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<font size="+1"><i>March 6, 2017 Climate
Change's cognitive crazy making </i></font><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-budget-noaa-scary-885d90b4b7c3#.2t7z50wca">https://thinkprogress.org/trump-budget-noaa-scary-885d90b4b7c3#.2t7z50wca</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-budget-noaa-scary-885d90b4b7c3#.2t7z50wca">Climate
scientist: Trump budget is 'an all-out assault on Earth'</a></b><br>
<blockquote>Defunding NOAA's satellites will also hurt weather
forecasts, jeopardizing public safety, experts warn.<br>
A four-page White House budget memo <a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/03/white-house-proposes-steep-budget-cut-to-leading-climate-science-agency">secured
by The Washington Post</a> reveals the Trump administration
wants a 17 percent cut in National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA)'s overall budget — with the deepest cuts
coming from earth observation. NOAA studies the atmosphere and
oceans — often using satellites — to better understand climate and
weather.<br>
Under the draft Trump plan, NOAA's satellite program would be cut
by more than a half billion dollars. These cuts would be
"devastating" both to NOAA and the United States, extreme-weather
expert Dr. Kevin Trenberth told ThinkProgress.<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27022017/global-warming-permafrost-study-melt-canada-siberia">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27022017/global-warming-permafrost-study-melt-canada-siberia</a></font><br>
<font color="#000066"><b><a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27022017/global-warming-permafrost-study-melt-canada-siberia">Massive
Permafrost Thaw Documented in Canada, Portends Huge Carbon
Release</a></b></font><br>
BY: BOB BERWYN<br>
<blockquote> Study shows 52,000 square miles in rapid decline, with
sediment and carbon threatening the surrounding environment and
potentially accelerating global warming.<br>
Huge slabs of Arctic permafrost in northwest Canada are slumping
and disintegrating, sending large amounts of carbon-rich mud and
silt into streams and rivers. A new study that analyzed nearly a
half-million square miles in northwest Canada found that this
permafrost decay is affecting 52,000 square miles of that vast
stretch of earth—an expanse the size of Alabama.<br>
...According to researchers with the<a
href="http://www.nwtgeoscience.ca/"> Northwest Territories
Geological Survey</a>, the permafrost collapse is intensifying
and causing landslides into rivers and lakes that can choke off
life downstream, all the way to where the rivers discharge into
the Arctic Ocean...<br>
Similar large-scale landscape changes are evident across the
Arctic including in Alaska, Siberia and Scandinavia, the
researchers wrote in a paper published in the journal <a
href="http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2017/02/06/G38626.1.abstract?sid=3caa2535-8d09-4d60-9872-89ea658cd63b">Geology</a>
in early February. The study didn't address the issue of
greenhouse gas releases from thawing permafrost. But its findings
could help quantify the immense global scale of the thawing, which
will contribute to more accurate estimates of carbon emissions...<br>
Permafrost is land that has been frozen stretching back to the
last ice age, 10,000 years ago. As the Arctic warms at twice the
global rate, the long-frozen soils thaw and decompose, releasing
the trapped greenhouse gases into the air. Scientists estimate
that the world's permafrost holds twice as much carbon as the
atmosphere.<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://newrepublic.com/article/140889/scientific-community-facing-existential-crisis">https://newrepublic.com/article/140889/scientific-community-facing-existential-crisis</a></font><br>
<font color="#000099"><b><a
href="https://newrepublic.com/article/140889/scientific-community-facing-existential-crisis">The
Scientific Community Is Facing an Existential Crisis</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> Dr. Rush Holt talks Donald Trump, the increasing
politicization of science, and what his community needs to do
next. <br>
"Existential might even be the right word. The concern now is
whether policymakers even understand the meaning of evidence.
Whether there is any truth to this descriptor of "fact-free era."
Whether policy is going to be made more and more in the absence of
scientific input. <br>
There seems to be a concern about whether the public appreciation
of science has eroded to a point where it has removed science from
public debate and public decision making. Whether the public has
come to regard evidence as optional."<br>
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<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://undark.org/article/what-i-left-out-food-fight-mckay-jenkins/">https://undark.org/article/what-i-left-out-food-fight-mckay-jenkins/</a></font><br>
<a
href="https://undark.org/article/what-i-left-out-food-fight-mckay-jenkins/">(books)
The Road to Fossil Fuel Dependence</a><br>
<blockquote>The U.S. interstate highway system was designed to keep
America safe in case of invasion, but it had dramatic consequences
for the way we live today.<br>
BY McKay Jenkins<br>
A FRIEND OF MINE recently said that he found it easier to imagine
the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.<br>
Remember: our current precipitous ecological decline only began
accelerating about 75 years ago, a change driven by World War II.
As much as the war tore holes in the heart of Europe and Asia, it
also, in its aftermath, hit the rest of the world like a meteor.
In the years after the war, the United States decided that the
best way to defend itself against future invasion was to build a
monumental interstate highway system.<br>
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<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://undark.org/2017/03/02/global-warming-ten-assumptions/">https://undark.org/2017/03/02/global-warming-ten-assumptions/</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://undark.org/2017/03/02/global-warming-ten-assumptions/">Global
Warming: Why Can't We Get Along?</a></b><br>
<blockquote> Finding common ground on climate change requires
effort. A first step: Understanding the assumptions that separate
left and right. <br>
Where liberals see an urgent problem, conservatives see a bald
power grab. Reconciling these viewpoints has little to do with
science.<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-2"><span class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-this-week-the-extinction-connection_us_58b8b5ece4b0fa65b844b176">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-this-week-the-extinction-connection_us_58b8b5ece4b0fa65b844b176</a></span></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-this-week-the-extinction-connection_us_58b8b5ece4b0fa65b844b176">Climate
Change This Week: The Extinction Connection, Major Investors
Urge Action, and More!</a></b><br>
<blockquote> Mary Ellen Harte Ph.D. is a biologist who writes on
climate change and population issues. She co-authored the free
downloadable book, "Cool the Earth, Save the Economy", at Cool the
Earth (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://cooltheearth.us/">http://cooltheearth.us/</a>), and
runs the Climate Change Reports blog (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatechangereports.wordpress.com/">http://climatechangereports.wordpress.com/</a>).
Her work as a diagnostic plant photographer also appears at
forestryimages.org.<br>
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</font><font color="#666666" size="-2"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://blog.ai-academy.com/4-reasons-why-artificial-intelligence-is-a-killer-tool-to-solve-the-energy-challenge-c81a3002f276#.y2pnfsf0j">https://blog.ai-academy.com/4-reasons-why-artificial-intelligence-is-a-killer-tool-to-solve-the-energy-challenge-c81a3002f276#.y2pnfsf0j</a></font><br>
<font color="#000099"><b><a
href="https://blog.ai-academy.com/4-reasons-why-artificial-intelligence-is-a-killer-tool-to-solve-the-energy-challenge-c81a3002f276#.y2pnfsf0j">4
reasons why Artificial Intelligence is a killer tool to fight
Climate Change</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> One of the biggest obstacles to renewables is a data
problem. Until the rise of renewable energy you could match
production and consumption simply by forecasting the demand. You
forecast how much the grid will want tomorrow, and you plan the
production on time: there's only one random variable in play. When
you start producing energy also using renewable resources you'll
add a stochastic variable to the equation: now you need to
forecast the energy demand from the grid, and the energy
production from renewable resources at the same time. Not unlike
financial predictions or Netflix movie recommendations, this is a
data problem, not an energy issue: AI can help big time.<br>
In a cash-strapped economy, optimizing is better than renovating.
Implementing new more efficient technology changing what you
already have can be crazy expensive and with very long payback
periods. With AI you can optimize a system using the data you
collect from it, meaning that the upfront installation cost can be
close to zero. This is particularly important when capital is
scarce, and the big investments needed for renovations are
painful.<br>
Energy systems evolve with time. Your car doesn't have the same
performances now that when you bought it. It also doesn't behave
in the same way in summer and winter. An AI system can understand
how a system is evolving and optimise its behaviour at each moment
of its lifetime.<br>
We never had so much data. AI is a simple recipe: take a powerful
enough computer, find a learning algorithm that works well for
your problem, and add as much data as you can. If you don't have
enough data, you'll find yourself potentially with a Ferrari and
no gasoline to run it. Guess what? We never had so much data for
energy systems (ever heard of Industry 4.0, IoT, etc?)<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.quora.com/Is-artificial-Intelligence-the-last-hope-for-us-to-survive-climate-change">https://www.quora.com/Is-artificial-Intelligence-the-last-hope-for-us-to-survive-climate-change</a></font><br>
<a
href="https://www.quora.com/Is-artificial-Intelligence-the-last-hope-for-us-to-survive-climate-change">Is
artificial Intelligence the last hope for us to survive climate
change?</a><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/transcripts/whitmanmemo032601.htm">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/transcripts/whitmanmemo032601.htm</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><i><font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/transcripts/whitmanmemo032601.htm">This
Day in Climate History March 6, 2001 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font></i></font><br>
<blockquote> March 6, 2001: EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman
sends a memo to President George W. Bush urging him to demonstrate
leadership on climate change. The memo is summarily ignored.<br>
<blockquote type="cite">
<p>I would strongly recommend that you continue to recognize
that global warming is a real, and serious issues.</p>
<p>While not specifically endorsing the targets called for in
Kyoto, you could indicate that you are exploring how to reduce
U.S. Greenhouse gas emissions internally and will continue to
do so no matter what else transpires.</p>
<p>Mr. President, this is a credibility issue (global warming)
for the U.S. in the international Community. It is also an
issue that is resonating here, at home. We need to appear
engaged and shift the discussion from the focus on the "K"
word (Kyoto) to action, but we have to build some boneifides
first.</p>
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