[TheClimate.Vote] April 28, 2019 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Sun Apr 28 09:03:54 EDT 2019

/April 28, 2019/

[Increasing intensity]
*Cyclone Kenneth is one of the strongest storms to hit mainland Africa*
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2200925-cyclone-kenneth-is-one-of-the-strongest-storms-to-hit-mainland-africa/

[an EPA document gives warning]
*Guidance about Planning for Natural Disaster Debris*
The 2019 "Planning for Natural Disaster Debris" guidance is an update to 
the version that EPA published in March 2008. It is designed to help all 
communities (including cities, counties, territories, tribes, etc.) 
create disaster debris management plans, which EPA strongly encourages.

The Planning for Natural Disaster Debris guidance assists communities in 
planning for natural disaster debris before a disaster occurs, including 
hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanoes, floods, wildfires and 
winter storms, by providing useful, relevant information that is 
intended to increase community preparedness and resiliency. Information 
is included on the following:

Recommended components of a debris management plan,
Suggested management options for various natural disaster debris streams,
A collection of case studies that highlights how several communities 
prepared for and managed debris generated by recent natural disasters,
Resources to consult in planning for natural disasters, and
EPA's recommended pre-incident planning process to help prepare 
communities for effective disaster debris management.
Note: EPA integrated lessons learned from the 2017 hurricane seasons 
into this 2019 final guidance document.

You may need a PDF reader to view some of the files on this page. See 
EPA's About PDF page to learn more.
*Planning for Natural Disaster Debris* (PDF)(150 pp, 6 MB, April 2019, 
EPA-F-19-003)
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2019-04/documents/final_pndd_guidance_0.pdf
https://www.epa.gov/homeland-security-waste/guidance-about-planning-natural-disaster-debris

[Documentary video]
*The battle against climate change by Paul Kingsnorth *
vpro documentary 49 minutes
Published on Apr 26, 2019
Humanity has lost the battle against climate change. That is what Paul 
Kingsnorth thinks. The former environmental activist believes that we 
can´t stop climate change anymore. How should we live on knowing that 
climate change is a fact that can´t be denied anymore? A documentary 
that gives thinker and writer Paul Kingsnorth the time to explain how 
humanity still can be hopeful although the battle against climate change 
in his eyes has been lost...
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Thinker and writer Paul Kingsnorth stood early on the barricades as a 
conservationist. He resisted the insatiable hunger of the globalized 
world for more land, resources and things in England and on the other 
side of the world in Papa New Guinea. Kingsnorth was one of the leaders 
of the environmental movement and reached a large international audience 
with its passionate speeches. But at some point, he came to terms that 
he had to revisit his belief that humanity could save the world...
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Kingsnorth withdrew with his family to the Irish countryside to live 
self-sufficient. He founded the "Dark Mountain Project" in which 
writers, poets and artists are looking for a different view of the end 
of the world, based on the connection between man and nature. He 
exchanged his clenched fist and protesting voice for an inner, literary 
search for the question of what makes us human and what our place is on 
this magical planet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_s8Vo00Xug

[NASA interactive science]
*Virtual Earth System Laboratory*
Welcome to the Virtual Earth System Laboratory! On this site, a 
sophisticated computer model called the Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM) is 
being made available to the public, allowing real-time simulations of 
the effects of environmental change on glaciers, ice sheets, sea level, 
and the geology of Earth.
Try out the simulations -- and change their properties -- using these links:
We present results of ISSM simulations from present day to 500 years 
into the future. These simulations capture sea-level rise around the 
world as one of Antarctica's main glaciers, Thwaites Glacier, retreats 
inland. The first simulation shows how the grounding line (line where 
the grounded ice of Antarctica comes afloat) retreats when the bedrock 
under the ice does not move (green line). The second simulation includes 
a new state of the art model where the bedrock is now considered 
elastic, and rebounds as the ice retreats inland (red line). As time 
evolves and Thwaites Glacier starts thinning, both grounding lines 
retreat. However, the red grounding line is slower to retreat. This in 
turns results in a smaller contribution to sea-level rise. Indeed, the 
rebound of the bedrock acts as a negative feedback, or stabilizer, 
slowing down the thinning of Thwaites Glacier.
https://vesl.jpl.nasa.gov/sea-level/slr-uplift/
https://vesl.jpl.nasa.gov/sea-level/

*This Day in Climate History - April 28, - from D.R. Tucker*
April 28, 2013: Slate's Phil Plait re-debunks the "Why don't they call 
it global warming anymore?" talking point often heard on the Fox News 
Channel: this talking point had been previously debunked by Peter 
Sinclair of ClimateCrocks.com.
http://youtu.be/mqMunulJU7w
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/04/28/fox_news_global_warming_versus_climate_change.html
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