more than half the budget of the U.S. Forest Service.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wildfires-on-the-rise-due-to-drought-and-climate-change/
*U.S. may put emergency tariffs on solar imports
<https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-solar-wto-idUSKBN18P1JL>*
By Tom Miles | GENEVA
The United States has notified the other 163 members of the World Trade
Organization that it is considering putting emergency "safeguard"
tariffs on imported solar cells, according to a WTO filing published on
Monday.
The move raises the stakes in a global battle to dominate the solar
power industry, which has grown explosively in the past five years. As
production has increased, prices have tumbled, favoring producers who
can take advantage of economies of scale.
The United States, China and India are vying to be the market leader,
and are looking out for any perceived breach of the international trade
rules by their rivals.
Last September, the WTO ruled that India was illegally discriminating
against U.S. solar exports, while India launched its own WTO complaint
about solar subsidies in eight U.S. states.
The United States' ability to attract renewable energy investment has
been tarnished by the shift in energy policy under U.S. President Donald
Trump, putting China and India on top, a report by British accountancy
firm Ernst & Young said earlier this month.
The U.S. decision to consider safeguard tariffs follows a petition to
the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) by Suniva, Inc, the filing
said.
Under WTO rules, such temporary tariffs may be used to shield an
industry from a sudden, unforeseen and damaging surge in imports. They
can be challenged by other WTO members.
The ITC will decide by Sept. 22 whether the U.S. industry has suffered
"serious injury", and if that is the case it will submit its report to
Trump by Nov. 13, the filing said.
Suniva's petition said the volume of imports rose by 51.6 percent
between 2012 and 2016, while the value of those imports grew by 62.8
percent from $5.1 billion to $8.3 billion.
"The petition alleges that increasing imports have taken market share
from domestic producers and have led to bankruptcies, plant shutdowns,
layoffs, and a severe deterioration of the financial performance of the
domestic industry," the U.S. filing said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-solar-wto-idUSKBN18P1JL
*Noam Chomsky in Conversation with Amy Goodman on Climate Change*
<https://www.democracynow.org/2017/5/29/noam_chomsky_in_conversation_with_amy>
In this Democracy Now! special, we spend the hour with the
world-renowned linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky. In a
public conversation we had in April, we talked about climate change,
nuclear weapons, North Korea, Iran, the war in Syria and the Trump
administration's threat to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange,
and his new book, "Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of
Concentration of Wealth & Power."
Transcript:
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/5/29/noam_chomsky_in_conversation_with_amy
And it turns out that the most powerful country in human history,
the richest, most powerful, most influential, the leader of the free
world, has just decided not only not to support the efforts, but
actively to undermine them. So there's the whole world on one side,
literally, at least trying to do something or other, not enough
maybe, although some places are going pretty far,... and on the
other side, in splendid isolation, is the country led by the most
dangerous organization in human history, which is saying, "We're not
part of this. In fact, we're going to try to undermine it." We're
going to maximize the use of fossil fuels - could carry us past the
tipping point. We're not going to provide funding for - as committed
in Paris, to developing countries that are trying to do something
about the climate problems. We're going to dismantle regulations
that retard the impact, the devastating impact, of production of
carbon dioxide and, in fact, other dangerous gases - methane, others.
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/5/29/noam_chomsky_in_conversation_with_amy
Sky high carbon tax needed to avoid catastrophic*global warming*,
say experts
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/29/sky-high-carbon-tax-needed-to-avoid-catastrophic-global-warming-say-experts>
A group of leading economists warned on Monday that the world risks
catastrophic global warming in just 13 years unless countries ramp up
taxes on carbon emissions to as much as $100 (£77) per metric tonne.
Experts including Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and former World Bank
chief economist Nicholas Stern said governments needed to move quickly
to tackle polluting industries with a tax on carbon dioxide at $40-$80
per tonne by 2020.
A tax of $100 a tonne would be needed by 2030 as one of a series of
measures to prevent a rise in global temperatures of 2C.
In a report by the High Level Commission on Carbon Prices, which is
backed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, they
suggest poor countries could aim for a lower tax since their economies
are more vulnerable.
The aim of a tax on carbon would be essential to meet the targets set by
the Cop21 Paris Agreement in 2015, they said.
Stiglitz and Stern said prices should rise to $50-$100 by 2030 to give
businesses and governments an incentive to lower emissions even when
fossil fuels are cheap.
The Trump administration has rejected calls to introduce a carbon tax in
the United States, saying it would cost jobs.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/29/sky-high-carbon-tax-needed-to-avoid-catastrophic-global-warming-say-experts
*Book Review: A ramble through some solutions for the Anthropocene
<https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/a-ramble-through-some-solutions-for-the-anthropocene/>*
To say that David Biello's new book, The Unnatural World
<https://www.amazon.com/Unnatural-World-Remake-Civilization-Earths/dp/1476743908/ref=as_li_ss_tl>
... is not uplifting would be an understatement. Its upshot is that we
have seriously f - ed up this planet, along with all of the organisms
and ecosystems residing on it, and the situation is likely to get much,
much worse. But that's hardly news at this point.
Biello knows that something must be done to keep ourselves from putting
yet more CO2 into the atmosphere and to counter or adapt to the effects
of all the CO2 we've spewed thus far. His book is an attempt to explore
our options for doing so. But the resulting book is rambling,
disorganized, and disjointed, filled with belabored, needlessly
complicated sentences like "China is living in the future past, a
Dickensian steam punk sci-fi drama in Mandarin, complete with high heels
and disfigured orphans." (?)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/a-ramble-through-some-solutions-for-the-anthropocene
<https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/a-ramble-through-some-solutions-for-the-anthropocene/?comments=1>
https://www.amazon.com/Unnatural-World-Remake-Civilization-Earths/dp/1476743908/ref=as_li_ss_tl
*(video 45 mn )The Reality of Climate Change (pre release)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPmkAiDCNQE>*
The Reality of Climate Change is a global warming documentary about many
of the problems and the solutions to the climate crisis.
Material was sourced from various sources, ranging from Carl Sagan
outlining climate change back in 1990, to Roland Emmerich's 2004
pre-production of The Day After Tomorrow, the 2006 documentary Global
Warming: What You Need to Know, and content from more recent times.
This is a pre release, if you have suggestions for improvements, feel
free to post it in the comments.
A revised version will add more content about extreme weather, Ocean
environments, on agriculture and wildfires.
http://patreon.com/ClimateState
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPmkAiDCNQE
*(video 1:17:00) The Brutal Logic of Climate Change*
<https://youtu.be/7IbyiOoVgnQ>
Carbon Neutral University Sheffield
Published on May 19, 2017
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Full length talk that covers the facts of climate change, the urgency
with which it needs to be addressed and actions we can take to stop it.
Delivered by Dr Aaron Thierry at the University of Sheffield, hosted by
the Carbon Neutral University Network.
Check out the Carbon Neutral University Network on:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carbonneutra...
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Twitter: @CNUniShef
https://youtu.be/7IbyiOoVgnQ
*Moscow/storm/: 11 killed as high winds strike Russian capital
<http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40086616>*
BBC News-3 hours ago
At least 11 people died when a severe thunderstorm hit the Russian
capital Moscow, health officials say.
Hundreds of trees were toppled by the storm, and more than 50 people
sought medical help.
Reports say that electrical cables were damaged as Moscow was lashed
with high winds, hail and torrential rain.
The winds of up to 110 km/h (70 mph) were described by meteorologists as
extremely rare for the city, and caused structural damage to buildings.
If the death toll of 11 is confirmed - and some officials give a lower
figure - it would be the deadliest storm in the city for more than 100
years.
The city's investigative committee said that "hurricane winds" had
caused trees to fall in various parts of the city, killing five pedestrians.
An elderly man was also killed at a bus stop, it said. TASS news agency
says that 69 people have been injured.
Two people were killed after a tree fell onto their summer house,
Interfax reported.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Versailles, near Paris, where he
has been holding talks with French President Emmanuel Macron.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40086616
*Three-quarters of Australians say climate warming "a catastrophic
risk", even as government turns a blind eye
<http://www.climatecodered.org/2017/05/australians-say-climate-warming-is.html>*
By David Spratt on 29 May 2017
Three in four Australians understand that climate warming poses a
"catastrophic risk," even as the Australian government turns a blind
eye. That was the clear result from a new survey for the Global
Challenges Forum (GCF), and the publications of its 2017 Global
Catastrophic Risk report.
84% of 8000 people surveyed in eight countries for the GCF consider
climate change a "global catastrophic risk". The figure for the
Australian sample was 75%.
Question were asked about a number of risks, including nuclear war,
pandemics, biological weapons, climate change and environmental
collapse. The climate question asked how much participants agreed or
disagreed that "climate change, resulting in environmental damage, such
as rising sea levels or melting of icecaps" could be considered as a
global catastrophic risk"? A global catastrophic risk was described as
"a future event that has the potential to affect 10% of the global
population".
For Australia, the results were: 39% "strongly agree" and 36% "tend to
agree" (for total agree of 75%), whilst "tend to disagree" was 15%,
"strongly disagree" was 6% and "don't know" was 4%.
The 2017 Global Catastrophic Risk report summarises the the evidence
for catastrophic climate change risk as:
Discussions of climate change usually focus on limiting temperature
rises to 1-3˚C above pre-industrial levels. A rise of 3ºC would have
major impacts, with most of Bangladesh and Florida under water,
major coastal cities – Shanghai, Lagos, Mumbai – swamped, and
potentially large flows of climate refugees. While the 2015 Paris
Agreement on climate change sought to keep global temperature rises
below a threshold of 1.5–2 º C, national pledges have fallen short
and set the world on a 3.6°C temperature rise track. There is also
now scientific consensus that, when warming rises above a certain
level, self-reinforcing feedback loops are likely to set in,
triggered by the pushing of the Earth's systems – ocean circulation,
permafrost, ice sheets, rainforests and atmospheric circulation –
across certain tipping points. The latest science shows that tipping
points with potential to cause catastrophic climate change could be
triggered at 2ºC global warming. These include the risk of losing
all coral reef systems on Earth and irreversible melting of inland
glaciers, Arctic sea ice and potentially the Greenland ice sheet. As
well as the immediate risk to human societies, the fear is that
crossing these tipping points would have major impacts on the pace
of global warming itself. Although climate change action has now
become part of mainstream economic and social strategies, too little
emphasis is put on the risk of catastrophic climate change.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/australians-say-climate-change-catastrophic-risk-even-government-turns-blind-eye-23556/
http://www.climatecodered.org/2017/05/australians-say-climate-warming-is.html
*This Day in Climate History May 30, 2013
<http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3358546> - from D.R. Tucker*
In a controversial Huffington Post article, climate scientist James
Hansen suggests that neither Republicans nor Democrats can be relied
upon to combat carbon pollution in a market-based manner.
Our government has failed to address climate, energy, and economic
challenges. These challenges, addressed together, actually can be a
great opportunity. Our democracy and economic system still have
great potential for innovation and rapid adoption of improved
technologies, if the government provides the right conditions and
gets out of the way.
The Solution is Not Rocket Science
Conservatives and liberals alike can recognize the merit of honest
pricing of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels today receive subsidies and do
not pay their costs to society. Human health costs of pollution from
fossil fuel burning and fossil fuel mining are borne by the public.
Climate disruption costs are borne by the victims and all taxpayers.
This market distortion makes our economy less efficient and less
competitive. Fixing this problem is not rocket science. The solution
can be simple and transparent.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3358546/
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