[TheClimate.Vote] May 26, 2018 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Sat May 26 10:20:45 EDT 2018
/May 26, 2018/
[video positivism]
*Kathleen Dean Moore on climate change, moral integrity, and hope
<https://youtu.be/qb4pJrJsCYo>*
HumansandNature.org
Published on May 30, 2014
Produced by the Center for Humans and Nature.
For more on the "Conversations around the Green Fire" visit
http://www.humansandnature.org/greenfire
https://youtu.be/qb4pJrJsCYo
[Step right up and hear the forecast]
*Forecast: a podcast about climate science and climate scientists
<http://forecastpod.org/>*
<http://forecastpod.org/>Audio - long format interviews with Nature's
editor for climate science, Michael White
Hi, and welcome to Forecast, a podcast about climate science and climate
scientists. I'm Michael White, Nature's editor for climate science.
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After getting interested in podcasts likeMark Maron's WTF
<http://www.wtfpod.com/> and Levi Dalton's I'll Drink To That I figured
that it might be interesting to try something similar for climate: a
podcast based on long-form interviews with climate scientists, about
their lives and their work. My goal is to have wide ranging discussions
with everyone from graduate students to scientists working in the field
for decades.
http://forecastpod.org/
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[Global warming models are like a forecast for climate]
*A Short Introduction to Climate Models - CMIP & CMIP6
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdRiYPJLt4o>*
World Climate Research Programme Published on Jun 21, 2017
As part of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) organized
under the auspices of the World Climate Research Programme's (WCRP)
Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM) many hundreds of climate
researchers, working with modeling centres around the world, will share,
compare and analyze the latest outcomes of global climate models. These
model products will fuel climate research for the next 5 to 10 years,
while its careful analysis will form the basis for future climate
assessments and negotiations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdRiYPJLt4o
[tick-tock]
*David Letterman Brings a Tick to 'Late Night With Seth Meyers'
<https://themighty.com/2018/05/david-letterman-lyme-disease-tick-late-night-with-seth-meyers/>*
David Letterman broughtLyme disease
<https://themighty.com/lyme-disease/> awareness to the desk of "Late
Night With Seth Meyers" on Wednesday with an unconventional "gift."
During his segment, Letterman asked the audience, "Anybody here ever had
Lyme disease? I'm doing this to promote epidemiological health and
awareness because Lyme disease, ticks, they're everywhere."
Meyers asked him if he's had Lyme disease, to which Letterman replied,
"Oh yeah. Probably got it now."
"You look like a guy who would have it," Meyers joked, as Letterman
mimed itching and swatting his beard.
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YouTube video
*David Letterman Gives Seth a Tick <https://youtu.be/szVu-Umh7vI>*
3:30 into the video - Late Night with Seth Meyers Published on May 24, 2018
David Letterman explains what he thinks about Mike Pence, inquires about
a surfing goat Seth once told him about and gives Seth a tick he found
on his lower back.
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This isn't the first time Letterman has brought up Lyme disease. In
1989, he did a skit
<https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/life-without-letterman>
about Lyme disease, complete with a person in a tick costume. In 2006,
hesaid tick-borne illnesses are
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8yVbbgixLg>"one of the most
overdiagnosed" illnesses, and in 2010, hesaid during a segment with Ben
Stiller <https://www.lymedisease.org/387/>that Lyme is an "East Coast
thing," not a California problem.
Over the last few years,scientists have warned
<https://themighty.com/2017/06/how-to-avoid-ticks-this-summer/>that the
tick population, and thus the risk of tick-borne illnesses like Lyme
disease, is increasing. Lyme disease is notoriouslydifficult to diagnose
<https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-basics/lyme-disease/symptoms/> as
testing methods are often unreliable.Undiagnosed
<https://themighty.com/undiagnosed/>or untreated tick-borne illnesses
can cause a range of painful, flu-like and neurological symptoms that
can persist for years.
Although Meyers joked that Letterman "looks like someone who would have"
Lyme disease, it's important to remember that you can become infected
even if you don't have facial hair or spend an extensive amount of time
outdoors. Lyme disease can be foundthroughout the U.S. and around the
world
<https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-basics/lyme-disease/about-lyme/>, not
just the East Coast. To learn how to create a "tick kit" and what to do
if you see a tick on yourself, check outMighty contributor Jena
Whiston's guide
<https://themighty.com/2017/05/tick-kit-preventing-lyme-disease-infections/>.
https://youtu.be/szVu-Umh7vI?t=3m40s
https://themighty.com/2018/05/david-letterman-lyme-disease-tick-late-night-with-seth-meyers/
[Gee Wiz]
*Researchers think they've found the oldest continuous Antarctic ice
cores ever
<https://qz.com/1289309/scientists-have-located-the-oldest-continuous-antarctica-ice-cores-ever/>*
Katherine Ellen Foley
When most of us look at images of Antarctica's ice, we see a cold,
uniform landscape that evokes thoughts of penguins, seals, and an
immediate need for hot chocolate. Climate scientists see potential
portals into our planet's past.
This week, researchers from the University of Washington and the
University of Maine published (paywall) a paper suggesting they've found
the oldest continuous ice records ever, dating back a million years ago.
This ice would give researchers 200,000 more years' worth of data
compared to the previous oldest ice core on record, which was 800,000
years old.
The layers of ice that cover Antarctica work like geological time
capsules. They're able to capture bubbles of air that can be dated and
analyzed to give researchers an idea of what the climate was like
hundreds of thousands of years ago. Antarctic ice cores, for example,
have been used to help prove that excess carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere from industrial activity has led to climate change.
Researchers have found bits of old ice before. Last year, scientists
from Princeton found bits of ice from 2.7 million years ago on the
continent, and in 2016 researchers found another chuck of ice dating
back a million years. Although these were both instances of ice drilled
up in cores, the cores themselves weren't continuous...
https://qz.com/1289309/scientists-have-located-the-oldest-continuous-antarctica-ice-cores-ever/
[Pepto disma-all]
*Gut feeling
<https://grist.org/article/climate-change-my-microbiome-and-me/>*
We blame a lot on global warming - but science might not be ready to
indict it for tummy troubles.
By Lisa Selin Davis on May 15, 2018
Those of us who believe in climate change (and maybe some who don't)
jokingly blame all kinds of things on it, from flat tires to summer
hailstorms. Case of the flu? Climate change. Mudslide? Climate change.
(Usually, we're right.)
- - - - -
Back around the turn of the century, researchers at the Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory shifted around soil from different
elevations on a mountain slope in Eastern Washington state and monitored
the samples for more than 15 years to see how the dirt responded to
climate change. The results of the study, published in 2016, revealed
that the microbial activity in the soil samples changed, sometimes
slightly, sometimes significantly.
The shift, said Vanessa L. Bailey, a co-author of the study and senior
research scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, left some
soils "less able to breakdown certain types of organic matter."
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*Conclusion: inconclusive*
No one I spoke to definitively said, "Climate change is ruining our
stomachs." In fact, causation is going to elude us for a while, in part
because the research is inchoate at best - and in some areas
nonexistent. But considering the fervor over the gut microbiome and the
continuing pressure to address climate change, it's my assumption that a
connection is in the offing.
As Bond-Lamberty told me, "This is why scientists tend to write,
'Clearly more study is needed' at the end of many of their papers." Even
the study on the Canadian Inuit communities resulted in a call for more
research, not action. The study, the authors wrote, "illustrates the
need for high quality temporal baseline information to allow for
detection of future impacts of climate change on regional Inuit human
and environmental health."
As much as I'd like to, I cannot blame my own ailment on climate change
- at least not yet.
Neither could my doctor. When I went for my follow-up appointment, I
spewed out some of these facts to him: how warming changed the gut
bacteria of lizards, how our own guts are undergoing climate change and
killing off our good bacteria. What did he think, I asked, about the
real relationship between climate change and the recent breadth of
stomach woes?
"The climate is always changing," he said, turning his back to me and
fiddling with some papers.
"Wait - are you a climate change denier?" I asked, sitting upright on
the padded table, wondering if I could possibly trust anything that came
out of this guy's mouth.
"The climate is always changing," he repeated, this time with a hint of
a smirk, before telling me that the results of my last test - which
evaluates, get this, excess bacterial growth in the gut - pointed, once
again, to no conclusive diagnosis.
https://grist.org/article/climate-change-my-microbiome-and-me/
[Emojis! Climojis!]
*Climate change? There are emojis for that. The icon set includes
wildfires, power plants, and melting glaciers.
<https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/05/climate-change-there-are-emojis-for-that/>*
Emojis have become a regular part of today's online conversations. Those
little pictures have evolved far beyond smiley faces. There are now
hundreds of icons to liven up a message, from rainbows and hearts, to
tiny koala bears and margaritas.
And now, you can download a new set of digital icons called "Climoji".
It includes cartoon depictions of the causes and effects of climate
change, including power plants, wildfires, and melting glaciers.
Texting or tweeting one of these images might seem trivial. But Marina
Zurkow, the artist and New York University professor who leads the
Climoji project, says that it's important to find new ways to
communicate about climate change.
Zurkow: "The truth of the matter is we have a lot of negative things to
face, but how do we get people to face negative conditions? Our
hypothesis is that people are really tired of gloom and doom, and if
there was anything we could do to contribute in a way to producing some
levity around these difficult issues, as well as a shorthand, that we
were doing something substantial for the conversation."
For some people, the light-hearted, visual vocabulary of Climoji makes
it easier to talk about climate change.
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[Here they are]
*Climoji.org <https://climoji.org/>*
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/climoji-sticker-pack/id1292137387?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=climoji.org.climoji&hl=en
<https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/climoji-sticker-pack/id1292137387?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4>
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9yt0uld82lcp9w0/Climoji_PNG.zip?dl=1
Emoji are used to annotate feelings and to short-hand communication.
Climoji serve as signifiers to amplify climate change and as a new signs
with which to express despair, hope, and solidarity.
Click to Download
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/9yt0uld82lcp9w0/Climoji_PNG.zip?dl=1>
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9yt0uld82lcp9w0/Climoji_PNG.zip?dl=1
Download the sticker packs for iPhone and Android by clicking on the
images above, or on the sidebar at any time.
You can also use the Climoji PNG set in poster and screen applications.
Download them individually or download the entire Climoji collection.
https://climoji.org/
*This Day in Climate History - May 26, 2013
<http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/extreme-weather-patterns-and-the-possible-role-of-climate-change//>
- from D.R. Tucker*
May 26, 2013: The CBS program "Face the Nation" devotes nearly fifteen
minutes to a discussion of the risks of climate change.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GOZznP2O98>
http://thinkprogress.org/media/2013/05/26/2063231/cbs-climate-change/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GOZznP2O98
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/extreme-weather-patterns-and-the-possible-role-of-climate-change//
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