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<blockquote>The suburbs evoke images of white picket fences and
organized sports, a peaceful escape from big-city living. But
new research finds verdant residential communities are
increasingly likely to go up in smoke.<br>
In an analysis of more than 23 million fires, a study published
this week in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution finds a
cluster of "economically and socially disastrous" fires, or
megafires as they're sometimes called, have scorched suburban
neighborhoods, especially across the western U.S. and
southeastern Australia.<br>
More communities could be at risk. Warmer and longer winters,
prolonged drought, and other impacts from a changing climate
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moisture enables the occurrence of megafires, he said. Strong
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<blockquote>A new study on the relationship between people and the
planet shows that climate change is only one of many
inter-related threats to the Earth's capacity to support human
life...<br>
An international team of distinguished scientists, including
five members of the National Academies, argues that there are
critical components missing from current climate models that
inform environmental, climate, and economic policies...<br>
The article, published in the National Science Review, describes
how the recent growth in resource use, land-use change,
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changes, in turn, have important feedback effects on humans with
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<blockquote>Scientists are eyeing a growing crack in one of
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<blockquote>If<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
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Juliana v. United States, a case filed in Eugene in 2015 on the
grounds that the federal government has knowingly endangered
them by promoting the burning of fossil fuels. If climate change
threatens their future, they reason, the government has violated
their constitutional right to due process. There are roughly the
same number of defendants as plaintiffs in the case, including
the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of the President
and the president himself. Until January 20, that was Barack
Obama. Now it’s Donald Trump...<br>
"You’re suing Trump!" Avery recalls her classmates said when
they flocked her at school on November 9. "I’m like, ‘Yep.’ What
did I get myself into?"..<br>
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<font color="#000099"><b><a
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officials yanked from Alaska event as Trump team weighs in.</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Just three days before this week’s
environment conference in Alaska, the top Environmental
Protection Agency official in Anchorage called the organizer
with some news: The agency had been instructed by the White
House to slash the number of EPA staffers who could attend.
Bloomberg News. <br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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<font color="#000099"><b><a
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-08/good-luck-killing-the-epa">Good
luck killing the EPA.</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Dismembering the agency requires
changing 45 years worth of laws, warns one Republican who ran
it. Bloomberg News. </font><br>
<font size="-1">"Everybody hates regulation," said Republican
Christine Todd Whitman, a former EPA administrator and New
Jersey governor, "because it makes you either spend money or
change behavior for a problem you may not see."</font><br>
<font size="-1">This year, as we all know, is a little different.</font><br>
<font size="-1">Dismembering the EPA could require that Congress
individually change 45 years of environmental statutes, a feat
that would require an enormous amount of time, organization, and
political capital.... </font><br>
<font size="-1">Jeff Holmstead is a former EPA assistant
administrator and now a partner at Bracewell LLC in Washington.
Charged with the hypothetical (and extraordinarily unlikely)
task of dismantling the agency, he zeroed in on the two dozen or
so statutes that assign responsibilities to the EPA
administrator. Most of these laws have "citizen suit provisions"
that let Americans sue the agency for not doing its job. "You’d
have a huge mess on your hands," if environmentalists started
suing a government official that no longer exists. <br>
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<u> </u><a
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color="#666666" size="-1">https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/08/trump-mike-catanzaro-energy-aide-lobbyist-climate-denier</font></u><br>
<b>Trump Names Industry Lobbyist and Climate Science Denier Mike
Catanzaro as Top White House Energy Aide</b></a><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Wednesday, February 8, 2017 - 13:21 •
STEVE HORN</font><br>
<font size="-1">GreenWire has reported that climate change denier
Mike Catanzaro — a lobbyist for oil and gas companies Noble
Energy, Devon Energy, Encana Oil and Gas, American Fuel and
Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and Hess Corporation — will
soon become a top energy policy aide for President Donald Trump.
..</font><br>
<font size="-1">Catanzaro's lobbying disclosure forms for quarter
four of 2016 serve as a potential preview of energy policy to
come from the Trump White House. During that quarter, Catanzaro
lobbied against U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) methane
regulations, against U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental
Enforcement offshore drilling regulations, and for oil and gas
development on U.S. public lands. ..</font><br>
<font size="-1">As DeSmog has reported, Catanzaro served as a top
energy aide during Trump's presidential campaign. According to
GreenWire, he is expected to serve as special assistant to Trump
for energy and environmental issues under the umbrella of the
White House National Economic Council.</font><br>
<font size="-1">Also: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060049700">http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060049700</a></font><br>
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<blockquote>Recent headlines about a climate study, "Shifting
patterns of mild weather in response to projected radiative
forcing", in the February 2017 issue of Climatic Change
illustrate the predicament. Some news outlets implied the study
showed countries such as Canada and the U.K. would benefit from
increasingly frequent "mild weather days" brought on by climate
change. Many failed to convey the true take-home message:
Climate change will have devastating consequences for human
civilization...<br>
...a few countries, mostly in the mid-latitudes, will experience
slightly more frequent mild weather — defined as days between 18
and 30 C with less than one millimetre of rain and dew point
temperature not exceeding 20 C. But that’s not the whole story.<br>
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<blockquote>By Arin McKennaWednesday, February 8, 2017
Originally Posted in Los Alamos Monitor Online <br>
<br>
Los Alamos Public Schools County Science and Engineering Fair
grand prize winner Lillian Petersen seems to be 14 going on 40 –
at least when she is explaining her project, <b>"America’s
Farming Future: The Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields."</b><br>
For a panel of best of show judges, Petersen’s project stood out
among 471 entries from grades K‒12. She received a $100 gift
certificate from CB Fox, in addition to her other prizes.<br>
Petersen estimates she put approximately 500 hours into the
project, working 40 hours a week over the summer and another 60
hours over the holiday break. The quality of her project
reflects that.<br>
Petersen posed the question, "How will various future climate
scenarios affect future crop yields of corn, soybeans and rice?"<br>
She hypothesized that since crop yields are dependent on
weather, more heat extremes will cause future crop yields to
decrease.<br>
To test her hypothesis, Petersen created a statistical model
that used past yields and weather data to predict future
scenarios.<br>
Petersen began by downloading seasonal crop yield data from the
U.S. Department of Agriculture for every county in the United
States since 1970 for corn, soybeans and rice.<br>
She found that crop yields over time have greatly increased due
to technologies such as pesticides, herbicides, irrigation,
fertilizers and plant breeding, but that the yearly yield is
dependent on weather.<br>
The ninth-grader was able to determine that by comparing crop
yield data to weather data, which she obtained from the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Historical
Climatology Network.<br>
Petersen downloaded daily weather station data for every weather
station in the U.S. since 1970 and then averaged the two closest
stations to the center of every county to find the correlations
between past yields and weather.<br>
Her data showed that the three temperature statistics with the
highest correlations to yields were summer average temperature,
heat waves and killing degree days, and that those correlated
negatively with crop yields.<br>
"For example, when you look at a single county and look at the
crop yield plotted with the summer average temperature, when
there is a very high summer average temperature, the crop yield
for that year is very low," Petersen said. <br>
Petersen then used her statistical model to project future crop
yields for two possible scenarios using Climate Model
Intercomparison Model Version 5.<br>
One scenario was based on having no future technological
advances in reducing emissions. The other scenario evaluated
what would happen if emissions reduction technology advanced at
the same rate it has improved since 1970. She ran her
projections through the year 2100.<br>
"The biggest unknown in this project is whether technology will
continue to improve in the future, and at what rate it will
continue to improve at," Petersen said.<br>
Petersen found that even in the best-case scenario, with
technology continuing to improve at the current rate, corn and
soybeans yields in particular would be hard-hit. Her model shows
a loss of approximately $14.5 billion dollars per year in corn
yield by the year 2100 with the technological improvements and
$22 billion dollars with the high emissions scenario.<br>
<b>Corn yields had the highest correlations temperature.</b><br>
<b> </b><b>"Corn is the most sensitive to heat extremes and is
predicted to decrease the most in the future. Soybeans will
decrease slightly less and rice the least," Petersen said,
postulating that the plants’ biological structures accounted
for the differences. </b><br>
When asked what motivated her to devote so much time and effort
to such a complex research project, Petersen replied, "I am a
very motivated person, and I want to do a lot with my life. So I
decided, what’s a better time to start than now? And doing
things like this science fair project will help my life and my
career progress and advance into something better.<br>
"It’s not only that. I personally enjoy it. It is what I do for
fun, enduring all those hours. And I think without the science
fair projects I would get very bored," she said.<br>
Petersen entered her first science fair in fifth grade and won
her first award in seventh grade, when she received the junior
division grand award in the physical category and received first
place in her category in both regional and state competitions.
In eighth grade she won first place in Earth and Environmental
Sciences at the local fair.<br>
Petersen was also a finalist in the Supercomputing Challenge in
seventh grade and received a third place in that competition
last year.<br>
Petersen has not yet begun thinking about next year’s project. <br>
"Deciding the topic of the science fair project is really the
most important step, because that’s what everything else is
based off of," Petersen said. "So I always spend a really long
time coming up with the topic every year.<br>
Petersen plans to make a career in research-based computer
programming. She has no particular leanings about how she will
apply that.<br>
"I’m really interested in the impact, and I feel like, with my
computer programming, if I apply it the right way I could help a
lot of people," Petersen said. "And I guess that’s really my
main goal, not the specific type or what I’m exactly doing, but
just applying my computer programming skills in a way to help
people."<br>
Petersen is hoping to publish her project in either Nature
Climate Change or Science.<br>
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<a
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<font color="#000099"><b><a
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color="#000099">Trump Team Has Ties to Atlantic Coast
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<blockquote><font size="-1">By Steve Horn and Itai Vardi -- On
January 25, President Donald Trump’s team listed the Atlantic
Coast pipeline among the White House’s top priorities for
infrastructure projects, an attempt to deliver on his campaign
promise to invest in U.S infrastructure programs.</font><br>
<font size="-1">Of the 50 on the list, Atlantic Coast is
surprisingly the only pipeline project named. Some had suspected
Trump’s infrastructure promise would serve as a massive pipeline
giveaway. So, why prioritize this one?</font><br>
<font size="-1">A possible answer: Several members of Trump’s
transition team, landing team, and current White House operation
have connections to companies behind the project or to firms
lobbying for it.</font><br>
<font size="-1">The Atlantic Coast pipeline has been proposed by a
partnership among Dominion Resources, Duke Energy, and Southern
Gas Company.</font><br>
<font size="-1"> DeSmog research has revealed that a few Trump
associates could benefit financially if this prioritized
pipeline opens for business.</font><br>
<font size="-1">One is Dan DiMicco, who served as a Senior
Economic Adviser to Trump’s campaign and led the new
administration’s U.S.Trade Representative transition team. He
also sits on the Board of Directors of Duke Energy, one of the
pipeline project co-owners.<br>
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255);">SHOWA STATION, ANTARCTICA - Some 14,000 km from Japan, a
33-member team is researching a wide range of issues on<span
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<blockquote>Skiing is no longer the money-making business it used
to be and alpine resorts need to rethink their business model
before it is too late, argues Christophe Clivaz, an expert in
sustainable tourism at the University of Lausanne..<br>
Two-thirds of the Swiss cable car companies depend on public
money for their survival: this is the worrying fact emerging
from a study carried out by the University of Applied Sciences
at Lucerne.<br>
Mild winters punish low and mid-altitude resorts, resulting in
an inexorable decline in the number of skiers. To stay
competitive, many resorts invest heavily in their ski lifts and
artificial snowmaking. It is a strategy rejected by Clivaz, a
professor at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability at
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">LONDON - The rising temperatures caused by climate change
are having a marked effect on mountains worldwide. Science has
already established that increased<span
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normal;">warming</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is
affecting distinct mountain features such as glaciers and
high-altitude species, and there is now evidence that the entire
ecosystem is undergoing change....<br>
Across the world, climate change is altering the concentrations
of nutrients in plants and soils. Higher temperatures mean that
the concentration of nitrogen, for example, is rising
significantly, but not that of phosphorus...<br>
"This effect is disrupting the balance between these and other
nutrients, which is making the ecosystem more vulnerable," says
Ellen Cieraad, a plant ecologist at the Institute of
Environmental Sciences of Leiden University in the Netherlands,
and a lead author of the study....<br>
And that is worrying: "If the composition of the vegetation
changes, and on top of that the treeline is not able to migrate
fast enough, the nitrogen and phosphorous cycles will no longer
coincide." More research could establish how far these changes
are affecting the treeline..<br>
Migration of the treeline goes hand in hand with changes in the
water cycle, snowfall and temperature, the researchers say. The
water supply becomes unreliable, for example, not only in the
mountains themselves but also in areas downstream that depend on
water from the higher altitudes to feed major rivers. And many
mountainous regions will no longer be suitable for winter
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<a href="http://youtu.be/0R9UfIUJB1Y">This Day in Climate
History February 10, 2010</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1"> On their respective MSNBC programs,
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flunked all of their science classes, many of whom are in
Congress, that snow does not disprove climate change.</font><br>
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