[TheClimate.Vote] November 2, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Thu Nov 2 11:04:53 EDT 2017
/November 2, 2017
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(*/*photo) Visiting the remote headquarters of Whitefish Energy,
recipient of controversial contract
<https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whitefish-energy-headquarters-montana-contract-puerto-rico/>*
A contract worth $300 million was awarded to a tiny company called
Whitefish Energy in Whitefish, Montana, hometown of Interior Secretary
Ryan Zinke.
In addition to Whitefish's connection to Zinke, one of the company's top
investors has given tens of thousands of dollars to Republicans,
including Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz --
and Mr. Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whitefish-energy-headquarters-montana-contract-puerto-rico/
*(video) Have 400 papers just DEBUNKED global warming?
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyMaRx7gIGY>*
by potholer54 10:22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyMaRx7gIGY
*The Grassroots Social Network Documenting Real-Time Climate Change*
<https://psmag.com/environment/the-grassroots-social-network-documenting-real-time-climate-change>
The LEO Network is bringing together scientists and citizens to monitor
climate change and spot trends.
the slow march of climate change is still felt around the world in the
day-to-day developments of people who are connected to nature as part of
their jobs, lives, and survival. Indigenous groups in particular have
had a front-row seat to climate shifts over the decades. Now, a group of
scientists called the Local Environmental Observer network
<http://leonetwork.org/>, is drawing from its roots in indigenous
communities, and harnessing and mapping the observations of these people
to get a real-time, holistic overview of climate change...
... the LEO network, which now boasts over 2,000 members reporting from
488 communities, with almost 600 joining in 2017 alone. It features
hundreds of observations from across North America, as well as
throughout Australia, Africa, and Europe. Brubaker and the scientists
behind LEO hope this kind of boots-on-the-ground, real-time monitoring
can help them spot troubling trends in climate change before they become
crises...
The methodology behind LEO is fairly simple. Anyone can join and post
observations to the network. Based on a series of prompted questions,
users can include a description of the observation, pinpoint its
location, categorize the event into a sub-group ("Land," "Ocean/Sea,"
"Ice/Snow," or "Sanitation"), and tack on any pertinent background
information. The process is purposely simple, and observations don't
have to be couched in technical jargon. The point of the network, and
the thought process behind how posts are designed, is to allow anybody
to contribute, entering in data that experts can then build upon.
In an atmosphere that's rapidly changing both politically and literally,
the ability to call upon the knowledge and observations of citizens who
care deeply about climate change represents an attempt to develop new
ways to combat climate change outside of traditional methods. Indigenous
peoples number around 370 million across the globe, speak 4,000
different languages, and represent 5,000 different cultures.
Utilizing a local knowledge network that crosses country borders, and,
indeed, spans the world, can be an important tool to help document our
changing climate. Where states and governments can't or won't go when it
comes to addressing, documenting, and monitoring climate change,
networks like LEO offer a way to do so.
https://psmag.com/environment/the-grassroots-social-network-documenting-real-time-climate-change
*What We've Learned About Climate Change Since Hurricane Sandy
<https://www.wired.com/story/what-weve-learned-about-climate-change-since-hurricane-sandy/>*
Starting in 2011, a year before Sandy, the Bulletin of the American
Meteorological Society began publishing an annual state-of-the-science
report titled "Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of
Climate Change." Last year, Heidi Cullen, a chief scientist with Climate
Central studying weather variability, wrote that the annual work had the
potential to have the same impact on the conversation around weather and
global warming as the surgeon general's 1964 report on smoking and lung
cancer.
"Scientists are now able to assess, in some cases within days, whether
and how much the risk of such an extreme weather event has changed
compared to the past—that is, before heat-trapping greenhouse gases
altered our climate," she wrote in the New York Times.
Even if the science has become more precise in understanding the nuances
and connections between climate change and extreme weather, many
politicians aren't listening. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has said
that to "have any kind of focus on the cause and effect of the storm,
versus helping people, or actually facing the effect of the storm, is
misplaced."
https://www.wired.com/story/what-weve-learned-about-climate-change-since-hurricane-sandy/
The Community Resilience Reader
*Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval
<https://islandpress.org/books/community-resilience-reader>*
/The Community Resilience Reader/ offers a new vision for creating
resilience, through essays by leaders in such varied fields as science,
policy, community building, and urban design. The Community Resilience
Reader combines a fresh look at the challenges humanity faces in the
21st century, the essential tools of resilience science, and the wisdom
of activists, scholars, and analysts working with community issues on
the ground.
https://islandpress.org/books/community-resilience-reader
*(Video) Richard Alley: The Big Picture on Energy and Climate (2017)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv-Pm3tTpa8>*
Climate State Published on Oct 31, 2017
Richard Alley gave this presentation on March 22, 2017, titled "The big
picture on energy and climate," discusses the dynamics of how money,
jobs, national security, ethics and the environment influence
perceptions and decisions about energy.
The presentation was sponsored by several Lycoming College organizations
including: Clean Water Institute, Center for Energy and the Future,
Outdoor Leadership and Education program, and Sustainability Committee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv-Pm3tTpa8
*The first volume of the 4th U.S. National Climate Assessment is
expected to be published Friday.*
<http://climatenexus.org/climate-issues/science/national-climate-assessment/>
Volume 1, entitled "Climate Science Special Report" (CSSR), addresses
the causes of climate change, the impacts on temperature, extreme
weather, and wildfires, the anticipated trends for the future, and the
broad requirements to meet current policy goals.
We have put together a backgrounder on the report: /*(sections bolded by
RP)*/
+ Background:
http://climatenexus.org/climate-issues/science/national-climate-assessment/
Since the report is several hundred pages long, we also assembled an
advance summary of the report by combing through the copy of the "final
clearance draft" posted by the New York Times, to identify the highlights.
+ Notable findings:
http://climatenexus.org/climate-news-archive/4th-u-s-national-climate-assessment-notable-findings/
*Below are selected highlights *and excerpts from the Final Clearance
Draft of the U.S. Climate Science Special Report, as posted by the New
York Times on August 7, 2017. NOAA led this science assessment, and the
report is expected to be published on November 3, 2017, as Volume 1 of
the 4th U.S. National Climate Assessment by the U.S. Global Change
Research Program.
*Report Highlights*
+The draft finds "it is extremely likely that human influence has been
the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century."
The report further finds that greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation,
and other human factors are likely responsible for all of the observed
warming since 1951 and that these anthropogenic factors are likely
countering and overcoming natural factors that would otherwise be
cooling the climate.
+Deforestation and agriculture have contributed heavily to the warming
observed to date.
+The fingerprints of climate change are now widespread, and*climate
change is amplifying weather disasters and wildfires.*
+The language describing the impact of climate change on the intensity
of hurricanes is now much clearer. Decreases in sulfate aerosols
together with increases in GHG emissions are found to be likely
contributing to the intensity of hurricanes, however the relative size
of these contributions is still an active area of research and debate.
+*The top-end of the "plausible" range for global sea level rise by 2100
has been lifted from 4 feet to 8 feet.*
+The U.S. is particularly vulnerable to rates of sea level rise, ocean
acidification, and ocean deoxygenation greater than global rates.
+*A disturbing warming feedback loop has begun in the thawing of Alaskan
permafrost.*
+The burning of fossil fuels is having an "unprecedented" impact on the
climate and there may be "surprises" with consequences much harsher than
currently projected.
*+Limiting global warming to twice the total of warming to date will
require a sharp peak and sharp decline in total global carbon pollution
before 2040 with pollution from the burning of fossil fuels eventually
stopping entirely*.
We understand that the version to be released Friday is virtually the
same as final clearance draft (above), though there a couple of wording
changes where the finding remains the same but the language describing
the finding is more complex.
http://climatenexus.org/climate-issues/science/national-climate-assessment/
Climate Denial Crock of the Week with Peter Sinclair
*Trump/Russia: Big Carbon's Last Monstrous Grasp
<https://climatecrocks.com/2017/11/01/trumprussia-big-carbons-last-monstrous-grasp/>*
November 1, 2017
I'm not a huge Chris Mathews fan, but he's the first "mainstream"
journalist I've heard put his finger on what I've been saying since the
election. Caught Chris on Colbert's late show last night.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2727sZfHKCA>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2727sZfHKCA
Last time I looked, the Russian mob-ocracy is overwhelmingly dependent
on fossil fuel extraction to maintain their wealth and power...
Trump/Russia scandal is about fossil fuels, the carbon bubble, and a
last monstrous grasp by the rotting dead hand of the global carbon
club. Readers know that I've been saying this for a year, and managed
to get thru to the Diane Rehm show days after the election a year ago,
to point out that Putin's election hack showed identical MO to the
"ClimateGate" email hacks of the last decade - updated and rolled out on
a global scale.
https://climatecrocks.com/2017/11/01/trumprussia-big-carbons-last-monstrous-grasp/
*Research Handbook on Climate Change, Migration and the Law
<http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/research-handbook-on-climate-change-migration-and-the-law>*
Edited by Benoit Mayer, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Chinese
University of Hong Kong and Francois Crepeau, Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer
Professor in Public International Law, Faculty of Law, McGill
University, Canada
This comprehensive Research Handbook provides an overview of the debates
on how the law does, and could, relate to migration exacerbated by
climate change. It contains conceptual chapters on the relationship
between climate change, migration and the law, as well as doctrinal and
prospective discussions regarding legal developments in different
domestic contexts and in international governance.
Concerns have arisen in recent decades about the impact of climate
change on human mobility. Many people affected by climate change are
forced or otherwise decide to migrate within or across international
borders. Despite its clear importance, many questions remain open
regarding the nature of the climate-migration nexus and its implications
for laws and institutions. In the face of such uncertainty, this
Research Handbook offers a comprehensive picture of laws and
institutions relevant to climate migration and the multiple, often
contradictory perspectives on the topic.
Carefully edited chapters by leading scholars in the field provide a
cross section of the various debates on what laws do, can do and should
do in relation to the impacts of climate change on migration. A first
part analyses the relations between climate change and migration. A
second part explores how existing laws and institutions address the
climate-migration nexus. In the final part, the chapters discuss
possible ways forward.
This timely Research Handbook provides much-needed insight into this
complex issue for graduate and post-graduate students in climate change
or migration law. It will also appeal to students and scholars in
political science, international relations, environmental studies and
migration studies, as well as policymakers and advocates.
http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/research-handbook-on-climate-change-migration-and-the-law
*This Day in Climate History November 2, 2010
<http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/11/03/128002/gop-frosh-class/>
- from D.R. Tucker*
November 2, 2010: Republicans win control of the US House of
Representatives in the midterm elections, putting some of the nation's
most vehement climate-change deniers in control of that body. Also,
California voters reject a ballot initiative intended to kill landmark
climate-change legislation in that state.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/11/03/128002/gop-frosh-class/
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/11/19/174837/climate-zombie-caucus/
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/11/voters-reject-prop-23-keeping-californias-global-warming-law-intact.html
http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/greenfront/2010/11/becky-bond-of-credo-action-group-how-prop-23-was-defeated.html
http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/greenfront/2010/11/adi-nochur-1sky-about-the-elections.html
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