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<font size="+1"><i>Forward this email to voters and candidates and
stay well-informed about global warming - November 17, 2016</i></font><br>
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<b><a
href="https://twitter.com/GeoffreySupran/status/798933692781502465">Report:
United States Mid-Century Strategy for Deep Decarbonization</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">US reveals 2050 climate strategy.
Takeaways: Act now, We can do it, Multiple pathways, pro-growth,
Human activities, particularly CO2 emissions from fossil fuel
combustion, have driven atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG),
concentration levels higher than at any time in at least 800,000
years (IPCC 2013). As a result, the Earth has warmed at an
alarming rate over the past century, with average temperatures
increasing by more than 0.8°C (1.5°F) (NCA 2014).</font><br>
<font size="-1">The consequences are already severe. Heat waves
and droughts are more common, wildfire seasons are longer and</font><br>
<font size="-1">fires larger and more costly, and extreme weather
is becoming more intense and unpredictable. Left unchecked, from
2000 to</font><br>
<font size="-1">2100, global average temperature increases of 2 to
5°C (3.6 to 9°F) and sea level rise of two to four feet are
likely, and much larger</font><br>
<font size="-1">increases are possible (USGCRP 2014, IPCC 2013).
Climate change will reduce long-run economic growth and
jeopardize national</font><br>
<font size="-1">security. report <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://t.co/Iy6RAoGfNE">https://t.co/Iy6RAoGfNE</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="https://tamino.wordpress.com/2016/11/16/supermoon-flooding/">Supermoon
Flooding</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">it’s not just Miami and Boston, it’s
lots of places. Yesterday’s “supermoon” exaggerated the effect,
because the moon was especially close to the Earth so its
gravitational influence was stronger than usual. Minor flooding
followed, from Miami to Maine ....</font><br>
<font size="-1">it’s going to get worse. Not just in Miami and
Boston and Portland, ME, but around the world. Humans live near
the sea, and for thousands of years the level of the ocean’s
waters has changed only imperceptibly … now it’s changing, not
just perceptibly, but threateningly. I repeat, the economic
damage is considerable.... Th</font><br>
<font size="-1">This kind of minor flooding, that can happen even
when there’s no storm or wind or rain, is only part of the
problem. When storm and wind do hit, they can bring about the
kind of storm surge that means massive flooding. The kind of
flooding that costs hundreds of billions of dollars like in New
Orleans (hurricane Katrina) and New York/New Jersey (superstorm
Sandy). The kind of flooding that costs lives.</font><br>
<b><a
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016EF000423/full">Future
nuisance flooding at Boston caused by astronomical tides alone</a></b><br>
<font size="-1">Accepted manuscript online: 25 October 2016</font><br>
<font size="-1">Abstract</font><br>
<font size="-1">Sea level rise necessarily triggers more
occurrences of minor, or nuisance, flooding events along
coastlines, a fact well documented in recent studies. At some
locations nuisance flooding can be brought about merely by high
spring tides, independent of storms, winds, or other atmospheric
conditions. Analysis of observed water levels at Boston
indicates that tidal flooding began to occur there in 2011 and
will become more frequent in subsequent years. A compilation of
all predicted nuisance-flooding events, induced by astronomical
tides alone, is presented through year 2050. The accuracy of the
tide prediction is improved when several unusual properties of
Gulf of Maine tides, including secular changes, are properly
accounted for. Future mean sea-level rise at Boston cannot be
predicted with comparable confidence, so two very different
climate scenarios are adopted; both predict a large increase in
the frequency and</font><br>
<font size="-1">the magnitude of tidal flooding events. <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016EF000423/epdf">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016EF000423/epdf</a>
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<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE-0wEjfGgs">Democracy
Now - from Marakesh, Morocco. Bernie Sanders' Surprise Speech
Outside the White House on Rejecting Dakota Pipeline & Trump</a></b><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://democracynow.org">http://democracynow.org</a> -
We feature a surprise address by Senator Bernie Sanders outside
the White House on Tuesday during a global day of action against
the Dakota Access pipeline that included demonstrations in over
300 cities. "Today we are saying it is time for a new approach
to the Native American people, not to run a pipeline through
their land," Sanders said, demanding that their sovereign rights
be honored. He also spoke about the need for politicians to
protect access to clean water, recognize that climate change is
real, and support an aggressive shift away from fossil fuels to
sustainable energy sources....Democracy Now! is an independent
global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly 1,400 TV and radio
stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://democracynow.org">http://democracynow.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE-0wEjfGgs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE-0wEjfGgs</a></font><br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9FS56zwvas">Bernie
Sanders speaks out in front of White House on #NoDAPL 'day of
action'</a></b><br>
<font size="-1">Protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline are
happening across the country as the construction company has
sought relief in court. With more than 200 demonstrations
planned, the Day of Action is expected to be the largest
anti-DAPL protest in months. Senator Bernie Sanders joined in to
deliver a speech for those marching from the US Army Corp of
Engineers building in Washington, DC to the White House. Video
by RT America's Alexander Rubinstein <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9FS56zwvas">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9FS56zwvas</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/11/16/climate-science-deniers-representing-organisation-donald-trump-s-epa-pick-booted-un-cop22-talks">Climate
Science Deniers With Organisation of Donald Trump’s EPA Pick
Booted From UN Marrakech COP22 Talks</a></b><br>
<font size="-1">Climate science denier Marc Morano just got
himself kicked out of the UN climate talks in Marrakech. Of
course, that was probably his aim all along....Morano stood in a
Trump hat, next to a life-size cut-out of the president-elect,
waving shredded copies of the Paris Agreement....</font><br>
<font size="-1"> The stunt gave Canadian outlet The Rebel the
footage it has been craving since it arrived, and got Morano
kicked out of the talks....</font><br>
<font size="-1"> But there’s a number of things that are weird
about the story...To start with, Morano (who is Communications
Director of well know climate deniers Commitee For A
Constructive Tomorrow) was actually here on a Competitive
Enterprise Institute (CEI) badge...DeSmog understands CFACT
executive director Craig Rucker was also ejected, along with one
other person. All three were accredited with CEI badges....The
CEI’s Director of Energy and Environment is Myron Ebell, who has
been picked by Donald Trump to head the USEnvironmental Agency’s
transition. Ebell, who was also accredited to attend the talks
but has not been seen, is also a climate science denier.</font><br>
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url="http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/16/13653732/china-climate-change-hoax-donald-trump-morocco"
id="MAA4AEgAUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
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style="font-weight: bold;">China to Trump: Why are you
blaming us for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b>?</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Four years later, Trump was elected president of the
United States - and so China decided to address the preposterous
claim, telling the president-elect that China didn't concoct the
“<b style="font-weight: normal;">global warming</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>hoax.” China's vice
foreign minister Liu Zhenmin<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">...</b></div>
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<b><a
href="https://ethicsandclimate.org/2016/11/15/the-enormous-damage-caused-to-the-world-by-the-climate-change-disinformation-campaign-which-began-in-the-united-states-and-spread-to-other-countries/">The
Enormous Damage Caused to the World By the Climate Change
Disinformation Campaign Which Began in the United States and
Spread To Other Countries</a></b><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">The following are slides presented on
the enormous damage to the world caused by the climate change
disinformation campaign </font><br>
<font size="-1"> The program will begin with a briefing on what
peer-reviewed social science has revealed about the climate
change disinformation campaign’s structure, funding, tactics,
successes in blocking climate policies, and main participants.
This will be followed by a discussion of:</font><br>
<font size="-1"> Why despite fact that scientific skepticism is
good and should be encouraged, this is not responsible
skepticism?</font><br>
<font size="-1"> Why this behavior cannot be excused as an
exercise in free speech?</font><br>
<font size="-1"> What damage has been caused by this campaign?</font><br>
<font size="-1"> What kind of malfeasance is this? Tort, crime,
fraud?</font><br>
<font size="-1"> How to increase public international awareness of
these developments?</font><br>
<font size="-1"> What should be done about it?</font><br>
<font size="-1"> "Program at the UNFCCC COP 22, Marraketch
Morroco" Tuesday, November 15, 2016 Donald A. Brown, Widener
University Commonwealth Law School</font><br>
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href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elliott-negin/broadcast-networks-largel_b_13002776.html"
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style="font-weight: bold;">Broadcast Networks Largely
Ignored<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
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class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This Election Year</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Secretary of State John Kerry, in Marrakesh this week for
international<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>talks, recently said it
“pissed him off” that there wasn't a single question asked about<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">In 2007, a team led by Corinne Le Quéré, now director of
the Tyndall Centre for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">Climate Change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Research in Norwich, UK,
published a study in Science indicating that the rate of carbon
uptake by the Southern Ocean decreased between 1981 and
2004...The waters of the Southern Ocean have absorbed much of
the excess heat and carbon generated by humanity....“The
Southern Ocean is doing us a big climate favour at the moment,
but it’s not necessarily the case that it will continue doing so
in the future,” says Michael Meredith, an oceanographer with the
British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK. Meredith is heading a
series of expeditions over the next five years to help document
the uptake of heat and carbon. “It really is the key place for
studying these things....With the new data, Sarmiento and his
team can test their models and refine estimates of how CO2 moves
between the seas and the sky. Indirect evidence suggests that
the Southern Ocean is a net carbon sink and has absorbed as much
as 15% of the carbon emissions emitted by humanity since the
industrial revolution. But at some times of year and in specific
places in this region, carbon-rich surface waters release CO2
into the atmosphere.<br>
Alison Gray, a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton who is
leading the study. “It would imply that potentially there is a
much weaker carbon sink in the Southern Ocean than has been
estimated.”...<br>
The speed of those winds had increased during that time,
probably as a result of the hole in the stratospheric ozone
layer over Antarctica and possibly because of global warming.
Stronger winds are better able to pull up deep, ancient water,
which releases CO2 when it reaches the surface. That would have
caused a net weakening of the carbon sink....If that trend were
to continue, atmospheric CO2 levels would rise even faster in
the future....<br>
In January 2015, oceanographers aboard the Australian icebreaker
Aurora Australis were cruising off the coast of Antarctica when
they were presented with a unique opportunity. Following a crack
in the sea ice, they were able to reach the edge of the Totten
Glacier, one of the biggest drainage points for the East
Antarctica ice sheet. No other expedition had reached within 50
kilometres of the glacier...<br>
The team deployed floats and gliders into the waters around and
underneath the glacier, which is 200 metres thick at its front
edge. What they found came as a shock. The water at the front of
the glacier was 3 °C warmer than the freezing point at the base
of the glacier...<br>
“We always thought Totten was too far away from warm water to be
susceptible, but we found warm water all over the shelf there,”
says Steve Rintoul, an oceanographer at the Antarctic Climate
and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre in Hobart,
Australia...<br>
Scientists had already shown7, 8 that warm-water currents are
undercutting the West Antarctic ice sheet in many areas along
the peninsula where the glaciers extend into the ocean. But
Rintoul says that this expedition provided some of the first
hard evidence that these same processes are affecting East
Antarctica, raising new questions about the longevity of the
mammoth ice sheets that blanket the continent.<br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
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Finally Know How London's Famous Killer Fog Formed</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">...By the time the fog lifted on
December 9th [1952], 150,000 people had been hospitalized.
Experts now estimate that over 12,000 men, women, and children
died from exposure to the befouled air....</font><br>
<font size="-1"> London’s Great Smog, as the disaster is now
known, was immediately (and correctly) blamed on coal. But the
details of what exactly happened remained elusive for decades.
Now, through laboratory experiments and atmospheric measurements
in two pollution-prone Chinese cities, Xi’an and Beijing, a team
lead by Texas A&M’s Renyi Zhang has worked out a likely
explanation for the Great Smog and other deadly air pollution
events around the world. Their work is <a
href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/11/09/1616540113.full">published
this week in the Proceedings of the National Academies of
Sciences</a>..."...our results explain the outstanding sulfur
problem during the historic London Fog formation and elucidate
the chemical mechanism of severe haze in China."</font><br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">British explorer Capt. James Cook is usually associated
with the tropics, but records from his 1778 voyage north reveal
the extent of the Arctic ice pack and contrast with today’s
ice-free summer route through the Northwest Passage....The
British expedition was halted north of the Bering Strait by “ice
which was as compact as a Wall and seemed to be ten or twelve
feet high at least,” according to the captain’s journal. Cook’s
ships followed the ice edge all the way to Siberia in their
futile search for an opening, sometimes guided through fog by
the braying of the unpalatable creatures the crew called Sea
Horses...<br>
More than two centuries later, scientists are mining meticulous
records kept by Cook and his crew for a new perspective on the
warming that has opened the Arctic in a way the 18th century
explorer could never have imagined...<br>
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<b><a
href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1088937X.2016.1236845?journalCode=tpog20">Polar
maps: Captain Cook and the earliest historical charts of the
ice edge in the Chukchi Sea</a></b><br>
<font size="-1">The British expedition was halted north of the
Bering Strait by “ice which was as compact as a Wall and seemed
to be ten or twelve feet high at least,” according to the
captain’s journal. Cook’s ships followed the ice edge all the
way to Siberia in their futile search for an opening, sometimes
guided through fog by the braying of the unpalatable creatures
the crew called Sea Horses.</font><br>
<font size="-1">More than two centuries later, scientists are
mining meticulous records kept by Cook and his crew for a new
perspective on the warming that has opened the Arctic in a way
the 18th century explorer could never have imagined.</font><br>
<b><a href="http://psc.apl.washington.edu/sea_ice_cdr/">Unified
Sea Ice Thickness Climate Data Record</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://psc.apl.washington.edu/sea_ice_cdr/Summaries.html">http://psc.apl.washington.edu/sea_ice_cdr/Summaries.html</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15814614/ns/msnbc-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/t/worst-person-world-sen-james-inhofe/">This
Day in Climate History November 16, 2004: </a> - from D.R.
Tucker </b></font><br>
November 17, 2006: MSNBC's Keith Olbermann calls out Oklahoma
Senator James Inhofe for simultaneously trafficking in climate
denial and blasphemy:<br>
"But our winner, Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, who until January
will remain the chairman of the Senate Committee on the Environment
and Public Works. This morning he declared that any global warming
is owed to 'natural causes' and is 'due to the sun.' <br>
'God’s still up there,' he added. <br>
"So, Senator, you’re blaming global warming on God? <br>
"Senator James 'Is it just me or is it hot in here' Inhofe,
[designated as] Friday’s 'Worst Person in the World.'"<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15814614/ns/msnbc-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/t/worst-person-world-sen-james-inhofe/">http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15814614/ns/msnbc-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/t/worst-person-world-sen-james-inhofe/</a><br>
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