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<font size="+1"><i>Stay well-informed about global warming, </i></font><font
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Executive's Trip to US Allowed FBI to Pounce</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Oliver Schmidt in 2014. Formerly Volkswagen's top
emissions compliance executive in the U.S., <b>he has been
charged with defrauding the government and violating the Clean
Air Act.</b>...<br>
When F.B.I. agents learned that a prime suspect in the
Volkswagen emissions scandal was traveling to the United States,
investigators knew they were on the cusp of a rare feat: the
arrest of an overseas corporate executive accused of
wrongdoing...<br>
Mr. Schmidt, 48, played a central role in Volkswagen's cover-up
of its diesel emissions cheating, according to an affidavit from
an F.B.I. agent that was unsealed on Monday. Even as the company
obfuscated details of its cheating program from regulators, Mr.
Schmidt warned executives in Germany that the company could face
criminal charges for its actions, the affidavit says....In an
email to a colleague in April 2014, he wrote, "It should first
be decided whether we are honest," according to an affidavit
signed by Ian Dinsmore, an F.B.I. special agent. The affidavit
was the basis for a criminal complaint against Mr. Schmidt.<br>
Volkswagen decided to mask its emissions cheating from
regulators, according to the complaint and lawsuits filed by the
New York attorney general's office. ...Mr. Schmidt explained
that the cars contained software that recognized when a vehicle
was undergoing tests. The so-called defeat device increased
pollution controls so the cars would pass muster. Mr. Schmidt
also told the executives that if the meeting with regulators did
not go well, the company could face criminal charges, according
to the
complaint...http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/business/volkswagen-emissions-scandal-oliver-schmidt.html<br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Rich Countries Dominate<span
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255);">Developed countries' dominance in<span
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may make it harder for poorer nations to participate effectively
in the Paris<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate</b><span
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a report published last week in Nature<span
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overwhelming: ...</div>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Even if there comes a day when the world completely stops
emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, coastal regions
and island nations will continue to experience rising sea levels
for centuries afterward, according to a new study by researchers
at MIT and Simon Fraser University.<br>
In a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, the researchers report that
warming from short-lived compounds — greenhouse gases such as
methane, chlorofluorocarbons, or hydrofluorocarbons, that linger
in the atmosphere for just a year to a few decades — can cause
sea levels to rise for hundreds of years after the pollutants
have been cleared from the atmosphere....says co-author Susan
Solomon, the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Atmospheric
Chemistry and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">Climate Science</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>at MIT. "It's all the
more reason why it's important to understand how long<span
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graph (Dave Roberts - VOX)<br>
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<blockquote>The risks of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>are not easy to
communicate clearly. Since the atmosphere affects everything,
everything will be affected by its warming - there's no single
risk, but a wide and varied array of risks, of different
severities and scales<span class="Apple-converted-space"> ...</span><br>
<span class="Apple-converted-space">Three degrees over
preindustrial levels, where we are very likely headed this
century, puts us at high risk across the board, very high for
those uniquely threatened systems. Five degrees, which is
entirely possible, puts basically every human and ecological
system at high to very high risk....</span><br>
<span class="Apple-converted-space">We are already in danger,
there's more danger to come, and the best we can hope for is
to slow and stop the process before the dangers are
catastrophic. That's the shape of things....</span><br>
<span class="Apple-converted-space">In a new paper in the
journal Nature Climate Change, a group of 17 scholars examines
the RFC conceptual framework and reviews the latest science.
(Because IPCC reports take so long to produce, the science
they contain is always a few years behind.)</span><br>
<span class="Apple-converted-space">...risks are divided into
five buckets or RFCs:</span><br>
<span class="Apple-converted-space"><b>Risks to unique and
threatened systems.</b> These are ecological or human
systems that are geographically constrained and have a high
degree of "endemism" — they are uniquely adapted to a
particular geography and climate. The authors cite as examples
"tropical glacier systems, coral reefs, mangrove ecosystems,
biodiversity hotspots, and unique indigenous communities."</span><br>
<span class="Apple-converted-space"><b>Risks associated with
extreme weather events</b>. This is what it says, i.e.,
"risk to human health, livelihoods, assets, and ecosystems
from extremes such as heat waves, heavy rain, drought and
associated wildfires, and coastal flooding."</span><br>
<span class="Apple-converted-space"><b>Risks associated with the
distribution of impacts</b>. This reflects the fact that
some groups will be hit earlier and harder than others.
Distribution of impacts can be uneven with respect to
"geographic location, income and wealth, gender, age, or other
physical and socioeconomic characteristics."</span><br>
<span class="Apple-converted-space"><b>Risks associated with
global aggregate impacts. </b>This refers to "impacts to
socio-ecological systems that can be aggregated globally
according to a single metric such as lives affected, monetary
damage, number of species at risk of extinction, or
degradation and loss of a number of ecosystems at a global
scale."</span><br>
<span class="Apple-converted-space"><b>Risks associated with
large-scale singular events.</b> These are the
much-discussed "tipping points," whereby a series of
incremental changes pushes some system over a threshold, at
which point it shifts into a period of rapid, discontinuous,
and sometimes irreversible change. The iconic example here is
"disintegration of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets
leading to a large and rapid sea-level rise."</span><br>
<span class="Apple-converted-space"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/1/9/14186328/risks-climate-change-graph">http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/1/9/14186328/risks-climate-change-graph</a></span><br>
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href="http://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2017/01/09/john-kerry-mit-climate-change"
url="http://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2017/01/09/john-kerry-mit-climate-change"
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style="font-weight: bold;">Speaking At MIT, Secretary Of
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">With just days left in office, Secretary of State John
Kerry was in Massachusetts on Monday urging action on<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b>. The former Massachusetts
lieutenant governor and U.S. senator got a standing ovation from
a receptive crowd at MIT's Sloan<span
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normal;">...</b></div>
<a
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Kerry Addresses Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> <br>
<font size="-1">Secretary of State John Kerry Addresses
Massachusetts Institute of Technology on "Climate Change in
Cambridge, Massachusetts on January 9, 2017. A full transcript
is available at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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255);">For decades, the company sought to sow doubt about
whether<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is real and whether
using fossil fuels cause it, despite reports that Exxon knew
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma's attorney general and Donald
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<a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/07/russian-treachery-extreme-and-everywhere">Russian
treachery is extreme and it is everywhere</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/07/russian-treachery-extreme-and-everywhere">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/07/russian-treachery-extreme-and-everywhere</a></font><br>
<a
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-15/russia-wins-in-a-retreat-on-climate-change">Russia
Wins in a Retreat on Climate Change</a><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Russia gains when anti-climate-change
efforts falter because, first and foremost, it's a petrostate.
Oil and gas comprise the bulk of Russia's exports...</font><br>
<font size="-1">Without oil and gas, Russia's economy would be a
shambles, and sharp declines in energy prices in the 1990s and
again in the past three years sent its economy into deep
recessions...</font><br>
<font size="-1">Russia exports most of its fossil fuels to Europe,
so fewer carbon restrictions in that region would help secure
Russia's main markets and keep Europe more economically
dependent on its giant neighbor....</font><br>
<font size="-1">Much of Russia is covered in permafrost and
tundra, making it unusable for farming and also an unpleasant
place to live. Global warming could change that. Researchers at
Germany's Ludwig Maximilians University, estimate that warming
temperatures could add more than 3 million square kilometers
(1.15 million square miles) to Russia's arable land. This is in
stark contrast to most countries, whose farmland would shrink as
the climate warms....</font><br>
<font size="-1">This doesn't mean climate change holds no risks
for Russia -- coastal flooding is a real danger, and melting
permafrost might force the country to rebuild some existing
infrastructure. But the point is that Russia probably has fewer
downsides, and more potential upsides, from climate change than
most other nations...</font><br>
<font size="-1">...it seems likely that a general turn away from
fighting climate change will leave his country in a stronger
long-term position, both economically and geopolitically.</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-15/russia-wins-in-a-retreat-on-climate-change">https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-15/russia-wins-in-a-retreat-on-climate-change</a></font><br>
<a
href="http://thediplomat.com/2016/02/russia-and-climate-change-a-looming-threat/">Russia
and Climate Change: A Looming Threat (2-2016)</a><font
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href="http://thediplomat.com/2016/02/russia-and-climate-change-a-looming-threat/">http://thediplomat.com/2016/02/russia-and-climate-change-a-looming-threat/</a></font><br>
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class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>action in states
(preemptions)<br>
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<div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">If some of the deepest concerns of<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate</b>-focused bureaucrats from San Francisco to
Massachusetts and New York come true, the Trump administration
will preemptively prevent them from acting to slow<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">global warming</b>. With Trump and Republicans in ...<br>
The term "preemption" doesn't describe a single legislative or
regulatory tool. The word describes a concept in which the
federal government or a state imposes restrictions on the rules
and programs that governments operating beneath it are allowed
to implement....<br>
Conservative lawmakers in North Carolina used a preemption law
last year to outlaw transgender protections in Charlotte. In
Michigan, cities and counties were barred from banning plastic
bags. Colorado prevents local governments from banning
fracking....<br>
With Republicans about to control both houses of Congress and
the White House, environmental experts are warning of battles
ahead over potential federal preemptions....<br>
"There really is virtually no aspect of federal regulation of
the natural environment or health that's not at risk of
preemption now," said Mark Pertschuk, a lawyer and activist with
the nonprofit Grassroots Change, which tracks state preemptions
of local rules affecting gun safety, paid sick days, factory
farming, and other issues. "Federal laws almost always trump
state and local laws."...<br>
It's difficult to predict when, how, or whether the federal
government will wield any tools of preemption to bar cities and
states from enforcing their own environmental rules.
Nonetheless, governments across the country are bracing for new
restrictions. California's decision to hire Obama's attorney
general, Eric Holder Jr., showed it's preparing to fight for
state rights in court....<br>
"Everything is speculative right now," said Cooper Martin, a
sustainability official at the National League of Cities, which
represents cities in state capitols and on Capitol Hill. Based
on Trump's anti-environmental cabinet nominees and his rhetoric
on climate change, which he has falsely called a hoax, Martin
said fears of federal preemption are "certainly well founded."..<br>
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style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Global
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255);">Rising ocean temperatures are leading to a rise in
shellfish infected with a potentially deadly toxin, according to
new research. There have been a number of vast blooms of algae -
so large they can be seen from space - off the west coast of the
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Rice is a staple food for more than half of the world's
population. Rice yields depend on numerous factors, such as
agricultural practices, but they also depend on the temperature
at which the crop is grown....lobal gridded crop models that
compare present-day yields and long-term trends are also less
negative, predicting a drop of 2.4 ±3.7 percent for each Kelvin
of temperature change...<br>
Finally, the International Food Policy Research Institute has
its own analysis, which projects a reduction of 4.2 to 6.4
percent for each Kelvin of temperature
change....http://www.nature.com/articles/nplants2016202.epdf</div>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Desperate exodus of the<span
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<b><a
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deadliest year ever for migrants crossing Mediterranean – UN
agency</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">6 January 2017 – More migrants were
killed crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Europe in 2016 than
ever before, according to the United Nations migration agency in
the region...</font><br>
<font size="-1">At least 363,348 people crossed the sea – mostly
to Italy and Greece – but 5,079 additional people were either
killed or are missing. The UN International Organization for
Migration (IOM) released its preliminary figures today, but they
are expected to increase with the addition of fatalities from
December...</font><br>
<font size="-1">"The probable addition of several hundred more
fatalities recorded in 2016 only deepens the tragedy," said IOM
Director General William Lacy Swing.</font><br>
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fells one of California's iconic drive-through tunnel trees,
carved 137 years ago</a></b><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">On Sunday at around 2 p.m., with names
carved more than a century ago still prominent on its great
trunk, the gargantuan tree fell to the ground after being
pummeled by a particularly viscous winter storm. Calaveras Big
Trees State Park, the land's owners carved ...in the base of one
of its sequoia trees....a tunnel wide enough for an automobile
to drive through..</font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-01-10/opinions/36272697_1_climate-change-climate-change-noaa">This
Day in Climate History January 10, 2013</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1"> Washington Post columnist Eugene
Robinson observes: </font><br>
<font size="-1">"So we’re going to deal with climate change
whether we like it or not. We’re going to spend many billions of
dollars over the coming years providing disaster relief in the
wake of hurricanes and other destructive weather events. If
we’re a bit smarter, we’ll spend even more to protect our
coastal cities from storm surges of the kind that devastated
parts of New York. Investment in barriers and floodwalls will
ultimately save both money and lives.</font><br>
<font size="-1">"But if we were really smart, we’d be talking
about how to mitigate the ultimate damage by weaning ourselves
from coal, oil and other energy sources that produce carbon
emissions."</font><br>
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