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<font size="+1"><i>Stay well-informed about global warming, </i></font><font
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<div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper"><font size="-1">An iceberg
the size of Delaware is poised to break away from Antarctica,
an event which may lead to the collapse of a massive ice shelf
on the continent, according to researchers...<br>
Scientists say that a 1,900 square-mile section of the "Larsen
C" ice shelf is now only connected to the main body by a
12-mile section of ice. Researchers monitoring a huge crack in
the ice discovered that it had grown rapidly during the second
half of 2016 — increasing in size by 11 miles in December
alone...<br>
If the iceberg does break away, it would be one of the ten
largest ever recorded...<br>
n November 2016, NASA scientists carrying out an airborne
survey of polar ice measured the crack in Larsen C to be about
70 miles long, more than 300 feet wide and about a third of a
mile deep.<br>
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class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Denialism</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">During the past few months, Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump's
pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Rick Perry,
Trump's pick to head the Energy Department, and Donald Trump
himself have all said that they don't believe in<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b>. The most upsetting part of their
statements has been the misuse of the word believe.<br>
Religion is a belief system. You have to believe that Moses
parted the Red Sea or that Lazarus was raised from the dead.
Because these phenomena violate the laws of nature, they are
matters of faith....<br>
Science, on the other hand, isn't a belief system. It's an
evidence-based system. For example, you don't have to believe in
the theory of evolution. All you have to do is examine 250,000
years of fossil records to know that humans and apes evolved
from a common ancestor. You don't have to believe in the germ
theory. All you have to do is recognize that vaccines,
antibiotics, and sanitation programs have increased our lifespan
by 30 years during the past century. And you don't have to
believe in the theory of gravity. All you have to do is drop
your pen. None of these concepts are theories any more. They're
facts supported by evidence....<br>
Sometimes people like Donald Trump, Scott Pruitt, and Rick Perry
describe climate change as a "controversial new science." In
truth, it's not new at all. Joseph Fourier made his observations
in the early 1800s, well before Charles Darwin advanced his
theory of evolution...<br>
...It's not too late. By turning away from fossil fuels and
turning toward renewable sources of energy like those generated
by the sun, wind, and rivers, there's still plenty of time to
reverse this trend. The Paris climate summit in 2015 and
President Obama's Clean Power Plan in the same year were good
starts. And while it is reasonable for politicians to argue
whether the programs that have been put in place have been the
most efficient way to spend limited resources, it is madness to
claim that the problem doesn't exist.<br>
The simple truth is that it will cost less money to curb CO2
emissions today than to mitigate the problems created by the
greenhouse effect tomorrow. Our politicians owe us that. If they
care at all about their legacy, they need to stop denying what
is plainly in front of them. Because, as noted by Raymond Aron,
"The judgment of history is without pity."<b style="font-weight:
normal;">...<br>
The incoming Trump administration seems to be in a competition
with itself to pretend climate change isn’t real—and that has
very real consequences.<br>
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<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QK5Kp2uM1E">(YouTube
Video) Surveilling the Scientists (9 minutes)</a></b><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">Chairman of the House Committee on
Science, Space, and Technology, Lamar Smith is accusing
scientists of falsifying key evidence of a warming planet, even
as global temperatures spike to frightening new highs. <a
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QK5Kp2uM1E">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QK5Kp2uM1E</a></font><br>
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<b><a
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class="" face="HelveticaNeue">What's The Best Way to Convince
a Climate Change Denier?</font></a></b>
<blockquote> <font class="" face="HelveticaNeue" size="-1">In the
summer of 2015, NOAA scientists published a <a
href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6242/1469"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px
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class="">paper</a> that ran counter to one narrative on global
warming: While some data seemed to show the rate of warming had
slowed or paused after 1998 and into the beginning of the 21st
century, they wrote, an update to NOAA's influential temperature
data set confirmed that warming had actually continued at a
consistent pace during that time. The paper, which challenged
the positions of climate skeptics, was politically
controversial, and led to a Congressional subpoena for the team
from Republican Lamar Smith. Now, <a
href="http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/1/e1601207"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px
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text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; transition: color
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class="">new research</a> in <em style="padding: 0px; border:
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box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Science Advances</em> echoes
what NOAA asserted two years ago.</font><br>
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href="http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/whats-the-best-way-to-convince-a-climate-change-denier/"
class=""><font class="" face="HelveticaNeue">http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/whats-the-best-way-to-convince-a-climate-change-denier/</font></a></font><br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">About 15000 years ago, the ocean around Antarctica has
seen an abrupt sea level rise of several meters. It could happen
again.<br>
... ice sheets melt more strongly than when the surrounding
ocean is thoroughly mixed. This is exactly what is presently
happening around the Antarctic.... <br>
"The largest melt occurred 14,700 years ago. During this time
the Antarctic contributed to a sea level rise of at least three
meters within a few centuries." <br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">The amount of fossil fuel required to make cement is
astonishing: Producing 1 ton of concrete, about a cubic yard,
uses the equivalent of 400 pounds of coal.</div>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">The large, looping Atlantic Ocean current that keeps
northwestern Europe fairly warm and influences sea levels along
the U.S. coast is a key component of the Earth's<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>system.
But because of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">global warming</b>, it may be
more likely to substantially<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">..If that current, called the
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, were to slow down
substantially, it could lead to chillier weather in northern
and western Europe, starve economically important fisheries
and cause waters to rise along the U.S. coast, leading to more
so-called <b>"</b>sunny day<b>"</b> flooding and storm surge
when hurricanes come ashore. It could also shift tropical rain
belts, causing major disruptions to regional climate in
Central and South America...<br>
The new studies factor in elements that have been missing from
previous projections of how likely the collapse of the current
is. One study factors in the melting of the Greenland Ice
Sheet, which is adding a pulse of freshwater into the North
Atlantic, but is difficult to incorporate into current climate
models. The other attempts to correct a bias in climate models
that underestimates how unstable the AMOC really is...<br>
While neither study is close to the final word on what might
happen to this crucial current as global warming continues,
the second, in particular, <b>"</b>raises some serious
concerns<b>"</b> about our understanding and points to the
need to improve models, said Tom Delworth, a research
scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration....More concerning is the bias in climate
models addressed by the second study, published Wednesday in
Science Advances. Effectively, models are missing the way an
initial weakening of the current from ocean warming causes
freshwater to build up, further weakening the overturning of
the circulation. This relationship has been observed in recent
direct ocean measurements, as well as paleo data....In their
simulations, that collapse caused significant shifts in
tropical rain belts and led to regional cooling over the
northern Atlantic and nearby areas. Winter temperatures over
parts of northern and western Europe were nearly 13°F (7°C)
colder than present...<br>
The results show how crucial it is to accurately represent the
AMOC in climate models, as well as to continue gathering
direct observations of the current, which began only about a
decade ago, Delworth said...<br>
<b>"</b>We use models for making any of these projections, so
the projections are only as good as the models are,<b>"</b> he
said. <b>"</b>I suspect this will be a real emphasis of
research in the next few years.<b>" </b></b><span
style="font-weight: normal;">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/potential-collapse-key-atlantic-current-21024">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/potential-collapse-key-atlantic-current-21024</a></span><b
style="font-weight: normal;"><b><br>
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<a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=19900">'The
underestimated danger of a breakdown of the Gulf Stream System'</a>
<br>
<font size="-1">posted to RealClimate.org....A new model
simulation of the Gulf Stream System shows a breakdown of the
gigantic overturning circulating in the Atlantic after a CO2
doubling...</font><font size="-1">. The Atlantic ocean
circulation is relatively stable in the uncorrected model, only
declining by about 20% in response to a CO2 doubling, but in the
corrected model version it breaks down completely in the
centuries following a CO2 doubling, with dramatic consequences
for the climate of the Northern Hemisphere...</font><br>
<font size="-1">The potential instability of the Atlantic
Meridional Overturning Circulation or AMOC – commonly known as
the Gulf Stream System – has been a subject of research since
the 1980s, when Wallace Broecker warned in an essay in Nature of
Unpleasant Surprises in the Greenhouse. The reason for this was
growing evidence of abrupt climate changes in the history of the
Earth due to instability of Atlantic currents. </font><font
size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=19900">http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=19900</a></font><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmiVhT5cHpw">Is the Gulf
Stream System Slowing? – the Earth101 lecture</a><br>
<font size="-1">A slowdown or even collapse of the Gulf Stream
System as a result of global warming has long been a concern of
climate scientists ...Regular direct observations of this giant
ocean current system do not go back far enough to tell whether
there is any long-term trend. However, in recent years indirect
evidence is mounting for a remarkable slowdown over the 20th
Century...</font><font size="-1"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmiVhT5cHpw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmiVhT5cHpw</a></font><br>
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<!--EndFragment--><!--EndFragment--><b><a
href="http://www.itechpost.com/articles/71733/20170106/global-warming-facts-data-shows-temperature-rise-constant.htm">Global
Warming Facts: Data Shows Temperature Rise Is Constant</a></b><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">Global warming is a reality that the
world now faces. Global warming facts has data that shows that
temperature rise is constant. Another ice age though might also
be due, as scientists see ocean currents collapsing.</font><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK7NV2YheGk">(YouTube
Video) NASA Sees Temperatures Rise and Sea Ice Shrink - Climate
Trends 2016</a><br>
<font size="-1">Two key climate change indicators have broken
numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to
NASA analyses of ground-based observations and satellite data.
Each of the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest
respective month globally in the modern temperature record,
which dates to 1880. Meanwhile, five of the first six months set
records for the smallest monthly Arctic sea ice extent since
consistent satellite records began in 1979. NASA researchers are
in the field this summer, collecting data to better understand
our changing climate.</font><br>
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<font size="-1"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.itechpost.com/articles/71733/20170106/global-warming-facts-data-shows-temperature-rise-constant.htm">http://www.itechpost.com/articles/71733/20170106/global-warming-facts-data-shows-temperature-rise-constant.htm</a></font><br>
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<a
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</a><font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/07/us/warming-of-world-s-climate-expected-to-begin-in-the-80-s.html">This
Day in Climate History January 7, 1982 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">January 7, 1982: The New York Times
reports:</font><br>
<font size="-1">"Mankind's activities in increasing the amount of
carbon dioxide and other chemicals in the atmosphere can be
expected to have a substantial warming effect on climate, with
the first clear signs of the trend becoming evident within this
decade, a scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration said here today.</font><br>
<font size="-1">"The changes are in prospect because of excess
carbon dioxide put into the atmosphere as humans burn coal, gas,
oil and wood and cut forests for agriculture and other purposes.
More recently there has also been an atmospheric buildup of
methane, nitrous oxide and other chemicals as a result of
agriculture and industry, said Dr. James Hansen of the space
agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.</font><br>
<font size="-1">"Dr. Hansen spoke at a session of the annual
meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science here and amplified some of his remarks at a news
conference."</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/07/us/warming-of-world-s-climate-expected-to-begin-in-the-80-s.html">http://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/07/us/warming-of-world-s-climate-expected-to-begin-in-the-80-s.html</a></font><br>
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