[TheClimate.Vote] May 3, 2018 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Richard Pauli richard at theclimate.vote
Thu May 3 10:34:36 EDT 2018 

/May 3, 2018/

[That's 122 degrees F]
*On Sweltering Planet, Hottest April Temperature Ever Recorded on Earth 
Hits Pakistan 
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/02/sweltering-planet-hottest-april-temperature-ever-recorded-earth-hits-pakistan>*
"We need to dramatically increase our ambitions" in terms of combatting 
global warming, the UN climate chief said this week
by Jessica Corbett
While climate scientists worldwide continue to issue urgent warnings 
that human-caused global warming will make heat waves "hotter, longer, 
and more frequent 
<https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/influence-global-warming-us-heat-waves-may-be-felt-first-west-and>," 
a city in Pakistan on Monday may have set a record for the highest April 
temperature ever recorded on Earth.
As highlighted by French meteorologist Etienne Kapikian on Twitter, the 
city of Nawabshah hit 50.2 degrees C (122.36 degrees F) on Monday, which 
"caused dozens of people to faint" from heatstroke,according to 
<https://www.dawn.com/news/1404959>the Pakistani newspaper/The Dawn...
/More at: 
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/02/sweltering-planet-hottest-april-temperature-ever-recorded-earth-hits-pakistan/
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[More Heat]
*Influence of global warming on U.S. heat waves may be felt first in the 
West and Great Lakes regions 
<https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/influence-global-warming-us-heat-waves-may-be-felt-first-west-and>*
Author: Rebecca Lindsey
On average, more people in the United States die each year from 
heat-related illness than any other weather disaster, according to the 
National Climate Assessment. Human-caused global warming will increase 
the danger as heat waves become hotter, longer, and more frequent. 
According to new NOAA research, communities in the U.S. West and the 
Great Lakes region will have the least time to prepare...
More at: 
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/influence-global-warming-us-heat-waves-may-be-felt-first-west-and
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[For wildfires, heat is worse than drought]
*NWS Phoenix forecast is 100+ degree readings next 6 days 
<https://twitter.com/wildlandfireAZ/lists/wildlandfireaz>*
https://twitter.com/wildlandfireAZ/lists/wildlandfireaz
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[Wildfire in Arizona]
*Arizona Interagency Wildfire Prevention 
<http://wildlandfire.az.gov/wildfire-news>*
http://wildlandfire.az.gov/wildfire-news
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*Climate group raises money to carve Trump's face into glacier 
<http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/385633-climate-group-raising-money-to-carve-trumps-face-into-glacier>*
A Finnish climate group is raising $500,000 to carve President Trump's 
face into an arctic iceberg.
In an attempt to prove global warming exists, a Finnish group called 
Melting Ice wants to carve a 115-foot ice sculpture of Trump's face into 
a glacier for an effort they call "Project Trumpmore."
"Global warming is one of the most important issues and topics of today. 
There are still people who ponder whether it's a real issue," Nicolas 
Prieto, the chairman of the Melting Ice, is quoted saying on the 
association's website. "We want to build the monument for all of us, so 
we can see how long the sculpture lasts before melting. Often people 
only believe something when they see it with their own eyes."
Trump has denied climate change is real in the past, saying without 
evidence that it was "created by and for the Chinese in order to make 
U.S. manufacturing noncompetitive." ...
more at: 
ttp://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/385633-climate-group-raising-money-to-carve-trumps-face-into-glacier
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Press release 26.4.2018
*Will the carving of Donald Trump's face on an arctic iceberg melt or 
last for a thousand years? <www.projecttrumpmore.com/press>*
Project Trumpmore is aiming to demonstrate climate change in a monumental
way. A Finnish NGO wants to commission a 115-foot tall ice sculpture of
Donald Trump's face in the arctic region to demonstrate that climate 
change is
happening. Like the former US presidents on Mount Rushmore, Donald Trump
will have his face carved onto an arctic glacier, in order for it to melt.
- Global warming is one of the most important issues and topics of 
today. There are still
people who ponder whether it's a real issue. We want to build the 
monument for all of us, so
we can see how long the sculpture lasts before melting. Often people 
only believe something
when they see it with their own eyes, says Nicolas Prieto, the chairman 
of the association
Melting Ice, which is behind Project Trumpmore.
One person can make a difference
The project started when three young men working in the creative field 
got enough of talking
and wanted to act instead. Instead of filling the world with fake news 
and alternative facts, this
project aims to actually show climate change taking place.
- Our starting point was to create something concrete, something people 
can see and
something that makes climate change visual. In general, we believe that 
a DIY-attitude
appeals to people, and it's certainly the same thing which got us 
started, Prieto sums up.
Project Trumpmore's goal is to generate conversation and hopefully catch 
the eye of anyone
who is willing to fund our project.
- This project is a huge challenge and we can't do this without help. We 
are now asking
everybody to join this movement. ...
For more information:
Video: vimeo.com/264496887
Web site: www.projecttrumpmore.com
Press images: www.projecttrumpmore.com/press
Interviews:
Nicolas Prieto
Chairman, Melting Ice Association
p. +358 40 703 5758
nicolas at projecttrumpmore.com


[Dynamic data plot temp/CO2]
*UN Climate Change <https://twitter.com/UNFCCC/status/955454267552346112>*
‏Notice the correlation between the global average temperature rise and 
rising atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations? New #dataviz by 
@kevpluck, based on data by @NASAGoddard and @Scripps_Ocean 
#ParisAgreement #GlobalGoals
https://twitter.com/UNFCCC/status/955454267552346112
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[Data visualization - work in progress]
*Global, Arctic and Antarctic sea ice area spiral April 2018 [OC] 
<https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/8g2p4f/global_arctic_and_antarctic_sea_ice_area_spiral/>*
Data is beautiful / Reddit.com
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/8g2p4f/global_arctic_and_antarctic_sea_ice_area_spiral/
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[One more data visualization]
*Antarctic Ice Thickness [OC] <https://i.redd.it/ebsmo8d83ku01.png>*
https://i.redd.it/ebsmo8d83ku01.png
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[Sea Also British Bedmap]*
**Bedmap2 - Ice thickness and subglacial topographic model of Antarctica 
<https://www.bas.ac.uk/project/bedmap-2/>*<https://www.bas.ac.uk/project/bedmap-2/> 

Improved ice bed, surface and thickness datasets for Antarctica
Large view 
<https://www.bas.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bedmap2_preview_large.jpg> 
https://www.bas.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bedmap2_preview_large.jpg
https://www.bas.ac.uk/project/bedmap-2/
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[British Antarctic Survey]
*Ocean-driven ice-shelf thinning in Antarctica 
<https://www.bas.ac.uk/project/ocean-driven-ice-shelf-thinning-in-antarctica/>*
Propagation of ocean-driven ice-shelf thinning and consequences for the 
interior of Antarctica and global sea level
By exploiting advances in ice sheet modelling, and new Antarctic-wide 
datasets, this project aims to predict how far and how fast the observed 
ocean-driven thinning of floating ice shelves will propagate into the 
interior of the Antarctic ice sheet, and assess the consequences for 
global sea level over decadal-to-centennial timescales....
https://www.bas.ac.uk/project/ocean-driven-ice-shelf-thinning-in-antarctica/


[spread by birds mostly]
*Tick and Mosquito Infections Spreading Rapidly, CDC Finds 
<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/health/ticks-mosquitoes-diseases.html>*
New York Times
The number of people who get diseases transmitted by mosquito, tick and 
flea bites has more than tripled in the United States in recent years, 
federal health officials reported on Tuesday. Since 2004, at least nine 
such diseases have been newly discovered or introduced into the United 
States. Warmer ...
- - - - -
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not suggest that 
Americans drop plans for softball games or hammock snoozes. But 
officials emphasized that it's increasingly important for everyone - 
especially children - to beprotected from outdoor pests with bug 
repellent 
<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/well/mosquitoes-ticks-lyme-disease-protection.html>.
New tickborne diseases like Heartland virus are showing up in the 
continental United States, even as cases of Lyme disease and other 
established infections are growing. On island territories like Puerto 
Rico, the threat is mosquitoes carrying viruses like dengue and Zika.
Warmer weather is an important cause of the surge, according to the lead 
author ofa study <https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/index.html>published in 
the C.D.C.'s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report....
More at: 
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/health/ticks-mosquitoes-diseases.html


[interesting opinion]
*Long-lived civilisation may be a dream 
<https://climatenewsnetwork.net/long-lived-civilisation-may-be-a-dream/>*
April 19, 2018, by Tim Radford
Astrobiology, the search for alien life, has a lesson for us here on 
Earth: our hope for a long-lived civilisation may not be sustainable.
LONDON, 19 April, 2018 - Humanity's cherished hope that we are building 
a long-lived civilisation may be nothing more than a pipe-dream. Human 
endeavour, two scientists argue, may carry within it the seeds of its 
own destruction.

The two astrophysicists have turned one of the great questions in 
science into a way of examining the down-to-earth consequences of global 
warming, the pollution of the oceans with indestructible polymers, and 
the wholesale destruction of species in the last 300 years.

They put an innocent question: if there had been an advanced 
technological and industrial civilisation on Earth several hundred 
million years ago, how could anyone know? What marks would have been 
left by a race of intelligent reptiles with motorised transport, housing 
estates, international trade and an arms race?
In what they call the Silurian hypothesis - a reference not to the 
geological period long before the first creatures crawled from the sea 
onto the empty continents, but to a 1970 episode of the British 
television serial Dr Who - they turn to the only testbed available to 
contemporary Earthlings: the evidence of the Anthropocene, the 
geologists' name for a new era that could be considered to have 
commenced with the Industrial Revolution.

"Burning fossil fuels may actually shut us down as a civilisation. What 
imprints would this or other kinds of industrial activity from a 
long-dead civilisation leave over tens of millions of years?"
If some alien or distant-future civilisation set out to study the 
Earth's geological record, what signs would humans have left in the strata?

And almost immediately, their study confronts a paradox. "The longer 
human civilisation lasts, the larger the signal one would expect in the 
record. However, the longer a civilisation lasts, the more sustainable 
its practices would need to have become in order to survive," they write 
in the International Journal of Astrobiology.

But the more sustainable a society, the smaller the footprint its 
agriculture, manufacture or energy generation would have made, and the 
smaller the signal in the geological record.
So the researchers, Adam Frank from the University of Rochester, New 
York and Gavin Schmidt, director of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space 
Studies, set out to calculate the future signature of long-vanished 
human society.

*Signs of change*
They conclude that the burning of fossil fuels has already changed the 
carbon cycle in a way that would be recognisable in records of carbon 
isotopes. Global warming - a consequence of that fossil fuel combustion 
- would be detectable in the rocks.
Global agriculture would be signalled by increases of erosion and 
sedimentation rates over time, and plastic pollutants would be 
detectable for perhaps billions of years. And all-out thermonuclear war 
- were it to happen - would leave behind some unusual radioactive isotopes.

"As an industrial civilisation, we're driving changes in the isotopic 
abundances because we're burning carbon," said Professor Frank. "But 
burning fossil fuels may actually shut us down as a civilisation. What 
imprints would this or other kinds of industrial activity from a 
long-dead civilisation leave over tens of millions of years?"
The latest study is not the only one to contemplate the paradox of a 
self-destroying civilisation. Last year an Arkansas mathematician 
considered the silence of the extraterrestrials.

*Nothing heard*
For 40 years, humans have been listening for the noise of other 
intelligent civilisations in the galaxy, and have heard nothing. Maybe, 
he suggested in the same journal, modern humans are typical of 
technological civilisations, and destroy either their planet, or 
themselves, almost as soon as they exploit technology.

Perhaps, he suggests, a technological civilisation that lasted for 
millions of years would not be typical.

The latest study, in essence, pursues the same logic. Human advance for 
the moment is not sustainable. The people of the Anthropocene have 
already tipped 12 billion tonnes of indestructible plastics into 
landfills, and created a technosphere that totals about 30 trillion 
tonnes. And by 2050, humans will have built another 25 million km of roads.
"You want to have a nice, large-scale civilisation that does wonderful 
things but that doesn't push the planet into domains that are dangerous 
for itself, the civilisation," said Professor Frank. "We need to figure 
out a way of producing and using energy that doesn't put us at risk." - 
Climate News Network
Author: Tim Radford, a founding editor of Climate News Network, worked 
for The Guardian for 32 years, for most of that time as science editor. 
He has been covering climate change since 1988.
https://climatenewsnetwork.net/long-lived-civilisation-may-be-a-dream/


[tree sap sugar distillation]
*What Does Climate Change Mean for Vermont's Maple Sugarers? 
<http://civileats.com/2018/05/02/what-does-climate-change-mean-for-vermonts-maple-sugarers/>*
For an industry that measures time in generations, and works with 
centuries-old trees, the rapid warming of the planet makes for an 
uncertain future...

    Some studies point to long-term threats to the trees as well. In
    January, the journal/Ecology /publishedthe results of research that
    found
    <https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecy.2095?referrer_access_token=bjsuyx5xJ0PmhcouW75wwE4keas67K9QMdWULTWMo8Mv116H9osO8gskzyIXYv9CLXi6SCZ1beNfdaMHl5WtVSIlcj0fiL1gVPa2NazLGwiu7ZyMnvLzmBZlP7YBEVLF>young
    maples will be vulnerable to hotter, drier temperatures causes by
    the changing climate.
    "Maples are more effected by drought than many other species," says
    Ines Ibanez, an associate professor at the University of Michigan
    and one of the four authors of the study. "They need a moist
    environment during the whole growing season. Older trees have a deep
    enough root system that they can withstand stressors better. But
    we're going to see the younger maples dying."
    Exactly how quickly the change will occur is still up for debate. In
    February, the USDA Forest Service publishedan assessment of likely
    climate change impacts <https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/55635>that
    predicts deteriorating conditions in the coming decades for iconic
    New England trees such as the paper birch, northern white cedar, and
    sugar maple. It projects shorter, milder winters, with less snow and
    more rain.
    TheVermont Climate Assessment
    <http://dev.vtclimate.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/VCA2014_FullReport.pdf>project
    goes further. It cites research models predicting that by the end of
    the century, the northeastern forests could be dominated by oaks and
    hickories, with sugar maples and other trees being driven north to
    Maine.

http://civileats.com/2018/05/02/what-does-climate-change-mean-for-vermonts-maple-sugarers/


[Warm waters]
*Climate change study finds New Hampshire's warmer weather will bring 
warmer streams 
<https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180501130850.htm>*
Freshwater species that rely on coldwater habitat will be affected
Date: May 1, 2018 - Dartmouth College
Summary:
Air temperature increases from climate change will make New Hampshire's 
streams warmer. A new study examined the extent to which stream waters 
are warming, which has implications for freshwater ecosystems across the 
nation given that many species depend on cold water to survive.
Air temperature increases from climate change will make New Hampshire's 
streams warmer, according to Dartmouth-led research published in 
Freshwater Biology.
The study examined the extent to which stream waters are warming, which 
has implications for freshwater ecosystems across the nation given that 
many species depend on cold water to survive.
"Understanding how climate change is affecting our streams can help us 
identify which watershed areas should be of conservation or management 
priority, particularly areas that act as cold water refuges for brook 
trout and aquatic invertebrates," said Lauren Culler, the lead author 
and a research assistant professor of environmental studies...
More at: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180501130850.htm


[Cameo]
*Brad Pitt's Despondent Weatherman Is 'So, So, So, So Scared' Right Now 
<https://youtu.be/JwivtxQEmc8>*
Better stock up on sunscreen.
video: Brad Pitt Returns as the Weatherman - The Jim Jefferies Show 
<https://youtu.be/JwivtxQEmc8>
Brad Pitt returned to "The Jim Jefferies Show" on Tuesday night to play 
a weatherman who's trying to let the world know what the future holds. 
Hint: It's going to get hot. Real hot.
https://youtu.be/JwivtxQEmc8


*This Day in Climate History - May 3, 1999 
<http://www.dailyhowler.com/h050399_1.shtml> - from D.R. Tucker*
May 3, 1999: Bob Somerby of the Daily Howler debunks an April 15, 1999 
column by  Washington Times columnist Ben Wattenberg falsely suggesting 
that NASA scientist James Hansen viewed Vice President Al Gore as an 
alarmist on climate change. In addition, Somerby notes:
"Of course, if spinners like Wattenberg get their way-and the larger 
press corps never speaks up-those common sense steps [to reduce carbon 
pollution] may never be taken. And reasoned debate, in the coming 
campaign, could give way to a lot of hot air. So that's why we offer a 
global *warning*, against believing facile spin from these types. 
There's a whole lot of hoo-hah floating around concerning Gore and [his 
views on] global warming. And we hope that the press corps will get off 
its duffs, and bring some clarity to the whole sorry mess."
http://www.dailyhowler.com/h050399_1.shtml

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