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<font size="+1"><i>May 27, 2017</i></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Governments sued over <b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b>, with banks
and firms next</span></a></font>
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If you can't beat them, sue them. Citizens are increasingly taking
governments to court over climate change inaction, with financial
lenders - and possibly big firms - next in the firing line.<br>
Some 894 climate change cases have now been filed in 24 countries,
according to a report published last week by the United Nations
Environment Programme and Columbia Law School's Sabin Center for
Climate Change Law in New York.<br>
By some distance, most - 654 - have been in the US. Australia sits
in second place, with 80 cases, and the UK third, with 49. The
number of countries with climate cases has tripled since 2014.<br>
Citizens have filed the vast majority of these cases against
governments, with a handful lodged against fossil fuel companies.<br>
Separately, campaign group ClientEarth has written to energy giants
BP and Glencore warning them of the risk of investor lawsuits based
on over-optimistic statements about future fossil fuel demand in
their reporting.<br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">US fossil fuel groups pull out of
<b style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>court case</span></a></h2>
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Three fossil fuel industry groups dropped their attempt to intervene
in a court case over climate change this week after failing to reach
an agreement on a unified legal position on climate science, court
filings show.<br>
The American Petroleum Institute (API) and the National Association
of Manufacturers (NAM), prominent trade groups in the oil and gas
industry, along with the American Fuel & Petrochemical
Manufacturers (AFPM), intervened in a federal case in which a group
of teenagers sued the U.S. government for violating their
constitutional rights by causing climate change.<br>
The three groups were arguing that a judgment requiring the
government to tighten environmental regulations would harm their
business interests. But discord arose among them after a judge
ordered them to submit a joint filing stating their views on climate
science.<br>
A lawyer representing the three groups said in a court hearing on
May 18 that they were unable to agree on the causes and effects of
human activity and greenhouse gas emissions on the climate,
transcripts of the proceedings show.<br>
"It seems pretty clear that the trade group intervenors have
recognized that there may be costs as well as benefits to
intervention and that they might be better off leaving the defense
of the case to the government," said Seth Jaffe, an environmental
lawyer who is a partner at Foley Hoag in Boston. He is not involved
in the case.<br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Norway's $950 billion wealth fund
commissions research on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b></span></a></h2>
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The research arm of Norway's sovereign wealth fund has awarded
grants for two projects on how climate change affects the economy
and capital markets, it said on Friday.<br>
The studies will be carried out at Columbia University and New York
University, it added.<br>
Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest with assets of
$950 billion, has been built with revenues from the country's oil
and gas industry.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/norway-swf-idUSO9N1HC00I">https://www.reuters.com/article/norway-swf-idUSO9N1HC00I</a></font><br>
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</font><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/25/so-much-water-pulsed-through-a-melting-glacier-that-it-warped-the-earths-crust/"><font
size="+1">So much water pulsed through a melting glacier that
it warped the Earth's crust</font><br>
</a></b>NASA scientists detected a pulse of melting ice and water
traveling through a major glacier in Greenland that was so big that
it warped the solid Earth — a surge equivalent in mass to 18,000
Empire State Buildings.<br>
The pulse — which occurred during the 2012 record melt year —
traveled nearly 15 miles through the Rink Glacier in western
Greenland over four months before reaching the sea, the researchers
said.<br>
"It's a gigantic mass," said Eric Larour, one of the study's authors
and a researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "It is able to
bend the bedrock around it."...<br>
Richard Alley, a glaciologist at Penn State University who was not
involved in the study, explained it this way:<br>
"Find a bed," Alley said by email. "Put a little piece of tape on
the sheet. Put your fist right next to the tape and push down,
while watching the tape. The tape will move down as you push down,
and also will move horizontally toward your fist just a little. Put
your fist farther away, and the tape won't move as much. Push
harder, and it will move more. While pushing down, slide your fist
past the tape, and you'll see a pattern of vertical and horizontal
motions of the tape."...<br>
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href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/25/so-much-water-pulsed-through-a-melting-glacier-that-it-warped-the-earths-crust/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/25/so-much-water-pulsed-through-a-melting-glacier-that-it-warped-the-earths-crust/</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017GL073478/full">Mass
transport waves amplified by intense Greenland melt and detected
in solid Earth deformation</a></b><br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><font color="#000000">Plain Language
Summary<br>
It has become well known that seasonal ice flow variability of
Greenland outlet glaciers may often be associated with the
drainage of supraglacial lakes that accumulate meltwater during
summer. However, tracking the details is inevitably limited due
to the fact that the mechanisms and rates of meltwater transfer
are hidden from view, and theoretical models are fraught with a
number of difficulties. Here we use a previously unrecognized
source of data that constrain the mass transport during a season
of intense Greenland melting and document the evolution of a
mass transport wave as it passes down glacier. The breakthrough
is twofold: demonstration of the power of the new technique and
the first measurement of the mass amplitude. The technique is
effectively using the measurement of the deformed solid Earth
elastic response as a filter that uniquely responds to
neighboring glacier mass changes. We quantify that the wave
through Rink Glacier is enormous in terms of its mass transport,
amounting to about half of the average annual discharge during
2000-2005, and travels at an average speed of 7.1 km/month. Our
mass transport wave measurement is the first of its kind, on any
of the major outlet glaciers of either Greenland or Antarctica.</font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Can't sleep? Maybe<b
style="font-weight: bold;"> global warming</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is to blame</span></a></h2>
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In a paper published Friday in Science Advances, researchers show
that when local temperatures get unusually high people don't sleep
as well as they usually do. And if climate trends continue, we can
expect to have more frequent heat waves that also last longer.<br>
"There are going to be lots and lots of impacts of climate change
and this is just another factor in a mosaic of negative factors,"
said Nick Obradovich, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy
School and a research scientist at the MIT media lab, who led the
work.<br>
If you've ever weathered a particularly sweaty summer in a stuffy
apartment with no air conditioning, then you know how hard it can be
to fall asleep when the temperature is sky high.<br>
It turns out that we actually need to cool down a bit before we go
to sleep. Previous research has shown that just before bedtime our
core temperature dips, signaling that it's time for some shut-eye.<br>
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text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama on food and <b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b>: 'We can
still act and it won't be too late'</span></a></h2>
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uring the course of my presidency, I made climate change a top
priority, because I believe that, for all the challenges that we
face, this is the one that will define the contours of this century
more dramatically perhaps than the others. No nation, whether it's
large or small, rich or poor, will be immune from the impacts of
climate change. We are already experiencing it in America, where
some cities are seeing floods on sunny days, where wildfire seasons
are longer and more dangerous, where in our arctic state, Alaska,
we're seeing rapidly eroding shorelines, and glaciers receding at a
pace unseen in modern times.<br>
Over my eight years in office, we dramatically increased our
generation of clean energy, we acted to curtail our use of dirty
energy, and we invested in energy efficiency across the board. At
the 2015 climate change summit in Paris, we helped lead the world to
the first significant global agreement for a low-carbon future.<br>
But here's the thing: even if every country somehow puts the brakes
on emissions, climate change would still have an impact on our world
for years to come. Our changing climate is already making it more
difficult to produce food, and we've already seen shrinking yields
and spiking food prices that, in some cases, are leading to
political instability. And when most of the world's poor work in
agriculture, the stark imbalances that we've worked so hard to close
between developed and developing countries will be even tougher to
close. The cost will be borne by people in poor nations that are
least equipped to handle it. In fact, some of the refugee flows into
Europe originate not only from conflict, but also from places where
there are food shortages, which will get far worse as climate change
continues. So if we don't take the action necessary to slow and
ultimately stop these trends, the migration that has put such a
burden on Europe already will just continue to get worse.<br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">TOP WH ADVISER: Trump Will Choose
The Economy Over<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">Global Warming</b></span></a></h2>
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White House chief economic adviser Gary Cohn angered German
officials Thursday when he said President Donald Trump would choose
growing the economy over fighting global warming if the two goals
came into conflict.<br>
"If it comes to a choice between measures to curtail global warming
under the 2015 Paris climate accord and growing the U.S. economy,
economic considerations would prevail," Cohn told reporters on Air
Force One Thursday.<br>
Cohn's statement comes as European officials lobby Trump to stay
party to the Paris agreement, which the Obama administration joined
in 2016 without the advice and consent of the Senate. Trump promised
to withdraw from the Paris agreement on the campaign trail, but it's
unknown if the president will keep his promise.<br>
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href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/26/top-wh-adviser-trump-will-choose-the-economy-over-global-warming/">http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/26/top-wh-adviser-trump-will-choose-the-economy-over-global-warming/</a></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">G7 summit agrees on countering
terrorism but not<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b></span></a></h2>
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Why no deal on climate change?<br>
"The question of the Paris climate accord is still hanging," said Mr
Gentiloni.<br>
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the discussions with Mr Trump
had been "intensive".<br>
"The United States made clear that it has not yet made its decision
and will not do so here, but rather will continue to work on this,"
she said.<br>
President Trump, who once dismissed global warming as a "hoax", has
previously threatened to pull out of the Paris agreement.<br>
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id="MAA4DEgDUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">What the U.S. Could Learn from
the Dutch on<b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b></span></a></h2>
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Earlier this month, the Netherlands completed one of the largest
offshore wind farms in the world, as an accelerating wind boom
finally helps the country make real progress on its renewable energy
goals.<br>
The 600-megawatt Gemini wind park, operating 150 turbines in the
North Sea, will serve some 1.5 million citizens. Several other major
offshore wind farms are under development as well, which will
collectively push total wind capacity to nearly 4.5 gigawatts by
2023 (see "The Wind Fuels the North Sea's Next Energy Boom").<br>
"As a country we were heavily dependent on fossil fuels, and our way
to renewables has been bumpy," Sharon Dijksma, the nation's minister
for the environment, told MIT Technology Review this week. "So this
government decided that we needed to step up the pace."<br>
Indeed, the Netherlands had to take bigger swings to meet a binding
requirement to reach 14 percent renewable energy sources by 2020
under a European agreement, as well as emission reduction targets
under the Paris climate accords. Clean energy sources currently
account for around 6 percent of generation there, lagging well
behind most of its European peers.<br>
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href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607942/what-the-us-could-learn-from-the-dutch-on-climate-change/">https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607942/what-the-us-could-learn-from-the-dutch-on-climate-change/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://cage.uit.no/news/new-source-methane-discovered-arctic-ocean/">NEW
SOURCE OF METHANE DISCOVERED IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN</a></b><br>
A reservoir of abiotic methane has been discovered in the Arctic
Ocean. This means that there is more of the greenhouse gas trapped
under the seabed than previously thought. By: Maja Sojtaric<br>
Methane, a highly effective greenhouse gas, is usually produced by
decomposition of organic material, a complex process involving
bacteria and microbes.<br>
But there is another type of methane that can appear under specific
circumstances: Abiotic methane is formed by chemical reactions in
the oceanic crust beneath the seafloor.<br>
New findings by a team of CAGE scientists show that deep water gas
hydrates, icy substances in the sediments that trap huge amounts of
the methane, can be a reservoir for abiotic methane. One such
reservoir was recently discovered on the ultraslow spreading
Knipovich ridge, in the deep Fram Strait of the Arctic Ocean. The
study suggests that abiotic methane could supply vast systems of
methane hydrate throughout the Arctic.<br>
The results were recently published in Geology online and will be
featured in the journal´s May issue.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/business/27exxon.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">This Day in Climate History May 27,
2008 </a>- from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<font size="+1">May 27, 2008: The New York Times reports:
Rockefellers Seek Change at Exxon <br>
</font>
<blockquote><font size="+1">"The Rockefeller family built one of the
great American fortunes by supplying the nation with oil. Now
history has come full circle: some family members say it is time
to start moving beyond the oil age."</font><br>
<font size="+1">The family members have thrown their support
behind a shareholder rebellion that is ruffling feathers at
Exxon Mobil, the giant oil company descended from John D.
Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust.</font><br>
<font size="+1">The resolutions ask Exxon to take the threat of
global warming more seriously and look for alternatives to
spewing greenhouse gases into the air...<br>
One resolution would urge the company to study the impact of
global warming on poor countries, another would encourage Exxon
to reduce its emissions and a third would encourage it to do
more research on renewable energy sources like solar panels and
wind turbines....<br>
A fourth resolution, ...would strip Rex W. Tillerson of his
position as chairman of Exxon's board, forcing the company to
separate that job from the chief executive's job.<br>
</font><font size="+1">"The truth is that Exxon Mobil is profiting
in the short term from investments and decisions made many years
ago, and by focusing on a narrow path that ignores the rapidly
shifting energy landscape around the world," she added.</font><br>
<font size="+1">The resolution on Exxon’s chairmanship was offered
for several years before the Rockefellers became publicly
involved and last year was supported by 40 percent of
shareholders who voted. Royal Dutch Shell and BP already
separate the positions of chairman and chief executive, as do
many other companies.</font><br>
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