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<font size="+1"><i>May 19, 2017</i></font><br>
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href="http://climatenewsnetwork.net/warming-exceed-1-5c-limit-2026/"><font
color="#666666" size="-1">http://<b>climatenewsnetwork.net</b>/warming-exceed-1-5c-limit-2026/</font></a><br>
<font color="#000099"><b><a
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.net/warming-exceed-1-5c-limit-2026/">Warming
could exceed 1.5°C limit by 2026</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote>The planet is on course to breach the internationally
agreed warming limit of 1.5°C within 10 years, according to new
research from Australia. By Tim Radford<br>
LONDON, 18 May, 2017 - Australian scientists have <a
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=47619228ab&e=30dc80e2f6">warned
that planetary average temperatures could breach the
internationally agreed target barrier of a 1.5°C rise</a> as
early as 2026.<br>
Although global warming is driven by human behaviour - and in
particular the prodigal burning of fossil fuels at an
ever-accelerating rate to dump ever-greater quantities of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere - it is also influenced by natural
climate rhythms.<br>
And, say scientists from Australia's Centre of Excellence for
Climate System Science, one of these is a slow-moving oceanic and
atmospheric cycle called the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation
(IPO), which blows hot and cold and then hot again, every decade
or so. The latest hot phase could be about to push the global
thermometer beyond the ideal limit set by the <a
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=63edec5d07&e=30dc80e2f6">UN
climate conference in Paris in 2015</a>. They write in <a
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=12ac17713e&e=30dc80e2f6">Geophysical
Research Letters</a> that since 1999 the IPO has been perhaps
keeping the world cooler than it might have been, as the<a
href="rate%20of%20increase%20in%20global%20warming%20appeared%20to%20slow">
rate of increase in global warming appeared to slow</a> between
1998 and 2012. <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39961992">http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39961992</a><br>
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text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Trump 'can't escape<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b>' impacts
says Fiji PM</span></a></h2>
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Fiji's Prime Minister has issued a coded warning to Donald Trump
about the dangers of climate change. The US leader is due to decide
on future US participation in the Paris climate agreement after next
week's G7 meeting in Italy.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/earth/depoliticizing-climate-change/">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/earth/depoliticizing-climate-change/</a><br>
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url="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/earth/depoliticizing-climate-change/"
id="MAA4AEgMUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Taking Politics Out of<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b></span></a></h2>
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The issue of climate change has become a political football in
Washington, D.C., and in statehouses across the U.S. While 70% of
Americans agree that global temperatures are rising, once you dive
into the specifics, agreement tends to evaporate ...<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www">http://www</a>.<b>washingtonexaminer.com</b>/franken-blasts-trump-nominee-bernhardt-over-climate-change/article/2623504<br>
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url="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/franken-blasts-trump-nominee-bernhardt-over-climate-change/article/2623504"
id="MAA4AEgNUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Franken blasts Trump nominee
Bernhardt over<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b></span></a></h2>
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<!--EndFragment-->Democratic Sen. Al Franken said Thursday that it's
short-sighted for the Trump administration to promote fossil fuel
jobs at the expense of the East Coast's ability to avoid being under
water.<br>
"What about the jobs we are going to have dealing with climate
dislocation and refugees? What about the jobs we're going to have
when the East Coast is flooded? What about those jobs?" Franken
asked of David Bernhardt, President Trump's nominee for Interior
deputy secretary, at an energy committee confirmation hearing.<br>
"I think it's very short-sighted to talk about the extra jobs you
get by drilling for fossil fuels," Franken said.<br>
He added that the science says that by the end of the century, the
temperature of the Earth would be four degrees hotter, leading to
more flooding. "The science is in," Franken said.<br>
Here's the back-and-forth at the hearing that led up to Franken's
pointed questioning:<br>
<blockquote>Bernhardt: I believe we need to take the science as it
comes. Whatever that is.<br>
Franken: I think the science is pretty decided on this.<br>
Bernhardt: I know. And we talked about that in your office.<br>
Franken: And in my office you seem to agree.<br>
Bernhardt: I certainly agree that we take the science as we find
it, whatever it is. And I personally believe that the contribution
is significant, very significant. Now that's different than what
we do with it. And here's where people will disagree. My task will
be to take the science as we find it, put it in the paradigm of
the administration's policy perspective, which is we're not going
to sacrifice jobs for this. And then look at the legal rubric and
say, 'How do we apply the law there?'<br>
Franken: When you say 'sacrifice jobs.' We know there are a lot
more jobs in clean energy. And we've seen a lot more jobs in
solar, and we've seen a lot more jobs in wind. Sen. Manchin [of
West Virginia] sits to my right. I know that he likes coal jobs,
but they're not coming back, and that's partly due to natural gas.
What about the jobs we are going to have dealing with climate
dislocation and refugees? What about the jobs we're going to have
when the East Coast is flooded. What about those jobs?<br>
I think it's very short-sighted to talk about the extra jobs you
get by drilling for fossil fuels when the science is telling us
that by the end of the century ... [the temperature of the Earth
would be 4 degrees hotter.] The science is in.<br>
Bernhardt: Would you like me to respond?<br>
Franken: That's what the long pause was for.<br>
Bernhardt: This president won on particular policy perspective.
That perspective is not going to change to the extent we have the
discretion under the law to follow it. In some instances, we might
not. But in those that we do, we are absolutely going to follow
the policy perspective of the president. Here's why: That's the
way our republic works, and he is the president.<br>
</blockquote>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://">https://</a><b>climateandsecurity.org</b>/2017/05/18/senator-graham-on-climate-change-national-security-and-the-military-perspective/<br>
<b><font color="#000066"><a
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/05/18/senator-graham-on-climate-change-national-security-and-the-military-perspective/">Senator
Graham on Climate Change, National Security and the Military
Perspective</a></font></b><br>
by Caitlin Werrell and Francesco Femia<br>
<blockquote>At an event on Capitol Hill Wednesday sponsored by the
Center for Climate and Security and its partners,... Senator
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
highlighted the opportunity for a bipartisan approach to climate
change and clean energy policy in the weeks, months and years
ahead. Specifically focusing in on the national security and
military perspective, ...<br>
General Keys later participated in a panel discussion featuring
perspectives from the military, business, faith and conservative
policy worlds,...In describing the path forward for policy-makers
trying to address climate-driven vulnerabilities across the United
States, General Keys noted:<br>
<b>"We ain't gonna make it </b>[addressing climate change]<b>
fun. But what we can do is make it less painful."</b><br>
The event emphasized a simple point: There is no credible reason
for climate change, and its impacts on security (both as that
relates to the military and civilian population in the United
States) to be a partisan issue. There is nothing ideological about
the nature of the threat, and there are a range of practical
solutions to addressing it that all parties can get behind, if the
will is there.<br>
</blockquote>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-05-climate-visual.html">https://phys.org/news/2017-05-climate-visual.html</a><br>
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href="https://phys.org/news/2017-05-climate-visual.html"
url="https://phys.org/news/2017-05-climate-visual.html"
id="MAA4AEgQUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate researchers must provide
better visual communication on <b style="font-weight:
bold;">climate change</b></span></a></h2>
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Climate researchers should give more consideration to ways in which
they can make the message about climate change clear to the public
at large.<br>
more at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2016-11-guidelines-aim-scientific.html">https://phys.org/news/2016-11-guidelines-aim-scientific.html</a><br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/18/climate/antarctica-ice-melt-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/18/climate/antarctica-ice-melt-climate-change.html</a>
<br>
<b>Antarctic Dispatches </b><b><a><br>
</a>MILES OF ICE COLLAPSING INTO THE SEA</b><b><br>
</b><b><a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/18/climate/antarctica-ice-melt-climate-change-flood.html">LOOMING
FLOODS, CITIES THREATENED</a></b><b><br>
</b><b><a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/18/climate/antarctica-ice-melt-climate-change-science.html">RACING
TO FIND ANSWERS IN THE ICE</a></b><br>
May 18, 2017<br>
<blockquote>We went to Antarctica to understand how changes to its
vast ice sheet might affect the world. Flowing lines on these maps
show how the ice is moving.<br>
More than 60 percent of the freshwater on Earth is locked in
Antarctica's ice sheets.<br>
Parts of the West Antarctic ice sheet are rapidly losing ice into
the sea. Red areas have lost 10 feet or more of ice since 2010.
Blue areas have gained ice.<br>
And because much of West Antarctica's ice sits below sea level, it
is especially vulnerable to ocean heat.<br>
To predict how quickly this vulnerable ice could raise sea levels,
scientists need better data than they have now.<br>
Some scientists point out that during the last ice age, ice sheets
similar to West Antarctica's formed in other ocean basins. But as
the ice age ended and the oceans warmed, all of them collapsed.
These experts have started to think that West Antarctica, as a
fragile holdover, is basically a disaster waiting to happen — and
that if human-caused global warming has not already set the
calamity in motion, it may soon do so.<br>
"We could have a substantial retreat on a time scale of 10 years,"
said Robert A. Bindschadler, a retired NASA climate scientist who
spent decades working in Antarctica. "It would not surprise me at
all."<br>
Scientists at McMurdo Station are working to understand the
continent's history and to predict its future. The scale of the
task is enormous.<br>
This flat expanse of white is the Ross Ice Shelf, a floating chunk
of ice nearly as large as Texas.<br>
more:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/science/global-warming-antarctica-ice-sheet-sea-level-rise.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/science/global-warming-antarctica-ice-sheet-sea-level-rise.html</a><br>
<a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/science/global-warming-antarctica-ice-sheet-sea-level-rise.html">Climate
Model Predicts West Antarctic Ice Sheet Could Melt Rapidly</a><br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www">https://www</a>.<b>washingtonpost.com</b>/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/18/thanks-to-global-warming-antarctica-is-starting-to-turn-green/</font><br>
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204); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Thanks to global warming,
Antarctica is beginning to turn green</span></a></h2>
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<blockquote>Researchers in Antarctica have discovered rapidly
growing banks of mosses on the ice continent's northern peninsula,
providing striking evidence of climate change in the coldest and
most remote parts of the planet.<br>
Amid the warming of the last 50 years, the scientists found two
different species of mosses undergoing the equivalent of growth
spurts, with mosses that once grew less than a millimeter per year
now growing over 3 millimeters per year on average.<br>
"People will think of Antarctica quite rightly as a very icy
place, but our work shows that parts of it are green, and are
likely to be getting greener," said Matthew Amesbury, a researcher
with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and lead
author of the new study. "Even these relatively remote ecosystems,
that people might think are relatively untouched by human kind,
are showing the effects of human induced climate change."<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www">http://www</a>.<b>cell.com</b>/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)30478-5</font><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2817%2930478-5">Widespread
Biological Response to Rapid Warming on the Antarctic
Peninsula</a></b><br>
•First Peninsula-wide assessment of biological sensitivity to
recent warming<br>
•Analyze moss bank plant and microbial proxy data over 150 years
and 600-km gradient<br>
•Fundamental and widespread changes in terrestrial biosphere in
response to warming<br>
•Terrestrial ecosystems likely to alter rapidly under future
warming scenarios<br>
</blockquote>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/5/18/15601016/trump-climate-change-mar-a-lago-sea-level-rise">https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/5/18/15601016/trump-climate-change-mar-a-lago-sea-level-rise</a><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Trump doesn't believe in<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b>, but it's
going to drown Mar-a-Lago</span></a></h2>
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President Donald Trump has called climate change a "hoax" and a very
expensive "tax" on American businesses that make the US less
competitive.<br>
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class="titletext" style="font-weight: bold;">) Imagining a
New York City ravaged by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b></span></a></h2>
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<blockquote>The latest genre to focus on New York City's destruction
at the hands of Mother Nature is the newly emerging field of
"cli-fi," or climate fiction.<br>
To fully investigate the future of sea-level rise in New York
City, you have to leave Manhattan. Yet in New York 2140, the outer
boroughs are mostly just handled with a glance towards the
coastline of Queens, a quick glimpse into the ruins of the South
Bronx, a dinner in Brooklyn Heights, a boat trip out to Coney
Island to view a beach reclamation project, and no interest
whatsoever in exploring Staten Island.<br>
Of course, the future destruction of New York City is never a
given, and many visions of its demise have failed to come to pass.
Perhaps there is some as-yet-unknown way that sea-level rise can
be abated, or that glacial melt can be halted. Perhaps we can ward
off catastrophic storms and flooding through new technology or
better walls. In the interim, as we wait for the next storm to
pass, climate fiction can help us consider our deeper concerns
about the future.<br>
"Each era in New York's modern history has produced its own
apocalyptic imagery that explores, exploits, and seeks to resolve
contemporary cultural tensions and fears," writes Max Page in The
City's End. "We destroy New York on film and paper to escape the
sense of inevitable and incomprehensible economic transformations,
by telling stories of clear and present dangers, with causes and
effects, villains and heroes, to make our world more
comprehensible than it has become." <br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.wunderground.com/news/california-coastline-beaches-rising-seas-global-warming">https://www.wunderground.com/news/california-coastline-beaches-rising-seas-global-warming</a>
<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.wunderground.com/news/california-coastline-beaches-rising-seas-global-warming">California's
Iconic Coastline Is Being Snatched Up By Rising Sea Levels
Faster Than Previously Thought</a></b><br>
Wunderground.com (blog)<br>
<blockquote>California risks losing thousands of miles of its iconic
coastline as climate-driven sea levels rise faster than anyone
anticipated, a new report says. <br>
The <a
href="https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/rising-seas-in-california-an-update-on-sea-level-rise-science-1.pdf?x35230https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/rising-seas-in-california-an-update-on-sea-level-rise-science-1.pdf?x35230">state-commissioned
report</a> conducted by the California Ocean Protection Council
Science Advisory Team determined that if nothing changes,
California's coastal waters will rise at a rate 30 to 40 times
faster than in the previous century. The news came on the heels of
a U.S. Geological Survey report released in March that estimates
that as much as 67 percent of Southern California's beaches could
be lost to rising seas by the end of the century if nothing is
done to curb the carbon emissions that lead to global warming.<br>
The impacts on the state that already has some of the most
stringent carbon emissions regulations in the country would be
far-reaching and devastating, researchers note. <br>
</blockquote>
<br>
A review of an unexpected (extremely good, insightful, sort-of
terrifying in implications) CliFi book: <a
href="http://getenergysmartnow.com/2017/05/18/energy-bookshelf-powerful-clifi-from-a-leading-american-national-security-expert/">http://getenergysmartnow.com/2017/05/18/energy-bookshelf-powerful-clifi-from-a-leading-american-national-security-expert/</a>
Share: <a
href="https://twitter.com/A_Siegel/status/865216493700689920">https://twitter.com/A_Siegel/status/865216493700689920</a>
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style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b></span></a><br>
</h2>
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May 18, 2017 —In their new book Climate of Hope, former New York
City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Sierra Club executive
director Carl Pope write about climate change - and why they're both
ultimately optimistic about solutions. They discuss the ...<br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Canada PM, Washington governor
discuss trade,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b></span></a></h2>
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"We're both strongly engaged on issues of climate change, issues of
openness to trade, leadership on refugees as well, and an
understanding that diversity can be a real source of strength," he
said.<br>
<br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">6 Ways the U.S. Weakened<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Language in Arctic
Declaration</span></a></h2>
</div>
<blockquote>The U.S.-edited draft, obtained by InsideClimate News,
shows how the Trump administration targeted climate actions. It's
a strategy we could see in future meetings.<br>
"There was a great deal of debate as to whether or not climate
would even be addressed in the declaration," Sen. Lisa Murkowski
(R-Alaska) said at a public event on Wednesday. "It is significant
to note that not only was it addressed, it was acknowledged in the
Fairbanks declaration that climate change is happening, that we're
seeing impacts in the Arctic at twice the rate as in other places,
and it is attributable to emissions."<br>
...on May 9, the negotiators received a new version of the
declaration from the United States that asked for six changes—all
downplaying climate risks, the need for the Paris treaty or
ambitious renewable energy goals. Negotiators spent a long morning
huddled around a table, working line-by-line through the document
projected on a screen. The other nations challenged the U.S. on
every point, often joined by the indigenous groups.<br>
-The first change that the United States proposed fell near the
end of the preamble and had to do with the great elephant in the
room at any climate-related talks the U.S. is now involved in: the
Paris climate agreement. Trump's policies would all but ensure the
U.S. would miss its Paris pledges, and the president's advisers
have been caught up in an internal struggle over whether to leave
the treaty or simply backslide on the country's commitments.<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://">https://</a><b>ncse.com</b>/library-resource/climate-change-denial-supplementary-materials<br>
<b><a
href="https://ncse.com/library-resource/climate-change-denial-supplementary-materials">Climate
Change Denial Supplementary Materials</a></b><br>
National Center for Science Education, Inc.<br>
<blockquote>Teachers often feel the need to use supplementary
materials when covering climate change, particularly because the
topic is often left unaddressed in state science standards,
curricula, and textbooks. Unfortunately, climate change deniers
have developed and are distributing supplementary materials (such
as lesson plans and DVDs) that foster confusion about the
occurrence, causes, and consequences of climate change.<br>
Such climate change denial supplementary materials may be used by
teachers who are themselves climate change deniers, who lack the
scientific competence to recognize the materials as flawed, or who
misguidedly seek to provide "both sides" of a supposed scientific
controversy. Teachers may also be pressured by parents,
colleagues, or administrators to use such materials in their
classrooms.<br>
If you know of a teacher who is using climate change denial
supplementary materials in his or her classroom, or if you are
being pressured to use such materials in your own classroom, get
in touch with NCSE and we can help you stand up for accurate
climate education.<br>
Climate change denial supplementary materials typically manifest
two of the pillars of climate change denial: that climate change
is bad science and that acceptance of climate change is driven by
radical ideological motivations and leads to undesirable social
consequences. And the argument for their use in the classroom
typically involves appeal to the third pillar: that it is only
fair to acknowledge a scientific controversy over climate change.<br>
</blockquote>
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<font size="+1"><b><a href="http://huff.to/bJZ8Fw">This Day in
Climate History May 19, 2009</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<blockquote> The Huffington Post reports:<br>
"Sen. John McCain now appears to oppose climate-change
legislation, an abrupt switch that could seriously threaten any
movement on such a bill."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://huff.to/bJZ8Fw">http://huff.to/bJZ8Fw</a> <br>
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