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<blockquote>Although the most severe consequences of this warming
have yet to come - especially if<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">greenhouse gas</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>emissions
remain at current levels - some of the effects have already been
felt..Scientists, public health officials and even the Pentagon
are watching with great concern. Here's a look at some of those
effects:<br>
<b>Wildfires in the West are twice as bad</b><br>
Scientists recently determined that human-caused warming nearly
doubled the area of land that has burned since the 1980s. That
amounts to 16,000 additional square miles, or the size of
Massachusetts and Connecticut combined.<br>
<b>As the Arctic ice melts, sea levels rise</b><br>
Melting glaciers and diminishing sea ice have increased the
amount of water in the oceans, leading sea levels around the
world to rise by an average of about 6 inches over the last
century. At the same time, higher temperatures have caused seas
to expand. By the end of the century, waters could rise by 6
feet or more, threatening 13.1 million residents of U.S. coastal
cities with flooding, two studies predict.<br>
<b>A sea of problems</b><br>
A warmer ocean is capable of holding more dissolved carbon
dioxide, which causes the water to become more acidic over time.<br>
<b>Plants and animals on the move</b><br>
In response to rising temperatures, thousands of plant and
animal species have migrated uphill or toward the poles where
it's still cool enough for them. The result: Species leave their
ancestral homes, causing local extinctions in those areas.<br>
<b>Warmer temperatures may be nice for now, but the feeling
won't las</b>t<br>
This boils down to warmer winters and milder summers. But by the
end of the century, that trend will flip. <br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">'A cat in hell's chance' – why
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<blockquote>A global rise in temperature of just 2C would be
enough to threaten life as we know it. But leading climate
scientists think even this universally agreed target will be
missed. Could dramatic action help?...<br>
The same warming again will intensify and accelerate
human-driven changes already under way and has been described by
James Hansen, one of the first scientists to call global
attention to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b>, as a
“prescription for long-term disaster<span
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normal;">...</b><br>
<b style="font-weight: normal;">Is it still likely that we will
stay below even 2C? In the 100 months since August 2008, I
have been writing a climate-change diary for the Guardian to
raise questions and monitor progress, or the lack of it, on
climate action. To see how well we have fared, I asked a
number of leading climate scientists and analysts for their
views. The responses were as bracing as a bath in a pool of
glacial meltwater.....</b><br>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Nasa's Goddard Institute for
Space Studies has an important place in the history of
climate-change research. Hansen was its director from 1981
until 2013. Donald Trump is set to strip the institute of
funding for climate research. Its current director, Dr Gavin
Schmidt, is categoric that we are no longer likely to stay
below 2C. “The inertia in the system (oceans, economies,
technologies, people) is substantial and … so far the efforts
are not commensurate with the goal,” he says...</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">So, adding to the prevailing
global strangeness, the edifice of international climate
policy rests on a target that no one believes it is likely can
be met. And some think even that insufficiently ambitious.
Yet, among climate scientists, there is a consensus that swift
action is vital, and with it the target remains, at least,
possible...</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">With the amount of carbon
burned by humans, we have now created a climate not
experienced on Earth since the Pliocene era, 2m-5m years ago.
We are daily rolling the climate dice with the odds stacked
against us. But we are also clever, quick and innovative when
we want to be. Now that we understand the game better, the
question we face is whether we will choose to change it, fast
and enough, so that we can all have better lives.</span><br>
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<blockquote>President says 'we only have one homeland' in a coded
warning to Donald Trump not to dismantle the agreement<br>
China will continue to take steps to tackle<span
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normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and
fully honor its obligations,” Xi added, according to a
transcript published by Xinhua, China's official news agency....<br>
“Industrialisation has created material wealth never seen
before, but it has also inflicted irreparable damage to the
environment,” Xi went on. “We must not exhaust all the resources
passed on to us by previous generations and leave nothing to our
children or pursue development in a destructive way. Clear
waters and green mountains are as good as mountains of gold and
silver. We must maintain harmony between man and nature and
pursue sustainable development.”<br>
Zhang said Beijing would stick to its climate commitments since
it understood the importance of cutting deadly air pollution but
argued China would not want to serve as the world's “sole
leader” on climate change. <br>
“We regard ourselves as a developing country and, in addition to
that, we've got pollution issues and are facing an economic
slowdown at home,” he said.<br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/environment/global-warming/climate-science-bedeviled-by-tipping-points/articleshow/56659419.cms">Climate
science bedeviled by 'tipping points' - Economic Times</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">Of the many things that keep climate
scientists awake at night, tipping points may be the scariest.
To start with, these thresholds...are largely invisible. You
can't see them on the horizon, and ... there is no turning back
-- at least not on a human timescale. ....enough frozen water to
lift sea levels more than a dozen metres;... monsoon rains ...
are at risk of irretrievable disruption.... "There are
points-of-no-return where ... warming triggers unstoppable
collapse of glaciers off of Antarctica,...Think of someone
leaning back on two legs of a chair, ..."We don't know exactly
when we might pass these points -- or whether we already have
crossed some of them,"</font><br>
<font size="-1"> ...Other tipping points could trigger the natural
release...of...Methane and CO2 locked in the increasingly
misnamed permafrost of Russia, Canada and northern Europe is
equivalent to roughly 15 years worth of global emissions from
fossil fuels at today's levels..."Even if global warming is
limited to below two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit)"
-- the red line drawn in the 196-nation Paris climate pact --
"some important tipping elements may already be harmed or
transformed,"....But scientists also admit their tools are
better at measuring steady, linear progressions than sudden
shifts...."The problem is that there is no perfect analogue to
what we will experience in the near
future."...http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/environment/global-warming/climate-science-bedeviled-by-tipping-points/articleshow/56659419.cms</font><br>
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href="https://tamino.wordpress.com/2017/01/19/merchants-of-doubt-2/">https://tamino.wordpress.com/2017/01/19/merchants-of-doubt-2/</a><br>
(videos) Merchants of Doubt - Naomi Oreskes interview <br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Fine-Art-of-Sniffing-Out/238907">http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Fine-Art-of-Sniffing-Out/238907</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Fine-Art-of-Sniffing-Out/238907">Chronicle
of Higher Education: The Fine Art of Sniffing Out Crappy Science</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West, a pair
of scientists at the University of Washington, think it's time
to arm students with boots and shovels. They have published the
outline of a course, titled "Calling Bullshit," which would try
to teach how to spot bad data and misleading graphs at a time
when bending statistics has become a popular art form.</font><br>
</blockquote>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://callingbullshit.org/syllabus.html">http://callingbullshit.org/syllabus.html</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://callingbullshit.org/syllabus.html">(Syllabus)
Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">In many of the course lectures we will
discuss how you can spot bullshit, call bullshit, and avoid
becoming becoming the victim of bullshit. Here we present a set
of instructional essays on various aspects of bullshit detection
and refutation. Many of the examples we draw upon are classic
examples that others have brought to light in their articles,
essays, blogs, and other sources.</font><br>
<font size="-1">Week 1. Introduction to bullshit. What is
bullshit? Concepts and categories of bullshit. The art, science,
and moral imperative of calling bullshit. Brandolini's Bullshit
Asymmetry Principle.</font><br>
<font size="-1">Week 2. Spotting bullshit. Truth, like liberty,
requires eternal vigilance. How do you spot bullshit in the
wild? Effect sizes, dimensions, Fermi estimation, and checks on
plausibility. Claims and the interests of those who make them.</font><br>
<font size="-1">Week 3. The natural ecology of bullshit. Where do
we find bullshit? Why news media provide bullshit. TED talks and
the marketplace for upscale bullshit. Why social media provide
ideal conditions for the growth and spread of bullshit.</font><br>
<font size="-1">Week 4. Causality One common source of bullshit
data analysis arises when people ignore, deliberately or
otherwise, the fact that correlation is not causation. The
consequences can be hilarious, but this confusion can also be
used to mislead. Regression to the mean pitched as treatment
effect. Selection masked as transformation.</font><br>
<font size="-1">Week 5. Statistical traps. Base-rate fallacy /
prosecutor's fallacy. Simpson's paradox. Data censoring. Will
Rogers effect, lead-time bias, and length time bias. Means
versus medians. Importance of higher moments.</font><br>
<font size="-1">... ...<font color="#666666"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://callingbullshit.org/syllabus.html">http://callingbullshit.org/syllabus.html</a></font></font><br>
<font size="-1">Week 11. Fake news.. Fifteen years ago, nascent
social media platforms offered the promise of a more democratic
press through decentralized broadcasting and a decoupling of
publishing from advertising revenue. Instead, we get sectarian
echo chambers and, lately, a serious assault on the very notion
of fact. Not only did fake news play a substantive role in the
November 2016 US elections, but recently a fake news story
actually provoked nuclear threats issued by twitter.</font><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/science/earth-highest-temperature-record.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/science/earth-highest-temperature-record.html</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/science/earth-highest-temperature-record.html">Earth
Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">Marking another milestone for a
changing planet, scientists reported on Wednesday that the Earth
reached its highest temperature on record in 2016, trouncing a
record set only a year earlier, which beat one set in 2014. It
is the first time in the modern era of global warming data that
temperatures have blown past the previous record three years in
a row...</font><br>
<font size="-1">The findings come two days before the inauguration
of an American president who has called global warming a Chinese
plot and vowed to roll back his predecessor's efforts to cut
emissions of heat-trapping gases...</font><br>
<font size="-1">In reality, the Earth is heating up, a point long
beyond serious scientific dispute, but one becoming more evident
as the records keep falling. Temperatures are heading toward
levels that many experts believe will pose a profound threat to
both the natural world and to human civilization...</font><br>
<font size="-1">In 2015 and 2016, the planetary warming was
intensified by the weather pattern known as El Niño, in which
the Pacific Ocean released a huge burst of energy and water
vapor into the atmosphere. But the bigger factor in setting the
records was the long-term trend of rising temperatures, which
scientists say is being driven by increasing levels of carbon
dioxide and other greenhouse gases.</font><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOibBy290cM&t=76s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOibBy290cM&t=76s</a></font><br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOibBy290cM&t=76s">(video)
A Message to Trump from Climate Scientists</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Before the AGU meeting I read John
Abraham's article 'Trump begins filling environmental posts with
clowns' in which he made the following point:</font><br>
<font size="-1">"Or Trump could attend the world's largest
geophysics meeting, which occurs in just a few weeks (American
Geophysical Union Fall Meeting). He could walk around with a TV
camera and a clipboard. Ask any random 10 scientists any
question on climate change. Let's see how their answers compare
to the information he is going to get from his handpicked
insiders." <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/nov/17/trump-begins-filling-environmental-posts-with-clowns">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/nov/17/trump-begins-filling-environmental-posts-with-clowns</a></font><br>
<font size="-1">Trump most likely would never do this. Nor can I
possibly know what kind of questions he would ask if he did
visit the AGU Fall Meeting. But I can ask scientists what their
message to Trump would be if they had a chance to speak to him.
That one paragraph from Abraham's article inspired me to do just
that. During the Fall Meeting I asked several scientists what
their message would be and compiled their responses into this
video. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOibBy290cM&t=76s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOibBy290cM&t=76s</a></font><br>
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<!--StartFragment--><font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://youtu.be/2SWjIPwm954">This Day in Climate
History January 20, 1993 (video) </a> - from D.R. Tucker<br>
</b></font>
<blockquote><font size="+1"><b> </b></font>January 20, 1993: In his
first inaugural address, President Clinton declares: "To renew
America, we must meet challenges abroad as well as at home. There
is no longer a clear division between what is foreign and what is
domestic. The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS
crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all." <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/2SWjIPwm954">http://youtu.be/2SWjIPwm954</a><br>
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