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<font size="+1"><i>May 6, 2017 </i></font><br>
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<b><a
href="https://www.axios.com/ivanka-to-meet-epa-administrator-before-crucial-paris-climate-meeting-2392605333.html">Ivanka
to meet EPA head before crucial Paris climate meeting</a></b><br>
<blockquote>Ivanka Trump will meet with EPA administrator Scott
Pruitt on Tuesday morning at the White House before a crucial
meeting regarding President Trump's decision to stay or leave the
Paris climate accord.<br>
The president's daughter, who serves as a senior White House
advisor, is passionate about combating global warming and turned
heads when she brought climate activist Al Gore to Trump Tower
during the presidential transition.<br>
Sources inside the White House say the president's inclination has
been to pull out, but Ivanka has set up a process to go through
the decision and ensure he hears all the facts before making his
decision....<br>
Pruitt thinks the Paris accord harms American competitiveness and
he and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon are aggressively
urging the president to withdraw from the climate deal.<br>
A few hours after Pruitt's meeting with Ivanka on Tuesday,
there'll be a larger meeting at the White House to discuss whether
to stay or leave the deal. It's possible, however, that the
decision will remain unresolved after Tuesday.<br>
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href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/05/climate-change-innovations-fake-meat">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/05/climate-change-innovations-fake-meat</a></font><br>
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text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Offshore wind, clever concrete
and fake meat: the top<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change </b>innovations</span></a></h2>
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<blockquote> People in the US and beyond concerned about climate
change may be alarmed at the Trump administration's policies and
attitudes - but there are plenty of businesses and innovators
doing work at various scales.<br>
Oliver Milman explores some of the best examples of climate
change-tackling innovations and innovators.<br>
<b>Community solar</b><br>
Large-scale solar is a booming industry in the US, with the sector
now employing twice the number of people involved with coal
mining. But the decarbonization of America's energy system is
happening at a more local level, too...<br>
<b>Vegetarian meat</b><br>
Agricultural activities currently contribute about 10% of
America's total greenhouse gas emissions each year, largely due to
the methane expelled by cattle...<br>
Low-carbon concrete<br>
Worldwide use of concrete is soaring, largely due to a building
boom in China and, to a lesser extent, India. In fact, China has
used more cement since 2011 than the US did during the entire 20th
century...<br>
<b>Lawn treatments</b><br>
A technology company called WISErg has developed a product called
the Harvester, which transforms food waste into fertilizer than
can be applied to lawns. The product, launched in 2014, has helped
the company get more than $30m in investment...<br>
<b>Offshore wind</b><br>
Wind currently supplies around 5% of America's electricity but the
sector is on the up thanks to the introduction of offshore wind
farms...<br>
<b>Electric cars</b><br>
Electric vehicle sales jumped 70% in 2016, following a
disappointing previous year, with more than 30 different models on
sale by the end of the year. Tesla, Chevrolet, Nissan and Ford
lead the way, with more than half of sales occurring in
California, which mandates a certain slice of auto sales must be
electric.<br>
<b>Geoengineering</b><br>
Even the sober assessment of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) leaves much to guesswork when it comes to
meeting emissions reduction goals. If the world is to avoid 2C or
more of warming, as-yet undeveloped technology will need to be
used to extract carbon dioxide from the air at some point, due to
the patchy progress in cutting emissions...</blockquote>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/rahm-emanuel-recoups-climate-change-info-deleted-from-epa-website/">http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/rahm-emanuel-recoups-climate-change-info-deleted-from-epa-website/</a></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Rahm Emanuel recoups <b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>info deleted from
EPA website</span></a></h2>
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255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;">Mayor Rahm Emanuel is accusing President Donald Trump of
trying to erase, what Al Gore has called the "inconvenient truth"
about<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b>, and doing his
part to recoup that information. Emanuel has created a new city
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255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;">Billionaire investor Warren Buffett's company Berkshire
Hathaway faces a number of votes related to<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>this
weekend as part of its annual shareholders' meeting on Saturday.</div>
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<blockquote>A team of Stanford researchers modeled the impacts of
climate change on mosquito-borne diseases. Their analysis could
help predict the diseases' spread...<br>
Researchers found that a temperature of 29 degrees Celsius (84F)
allows for the highest rate transmission of viruses through
mosquitoes, with the rate decreasing in both hotter and cooler
weather. According to Mordecai, diseases may actually decrease
with future warming in areas where temperatures are already close
to optimum for virus spread.<br>
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href="http://source.colostate.edu/csu-leads-3-8-million-study-understand-impacts-western-wildfire-smoke/">http://source.colostate.edu/csu-leads-3-8-million-study-understand-impacts-western-wildfire-smoke/</a></font><br>
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href="http://source.colostate.edu/csu-leads-3-8-million-study-understand-impacts-western-wildfire-smoke/">CSU
leads $3.8 million study to understand impacts of western
wildfire smoke</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote>As Western wildfires get bigger and meaner, a team of
Colorado State University researchers want to find out how smoke
from those blazes impacts air quality and weather.<br>
A comprehensive look at wildfire smoke<br>
Very few samples of western U.S. wildfire smoke exist – at least
not with the level of chemical specificity this study will
capture. The payload on the C-130 will be maxed out with the
instrumentation it's set to carry. Once the data is collected, it
will be distributed to the researchers involved in the study, who
will then look at a number of factors, like nitrogen composition,
optical properties of smoke particles, and the changes smoke and
clouds cause in each other.<br>
"There have been many field campaigns that have opportunistically
measured wildfire smoke, but none completely devoted to it at this
scale for western wildfires," said Fischer.<br>
While Fischer's scientific contribution will be to understand how
secondary products in smoke are formed, other researchers and
universities will rely on their own areas of expertise to analyze
the data accordingly. The Environmental Protection Agency may
utilize the measurements to develop and test their air quality
models. The research expertise being leveraged from organizations
outside of CSU is testament to the breadth of the campaign.<br>
see also <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2004JD004840/full">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2004JD004840/full</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.colorado.edu/today/2017/04/17/new-era-western-wildfire-demands-new-ways-protecting-people-ecosystems">http://www.colorado.edu/today/2017/04/17/new-era-western-wildfire-demands-new-ways-protecting-people-ecosystems</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.colorado.edu/today/2017/04/17/new-era-western-wildfire-demands-new-ways-protecting-people-ecosystems">New
era of western wildfire demands new ways of protecting
people, ecosystems</a></b></font><br>
The western U.S. has seen a 2-degrees-Celsius rise in annual
average temperature and lengthening of the fire season by almost
three months since the 1970s; both elements contribute to what the
authors refer to as the "new era of western wildfires." This
pattern of bigger, hotter fires, along with the influx of homes
into fire-prone areas-over 2 million since 1990-has made wildfire
vastly more costly and dangerous.<br>
"For a long time, we've thought that if we try harder and do
better, we can get ahead of wildfire and reduce the risks," said
Schoennagel, who also is an adjunct faculty member in CU Boulder's
Geography Department. "We can no longer do that. This is bigger
than us and we're going to have to adapt to wildfire rather than
the other way around."<br>
As part of this adaptation process, the authors advocate for
actions that may be unpopular, such as allowing more fires to burn
largely unimpeded in wildland areas and intentionally setting more
fires, or "controlled burns," to reduce natural fuels like
undergrowth in more developed areas. Both these steps would reduce
future risk and help ecosystems adapt to increasing wildfire and
warming.<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170504-there-are-diseases-hidden-in-ice-and-they-are-waking-up">http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170504-there-are-diseases-hidden-in-ice-and-they-are-waking-up</a></font><br>
Extreme Life Bacteria <b><a
href="http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170504-there-are-diseases-hidden-in-ice-and-they-are-waking-up?ocid=ww.social.link.googleplus">There
are diseases hidden in ice, and they are waking up</a></b><br>
<blockquote> Long-dormant bacteria and viruses, trapped in ice and
permafrost for centuries, are reviving as Earth's climate warms<br>
Climate change is melting permafrost soils that have been frozen
for thousands of years, and as the soils melt they are releasing
ancient viruses and bacteria that, having lain dormant, are
springing back to life.<br>
In a 2005 study, NASA scientists successfully revived bacteria
that had been encased in a frozen pond in Alaska for 32,000 years.
The microbes, called Carnobacterium pleistocenium, had been frozen
since the Pleistocene period, when woolly mammoths still roamed
the Earth. Once the ice melted, they began swimming around,
seemingly unaffected.<br>
Two years later, scientists managed to revive an
8-million-year-old bacterium that had been lying dormant in ice,
beneath the surface of a glacier in the Beacon and Mullins valleys
of Antarctica. In the same study, bacteria were also revived from
ice that was over 100,000 years old.<br>
How much should we be concerned about all this?<br>
One argument is that the risk from permafrost pathogens is
inherently unknowable, so they should not overtly concern us.
Instead, we should focus on more established threats from climate
change. For instance, as Earth warms northern countries will
become more susceptible to outbreaks of "southern" diseases like
malaria, cholera and dengue fever, as these pathogens thrive at
warmer temperatures.<br>
The alternative perspective is that we should not ignore risks
just because we cannot quantify them.<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/04/25/researchers-show-connection-between-extreme-weather-and-climate-change/">http://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/04/25/researchers-show-connection-between-extreme-weather-and-climate-change/</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/04/25/researchers-show-connection-between-extreme-weather-and-climate-change/">Researchers
show connection between extreme weather and climate change</a></b><br>
<blockquote>Using a four-pronged framework, Professor of Earth
System Science Noah Diffenbaugh '96 M.S. '97 and his research team
have found a direct connection between extreme weather events and
human impact. <br>
The team's study, published in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences magazine, outlines an objective approach to
determining whether or not extreme weather events – such as the
flooding in northern India in June 2013 or the slowly-subsiding
California drought that began in 2012 – can be linked to climate
change over the course of several years. The researchers
discovered that, for a substantial number of recent extreme
weather cases, there is indeed a connection.<br>
"Our results suggest that the world isn't quite at the point where
every record hot event has a detectable human fingerprint, but we
are getting close," Diffenbaugh stated in an interview with
Stanford News.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="+1"><i><br>
</i></font><font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/06/nyregion/hitting-ground-limping-for-whitman-chaos-her-wake-sharp-elbows-her-future.html?pagewanted=all">http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/06/nyregion/hitting-ground-limping-for-whitman-chaos-her-wake-sharp-elbows-her-future.html?pagewanted=all</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><font size="+1"><font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/06/nyregion/hitting-ground-limping-for-whitman-chaos-her-wake-sharp-elbows-her-future.html?pagewanted=all">This
Day in Climate History May 6, 2001 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font></font><br>
</font><font size="+1">The New York Times reports on EPA
Administrator Christine Todd Whitman's persona-non-grata status in
the George W. Bush administration:<br>
</font>
<blockquote>"Mrs. Whitman was greeted like a political star when she
arrived here several months ago to run the Environmental
Protection Agency. Not a single senator, not even her Democratic
rivals, opposed her appointment.<br>
"But no sooner had the former New Jersey governor unpacked her
bags than she found her authority undercut by the very man who had
lured her to Washington, George W. Bush.<br>
"The most recent snub occurred when the White House openly
contradicted a claim she made on national television two weeks ago
that the administration might back away from its plans to open up
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling amid growing
opposition in Congress.<br>
"Only weeks earlier, Mrs. Whitman declared that Mr. Bush intended
to fulfill a campaign pledge to lower carbon dioxide emissions
from power plants -- only to find that the president had decided
against that <br>
"So it is not surprising that the public embarrassments Mrs.
Whitman has had to endure at the hands of her new boss are giving
rise to questions about her ability to lead the environmental
agency, though she and the White House insist that there is no
strife and that she is an important voice in the administration...<br>
"The recent setbacks also threaten to undermine the credibility of
Mrs. Whitman, a politician whose plain-spoken manner and seemingly
moderate political views had made her one of the nation's most
prominent governors and at one point a potential vice presidential
candidate.<br>
"Indeed, Mrs. Whitman's nomination to head the environmental
agency cheered many people on the left -- despite her mixed record
on the environment in New Jersey -- who were wary of the
conservative Republican crowd that had moved into the White House.
But those very same people are no longer so optimistic that her
voice will be heard within the new administration."<br>
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