[TheClimate.Vote] August 29, 2019 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Thu Aug 29 10:11:29 EDT 2019

/August 29, 2019/

[Inslee knows best]
*2020 Democrats Are Blitzing Jay Inslee's Phone, Asking for Climate 
Policy Advice*
The Washington governor and former candidate has been in touch with 
Biden, Warren, Beto, and Sanders since dropping out...
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During his run, Inslee put together 200 pages of detailed climate policy 
proposals, aggressively pushed for a climate change debate--which the 
Democratic National Committee recently, formally shot down--and 
accumulated more than 130,000 donors who appeared drawn to his message. 
The governor never made much headway in the polls. But his run earned 
him plaudits among party officials and a national profile that--despite 
previously serving as a member of Congress and the head of the 
Democratic Governors Association--he had not previously had...
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/jay-inslee-is-getting-hit-up-by-2020-democratic-candidates-for-climate-policy-advice

[Cimate displaced]
*The New Face Of Climate Change -- The Climate Migrant*
VICE News
Published on Aug 28, 2019
Audelio Mejia's family has grown corn in the agricultural heart of 
Central America, known as the Golden Triangle, for three generations. 
But for the last year, the 50-year-old smallholder farmer has seriously 
considered migrating north with the help of a coyote.
He's not afraid of gang violence or political persecution, like many 
migrants who would claim asylum in the U.S. He's worried 
abhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDlHcxWtbvwout rain -- and the lack of it.

[Maryland to Texas shoreline - vibrio]
*Doctors say more people will contract a flesh-eating bacteria because 
of climate change*
KENS 5: Your San Antonio News Source
Published on Aug 28, 2019
U.S. government researchers found that vibrio cases could increase with 
changing climate conditions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcIabwJKMss

[Yale says of Europe]
AUGUST 28, 2019
*Europe Is Warming Faster Than Even Climate Models Projected*
Climate change is raising temperatures in Europe even faster than 
climate models projected, according to new research published in the 
journal Geophysical Research Letters. The number of summer days with 
extreme heat in Europe has tripled since the 1950s, while the number of 
days with extreme cold more than halved.

Extremely hot days in Europe have become hotter by an average of 4.14 
degrees Fahrenheit, the study found, while extremely cold days have 
warmed by 5.4 degrees F. The research examined data from weather 
stations across Europe from 1950 to 2018, with more than 90 percent of 
stations showing that the climate was warming.
"Even at this regional scale over Europe, we can see that these trends 
are much larger than what we would expect from natural variability," 
Ruth Lorenz, a climate scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of 
Technology in Zurich and lead author of the new study, said in a 
statement. "That's really a signal from climate change."

The research comes after an extremely hot summer in Europe. Southern 
France hit 114.8 degrees F -- a new record -- in late June. Germany, the 
Netherlands, and Belgium also recorded all-time national temperature 
highs. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently 
announced that July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth.

"In the Netherlands, Belgium, France, the model trends are about two 
times lower than the observed trends," said Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, a 
climate analyst at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute in De 
Bilt, Netherlands, who was not connected to the new study. "We're 
reaching new records faster than you'd expect."
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/europe-is-warming-faster-than-even-climate-models-projected

[New York Times]
*The Amazon, Siberia, Indonesia: A World of Fire*
The growing intensity of wildfires and their spread to new corners of 
the globe raises fears that climate change is exacerbating the dangers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/climate/fire-amazon-africa-siberia-worldwide.html
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[Washington Post]
*What you need to know about the Amazon rainforest fires*
The Amazon -- nearly four times the size of Alaska -- is a vast sink for 
storing carbon dioxide and a key element of any plan to restrain climate 
change. Any increase in deforestation there would speed up global 
warming as well as damage an important refuge for biodiversity.

Studies show the 2.2 million-square mile rainforest in the Amazon is 
nearing a tipping point, at which large fragmented portions of the 
rainforest could transform into an entirely different, drier ecosystem, 
leading to the acceleration of climate change, the loss of countless 
species and disaster for the indigenous populations that call the 
tropical rainforest home...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-amazon-rainforest-fires/2019/08/27/ac82b21e-c815-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html

*[correction:* broken link for reference to the Harvard discussion 
paper: *]
**Responding to Threats of Climate Change Mega- Catastrophes *
Carolyn Kousky, Olga Rostapshova, Michael Toman, Richard Zeckhauser
October 19, 2009
Abstract

    There is a low but uncertain probability that climate change could
    trigger "mega-catastrophes,"
    severe and at least partly irreversible adverse effects across broad
    regions. This paper first
    discusses the state of current knowledge and the defining
    characteristics of potential climate
    change mega-catastrophes. While some of these characteristics
    present difficulties for using
    standard rational choice methods to evaluate response options, there
    is still a need to balance
    benefits and costs of different possible responses with appropriate
    attention to the uncertainties.
    To that end, we present a qualitative analysis of three options for
    mitigating the risk of climate
    mega-catastrophes--drastic abatement of greenhouse gas emissions,
    development and
    implementation of geo-engineering, and large-scale ex-ante
    adaptation--against the criteria of
    efficacy, cost, robustness, and flexibility. We discuss the
    composition of a sound portfolio of
    initial investments in reducing the risk of climate change
    mega-catastrophes.

https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/getFile.aspx?Id=514%E2%80%8E
https://sites.hks.harvard.edu/fs/rzeckhau/CCCats.pdf

*This Day in Climate History - August 29, 2005 - from D.R. Tucker*
August 29, 2005: In a Huffington Post piece, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. notes 
the irony of Hurricane Katrina assaulting the Gulf Coast just a few 
years after the Bush administration decided to give preferential 
treatment to the fossil fuel industry with regard to energy policy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/for-they-that-sow-the-win_b_6396.html 

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