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<font size="+1"><i>May 5, 2017 </i></font><br>
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href="http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/choking-dust-storm-engulfs-beijing-threatens-visibility-through-friday/70001581">http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/choking-dust-storm-engulfs-beijing-threatens-visibility-through-friday/70001581</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/choking-dust-storm-engulfs-beijing-threatens-visibility-through-friday/70001581">Choking
dust storm engulfs Beijing, threatens visibility through
Friday</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote>Less than a week after enduring the hottest April day on
record, Beijing was struck by a choking dust storm on Thursday and
may not experience relief through Friday.<br>
The dust storm has been sweeping from Mongolia and China's Inner
Mongolia Autonomous Region to northeastern China from Wednesday
night through Thursday...<br>
The dust reached Beijing during the early morning hours of
Thursday and held a grip on the city through the day.<br>
Visibility at Beijing's Capital International Airport has been
held between 2-3.6 km (1.25-2.25 miles) since 5:30 a.m. CST
Thursday (5:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday) as gusty northwesterly winds
ushered in the dust...<br>
More than 400 flights were delayed on Thursday and Thursday night
at the Capital International Airport, according to <a
href="https://flightaware.com/live/cancelled/today/ZBAA">FlightAware</a>.<br>
The dust worsened the air quality in the city with the <a
href="https://twitter.com/BeijingAir">United States Department
of State Air Quality Monitoring Program</a> reporting the air
quality index peaking at 621. Values over 300 are considered
hazardous....<br>
Beijing will face a prolonged stretch of highs ranging from 32-34
C (lower 90s F).<br>
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<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/breaking-levee-breaches-along-swollen-black-river-near-pocahontas-arkansas/70001570">http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/breaking-levee-breaches-along-swollen-black-river-near-pocahontas-arkansas/70001570</a></font><br>
<a
href="http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/breaking-levee-breaches-along-swollen-black-river-near-pocahontas-arkansas/70001570"><b>Gov.
Asa Hutchinson deploys National Guard as floods follow 9 levee
breaches</b></a><br>
<blockquote>Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has deployed additional
resources to combat the extreme flooding in northern parts of the
state as many communities remain underwater.<br>
A dangerous flooding situation in northeastern Arkansas worsened
on Wednesday morning when a levee failed along the Black River
near the town of Pocahontas.<br>
Following the breach, the National Weather Service office in
Memphis, Tennessee, immediately issued a flash flooding emergency
and urged residents to seek higher ground immediately due to
life-threatening flooding...<br>
Gauge data shows the river crested at a record level of 28.95 feet
at 8:30 p.m. local time Tuesday, but it is forecast to remain
above the major flood stage of 25 feet through early Saturday
morning.<br>
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<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://evidencesquared.com/ep11/">http://evidencesquared.com/ep11/</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a href="http://evidencesquared.com/ep11/">Sarah
Myhre: scrappy science communicator </a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <i>Especially great words starts 26 mins - she gives a
manifesto for climate scientists. </i>"I was never prepared
for the scale of loss that we are juggling with now"<br>
In our new podcast episode, climate scientist Sarah Myhre talks
about her scrappy science communication: how she draws on expert
witness training, hands-on experience, human emotions and
transparency to build resilience and effectively communicate the
science of climate change on ski slopes, social media, and the
mainstream media.<br>
You can listen to our episode at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://evidencesquared.com/ep11/">http://evidencesquared.com/ep11/</a>
or download it directly from iTunes or Soundcloud. more at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sarahmyhre.com/">http://sarahmyhre.com/</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/05/04/briefer-india-climate-change-and-security-in-south-asia/">https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/05/04/briefer-india-climate-change-and-security-in-south-asia/</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/05/04/briefer-india-climate-change-and-security-in-south-asia/">Briefer:
India, Climate Change and Security in South Asia</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> South Asia faces a wide array of social, political, and
economic issues that already threaten security in the region. The
region has a history of border disputes, sectarian violence, and
government corruption. In addition, population increases continue
to stress the growing problems associated with urbanization, such
as poor sanitation, the spread of disease, resource allocation,
and meeting energy demands. The region is also particularly
vulnerable to the effects of climate change. In this context,
climate change could exacerbate existing insecurities in South
Asia, and potentially heighten the likelihood of instability. To
read more, <a
href="https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/india_climate-change-and-security-in-south-asia_briefer-36.pdf">click
here</a> for the full briefer, "<a
href="https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/india_climate-change-and-security-in-south-asia_briefer-36.pdf">India,
Climate Change and Security in South Asia</a>."<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tricycle.org/magazine/100-best-climate-solutions-theyre-going-work/">https://tricycle.org/magazine/100-best-climate-solutions-theyre-going-work/</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="https://tricycle.org/magazine/100-best-climate-solutions-theyre-going-work/"> </a></b><b><a
href="https://tricycle.org/magazine/100-best-climate-solutions-theyre-going-work/">An
interview with the environmentalist and entrepreneur Paul
Hawken</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote>"What we need is to be fearless, not hopeful, because to
be hopeful means that our actions are based on fear. No action
based on fear has a good outcome."<br>
<b>Do you think it's more effective to give people a vision of
hope rather than to simply warn against impending doom?</b>
Well, there's a lot to unpack in that question. The science around
climate has been about future threat, which entails a component of
fear. If you look at the news headlines, they tend to overdo the
fear, even though it's based on good science. The scientists
themselves are a little bit more circumspect, but not the press.
So the information about climate change that most people get is
centered on fear, threat, doom and gloom. The implication of the
news is you're causing global warming-it's your car, your house,
the way you eat, the way you travel, and what you buy. So people
feel guilt or shame inside. They may not even acknowledge it, but
it's often there. When you mix fear and doom with guilt and shame,
you get apathy. That's Psych 101.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.minnpost.com/earth-journal/2017/05/can-global-warming-really-be-reversed-maybe-so-and-paul-hawken-shows-how">https://www.minnpost.com/earth-journal/2017/05/can-global-warming-really-be-reversed-maybe-so-and-paul-hawken-shows-how</a></font><br>
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class="titletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Can global
warming really be reversed? Maybe so, Paul Hawken shows
how</span></a></h2>
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In the course of 20-some years of investigating and writing about
global warming I've become all too familiar with that dynamic of
gloom/doom/shame/fear/apathy, and I think Hawken has put his
finger on exactly why we haven't made more policy progress.<br>
The biggest anchor dragging behind this boat isn't climate denial
or even indifference but, I suspect, the almost unspeakably deep,
defeatist conviction that no response really matters because we
are already so thoroughly screwed. I'm vulnerable to that despair
at times and maybe you are, too.<br>
If so, read this book - not just as an antidote to fear and
despair but as foundation for understanding and supporting the
kinds of change that really could be coming, and at every scale
from your household to your company, your community, your county
and state and national government.<br>
As for hope … well, with or without fear, it usually shows up for
me as attachment to some outcome I can't control. Buddhists
believe it's important to do the right thing for its own sake,
without being invested in a particular result - but doing the
right thing, and seeing others doing the same, can maybe lead to
something like optimism.<br>
<font size="+1"><b>80 items in the toolbox</b></font><br>
It is difficult to summarize the 80 options on the Drawdown list,
but a look at the top 10 - ranked high to low by potential to
reduce atmospheric CO2 - will give you a sense of the range the
Hawken team endorsed:<br>
<ol>
<li>Replacing fluorocarbons used in refrigeration and air
conditioning equipment with atmospherically benign
alternatives like propane and ammonium.</li>
<li>More electric generation from onshore wind turbines.</li>
<li>Reducing food waste by one-half worldwide.</li>
<li>Shifting more of the global diet from meat to plants.</li>
<li>Restoring tropical forest on about half the degraded acreage
identified as plausible reforestation locales.</li>
<li>Assuring 13 years of schooling for girls around the world,
especially in the poorest countries, as the surest path to
voluntary population control.</li>
<li>Encouraging family planning, with enhanced access to
contraception, as a corollary effort.</li>
<li>More utility-scale "solar farms."</li>
<li>Silvopasture - the integration of trees into livestock
acreage - to yield resilient landscapes that are healthier for
both animals and plants, reduce farmer/rancher costs, preserve
land, and sequester a lot more carbon.</li>
<li>More rooftop solar power modules everywhere - on and off the
grid, in urban and rural areas, in rich countries and poor.</li>
</ol>
Some of the other 70 are less familiar but fascinating examples of
what innovators around the world are already doing with
geothermal, in-stream hydro and tidal power; improved rice
cultivation and regenerative agricultural practices that restore
land while raising crops; advanced composting and irrigation
practices; fitting out buildings with smart glass, heat pumps,
green roofs and "alternative cement."<br>
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href="https://phys.org/news/2017-05-current-climate-mask-trade-offs-policy.html">https://phys.org/news/2017-05-current-climate-mask-trade-offs-policy.html</a></font><br>
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<blockquote>Scientists and policymakers use measurements like global
warming potential to compare how varying greenhouse gases, like
carbon dioxide and methane, contribute to climate change...<br>
Read more at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-05-current-climate-mask-trade-offs-policy.html#jCp">https://phys.org/news/2017-05-current-climate-mask-trade-offs-policy.html#jCp</a><br>
Yet, despite its widespread use, global warming potential fails to
provide an accurate look at how greenhouse gases affect the
environment in the short and long-term, according to a team of
researchers from Princeton University, the Environmental Defense
Fund and Harvard University.<br>
The researchers argue in the May 5 issue of Science that because
global warming potential calculates the warming effects of
greenhouse gases over 100 years, they discount the effects of any
greenhouse gas that disappears from the atmosphere after a decade
or two. This masks the trade-offs between short- and long-term
policies at the heart of today's political and ethical debates.<br>
The researchers liken the 20- and 100-year timescales to
city-highway vehicle fuel efficiency data. Car dealerships boast
about miles per gallon for both highway and city, providing buyers
with an analysis relevant to different roadways. The dual-number
system also enables buyers to calculate an average.<br>
Another example is how blood pressure is measured with two
numbers, systolic and diastolic. The first number (systolic)
measures the pressure in your blood vessels as the heart beats.
The second number (diastolic) calculates the pressure in your
blood vessels when your heart rests between beats. Together, the
numbers reveal whether a person has an average blood pressure,
like 120 over 80, or is at risk of pre-hypertension or high blood
pressure.<br>
While the researchers advocate using both 20- and 100-year time
scales (rather than one or the other), they do not advocate for a
change in time horizons. Both the 20- and 100-year time scales are
now the default in climate change policy, and shifting to new time
horizons would likely be met with much resistance.<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.salon.com/2017/05/04/climate-scientists-unite-against-new-york-times-columnist-bret-stephens/">http://www.salon.com/2017/05/04/climate-scientists-unite-against-new-york-times-columnist-bret-stephens/</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.salon.com/2017/05/04/climate-scientists-unite-against-new-york-times-columnist-bret-stephens/">Climate
scientists unite against New York Times columnist Bret Stephens</a></b><br>
<blockquote>The Times' climate-denying columnist made an error in
his first column...<br>
In addition to urging the Times "to publish a more comprehensive
correction to the inaccuracies that appeared in Stephen's column
and to avoid such errors in the future by fact checking columns as
carefully as they do news stories," they also insist that while
"there is certainly a place for a variety of well-informed
opinions when it comes to societal responses to climate change.
But it must be made clear that there are facts that are not
subject to opinion."<br>
</blockquote>
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<blockquote>Replacing half of the meat eaten worldwide with crickets
and mealworms would cut farmland use by a third, substantially
reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, researchers say.<br>
While consumers' reluctance to eat insects may limit their
consumption, even a small increase would bring benefits, the team
says.<br>
This could potentially be achieved by using insects as ingredients
in some pre-packaged foods...<br>
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh and Scotland's Rural
College considered a scenario in which half of the current mix of
animal products is replaced by insects, lab-grown meat or
imitation meat.<br>
The environmental challenges facing the global agricultural
industry are increasing<br>
They found that insects and imitation meat - such as soybean-based
foods like tofu - are the most sustainable as they require the
least land and energy to produce.<br>
Beef is by far the least sustainable, the team says.<br>
In contrast to previous studies, lab-grown meat was found to be no
more sustainable than chicken or eggs, requiring an equivalent
area of land but using more energy in production.<br>
"The environmental challenges facing the global agricultural
industry are increasing.<br>
"This paper has studied some of the alternative foods that we can
introduce into our diets to alleviate some of this pressure."<br>
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<blockquote> Stephen Hawking is making apocalyptic predictions
again. The respected theoretical physicist warns that humanity
needs to become a multi-planetary species within the next century
if we don't want to go extinct....<br>
The television show that Stephen Hawking is promoting is all about
how human ingenuity is solving the challenges of colonizing Mars.
Well, surely if we can figure out how to survive on a completely
alien world, then we can figure out how to survive in our own
home-possibly a lot more easily and cheaply than the alternative.<br>
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<font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://nymag.com/news/features/obama-climate-change-2013-5/">http://nymag.com/news/features/obama-climate-change-2013-5/</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://nymag.com/news/features/obama-climate-change-2013-5/">This
Day in Climate History May 5, 2013 </a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><i>
<br>
</i>New York magazine's Jon Chait declares that President Obama
doesn't get enough credit for being a climate hawk:<br>
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<blockquote><font size="+1">"The assumption that Obama’s
climate-change record is essentially one of failure is mainly
an artifact of environmentalists’ understandably frantic
urgency. The sort of steady progress that would leave activists
on other issues giddy does not satisfy the sort of person whose
waking hours are spent watching the glaciers melt irreversibly.
But there is a difference between failing to do anything and
failing to do enough, and even those who criticize the
president’s efforts as inadequate ought to be clear-eyed about
what has been accomplished. By the normal standards of progress,
Obama has amassed an impressive record so far on climate
change."</font><br>
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