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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-environment-shipping-arctic-idUSKCN12A14B">Uncharted
waters: Mega-cruise ships sail the Arctic</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">With a minimum ticket price of
$19,755, the 1,700 passengers and crew on board the Crystal
Serenity....A surge in Arctic tourism is bringing ever bigger
cruise ships to the formerly isolated, ice-bound region,
prompting calls for a clamp-down to prevent Titanic-style
accidents and the pollution of fragile eco-systems....Arctic
nations should consider limiting the size of vessels and ban the
use of heavy fuel oil in the region, industry players said,
after a first luxury cruise ship sailed safely through Canada's
Northwest Passage this summer....The route, which connects the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans via the Arctic, was once clogged
with icebergs but is now ice-free in summer due to global
warming....Cruise ships usually use heavy oil, a type of fuel
that takes longer to break down in the event of a spill. The
Crystal Serenity did not use heavy oil during its trip, its
operator has said...</font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/10/17/five-climate-change-questions-chris-wallace-could-ask-final-presidential-debate/213846">Five
Climate Change Questions Chris Wallace Could Ask At The Final
Presidential Debate</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Fox News' Chris Wallace has selected
"Debt and entitlements," "Immigration," "Economy," "Supreme
Court," "Foreign hot spots," and "Fitness to be President" as
the topics for the final presidential debate, which he will
moderate on October 19. But ... would not excuse Wallace if he
fails to ask a question about climate change.......If Wallace
refuses to ask Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump about climate
change, it will mark the culmination of a stunning media
failure. It would mean that presidential debate moderators
failed to address climate change in two consecutive election
cycles, after climate questions were asked in two presidential
debates and the vice presidential debate in 2008. Even worse,
it would mean that Trump avoids fielding a single debate
question on climate change during the entire presidential
campaign, spanning 14 primary and general election debates over
the last 14 months.</font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>1. Immigration:</b> ...Climate change
worsened...the Syrian refugee crisis, and..climate change..will
drive millions of Mexicans to seek entry into the United States
...Will you incorporate climate change into your immigration
policies, and if so, how?</font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>2. Economy:</b>...climate change is now the
single greatest threat to the global economy. What will you do
to protect our economy from the effects of climate change?</font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>3. Supreme Court:</b> ...how will your
administration fulfill the Supreme Court's mandate to cut
greenhouse gas pollution?</font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>4. Foreign Hot Spots:</b> ...To what extent do
you believe climate-related risks should be integrated into
military planning?</font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>5. Fitness To Be President</b>: ....Will you
listen to the scientists on climate change, and do you believe
that those who refuse to do so are unfit for our nation's
highest office?</font><br>
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255);"><font size="-1">Up to 122 million more people worldwide
could be living in extreme poverty by 2030 as a result of<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and its impacts on
small-scale farmers' incomes, a major UN report warned ...that
without measures to halt and reverse climate change, food
production could become impossible in large areas of the
world....Climate change is also expected to affect the
nutrient content of food. The higher the concentration of CO2
in the atmosphere, the lower the nutritional content of crops
like wheat...."So not only people's ability to acquire food
will be reduced, but also the nutrient contents of whatever
people will buy will be lower," he said....Agriculture,
forestry and changes in land use together produce 21 percent
of global greenhouse gas emissions, making them the second
largest emitter after the energy sector....The raising of
livestock alone produces nearly two thirds of agriculture
emissions, FAO said on Monday.Soil stores carbon, so the more
it is ploughed, and the deeper, the more carbon is released
into the atmosphere....</font></div>
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action,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Farmers urgently need
help to adapt their methods of growing food if the world is to
curb<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">greenhouse gas</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>emissions and prevent<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>pushing
millions into hunger and poverty, the U.N. Food and Agriculture<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">...There is, it says, <b>"</b>no doubt that climate
change will affect the agriculture sectors and food security
and that its negative impact will become more severe as it
accelerates. In some particularly vulnerable places, such as
small islands or in areas affected by large-scale extreme
weather and climate events, the impact could be catastrophic.<b>"</b>...In
a best-case scenario, slow-moving climate change would allow
farming to adapt through relatively simple techniques, at
least in the near future. But it warns that more abrupt
changes would make adequate adaptation almost impossible.</b></div>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/explorations/papers/190-psychosocial-and-climate-psychology-research-in-ipcc-reports">Psychosocial
and Climate Psychology Research in IPCC Reports</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">"Although psychologists have been
investigating climate change and related subjects for decades…
the value of psychological contributions is not yet widely
accepted, nor are psychological insights and findings widely
applied"....The next scheduled report relevant to climate
psychology is on 1.5 degrees (SR1.5), which is due out in 2018.
This interdisciplinary report was invited by the governments
coming out of COP21 last December. The background document
prepared for the recent scoping meeting on SR1.5 has much to be
excited about. I admit to being surprised about this. Reading it
I was particularly fired up by points made about challenging
scientific understanding beyond empirical evidence and
underlying assumptions, drawing on different knowledge systems
including learning from practitioner communities (and although
not mentioned explicitly here but it is in AR5 - indigenous
knowledge), looking at multiple ways to think of transformation
and development, the emphasis on equity and ethical dimensions,
and a call to maintain a holistic integrative systems
perspective in the writing of the report. It refers to
'psychological' underpinnings of human responses, and
'psychosocial' is included as an area of expertise sought in
participants of the scoping meeting. These themes will resonant
I'm sure with many in the climate psychology community. A key
topic is transformative challenges, which I see as the main area
of contribution of psychosocial and climate psychology research.
This is a topic that will become even more pertinent as we
approach 1.5 degrees warming within the timescale of production
of SR1.5, based on current trajectories. A comprehensive
discussion of the psychosocial dimensions of mitigation and
adaptation decision-making particularly in relation to
maladaptive responses, and identifying pathways for overcoming
social inertia and resistance, seems an important contribution
that climate psychology can make to this report.</font><br>
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<font color="#000099"><b><font size="+1"><a
href="http://www.unisdr.org/archive/50437">Record levels of
carbon dioxide to fuel disasters</a></font></b></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">GENEVA – The UN Secretary-General's
Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mr. Robert
Glasser, today urged world leaders to take note of the profound
implications of this month's record carbon dioxide readings and
to increase their level of commitment to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions...."It is deeply disturbing to learn that global
levels of 400 parts per million have now been reached in
September for the first time. The last time CO2 levels were this
high was 15 to 20 million years ago....."September is
traditionally when the lowest levels are recorded. This means
that we are unlikely to see levels below 400 parts per million
for the foreseeable future. We know that the safe level is well
below this...."It also means that we are systematically raising
levels of disaster risk for future generations and we can expect
more severe weather events in the years ahead. Climate disasters
already account for 90% of all disasters caused by natural
hazards...."This is potentially catastrophic especially for low
and middle-income countries that contribute little to greenhouse
gas emissions but have huge populations exposed to drought,
floods and storms...."Much more vigorous action is necessary for
a reasonable chance of limiting global warming to 2°C while the
Paris Agreement recognises that limiting global warming to 1.5°C
rather than 2°C would significantly reduce the risks and impacts
of climate change."...A 2009 study in the journal Science found
that the last time in Earth's history when CO2 levels in the
atmosphere were this high for a sustained period was between 15
and 20 million years ago. Then, according to the study,
temperatures were between 3C and 6C warmer than today. Ice
sheets, the study said, had melted to the point where sea levels
rose between 25 and 40 metres.</font><br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">But they lobby Congress through the American Beverage
Association, which is moribund on<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(but
very lively when a soda tax is proposed), and through their
association, they support the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, an
implacable foe of any meaningful climate legislation...A result
is that Coke and Pepsi's net lobbying presence in Congress is
directly adverse to their stated policies. They are not alone;
the net lobbying presence in Congress of all the companies that
supported a strong Paris agreement is forcefully opposed to the
principles of that agreement...It's a problem, and if they want
climate action in Congress, it needs to be solved....Senator
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE (D, RI)<br>
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<a href="http://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/publications/49458"><font
size="+1"><b>100 Resilient Cities project</b></font><br>
</a>
<blockquote><font size="-1">The 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) project
is dedicated to helping cities around the world become more
resilience to the physical, social and economic challenges that
are a growing part of the 21st Century. The 100RC definition of
resilience includes not just the shocks but also the stresses
that weaken the fabric of a city on a day to day or cyclical
basis....Lessons learned identified in this publication are: The
Chief Resilience Officer's (CRO) position is placed ideally in
the Mayor's office or equivalent that has an overarching role in
the city....This generally helps the CRO to work effectively
across other departments, avoiding siloing challenges....Visible
support from the Mayor or City Manager is also vital.. this
cross cutting thinking can be key to solving multiple challenges
with one solution in a cost effective way...This case study is
one of a series produced by members of ARISE, the UNISDR Private
Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient
Societies...http://www.unisdr.org/files/49458_aecom.americas.pdf
Full Document. </font><br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font
color="#000099"><font size="+1"><b>This day in Climate History </b><b>October
18, 1983:</b> </font> From D.R. Tucker
---------------------------------------------- </font></span><b><br>
<br>
</b><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w4pFNCzhTg">Last
Known Recorded Broadcast - NBC News Digest With Jessica Savitch
(1983) </a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">from <a
href="http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php?contentload=donate">The
Museum of Classic Chicago Television</a> - In what would be
one of her last "News Digest" broadcasts, NBC anchor Jessica
Savitch mentions a recently released EPA report on the
consequences of carbon pollution.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w4pFNCzhTg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w4pFNCzhTg</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/#videoclip-3279">http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/#videoclip-3279</a></font><br>
</blockquote>
<b><a
href="http://m.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/21/1101930/-A-Greenhouse-Effect-Warning-from-1983">A
Greenhouse Effect Warning from 1983</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">WASHINGTON (AP) -- A potentially
catastrophic warming of the Earth will start in the 1990s,
disrupting food production and raising coastal waters as the
polar icecaps melt, the federal government said in a report
released today....The study by the Environmental Protection
Agency said the climatic changes from the so-called "greenhouse
effect" are unavoidable and warned that the United States and
other countries must begin searching now for ways to mitigate
the impact...The report, titled "Can We Delay a Greenhouse
Warming?" concluded that even as drastic and unlikely a step as
a total ban on coal burning would delay by only 15 years a 3.6
degree increase in average worldwide temperatures...While other
government studies have warned that the greenhouse effect was a
potential problem, the EPA report is the first to state with
certainty that the warming will occur no matter what...The EPA
study is based on earlier projections by the National Academy of
Sciences that a doubling of carbon dioxide in the air – which
could occur by the middle of the next century – would raise
present world temperatures within a range of 2.7 degrees to 8.1
degrees Fahrenheit...This result is known as the greenhouse
effect because carbon dioxide acts like the glass in a
greenhouse allowing the sun’s warming rays to reach earth but
not allowing the heat to escape.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://m.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/21/1101930/-A-Greenhouse-Effect-Warning-from-1983">http://m.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/21/1101930/-A-Greenhouse-Effect-Warning-from-1983</a></font><br>
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