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

[Richard Pauli]

/September 24, 2017/

*Republican Senator Endorses 'Price on Carbon' to Fight Climate Change 
<http://time.com/4947960/lindsay-graham-climate-change-carbon-tax/>*
Sen. Lindsey Graham endorsed a "price on carbon" to fight climate 
change, breaking with much of the Republican Establishment.
Speaking at a climate change conference held by former Secretary of 
State John Kerry at Yale University, the South Carolina Republican 
called for a "price on carbon," saying he would take the idea to the 
White House for consideration.
http://time.com/4947960/lindsay-graham-climate-change-carbon-tax/


*Simulating The Bodily Pain Of Future Climate Change 
<http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/09/23/552340651/simulating-the-bodily-pain-of-future-climate-change>*
The same is, unfortunately, true for our leaders. Today, we have 
politicians who make policies or pass laws that deny or worsen the 
effects of climate change. I'm suggesting that these actions are due, in 
part, to a failure of simulation. Our elected leaders may be capable of 
imagining and discussing climate change (though some choose not to), but 
it's unlikely that they simulate the vivid sensations of suffering that 
might result from their decisions.
Jared Diamond, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, makes some foreboding 
observations in his book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or 
Succeed. Past civilizations have fallen, he writes, when their leaders 
became insulated from the consequences of their actions until it was too 
late. From a neuroscience perspective, this means the leaders - even 
well-meaning ones - were not simulating those future consequences. By 
the time the consequences arrived so the leaders could experience them 
first hand, a course correction was impossible.  Our federal approach to 
climate change appears to be a textbook example of this shortsightedness.
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/09/23/552340651/simulating-the-bodily-pain-of-future-climate-change


*Learning to move icebergs 
<https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2017/09/learning-move-icebergs>*
As companies step deeper into the Arctic, Russian oilmen and researchers 
together find ways to handle drifting icebergs.
With funding from oil company Rosneft, a group of researchers spend 40 
days in the northern parts of the Barents and Kara Seas to explore ways 
to move icebergs.
The Kara Leto-2017 is the second expedition of its kind. In 2016, the 
researchers successfully managed to move icebergs with a weight up to 
one million tons.
So far this year, they have moved icebergs with a weight up to 200,000 
tons, Rosneft says. In addition to the towing operation of the ice, the 
researchers explore mechanisms for early detection and monitoring of ice 
formations. Two satellite radio beacons have been attached to a 75x35 
meter iceberg and 3D scanning of the object made, the researchers say.
Involved are specialists from Rosneft along with researchers from the 
Arctic and Antarctic Institute and the Arctic Science Center, the latter 
a unit subsidiary of the oil company.
According to the Arctic and Antarctic Institute says the capacity to 
move icebergs is of key importance for offshore oil and gas developers. 
During the planning of the Shtokman field in the Barents Sea, the 
Russian field developers were challenged by up to 100 drifting icebergs, 
some of them more than three million tons heavy. The first research on 
ways to prevent collisions between icebergs and oil installations was 
subsequently conducted in the years 2004-2005, the Institute says.
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2017/09/learning-move-icebergs
*Rosneft moves 1 million ton big iceberg 
<https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2016/10/rosneft-moves-1-million-ton-big-iceberg>*
How to prevent a drifting iceberg from running into an oil platform? 
Rosneft believes it has the answer.
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2016/10/rosneft-moves-1-million-ton-big-iceberg

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**Why Study Stoneflies? Climate Change Biologist Scott Hotaling Explains*
<http://wfpl.org/why-study-stoneflies-climate-change-biologist-scott-hotaling-explains/>"What 
we're trying to figure out is, if you take the entire genome which is 
the template for everything these stoneflies, the template for 
everything we do, our genome, our behavior, our hair color, our eye 
color,  everything about us, and you look across it, huge swaths of that 
genome, most of it, we'll say 99 percent, is not going to have anything 
to do with surviving warmer conditions. But some of it might. Finding 
the thing that is associated with thermal tolerance in a stonefly that's 
never been studied that lives in the meltwater of a glacier is a pretty 
big challenge."
http://wfpl.org/why-study-stoneflies-climate-change-biologist-scott-hotaling-explains/


*This Day in Climate History September 24, 2007 
<http://youtu.be/LnPNvIHqaRo>  -  from D.R. Tucker*
September 24, 2007: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger addresses 
the United Nations on his state's efforts to reduce carbon pollution.
http://www.climate-debate.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-address-to-the-united-nations-on-global-climate-change-r6.php
http://youtu.be/LnPNvIHqaRo
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