[TheClimate.Vote] September 15, 2020 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Richard Pauli richard at theclimate.vote
Tue Sep 15 09:50:29 EDT 2020 

/*September 15, 2020*/

[Denier in Chief]
*As Trump Again Rejects Science, Biden Calls Him a 'Climate Arsonist'*
The president visited California after weeks of silence on its wildfires 
and blamed the crisis only on poor forest management, not climate 
change. "I don't think science knows" what is happening, he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/politics/trump-biden-climate-change-fires.html

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[CSPAN video 2:33 clip]
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
*CLIP OF JOE BIDEN REMARKS ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES*
Wildfires, Not Integration, Threaten Suburbs, Joe Biden Warns in Climate 
Change Speech
In a speech at the Natural History Museum in Wilmington, Delaware, on 
climate change and the wildfires gripping the west, Democratic 
presidential nominee Joe Biden criticizes President Trump's record on 
environmental policies and warns that giving him four more years would 
only further endanger the nation and American lives and livelihoods. Mr. 
Biden calls the president a "climate denier" and "climate arsonist," 
saying, "Trump warned that integration's threatening our suburbs. It's 
ridiculous. But you know what's actually threatening our suburbs? 
Wildfires are burning suburbs in the West. Floods are wiping out suburbs 
neighborhoods in the Midwest. Hurricanes are imperiling suburban life."
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4906404/wildfires-integration-threaten-suburbs-joe-biden-warns-climate-change-speech

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[more CSPAN Democrats video 24 min]
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
*Joe Biden Remarks on Climate Change and the California Wildfires*
https://www.c-span.org/video/?475755-1/joe-biden-speaks-climate-change-california-wildfires

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[Trump speaks]
*'I Don't Think Science Knows': Visiting Fires, Trump Denies Climate Change*
September 14, 2020
ALANA WISE
With wildfires devastating the West and a hurricane bearing down on the 
Gulf Coast, President Trump, who has for years mocked and denied the 
reality of climate change, was briefed on Monday on the status of fires 
in California.

During his briefing, which included California Democratic Gov. Gavin 
Newsom, officials repeatedly invoked climate change and its impact on 
the state's ability to manage the raging infernos.

Still, even as more than two dozen wildfires roared across California 
alone, Trump declined to acknowledge the role climate change likely 
played in fueling the flames.

"We've had temperatures explode this summer...We want to work with you 
to really recognize the changing climate and what it means to our 
forests and actually work together with that science," said Wade 
Crowfoot, California's secretary for natural resources. "That science is 
going to be key because if we ignore that science and sort of put our 
head in the sand and think it's all about vegetation management, we're 
not going to succeed in protecting Californians."

"It'll start getting cooler. You just -- you just watch," the president 
said.

"I wish science agreed with you," Crowfoot said.

"Well, I don't think science knows, actually," he said...
more at - 
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/14/912799501/i-don-t-think-science-knows-visiting-fires-trump-denies-climate-change

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*First Thing: Trump says 'science doesn't know' what's causing wildfires*
President refuses to acknowledge climate change as factor in crisis on 
visit to California.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/15/first-thing-trump-says-science-doesnt-know-whats-causing-wildfires

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[lecturing the President - brief video]
*Trump denies climate change link to wildfires: 'I don't think science 
knows'– video*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=54&v=S-DZRO687l0&feature=emb_logo 




[a Climate Communicator with powerful personal expressions]
*Sarah Myhre talks climate communication*
Sep 14, 2020
John Cook
In this interview, John Cook and Peter Jacobs talk with climate 
scientist Sarah Myhre. She offers challenging advice on climate 
scientists being more vulnerable in public, showing how they struggle 
with their science, how we care about the ways that communities are 
impacted by climate change. She reflects on whether scientists should 
engage with the public on climate change - how the personal risks of 
public engagement are completely eclipsed by the risks that humanity 
faces if we fail to properly address climate change. Lastly, she talks 
about how past climate proxies like tree-rings & sediment cores are 
powerful ways to communicate the lessons from past climate change - that 
our climate is unstable and there are major consequences from perturbing 
the carbon system in the atmosphere and causing warming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8iadDABA6E


[heating]
*The Arctic Is Shifting to a New Climate Because of Global Warming*
Open water and rain, rather than ice and snow, are becoming typical of 
the region, a new study has found.
By Henry Fountain
Sept. 14, 2020

The effects of global warming in the Arctic are so severe that the 
region is shifting to a different climate, one characterized less by ice 
and snow and more by open water and rain, scientists said Monday.
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Dr. Landrum said that Arctic communities are already suffering from the 
changes. Eroding coastlines are forcing some Alaska Native villages to 
consider relocating. Other changes are affecting the food supply. Warmer 
storms that bring rain on existing snow, for example, can lead to 
starvation of the animals Indigenous groups rely on.
"Arctic climate change is not in the future for them," she said. "It's now."

Dr. Landrum said the climate models used in the study simulated the 
future in a world where planet-warming emissions of greenhouse gases 
remained high. That provides some fodder for optimism, she said.

"We still have an opportunity to change how rapidly the Arctic evolves," 
she said, "if we end up changing our emissions."

"You can't just give up. If you work hard and make some changes there's 
a possibility you'd have some dramatic effects."

Another study released Monday suggested that two Antarctic glaciers that 
have long been of concern to scientists over their potential to 
contribute to sea level rise may be in worse shape than previously thought.

The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers are rivers of ice, slowly moving 
ice from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the continent's interior to the 
ocean, where it melts and adds to sea level rise. In recent decades the 
two glaciers' movement has accelerated, leading to more ice loss from 
the interior, largely because of melting by warm water underneath the 
glaciers.

Even with the acceleration, however, complete melting of this part of 
the West Antarctic sheet could take centuries.The new study, published 
in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, analyzed satellite 
imagery and found cracks and other signs of stress damage to the 
glaciers' ice shelves, the leading edges that float on the water. This 
evidence of damage, the paper's authors wrote, is the first sign of 
structural weakening of the ice shelves, a process that can end in the 
shelves' disintegration and even faster glacial flow of ice to the 
ocean. The authors said that incorporating these damage processes into 
models of ice-sheet dynamics is critical for more accurate assessments 
of potential sea-level rise.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/climate/arctic-changing-climate.html



[Digging back into the internet news archive]
*On this day in the history of global warming - September 15, 2002 *
The New York Times reports:
"For the first time in six years, the annual federal report on air 
pollution trends has no section on global warming, though President Bush 
has said that slowing the growth of emissions linked to warming is a 
priority for his administration.

"The decision to delete the chapter on climate change was made by top 
officials at the Environmental Protection Agency with White House 
approval, White House officials said."

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/15/us/with-white-house-approval-epa-pollution-report-omits-global-warming-section.html 



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