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<font size="+1"><i>May 13, 2017</i></font><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/bVUi_CBFUfg">https://youtu.be/bVUi_CBFUfg</a>
from the Nebraska Chapter of the Sierra Club<br>
<b><a href="https://youtu.be/bVUi_CBFUfg">(video) Berkshire Hathaway
Divestment Testimony (all speakers) 18 mins</a></b><br>
<i>Since 2010, members of Nebraskans for Peace (NFP), oldest
statewide peace organization in the US, have been working to
arrange a meeting between Warren Buffett and Jim Hansen. ... Last
year .. Warren Buffet responded to Hansen's strong statement by
investing even more in fossil fuels. This year we came back with
three climate scientist - Michael Mann, Richard Somerville, and
Admiral David Titley. -Richard W. Miller</i><br>
<blockquote> <a href="https://youtu.be/bVUi_CBFUfg"><b>Warren
Buffet, Chairman presides: </b></a> <br>
Dr. Michael E. Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric
Science and Director of the Penn State Earth System Science
Center, is internationally renowned for his ground-breaking
research on climate change-including the famed "hockey stick
curve." <br>
Dr. Richard C. J. Somerville is Distinguished Professor Emeritus
and Research Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California, San Diego. An authority on the
prospects for climate change in coming decades...<br>
Retired Rear Admiral David W. Titley is a Professor of Practice
in Meteorology and a Professor of International Affairs at Penn
State where he directs the "Center for Solutions to Weather and
Climate Risk." The former commander of the Naval Meteorology and
Oceanography Command...<br>
Frank D. LaMere is a member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. A
nationally prominent spokesperson on Native American issues,.. <br>
Richard W. Miller is Associate Professor of Systematic and
Philosophical Theology and Associate Professor of Sustainability
Studies at Creighton University. more at: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvMKVYJJ6J2Sr_79h3G8MIw">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvMKVYJJ6J2Sr_79h3G8MIw</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://">https://</a><b>thinkprogress.org/</b>the-trump-administration-just-actually-admitted-that-climate-change-is-a-problem-3d97d5d5547d<br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">The Trump administration just
actually admitted that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change </b>is a
problem</span></a></h2>
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<blockquote>Sec. Tillerson wouldn't comment on U.S. policies, but
signed onto an Arctic agreement to address climate change.<br>
Under U.S. leadership, the council has made significant strides in
addressing pollution, particularly heavy fuel oil (HFO) and black
carbon, which have outsized impacts on climate change, and in
improving relations with indigenous communities. <br>
In his remarks at the close of the conference, Tillerson noted
that the administration is "reviewing" a variety of U.S. policies,
including on climate change. "We are not going to rush to make a
decision," he said. "We are going to work to make the right
decision for the United States."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www">http://www</a>.<b>medscape.com</b>/viewarticle/879974
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text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate
Change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a
Major Mental Health Threat, Experts Warn</span></a></h2>
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Climate change is a major threat to mental health, the American
Psychiatric Association (APA), warns. The association has joined the
growing ranks of physician groups that are sounding the alarm about
the multifactorial effects that rising seas ...<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www">https://www</a>.<b>psychologytoday.com</b>/blog/the-truth-about-exercise-addiction/201704/how-climate-change-affects-mental-health<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-truth-about-exercise-addiction/201704/how-climate-change-affects-mental-health">How
Climate Change Affects Mental Health</a></b><br>
<a href="http://www.eenews.net/assets/2017/03/30/document_cw_01.pdf">New
report</a> shows global warming affects our psyches just as much
as our earth.<br>
<blockquote>Natural disasters alone aren't the only causes of
climate change-related mental health problems. "Changes in climate
affect agriculture, infrastructure and livability," the authors
explain, "which in turn affect occupations and quality of life and
can force people to migrate. These effects may lead to loss of
personal and professional identity, loss of social support
structures, loss of a sense of control and autonomy and other
mental health impacts such as feelings of helplessness, fear and
fatalism."<br>
The stress of worrying about climate change's impacts may also
lead to maladaptive coping mechanisms, such as substance abuse,
while heightening people's risk for depression and anxiety
(Simpson et al., 2011).<br>
Extreme temperatures in their own right have a unique influence on
behavior and wellbeing. As research by Craig Anderson (2001) and
Simister & Cooper (2005) has shown, aggression increases as
temperatures rise. Thus as summers get hotter, so might our
tempers - likely due, the researchers explain, "to the impacts of
heat on arousal, which results in decreases in attention and
self-regulation, as well as an increase in the availability of
negative and hostile thoughts." Heat can also impact our ability
to think clearly, they add, "which may reduce the ability to
resolve a conflict without violence (Pilcher, Nadler, & Busch,
2002)." Higher temperatures have also been found in other research
to increase the risk of suicide (Lee et al., 2006).<br>
Add to this mounting fear and anxiety derived from watching the
world around us change in irreversible ways - coupled with the
helplessness of feeling as if we cannot stop or reverse global
warming - and you have another effect of climate change on mental
health: "Watching the slow and seemingly irrevocable impacts of
climate change unfold, and worrying about the future for oneself,
children, and later generations, may be an additional source
of
stress (Searle & Gow, 2010)," the authors write. "Albrecht
(2011) and others have termed this anxiety ecoanxiety. Qualitative
research provides evidence that some people are deeply affected by
feelings of loss, helplessness, and frustration due to their
inability to feel like they are making a difference in stopping
climate change (Moser, 2013)."<br>
see also <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.eenews.net/assets/2017/03/30/document_cw_01.pdf">http://www.eenews.net/assets/2017/03/30/document_cw_01.pdf</a><br>
</blockquote>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://">https://</a><b>newrepublic.com</b>/article/142660/media-failing-miserably-challenge-trump-climate-change<br>
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text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">The Media Is Failing Miserably to
Challenge Trump on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b></span></a></h2>
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<blockquote>He's appointed climate-change deniers to cabinet
positions, and scrubbed scientifically accurate information about
climate change from EPA websites. <br>
By sheer number of actions, Trump has done more on the environment
than in any other area since becoming president. <br>
Two more examples of this media failure surfaced on Thursday, when
The Economist and Time each published separate, wide-ranging
interviews with Trump—and neither featured a single question about
the administration's environmental agenda.<br>
There's no shortage of environmental questions to pose to Trump.
Here's what I'd ask him, if given the chance:<br>
"President Trump, you ordered the EPA to roll back regulations on
coal....But even coal industry executives admit the industry isn't
coming back, so why do you keep insisting it will? What evidence
do you have for these claims?"<br>
Are you downgrading science in government policy in favor of
corporate influence? Isn't that contrary to your campaign
promises?"<br>
..."You recently signed an executive order rescinding a
requirement to include climate change in environmental reviews of
large projects, and you're scaling back programs that link climate
change to national security. And yet, hundreds of large U.S.
companies believe climate change is a risk to the U.S. economy.
You're a businessman. What would you tell them?"<br>
... the U.S. is extremely vulnerable to further (sea level) rises
within the next century. How are you going to address this
problem?"<br>
The media's neglect of environmental policy is hardly unique to
the Trump presidency.<br>
In 2014, for example, major media outlets like the New York Times
and NPR cut their environment reporting staff significantly. <br>
<i>Emily Atkin is a staff writer at the New Republic</i><br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://">https://</a><b>climatecrocks.com</b>/2017/05/12/the-weekend-wonk-good-antarctic-synopsis-from-rolling-stone/<br>
<b><a
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/05/12/the-weekend-wonk-good-antarctic-synopsis-from-rolling-stone/">The
Weekend Wonk: Good Antarctic Synopsis from Rolling Stone</a></b><br>
<i>Peter Sinclair: </i> If you're interested in a good synopsis of
what keeps glaciologists awake at night, this is worth your time
this weekend. Add the videos I've plugged in here, and you'll be
well informed.<br>
Jeff Goodell in Rolling Stone: <br>
<blockquote>There are many differences between the Jakobshavn
Glacier and Thwaites. For one thing, Thwaites is many times
larger. The calving face of Jakobshavn is only about 10 miles
long, versus 90 miles at Thwaites. Also, Thwaites is not
constrained in a valley the way that Jakobshavn is, which means
there is little friction on the sides to slow it down. If it
really gets going, it could collapse much faster than Jakobshavn.
More important, Jakobshavn does not sit on the edge of a
reverse-slope basin the way Thwaites does. It can calve fast, but
it is not what scientists call a threshold system. Thwaites is.
But one thing they do have in common is that their structural
integrity – and possible future collapse – is dictated by the
basic physics of ice.<br>
<b><a href="https://youtu.be/RaD3ax2j3Ks">(video) Scientists'
Concerns Challenge Conservative Sea-Level Rise Projections</a></b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/RaD3ax2j3Ks">https://youtu.be/RaD3ax2j3Ks</a><br>
Standing 300 feet tall, the ice cliffs on the calving face of
Jakobshavn are the highest anywhere on the planet. As it happens,
there's good reason for that. Alley and other scientists found
that ice cliffs on marine-terminating glaciers like Jakobshavn or
Thwaites have a structural limit of about 300 feet – after that,
they collapse because of stress and weight. So, even if there are
sections on Thwaites that are 6,000 feet deep, Alley realized, the
structural integrity of ice would never allow a glacier's face to
stand that tall. In other words, glaciers with a face up to 300
feet can be relatively stable; after that, forget it. As Alley
puts it to me, "It's just collapse, collapse, collapse."<br>
<b><a href="https://youtu.be/ANBHZfH4l6M">(video) The AGU
Interviews: Eric Rignot, Part 3</a></b><b> </b> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/ANBHZfH4l6M">https://youtu.be/ANBHZfH4l6M</a><br>
One way that scientists test how well a model might predict the
future is by seeing how well it recreates the past. If you can run
a model backward and it gets things right, then you can run it
forward and trust that the results might be accurate. For years,
DeConto and Pollard have been trying to get their model to
re-create the Pliocene, the era 3 million years ago when the CO2
levels in the atmosphere were very close to what they are today,
except the seas were 20 feet higher. But no matter what knobs they
turned, they couldn't get their model to melt the ice sheets fast
enough to replicate what the geological record told them had
happened. "We knew something was missing from the dynamics of our
model," DeConto tells me.<br>
<b><a href="https://youtu.be/G9GWAv3en7A">(video) Back to the
Pliocene with Dr. Julie Brigham Grette</a></b> <a
href="https://youtu.be/G9GWAv3en7A">https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=G9GWAv3en7A</a><br>
Alley suggested they plug in his new understanding of ice physics,
including the structural integrity of the ice itself (or lack
thereof), and "see what happens." They did, and lo, their model
worked. They were able to get the Pliocene melt just about right.
In effect, they found the missing mechanism. Their model was now
road-tested for accuracy.<br>
<b><a
href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/01/updated-ice-sheet-model-matches-wild-swings-in-past-sea-levels/">Ars
Technica:</a></b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/01/updated-ice-sheet-model-matches-wild-swings-in-past-sea-levels/">https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/01/updated-ice-sheet-model-matches-wild-swings-in-past-sea-levels/</a><br>
The results were dramatic. The new processes combined to have a
huge impact. Instead of about 2 meters of sea level rise,
Antarctica lost enough ice to raise global sea level 17 meters
over several thousand years. The fragile West Antarctic Ice Sheet
collapses in a matter of decades, rather than centuries or
millennia. There's 5 meters of sea level rise in the first two
centuries, after which retreat in portions of the East Antarctic
Ice Sheet really get going.<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDB_C-jwkU"><b>(video)
Trouble at Totten Glacier</b> </a> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDB_C-jwkU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDB_C-jwkU</a><br>
Eastern Antarctica, and in particular the enormous Totten Glacier,
has escaped much public awareness. This video points to
similarities between glacier melt in eastern and western
Antarctica, as scientists explore a potentially concerning future
for the vast glacier.<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2017/05/05/color-your-way-to-climate-reality/">http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2017/05/05/color-your-way-to-climate-reality/</a><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2017/05/05/color-your-way-to-climate-reality/">Color
Your Way to Climate Reality</a></b><br>
By: Michelle Nijhuis | May 5, 2017<br>
<blockquote>I wanted to go back to where I started as an artist,
with physical art and physically drawn art, and I also wanted to
pursue something that was a little more active for the
participants-where they could help produce the data visualization
themselves.<br>
Coloring books for adults are a bit of a nostalgic exercise, but I
think they're popular because they give people a moment to reflect
or meditate while still doing something active, producing
something rather than simply consuming it.<br>
So I was interested in seeing how I could juxtapose data-in
particular data that might be a little more urgent and anxiety
producing-with a practice that's associated with reflection. The
goal is to try to get the person who's coloring to take time to
think about the underlying issues-not only do they get the
information, but hopefully they also think about what the data
represents and who will be affected by it.<br>
It's changed the way I approach information, too-now, whenever I
read an article, I try to seek out the source of the statements
and find out where the data came from. I think that mentality is
important for anyone, of any age, who's trying to make sense of
the world.<br>
<a href="http://www.coloringclimate.com/"> Climate Change Coloring
Book,</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.coloringclimate.com/">http://www.coloringclimate.com/</a><br>
</blockquote>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Did Global Warming Really 'Pause'
During the 2000s? - The Atlantic</span></a></h2>
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<blockquote>A new study explains why the controversial hiatus
doesn't amount to much.<br>
Global warming does not obsess most Americans, but it frightens
the scientists who study it. Just before the new president took
office, an unprecedented and monstrous El Niño, the largest ever
recorded, set a new annual global temperature record-"the hottest
year ever measured," as the newspapers put it. Ocean temperatures
surged around the world, bleaching the Great Barrier Reef and
inducing a mass coral die-off . Great cracks are even appearing in
ancient Antarctic ice shelves. Climate change seems to be already
under way.<br>
In other words, you can "tune" the models to make them better
mimic a certain span of years, but that tuning doesn't seem to
teach them anything essential about the underlying Earth system.<br>
Climate scientists who were not connected to the study says the
paper "closes the book" on the hiatus period, summarizing the best
science and allowing researchers to move on. They also noted that
the hiatus has ended now by any measure. "It's 2014, 2015, and
2016 that killed the hiatus, and not any adjustment to the data.
And the same thing is true if you look at the raw data without any
fixes," Hausfather, the Stanford economist, told me last week.<br>
"In fact, if you look at 1998 to 2016-which is more of a fair
comparison, because you start and end with an El Niño-you see that
the warming continues at the same trend. That's why, as climate
scientists, we tend to focus on 30-year trends," he said.<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.outsideonline.com/2176971/how-talk-climate-skeptic-or-denier-your-life">https://www.outsideonline.com/2176971/how-talk-climate-skeptic-or-denier-your-life</a><a
href="https://www.outsideonline.com/2176971/how-talk-climate-skeptic-or-denier-your-life"><br>
<b><font size="+1">How to Reason with the Climate Change Denier in
Your Life</font></b></a><br>
<blockquote>A new book by two philosophy scholars imagines
conversations with skeptics and deniers. Here are four lessons we
learned from it.<br>
Philip Kitcher, an MIT professor of philosophy, and Evelyn Fox
Keller, an MIT professor emerita of history and philosophy of
science, have co-written a book that imagines six of those very
conversations. The Seasons Alter: How to Save the Planet in Six
Acts (W.W. Norton; $25) reads like six screenplays set in
different locations and with two different people in each act. The
dialogue-well, it probably won't pass your sniff test. The authors
describe the conversations in the book as "constructive, careful,
and amicable," but they mostly sound stiff.<br>
<b>Don't Ignore Uncertainty</b><br>
The book contains a long conversation between an activist from an
environmental organization and a person with a terminal illness
who is deciding where to donate his money. His conundrum is
whether to support environmental initiatives, based on the
predictions that climate change will harm large populations, or
give to groups addressing things such as malnutrition. "Sometimes
I think the real catastrophes [from climate change] aren't that
likely, and the likely effects aren't that bad," he says.<br>
Climate change is likely to undergird an uptick in pandemics, for
example, but there's no blueprint for preventing those. Some
impacts are episodic (heat waves, increasingly severe storms)
while others are constant (sea level creeps up), but all are
costly. Still, proponents of inaction often use those
uncertainties as talking points.<br>
<b>Try to Make a Connection</b><br>
Managers and people who click on articles about productivity love
talking about emotional intelligence. But Renee Lertzman says we
need more of it in the climate debate as well. Lertzman, who calls
herself a "psychosocial strategist focusing on climate and
environment," coaches NGOs, universities, and corporations on how
to communicate issues related to climate change. Her bailiwick is
the intersection of psychology and climate change, and Lertzman
says we need to be emotionally literate in order to understand the
relationship others have with climate change. A Midwest farmer,
for instance, might be "concerned with staying afloat and keeping
their way of life viable-there is an emotional charge there, and
their response to climate change is different than an urbanite in,
say, the Bay Area," she says.<br>
Neurology shows that compassion soothes the nervous system, while
confrontation excites it. "If our limbic system-the survival part
of our minds-is activated, it's game over. If I'm feeling uneasy
or anxious, I'm not even going to hear what you have to say."<br>
<b>Advance the War on Atmospheric Carbon, Not on People</b><br>
President Trump and others who share his dubious views on climate
change have painted the climate activist movement as oppositional
to American values. They cast the war on coal as a war on coal
miners. While Trump is trying to roll back the Clean Power Plan,
coal's loss of competitiveness against natural gas and renewables
is what really dooms the coal industry.<br>
<b>Know How to Navigate an Impasse</b><br>
Carla Wise, a conservation biologist turned climate change
activist, says the most important thing to do is to just keep
having conversations about climate change, because the more we
talk about it, the less it becomes a taboo issue that makes
everyone uncomfortable. That's not to say these conversations will
always be easy or pleasant.<br>
When things get dicey, Lertzman says, "I use a martial arts move,
where you don't engage directly with the opposition, you don't
argue. I might say, 'I hear you're saying XYZ, and I won't
challenge that, but can you help me understand? Let's just say,
hypothetically, that climate change is happening and will have
this effect, what would that mean for you? Could you imagine a
scenario where you are involved?'<br>
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staple crops.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www">http://www</a>.<b>nytimes.com</b>/2014/05/13/science/looks-like-rain-again-and-again.html<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20998-2004Dec22.html">This
Day in Climate History May 13, </a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
In the New York Times, Justin Gillis reports on the perilously
perfect accuracy of climate science predictions. <font size="+1"><br>
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<blockquote><font color="#000066"><b><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/science/looks-like-rain-again-and-again.html">Looks
Like Rain Again. And Again.</a></b></font><br>
In the National Climate Assessment, the experts reported huge
increases since the mid-20th century in the amount of
precipitation falling in very heavy rainstorms: up 71 percent in
the Northeast, 37 percent in the Midwest and 27 percent in the
Southeast. The effect was seen on a smaller scale west of the
Mississippi River, too, even in parts of the country where the
climate is drying out over all.<br>
Two leading scientists, Kevin E. Trenberth at the National Center
for Atmospheric Research and David R. Easterling at the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ran some calculations and
agreed that the warming has, on average, put more than a trillion
gallons of extra water into the air over the contiguous 48 states,
probably closer to two trillion.<br>
That extra water has to fall as rain or snow. But from the
elementary physics, it was long unclear whether this would mean
more rainy days over all, or more intense rains, or both.<br>
...scientists...expect it to get much, much warmer as this century
progresses, and that can only mean that the rains will fall harder
still.<br>
So if you are still a little amazed at what these heavy downpours
have been doing to communities around the country, the message
from science is pretty blunt: Get used to it.<br>
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