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stay well-informed about global warming - December 10, 2016<br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Trump transition team for Energy
Department seeks names of employees involved in<span
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255);">The Trump transition team has issued a list of 74
questions for the Energy Department, asking officials there to
identify which department employees and contractors have worked
on forging an international<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>pact as well as domestic
efforts to cut<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">the nation’s carbon output....<br>
</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">This potential clash
could prompt a major schism within the federal government,
with many career officials waging a battle against incoming
political appointees....<br>
One question zeroed in on the issue of the "social cost of
carbon," a way of calculating the consequences of greenhouse
gas emissions. The transition team asked for a list of
department employees or contractors who attended interagency
meetings, the dates of the meetings, and emails and other
materials associated with them....<br>
The social cost of carbon is a metric that calculates the cost
to society of emitting a ton of carbon dioxide to the
atmosphere. The Obama administration has used this tool to try
to calculate the benefits of regulations and initiatives that
lead to lower greenhouse gas emissions....<br>
Another question appeared to delve deeply into the mechanisms
behind scientific tools called "integrated assessment models,"
which scientists use to forecast future changes to the climate
and energy system. It also asked what the Energy Department
considers to be "the proper equilibrium climate sensitivity,"
which is a way that climate researchers calculate how much the
planet will eventually warm, depending upon the amount of
greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere....<br>
"My guess is that they’re trying to undermine the credibility
of the science that DOE has produced, particularly in the
field of climate science," said Rob Jackson, a Stanford
climate and energy researcher, in response to the question
about the Integrated Assessment Models.</span><b
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255);"><span class="titletext" style="font-weight: normal;">Leaked
Document: Trump Wants to Identify Officials Who Worked on
Obama<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">Climate</b><span
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<font size="-1">Donald Trump aides are attempting to identify
Department of Energy staffers who played a role in promoting
President Barack Obama's climate policies, according to details
of a leaked transition team questionnaire published by Bloomberg
Thursday night.</font><br>
<font size="-1">According to Bloomberg:</font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">The transition team has asked the
agency to list employees and contractors who attended United
Nations climate meetings, along with those who helped develop
the Obama administration's social cost of carbon metrics, used
to estimate and justify the climate benefits of new rules. The
advisers are also seeking information on agency loan programs,
research activities and the basis for its statistics,
according to a five-page internal document circulated by the
Energy Department on Wednesday. The document lays out 65
questions from the Trump transition team, sources within the
agency said.</font><br>
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<font size="-1">Bloomberg goes on to say the document was
confirmed by two Energy Department employees, who said agency
staff were "unsettled" by the request. Someone in Trump's
transition team also confirmed the authenticity of the document
to Bloomberg.</font><br>
<font size="-1">more at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://theintercept.com/2016/12/09/david-schnare-trump/">https://theintercept.com/2016/12/09/david-schnare-trump/</a></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">CNN host Chris Cuomo spars with
congresswoman in tense exchange over<span
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">"Of course you can be a believer in clean air and clean
water and realize that when you work at<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">global warming</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b>, as it is now popularly called,
that it is cyclical and you have to look at it in terms of
centuries, not in terms of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">...<b>"</b>It’s not some though,
congresswoman,<b>"</b> Cuomo quipped. <b>"</b>You know — it’s
an overwhelming scientific consensus on the notion of whether
man-made activities negatively impact global warming. It’s not
an open debate within the scientific community. It is a big
majority and a small group of people that resist it.<b>"</b>...<br>
Cuomo reiterated that he was <b>"</b>talking about the basic
science<b>"</b> and whether she and Pruitt agreed with it....<b>"</b>The
fact is that there is still debate about that and the
participation of human beings in this,<b>"</b> Blackburn said.
<b>"</b>We all will agree we want the Earth to stay healthy.
We want clean air, we want clean water.<b>"</b>...The
congresswoman said, however, that it was important to <b>"</b>make
certain that we are able to have the energy that is necessary
to fuel a productive economy.<b>"</b></b></div>
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<font size="+1"><b><br>
</b><b><a
href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-nears-finish-line-of-annual-study-of-changing-antarctic-ice">NASA
Nears Finish Line of Annual Study of Changing Antarctic Ice</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Operation IceBridge, NASA’s airborne
survey of changes in polar ice, is closing in on the end of its
eighth consecutive Antarctic deployment, and will likely tie its
2012 campaign record for the most research flights carried out
during a single Antarctic season...</font><br>
<font size="-1">"We are probing the most remote corners of
Spaceship Earth to learn more about changes that affect all of
us locally, such as how ice sheets are contributing to sea level
rise," said NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman on her very
first flight over Antarctica with the IceBridge team on Nov. 17.
"At NASA we explore: not only space, but also our home planet."</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-nears-finish-line-of-annual-study-of-changing-antarctic-ice">https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-nears-finish-line-of-annual-study-of-changing-antarctic-ice</a></font><br>
<font size="-1"><a
href="https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/rift-in-antarcticas-larsen-c-ice-shelf">Rift
in Antarctica's Larsen C Ice Shelf</a></font><br>
<font size="-1">On Nov. 10, 2016, scientists on NASA's IceBridge
mission photographed an oblique view of a massive rift in the
Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf. Icebridge, an airborne
survey of polar ice, completed an eighth consecutive Antarctic
deployment on Nov. 18...</font><br>
<font size="-1">Ice shelves are the floating parts of ice streams
and glaciers, and they buttress the grounded ice behind them;
when ice shelves collapse, the ice behind accelerates toward the
ocean, where it then adds to sea level rise. Larsen C neighbors
a smaller ice shelf that disintegrated in 2002 after developing
a rift similar to the one now growing in Larsen C.</font><br>
<font size="-1">The IceBridge scientists measured the Larsen C
fracture to be about 70 miles long, more than 300 feet wide and
about a third of a mile deep. The crack completely cuts through
the ice shelf but it does not go all the way across it – once it
does, it will produce an iceberg roughly the size of the state
of Delaware. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/rift-in-antarcticas-larsen-c-ice-shelf">https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/rift-in-antarcticas-larsen-c-ice-shelf</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBjtO-0tbKU">(TED video)
The reality of climate change | David Puttnam | </a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">...And the Duty of Care. David
Puttnam looks at Climate Change through different lenses, all of
which reveal the unsustainable ways in which we are living.
Climate Change is real, but throughout history humans have
failed to set political and economic concerns aside for our
greater good. Will we ignore this latest warning?
"Disregarding human suffering in pursuit of profit" ..</font><br>
<font size="-1"> Lord David Puttnam produced award-winning films
including Chariots of Fire, Bugsy Malone, and The Mission. He
now works at the intersection between education, media, and
policy. In 2007 he was appointed Chairman of the Joint
Parliamentary Committee on the Draft Climate Change Bill.</font><br>
<font size="-1"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBjtO-0tbKU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBjtO-0tbKU</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a
href="http://deadline.com/2016/12/inconvenient-truth-2-coming-from-paramount-with-sundance-2017-premiere-1201867970/">Paramount
Sets ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Sequel To Open Sundance Film Festival</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Ten years after the success of the
Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth,
Paramount today announced it will release a sequel. Directed by
Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, the Participant Media film will
follow former Vice President Al Gore in his efforts to fight
climate change. Ahead of a theatrical release, the film is set
to premiere opening night at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival...</font><br>
<font size="-1">Unlike the original An Inconvenient Truth, which
mixed documentary footage with an adaptation of Gore’s
inspirational slide presentation about the dangers of global
warming, the sequel features the former Vice President traveling
the globe to tell a story of change in the making. ...The film
is produced by Richard Berge and Diane Weyermann and executive
produced by Jeff Skoll, original director Davis Guggenheim,
Lawrence Bender, Laurie David, Scott Z. Burns, and Lesley
Chilcott....</font><br>
<font size="-1">"Now more than ever we must re-dedicate ourselves
to solving the climate crisis," said Gore in a statement. "But
we have reason to be hopeful; the solutions to the crisis are at
hand. I’m deeply honored and grateful that Paramount Pictures
and Participant Media have once again taken on the task of
bringing the critical story of the climate crisis to the
world."...</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://deadline.com/2016/12/inconvenient-truth-2-coming-from-paramount-with-sundance-2017-premiere-1201867970/">http://deadline.com/2016/12/inconvenient-truth-2-coming-from-paramount-with-sundance-2017-premiere-1201867970/</a></font><br>
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<br>
<a
href="http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/news-events/most-greenland-ice-melted-bedrock-recent-geologic-past-study-says"><b>Most
of Greenland ice melted to bedrock in recent geologic past –
‘Unfortunately, this makes the Greenland ice sheet look highly
unstable’</b><br>
</a>
<blockquote><a
href="http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/news-events/most-greenland-ice-melted-bedrock-recent-geologic-past-study-says">
</a><font size="-1">Scientists have found evidence in a chunk of
bedrock drilled from nearly two miles below the summit of the
Greenland Ice Sheet that the ice nearly disappeared for an
extended time in the last million years or so. The finding casts
doubt on assumptions that Greenland has been relatively stable
during the recent geological past, and implies that global
warming could tip it into decline more precipitously than
previously thought. Such a decline could cause rapid sea-level
rise. The findings appear this week in the leading journal
Nature....<br>
Scientists have found evidence in a chunk of bedrock drilled
from nearly two miles below the summit of the Greenland Ice
Sheet that the ice nearly disappeared for an extended time in
the last million years or so. The finding casts doubt on
assumptions that Greenland has been relatively stable during the
recent geological past, and implies that global warming could
tip it into decline more precipitously than previously thought.
Such a decline could cause rapid sea-level rise. The findings
appear this week in the leading journal Nature....<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/news-events/most-greenland-ice-melted-bedrock-recent-geologic-past-study-says">http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/news-events/most-greenland-ice-melted-bedrock-recent-geologic-past-study-says</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v540/n7632/full/nature20146.html">http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v540/n7632/full/nature20146.html</a><br>
The Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) contains the equivalent of
7.4 metres of global sea-level rise1. Its stability in our
warming climate is therefore a pressing concern. However, the
sparse proxy evidence of the palaeo-stability of the GIS means
that its history is controversial (compare refs 2 and 3 to ref.
4). Here we show that Greenland was deglaciated for extended
periods during the Pleistocene epoch (from 2.6 million years ago
to 11,700 years ago), based on new measurements of
cosmic-ray-produced beryllium and aluminium isotopes (10Be and
26Al) in a bedrock core from beneath an ice core near the GIS
summit. Models indicate that when this bedrock site is ice-free,
any remaining ice is concentrated in the eastern Greenland
highlands and the GIS is reduced to less than ten per cent of
its current volume. Our results narrow the spectrum of possible
GIS histories: the longest period of stability of the present
ice sheet that is consistent with the measurements is 1.1
million years, assuming that this was preceded by more than
280,000 years of ice-free conditions. Other scenarios, in which
Greenland was ice-free during any or all Pleistocene
interglacials, may be more realistic. Our observations are
incompatible with most existing model simulations that present a
continuously existing Pleistocene GIS. Future simulations of the
GIS should take into account that Greenland was nearly ice-free
for extended periods under Pleistocene climate forcing.</font><br>
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<strong>Boston Sounds the Alarm:<font size="-1"> </font></strong><font
size="-1"><br>
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<blockquote><font size="-1">The City of Boston released a <a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=b9dd541e15&e=cab6c88302"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">400-page
report</a> Thursday that predicts the effects of climate
change and provides a roadmap for the city to adapt. The report
predicts a catastrophic storm affecting 90,000 Bostonians and
causing $14 billion of damage within 50 years if immediate
action is not taken, and details the impacts climate change
would have on specific neighborhoods in the city. In the
report’s forward, Mayor Marty Walsh wrote that implementing
climate resilience plans will "create jobs, improve public
spaces and public health, and make our energy supply more
efficient and resilient." (<a
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style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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#709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">WBUR</a>,
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#709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">Boston
Globe</a> $, <a
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#709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">Boston
Herald</a>, <a
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style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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#709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">NECN</a>)
(ClimateNexus)</font><br>
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<b>Roundup Gone Gonzo: Fear and Loathing at Koch-Funded Trump
"Shadow Transition Team" Event</b><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">Science gives way to science fiction
at an ominous meeting of fossil fuel elites</font><br>
<font size="-1"> Wednesday there was an eight hour climate denial
event, hosted by both the Heritage Foundation, which has been
described as Trump’s ‘shadow transition’ Team, and the Texas
Public Policy Foundation. The following is a rare denier roundup
written in the first person. It is my account of a day-long
descent into madness, watching the livestream all day...</font><br>
<font size="-1"> There was a great diversity of speakers across
the six sessions. There were speeches by men from Congress, men
from think tanks, men from fossil fuel companies and lobby
groups, men from science and a man of law addressing the
gathering. Women were also allowed at the event, to give the
introductory and dinner keynote addresses and allowed an
occasional emceeing role...</font><br>
<font size="-1"> I tuned in 10 minutes late thinking I’d catch the
tail end of the introductory remarks. Instead, I was immediately
greeted by Rep. Lamar Smith making an apology for Senator Mike
Lee not being there — he was voting on something, apparently.
Before long, Smith was bragging about the 25 subpoenas he’s
issued as chair of the House Committee on Science, Space and
Technology. In the 21 years prior, the committee had issued…
one...</font><br>
<font size="-1"> But then, he predicted that "there won’t be near
as many subpoenas in the coming Congress." Because when his
fellow fossil fuel friends are running the show, what could he
possibly want to investigate?...</font><br>
<font size="-1"> What he does intend to do, however, is force the
EPA to violate privacy laws. He describes it as making sure the
EPA makes the data on which it bases regulations public. All the
data. Which would mean making private medical records public,
violating HIPPA and other patient protection laws...</font><br>
<font size="-1"> Smith did say something we can all agree with:
"Regulations should be based on sound science, not science
fiction." But it was science fiction that would emerge as
something of theme of the day... [This very special Denier
Roundup is continued at Nexus Media News.]</font><br>
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Change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Is
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Extinctions related to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>have already happened in
hundreds of plant and animal species around the world. ... This
result is particularly striking because<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
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increased mean temperatures by less than 1 degree Celsius so
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<!--EndFragment--><a
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size="+1"><b>More dire data, less climate change concern?</b></font></a><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">As climate change becomes more apparent,
are people becoming fatigued on the topic?...</font><br>
<font size="-1">...The unanticipated feedback loop could result in
release of emissions amounting to that of the entire United
States, research showed. This would blast the planet well past
the 2 degree Celsius (3.6 degree Fahrenheit) limit, beyond which
scientists say climate change could become catastrophic.</font><br>
<font size="-1">"It's something that scientists have theorized for
quite awhile, but had not yet been proven," he told DW. Crowther
started this research to disprove this hypothesis, he told DW.
"But now, all the data suggests it's even worse than we
thought."</font><br>
<font size="-1">Crowther says he, too, is concerned that as
climate science becomes ever more alarming, people seem less and
less alarmed.</font><br>
<font size="-1">"My personal opinion is that it's become too much
of a politicized issue," he says. There's no debate when that
happens, he says, "there's just people shouting at each other."</font><br>
<font size="-1">"Any time people bring new information to the
table, it just reinforces the fury on both sides of the
argument, and they just shout at each other and nobody gets
anywhere."</font><br>
<font size="-1">Crowther notes that there is no other way to stop
the soil feedback loop than to limit overall emissions - which
is why Trump's threat to scrap US emissions limits and pull the
US out of the Paris climate accord is so worrying.</font><br>
<font size="-1">"This data reinforces the need to meet the targets
that were set at Paris, because now we know that cutting
greenhouse gas emissions is even more critical than we thought."</font><br>
<font size="-1">In the meantime, many are asking what it will take
to give the topic the critical mass necessary for political
action.</font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a href="http://youtu.be/Ibl63YlTtI4">This Day in
Climate History December 10, 1997 </a>- from D.R. Tucker <br>
</b></font>
<blockquote><font size="+1"><b> </b></font>December 10, 1997:
President Clinton hails the progress UN negotiators have made
regarding the Kyoto Protocol in brief remarks at JFK Airport in
New York. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/Ibl63YlTtI4">http://youtu.be/Ibl63YlTtI4</a><br>
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