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changes mentions of '<b style="font-weight: bold;">climate
change</b>' to 'resilience' in transportation program</span></a></h2>
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<blockquote> After Donald Trump won the presidency, the Federal
Highway Administration switched the reference to "Climate Change"
to "Resilience" in the name of a program aimed at coping with
climate impacts, agency officials confirmed Friday.<br>
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<blockquote> A new scientific paper by a University of Maryland-led
international team of distinguished scientists, including five
members of the National Academies, argues that there are critical
two-way feedbacks missing from current climate models that are
used...<br>
... evidence of the need for a new paradigm of modeling that
incorporates the feedbacks that the Earth System has on humans,
and propose a framework for future modeling that would serve as a
more realistic guide for policymaking and sustainable development.<br>
The study explains that the Earth System (e.g., atmosphere, ocean,
land, and biosphere) provides the Human System (e.g., humans and
their production, distribution, and consumption) not only the
sources of its inputs (e.g., water, energy, biomass, and
materials) but also the sinks (e.g., atmosphere, oceans, rivers,
lakes, and lands) that absorb and process its outputs (e.g.,
emissions, pollution, and other wastes).<br>
Titled "Modeling Sustainability: Population, Inequality,
Consumption, and Bidirectional Coupling of the Earth and Human
Systems", the paper describes how the rapid growth in resource
use, land-use change, emissions, and pollution has made humanity
the dominant driver of change in most of the Earth's natural
systems, and how these changes, in turn, have critical feedback
effects on humans with costly and serious consequences, including
on human health and well-being, economic growth and development,
and even human migration and societal conflict. However, the paper
argues that these two-way interactions ("bidirectional coupling")
are not included in the current models.<br>
"the rate of change of atmospheric concentrations of CO2, CH4, and
N2O [the primary greenhouse gases] increased by over 700, 1000,
and 300 times (respectively) in the period after the Green
Revolution when compared to pre-industrial rates." <br>
"The paper correctly highlights that other human stressors, not
only the climate ones, are very important for long-term
sustainability, including the need to reduce inequality'', said
Carlos Nobre (not a co-author), one of the world's leading Earth
System scientists, who recently won the prestigious Volvo
Environment Prize in Sustainability for his role in understanding
and protecting the Amazon. "Social and economic equality empowers
societies to engage in sustainable pathways, which includes, by
the way, not only the sustainable use of natural resources but
also slowing down population growth, to actively diminish the
human footprint on the environment."<br>
Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Earth
System Science Center at Penn State University, who was not a
co-author of the paper, commented: "We cannot separate the issues
of population growth, resource consumption, the burning of fossil
fuels, and climate risk. They are part of a coupled dynamical
system, and, as the authors show, this has dire potential
consequences for societal collapse. The implications couldn't be
more profound."<br>
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DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nww081 <br>
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<b><a
href="https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/nsr/nww081">Modeling
sustainability: population, inequality, consumption, and
bidirectional coupling of the Earth and Human Systems</a></b><br>
SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Safa Motesharrei et al,<br>
<blockquote> The Human System has become strongly dominant within
the Earth System in many different ways. However, in current
models that explore the future of humanity and environment, and
guide policy, key Human System variables, such as demographics,
inequality, economic growth, and migration, are not coupled with
the Earth System but are instead driven by exogenous estimates
such as United Nations (UN) population projections. This makes the
models likely to miss important feedbacks in the real Earth–Human
system that may result in unexpected outcomes requiring very
different policy interventions. The importance of humanity's
sustainability challenges calls for collaboration of natural and
social scientists to develop coupled Earth–Human system models for
devising effective science-based policies and measures.<br>
HIGHLIGHTS<br>
The Human System has become strongly dominant within the Earth
System in many different ways.<br>
Consumption, inequality, and population have increased extremely
fast, especially since ∼1950.<br>
The collective impact of these changes threatens to overwhelm the
viability of natural systems and the many critical functions that
the Earth System provides.<br>
Changes in the Earth System, in turn, have important feedback
effects on the Human System, with costly and serious consequences.<br>
However, current models, such as the Integrated Assessment Models
(IAMs), that explore the future of humanity and environment, and
guide policy, do not incorporate these critical feedbacks.<br>
--Key Human System variables, such as demographics, inequality,
economic growth, and migration, are instead driven by exogenous
projections, such as the UN population tables.<br>
Furthermore, such projections are shown to be unreliable.<br>
-- Unless models incorporate such two-way couplings, they are
likely to miss important dynamics in the real Earth–Human system
that may result in unexpected outcomes requiring very different
policy interventions.<br>
-- Therefore, Earth System Models (ESMs) must be bidirectionally
coupled with Human System Models.<br>
-- Critical challenges to sustainability call for a strong
collaboration of both earth and social scientists to develop
coupled --- Earth–Human System models for devising effective
science-based policies and measures.<br>
We suggest using Dynamic Modeling, Input–Output (IO) models, and
Data Assimilation to build and calibrate such coupled models.<br>
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has warned, as it prepares to apply<span
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<blockquote>The President has put together a Cabinet that starkly
differs from public opinion on global warming<font size="+1">.</font><br>
There are no diverse policy perspectives. There is no dedication
to representing American public interest.<br>
Trump picked only his allies — ones who do not represent popular
opinion. EPA pick Scott Pruitt, who was just confirmed, is a
climate-science denier and has a record of suing the EPA, a
position that contradicts the opinion of the majority of
Americans, which has consistently exhibited serious and sustained
concern about global warming. Trump's Secretary of State and
former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson similarly noted in his
confirmation hearing that he doesn’t see climate change as a
serious national security threat, despite the Pentagon’s and
military leaders’ clear prioritization of the threat...<br>
...The majority of Americans are on our side. The bad news is that
this same majority hasn't actively and aggressively voiced their
climate concerns to their elected officials, radically changed
their consumer or consumption habits or wrote for and communicated
to their local news outlet. That’s got to change. The Trump
Cabinet’s abdication of responsibility to protect America must now
inspire the often-silent majority on climate change to stand up
and fill this void. And it must do so before another hottest year
wreaks havoc in America. -- Rep. Yvette Clarke and Michael Shank<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://ecocidealert.com/?p=23636">https://ecocidealert.com/?p=23636</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><a href="https://ecocidealert.com/?p=23636"
style="font-weight:bold;color:#f26722;text-decoration:none;">Why
ecocide crimes are crimes of recklessness</a></font><br>
<blockquote>Knowledge of the risk of serious harm can be a
collective responsibility; the ultimate responsibility lies
however with the directing mind. In the case of a corporation, the
directing mind is the senior person (or persons) whose authority
is derived from the company's board of directors to perform of the
company as directed and for benefit of the company. <br>
Very rarely does a corporation stop its industrial activities when
sued in a civil court; current law protects business first, not
the communities most at risk. Human rights advocates and
environmental defenders who speak out against the harm are branded
as criminals. Law without protection for communities ensures trade
and commerce trump every time. Essentially this is an issue
regarding justice, not economics. As matters stand just now in
law, commerce takes precedence. Look to <strong>climate ecocide</strong>:
the Paris Climate talks of 2015 were <a
href="http://eradicatingecocide.cmail20.com/t/r-l-ykhutrlt-djjydiiihy-s/"
style="color:#f26722;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;">sponsored
by some of France's biggest contributors to climate change....</a><br>
...Every crime is defined by its elements – what lawyers call Mens
Rea and Actus Reus (the state of mind and the act). Since the
Paris Agreement, we have a situation where the Mens Rea in ecocide
crime is that of recklessness – in layman’s terms, of disregarding
available information. We know that in very few cases of ecocide
is there an actual intent to harm. However no decision-maker can
now claim ignorance of the potential harm resulting from dangerous
industrial activity or failure to prevent it. This will be a key
factor in international acceptance of ecocide as a crime.<br>
...There is a paradox to address here, one that those wishing to
protect the earth will already be familiar with. When it comes to
serious harm, corporate and State action (or non-action) is often
regulated only at the lowest of levels – by voluntary agreements
or limited-penalty regulations. George Monbiot calls it the <a
href="http://eradicatingecocide.createsend1.com/t/r-l-ykhutrlt-dydddkxlt-g/">pollution
paradox:</a> the dirtiest companies must spend the most on
politics if they are not to be regulated out of existence, so
politics comes to be dominated by the dirtiest companies. The
small clean companies suffer, and so do we. This paradox creates
an escalating cycle of harm and decreasing protection for
environment and communities. It also makes it harder for justice
to prevail.<br>
</blockquote>
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Atlanta - Former vice president Al Gore is greeted by participants
during Climate & Health Meeting at the Carter Center on
Thursday, February 16, 2017.<br>
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in Climate History February 19, 2006 </a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<blockquote>The CBS program "60 Minutes" reports on the effects of
human-caused climate change in the Arctic.<br>
...all that water will push sea levels three feet higher all
around the world in 100 years.<br>
"You and I sit here, another foot. Your children, another foot.
Your grandchildren, another foot. And it won't take long for sea
level to inundate,"...<br>
"Sea level will be inundating the low lands of virtually every
country of the world, ours included," Corell predicts.<br>
To find the sights and sounds of the arctic melting, there are few
places better than a fjord in Greenland, with a glacier just a
short distance away.<br>
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