[TheClimate.Vote] February 27, 2020 - Daily Global Warming News Digest.

[Richard Pauli]

/*February 27, 2020*/

[significant news]
*Climate campaigners win Heathrow expansion case*
The government's Heathrow's expansion decision was unlawful because it 
did not take climate commitments into account, the Court of Appeal said.

Heathrow said it would challenge the decision, but the government has 
not lodged an appeal.

The judges said that in future, a third runway could go ahead, as long 
as it fits with the UK's climate policy...
more at - https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51658693


[CO2 causes global warming]
*Carbon Dioxide Levels in the Atmosphere Hit Highest Level in 3 Million 
Years*
https://www.ecowatch.com/carbon-dioxide-levels-atmosphere-2645274429.html
- - -
[Tracking CO2]*
**The World's CO2 Home Page*
https://www.co2.earth/



[technical analysis]
*Factcheck: What is the carbon footprint of streaming video on Netflix?*

    "The assumptions behind the Shift Project analysis (largely based on
    a 2015 paper) contain a series of flaws, which, taken together,
    seriously exaggerate the electricity consumed by streaming video."

https://www.ecowatch.com/carbon-dioxide-levels-atmosphere-2645274429.html



[MIT list important science breakthroughs]
*Climate change attribution*
Researchers can now spot climate change's role in extreme weather.
Ten days after Tropical Storm Imelda began flooding neighborhoods across 
the Houston area last September, a rapid-response research team 
announced that climate change almost certainly played a role.
The group, World Weather Attribution, had compared high-resolution 
computer simulations of worlds where climate change did and didn't 
occur. In the former, the world we live in, the severe storm was as much 
as 2.6 times more likely--and up to 28% more intense.

Earlier this decade, scientists were reluctant to link any specific 
event to climate change. But many more extreme-weather attribution 
studies have been done in the last few years, and rapidly improving 
tools and techniques have made them more reliable and convincing.

This has been made possible by a combination of advances. For one, the 
lengthening record of detailed satellite data is helping us understand 
natural systems. Also, increased computing power means scientists can 
create higher-resolution simulations and conduct many more virtual 
experiments.

These and other improvements have allowed scientists to state with 
increasing statistical certainty that yes, global warming is often 
fueling more dangerous weather events.

By disentangling the role of climate change from other factors, the 
studies are telling us what kinds of risks we need to prepare for, 
including how much flooding to expect and how severe heat waves will get 
as global warming becomes worse. If we choose to listen, they can help 
us understand how to rebuild our cities and infrastructure for a 
climate-changed world.
James Temple
https://www.technologyreview.com/lists/technologies/2020/


[Digging back into the internet news archive]
*On this day in the history of global warming  - February  27, 2001 *
Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill sends a memo to President George W. Bush 
urging him to take strong action to combat
carbon pollution. The memo is ignored, and O'Neill would be forced out 
as Treasury Secretary a year later.
http://books.google.com/books?id=ijQLBeDklxcC&pg=PA360&lpg=PA360&dq=paul+o%27neill+global+warming+memo+february+27&source=bl&ots=573aM1IF-O&sig=JrLs5DMwXJIc-AotPsqL-Z1VLHU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=yKnAUrCKB_K-sQT36ILQDQ&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=paul%20o%27neill%20global%20warming%20memo%20february%2027&f=false


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