[TheClimate.Vote] February 21, 2018 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Wed Feb 21 09:21:25 EST 2018
/February 21, 2018/
[future risk]
*Climate change 'will push European cities towards breaking point'
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/21/climate-change-will-push-european-cities-towards-breaking-point>*
Study highlights urgent need to adapt urban areas to cope with floods,
droughts and heatwaves
Major British towns and cities, including Glasgow, Wrexham, Aberdeen and
Chester, could be much more severely affected by climate change than
previously thought, according to new research.
The study, by Newcastle University, analysed changes in flooding,
droughts and heatwaves for every European city using all climate models.
Looking at the impact by the year 2050-2100, the team produced results
for three possible outcomes - low, medium and high-impact scenarios.
But even the most optimistic case showed 85% of UK cities with a river,
including London, would face increased flooding.
In the high-impact scenario, some cities and towns in the UK and Ireland
could see the amount of water per flood as much as double. The worst
affected is Cork, which could see 115% more water per flooding, while
Wrexham, Carlisle, Glasgow, and Chester could all see increases of more
than 75%.
The increase in severity in the predicted impact has come after the
team, in a first of its kind, examined all three climate hazards
together in the largest study of its kind ever undertaken...
The team used projections from all available models associated with the
high emission scenario RCP8.5, which implies a 2.6C to 4.8C increase in
global temperature.
They found the British Isles have some of the worst overall flood
projections, with the high scenario predicting half of UK cities could
see at least a 50% increase on peak river flows.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/21/climate-change-will-push-european-cities-towards-breaking-point
[Legal]
*IF CLIMATE CHANGE WRECKS YOUR CITY, CAN IT SUE EXXON?
<https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/20/17031676/climate-change-lawsuits-fossil-fuel-new-york-santa-cruz>*
Scientists can now link disasters to climate change, opening the door to
lawsuits against fossil fuel companies
By Josh Dzieza Feb 20, 2018
In a sense, we're currently conducting a planet-wide experiment in what
happens when you pump billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere, but there's no control group — an untouched planet against
which we can measure the effects — so attribution researchers use models
to simulate on
Friederike Otto, a senior researcher at the University of Oxford and a
lead scientist on theWorld Weather Attribution
<https://wwa.climatecentral.org/>project, compares the process to
figuring out whether dice are loaded. You roll a clean die and a loaded
one over and over and compare the results. You won't be able to point to
a particular winning roll and say it happened because the die was
loaded, but you can quantify how much more likely loading made it.
The first major attribution studies were done on heat waves, like the
ones that killed tens of thousands of people inEurope in 2003
<https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03089>andRussia in 2010
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/feb/21/climate-change-russian-heatwave>.
The studies captured public attention and scientists began researching
more events and delivering results more quickly. Since 2014, researchers
at the World Weather Attribution project have been publishing
assessments of heat waves, droughts, floods, and other events often
weeks after they occur...
The better attribution science gets, the easier it will be to argue that
governments should have foreseen climate risks and prepared for them —
and to hold them liable if they fail to. In the journal/Nature/
<https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo3019.epdf?author_access_token=OJyOF8biyt7xV-JsaU6a7NRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PM6YSPpYVStdF73lrDnowLWi-vlbDKpkHtU4Y5_VPnMsIQHd4aIu7mPTAlc_5BXz7EhlGqpReudxFw6skRewY4>this
fall, a group of environmental lawyers listed a range of actors, from
local governments to construction companies, that could face litigation
for continuing to operate under a 20th century understanding of risk.
"Advances in the science of extreme weather event attribution have the
potential to change the legal landscape in novel ways," they wrote.
The science can also bolster litigation against greenhouse gas emitters
themselves. Robert Glicksman, a professor of environmental law at the
George Washington University Law School, points out that when states
sued tobacco companies, they relied on a form of causation similar to
that provided by attribution studies. They couldn't say definitively
that a particular cancer was caused by smoking, but states could say
smoking increased the probability of cancer among their residents, which
was translating to higher health care costs that the tobacco companies
were liable for. An analogous case is now being made by a growing number
of cities and counties around the US: climate change has made certain
disasters more likely, and local governments are bearing the costs...
The native Alaskan town of Kivalina sits on a narrow barrier island 80
miles above the Arctic circle. Rising temperatures have melted the sea
ice that once protected it from fierce storms, resulting in rapid
erosion, and it's been evident for over a decade that the town will have
to move. But relocating a town, even one of just 400 people, isexpensive
<https://toolkit.climate.gov/case-studies/relocating-kivalina>: between
$100 and $400 million, and it's unclear where the money will come from.
So in 2008, the town decided to sue fossil fuel companies for the moving
costs.
Kivalina's case is the one that most closely resembles the current round
of lawsuits, and its fate is inauspicious. It wasultimately dismissed
<http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2012/09/26/9th-circuit-affirms-dismissal-in-kivalina-v-exxonmobil/>on
the grounds that greenhouse gas emissions are regulated on the federal
level by the Clean Air Act and the Environmental Protection Agency...
Santa Cruz's suit, for instance, cites attribution research on the role
climate change played in the recent California drought
<http://www.pnas.org/content/112/13/3931> and wildfires
<http://www.pnas.org/content/113/42/11770> as part of its case that
greenhouse gas emissions are making these disasters more likely. New
York's suit says the city is already experiencing
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12591/full> rising
temperatures and more extreme precipitation. All the current lawsuits
focus on sea level rise, the impact of climate change that's been best
understood the longest. But that too has seen improvements in the
ability to link climate change with specific local damage, like coastal
flooding
<http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-increases-sunny-day-floods-20784>
and erosion, key facts to prove in litigation...
"I think that, certainly, we will see attribution science front and
center in all of these cases, whether it's attribution of specific
levels of sea level rise in specific places or attribution of extreme
events," says Burger, who is currentlyworking on a paper
<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3051178>on the role
of attribution research in litigation...
It's standard practice for fossil fuel companies to push back fiercely
against attempts to hold them accountable for climate change, but it's
easy to see why the current round of lawsuits would be worrisome.
Research keeps finding a stronger climate signal in more and more
disasters, from drought and wildfire to floods and avalanches. "If these
cases survive, there's a long list of climate change impacts that could
become the subject of such litigation," Burger says. The bill for
adapting to them, whoever ends up paying it, will be large...
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/20/17031676/climate-change-lawsuits-fossil-fuel-new-york-santa-cruz
[Animals at risk]
*How human coping mechanisms for climate change are impacting endangered
animals
<https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/how-human-coping-mechanisms-for-climate-change-are-impacting-endangered-animals/70004192>*
A serious, mostly unknown impact of climate change on animals is the way
in which humans react to climate change, according to Nikhil Advani, a
lead specialist on climate, communities and biodiversity at the World
Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Humans and wildlife compete for diminishing
sources of water and, according to Advani, this is happening in many
places around the world.
Advani has found that certain human actions are negatively affecting
at-risk species, including giant pandas, snow leopards and mountain
gorillas.
Due to rising temperatures, communities are shifting their activities to
higher elevations, according to Advani. This movement causes people and
agriculture to encroach on giant panda territory. Giant pandas, which
are considered vulnerable, live at these higher elevations mainly in the
mountains of western China...
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/how-human-coping-mechanisms-for-climate-change-are-impacting-endangered-animals/70004192
[Economics lecture video]
*London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)*
Published on Feb 13, 2018
How does new information about climate change impact our existing
beliefs? Cass Sunstein identifies some surprising biases and findings.
*Cass Sunstein (@CassSunstein) *is the Robert Walmsley University
Professor at Harvard Law School. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator
of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
*Nicholas Stern (@lordstern1) *is IG Patel Professor of Economics and
Government at the LSE and has been Chair of the Grantham Research
Institute since it was founded in 2008.
The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
(@GRI_LSE ) was established by the London School of Economics and
Political Science in 2008 to create a world-leading centre for
policy-relevant research and training on climate change and the
environment, bringing together international expertise on economics,
finance, geography, the environment, international development and
political economy.
"How people incorporate knowledge. "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGCHeZ_TSYg
LSE Events | How do People Really Think about Climate Change?
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[Book Blurb]
*Why Are We Waiting?: The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling
Climate Change (Lionel Robbins Lectures)
<https://www.amazon.com/Why-Are-We-Waiting-Tackling/dp/026252998X/ref=sr_1_1>*
by Nicholas Stern (Author)
An urgent case for climate change action that forcefully sets out, in
economic, ethical, and political terms, the dangers of delay and the
benefits of action.
The risks of climate change are potentially immense. The benefits of
taking action are also clear: we can see that economic development,
reduced emissions, and creative adaptation go hand in hand. A committed
and strong low-carbon transition could trigger a new wave of economic
and technological transformation and investment, a new era of global and
sustainable prosperity. Why, then, are we waiting? In this book,
Nicholas Stern explains why, notwithstanding the great attractions of a
new path, it has been so difficult to tackle climate change effectively.
He makes a compelling case for climate action now and sets out the forms
that action should take.
Stern argues that the risks and costs of climate change are worse than
estimated in the landmark Stern Review in 2006 -- and far worse than
implied by standard economic models. He reminds us that we have a
choice. We can rely on past technologies, methods, and institutions --
or we can embrace change, innovation, and international collaboration.
The first might bring us some short-term growth but would lead
eventually to chaos, conflict, and destruction. The second could bring
about better lives for all and growth that is sustainable over the long
term, and help win the battle against worldwide poverty. The science
warns of the dangers of neglect; the economics and technology show what
we can do and the great benefits that will follow; an examination of the
ethics points strongly to a moral imperative for action. Why are we waiting?
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Are-We-Waiting-Tackling/dp/026252998X/ref=sr_1_1
[Heros or Villains?]
*Environmentalists Say They're Averting Climate Disaster. Conservatives
Say It's Terrorism.
<https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pipeline-environmentalist-terrorism_us_5a85c2ede4b0058d55672250?8ej>*
The post-9/11 rhetoric vilifying environmentalists is making a comeback.
By Alexander C. Kaufman
But policymakers are sharpening their knives on the state level, too.
Late last year, the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council
drafted model legislation calling for severe punishments for anyone
caught trespassing on or tampering with an oil, gas or chemical factory.
The Critical Infrastructure Protection Act even includes a clause that
any "conspirator" organization would be fined 10 times more than a
trespasser, opening the door to crippling penalties for environmental
groups...
Lawmakers in Ohio and Iowa are now considering bills based on the
proposal. The Iowa bill is backed by Energy Transfer Partners, the
company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline. In all, 31 states have
considered 58 bills to crack down on protesters since November 2016,
according to a database maintained by the International Center for
Not-for-Profit Law. Eight have been enacted, and 28 are pending...
The American Chemistry Council and the American Gas Association - trade
associations for chemical manufacturers and gas-burning utilities - did
not respond to requests for comment. ALEC did not reply to an email
requesting an interview...
While industry groups quietly work to lay sharper legal snares for
environmentalists, people like Johnston, the woman who turned a pipeline
valve in Minnesota, are fighting to reshape the narrative over fossil
fuel sabotage in court...
In October, a district court judge in Minnesota ruled that Johnston and
her two co-defendants would be allowed to argue that the "necessity" of
confronting climate change justified temporarily shutting down the
pipeline. Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate
Change Law at Columbia University, called the defense "extremely
unusual," according to InsideClimate News. But, if successful, it could
set a legal precedent used in the past by political activists on issues
including the Vietnam War, nuclear weapons and abortion.
Either way, Johnston said she is prepared to make an example of herself.
"I'm not afraid to go to jail," she said. "I'm afraid of climate change."
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pipeline-environmentalist-terrorism_us_5a85c2ede4b0058d55672250?8ej
See industry letter from ACC, AFPM, EEI, AGA, Energy Policy Network and
Marathon oil promoting the approval of the draft ALEC "criminalization
of protest" model bill in December.
The letter insinuates that five examples of attacks on infrastructure
were rabid environmentalists.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pipeline-environmentalist-terrorism_us_5a85c2ede4b0058d55672250?8ej
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[ALEC = American Legislative Exchange Council]
*ALEC, Corporate-Funded Bill Mill, Considers Model State Bill Cracking
Down on Pipeline Protesters
<https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/12/11/alec-model-bill-pipeline-protesters>*
By Steve Horn • Monday, December 11, 2017 - 12:19
(States & Nation Policy Summit), The American Legislative Exchange
Council (ALEC), a group that connects state legislators with
corporations and creates templates for state legislation, voted on a
model bill calling for the crack down and potential criminalization of
those protesting U.S. oil and gas pipeline infrastructure.
Dubbed the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act, the model legislation
states in its preamble that it draws inspiration from two bills passed
in the Oklahoma Legislature in 2017. Those bills, House Bill 1123 and
House Bill 2128, offered both criminal and civil penalties which would
apply to protests happening at pipeline sites. Critics viewed these
bills as an outgrowth of the heavy-handed law enforcement reaction to
protests of the Dakota Access pipeline.
At the time the bills were still under proposal, the Oklahoma American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) criticized them, saying they had the
potential to quash free speech and the right to assemble as protected by
the First Amendment...
"The First Amendment protects our right to stand in the Capitol
rotunda," Ryan Kiesel, executive director of the Oklahoma ACLU, told the
Oklahoma Gazette in March. "It also protects the rights of Oklahomans
and Americans to engage in speech and activity, knowing that if they
engage in civil disobedience, that the penalties they face should not be
disproportionate. If we chill and keep people home, away from the
cameras and away from the public they are trying to wake up on any
number of issues, we are doing a real disservice to our democracy."..
Alyssa Hackbarth, a spokesperson for ALEC, did not respond to multiple
requests for comment clarifying whether the model bill actually passed
through the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force. Officials
working for the Task Force also did not respond to a request for
comment. ALEC's website still lists the bill as a draft proposal
introduced on December 7...
Hackbarth formerly worked as a research assistant for Off the Record
Strategies, one of the public relations firms hired by the National
Sheriffs' Association during the protests against the Dakota Access
pipeline in North Dakota. In a set of Off the Record Strategies talking
points obtained by DeSmog via open records law, the firm compared
anti-pipeline protesters to violent "anarchists" and "Palestinian
activists" who possessed "guns, knives, etc."
Off the Record was founded and is run by Mark Pfeifle, who worked for
the George W. Bush administration on its communications strategies to
garner public support for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force is now run by
recent hire Grant Kidwell, who previously worked as a senior policy
analyst for Americans for Prosperity, the lobbying, advocacy, and
electioneering group funded and founded by money from the Koch Family
Foundations and Koch Industries. Kidwell also formerly worked as a
policy analyst for the Charles Koch Institute and attended graduate
school at George Mason University, a key intellectual laboratory for
Koch-funded economic and regulatory ideology.
*Model vs. Original Bills*
The ALEC model bill combines the two pieces of Oklahoma legislation by
breaking them up into separate sections, one for criminal penalties and
another for civil penalties.
Oklahoma's HB 1123 calls for citizens to receive a felony sentencing,
$100,000 fine, and/or 10 years in prison if their actions "willfully
damage, destroy, vandalize, deface, or tamper with equipment in a
critical infrastructure facility."
The ALEC model bill, by comparison, calls for those who "willfully
trespass or enter property containing a critical infrastructure facility
without permission by the owner of the property or lawful occupant
thereof shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by
a fine of not less than {dollar figure}, or by imprisonment in the
county jail for a term of {length of time}, or by both such fine and
imprisonment."...
*Anti-Protest Bills Nationwide*
Even before the ALEC model bill's introduction, dozens of anti-protest
bills were introduced in statehouses nationwide in 2017.
While all of the bills mandated different things, with some more similar
than others, what they share in common are the implications for what
First Amendment proponents call a threat to free speech and freedom of
assembly. Including Oklahoma, the bills have passed in four states.
Among the other states which saw bills pass was North Dakota, the
epicenter of the uprising against the Dakota Access pipeline. North
Dakota's legislation included increased criminal penalties for "riot"
offenses and additional criminal punishment for wearing a mask while
committing a crime.
The ACLU, which created a map tracking where various anti-protest bills
were introduced and their status, sees this trend as a threat to
essential democratic rights enshrined in the First Amendment.
"Is this spate of anti-protest bills a coincidence? We think not," wrote
the ACLU in a blog post. "State representatives around the country
should be celebrating the fact that their constituents are getting out
into the streets and making their voices heard. Instead, state
representatives are … proposing bill after bill that would criminalize
protest or even put the lives of protesters in danger."
After these bills appeared in various statehouses, David Kaye, the
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the
right to freedom of opinion and expression, and Maina Kiai, the UN
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of
association, came out in opposition to such legislation. The two pointed
to the Oklahoma bill as particularly problematic.
"We are concerned this Bill would target peaceful protests in certain
contexts, such as protests which focus on environmental rights, imposing
disproportionate penalties on protesters," wrote Kaye and Kiai. "We are
even more concerned that the Bill reportedly was prompted by the Dakota
Access pipeline protests in North Dakota."
If the ALEC model bill draft proposal does indeed become an official
model, the template will be distributed to legislators in statehouses
across the country. Put another way, what happens in Oklahoma won't
necessarily stay in Oklahoma in 2018.
https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/12/11/alec-model-bill-pipeline-protesters
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[ALEC]
*CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION ACT
<https://www.alec.org/model-policy/critical-infrastructure-protection-act/>*
Summary
Drawing inspiration from two laws enacted in 2017 by the State of
Oklahoma, this Act codifies criminal penalties for a person convicted of
willfully trespassing or entering property containing a critical
infrastructure facility without permission by the owner of the property,
and holds a person liable for any damages to personal or real property
while trespassing. The Act also prescribes criminal penalties for
organizations conspiring with persons who willfully trespass and/or
damage critical infrastructure sites, and holds conspiring organizations
responsible for any damages to personal or real property while trespassing.
Section 3. {Civil Penalties.}
A. Any person who is arrested for or convicted of trespass may be held
liable for any damages to personal or real property while trespassing.
B. Any person or entity that compensates, provides consideration to or
remunerates a person for trespassing as described in subsection A of
this section may also be held vicariously liable for any damages to
personal or real property committed by the person compensated or
remunerated for trespassing...
https://www.alec.org/model-policy/critical-infrastructure-protection-act/
[rising denial]
*In Year of Trump, Climate Science Denial Group GWPF sees Membership
Income Double
<https://www.desmog.uk/2018/02/19/donald-trump-s-first-year-climate-science-denial-group-gwpf-sees-membership-income-double>*
By Chloe Farand • Monday, February 19, 2018
The UK's main climate science denier thinktank has seen its income from
membership fees double over the last year, its latest accounts show.
The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has consistently argued
against the climate science consensus and was set-up by former
Chancellor Nigel Lawson to combat what it describes as "extremely
damaging and harmful policies" designed to mitigate climate change.
GWPF's latest accounts published on Companies House last week show a
rise in the income generated from membership fees from 5,479 (pound
sterling) in 2016 to 11,937 in 2017.
Donations were also reported to have increased from 257,044 in 2016 to
284,141 (pound sterling) last year — raising the foundation's total
funds to 743,959 (pound sterling).
GWPF also paid a fundraising consultancy fee worth 4,380, which appeared
for the first time in the 2017 accounts...
https://www.desmog.uk/2018/02/19/donald-trump-s-first-year-climate-science-denial-group-gwpf-sees-membership-income-double
[Standing Rock]
*Red Cloud's Revolution: Oglalla Sioux freeing themselves from fossil
fuel
<https://news.mongabay.com/2018/02/red-clouds-revolution-oglalla-sioux-freeing-themselves-from-fossil-fuel/>*
by Saul Elbein on 19 February 2018
Henry Red Cloud, like so many Oglalla Sioux young men, left the
reservation to work in construction. When he returned home in 2002, he
needed a job, and also wanted to make a difference. He attended a solar
energy workshop and saw the future.
Today, Red Cloud runs Lakota Solar and the Red Cloud Renewable Energy
Center, which have become catalysts for an innovative new economic
network - one that employs locals and connects tribes, while building
greater energy independence among First Nations.
The company is building and installing alternative energy systems, and
training others to do the same, throughout remote areas of U.S.
reservations, thus allowing the Sioux and others to leap past outdated
fossil fuel technology altogether.
Henry Red Cloud's company has another more radical purpose: it helps
provide energy to remote Water Protector camps, like the one at Standing
Rock protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Solar power and other
alternative energy sources are vital at such remote sites, as they power
up cellphones, connecting resistors to the media and outside world...
The goal is to build an energy independent First Nation and modern
lifestyle, beyond the reach of oil shortages, price hikes, and the
environmental harm perpetuated by the U.S. fossil fuel-driven economy...
For more than a decade, Red Cloud has been running Lakota Solar, an
off-grid skills school and solar machine factory - oneof Pine Ridge's
few locally owned business, and the heart of a business network that
extends to a dozen other reservations...
Over a thousand alumni have learned to build solar arrays, solar
furnaces and solar-driven water pumps in his schools. To Red Cloud,
these are practical skills that expand people's economic and political
options. But they're also something mystical - a key to a new personal
and communal future. The two of us settle under a shade tree, and Red
Cloud declares: "Number 45," (that being his way of referring to U.S.
President Donald Trump) "is changing a whole lot in our country. So we
need to start banding together, natives and non-natives, and if we're
going to build this country let's build it efficient."
For Red Cloud, solar and renewable energy are to the New Economy what
the sun is to an intact ecosystem - the basis of everything, offering
perpetual sustenance. A place as "underdeveloped" and remote as Pine
Ridge, he says, has always presented its First Nation inhabitants with a
devil's choice: either continue in poverty, or sacrifice your culture to
the world coming in from outside - usually the malls-and-suburban model
of 20th Century America...
"But out here we're rural," Red Cloud says, pointing to the far horizon.
"We're the West of the West. At night you have a sky full of stars. You
can see thunderstorms coming from 100 miles away. We have no Interstate,
no banks, no nothing. And that's how I like it - being able to go to the
hills and see as far as the naked eyeball can see. I wouldn't want to
see mainstream America flood this place."So, Lakota Solar and the Red
Cloud Renewable Energy Center have become catalysts for an innovative
economic network - one that employs locals and connects tribes, while
building greater independence...
https://news.mongabay.com/2018/02/red-clouds-revolution-oglalla-sioux-freeing-themselves-from-fossil-fuel/
[NASA MEDIA ADVISORY M18-035]
*NASA Television Coverage Set for Weather Satellite Science Briefing,
Launch
<https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-television-coverage-set-for-weather-satellite-science-briefing-launch>*
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S)
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) newest
weather satellite, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S
(GOES-S), is scheduled to launch Thursday, March 1. The launch, as well
as prelaunch and science briefings on Tuesday, Feb. 27, will air live on
NASA Television and the agency's website.
At 5:02 p.m. March 1, a two-hour launch window will open, during which
GOES-S will launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space
Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in
Florida. Launch coverage will begin at 4:30 p.m.
GOES-S is the second in the GOES-R Series of weather satellites that
includes GOES-R (now GOES-16), -S, -T and -U. The satellite will be
renamed GOES-17 when it reaches geostationary orbit. Once the satellite
is declared operational, late this year, it will occupy NOAA's GOES-West
position and provide faster, more accurate data for tracking wildfires,
tropical cyclones, fog and other storm systems and hazards that threaten
the western United States, including Hawaii and Alaska, Mexico, Central
America and the Pacific Ocean, all the way to New Zealand.
NASA TV will air two GOES-S news briefings on Feb. 27 from the Press
Site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The prelaunch news conference will be held at 1 p.m.
https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive
Media can ask questions during the briefings via Twitter, using the
hashtag #askNASA.
Audio of the news conferences and launch coverage will be carried on the
NASA "V" circuits, which may be accessed by dialing 321-867-1220, -1240,
-1260 or -7135. On launch day, mission audio, the launch conductor's
countdown activities without NASA TV launch commentary, will be carried
on 321-867-7135.
Information on media accreditation for the launch is available at:
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goes-s-briefings-and-events
Join the conversation and follow the GOES-S launch on social media at:
https://twitter.com/NOAASatellites and https://www.facebook.com/NOAANESDIS/
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-television-coverage-set-for-weather-satellite-science-briefing-launch
*This Day in Climate History February 21, - from D.R. Tucker*
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