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<font size="+1"><i>April 21, 2017 </i></font><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/climate-changed">https://www.bloomberg.com/climate-changed</a></font><br>
<b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/climate-changed">Bloomberg
News today announces site devoted to climate change</a></b><br>
<blockquote> <i>Offers easy to understand, visual explanations of
climate change issues. </i> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-19/how-to-drive-the-world-0ff-a-cliff">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-19/how-to-drive-the-world-0ff-a-cliff</a><br>
Press release: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bloomberg-climate-change_us_58f7e640e4b0cb086d7dd9e5">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bloomberg-climate-change_us_58f7e640e4b0cb086d7dd9e5</a><br>
w-rising-temperatures-can-fry-the-economy-video<br>
Be sure to see: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-04-19/how-rising-temperatures-can-fry-the-economy-video">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-04-19/how-rising-temperatures-can-fry-the-economy-video</a><br>
<font size="-1">Climate Changed gives Bloomberg a leg up on The
Wall Street Journal, arguably its chief competitor in the market
for prestige journalism. The Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper's
hard-line conservativism appears to have bled over from the
opinion pages to the news section. A study published in 2015 by
researchers at Rutgers University, the University of Michigan
and the University of Oslo found that from 2006 to 2011, the
Journal's news reporting rarely mentioned threats or effects of
climate change, compared with the country's other leading
broadsheet newspapers.</font><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.thetelegram.com/news/local/2017/4/20/media-outlets-around-the-world-fascinated-by-ferryland-iceberg.html">http://www.thetelegram.com/news/local/2017/4/20/media-outlets-around-the-world-fascinated-by-ferryland-iceberg.html</a></font><br>
<font color="#000099" size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.thetelegram.com/news/local/2017/4/20/media-outlets-around-the-world-fascinated-by-ferryland-iceberg.html">Media
outlets around the world fascinated by Ferryland iceberg</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> Image: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.thetelegram.com/content/dam/tc/the-telegram/images/2017/4/20/tel-a04-21042017-icebergmedia1.png">http://www.thetelegram.com/content/dam/tc/the-telegram/images/2017/4/20/tel-a04-21042017-icebergmedia1.png</a><br>
Since it floated south into shallow water off the coast of
Ferryland, the towering iceberg that had everyone clamouring for
selfies last weekend has made its way around the world.<br>
Media outlets across the globe seem to be fascinated with the
gigantic berg, said to measure more than 150 feet tall.<br>
"Iceberg in Canada taller than one that sank Titanic draws
tourists to Newfoundland town," reads a headline in the U.K.'s
Telegraph.<br>
Over the past few days, <a
href="http://www.thetelegram.com/content/dam/tc/the-telegram/images/2017/4/20/tel-a04-21042017-icebergmedia1.png">photos
of the now-famous Ferryland iceberg</a> have popped up on news
sites such as Time, CNN, the New York Times and the BBC, as well
as sites in Italy, Russia, India, Germany, Japan, El Salvador and
New Zealand. Some have called it "Newfoundland's new tourist
attraction."<br>
Locals and regulars to the province know the berg is magnificent,
but hardly part of a new attraction — these glacial masses are
more than 10,000 years old, according to "Icebergs of Newfoundland
and Labrador" author Stephen Bruneau, and up to 800 of them can
make their way down to St. John's from western Greenland every
spring.<br>
... the Province's <a href="http://icebergfinder.com/">Icebergfinder.com</a>
website, which currently shows close to 40 icebergs in a range of
sizes mapped between southern Labrador and the southern portion of
the Avalon Peninsula. Pack ice — of which there's been plenty this
year — protects the icebergs from being beaten by the waves and
allows them to last longer, Bruneau states.<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://icebergfinder.com/">http://icebergfinder.com/</a></font><br>
<b><a href="http://icebergfinder.com/">IcebergFinder.com 90% of
them are underwater, Find the rest here</a></b><br>
The icebergs you see on IcebergFinder.com come from two sources:
visual sightings from our on-the-ground ambassadors and satellite
detections from C-CORE using data from the European Space Agency
(ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA).<br>
also: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/world/canada/iceberg-ferryland-newfoundland.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/world/canada/iceberg-ferryland-newfoundland.html</a><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tiq_XcsikYE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tiq_XcsikYE</a></font><br>
<font color="#000099"><b><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tiq_XcsikYE">(video)
Climate Change and Post-Truth Politics (UK)</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote>2016 was a good and bad year for efforts to tackle
climate change. The good news is that 120 parties have ratified
the Paris Convention; the bad news is the emergence of post-truth
politics and the associated denial of the evidence that climate
change is a threat to our future. Leading environmentalist and
Member of UK House of Lords John Krebs discusses the trends and
their implications for global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions. Recorded on 01/25/2017. Series: "Bren School of
Environmental Science & Management" [4/2017] [Show ID:
31961] 57 minutes.<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MqTOEospfo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MqTOEospfo</a></font><br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MqTOEospfo">(video)
Science in America - Neil deGrasse Tyson</a></b><i> ( 4 mins
- recent viral momentum</i>) <br>
<blockquote>"Exercise in finding what is true" We offer this 4min
video on "Science in America", containing what may be the most
important words Neil deGrasse Tyson has ever spoken. Redglass
Pictures is an award-winning production studio co-founded by Sarah
Klein and Tom Mason and based in New York City. Their body of work
is defined by a simple idea: that short, cinematic storytelling
has the power to touch, teach, and change people. No matter the
story or subject, their vision remains the same: give viewers
something to care about – something that sticks with them long
after the end frame. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.redglasspictures.com/">http://www.redglasspictures.com/</a><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/magazine/why-the-menace-of-mosquitoes-will-only-get-worse.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/magazine/why-the-menace-of-mosquitoes-will-only-get-worse.html</a></font><br>
<font color="#000099"><b><a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/magazine/why-the-menace-of-mosquitoes-will-only-get-worse.html">Why
the Menace of Mosquitoes Will Only Get Worse</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote>Climate change is altering the environment in ways that
increase the potential for viruses like Zika.<br>
West Nile was not new to the United States. It had been a minor
summer threat since August 1999, when it made 17 people sick in
New York City. That was the virus's first entry into the country,
and it expanded through it thereafter. It landed in Dallas in
2002, sickening 202 people and killing 13. ..<br>
... Warmer weather encourages food-borne organisms like salmonella
to multiply more rapidly, and warmer seas foster the growth of
bacteria like Vibrio that make oysters unsafe to eat. Spikes in
heat and humidity have less visible effects, too, changing the
numbers and distribution of the insect intermediaries that carry
diseases to people...<br>
...in the year since that first Houston case, it has become clear
that the United States is more vulnerable to Zika than anyone
thought....The best defense against Aedes mosquitoes turns out to
be not big municipal gestures but small individual actions:
destroying their habitat by emptying the pools of water where they
reproduce, and keeping them from eating by repairing windows
screens and wearing bug repellent.<br>
"Climate change is a threat multiplier," Katharine Hayhoe, one of
those researchers and a director of Texas Tech's Climate Science
Center, told me. "If there's one overarching theme that connects
almost every way that climate change impacts us, it's that climate
change takes a risk that already exists and enhances it. It's not
inventing something new. It's taking something that we've already
dealt with before, but giving it that extra oomph that makes it a
bigger problem."<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-20/natural-gas-moves-to-the-naughty-list">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-20/natural-gas-moves-to-the-naughty-list</a></font><br>
<font color="#000099"><b><a
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-20/natural-gas-moves-to-the-naughty-list">Natural
gas moves to the naughty list.</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote>By Jennifer A Dlouhy, Mark Chediak Bloomberg
Businessweek Apr 20<br>
Power plants around the world are stepping up their use of gas as
a fuel because it burns cleaner than coal—and in the U.S., at
least, it's cheaper. Gas now supplies about a third of the
country's power, up from just 17 percent a decade ago.<br>
U.S. environmentalists have vowed to go after gas-fired power
plants with the same vengeance they've used to force the
retirements of hundreds of coal facilities. Even coal miners are
warning their fossil fuel kin to beware. more…<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170418-how-western-civilisation-could-collapse">http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170418-how-western-civilisation-could-collapse</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170418-how-western-civilisation-could-collapse">How
Western Civilisation Could Collapse</a></b></font><br>
Some possible precipitating factors are already in place. How the
West reacts to them will determine the world's future.<br>
<blockquote> By Rachel Nuwer 18 April 2017<br>
The political economist Benjamin Friedman once compared modern
Western society to a stable bicycle whose wheels are kept spinning
by economic growth. Should that forward-propelling motion slow or
cease, the pillars that define our society – democracy, individual
liberties, social tolerance and more – would begin to teeter. Our
world would become an increasingly ugly place, one defined by a
scramble over limited resources and a rejection of anyone outside
of our immediate group. Should we find no way to get the wheels
back in motion, we'd eventually face total societal collapse...<br>
Such collapses have occurred many times in human history, and no
civilisation, no matter how seemingly great, is immune to the
vulnerabilities that may lead a society to its end. Regardless of
how well things are going in the present moment, the situation can
always change....<br>
It should come as no surprise that humanity is currently on an
unsustainable and uncertain path – but just how close are we to
reaching the point of no return?...<br>
...there are two factors that matter: ecological strain and
economic stratification. The ecological category is the more
widely understood and recognised path to potential doom,
especially in terms of depletion of natural resources such as
groundwater, soil, fisheries and forests – all of which could be
worsened by climate change... imply because it is more expensive
in the short term to solve the problem than it is to just keep
acting as usual," says Jorgen Randers, a professor emeritus of
climate strategy at the BI Norwegian Business School, and author
of 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years. "The climate
problem will get worse and worse and worse because we won't be
able to live up to what we've promised to do in the Paris
Agreement and elsewhere."..<br>
according to Joseph Tainter, a professor of environment and
society at Utah State University and author of The Collapse of
Complex Societies, one of the most important lessons from Rome's
fall is that complexity has a cost. As stated in the laws of
thermodynamics, it takes energy to maintain any system in a
complex, ordered state – and human society is no exception. By the
3rd Century, Rome was increasingly adding new things – an army
double the size, a cavalry, subdivided provinces that each needed
their own bureaucracies, courts and defences – just to maintain
its status quo and keep from sliding backwards. Eventually, it
could no longer afford to prop up those heightened complexities.
It was fiscal weakness, not war, that did the Empire in....<br>
Western civilisation is not a lost cause, however. Using reason
and science to guide decisions, paired with extraordinary
leadership and exceptional goodwill, human society can progress to
higher and higher levels of well-being and development,<br>
See also: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161124-how-to-cope-with-the-end-of-the-world">http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161124-how-to-cope-with-the-end-of-the-world</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008674K64/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008674K64/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Complex-Societies-Studies-Archaeology/dp/052138673X">https://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Complex-Societies-Studies-Archaeology/dp/052138673X</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800914000615">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800914000615</a><br>
Human and nature dynamics (HANDY): Modeling inequality and use of
resources in the collapse or sustainability of societies<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/explorations/book-reviews/220-the-madhouse-effect-how-climate-change-denial-is-threatening-our-planet-destroying-our-politics-and-driving-us-crazy">http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/explorations/book-reviews/220-the-madhouse-effect-how-climate-change-denial-is-threatening-our-planet-destroying-our-politics-and-driving-us-crazy</a></font><br>
<font color="#000099"><b><a
href="http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/explorations/book-reviews/220-the-madhouse-effect-how-climate-change-denial-is-threatening-our-planet-destroying-our-politics-and-driving-us-crazy">THE
MADHOUSE EFFECT: HOW CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL IS THREATENING OUR
PLANET, DESTROYING OUR POLITICS AND DRIVING US CRAZY By
Michael E. Mann and Tom Toles</a></b></font><br>
Book Review by Adrian Tait<br>
<blockquote> Here perhaps is the book's hidden message to our
hearts: climate scientists have to pay a price, explored by
Hoggett and Randall, for holding the knowledge they do in a world
that does not respond as it should. And those who speak out
strongly are liable to pay a still heavier price. The cartoons, as
well as oiling the wheels of communication, are part of a
counter-attack against the denial industry. The narrative – on
both the science and the denial game - is reasoned and well
substantiated, but between every line we necessarily find
ourselves at the interface of reason and passion. This is
important reading for climate psychologists. The observable
validity of the madhouse effect is enhanced rather than diminished
by the passion. The word 'despicable' to describe oil-soaked
politics is not used once, but is present throughout."<br>
Despite the adverse political tide, there is one important
source of hope which unites Mann and Toles with many others. This
is the pace of transition to renewable energy and other 'clean'
technologies. Many pundits have agreed that the combination of
technological development and market forces will defeat efforts by
vested interests to halt the decline in fossil fuel use. This
transition is a necessary condition for any chance of containing
the climate emergency. It may also be essential as a hopeful
narrative to help sustain the climate movement. But as Kevin
Anderson and others have repeatedly explained, technology alone
cannot get us out of the mess we're in, given cumulative
emissions. The Madhouse Effect covers important parts of the
picture. After politics and technology comes the third dimension,
psychology. The task of connecting that dimension with the others
and of doing so with sufficient depth continues. <i> Review by
Adrian Tait</i><br>
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href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/04/explaining_science_won_t_fix_information_illiteracy.html">http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/04/explaining_science_won_t_fix_information_illiteracy.html</a></font><br>
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<blockquote> The theory many scientists seem to swear by is
technically known as the deficit model, which states that people's
opinions differ from scientific consensus because they lack
scientific knowledge. In 2010, Dan Kahan, a Yale psychologist,
essentially proved this theory wrong. He surveyed over 1,500
Americans, classifying each person's "cultural worldview" on a
scale that roughly correlates with politically liberal or
conservative. He then assessed each person's scientific literacy
with questions such as "True or False: Electrons are smaller than
atoms." Finally, he asked them about climate change. If the
deficit model were correct, Kahan reasoned, then people with
increased scientific literacy, regardless of worldview, should
agree with scientists that climate change poses a serious risk to
humanity...<br>
"If you repeat the myth, that's the part people remember
even if you immediately debunk it," she says. A better approach,
she suggests, is to reframe the issue. Don't just keep explaining
why climate change is real—explain how climate change will hurt
public health or the local economy. Communication that appeals to
values, not just intellect, research shows, can be far more
effective...<br>
It's very logical... - and the deficit model perfectly
explains how a scientist learns science. But the obstacles faced
by science communicators are not epistemological but cultural. The
skills required are not those of a university lecturer but a
rhetorician...<br>
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more from NYTimes Magazine <br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/magazine/how-a-warming-planet-drives-human-migration.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/magazine/how-a-warming-planet-drives-human-migration.html</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/magazine/how-a-warming-planet-drives-human-migration.html">How
a Warming Planet Drives Human Migration</a></b><br>
Climate displacement is becoming one of the world's most powerful —
and destabilizing — geopolitical forces.<br>
<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/magazine/our-climate-future-is-actually-our-climate-present.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/magazine/our-climate-future-is-actually-our-climate-present.html</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/magazine/our-climate-future-is-actually-our-climate-present.html">Our
Climate Future Is Actually Our Climate Present</a></b><br>
How do we live with the fact that the world we knew is going and, in
some cases, already gone?<br>
<br>
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href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/magazine/when-rising-seas-transform-risk-into-certainty.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/magazine/when-rising-seas-transform-risk-into-certainty.html</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/magazine/when-rising-seas-transform-risk-into-certainty.html">When
Rising Seas Transform Risk Into Certainty</a></b><br>
Along parts of the East Coast, the entire system of insuring coastal
property is beginning to break down.<br>
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<blockquote> This goes beyond indifference. This is complicity in
mass extermination.<br>
Here's the question I think we all should be asking: Is this what
a world battered by climate change will be like - one in which
tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of people perish from
disease, starvation, and heat prostration while the rest ...<br>
History and social science research indicate that, as
environmental conditions deteriorate, people will naturally
compete over access to vital materials and the opportunists in any
society - warlords, militia leaders, demagogues, government
officials, and the like - will exploit such clashes for their
personal advantage. "The data suggests a definite link between
food insecurity and conflict," points out Ertharin Cousin, head of
the U.N.'s World Food Program. "Climate is an added stress
factor." In this sense, the current famines in Nigeria, Somalia,
South Sudan, and Yemen provide us with a perfect template for our
future, one in which resource wars and climate mayhem team up as
temperatures continue their steady rise.<br>
Inaction Equals Annihilation<br>
In this context, consider the moral consequences of inaction on
climate change. Once it seemed that the process of global warming
would occur slowly enough to allow societies to adapt to higher
temperatures without excessive disruption, and that the entire
human family would somehow make this transition more or less
simultaneously. That now looks more and more like a fairy tale.
Climate change is occurring far too swiftly for all human
societies to adapt to it successfully. Only the richest are
likely to succeed in even the most tenuous way. Unless colossal
efforts are undertaken now to halt the emission of greenhouse
gasses, those living in less affluent societies can expect to
suffer from extremes of flooding, drought, starvation, disease,
and death in potentially staggering numbers.<br>
Also posted <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176269/">Tomgram:
Michael Klare, Do African Famines Presage Global Climate-Change
Catastrophe?</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176269/">http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176269/</a><br>
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Day in Climate History April 21, 2007</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<blockquote> At the White House Correspondents' Association dinner,
White House senior advisor Karl Rove reacts scornfully to a
request by environmentalist Laurie David to have the George W.
Bush administration reconsider its approach to the climate-change
issue.<br>
<blockquote> Global warming was the talking point last night at
the White House Correspondents' Association dinner when singer
Sheryl Crow and "Inconvenient Truth" producer Laurie David
walked over to Table 92 at the Hilton Washington to chat with
Karl Rove -- and the resulting exchange was suitably heated.<br>
"I am floored by what I just experienced with Karl Rove," David
reports. "I went over to him and said, 'I urge you to take a new
look at global warming.' He went zero to 100 with me. . . . I've
never had anyone be so rude."<br>
Rove's version: "She came over to insult me and she succeeded."<br>
Things got so hot that Crow stepped in to defuse the situation
and then got into it with Rove herself. "You work for me," she
told the presidential adviser, according to singed bystanders.
"No," was his response. "I work for the American people."<br>
News of the dust-up filtered quickly through the room. Some
witnesses said David was very aggressive with Rove; a shaken
Crow later said that Rove was "combative and unresponsive." <br>
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