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<font size="+1"><i>News clips to help you stay well-informed about
global warming - Please forward this email. February 17, 2017</i></font><font
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/02/15/its-official-the-oceans-are-losing-oxygen-posing-growing-threats-to-marine-life/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/02/15/its-official-the-oceans-are-losing-oxygen-posing-growing-threats-to-marine-life/</a></font><br>
<b><font color="#000099"><a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/02/15/its-official-the-oceans-are-losing-oxygen-posing-growing-threats-to-marine-life/?postshare=7361487184444808&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.bf899235462c">Scientists
have just detected a major change to the Earth<font
color="#000099">'</font>s oceans linked to a warming climate</a></font></b><br>
<blockquote>The paper...in the journal Nature...found a decline of
more than 2 percent in ocean oxygen content worldwide between 1960
and 2010. The loss, however, showed up in some ocean basins more
than others. The largest overall volume of oxygen was lost in the
largest ocean — the Pacific — but as a percentage, the decline was
sharpest in the Arctic Ocean, a region facing Earth's most stark
climate change.<br>
On top of all of that, declining ocean oxygen can also worsen
global warming in a feedback loop. In or near low oxygen areas of
the oceans, microorganisms tend to produce nitrous oxide, a
greenhouse gas, Gilbert writes. Thus the new study "implies that
production rates and efflux to the atmosphere of nitrous oxide …
will probably have increased."<br>
When it comes to ocean deoxygenation, as climate change continues,
this trend should also increase — studies suggest a loss of up to
7 percent of the ocean's oxygen by 2100. At the end of the current
paper, the researchers are blunt about the consequences of a
continuing loss of oceanic oxygen.<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/02/16/first-evidence-ocean-oxygen-impacted-by-climate-change/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/02/16/first-evidence-ocean-oxygen-impacted-by-climate-change/</a></font><br>
<a
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/02/16/first-evidence-ocean-oxygen-impacted-by-climate-change/">(videos)
<b>First Evidence: Ocean Oxygen Impacted by Climate Change</b></a><br>
(Peter Sinclair) This is really unsettling.<br>
Consequences of low oxygen ocean described in one of my most
popular "Crock of the Week" videos.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE6at2IEUOU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE6at2IEUOU</a>
Climate Denial Crock of the Week: "The Earth is Carbon Starved."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzLCWrPhBLY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzLCWrPhBLY</a>
Earth's Mass Extinction - Peter Ward<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPq9YAg9mfc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPq9YAg9mfc</a>
We are the Asteroid<br>
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<blockquote>WASHINGTON — Employees of the Environmental Protection
Agency have been calling their senators to urge them to vote on
Friday against the confirmation of Scott Pruitt, President Trump's
contentious nominee to run the agency, a remarkable display of
activism and defiance that presages turbulent times ahead for the
E.P.A.<br>
"E.P.A. staff are pretty careful. They're risk-averse," said
Judith Enck, who left the agency last month. "If people are saying
and doing things like this, it's because they're really
concerned."<br>
<b>COURT ORDERS SCOTT PRUITT TO RELEASE EMAILS </b><br>
(press release) Scott Pruitt Found In Violation of Oklahoma Open
Records Act; Orders Withheld Emails Released by February 21<br>
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.—Today, the Oklahoma County Court found Scott
Pruitt in violation of the state's Open Records Act lawsuit
against Scott Pruitt for improperly withholding responsive public
records and ordered his office to release thousands of emails in a
matter of days....<br>
...Today's expedited hearing was granted after CMD, represented by
Robert Nelon of Hall Estill and the ACLU of Oklahoma, filed a
lawsuit that has driven unprecedented attention to Pruitt's
failure to disclose his deep ties to fossil industry corporations.
On Friday, Pruitt is expected to face a full Senate vote on his
nomination to run the EPA. ...<br>
"Scott Pruitt broke the law and went to great lengths to avoid the
questions many Americans have about his true motivations," said
Nick Surgey, CMD's director of research. "Despite Pruitt's efforts
to repeatedly obfuscate and withhold public documents, we're all
wiser to his ways and the interests he really serves. The work
doesn't stop here to make sure communities across the country have
the information they need to hold him accountable to the health
and safety of our families." <br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Trump plans executive orders
aimed at shaking up EPA,<span
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class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>policy, reports
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">President Donald Trump plans to introduce executive
actions aimed at scaling back Obama-era<span
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.skepticalscience.com/Forbes_Loyola.html">https://www.skepticalscience.com/Forbes_Loyola.html</a></font><br>
<font color="#000099"><b><a
href="https://www.skepticalscience.com/Forbes_Loyola.html">Is
anything wrong with Forbes Climate Reporting?</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <span>Forbes has trotted out another <a
href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2017/02/03/is-anything-wrong-with-natural-non-man-made-climate-change/#3d47842933d7">entirely
ignorant piece on climate change</a>, "Is Anything Wrong With
Natural, Non-Man-Made Climate Change?" this time by fake expert
Mario Loyola, a lawyer with a background in European history. I
guess Forbes considers those credentials give him the expertise
to communicate the complexities of climate change. Presumably
Forbes would hire a physicist as counsel for a </span><span
id="skstip3" class="skstip beginner">lawsuit concerning
corporate governance (Loyola's actual area of formal
disciplinary expertise)</span>. ..<br>
And most of us are able to recognize that multiple drivers combine
to give an observed outcome. A car moves from the combined effects
of the engine, the slope of the road, and the wind. Climate change
is not either human-caused or natural; it is both. We also know
that one driver can be much more important than others. The fact
that your cat adds heat to your house doesn't mean your furnace is
irrelevant. According to Loyola logic, because natural volcanoes
have caused catastrophic devastation in the past we shouldn't try
to prevent humans from releasing a nuclear bomb...<br>
Furthermore, in hunting for an IPCC statement to support his
opinion Loyola skipped the statement just above it which is based
on all the combined evidence, not just surface temperatures. "It
is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant
cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century." For
sheer brazenness in selective quoting, I nominate Loyola for a
cherry-picking trophy.<br>
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<blockquote>Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz asked Fed Chair Janet Yellen
an interesting question:<br>
"I wanted to ask you about climate change. It is affecting our
economy in a number of ways, such as prolonged droughts that
reduce agricultural yields, coastal flooding, increased severity
of storms and the unpredictability of weather forecasts on which
many of our industries depend. In 2016 NOAA reported 15 separate
$1bn climate events… And lest we think this is an aberration, it's
important to remember that the number and the cost of these events
has doubled over the last decade, and has increased eightfold over
the last 30 years.<br>
So climate events are taking a toll on our economy and they are
expected to become more and more intense going forward. So my
question to you is, to what extent does the Fed take into account
the impacts of climate change in assessing our economic outlook
and future economic risks?"...<br>
Various international fora are looking into aspects of climate
change that could affect financial stability and the exposures of
financial organisations, and I think that's appropriate. We
recognise that risk events or severe weather or climate changes
could have effects on the financial system. Our general approach
since the financial crisis has been to try to build resilience
among banking and financial organisations so they are
well-positioned to deal with risk events. So those are a couple of
reactions...<br>
Sen Schatz's question doesn't address the potentially severe
effects of climate change on developing economies, which have been
studied for years. But it could be tough to sell a humanitarian
case in this "America First" political climate, since people
appear to be on the fence about literal war refugees. So maybe
border-adjusted carbon tax is the best way to go. (Possibly a
border-adjusted labor-standards tax, too.)<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/the-epa-posted-a-mirror-of-its-website-before-trump-can-gut-the-real-one-vgtrn">https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/the-epa-posted-a-mirror-of-its-website-before-trump-can-gut-the-real-one-vgtrn</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/the-epa-posted-a-mirror-of-its-website-before-trump-can-gut-the-real-one-vgtrn">The
EPA Posted a Mirror of Its Website Before Trump Can Gut the Real
One</a></b><br>
<blockquote>The mirror is an archive of the site the way it appeared
the day before Trump took office.<br>
On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency posted a mirror
of its website capturing the way it looked on January 19, 2017—the
day before Trump took office. <br>
Trump has proved himself to be delete-happy when it comes to the
web presence of federal agencies. He's already axed big chunks of
the Department of Education and the USDA sites, and his White
House website is significantly more stripped down than Obama's.
The EPA's move will allow for an archive of its site to exist long
after Trump eventually guts the main one.<br>
Gizmodo points out that the mirror site follows in the wake of
FOIA requests filed by people worried that Trump may cripple or
try to completely do away with the governmental agency. <br>
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href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/science/seagrass-coral-reefs-pathogens-global-warming.html?_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/science/seagrass-coral-reefs-pathogens-global-warming.html?_r=0</a></font><br>
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<blockquote>An ecological cornerstone is vanishing rapidly from
the oceans, and scientists fear the consequences for climate
change, fisheries and disease.<br>
The growing recognition of this plant's importance comes even as
it is disappearing. Nearly a third of the world's seagrass
meadows have died off since the 19th century. A number of
studies indicate that they are now disappearing at an
accelerating pace...<br>
Last week, Dr. Orth and his colleagues published a detailed
study of the retreat of seagrass in Chesapeake Bay in the
journal Global Change Biology. Since just 1991, they estimate,
29 percent of the bay's seagrass meadows have vanished...<br>
Their research points to two main culprits. Eroded dirt washes
into the Chesapeake, making the water cloudy. Seagrass get so
little sunlight that the resulting dimming can be deadly...<br>
Seagrass is also being pummeled by climate change. Warmer summer
temperatures in Chesapeake Bay cause the plants to lose much of
their oxygen through their leaves. With less oxygen to pump into
their roots, they are poisoned by toxic sediments..<br>
The cloudiness of the water makes the heat even worse. With less
sunlight, the plants produce even less protective oxygen to
begin with. "We have a double whammy," said Dr. Orth...<br>
As the underwater meadows disappear, economic value disappears
with them. The Chesapeake Bay meadows are a nursery for blue
crabs, for example. Dr. Orth and his colleagues estimate that
the seagrass die-off has eliminated more than 500 million
juvenile blue crabs since 1991...<br>
Seagrass meadows can store enormous amounts of carbon. Their
soils don't decompose because they have very little oxygen in
them. As a result, seagrass meadow soil around the world has
accumulated an estimated nine billion tons of carbon...<br>
As seagrass meadows disappear, that carbon is being released
back into the ocean. Some of it may make its way into the
atmosphere as heat-trapping carbon dioxide...<br>
As dire as the situation has become, there is cause for hope. In
recent years, Dr. Orth and his colleagues have successfully
restored seagrass meadows off the coast of Virginia...<br>
"Now we have 6,200 acres of seagrass," he said, "where in 1997
there wasn't a single blade of grass."<br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">If you're a pessimist, it's easy to read the news and
come to one conclusion: It's too late to do anything about<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b>. You might as well get your
survivalist bag packed and head for the hills. But the idea that
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv7zFAdZ6LI">(video) It's
too late to do anything about climate change.... right?</a><br>
Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe<br>
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url="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-climate-change-science-adviser-william-happer-global-warming-hare-krishna-a7584781.html"
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normal;text-decoration: underline;">The Guardian</a>)</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:helvetica
neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif">Scientists' Group
Launches Website to Help Federal Whistleblowers (<a
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underline;">InsideClimate News</a>, <a
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target="_blank" style="word-wrap:
break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">E&E</a> $)</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:helvetica
neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif">Governor orders
evacuation of Dakota pipeline protest camp (<a
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100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">Reuters</a>)<br>
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</span><span style="font-family:helvetica
neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif">Corps to accelerate
cleanup at oil pipeline protest camp (<a
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style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">AP</a>, <a
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style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">The Hill</a>)<br>
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</span><span style="font-family:helvetica
neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif">Tribe, Dakota Access
developer face off at House hearing (<a
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target="_blank" style="word-wrap:
break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
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underline;">The Hill</a>, <a
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target="_blank" style="word-wrap:
break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">PBS NewsHour</a>)<br>
<br>
</span><span style="font-family:helvetica
neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif">Pope appears to back
native tribes in Dakota Pipeline conflict (<a
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normal;text-decoration: underline;">Reuters</a>, <a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=052249c8d7&e=95b355344d"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">AP</a>)<br>
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color="#444444"><a
href="https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/la-nina-calls-it-quits-is-el-nino-paying-us-a-return-visit/79358/">https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/la-nina-calls-it-quits-is-el-nino-paying-us-a-return-visit/79358/</a></font><br>
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<blockquote>Meteorologists from The Weather Network in Canada are
much more bearish on the possibility of an El Nino, saying
there's only a 45-50% chance of one. The general consensus seems
to be that it's far too soon to tell. <br>
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Here's the link to DH's statement on their website: <a
href="http://divestharvard.com/shell-takes-over-the-hks/">http://divestharvard.com/shell-takes-over-the-hks/</a><br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20998-2004Dec22.html">This
Day in Climate History February 17, 2009 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
<blockquote>The Brad Friedman/Desi Doyen "Green News Report" debuts
on BradBlog.com.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6906">http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6906</a><br>
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