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<font size="+1"><i>June 5, 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><font color="#000099"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/02/weather-channel-sends-trump-a-message-still-dont-care-proof-you-should/">(videos)
Weather Channel sends Trump a message: <font color="#000099">'</font>Still
Don<font color="#000099">'</font>t Care? Proof You Should<font
color="#000099">'</font></a></font></b><br>
When President Trump announced at 3 p.m. Thursday that he would be
pulling the U.S. from the Paris climate accord, the Weather Channel
editors were ready. They turned the "official homepage of Mother
Nature" - usually devoted to tornadoes, blizzards, heat waves and
hurricanes - into a not-so-subtle protest.<br>
"So, What Happens to Earth Now?" said one headline that appeared on
its home page.<br>
"Still Don't Care? Proof You Should," said another, linking to a
story about "ghost forests" that are dying off as a result of rising
tides and sea levels.<br>
A story headlined "…and More Proof…" appeared, along with "…and even
More Proof…"<br>
"Or the Imminent Collapse of a Key Ice Shelf"<br>
"…Or Antarctica Turning Green…<font size="-1">"</font><br>
"…Or California's Coast Disappearing Into The Sea…"<br>
The layout, though updated throughout the afternoon, stayed nearly
the same through Friday morning.<br>
The home page sent unsuspecting readers - including the millions of
people simply checking the daily temperature - a pointed message:
pay attention.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/02/weather-channel-sends-trump-a-message-still-dont-care-proof-you-should/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/02/weather-channel-sends-trump-a-message-still-dont-care-proof-you-should/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/c46c0bc2-ba73-4fa1-b263-2c673d6f2bfd">https://www.washingtonpost.com/c46c0bc2-ba73-4fa1-b263-2c673d6f2bfd</a></font><br>
<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-dont-worry-be-happy-as-trump-ditches-climate-deal/ar-BBBQ6Mg?li=BBnb7Kz">Putin:
'Don't worry, be happy' as Trump ditches climate deal</a></b><br>
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with heads of major foreign
companies at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St.
Petersburg, Russia, Friday, June 2, 2017.<br>
WASHINGTON - While other world leaders have strongly condemned
President Donald Trump's decision to abandon the Paris climate
accord, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday he won't judge.<br>
"Don't worry, be happy!" Putin quipped after being asked for his
reaction at an economic forum in St. Petersburg, Russia. He said the
climate deal doesn't formally go into effect until 2021, giving
nations years to come up with a constructive solution to combating
global warming.<br>
Trump's move drives another wedge between the United States and its
traditional European allies, while aligning its stance closer to
Russia in boosting fossil fuels while deferring action to curb
climate change...<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-dont-worry-be-happy-as-trump-ditches-climate-deal/ar-BBBQ6Mg?li=BBnb7Kz">http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-dont-worry-be-happy-as-trump-ditches-climate-deal/ar-BBBQ6Mg?li=BBnb7Kz</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xanI40Bzh9c">(video)
Climate & Extreme Weather News #30 (June 1st to June 3rd
2017)</a></b><br>
Understanding Climate Change<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xanI40Bzh9c">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xanI40Bzh9c</a></font><br>
<br>
<b><a
href="http://e360.yale.edu/features/how_we_react_to_climate_change_five_stages_of_grief">(video)
After Denial: How People React to the Hard Reality of Climate
Change</a></b><br>
Despite incontrovertible evidence that humans are changing the
climate, a sizable minority of the global population still doesn't
accept it is happening, while many who do are overwhelmed by the
enormity of the problem. The second runner-up in the 2016 Yale
Environment 360 Video Contest, "After Denial," explores the ways
people react to climate change. (video 15 minutes)<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://e360.yale.edu/features/how_we_react_to_climate_change_five_stages_of_grief">http://e360.yale.edu/features/how_we_react_to_climate_change_five_stages_of_grief</a><br>
Vimeo: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://vimeo.com/177398696">https://vimeo.com/177398696</a>
After Denial (high res)</font><br>
<b><br>
</b><b> </b><b><a
href="http://e360.yale.edu/features/how-rising-seas-and-coastal-storms-drowned-us-flood-insurance-program">How
Rising Seas and Coastal Storms Drowned the U.S. Flood Insurance
Program</a></b><br>
Sea level rise and more severe storms are overwhelming U.S. coastal
communities, causing billions of dollars in damage and essentially
bankrupting the federal flood insurance program. Yet rebuilding
continues, despite warnings that far more properties will soon be
underwater.<br>
The federal insurance program has subsidized thousands of risky
properties along the coast by charging them below-market premiums.<br>
The NFIP also lacks a reserve fund to help cover losses from
catastrophic storms like Sandy. Instead of charging a little more
and setting aside money, the way private insurers do in other lines
of business, the federal flood program relies on the U.S. Treasury -
taxpayers - as its financial backstop, or reinsurer. In 2013, the
NFIP finally added a 15 percent assessment to its flood policies,
and gradually built up about $1 billion in reserves. But an epochal
2016 flood in Louisiana used up that money. <br>
A 2016 Rutgers study found that seas near New Jersey could rise
between 1 and 1.8 feet by the middle of this century under a
scenario of low carbon emissions. But under a high emissions
scenario, seas could swell as high as 4.5 feet by 2100. Recently, a
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study estimated mean
global sea levels could rise as high as 8 feet by the end of the
century<br>
Rulli has done everything he can to flood-proof his pizza shop,
elevating the ovens and running all of the electrical wiring through
the ceiling. After Sandy pushed six feet of brackish water and mud
inside, he considered tearing it down and building a new shop high
above the flood stage. But with real estate so expensive, he
couldn't afford to move to higher ground. <br>
At least Rulli is able to maintain his sense of humor. A number of
years back he added a message to the large sign outside his
restaurant: Occasional Waterfront Dining. "It was my way of making a
joke," he said. "Everyone who knows this place got it right away."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://e360.yale.edu/features/how-rising-seas-and-coastal-storms-drowned-us-flood-insurance-program">http://e360.yale.edu/features/how-rising-seas-and-coastal-storms-drowned-us-flood-insurance-program</a></font><br>
<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.rand.org/blog/2017/05/what-does-america-first-look-like-in-the-arctic.html">What
Does 'America First' Look Like in the Arctic?</a></b><br>
How will the White House's "America First" position shape the
Arctic? It's too early to tell, say RAND experts, but pigeonholing
the region as an oil and gas reserve would risk ignoring other U.S.
interests. The Arctic has important implications for climate change,
international relations, science, and more....<br>
This seeming shift in U.S. climate policy away from greenhouse gas
reduction is of particular significance for the Arctic, which is
experiencing global warming at an accelerated rate - sea ice levels
hit a record low in late March. As detailed in a recent Arctic
Council report on the region encompassing the Bering, Chukchi and
Beaufort Seas, some Americans are experiencing these changes
firsthand. Native Alaskans are seeing higher sea levels at the
coast; melting permafrost that threatens to destroy existing
infrastructure; and the slow vanishing of the protective sea ice
barrier that used to be there for much greater periods of the
year...<br>
The imprint of the Trump administration on the Arctic is already
extending beyond greenhouse gas emissions levels. Another executive
order signed in April will pave the way for more offshore oil and
gas drilling in the Arctic and elsewhere, assuming that it survives
litigation in the U.S. court system. If the United States ratified
the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea - the
international agreement outlining rights and responsibilities for
nations using the world's oceans and resources - it would provide
the United States with the opportunity to set forth a claim for the
extension of its continental shelf, potentially extending U.S.
rights to drill for oil and natural gas off the Arctic coastline in
Alaska...<br>
Yet the U.S. Arctic may not be ready for expanded oil and gas
exploration. At present, there is precious little infrastructure in
Alaska (the U.S. door to the Arctic) that can support an expansion
of economic activity. Only local communities and a few onshore
hydrocarbon and mineral sites can manage a year-round presence, and
their capacity is too small to provide the search-and-rescue or
environmental disaster management capabilities at the same standards
enjoyed by the Lower 48.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.rand.org/blog/2017/05/what-does-america-first-look-like-in-the-arctic.html">https://www.rand.org/blog/2017/05/what-does-america-first-look-like-in-the-arctic.html</a></font><br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q3c9CErdmA"><b>Like
Champagne opened, methane explosions resulted in Ocean craters</b></a><br>
Climate State<br>
Like 'champagne bottles being opened': Scientists document an
ancient Arctic methane explosion<br>
Massive Craters Formed By Methane Blow-outs From The Arctic Sea
Floor
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://cage.uit.no/news/massive-craters-formed-methane-blow-outs-arctic-sea-floor">https://cage.uit.no/news/massive-craters-formed-methane-blow-outs-arctic-sea-floor</a><br>
Like 'champagne bottles being opened': Scientists document an
ancient Arctic methane explosion
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/06/01/like-champagne-bottles-being-opened-scientists-document-an-ancient-arctic-methane-explosion">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/06/01/like-champagne-bottles-being-opened-scientists-document-an-ancient-arctic-methane-explosion</a><br>
Methane GWP, How Bad of a Greenhouse Gas Is
Methane?<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-bad-of-a-greenhouse-gas-is-methane/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-bad-of-a-greenhouse-gas-is-methane/</a><br>
Massive craters formed by methane blow-outs from the Arctic sea
floor
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-06-massive-craters-methane-blow-outs-arctic.html">https://phys.org/news/2017-06-massive-craters-methane-blow-outs-arctic.html</a><br>
Methane exploded from Arctic sea-floor as Ice Age ended
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nature.com/news/methane-exploded-from-arctic-sea-floor-as-ice-age-ended-1.22095">https://www.nature.com/news/methane-exploded-from-arctic-sea-floor-as-ice-age-ended-1.22095</a><br>
View of the methane seeps in the Arctic <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oTFjWBiP4E">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oTFjWBiP4E</a><br>
Massive craters on Arctic Ocean floor caused by methane blow out <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNg0z-bYsmY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNg0z-bYsmY</a><br>
Scientists just found telltale evidence of an ancient methane
explosion in the Arctic / A methane mound in the Canadian High
Arctic, Stephen Grasby <font size="-1" color="#666666"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/21/scientists-just-found-telltale-evidence-of-an-ancient-methane-explosion-in-the-arctic-ocean">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/21/scientists-just-found-telltale-evidence-of-an-ancient-methane-explosion-in-the-arctic-ocean</a></font><br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q3c9CErdmA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q3c9CErdmA</a></font><br>
<br>
<a href="http://climatenewsnetwork.net/22338-2"><b>Melting Arctic
awaits nitrous oxide release</b></a><br>
"The Arctic N2O budget will depend strongly on moisture changes, and
a gradual deepening of the active layer will create a strong
non-carbon climate change feedback"<br>
And since the predicted range of warming for the Arctic by the
century's end is 5.6°C at a conservative estimate and 12.4°C at the
most, the permafrost may be seen as yet another dangerous factor in
the global warming equation.<br>
The Finnish researchers have just added to the anxiety, because,
they point out, the upper three metres of the permafrost are home to
- once again, at a very conservative estimate - 67 billion tons of
nitrogen. This is 500 times the amount of nitrogen added to soils as
fertiliser worldwide by farmers.<br>
"Our results," they report, "imply that the Arctic N2O budget will
depend strongly on moisture changes, and that a gradual deepening of
the active layer will create a strong non-carbon climate change
feedback." - Climate News Network<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.net/22338-2">http://climatenewsnetwork.net/22338-2</a></font><br>
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..Hired a year earlier, Mr. Sutter was the first science teacher at
Wellston to emphasize climate science. He happened to do so at a
time when the mounting evidence of the toll that global warming is
likely to take, and the Trump administration's considerable efforts
to discredit those findings, are drawing new attention to the
classroom from both sides of the nation's culture war.<br>
Since March, the Heartland Institute, a think tank that rejects the
scientific consensus on climate change, has sent tens of thousands
of science teachers a book of misinformation titled "Why Scientists
Disagree About Global Warming," in an effort to influence "the next
generation of thought," said Joseph Bast, the group's chief
executive.<br>
The Alliance for Climate Education, which runs assemblies based on
the consensus science for high schools across the country, received
new funding from a donor who sees teenagers as the best means of
reaching and influencing their parents.<br>
Idaho, however, this year joined several other states that have
declined to adopt new science standards that emphasize the role
human activities play in climate change.<br>
At Wellston, where most students live below the poverty line and the
needle-strewn bike path that abuts the marching band's practice
field is known as "heroin highway," climate change is not regarded
as the most pressing issue. And since most Wellston graduates
typically do not go on to obtain a four-year college degree, this
may be the only chance many of them have to study the impact of
global warming....<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/us/education-climate-change-science-class-students.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/us/education-climate-change-science-class-students.html</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://youtu.be/Wlqb1D9pDIs">This Day in Climate History
June 5, 2007</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="+1">At a GOP presidential debate in New
Hampshire, Rudy Giuliani declares:</font><br>
<font size="+1">"I think we have to accept the view that
scientists have that there is global warming and that human
operation, human condition, contributes to that. And the fact is
that there is a way to deal with it and to address it in a way
that we can also accomplish energy independence, which we need
as a matter of national security. It's frustrating and really
dangerous for us to see money going to our enemies because we
have to buy oil from certain countries. We should be supporting
all the alternatives."</font><br>
<font size="+1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/Wlqb1D9pDIs">http://youtu.be/Wlqb1D9pDIs</a></font><br>
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