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<font size="+1"><i>June 17, 2017</i></font><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.wunderground.com/us/ca/needles">Severe Weather
Alert for Needles, California 126 degrees</a></b><br>
Active Advisory: Excessive Heat Warning Tuesday June 20th<br>
The heatwave will be worst in Arizona, SE California (Palm Springs
and Death Valley), and California’s Central Valley
(Sacramento/Fresno). <b>Temps in some locations are forecast to go
well above 120˚ F. </b><br>
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href="https://www.wunderground.com/us/ca/needles">https://www.wunderground.com/us/ca/needles</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals/increased-extreme-heat-and-heat-waves">Increased
Extreme Heat and Heat Waves </a></b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals/increased-extreme-heat-and-heat-waves">Climate
Signals has just published a fully-annotated run-down of the
latest science:</a><br>
Global warming has amplified the intensity, duration and frequency
of extreme heat events. The National Academy of Sciences <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nap.edu/read/21852/chapter/6#90">reports and
validates</a> numerous studies as well as two major science
assessment reviews that definitively identify the fingerprint of
human influence in driving the changes observed to date.<br>
These events occur on multiple time scales - from a single day or
week, to months or entire seasons—and are defined by temperatures
significantly above the historic average for that period.<br>
The climate has shifted significantly, leading to more heat records
in every season. The number of local record-breaking average
monthly temperature extremes worldwide is now on average five times
larger than expected in a climate with no long-term warming. 85
percent of recent record-hot days globally have been attributed to
climate change. ..<br>
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href="http://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals/increased-extreme-heat-and-heat-waves">http://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals/increased-extreme-heat-and-heat-waves</a></font><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://twitter.com/ClimateSignals/status/875864745022152704">Signals
has also assembled the attached unbranded infographic pulling from
NASA’s Design Studio.</a><br>
Tweeted here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/ClimateSignals/status/875864745022152704">https://twitter.com/ClimateSignals/status/875864745022152704</a><br>
#NotYourImagination - extreme heat events <br>
now much more frequent: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://t.co/GIDAzZiIpG">https://t.co/GIDAzZiIpG</a> #AZwx
#CAwx<br>
and much more severe: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://t.co/BwEbAQIByz">https://t.co/BwEbAQIByz</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://twitter.com/ClimateSignals">Climate Signals</a></b><br>
#ClimateSignals is a digital platform that maps the impacts of
climate change. <br>
A project of Climate Nexus, currently in beta: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.climatesignals.org">http://www.climatesignals.org</a>
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<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/ClimateSignals">https://twitter.com/ClimateSignals</a></font><br>
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text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Bank of England to probe banks'
exposure to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b></span></a></h2>
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The Bank of England will probe banks’ exposure to climate change as
it steps up efforts to tackle what it says are “significant”
financial threats posed by global warming.<br>
Climate change experts said the BoE’s decision to do an internal
review of the banking sector, which the central bank revealed on its
website on Friday, marked a first.<br>
“This is ground-breaking,” said Ben Caldecott, director of the
sustainable finance programme at Oxford University’s Smith School of
Enterprise and the Environment. “This is the first time a financial
regulator has looked at climate risk in such a comprehensive way and
at the banking sector in particular.”<br>
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href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/06/unfortunately_amazon_doesn_t_have_a_great_record_when_it_comes_to_sustainability.html"
id="MAA4AEgJUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate
Change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Would
Be the Perfect Target of Jeff Bezos' Philanthropic Plans</span></a></h2>
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Unfortunately, the CEO notorious for thinking long term is focusing
his giving on “right now” problems. <br>
By Nick Thieme<br>
Better that Bezos spends his money on “right now” philanthropy than
no philanthropy at all. But it’s disappointing that Bezos, the king
of long-term thinking, isn’t more interested in one of the biggest
long-term problems there is: climate change. You would think that
given his slow and methodical approach to his other endeavors (as
creepy and monopolistically intended as they may be), this would be
the perfect issue for him to take on—particularly if he’s interested
in “contributing to society and civilization.” After all, as the
oft-cited Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth
Assessment Report makes clear, the food shortages and increasingly
dangerous weather events expected to occur during the next century
will disproportionately affect people who can least afford it.<br>
Climate change seems tailor-made for Bezos, but given his company’s
record on the topic, perhaps it’s not surprising that he’s not that
interested. Amazon’s corporate page intimates an interest in
addressing climate change, as is basically standard for corporations
these days. But the company is not doing so hot in this area.
Greenpeace’s 2017 Click Clean report, a yearly report card that
grades major IT companies on their sustainability efforts, gives
Amazon a C grade. It received this grade, partly, because 24 percent
of its energy comes from natural gas and 30 percent of it comes from
coal. (Compare that with Google’s 14 percent and 15 percent in those
same energy categories.) The company also receives an F in energy
transparency.<br>
The 2017 Click Clean report reminds us that if the IT sector (made
of companies including Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Akamai) was a
country, the amount of energy it consumes would be third in the
world, behind only the U.S and China. Bezos has personally invested
in some renewable energy endeavors, but mostly in “moonshot”
technologies like nuclear fusion and oil grown from algae (a project
that has since failed)....<br>
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href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/06/unfortunately_amazon_doesn_t_have_a_great_record_when_it_comes_to_sustainability.html">http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/06/unfortunately_amazon_doesn_t_have_a_great_record_when_it_comes_to_sustainability.html</a></font><br>
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href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/16/texas-flooding-houston-climate-change-disaster"
id="MAA4AEgHUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Houston fears<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>will cause
catastrophic flooding: 'It's not if, it's when'</span></a></h2>
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Human activity is worsening the problem in an already rainy area,
and there could be damage worthy of a disaster movie if a storm hits
the industrial section<br>
Houston is situated in a low-lying coastal area with poorly draining
soils and is subject to heavy rainfall events and storm surge
events, which makes it very prone to flooding. And the climate is
changing. In Galveston Bay the sea level is rising. We know the area
is experiencing more heavy downpours,” Brody said...<br>
“It pales in comparison with the other driving force, which is the
built environment. If you’re going to put 4 million people in this
flood-vulnerable area in a way which involves ubiquitous application
of impervious surfaces, you’re going to get flooding.”...<br>
In other words: there is a lot of concrete in Houston. In 2000, 4.7
million people lived in the Houston metropolitan area. Now the
population is about 6.5 million. While efforts are under way to
densify and improve public transport in the urban core, much of the
growth has been suburban, where houses are big and cheap and
commuters drive long distances on some of the world’s widest
freeways. The city keeps loosening its belt: a third ring-road cuts
through exurbs some 30 miles from downtown, spurring more
expansion....<br>
The danger is lessened, too, by the natural defence of the western
plains – but here, water-retaining grasses are being replaced by
non-absorbent surfaces, which encourage water to travel downstream.
Brody calculates that each new square metre of pavement in Houston
on average adds $4,000 worth of flood damage...<br>
“The truth is that most of the flooding in Houston is manmade,” said
Ed Browne, another member, pointing out that many people who get
flooded, Bixler included, are not in the 100-year floodplain – an
area calculated to have a 1% annual chance of flooding....<br>
“The truth is that most of the flooding in Houston is manmade,” said
Ed Browne, another member, pointing out that many people who get
flooded, Bixler included, are not in the 100-year floodplain – an
area calculated to have a 1% annual chance of flooding...<br>
It is not lost on environmental activists that those refineries, as
part of the fossil fuels industry, may be imperiled by extreme
weather linked to climate change....<br>
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href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/16/texas-flooding-houston-climate-change-disaster">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/16/texas-flooding-houston-climate-change-disaster</a></font><br>
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href="http://grist.org/article/if-cities-really-want-to-fight-climate-change-they-have-to-fight-cars/"
id="MAA4AEgDUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">If cities really want to fight<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b>, they have
to fight cars</span></a></h2>
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If there's an American polity with more evident devotion to fighting
climate change, I don't know where. The town is home to the
University of California and the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory.<br>
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href="http://grist.org/article/if-cities-really-want-to-fight-climate-change-they-have-to-fight-cars/">http://grist.org/article/if-cities-really-want-to-fight-climate-change-they-have-to-fight-cars/</a></font><br>
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href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-40303920/lake-tanganyika-hit-by-climate-change-and-over-fishing"
id="MAA4AEgPUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
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style="font-weight: bold;">Lake Tanganyika hit by<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and over-fishing</span></a></h2>
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Millions of people rely on Lake Tanganyika for their livelihoods.
But the second largest lake in Africa is in crisis. It is suffering
from the effects of climate change, over-fishing and deforestation
and has been nominated by the Global Nature Fund as ...<br>
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href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-40303920/lake-tanganyika-hit-by-climate-change-and-over-fishing">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-40303920/lake-tanganyika-hit-by-climate-change-and-over-fishing</a></font><br>
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</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="Innovation%20of%20the%20week">CO2
Removal: Innovation of the week</a></b><br>
A Swiss startup wants to fight climate change with machines that
suck carbon dioxide out of the air, said Adele Peters in
FastCompany.com. Zurich-based Climeworks’ CO2 collectors are housed
in shipping containers. “Small fans pull air into the collectors,
where a sponge-like filter soaks up carbon dioxide,” which is later
released “in a pure form that can be sold, made into other products,
or buried underground.” Eventually, governments and corporations may
pay the company to remove CO2 from the atmosphere to meet ambitious
climate goals, though the collecting machines would need “to be
built at massive scale” to make an impact. Climeworks estimates that
it would need 750,000 shipping container–size units to capture 1
percent of global emissions. That number is not as outlandish as it
seems, however. “The same number of shipping containers pass through
the Port of Shanghai every two weeks.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://magazine.theweek.com/editions/com.dennis.theweek.issue.issue827/data/52762/index.html">https://magazine.theweek.com/editions/com.dennis.theweek.issue.issue827/data/52762/index.html</a><br>
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id="MAA4AEgDUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Nuisance Coastal Flooding,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">Global Warming</b>, Sea-Level
Rise</span></a></h2>
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One of the most well-known and most severe impacts is rise in sea
level, caused by a combination of melting of land-based ice sheets
and thermal expansion of the oceans. For Falmouth, as a coastal
community already facing serious coastal issues such as erosion,
storm-surge flooding, and salt-water intrusion into freshwater
aquifers, the risk of sea -level rise and other global warming
impacts deserves immediate attention from town leaders and the
public alike....<br>
Scientific projections of sea-level rise are imprecise due to a
combination of lack of reliable data on likely future carbon
emissions and especially the complexity of Earth’s systems that
affect weather and ultimately global climate.<br>
Clearly awareness and planning for coastal resilience is needed to
deal with long term sea-level rise, but a more immediate risk to
Falmouth and other Cape communities is “nuisance coastal flooding.”
This is extreme flooding of low elevation areas that occurs mostly
during high spring tides in conjunction with winds from the
southwest. Sea-level rise is causing high tides to reach higher
ground and flood larger areas and the frequency and duration of
flooding are increasing. Impacts from recurrent coastal flooding
include overwhelmed stormwater drainage capacity, frequent road
closures, and general deterioration and corrosion of infrastructure
(e.g. bridges, sewer/septic systems, roads) not designed to
withstand frequent inundation or salt-water exposure.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.capenews.net/falmouth/columns/nuisance-coastal-flooding-global-warming-sea-level-rise/article_989e52aa-4975-5aaf-abd7-f9820e21c93a.html">http://www.capenews.net/falmouth/columns/nuisance-coastal-flooding-global-warming-sea-level-rise/article_989e52aa-4975-5aaf-abd7-f9820e21c93a.html</a></font><br>
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<b><a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=20441">What do
you need to know about climate?</a></b><br>
Filed under: Climate impacts Climate modelling Climate Science
Communicating Climate downscaling Scientific practice Solutions —
rasmus @ 14 June 2017<br>
What do you need to know about climate in order to be in the best
position to adapt to future change? This question was discussed in a
European workshop on Copernicus climate services during a heatwave
in Barcelona, Spain (June 12-14).<br>
The answer is not clear-cut, even after having some information
about user requirements from a survey to identify a direction for
data evaluation for climate models (DECM). The survey is still being
carried out.<br>
Some of the key issues concerning user requirements include
essential climate variables (ECVs), climate data storage (CDS),
evaluation and quality control (EQC), and fitness for purpose (F4P).
I include their acronyms here since they often appear in reports and
discussions and their meaning is not always obvious.<br>
The ghost that keeps coming back is “uncertainty”. The data give an
incomplete description of the world, and include some inaccuracies.
How significant are these, and how closely do they represent the
aspects which they are meant to describe?<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=20441">http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=20441</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/06/16/denier-study-skeptical-epa-science-air-pollution-bastasch">New
Denier Study So Bad Even Deniers Are Somewhat Skeptical</a></b><br>
guest post by ClimateDenierRoundup<br>
It goes without saying that peer review is an important safeguard
against shoddy pseudoscience. Peer reviewers are so vital to the
scientific endeavour that they recently got their own monument!<br>
But peer review is not a perfect process. It’s necessary to ensure
quality science, of course. But sometimes peer review goes wrong.
For example, a journal whose editor is a climate denier with ties to
Heartland recently published a paper claiming to refute the
greenhouse theory. The paper is so bad that one scientist told
DeSmog it is “laughable,” in part because the paper takes issue with
the fact that greenhouses have glass roofs, and the atmosphere does
not.<br>
Seriously.<br>
So although deniers try to downplay the importance of the consensus
to claim that a vast global conspiracy keeps their work out of
peer-reviewed journals, it’s not impossible for their shoddy science
to get published.<br>
Most recently, Daily Caller’s Michael Bastasch, our favorite Koch
operative masquerading as a reporter, covered a new study by
“veteran statistician Stan Young” claiming to “expose huge flaws in
EPA science.” Surprisingly, Bastasch included a number of reasons to
question the accuracy of the study.<br>
The post starts with an indication that Young’s study had been
shopped around for three years before being peer-review published.
Bastasch also includes a quote from reviewers who rejected the study
from other journals, and a surprisingly lengthy section about the
EPA’s decades-old establishment of the lethality of PM 2.5
pollution. <br>
Bastasch mentions that the backstory on the struggle for this paper
to pass peer review comes from a book, Scare Pollution. For some
reason, he fails to mention that this book is written by Steve
Milloy, the guy who wrote columns for Fox News until it was revealed
that he was a tobacco industry lobbyist before becoming a fossil
fuel booster. While Milloy does not appear to be an author of the
study, he refers to it on his site JunkScience as “My California
study” (the research is based on California health info).<br>
The Milloy connection hints at the backstory behind the study, which
is an attempt to debunk the seminal Six Cities study from Harvard
that established the link between pollution and mortality. Because
of its use by the EPA as a justification for regulations, the Six
Cities study has long been a target for anti-EPA and pro-industry
forces, particularly Lamar Smith.<br>
While we haven’t yet dug into the details of the study, we hope some
of you smart people do soon. It will likely make an appearance in
Congress the next time someone wants to argue against EPA
regulations.<br>
And when even their denier peers include multiple red flags about
how it struggled to pass peer-review, it shouldn’t be too hard to
debunk this study purporting to debunk decades of studies.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/06/16/denier-study-skeptical-epa-science-air-pollution-bastasch">https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/06/16/denier-study-skeptical-epa-science-air-pollution-bastasch</a><br>
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href="http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20110617-steve-chapman-republicans-must-return-to-pro-environmental-roots-.ece"
moz-do-not-send="true">This Day in Climate History June 17,
2011 </a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
Syndicated columnist Steve Chapman notes that at some point,
Republicans will have to knock it off with climate-change denial and
propose solutions to the problem:<br>
"Conservatives fear liberals will use climate change to justify
heavy-handed intrusive regulation and wasteful subsidies, and they
are right to worry. But that’s no excuse for pretending global
warming is a myth or refusing to do anything about it. It's an
argument for devising cost-effective, market-based remedies that
minimize bureaucratic control.<br>
"If today's Republican attitude had prevailed four decades ago,
Americans would not have such vital measures as the Clean Air Act
and the Clean Water Act. Then, many people worried that
environmentalism would strangle economic growth and personal
freedom. But both have survived and even flourished.<br>
"Conservatives once understood that corporations are not entitled to
foul the environment, any more than individuals have the right to
dump garbage in the street. Barry Goldwater, the 1964 GOP
presidential nominee, wrote, 'When pollution is found, it should be
halted at the source, even if this requires stringent government
action.'" <br>
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href="http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20110617-steve-chapman-republicans-must-return-to-pro-environmental-roots-.ece">http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20110617-steve-chapman-republicans-must-return-to-pro-environmental-roots-.ece</a>
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