[TheClimate.Vote] June 12, 2018 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Tue Jun 12 09:41:07 EDT 2018
/June 12, 2018/
[Carbon Briefing]
*Pope Francis urges oil and gas groups to tackle climate change
<https://www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/pope-francis-urges-oil-and-gas-groups-to-tackle-climate-change>*
June 11. 2018
The Pope has warned major oil company heads that there is "no time to
lose" to address climate change, urging them to speed up the transition
away from fossil fuels, report the Financial Times and many others. The
Pope's comments came at a closed-door summit of energy leaders at the
Vatican, where he hosted chief executives from firms including BP, Shell
and ExxonMobil. He told the meeting that climate change could "destroy
civilisation", reports the Hill. Describing climate change as a
challenge of "epochal proportions", the Pope said: "Civilisation
requires energy, but energy use must not destroy civilisation,"
according to BBC News. Reuters carries lengthy excerpts from the Pope's
closed-door speech including: "We know that the challenges facing us are
interconnected. If we are to eliminate poverty and hunger … the more
than one billion people without electricity today need to gain access to
it…Our desire to ensure energy for all must not lead to the undesired
effect of a spiral of extreme climate changes due to a catastrophic rise
in global temperatures, harsher environments and increased levels of
poverty." Environmentalists and aid agencies urged oil firms to heed the
Pope's warnings, reports another Reutersarticle. Al Jazeera, the
Telegraph, Huffington Post, Climate Home News and Politico also cover
the story. The meeting comes three years after the Pope's encyclical
calling for swift action on climate change, notes the New York Times.
See Carbon Brief's coverage
<https://www.carbonbrief.org/papal-encyclical-key-statements-on-climate-energy-and-the-environment>
of the encyclical for more details.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/pope-francis-urges-oil-and-gas-groups-to-tackle-climate-change
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INTERNATIONAL POLICY 18 June 2015
*Papal Encyclical: key statements on climate, energy and the environment
<https://www.carbonbrief.org/papal-encyclical-key-statements-on-climate-energy-and-the-environment>*
Carbon Brief has read though the Papal Encyclical and here are the
document's key statements on climate, energy and the environment…
https://www.carbonbrief.org/papal-encyclical-key-statements-on-climate-energy-and-the-environment
[below is an observation]
*The Wall Street Journal keeps peddling Big Oil propaganda
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jun/11/the-wall-street-journal-keeps-peddling-big-oil-propaganda>*
The WSJ disguises climate misinformation as "opinion"
Dana Nuccitelli - Mon 11 Jun 2018
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Opinion page has long had a conservative
skew, and unfortunately that has extended to politicizing climate change
withbiased and factually inaccurate editorials
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent+media/wallstreetjournal>.
Over the past several weeks, the WSJ's attacks on climate science have
gone into overdrive. On May 15th, the Opinion page publisheda
self-contradictory editorial
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/may/21/yes-evs-are-green-and-global-warming-is-raising-sea-levels>from
the lifelong contrarian and fossil fuel-fundedFred Singer
<https://www.skepticalscience.com/Fred_Singer_blog.htm>that so badly
rejected basic physics,it prompted one researcher to remark
<https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/wall-street-journal-commentary-grossly-misleads-readers-about-science-of-sea-level-rise-fred-singer/>,
"If this were an essay in one of my undergraduate classes, he would fail."
The WSJ did publisha letter to the editor (LTE) from real climate
scientists
<http://michaelmann.net/content/our-response-latest-climate-change-denying-wall-street-journal-op-ed>Andrea
Dutton and Michael Mann rebutting Singer's editorial. However, it gave
the last word to science deniers inan LTE response
<https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-wouldnt-think-sea-level-is-so-complex-1527873471>rejecting
the well-established facts thatsea level rise is accelerating
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/feb/27/scientists-have-detected-an-acceleration-in-sea-level-rise>andAntarctic
is loss is contributing to it
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/mar/01/decisions-today-will-decide-antarctic-ice-sheet-loss-and-sea-level-rise>.
A few days later, the WSJ opinion page was at it again, publishingan
editorial
<https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-change-has-run-its-course-1528152876>byStephen
F. Hayward <https://www.desmogblog.com/steven-f-hayward>, whodescribes
himself
<http://www.dailycal.org/2016/08/30/conservative-scholar-steven-hayward-teach-uc-berkeley/>as
having "spent most of my adult life in conservative think tanks in
Washington, D.C.," and it shows. Hayward hasa long history as a climate
naysayer
<https://twitter.com/past_is_future/status/1004444147950989312>,
spanningover a decade
<https://web.archive.org/web/20070204135040/http:/www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.24401/pub_detail.asp>
back to his days with thefossil fuel-funded American Enterprise
Institute <https://www.desmogblog.com/american-enterprise-institute>...
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The WSJ is of course far from the only media outlet guilty of peddling
fossil fuel industry propaganda. Last Friday,The Hill published a very
similar editorial
<http://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/390729-theres-no-need-to-panic-about-the-rising-sea-level>by
Fred Singer, whose second sentence included two very easily fact-checked
falsehoods: "sea level has been rising at a steady rate, between 1 and 2
millimeters per year." In reality,sea level rise has been accelerating
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/feb/27/scientists-have-detected-an-acceleration-in-sea-level-rise>,
now up toabout 3.3 millimeters per year <http://sealevel.colorado.edu/>.
Some people are of the opinion that the Earth is flat, but the WSJ and
The Hill probably wouldn't publish Flat Earthers' editorials. Of course,
the Flat Earth Society doesn't have the financial and political clout of
the fossil fuel industry.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jun/11/the-wall-street-journal-keeps-peddling-big-oil-propaganda
[Heat opens up the lungs]
*An understudied impact of climate change: Increased deaths and
illnesses from inhaling airborne dust
<https://theconversation.com/an-understudied-impact-of-climate-change-increased-deaths-and-illnesses-from-inhaling-airborne-dust-96625>*
<https://theconversation.com/an-understudied-impact-of-climate-change-increased-deaths-and-illnesses-from-inhaling-airborne-dust-96625>June
11, 2018
The Dust Bowl in the 1930s was one of the worst environmental disasters
of the 20th century. Intense dust storms relentlessly pounded the
southern Great Plains of the United States, wreaking severe ecological
damage, forcing2.5 million people to leave the region
<https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=1355>and claiming
unnumbered lives, mainly from"dust pneumonia."
<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1996313/pdf/pubhealthreporig01958-0004.pdf>
Research hasshown <https://doi.org/10.1175/2007JCLI2134.1>that this
disaster was fueled by a combination of severe droughts and
over-cultivated lands. Today, climate change driven by human actions
isenhancing the occurrence of droughts
<https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.81>in multiple regions around the world.
As researchers working at the intersection of environmental health, air
pollution and climate change, we wanted to know how increasing drought
conditions and population growth in the U.S. Southwest could affect
airborne dust levels and public health.
In a recently publishedstudy <https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aabf20>,
we estimate that if the world stays on its current greenhouse gas
emissions path, rising fine dust levels could increase premature deaths
by 130 percent and triple hospitalizations due to fine dust exposure in
this region...
If global greenhouse gas emissions are not sharply reduced, scientists
project that the U.S. Southwest - already the nation's hottest and
driest region - will experience unprecedented multi-decade
"mega-droughts
<https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/10/megadroughts-arizona-new-mexico/503531/>"
in the coming decades.
It is now well understood that short- and long-term exposures to
airborne particles, including dust, pose majorhealth risks
<https://www.epa.gov/pm-pollution/health-and-environmental-effects-particulate-matter-pm>.
Effects range from increased hospital admissions to higher risk of
premature death, primarily due to cardiovascular and respiratory
disorders...
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Our findings highlight the potential for climate change to worsen air
quality problems in many populated arid regions around the world - one
of the many threats posed by climate change to human health and well-being.
https://theconversation.com/an-understudied-impact-of-climate-change-increased-deaths-and-illnesses-from-inhaling-airborne-dust-96625
[Working Group on Climate Nuclear and Security Affairs Report Two]
*RELEASE: Amidst Growing Nuclear and Climate Threats, A New Series of
Reports Issues Warnings and Recommendations*
<https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/working-group-on-climate-nuclear-security-affairs-report-two_2018_05.pdf>
by Caitlin Werrell and Francesco Femia
Washington, DC - Building on the success of its first groundbreaking
report from 2017, today the Working Group on Climate Nuclear, and
Security Affairs, a cross-sectoral group of distinguished nuclear
affairs, climate and security experts chaired by the Center for Climate
and Security, released a second report and series of briefers based on
its 2018 deliberations. These short papers mark the first-ever step in
exploring how to reduce emerging threats as nuclear trends, the effects
of climate change, and underlying security dynamics collide in regions
such as South Asia and the Middle East. Amidst growing nuclear and
climate threats, this pioneering collaborative group has identified
potential new and unexplored risks where these issues collide, and
anticipatory solutions to those risks..
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The Working Group on Climate, Nuclear, and Security Affairs was a
first-of-its-kind experiment in
bringing diverse voices from each of these fields together to examine
pressing challenges to international
security. The group showed clearly that effective threat reduction will
require the examination of the
nexus of these risks in places as diverse as Pakistan, the United
States, Jordan, Indonesia, Iran, China,
Russia, and India. This is merely the first step of the Working Group.
In the coming months and
years, it will guide deep case study research, continue to convene to
deliberate on global trends and
develop recommendations, and help in communicating the importance of
aggressive measures to
address existential risks such as nuclear threats and extreme climate
change impacts - and the even
more daunting challenges emerging as they collide.
https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/working-group-on-climate-nuclear-security-affairs-report-two_2018_05.pdf
[Right joins Left]
*NYC Climate Case Belongs in Court, Libertarian Think Tank Argues
<https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/06/11/nyc-climate-case-oil-industry/>*
By Karen Savage
Afriend-of-the-court brief
<http://blogs2.law.columbia.edu/climate-change-litigation/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/case-documents/2018/20180601_docket-118-cv-00182_amicus-brief.pdf>supporting
New York City's liability lawsuit against major oil companies came last
week from a source that once would have seemed unlikely:the Niskanen
Center <https://niskanencenter.org/about/>, a traditionally libertarian
think tank.
The Center, based in Washington D.C., is led by Jerry Taylor,formerly
<https://theintercept.com/2017/04/28/how-a-professional-climate-change-denier-discovered-the-lies-and-decided-to-fight-for-science/>a
climate skeptic and a staff director at the American Legislative
Exchange Council (ALEC
<https://niskanencenter.org/blog/staff/jerry-taylor/>). The Niskanen
Center has long had a libertarian bent and is a staunch defender of
property rights. But in the case of New York, which is trying to use
state common law to hold five major companies accountable for climate
change-related damages,the Center believes
<https://niskanencenter.org/blog/oil-companies-should-be-held-accountable-for-climate-change/>that
law provides the best remedy for climate change-related damages because
they harm both public and private property without the owner's consent.
The brief was written by David Bookbinder, formerly chief climate
counsel for the Sierra Club and the lead attorney in Massachusetts v.
EPA, successfully arguing to the Supreme Court that the EPA is obligated
to regulate carbon dioxide emissions as a pollutant. He has been
Niskanen's chief counsel since February 2017.
Earlier this year, the Niskanen Center became co-counsel ina climate
liability suit filed
<https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/04/17/colorado-climate-lawsuits-exxon-suncor/>by
three Colorado communities against two fossil fuel companies, Exxon and
Suncor.
Since then, the Center, and Niskanen in particular, has become a vocal
force on issues in this new wave of litigation, now supporting the suit
filed by the country's biggest city against five major oil companies.
New York filedsuit
<https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/01/10/new-york-city-climate-lawsuit-liability-bill-de-blasio/>in
federal court in January, asking for damages to cover infrastructure
improvements needed to protect New Yorkers from the increasing effects
of climate change. Three of the defendants - US-based Chevron, Exxon and
ConocoPhillips - filed a motion to dismiss in February. Judge John
Keenan will hear arguments on that motion on Wednesday in U.S. District
Court for the Southern District of New York.
In their motion to dismiss, the oil giantsmaintain
<http://blogs2.law.columbia.edu/climate-change-litigation/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/case-documents/2018/20180223_docket-118-cv-00182_motion-to-dismiss.pdf>that
the city's claims aren't covered by state common law because they
involve greenhouse gas emissions, which are regulated by the federal
government, not the states. That is the only way, the companies argue,
to maintain uniform standards and avoid conflict and confusion between
states.
The companies also argue that the city's claims fail to meet federal
common law guidelines because they are displaced by the Clean Air Act,
which empowers the EPA to regulate air pollution...
https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/06/11/nyc-climate-case-oil-industry/
June 14 - June 17, 2018
[International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy]
*IARPP Conference 2018 - New York
<http://iarpp.net/thesite/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IARPP-2018-Brochure.pdf>*
Roosevelt Hotel, 45 East 45th Street, NYC
New York City, USA
*Hope and Dread: Therapists and Patients in an Uncertain World
<http://iarpp.net/conference/iarpp-conference-2018-new-york/>*
IARPP is an international community of professionals and individuals
committed to developing relational perspectives and exploring
similarities and differences with other approaches to analysis and
psychotherapy.
We are currently a nation rife with divisions; inundated with hate,
competing claims on truth, paranoia, and a distrust of the
Other. For some, a primary concern is the debasement of
moral practices that all democratic collectivities depend
on; populism in the US and around the world threatens
critical thought, empathic identification, collective determination, and
community building. For others, there is a chronic feeling of
inequality,
disempowerment, and a lack of change over time that has fueled the
bi#erness and animosity so pervasive in the current
political climate. This conference will take up many different areas in
Relational thought, but will also directly address immediate matters of
concern that have a long history such as immigration, racism, and
national/
international trauma.
Our hope is that this conference may provide a forum to join together
in examining political and social crises similar to the one
currently going
on in the United States and, in so doing, clarifying what we can learn
from living through troubled times, both about the self and the world.
We will seek to understand the repetition of trauma to explain in part
how we have arrived at a certain point in history as well as more deeply
grasp its nefarious and complex impact on both members of the analytic
dyad. We will consider the place of truth and objective fact alongside
that of postmodern constructivism, multiplicity, and the importance of
holding the complexity of experience and its inherent ambiguity.
Click here to view/download the IARPP 2018 Conference Brochure
<http://iarpp.net/thesite/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IARPP-2018-Brochure.pdf>
WALK IN REGISTRATION BEGINS THURSDAY JUNE 14 at 7:45am
http://iarpp.net/conference/iarpp-conference-2018-new-york/
[Cryoacoustics - new audio experience]
*How fast is the Arctic ice retreating? Just listen to it melt
<https://thebulletin.org/how-fast-arctic-ice-retreating-just-listen-it-melt11878>*
What is the loudest thing in the sea?
The sound of a melting glacier, says oceanographer Oskar Glowacki of
the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California
at San Diego. When a glacier meets the sea, it sounds like a billion
bubbles bursting all at once, creating a white noise that is very
different from the sound of an individual melting iceberg - whose
bubbles typically number only in the thousands, allowing people to hear
more distinct, individualized popping sounds.
It may not seem like much at first on paper, but when the raw data
from months of field recordings in a fjord in Norway is compiled into
statistics and run through an algorithm, that is enough for researchers
to tell the difference between a melting glacier and a melting iceberg,
and even track an individual iceberg as it travels. And the technique
can be used to estimate the speed at which glaciers and icebergs are
melting underwater, right at that critical point where the ice meets the
sea. Scientists can also use this budding field of "cryoacoustics" to
determine, by sound alone, the volume of a chunk of ice as it calves
from a glacier and crashes into the ocean, say Glowacki and his
colleagues Grant Deane and Mateusz Moskalik.
And having a better idea of all this information could have many
different possible ramifications. Not only will the sea level rise due
to all that melting ice, but the fresh cold water released by the ice
will alter the environment, impose different conditions for sea mammals
to survive, affect the ocean's salinity, and change the circulation
patterns of ocean currents such as the Gulf Stream, with potentially
huge impacts on human civilization...
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Dan Drollette: So there's all kinds of different implications that can
come out of using acoustics to study glaciers and icebergs?
Glowacki: What we usually say is that this is a new field - call it
"ambient noise cryology" or "cryoacoustics" or whatever - it's studying
the ice with noise. For some people it sounds ridiculous, you know: "Why
are you going to listen to the ice?"
But I tell them that we are helping the science enter a different stage.
Researchers have been using satellites for years, and have
well-established methods. While we are in the position of establishing a
new tool. They found out ways to use satellites to measure what is going
on at the surface with glaciers and icebergs, while we are preparing the
tools for going down under the water.
https://thebulletin.org/how-fast-arctic-ice-retreating-just-listen-it-melt11878*
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Glacier noise in Hornsund Fjord Credit: Oskar Glowacki
<https://soundcloud.com/user-629727076/glacier-noise-in-hornsund-fjord-credit-oskar-glowacki>*
https://soundcloud.com/user-629727076/glacier-noise-in-hornsund-fjord-credit-oskar-glowacki
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[try your new headphones on this]
*Cryoacoustic Orb <https://vimeo.com/18572586>*
7 years agoMore
Cryoacoustic Orb is a sound installation involving multiple illuminated
acrylic orbs filled with slowly melting ice. Hydrophones frozen inside
the ice amplify the sounds of the melting process, which are
electronically processed and spatialized throughout the darkened gallery
space. The result is a unique ambient soundscape that evolves over the
course of several hours.
https://vimeo.com/18572586
[are we now /homo-stupido?/]
*Extinction may silence advanced civilisations
<https://mailchi.mp/climatenewsnetwork/extinction-may-silence-advanced-civilisations?e=30dc80e2f6>*
ET hasn't been in touch. Enduring silence may be the real message from
distant and ancient galaxies, if advanced civilisations destroy the
conditions for their own survival.
By Tim Radford
/LONDON, 11 June, 2018/ - US scientists have calculated the conditions
for the survival of a civilisation - all advanced civilisations across
the vast universe. Their calculations may explain
<https://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=8c3d2453d9&e=30dc80e2f6>
why, so far, extraterrestrial beings have failed to get in touch.
They may also help explain why climate change driven by global warming
could be both inevitable and potentially calamitous.
Entirely theoretical research of this kind is the basis of astrobiology:
the attempt to understand why life exists in a seemingly hostile
universe, and why, if it exists on Earth, it is not visible everywhere.
For practical data, astrobiologists have only one instance of life, and
one of intelligent advanced civilisation to work with: planet Earth.
Adam Frank, of the University of Rochester, New York
<https://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=b9dae8f7d7&e=30dc80e2f6>,
and colleagues report in the journal Astrobiology
<https://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=172df6197f&e=30dc80e2f6>
that they considered the evidence of a vanished civilisation on Earth -
the mysterious culture that flourished on Easter Island in the Pacific
and then vanished by about 1500AD.
*Better insight*
"If we're not the universe's first civilisation, that means there are
likely to be rules for how the fate of a young civilisation like our own
progresses," said Professor Frank.
"The point is to recognise that driving climate change may be something
generic. The laws of physics demand that any young population, building
an energy-intensive civilisation like ours, is going to have feedback on
its planet. Seeing climate change in this cosmic context may give us
better insight into what's happening to us now and how to deal with it."
The principle is that any civilisation must change its planet, and the
most obvious way would be by exploiting resources in ways that might
affect average planetary temperatures.
Under such circumstances the population could reach a peak - and then
die off, leaving a few survivors. Or it could foresee the problems and
go for sustainability rather than ever more growth. Or population and
temperature could reach a peak, at which point the civilisation would
collapse. Or - disconcertingly - the threatened civilisation could
identify the looming disaster but fail to act in time.
*Fatal delay*
"The last scenario is the most frightening," said Professor Frank. "Even
if you did the right thing, if you waited too long, you could still have
your population collapse."
Geoscientists have already identified a new phase of Earth history: the
planet has now entered an epoch informally called the Anthropocene
<https://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=eca5d9b933&e=30dc80e2f6>.
They have already established that, in principle, the build-up of
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as a consequence of the exploitation
of fossil fuels could raise temperatures to a point
<https://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=d599cccd2e&e=30dc80e2f6>
that would make civilisation, and perhaps even life on Earth,
unsustainable
<https://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=f7d0833dfc&e=30dc80e2f6>.
Professor Frank himself has explored these questions in earlier studies.
In 2014, he and colleagues asked themselves how long an alien
civilisation that had discovered fossil fuels
<https://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=ae0ff03f5a&e=30dc80e2f6>,
and therefore changed the conditions in which it evolved, could sustain
itself.
Earlier this year he returned to the theme and asked how modern humans
could ever know if some intelligent non-human civilisation
<https://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=af4d90fb11&e=30dc80e2f6>
had once ruled the planet and then obliterated itself. Easter Island's
vanished overlords, the people who built the vast stone statues
<https://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=838274fc4b&e=30dc80e2f6>
that now stand in enigmatic silence over an impoverished landscape,
become in such a case an object lesson.*
*
*"If we're not the universe's first civilisation, that means there
are likely to be rules for how the fate of a young civilisation like
our own progresses"*
Archaeological evidence suggests that a culture emerged perhaps 1600
years ago, population grew to a peak, resources were over-exploited,
population collapsed and, with it, all memory of what once had been. If
an isolated island had a maximum carrying capacity, then so ultimately
would an isolated planet. Professor Frank sees global climate change as
a planet's response to civilisation.
"If you go through really strong climate change, then your carrying
capacity may drop, because, for example, large-scale agriculture might
be strongly disrupted. Imagine if climate change caused rain to stop
falling in the Midwest. We wouldn't be able to grow food, and our
population would diminish," he said.
"If you change the Earth's climate enough, you might not be able to
change it back. Even if you backed off and started to use solar or other
less impactful resources, it could be too late, because the planet has
already been changing.
"These models show we can't just think about a population evolving on
its own. We have to think about our planets and civilisations
co-evolving." - /Climate News Network/
https://mailchi.mp/climatenewsnetwork/extinction-may-silence-advanced-civilisations?e=30dc80e2f6
[hope grows everywhere, like a weed]
*There Is No Quick Fix for Climate Change
<https://newrepublic.com/article/148926/no-quick-fix-climate-change>*
A plan to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel sounds great in theory,
but poses a number of problems.
By ADAM MCGIBBON - June 11, 2018
The solutions don't need to be invented; they already exist. The world
must sharply cut carbon emissions, keep fossil fuels in the ground,
decarbonize the economy, and pursue aggressive reforestation and
peatland restoration - nature's geoengineering. Realizing these
solutions will be more challenging than inventing a way to remove or
reuse the carbon in the atmosphere. But these are not hypothetical
experiments; their efficacy is not in doubt.
Climate change is an overwhelming problem, almost too big to grasp. It's
comforting to believe that someone, somewhere, can get us out of this
mess, just as previous generations have overcome the challenges of their
era. But the promise of geoengineering is just that: Thus far, it has
only proven effective at easing anxiety about the state of the planet.
There is no quick fix to this crisis, and it will take all of us to
solve it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/148926/no-quick-fix-climate-change
*This Day in Climate History - June 12, 1996
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py2XVILHUjQ> - from D.R. Tucker*
June 12, 1996: Unrepentant professional climate-change denialist
Frederick Seitz wrongfully accuses climate scientist Ben Santer of fraud
in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Seitz's claims are quickly debunked, but
the op-ed forms the centerpiece of a years-long effort by the fossil
fuel industry to destroy Santer's life, reputation and career.
http://www.odlt.org/dcd/docs/Seitz%20-%20A%20Major%20Deception%20on%20Global%20Warming.pdf
http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers/WSJ_June25.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py2XVILHUjQ
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