[TheClimate.Vote] July 31, 2018 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Tue Jul 31 08:21:34 EDT 2018
/July 31, 2018/
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*[CBC video report 3:00]*
Fires in northern California leave several dead
<https://youtu.be/YpRvOD_IvnA>*
CBC News: The National
Published on Jul 30, 2018
Fires in northern California have left several people dead. CBC's
Lyndsay Duncombe reports.
https://youtu.be/YpRvOD_IvnA
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Intense heat, 'firenadoes' fuel deadly Carr Fire in California
<https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/07/30/carr-fire-intense-heat-firenadoes-fuel-deadly-california-blaze/862200002/>*
REDDING, Calif. - Firefighters battling intense heat and strong winds
struggled Monday to gain control of a deadly Northern California
wildfire that has killed at least six people and destroyed more than 700
homes.
The fire had burned through 150 square miles and was growing, but Cal
Fire Incident Commander Brett Gouvea said it was not moving deeper into
this town of 92,000...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/07/30/carr-fire-intense-heat-firenadoes-fuel-deadly-california-blaze/862200002/
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*PHOTOS: Apocalyptic Carr Fire burns through Shasta County
<http://abc7news.com/photos-apocalyptic-carr-fire-burns-through-shasta-county/3835150/>*
<http://abc7news.com/photos-apocalyptic-carr-fire-burns-through-shasta-county/3835150/>http://abc7news.com/photos-apocalyptic-carr-fire-burns-through-shasta-county/3835150/
[should not surprise]
*This Summer's Heat Waves Could Be the Strongest Climate Signal Yet
<https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27072018/summer-2018-heat-wave-wildfires-climate-change-evidence-crops-flooding-deaths-records-broken>*
'In many places, people are preparing for the past or present climate.
*But this summer is the future.'*
By Bob Berwyn
Earth's global warming fever spiked to deadly new highs across the
Northern Hemisphere this summer, and we're feeling the results-extreme
heat is now blamed for hundreds of deaths, droughts threaten food
supplies, wildfires have raced through neighborhoods in the western
United States, Greece and as far north as the Arctic Circle.
Earth's global warming fever spiked to deadly new highs across the
Northern Hemisphere this summer, and we're feeling the results-extreme
heat is now blamed for hundreds of deaths, droughts threaten food
supplies, wildfires have raced through neighborhoods in the western
United States, Greece and as far north as the Arctic Circle.
At sea, record and near-record warm oceans have sent soggy masses of air
surging landward, fueling extreme rainfall and flooding in Japan and the
eastern U.S. In Europe, the Baltic Sea is so warm that potentially toxic
blue-green algae is spreading across its surface.
There shouldn't be any doubt that some of the deadliest of this summer's
disasters-including flooding in Japan and wildfires in Greece-are fueled
by weather extremes linked to global warming, said Corinne Le Quere,
director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
<http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/> at the University of East Anglia.
"We know very well that global warming is making heat waves longer,
hotter and more frequent," she said.
"The evidence from having extreme events around the world is really
compelling. It's very indicative that the global warming background is
causing or at least contributing to these events," she said...
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27072018/summer-2018-heat-wave-wildfires-climate-change-evidence-crops-flooding-deaths-records-broken
[Go kids !]*
Supreme Court Refuses to Halt Kids Climate Case
<https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/07/30/supreme-court-kids-climate-case/>*
The Supreme Court denied the federal government's request to halt
discovery and the trial in the youth climate lawsuit Juliana v. United
States. The court's rejection on Monday of the defendants' application
for a stay means the case will likely proceed to trial as scheduled in
U.S. District Court on October 29...
https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/07/30/supreme-court-kids-climate-case/
[PBS on NYTimes Magazine online tomorrow]
*Why U.S. lawmakers failed to act on climate change decades ago
<https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-u-s-lawmakers-failed-to-act-on-climate-change-decades-ago>*
Audio and text
This coming week, The New York Times Magazine will devote an entire
publication of the Sunday magazine to the issue of climate change. The
single-themed edition called "Losing Earth," will look at scientific
discoveries and decisions made on climate change from 1979 to 1989
through the story of a former NASA scientist. Nathaniel Rich, who
authored the edition, joins Hari Sreenivasan for more.
Read the Full Transcript:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-u-s-lawmakers-failed-to-act-on-climate-change-decades-ago
[Philosophical opinion - video and transcript]
*Noam Chomsky: Survival of Organized Human Life is at Risk Due to
Climate Change & Nuclear Weapons
<https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/30/noam_chomsky_survival_of_organized_human>*
At least eight people have died in California as climate change-fueled
wildfires rage statewide. In total, firefighters are battling seventeen
wildfires blazing across California, engulfing more than 200,000 acres
and forcing mass evacuations, including in Yosemite National Park. The
fires comes amid a surge of deadly extreme weather worldwide, including
in India, where more than 500 people have died as a result of flooding
and heavy rains in recent weeks. Scientists have linked increased
flooding and rainfall to climate change. For more we speak with
world-renowned political dissident, author, and linguist Noam Chomsky.
He is a laureate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the
University of Arizona and Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, where he taught for more than 50 years....
It was not known in 1945 that we were not only entering the nuclear
age, but entering a new geological epoch, what geologists call the
Anthropocene, an epoch in which human activity is having severe and
deleterious effects on the environment in which human and other life
can survive. We also entered into what's now called the sixth
extinction, a rapid extinction of species, which is comparable to
the fifth extinction 65 million years ago when an asteroid, huge
asteroid, hit the Earth, we know...
Humans beings, right now, this generation, for the first time in
history, have to ask, "Will human life survive?" And not in the far
future will organized societies-those are the issues we should be
concerned with. Everything else pales in significance in comparison
with this.
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/30/noam_chomsky_survival_of_organized_human
[From 2009 - more than we want to know, with lots of math]
*O2 Dropping Faster than CO2 Rising
<http://www.i-sis.org.uk/O2DroppingFasterThanCO2Rising.php>*
Implications for Climate Change Policies
New research shows oxygen depletion in the atmosphere accelerating since
2003, coinciding with the biofuels boom; climate policies that focus
exclusively on carbon sequestration could be disastrous for all
oxygen-breathing organisms including humans...
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Within the past several years, however, scientists have found that
oxygen (O2) in the atmosphere has been dropping, and at higher rates
than just the amount that goes into the increase of CO2 from burning
fossil fuels, some 2 to 4-times as much, and accelerating since
2002-2003. Simultaneously, oxygen levels in the world's oceans have also
been falling [4] (see Warming Oceans Starved of Oxygen, SiS 44).
It is becoming clear that getting rid of CO2 is not enough; oxygen has
its own dynamic and the rapid decline in atmospheric O2 must also be
addressed. Although there is much more O2 than CO2 in the atmosphere -
20.95 percent or 209,460 ppm of O2 compared with around 380 ppm of CO2
[now 410ppm] - humans, all mammals, birds, frogs, butterfly, bees, and
other air-breathing life-forms depend on this high level of oxygen for
their well being Living with Oxygen (SiS 43). In humans, failure of
oxygen energy metabolism is the single most important risk factor for
chronic diseases including cancer and death. 'Oxygen deficiency' is
currently set at 19.5 percent in enclosed spaces for health and safety,
below that, fainting and death may result.
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**Large decreases in atmospheric oxygen detected*
Decrease in atmospheric O2 has been detected in stations around the
world for the past decade, a consistent downward trend that has
accelerated in recent years.
The largest fall in O2 was observed in the study of Swiss research team
led by Francesco Valentino at University of Bern, for data collected at
high altitude research stations in Switzerland and France.
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/O2DroppingFasterThanCO2Rising.php
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Scripps O2 Program
*Atmospheric Oxygen Levels are Decreasing <http://scrippso2.ucsd.edu/>*
Oxygen levels are decreasing globally due to fossil-fuel burning. The
changes are too small to have an impact on human health, but are of
interest to the study of climate change and carbon dioxide. These plots
show the atmospheric O2 concentration relative to the level around 1985.
The observed downward trend amounts to 19 'per meg' per year. This
corresponds to losing 19 O2 molecules out of every 1 million O2
molecules in the atmosphere each year
http://scrippso2.ucsd.edu/
*
*[Latest: climate experts discussion]*
Experts Discuss Recent Heat Waves and Atmospheric Changes
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atUpkiwURl8>*
Climate State - Published on Jul 29, 2018
The impacts of global warming are now 'playing out in real-time'. *Mike
Mann (Penn State), Jennifer Francis (Rutgers), and Noah Diffenbaugh
(Stanford), *discuss July 27th 2018 the recent heat waves around the
globe, and how it connects with the jet stream pattern, moderated by
Markeya Thomas of Climate Signals.
Read the conversation summary at ClimateSignals.org https://goo.gl/dK9gku
Latest article on this subject by Mike Mann, published in The Guardian
https://goo.gl/p8HfdD
Further reading: Thermogeddon: When the Earth gets too hot for humans
https://barringtonstewart.wordpress.com/thermogeddon-when-the-earth-gets-too-hot-for-humans/
Amplification of Rossby waves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossby_wave#Amplification_of_Rossby_waves
Polar amplification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_amplification
[Opinion]
Scientific American goes Marvel
*Climate Change: We're Not Literally Doomed, but...
<https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/hot-planet/climate-change-were-not-literally-doomed-but/>**
there's space for action between "everything is fine" and "the
apocalypse is upon us"*
By Kate Marvel on July 30, 2018
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/hot-planet/climate-change-were-not-literally-doomed-but/
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Kate Marvel
TED2017
*Can clouds buy us more time to solve climate change?
<https://www.ted.com/talks/kate_marvel_can_clouds_buy_us_more_time_to_solve_climate_chang>*
https://www.ted.com/talks/kate_marvel_can_clouds_buy_us_more_time_to_solve_climate_change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmk7nAvpMXQ
*This Day in Climate History - July 31, - from D.R. Tucker*
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