[TheClimate.Vote] June 23, 2019 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

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/June 23, 2019/

[Grey Lady Insulted]
*Police arrest 70 climate change protesters outside New York Times*
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police arrested 70 environmental protesters outside 
the New York Times headquarters who laid down in the street and climbed 
onto the building to demand the newspaper start referring to climate 
change as a climate emergency, police and media reports said.

New York police arrested 67 people and Port Authority police arrested 
three others, a police spokesman said. Charges were pending.

Protesters blocked the street by lying down in a "die-in" and affixed a 
banner to the skyscraper in midtown Manhattan saying "climate change = 
mass murder," with the word "change" crossed out and replaced with 
"emergency," according to pictures posted by the website of 1010 Wins radio.
Another banner was attached to the Port Authority Bus Terminal across 
the street saying simply "climate emergency."

Demonstrators chanted "tell the truth," a reporter for The Guardian on 
the scene tweeted.

According to 1010 Wins, a spokeswoman for Extinction Rebellion, Eve 
Mosher, said the group wants the media to report on "the climate 
emergency" so that "people can start pushing for more radical responses."
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"There is no national news organization that devotes more time, staff or 
resources to producing deeply reported coverage to help readers 
understand climate change than The New York Times," spokeswoman Danielle 
Rhoades Ha told The Guardian, saying the newspaper published 795 
articles about the issue in 2018.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climate-arrests/police-arrest-70-climate-change-protesters-outside-new-york-times-idUSKCN1TN0RQ
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[Other activism]
*Extinction Rebellion brings protest in Cannes to Facebook's private beach*
Activists occupied Facebook's beachfront presence, continuing their call 
for the advertising industry to address climate change head-on.
https://www.thedrum.com/news/2019/06/20/extinction-rebellion-brings-protest-cannes-facebooks-private-beach


[CBC TV report on permafrost ]
*Climate change thawing permafrost in Northern Canada*
CBC News: The National
Published on Jun 17, 2019
Permafrost in Northern Canada is thawing, shifting the ground under 
people's feet and altering the foundations beneath buildings.
Welcome to The National, the flagship nightly newscast of CBC News
Voice Your Opinion & Connect With Us Online:
The National Updates on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thenational
The National Updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CBCTheNational
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8ynabSmGGs


[assaults to eyes and lungs last year, not fun]
*Seattle is already prepping for another hellish summer of smoke*
By Zoya Teirstein on Jun 21, 2019
In Seattle, blissfully blue summer skies are usually the reward you get 
for suffering through months of clouds and soggy weather. But given 
climate predictions, Seattleites are getting used to a new summertime 
weather phenomenon: ash.

Wildfire season in the Pacific Northwest is objectively terrible. Last 
year, when smoke blew in from fires burning in British Columbia and 
Eastern Washington, the usually dry air in Seattle turned muggy and 
thick, and the sun glowed a creepy shade of hot-orange. Air quality in 
the region was the worst in the world; just existing outside was the 
equivalent of smoking seven cigarettes a day. Playgrounds and parks 
emptied out as parents were told to keep kids inside. The downtown 
skyline vanished behind a cloud of smoke. Hospital visits surged.

It never used to be like this, Seattleites wearing smoke masks kept 
assuring me last year, but smokey, apocalyptic Augusts are becoming the 
new norm, with Seattle coughing its way through roughly three of the 
last four.

This year's season is expected to stick to the trend, or maybe get 
worse. The region's snowpack is far below average, and forecasters 
expect a dry, warmer-than-usual summer. As of May, dry weather had 
spurred an unusual number of wildfires -- 239 blazes since the first of 
the year, according to the state's Department of Natural Resources.

This year, the city is hoping to get ahead of smoke season before it begins.

To combat poor air quality, officials announced on Wednesday that five 
public buildings across the city will be outfitted with special filters, 
sensors, and retrofitted air ventilation systems to serve as safe places 
for Seattleites during days with harmful air quality. At an event to 
announce the move, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said some of the buildings 
could be used to safeguard the city's homeless residents during smoke 
season.

Seattle is the least air-conditioned metro area in the U.S. with a 
general population of roughly 755,000, approximately 1.5 percent of whom 
are homeless. And when smoke descended on Seattle last August, locals 
quickly ran out of options. N95 masks, the type that filter out harmful 
particulate matter, flew off store shelves. [Oregon Public Health Dept 
says they offer "some protection"] Officials warned people to stay 
indoors, but unfiltered air indoors wasn't much better than the air 
outside. And if you were homeless and couldn't get into a shelter, you 
didn't have a choice.

"We were hoping the first year that it was an aberration, and the second 
year that maybe it was a second aberration," Durkan said on Wednesday, 
"but we now know it may be the new normal."
https://grist.org/article/seattle-is-already-prepping-for-another-hellish-summer-of-smoke/
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[Oregon Dept of Public Health]
*Wildfire Smoke and Your Health*
Keep indoor air as clean as possible.Keep windows and doors closed. Use 
a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter to reduce indoor air 
pollution. Avoid smoking tobacco, using wood-burning stoves or 
fireplaces, burning candles, incenses or vacuuming.Reduce the amount of 
time spent in the smoky area.Reduce the amount of time spent 
outdoors.Avoid vigorous outdoor activities. If you have to spend time 
outside when the air quality is hazardous:Do not rely on paper or dust 
masks for protection. N95 masks properly worn may offer some protection.
*Frequently asked questions about wildfire smoke and public health*
http://Public.Health.Oregon.gov
https://www.oregon.gov/oha/ph/Preparedness/Prepare/Documents/OHA%208626%20Wildfire%20FAQs-v6c.pdf
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Washington State Dept of Health
*Smoke from Fires*
https://www.doh.wa.gov/CommunityandEnvironment/AirQuality/SmokeFromFires
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[other words from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ]
*Wildfire Smoke*
Wildfire smoke can harm you in multiple ways. Smoke can hurt your eyes, 
irritate your respiratory system, and worsen chronic heart and lung 
diseases. This fact sheet tells you how you can protect your health and 
be safe if you are exposed to wildfire smoke.
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*#7 Do not rely on dust masks for protection.* Paper "comfort" or "dust" 
masks commonly found at hardware stores trap large particles, such as 
sawdust. These masks will not protect your lungs from smoke. An "N95" 
mask, properly worn, will offer some protection. If you decide to keep a 
mask on hand, see the Respirator Fact Sheet provided by CDC's National 
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health...
https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/wildfires/smoke.html



[Raido Ecoshock interview 6 months ago]
*Warming Faster Than We Think*
Professor David Victor delivers stiff warning from Nature: "Global 
warming will happen faster than we think".
WARMING FASTER: DAVID VICTOR
You may believe climate disruption is arriving sooner than we were told. 
You are right. Three power-house scientists have published a warning: 
"Global warming will happen faster than we think." They explain three 
emerging threats that combine to bring climate danger out of the year 
2100, and right into the next decade.

Our guide to the Comment published by the prestigious journal Nature in 
December, is co-author David G. Victor. At the University of California 
San Diego, Dr. Victor is a professor of international relations, and 
director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation. He is a 
connected guy, often producing reports for the Brookings Institution, 
while publishing articles in magazines like The New Yorker. David Victor 
is author of the book "Global Warming Gridlock" published by Cambridge 
University Press.
https://www.ecoshock.org/2019/01/warming-faster-than-we-think.html
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[the comment in journal Nature]
*Global warming will happen faster than we think*
Three trends will combine to hasten it, warn Yangyang Xu, Veerabhadran 
Ramanathan and David G. Victor.

Prepare for the "new abnormal". That was what California Governor Jerry 
Brown told reporters last month, commenting on the deadly wildfires that 
have plagued the state this year. He's right. California's latest crisis 
builds on years of record-breaking droughts and heatwaves. The rest of 
the world, too, has had more than its fair share of extreme weather in 
2018. The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change announced last 
week that 157 million more people were exposed to heatwave events in 
2017, compared with 2000.

Such environmental disasters will only intensify. Governments, rightly, 
want to know what to do. Yet the climate-science community is struggling 
to offer useful answers.

In October, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 
released a report setting out why we must stop global warming at 1.5 C 
above pre-industrial levels, and how to do so. It is grim reading. If 
the planet warms by 2 C -- the widely touted temperature limit in the 
2015 Paris climate agreement -- twice as many people will face water 
scarcity than if warming is limited to 1.5 C. That extra warming will 
also expose more than 1.5 billion people to deadly heat extremes, and 
hundreds of millions of individuals to vector-borne diseases such as 
malaria, among other harms.

But the latest IPCC special report underplays another alarming fact: 
global warming is accelerating. Three trends -- rising emissions, 
declining air pollution and natural climate cycles -- will combine over 
the next 20 years to make climate change faster and more furious than 
anticipated. In our view, there's a good chance that we could breach the 
1.5 C level by 2030, not by 2040 as projected in the special report (see 
'Accelerated warming'). The climate-modelling community has not grappled 
enough with the rapid changes that policymakers care most about, 
preferring to focus on longer-term trends and equilibria. Sources: Ref. 
1/GISTEMP/IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (2014)

Policymakers have less time to respond than they thought. Governments 
need to invest even more urgently in schemes that protect homes from 
floods and fires and help people to manage heat stress (especially older 
individuals and those living in poverty). Nations need to make their 
forests and farms more resilient to droughts, and prepare coasts for 
inundation. Rapid warming will create a greater need for emissions 
policies that yield the quickest changes in climate, such as controls on 
soot, methane and hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) gases. There might even be a 
case for solar geoengineering -- cooling the planet by, for instance, 
seeding reflective particles in the stratosphere to act as a sunshade.

Climate scientists must supply the evidence policymakers will need and 
provide assessments for the next 25 years. They should advise 
policymakers on which climate-warming pollutants to limit first to gain 
the most climate benefit. They should assess which policies can be 
enacted most swiftly and successfully in the real world, where 
political, administrative and economic constraints often make abstract, 
'ideal' policies impractical.
Speeding freight train

*Three lines of evidence suggest that global warming will be faster than 
projected in the recent IPCC special report.*
First, greenhouse-gas emissions are still rising. In 2017, industrial 
carbon dioxide emissions are estimated to have reached about 37 
gigatonnes2. This puts them on track with the highest emissions 
trajectory the IPCC has modelled so far. This dark news means that the 
next 25 years are poised to warm at a rate of 0.25-0.32 C per decade. 
That is faster than the 0.2 C per decade that we have experienced since 
the 2000s, and which the IPCC used in its special report.

Second, governments are cleaning up air pollution faster than the IPCC 
and most climate modellers have assumed. For example, China reduced 
sulfur dioxide emissions from its power plants by 7-14% between 2014 and 
2016. Mainstream climate models had expected them to rise. Lower 
pollution is better for crops and public health. But aerosols, including 
sulfates, nitrates and organic compounds, reflect sunlight. This shield 
of aerosols has kept the planet cooler, possibly by as much as 0.7 C 
globally.

Third, there are signs that the planet might be entering a natural warm 
phase that could last for a couple of decades. The Pacific Ocean seems 
to be warming up, in accord with a slow climate cycle known as the 
Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation. This cycle modulates temperatures over 
the equatorial Pacific and over North America. Similarly, the mixing of 
deep and surface waters in the Atlantic Ocean (the Atlantic meridional 
overturning circulation) looks to have weakened since 2004, on the basis 
of data from drifting floats that probe the deep ocean8. Without this 
mixing, more heat will stay in the atmosphere rather than going into the 
deep oceans, as it has in the past.

These three forces reinforce each other. We estimate that rising 
greenhouse-gas emissions, along with declines in air pollution, bring 
forward the estimated date of 1.5 C of warming to around 2030, with the 
2 C boundary reached by 2045. These could happen sooner with quicker 
shedding of air pollutants. Adding in natural decadal fluctuations 
raises the odds of blasting through 1.5 C by 2025 to at least 10%. By 
comparison, the IPCC assigned probabilities of 17% and 83% for crossing 
the 1.5 C mark by 2030 and 2052, respectively.

*Scientists and policymakers must rethink their roles, objectives and 
approaches on four fronts.*
Assess science in the near term. Policymakers should ask the IPCC for 
another special report, this time on the rates of climate change over 
the next 25 years. The panel should also look beyond the physical 
science itself and assess the speed at which political systems can 
respond, taking into account pressures to maintain the status quo from 
interest groups and bureaucrats. Researchers should improve climate 
models to describe the next 25 years in more detail, including the 
latest data on the state of the oceans and atmosphere, as well as 
natural cycles. They should do more to quantify the odds and impacts of 
extreme events. The evidence will be hard to muster, but it will be more 
useful in assessing real climate dangers and responses.

Rethink policy goals. Warming limits, such as the 1.5 C goal, should be 
recognized as broad planning tools. Too often they are misconstrued as 
physical thresholds around which to design policies. The excessive 
reliance on 'negative emissions technologies' (that take up CO2) in the 
IPCC special report shows that it becomes harder to envision realistic 
policies the closer the world gets to such limits. It's easy to bend 
models on paper, but much harder to implement real policies that work.

Realistic goals should be set based on political and social trade-offs, 
not just on geophysical parameters. They should come out of analyses of 
costs, benefits and feasibility. Assessments of these trade-offs must be 
embedded in the Paris climate process, which needs a stronger compass to 
guide its evaluations of how realistic policies affect emissions. Better 
assessment can motivate action but will also be politically 
controversial: it will highlight gaps between what countries say they 
will do to control emissions, and what needs to be achieved collectively 
to limit warming. Information about trade-offs must therefore come from 
outside the formal intergovernmental process -- from national academies 
of sciences, subnational partnerships and non-governmental organizations.

Design strategies for adaptation. The time for rapid adaptation has 
arrived. Policymakers need two types of information from scientists to 
guide their responses. First, they need to know what the potential local 
impacts will be at the scales of counties to cities. Some of this 
information could be gleaned by combining fine-resolution climate impact 
assessments with artificial intelligence for 'big data' analyses of 
weather extremes, health, property damage and other variables. Second, 
policymakers need to understand uncertainties in the ranges of probable 
climate impacts and responses. Even regions that are proactive in 
setting adaptation policies, such as California, lack information about 
the ever-changing risks of extreme warming, fires and rising seas. 
Research must be integrated across fields and stakeholders -- urban 
planners, public-health management, agriculture and ecosystem services. 
Adaptation strategies should be adjustable if impacts unfold 
differently. More planning and costing is needed around the worst-case 
outcomes.

Understand options for rapid response. Climate assessments must evaluate 
quick ways of lessening climate impacts, such as through reducing 
emissions of methane, soot (or black carbon) and HFCs. Per tonne, these 
three 'super pollutants' have 25 to thousands of times the impact of 
CO2. Their atmospheric lifetimes are short -- in the range of weeks (for 
soot) to about a decade (for methane and HFCs). Slashing these 
pollutants would potentially halve the warming trend over the next 25 
years10.

There has been progress on this front. At the Global Climate Action 
summit held in September in San Francisco, California, the United States 
Climate Alliance -- a coalition of state governors representing 40% of 
the US population -- issued a road map to reduce emissions of methane, 
HFCs and soot by 40-50% by 2030. The 2016 Kigali amendment to the 
Montreal Protocol, which will go into force by January 2019, is set to 
slash HFC emissions by 80% over the next 30 years.

Various climate engineering options should be on the table as an 
emergency response. If global conditions really deteriorate, we might be 
forced to extract large volumes of excess CO2 directly from the 
atmosphere. An even faster emergency response could be to inject 
aerosols into the atmosphere to lower the amount of solar radiation 
heating the planet, as air pollution does. This option is hugely 
controversial, and might have unintended consequences, such as altering 
rainfall patterns that lead to drying of the tropics. So research and 
planning are crucial, in case this option is needed. Until there is 
investment in testing and technical preparedness -- today, there is 
almost none -- the chances are high that the wrong kinds of 
climate-engineering scheme will be deployed by irresponsible parties who 
are uninformed by research11.

For decades, scientists and policymakers have framed the climate-policy 
debate in a simple way: scientists analyse long-term goals, and 
policymakers pretend to honour them. Those days are over. Serious 
climate policy must focus more on the near-term and on feasibility. It 
must consider the full range of options, even though some are 
uncomfortable and freighted with risk.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07586-5



[Classic from April 1st 2019]
*New NAACP Report "Fossil Fueled Foolery": Group Highlights Top Ten Ways 
in Which Fossil Fuel Companies Fool the Public*

The NAACP's mission is to uphold and defend civil and human rights. 
Accordingly, we are duty-bound to confront corporations wielding power 
to manipulate systems and oppress communities to the detriment of the 
sustainability of the environment and the wellbeing of all life on 
earth. Even as we work with partners to advance sustainable and just 
policies and practices, we are compelled to expose the ways that the 
fossil fuel industry invests millions of dollars in undermining our 
civil rights agenda. They manipulate academia, politics, media, and our 
economy. We must break the tethers of puppetry that suppress democracy 
and hold sway over these key systems.

*Some, but not all, fossil fuel companies and most, but not all, fossil 
fuel trade associations, engage in these tactics!*
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*Top Ten Fossil Fuel Industry Tactics*

    1.Invest in efforts that undermine democracy.
    2.Finance political campaigns and pressure politicians
    3.Fund scientists and scientific institutions to publish
    biasedresearch studies.
    4.Contend  that  government  regulations  hurt  the  economy,
    ratepayers, and poor people.
    5.Deny or understate the harms polluting facilities cause topeople
    and the environment.
    6.Deflect responsibility-- Shift blame to the very communitiesthey
    pollute.
    7.Exaggerate the level of job creation and downplay lack ofquality
    and safety of jobs.
    8.Pacify or co-opt community leaders and organizations
    andmisrepresent the interests and opinions of communities.
    9.Praise false solutions while claiming that real solutions
    areimpractical or impossible.
    10.'Embrace' renewables, seek to control the new energyeconomy, and
    quell energy sovereignty.

https://www.naacp.org/latest/new-naacp-report-fossil-fueled-foolery-group-highlights-top-ten-ways-fossil-fuel-companies-fool-public/


[31 years ago]
*This Day in Climate History - June 23, 1988- from D.R. Tucker*
June 23, 1988: NASA scientist James Hansen warns the US Senate about the 
risks of human-caused climate change. *
*

    *Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate*
    By PHILIP SHABECOFF and SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES JUNE 24, 1988
    The earth has been warmer in the first five months of this year than
    in any comparable period since measurements began 130 years ago, and
    the higher temperatures can now be attributed to a long-expected
    global warming trend linked to pollution, a space agency scientist
    reported today.

    Until now, scientists have been cautious about attributing rising
    global temperatures of recent years to the predicted global warming
    caused by pollutants in the atmosphere, known as the ''greenhouse
    effect.'' But today Dr. James E. Hansen of the National Aeronautics
    and Space Administration told a Congressional committee that it was
    99 percent certain that the warming trend was not a natural
    variation but was caused by a buildup of carbon dioxide and other
    artificial gases in the atmosphere.

    Dr. Hansen, a leading expert on climate change, said in an interview
    that there was no ''magic number'' that showed when the greenhouse
    effect was actually starting to cause changes in climate and
    weather. But he added, ''It is time to stop waffling so much and say
    that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is
    here.'' An Impact Lasting Centuries

    If Dr. Hansen and other scientists are correct, then humans, by
    burning of fossil fuels and other activities, have altered the
    global climate in a manner that will affect life on earth for
    centuries to come.

    Dr. Hansen, director of NASA's Institute for Space Studies in
    Manhattan, testifed before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources
    Committee
    He and other scientists testifying before the Senate panel today
    said that projections of the climate change that is now apparently
    occurring mean that the Southeastern and Midwestern sections of the
    United States will be subject to frequent episodes of very high
    temperatures and drought in the next decade and beyond. But they
    cautioned that it was not possible to attribute a specific heat wave
    to the greenhouse effect, given the still limited state of knowledge
    on the subject. Some Dispute Link

    Some scientists still argue that warmer temperatures in recent years
    may be a result of natural fluctuations rather than human-induced
    changes.

    Several Senators on the Committee joined witnesses in calling for
    action now on a broad national and international program to slow the
    pace of global warming.

    Senator Timothy E. Wirth, the Colorado Democrat who presided at
    hearing today, said: ''As I read it, the scientific evidence is
    compelling: the global climate is changing as the earth's atmosphere
    gets warmer. Now, the Congress must begin to consider how we are
    going to slow or halt that warming trend and how we are going to
    cope with the changes that may already be inevitable.'' Trapping of
    Solar Radiation

    Mathematical models have predicted for some years now that a buildup
    of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and
    oil and other gases emitted by human activities into the atmosphere
    would cause the earth's surface to warm by trapping infrared
    radiation from the sun, turning the entire earth into a kind of
    greenhouse.

    If the current pace of the buildup of these gases continues, the
    effect is likely to be a warming of 3 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit from
    the year 2025 to 2050, according to these projections. This rise in
    temperature is not expected to be uniform around the globe but to be
    greater in the higher latitudes, reaching as much as 20 degrees, and
    lower at the Equator.

    The rise in global temperature is predicted to cause a thermal
    expansion of the oceans and to melt glaciers and polar ice, thus
    causing sea levels to rise by one to four feet by the middle of the
    next century. Scientists have already detected a slight rise in sea
    levels. At the same time, heat would cause inland waters to
    evaporate more rapidly, thus lowering the level of bodies of water
    such as the Great Lakes.

    Dr. Hansen, who records temperatures from readings at monitoring
    stations around the world, had previously reported that four of the
    hottest years on record occurred in the 1980's. Compared with a
    30-year base period from 1950 to 1980, when the global temperature
    averaged 59 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature was one-third of a
    degree higher last year. In the entire century before 1880, global
    temperature had risen by half a degree, rising in the late 1800's
    and early 20th century, then roughly stabilizing for unknown reasons
    for several decades in the middle of the century. Warmest Year Expected

    In the first five months of this year, the temperature averaged
    about four-tenths of a degree above the base period, Dr. Hansen
    reported today. ''The first five months of 1988 are so warm globally
    that we conclude that 1988 will be the warmest year on record unless
    there is a remarkable, improbable cooling in the remainder of the
    year,'' he told the Senate committee.

    He also said that current climate patterns were consistent with the
    projections of the greenhouse effect in several respects in addition
    to the rise in temperature. For example, he said, the rise in
    temperature is greater in high latitudes than in low, is greater
    over continents than oceans, and there is cooling in the upper
    atmosphere as the lower atmosphere warms up.

    ''Global warming has reached a level such that we can ascribe with a
    high degree of confidence a cause and effect relationship between
    the greenhouse effect and observed warming,'' Dr. Hansen said at the
    hearing today, adding, ''It is already happening now.''

    Dr. Syukuro Manabe of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of
    the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration testified today
    that a number of factors, including an earlier snowmelt each year
    because of higher temperatures and a rain belt that moves farther
    north in the summer means that ''it is likely that severe
    mid-continental summer dryness will occur more frequently with
    increasing atmsopheric temperature.'' A Taste of the Future

    While natural climate variability is the most likely chief cause of
    the current drought, Dr. Manabe said, the global warming trend is
    probably ''aggravating the current dry condition.'' He added that
    the current drought was a foretaste of what the country would be
    facing in the years ahead.

    Dr. George Woodwell, director of the Woods Hole Research Center in
    Woods Hole, Mass., said that while a slow warming trend would give
    human society time to respond, the rate of warming is uncertain. One
    factor that could speed up global warming is the widescale
    destruction of forests that are unable to adjust rapidly enough to
    rising temperatures. The dying forests would release the carbon
    dioxide they store in their organic matter, and thus greatly speed
    up the greenhouse effect. Sharp Cut in Fuel Use Urged

    Dr. Woodwell, and other members of the panel, said that planning
    must begin now for a sharp reduction in the burning of coal, oil and
    other fossil fuels that release carbon dioxide. Because trees absorb
    and store carbon dioxide, he also proposed an end to the current
    rapid clearing of forests in many parts of the world and ''a
    vigorous program of reforestation.''

    Some experts also believe that concern over global warming caused by
    the burning of fossil fuels warrants a renewed effort to develop
    safe nuclear power. Others stress the need for more efficient use of
    energy through conservation and other measures to curb fuel-burning.

    Dr. Michael Oppenheimer, an atmospheric physicist with the
    Environmental Defense Fund, a national environmental group, said a
    number of steps can be taken immediately around the world, including
    the ratification and then strengthening of the treaty to reduce use
    of chlorofluorocarbons, which are widely used industrial chemicals
    that are said to contribute to the greenhouse effect. These
    chemicals have also been found to destroy ozone in the upper
    atmosphere that protects the earth's surface from harmful
    ultraviolet radiation from the sun.

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/24/us/global-warming-has-begun-expert-tells-senate.html 

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