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<font size="+1"><i>May 20, 2017<br>
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</a><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www</a>.<b>theguardian.com</b>/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/may/19/study-inspiring-action-on-climate-change-is-more-complex-than-you-might-think<br>
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sig2-u5Rt1ZPaPqYhRPdfTmymPw did-5329689283801501449"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/may/19/study-inspiring-action-on-climate-change-is-more-complex-than-you-might-think"
url="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/may/19/study-inspiring-action-on-climate-change-is-more-complex-than-you-might-think"
id="MAA4DEgBUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Study: inspiring action on<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is more complex than
you might think</span></a><br>
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<blockquote>Change is hard. Human beings are reticent to change
their behavior even under the most compelling of circumstances,
and environmental dangers do not tend to arouse the kind of
urgency that motivates individuals to act. Mass transformation of
unsustainable systems will be even more difficult than shifting
individual behaviors, for unlike ants and bees, humans are not
well equipped to coordinate behavior for common benefit.<br>
Psychological research suggests that humans can move toward a
sustainable society by creating conditions that motivate
environmentally responsible collective action – conditions that
help people surmount cognitive limits, create new situational
drivers, foster need fulfillment, and support communities of
social change. Individuals whose actions are informed by a deeper
understanding of how the planet really works can galvanize
collectives to change the larger systems that drive so much of
human behavior. To radically alter the way humans think and live;
educate the next generation; and design physical, governmental,
and cultural systems, humans must experience and better understand
their profound interdependence with the planet. <br>
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<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/XTmFLrN0z14">https://youtu.be/XTmFLrN0z14</a><br>
<font color="#000066"><b><a href="https://youtu.be/XTmFLrN0z14">(video
lecture) The Once and Future Arctic: Prof Stephanie Pfirman </a></b></font><br>
<blockquote>Understanding Climate Change<br>
The Once and Future Arctic: Prof Stephanie Pfirman (February 2017)<br>
<i>We need an international sea ice management plan. Future
predictions. Any plan must account for future changes to the
speed of ice melt. </i><br>
Stephanie Pfirman is Professor and Chair of Environmental Science
at Barnard College. She has a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint
Program in Oceanography and Oceanographic Engineering, Department
of Marine Geology and Geophysics, and a B.A. from Colgate
University's Department of Geology. <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.earth.columbia.edu/ac/bios/pfirman.html">http://www.earth.columbia.edu/ac/bios/pfirman.html</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www">http://www</a>.<b>accuweather.com</b>/en/weather-blogs/climatechange/global-warming-impact-on-the-number-of-extreme-rainfall-events/70001700<br>
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bold;"><a target="_blank" class="article
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sig2-UYdP26HYKLloIuXfjbxArg did-7648911520077057218"
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url="http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/climatechange/global-warming-impact-on-the-number-of-extreme-rainfall-events/70001700"
id="MAA4C0gGUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Global
warming</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>impact
on the number of extreme rainfall events</span></a></h2>
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Since the 1990s, scientists have predicted based on climate models
that the intensity of extreme rain events around the world should
increase with rising global temperatures. Current observations have
so far verified this trend on a broad, global scale.<br>
<br>
<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/19/arctic-stronghold-of-worlds-seeds-flooded-after-permafrost-melts">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/19/arctic-stronghold-of-worlds-seeds-flooded-after-permafrost-melts</a></font><br>
<font size="+1" color="#000099"><b><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/19/arctic-stronghold-of-worlds-seeds-flooded-after-permafrost-melts">Arctic
stronghold of world<font color="#000099">'</font>s seeds
flooded after permafrost melts</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote>No seeds were lost but the ability of the rock vault to
provide failsafe protection against all disasters is now
threatened by climate change<br>
It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the
world's most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure
humanity's food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried
in a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle, has been breached
after global warming produced extraordinary temperatures over the
winter, sending meltwater gushing into the entrance tunnel.<br>
The vault is on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen and contains
almost a million packets of seeds, each a variety of an important
food crop. When it was opened in 2008, the deep permafrost through
which the vault was sunk was expected to provide "failsafe"
protection against "the challenge of natural or man-made
disasters".<br>
But soaring temperatures in the Arctic at the end of the world's
hottest ever recorded year led to melting and heavy rain, when
light snow should have been falling. "It was not in our plans to
think that the permafrost would not be there and that it would
experience extreme weather like that," said Hege Njaa Aschim, from
the Norwegian government, which owns the vault.<br>
"This is supposed to last for eternity," said Åsmund Asdal at the
Nordic Genetic Resource Centre, which operates the seed vault.<br>
also:<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16022017/arctic-sea-ice-extent-nasa-global-warming-climate-change">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16022017/arctic-sea-ice-extent-nasa-global-warming-climate-change</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16022017/arctic-sea-ice-extent-nasa-global-warming-climate-change">Researcher's
1979 Arctic Model Predicted Current Sea Ice Demise, Holds
Lessons for Future</a></b><br>
Claire Parkinson, now a senior climate change scientist at NASA,
first began studying global warming's impact on Arctic sea ice in
1978, when she was a promising new researcher at the National
Center for Atmospheric Research. Back then, what she and a
colleague found was not only groundbreaking, it pretty accurately
predicted what is happening now in the Arctic, as sea ice levels
break record low after record low.<br>
The latest Arctic Report Card issued by NOAA found that
temperatures over land in the Arctic have risen 3.5 degrees
Celsius since the beginning of the 20th century. But when
Parkinson's results came out, they landed with a thud.<br>
"Sadly, it was received by no one paying much attention,"
Parkinson said.<br>
"But then what you found was when we started to really advance in
our climate models and how we build them, her work withstood the
test of time."<br>
<i>Visit the Internet to find plenty of studies and warnings, even
2003 was a bad year:.</i><br>
<a
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2004GL020051/full">Permafrost
thaw and destabilization of Alpine rock walls in the hot summer
of 2003</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2004GL020051/full">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2004GL020051/full</a><br>
<a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/1551363">A computational
method for prediction and regionalization of permafrost</a> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/1551363">http://www.jstor.org/stable/1551363</a><br>
<a
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2002EO000402/full">Permafrost
temperature records: indicators of climate change</a> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2002EO000402/full">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2002EO000402/full</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/one-fourth-of-armed-conflicts-in-ethnically-divided-countries-coincide-with-climatic-problems-study/articleshow/58757224.cms">http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/one-fourth-of-armed-conflicts-in-ethnically-divided-countries-coincide-with-climatic-problems-study/articleshow/58757224.cms</a><br>
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sig2-9J6doQrxYe0Mc5IYfKONGw did-1244049688964602331"
href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/one-fourth-of-armed-conflicts-in-ethnically-divided-countries-coincide-with-climatic-problems-study/articleshow/58757224.cms"
url="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/one-fourth-of-armed-conflicts-in-ethnically-divided-countries-coincide-with-climatic-problems-study/articleshow/58757224.cms"
id="MAA4AEgTUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">One fourth of armed conflicts in
ethnically divided countries coincide with climatic problems<br>
</span></a></h2>
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<blockquote> Increasing carbon emissions, depleting coal reserves,
declining air quality, diseases, risk of natural disasters - do
make a formidable case to urgently tackle climate change. But a
new study takes it to a different level and finds that climate
change ...<br>
Globally, the study found a coincidence rate of 9 percent
regarding armed conflict outbreak and disaster occurrence such as
heat waves or droughts. The study, however, found 23 per cent of
conflict outbreaks in ethnically highly fractionalised countries
robustly coincide with climatic calamities. <br>
"There is little evidence that climaterelated disasters act as
direct triggers of armed conflicts, but the disruptive nature of
these events seems to play out in ethnically fractionalized
societies in a particularly tragic way," Dr Carl Schleussner, who
led the research, told ET. <br>
This has important implications for future security policies as
several of the world's most conflict-prone regions, including
North and Central Africa as well as Central Asia, are both
exceptionally vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change and
characterized by deep ethnic divides. The study cites examples
from Iraq, Syria and Somalia to underline such climatological
events may have already contributed to armed-conflict outbreaks or
sustained conflicts in these countries. <br>
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url="https://www.thenation.com/article/factory-or-forest-modernity-and-climate-change/"
id="MAA4DEgAUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Factory or Forest, Modernity and<b
style="font-weight: bold;"> Climate Change</b></span></a></h2>
</div>
<blockquote> Ghosh's central thesis, in his recent polemic The Great
Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, is that the
project of modernity has expelled the idea of "the collective"
from our imagination over the last 150 years.<br>
Where the Air Stands Still: In India, the pathology of denial
about climate change reveals the real crisis at our door-one of
imagination.<br>
.. in Delhi ... Residents wake up in the morning and find that the
roads disappear after 50 meters or so, with the tops of trees and
office buildings concealed. The smog is often mistaken for
seasonal mist. So it wasn't the pollution itself that was
surprising at the start of November last year, when visibility was
poor for days, eyes reddened in the haze, people experienced chest
pains, and ash entered their mouths when they tried to speak.
Instead, it was the concentration of the pollutants, which on this
occasion had escalated almost overnight. During the weekend of
Diwali, an annual festival celebrated with lamps and fireworks
across the country, India's air quality was among the worst in the
world. For days after, the absence of winds in Delhi meant that
toxic particulates remained close to the ground. The smoke didn't
disappear.<br>
Derangement can, of course, manifest in different ways. In India,
it is recognizable in the pathology of denial. A month after the
smog in New Delhi, India's environment minister told the
Parliament that there is no "credible" study to quantify the
number of deaths caused directly by air pollution. Later, he
conceded that air pollution "could be one of the triggering
factors" for lung ailments.<br>
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ssid="b" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration:
underline;"><span class="titletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Schneiderman
Presses Search for Tillerson Lost Exxon Emails</span></a></h2>
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<blockquote> New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is pressing
on with a search for U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's lost
emails that he wrote under the pseudonym of "Wayne Tracker" while
he was the Chief Executive of Exxon Mobile Corp.<br>
Schneiderman said on Friday that his office issued new subpoenas
and questioned witnesses about the disappearance of the emails, in
which Tillerson allegedly discussed climate change risks and other
sensitive issues. Exxon has admitted that as much as a year's
worth of emails Tillerson wrote under the Wayne Tracker handle may
have been lost. It blamed a technical glitch.<br>
Tillerson used the pseudonym account to communicate with company
board members, according to Schneiderman, who is investigating
whether the Irving, Texas-based company broke state law by
misleading investors for years about the possible impact of the
Earth's warming on its business. Schneiderman's Massachusetts
counterpart Maura Healey is running a parallel investigation.</blockquote>
<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://environblog.jenner.com/corporate_environmental_l/2013/05/high-court-refuses-to-take-up-kivalina-climate-suit.html">http://environblog.jenner.com/corporate_environmental_l/2013/05/high-court-refuses-to-take-up-kivalina-climate-suit.html</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20998-2004Dec22.html">This
Day in Climate History May 20, 2013 </a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
May 20, 2013: The US Supreme Court refuses to hear an appeal of the
9th US Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in the Kivalina v.
ExxonMobil case, effectively ending one effort to hold fossil fuel
companies legally accountable for carbon pollution. See also:
listed claims: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://novote4energy.org/">http://novote4energy.org/</a><font size="+1"><br>
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