[TheClimate.Vote] December 17, 2018 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Mon Dec 17 09:13:48 EST 2018

*/December 17, 2018/*

[Dec 10the AGU Fall Meeting press conference ]
*Global Warming and Changes in East Antarctic Glaciers #AGU2018 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNM46QdEW14>*
Climate State
Published on Dec 11, 2018
East Antarctica, which holds the potential of raising global sea level 
by almost 200 feet, has long been considered stable and unlikely to 
change in the future. But recent observations have hinted that East 
Antarctica is starting to wake. #TottenGlacier
In this briefing, researchers will present new findings on how a group 
of glaciers in the vicinity of the massive Totten Glacier have been 
showing signs of acceleration over the last decade. The panelists will 
also discuss the causes driving these changes.
AGU video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNM46QdEW14
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[Derisive laughter at (:35) toward Trump official]
*Laughter erupts after Trump official's climate proposal 
<https://youtu.be/q-aW538oOik>*
CNN Published on Dec 12, 2018
The Arctic is experiencing a multi-year stretch of unparalleled warmth 
"that is unlike any period on record," according to the 2018 Arctic 
Report Card, a peer-reviewed report from the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration, an agency within the United States 
Department of Commerce
https://youtu.be/q-aW538oOik

[inevitable]
*Two US electric utilities have promised to go 100% carbon-free—and 
admit it's cheaper 
<https://qz.com/1490832/two-utilities-promised-to-go-100-carbon-free-last-week/>*
By Michael J. CorenDecember 13, 2018
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"Technical options exist but it does get costly," says Tom Wilson, a 
renewable-energy expert at the Electric Power Research Institute. Right 
now, the only cost-effective commercial options running at scale are 
nuclear reactors (very pricey) and large hydroelectric facilities (hard 
to site new ones). While geothermal, carbon sequestration, revolutionary 
batteries, and experimental small reactors are among future 
cost-effective possibilities, utilities are betting the right solutions 
will come on time. "If you have the vision, and the need to get there, 
sometimes the technology shows up," says Wilson.
https://qz.com/1490832/two-utilities-promised-to-go-100-carbon-free-last-week/

[underestimating the problem]
*Peter Wadhams - IPCC Underestimates & Political Cowards 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEM2NhPw--U>*
UPFSI
Published on Dec 11, 2018
https://ScientistsWarning.TV - Dr. Peter Wadhams nails the problem 
squarely on the head. The IPCC continues to famously underestimate the 
problem, even in its most recent 'urgent' report, and the politicians 
remain cowards, self-serving & and 'corrupt,' serving first the 
'fictitious persons' (corporations) on a daily basis and once every few 
years going through the 'democracy' charade, when in fact we live in a 
Monetocracy. We are in a sorry state, and the climate negotiations are 
disingenuous and unfortunately doomed to fail from a terminal case of 
'kicking the can down the road'.  False promises are the hallmark of 
politicians.  But the IPCC can do better than to have continually 
underestimated the climate problem for the past quarter century.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEM2NhPw--U

[Counting to one million]
*Over 1.24 mn deaths in 2017 due to air pollution in India, says study 
<https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/over-1-24-mn-deaths-in-2017-due-to-air-pollution-in-india-says-study-118120600761_1.html#>*
Uttar Pradesh, last year, recorded the most 260,028 deaths attributable 
to air pollution
Press Trust of India - New Delhi
Last Updated at December 6, 2018 19:00 IST
One in eight deaths in India last year was attributable to air 
pollution, which contributes to more disease burden than tobacco use, a 
study said Thursday while asserting the highest exposure to ultra-fine 
particulate matter, PM2.5, was in Delhi followed by Uttar Pradesh and 
Haryana.
Around 1.24 million deaths in India in 2017 is attributable to air 
pollution, it said and termed air pollution a leading risk factor for 
deaths in the country where the average life expectancy would have been 
1.7 years higher if the pollution levels were less than the minimal 
level causing health loss.
The study, published in the Lancet Planetary Health journal, asserted 
that with 18 per cent of the global population, India suffered 26 per 
cent of premature mortality and health loss attributable to air 
pollution globally...
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According to it, the major sources of ambient particulate matter 
pollution in India are coal burning in thermal power plants, industry 
emissions, construction activity, brick kilns, transport vehicles, road 
dust, residential and commercial biomass burning, waste burning, 
agricultural stubble burning, and diesel generators.
https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/over-1-24-mn-deaths-in-2017-due-to-air-pollution-in-india-says-study-118120600761_1.html#
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[Source material]
*The impact of air pollution on deaths, disease burden, and life 
expectancy across the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease 
Study 2017*
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(18)30261-4/fulltext#%20

[policy punditry]
*Tony Juniper (WWF) Urgent Action to Restore the Web of Life 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoTyDDyFkSU>*
UPFSI
Published on Dec 16, 2018
Tony Juniper, co-author with Prince Charles, joins us to discuss the 
threat of our destructive model of economic development upon the web of 
life itself. The outcome will not just be a dramatic loss of species, 
but the probably extinction of Homo sapiens (us) among them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoTyDDyFkSU

[Activism: Extinction Rebellion - BBC radio]
*Profile: Dr Gail Bradbrook <https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001lvz>*
Gail Bradbrook is one of the founders of a radical and rapidly-growing 
environmental protest group called Extinction Rebellion. Its aim: using 
non-violent direct action to force governments to tackle climate change. 
It's energised a lot of people who're fed up with what they see as the 
slow pace of change. And it's won support from the great and good of the 
environmental world. One hundred leading academics, authors, politicians 
and religious leaders have endorsed it. But critics have likened the 
group to a watermelon; green on the outside, red on the inside. So who 
is Gail Bradbrook? And where is she leading Extinction Rebellion?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001lvz

[non-linearity and thoughtful and radical solutions 10 min video]
*John Schellnhuber: NonLinear Responses to save civilisation 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ1uCMFyYQY>*
Nick Breeze
Published on Dec 16, 2018
Visit: https://envisionation.co.uk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ1uCMFyYQY

[activism]
*The two Swedish mums who want people to give up flying for a year 
<https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-46362159/the-two-swedish-mums-who-want-people-to-give-up-flying-for-a-year>*
Two Swedish mums have persuaded 10,000 people to commit to not taking 
any flights in 2019.
Their social media initiative, No-fly 2019 (Flygfritt 2019), is aiming 
for 100,000 pledges, and has been asking participants to post their 
reasons for signing up.
Maja Rosen and her neighbour Lotta Hammar say they started the campaign 
to show politicians what needs to be done to halt climate change.
video
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-46362159/the-two-swedish-mums-who-want-people-to-give-up-flying-for-a-year

*This Day in Climate History - December 17, 2014 - from D.R. Tucker*
The New York Times reports:
"The Cuomo administration announced Wednesday that it would ban 
hydraulic fracturing in New York State, ending years of uncertainty by 
concluding that the controversial method of extracting gas from deep 
underground could contaminate the state’s air and water and pose 
inestimable public-health risks."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/nyregion/cuomo-to-ban-fracking-in-new-york-state-citing-health-risks.html?mwrsm=Email 

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/17/3604762/breaking-new-york-will-pursue-fracking-ban/ 

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/andrew-cuomo--im-not-a-scientist-374321731971 

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