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<font size="+1"><i>June 20, 2017</i></font><br>
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</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/travel/airlines/2017/06/19/heat-cancels-phoenix-flights/409634001/">20
flights already canceled as Phoenix nears 120-degree day</a></b><br>
(video report) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://azc.cc/1N8X22V">http://azc.cc/1N8X22V</a> <br>
The extreme heat forecast for Phoenix on Tuesday has caused the
cancellation of 20 American Airline flights out of Sky Harbor
International Airport. <br>
According to a statement from American Airlines, the American Eagle
regional flights use the Bombardier CRJ aircraft, which has a
maximum operating temperature of 118 degrees. Tuesday's forecast for
Phoenix includes a high of 120 degrees, and the flights that are
affected were to take off between 3 and 6 p.m.<br>
Extreme heat affects a plane's ability to take off. Hot air is less
dense than cold air, and the hotter the temperature, the more speed
a plane needs to lift off. A runway might not be long enough to
allow a plane to achieve the ngepart between 3 and 6 p.m. Monday,
Tuesday or Wednesday. The flight changes would be free of charge.<br>
This is reminiscent of Phoenix's record-setting high temperature of
122 degrees on June 26, 1990, which grounded some airlines for the
day. Larger jets, such as Airbus and Boeing, have bigger engines and
aren't expected to be grounded by this week's heat. <br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/travel/airlines/2017/06/19/heat-cancels-phoenix-flights/409634001/">http://www.azcentral.com/story/travel/airlines/2017/06/19/heat-cancels-phoenix-flights/409634001/</a></font><br>
- more:<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatesignals.org/headlines/events/southwest-us-heat-wave-june-2017">Southwest
US Heat Wave June 2017</a></b><br>
(USA) The fingerprint of global warming has been firmly identified
in the increasing intensity, duration and frequency of extreme heat
events. 85 percent of recent record-hot days globally have been
attributed to climate change.<br>
It is within this context that mid-June temperatures are soaring 15
to 30°F above normal across the Southwestern US, from California's
Central Valley, to Las Vegas, and down to Phoenix. High temperatures
are typical before the Southwest monsoon season; however, the
extreme - record-breaking - nature of the event is a classic signal
of climate change. This is the second of two back-to-back years of
extreme heat in the Southwest during the pre-monsoon season.<br>
Heat waves have generally become more frequent across the US in
recent decades, with western regions setting records for numbers of
these events in the 2000s.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatesignals.org/headlines/events/southwest-us-heat-wave-june-2017">http://www.climatesignals.org/headlines/events/southwest-us-heat-wave-june-2017</a></font><br>
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href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/19/a-third-of-the-world-now-faces-deadly-heatwaves-as-result-of-climate-change"
id="MAA4DEgAUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">A third of the world now faces
deadly heatwaves as result of<span
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style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b></span></a></h2>
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Study shows risks have climbed steadily since 1980, and the number
of people in danger will grow to 48% by 2100 even if emissions are
drastically reduced.<br>
Nearly a third of the world's population is now exposed to climatic
conditions that produce deadly heatwaves, as the accumulation of
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere makes it "almost inevitable" that
vast areas of the planet will face rising fatalities from high
temperatures, new research has found.<br>
Climate change has escalated the heatwave risk across the globe, the
study states, with nearly half of the world's population set to
suffer periods of deadly heat by the end of the century even if
greenhouse gases are radically cut.<br>
"For heatwaves, our options are now between bad or terrible," said
Camilo Mora, an academic at the University of Hawaii and lead author
of the study.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/19/a-third-of-the-world-now-faces-deadly-heatwaves-as-result-of-climate-change">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/19/a-third-of-the-world-now-faces-deadly-heatwaves-as-result-of-climate-change</a></font><br>
- more:<b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/06/19/attributing-extremes-to-climate-change/">(video
+ text) Attributing Extremes to Climate Change</a></b><br>
June 19, 2017<br>
It's been an axiom of climate science that "we can't attribute a
specific weather event to climate change".<br>
Now, at least in relation to certain kinds of events, that's
changing – as the warming signal emerges ever more clearly from the
noise.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsRDWt_vX_M">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsRDWt_vX_M</a><br>
Climate Signals:<br>
Global warming has amplified the intensity, duration and
frequency of extreme heat events. The National Academy of Sciences
reports and validates 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>
The more extreme the heat wave, the more likely the event can be
attributed to global warming. However, even the impact of climate
change on "moderate" heat waves (i.e. 1-in-3 year events) is
dramatic, with a 75 percent share of such heat events now attributed
to climate change.<br>
In a stable climate, the ratio of days that are record hot to
days that are record cold is approximately even. However, in our
warming climate, record highs have begun to outpace record lows,
with the imbalance growing for the past three decades. 85 percent
of recent record-hot days globally are attributed to climate change.<br>
The world is not quite at the point where every hot
temperature record has a human fingerprint, but it's getting close
to that. - Noah Diffenbaugh, Stanford University<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/06/19/attributing-extremes-to-climate-change/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/06/19/attributing-extremes-to-climate-change/</a></font><br>
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<font color="#000099"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-fa38cb91-bdc0-4229-8cae-1d5c3b447337">Coffee
under threat Will it taste worse as the planet warms?</a></b></font><br>
Coffee drinkers could face poorer-tasting, higher-priced brews, as a
warming climate causes the amount of land suitable for coffee
production to shrink, say scientists from London's Kew Gardens...<br>
Coffee production in Ethiopia, the birthplace of the high quality
Arabica coffee bean and Africa's largest exporter, could be in
serious jeopardy over the next century unless action is taken,
according to a report, published today...<br>
"In Ethiopia and all over the world really, if we do nothing there
will be less coffee, it will probably taste worse and will cost
more," Dr Aaron Davis, coffee researcher at Kew and one of the
report's authors, told the BBC.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-fa38cb91-bdc0-4229-8cae-1d5c3b447337">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-fa38cb91-bdc0-4229-8cae-1d5c3b447337</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nplants201781.epdf?shared_access_token=Tba6HP5EFmB5xAbbg1aIgtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0O-SET6HkqXROWSHhuHWdE-zdjtr8-835Mi4TsnPcNC5avqoaeAHJhBBUGmLNawpsr679ZTljVLOmItqHC--iGnjvjKbnwvDhlBrXBJ82Y5RhOX7oUgdtUFn4dea1vRVR_NzWTy8cxetFpWz3a5blChyLp39QTkHXs1MjEyozwQZIpGhghBBZkKBcjXipGqkEI%3D">Resilience
potential of the Ethiopian coffee sector under climate change</a></b><br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666">Justin Moat1,2*, Jenny Williams1,
Susana Baena1,2, Timothy Wilkinson1, Tadesse W. Gole3,Zeleke K.
Challa3, Sebsebe Demissew1,4and Aaron P. Davis1*</font><br>
Coffee farming provides livelihoods for around 15 million farmers in
Ethiopia and generates a quarter of the country's export earnings.
Against a backdrop of rapidly increasing temperatures and decreasing
rainfall, there is an urgent need to understand the influence of
climate change on coffee production. Using a modelling approach in
combination with remote sensing, supported by rigorous
ground-truthing, we project changes in suitability for coffee
farming under various climate change scenarios, specifically by
assessing the exposure of coffee farming to future climatic shifts.
We show that 39–59%of the current growing area could experience
climatic changes that are large enough to render them unsuitable for
coffee farming, in the absence of significant interventions or major
influencing factors. Conversely, relocation of coffee areas, in
combination with forest conservation or re-establishment, could see
at least a fourfold (>400%) increase in suitable coffee farming
area. We identify key coffee-growing areas that are susceptible to
climate change, as well as those that are climatically resilient.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nplants201781.epdf?shared_access_token=Tba6HP5EFmB5xAbbg1aIgtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0O-SET6HkqXROWSHhuHWdE-zdjtr8-835Mi4TsnPcNC5avqoaeAHJhBBUGmLNawpsr679ZTljVLOmItqHC--iGnjvjKbnwvDhlBrXBJ82Y5RhOX7oUgdtUFn4dea1vRVR_NzWTy8cxetFpWz3a5blChyLp39QTkHXs1MjEyozwQZIpGhghBBZkKBcjXipGqkEI%3D">https://www.nature.com/articles/nplants201781.epdf?shared_access_token=Tba6HP5EFmB5xAbbg1aIgtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0O-SET6HkqXROWSHhuHWdE-zdjtr8-835Mi4TsnPcNC5avqoaeAHJhBBUGmLNawpsr679ZTljVLOmItqHC--iGnjvjKbnwvDhlBrXBJ82Y5RhOX7oUgdtUFn4dea1vRVR_NzWTy8cxetFpWz3a5blChyLp39QTkHXs1MjEyozwQZIpGhghBBZkKBcjXipGqkEI%3D</a><br>
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href="http://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/Vinexpo-Bordeaux-Climate-Change-Wine-Conference-Fire-and-Rain"
id="MAA4DEgEUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
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style="font-weight: bold;">Wine Industry Leaders Take on
Climate Change at Vinexpo<br>
</span></a></h2>
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Wine Spectator kicked off Vinexpo, the international wine-trade fair
held biennially in Bordeaux, on Sunday by gathering experts and
industry pioneers to tackle one of the most critical issues facing
the global wine community: climate change. Senior editor Dana Nigro
served as moderator for "Fire and Rain: Climate Change and the Wine
Industry," a lively and thought-provoking discussion of the
environmental issues facing vintners today and in the future.<br>
Harvard professor John Holdren opened the conference by telling a
rapt audience that the land suitable for grapegrowing will
potentially shrink by 23 percent to 75 percent by the year 2050, and
that higher average temperatures, heat waves, droughts, torrential
downpours, hailstorms, pests, and the effects of increased CO2 on
grape chemistry will test the wine industry's resilience.<br>
<b>"Adaptability and resilience are extremely important, but if we
do not reduce emissions, then adaptability and resilience will
fail," </b>said Holdren.<br>
He said that 200 years of climate-change science leaves no room for
doubt that climate changes are due to "emissions of heat-trapping
gases from fossil-fuel burning and land-use change." Those changes,
and the harm they do to human life and health, property, ecosystems
and economies, will worsen in the near future, no matter what action
the world takes now, because of the amount of time it will take to
reverse these already-in-process climate and energy system changes.
However, the former White House science adviser said, strong and
immediate remedial action will greatly reduce the severity of those
negative environmental effects.<br>
Holdren also bashed the myth that going green is an economy killer.
Holdren, who was director of the White House Office of Science &
Technology under President Barack Obama, argued persuasively that a
healthy environment is the key to a robust economy. "Wine is an
important product in the national economies that grow wine," said
Holdren. "I would hope the wine industry would speak up as a group."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/Vinexpo-Bordeaux-Climate-Change-Wine-Conference-Fire-and-Rain">http://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/Vinexpo-Bordeaux-Climate-Change-Wine-Conference-Fire-and-Rain</a></font><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/thin-ice-vanishing-ice-only-exacerbates-a-bad-climate-change-fueled-situation/">Thin
ice: Vanishing ice only exacerbates a bad, climate change-fueled
situation</a><br>
How's the Earth's ice system changing? Look to the active
cryosphere.<br>
CONOR PURCELL - 6/19/2017<br>
Most people view our planet's vanishing ice as a symptom of climate
change. And if they pay a bit more attention, some people might even
be aware of some of its effects, including sea level rise and the
opening up of the Arctic to shipping. But ice is also an active
player in the Earth's climate-it doesn't only respond to warming by
melting. Changes in our planet's ice are capable of feeding back on
the climate system, creating further consequences for the globe...<br>
the behavior of the cryosphere is changing. That is primarily
because ice responds to rising temperatures, melting with increasing
heat. For example, shelf ice, which floats on the oceans near ice
sheets, can weaken in response to the warming water below, causing
destabilization and collapse. In the Arctic, sea ice is vanishing in
the summers, changing the way in which the ocean absorbs sunlight.
Across the continents, mountain glaciers and the ice sheets of
Greenland and Antarctica are melting. Cryosphere changes like these
are having profound impacts on our planet.<br>
....the behavior of the cryosphere is changing. That is primarily
because ice responds to rising temperatures, melting with increasing
heat. For example, shelf ice, which floats on the oceans near ice
sheets, can weaken in response to the warming water below, causing
destabilization and collapse. In the Arctic, sea ice is vanishing in
the summers, changing the way in which the ocean absorbs sunlight.
Across the continents, mountain glaciers and the ice sheets of
Greenland and Antarctica are melting. Cryosphere changes like these
are having profound impacts on our planet.<br>
While Greenland is the bigger problem now, Antarctica is much bigger
and has more ice. Long term, it has much more potential for
affecting global sea level. According to Sutter, "if you look at a
business-as-usual climate scenario, a destabilized Antarctic ice
sheet could raise sea levels by more than a meter by the end of the
century."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/thin-ice-vanishing-ice-only-exacerbates-a-bad-climate-change-fueled-situation/">https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/thin-ice-vanishing-ice-only-exacerbates-a-bad-climate-change-fueled-situation/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/06/19/new-video-john-cook-and-the-97-percent/">New
Video: John Cook and the 97 Percent</a></b><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/06/19/new-video-john-cook-and-the-97-percent/"><br>
</a>June 19, 2017<br>
Scientific conclusions derive from an understanding of basic
laws supported by laboratory experiments, observations of nature,
and mathematical and computer modeling. Like all human beings,
scientists make mistakes, but the scientific process is designed to
find and correct them. This process is inherently
adversarial""scientists build reputations and gain recognition not
only for supporting conventional wisdom, but even more so for
demonstrating that the scientific consensus is wrong and that there
is a better explanation. That's what Galileo, Pasteur, Darwin, and
Einstein did. But when some conclusions have been thoroughly and
deeply tested, questioned, and examined, they gain the status of
"well-established theories" and are often spoken of as "facts.<br>
video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/7d8PwPHMKEw">https://youtu.be/7d8PwPHMKEw</a><br>
Climate Change and the Integrity of Science<br>
"There's no such thing as settled science" and "science does not
work by consensus", are things we commonly hear from people who
really should know better.<br>
The earth revolves around the sun. Apples fall down. Oceans expand
when warmed.<br>
These are in fact, examples of "settled science" – accepted by
consensus. We don't re-litigate them in every paper about gravity or
astrophysics.<br>
If you google "climate, 97 percent consensus" or some permutation
thereof, you'll be treated to page after page of climate denial
nonsense, some elaborately produced, some not, seeking to knock down
the idea, essentially, that scientists believe in science.<br>
Climate deniers understand that the scientific consensus is a
critical gateway belief, one that most Americans are still unaware
of, that makes citizens much more likely to understand the gravity
of climate change, and support efforts to curb it. So a lot of
effort goes into attacking this idea.<br>
video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjuGCJJUGsg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjuGCJJUGsg</a><br>
While the "97 percent of climate scientists agree planet is warming
and humans are the cause" meme has gotten pretty good penetration in
the main stream media – most talking heads are aware enough to
include that in any discussion of climate – in the social media
sphere, the National Academy of Science does not have as strong a
presence as jackasswithablog dot com.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/06/19/new-video-john-cook-and-the-97-percent/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/06/19/new-video-john-cook-and-the-97-percent/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw6RsUhw1Q8&t=1239s">(sarcastic
video rant) Coal: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)</a></b><br>
We've heard a lot of talk about coal miners in the last year, but
what are the real issues surrounding coal? John Oliver and a giant
squirrel look into it.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw6RsUhw1Q8&t=1239s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw6RsUhw1Q8&t=1239s</a></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Rick Perry just denied that
humans are the main cause of climate change</span></a></h2>
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Monday denied that man-made carbon
dioxide emissions are the primary cause of climate change...<br>
Asked in an interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box" whether he believed
that carbon dioxide was "the primary control knob for the
temperature of the Earth and for climate," Perry said that "No, most
likely the primary control knob is the ocean waters and this
environment that we live in."<br>
Perry added that "the fact is this shouldn't be a debate about, 'Is
the climate changing, is man having an effect on it?' Yeah, we are.
The question should be just how much, and what are the policy
changes that we need to make to effect that?"<br>
Perry's comments fall in line with what Environmental Protection
Agency administrator Scott Pruitt said in a March interview on the
program. Pruitt said then that he does not believe carbon dioxide is
a primary contributor to global warming.<br>
Both men's views contradict the conclusions of scientists at
Pruitt's own EPA as well as NASA, the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration and the United Nations' Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Sweden's Largest Pension Divests
From Paris Accord Violators, Including ExxonMobil &
TransCanada</span></a></h2>
</div>
Sweden's largest pension fund, AP7, announced last week that it had
divested all its investments in six separate companies that it says
had violated the Paris Climate Agreement, including big name
companies such as ExxonMobil, Gazprom, and TransCanada.<br>
AP7 provides pensions to 3.5 million Swedish citizens, making it the
country's largest national pension fund. Last week, the group
announced that it had divested itself from six companies it believed
had violated the Paris Climate Agreement in different ways.
Specifically, AP7 accused ExxonMobil, Westar, Southern Corp, and
Entergy of fighting against climate legislation in the United
States, Gazprom for exploring for oil in the Russian Arctic, and
TransCanada for building large-scale pipelines across North America.<br>
"Since the last screening in December 2016, the Paris agreement to
the U.N. Climate Convention is one of the norms we include in our
analysis," AP7 said in a statement.<br>
Somewhat unsurprisingly, the companies involved have added their own
voice to the discussion. In an emailed statement to news outlets,
ExxonMobil said that it respectfully disagrees with the decision of
AP7, "which has not communicated to us its evaluation process. We
have been vocal in our support of the Paris climate agreement, which
we believe is an effective global framework for mitigating the risk
of climate change." And, to be fair, ExxonMobil has definitely
loudly proclaimed its support of the Paris Climate Agreement, both
when Rex Tillerson was its CEO, and afterwards, when Tillerson had
moved on up in the world to be the new US Secretary of State.<br>
However, environmental groups are less forgiving of ExxonMobil's
efforts.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://cleantechnica.com/2017/06/19/swedens-largest-pension-divests-paris-accord-violators-inc-exxonmobil-transcanada/">https://cleantechnica.com/2017/06/19/swedens-largest-pension-divests-paris-accord-violators-inc-exxonmobil-transcanada/</a></font><br>
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sig2--D0CPCaqk40h8uIVEP8EZw did-7742705435174921090"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-06-full-toolbox-climate-problem.html"
id="MAA4AEgNUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Fighting global warming and<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>requires a broad
energy portfolio</span></a></h2>
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Can the continental United States make a rapid, reliable and
low-cost transition to an energy system that relies almost
exclusively on wind, solar and hydroelectric power? While there is
growing excitement for this vision, a new study in the Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by 21 of the nation's
leading energy experts, including David G. Victor and George R.
Tynan from the University of California San Diego, describes a more
complicated reality. These researchers argue that achieving net-zero
carbon emissions requires the incorporation of a much broader suite
of energy sources and approaches...<br>
The paper published by PNAS the week of June 19, 2017, with
Christopher Clack as first author, provides a rigorous analysis that
corrects a 2015 research roadmap indicating that the continental
United States could be reliably powered at low cost, in as little as
35 to 40 years, relying on just solar, wind, and hydroelectric
power. The researchers write that the conclusions in the 2015 paper
are not supported by adequate and realistic analysis and do not
provide a reliable guide to whether and at what cost such a
transition might be achieved.<br>
"Wind, solar and hydroelectric power can, and will, be important
parts of any moves to decarbonize our energy system and therefore
combat climate change, but given today's technical challenges and
infrastructure realities, renewables won't be the only solution,<br>
Read more at: <font size="-1" color="#666666"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-06-full-toolbox-climate-problem.html#jCp">https://phys.org/news/2017-06-full-toolbox-climate-problem.html#jCp</a></font><br>
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sig2-tKvayWLyirxr2BgmE7-f4w did-5465038799105432152"
href="http://www.centralmaine.com/2017/06/19/our-view-on-climate-change-just-ask-a-lobsterman/"
id="MAA4AEgPUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Our View: On climate change, just
ask a lobsterman <br>
</span></a></h2>
</div>
For the men and women who must pull a living, lobster trap by
lobster trap, out of the Gulf of Maine, it isn't up for debate -
they have seen the change with their own eyes. When you find that
the best spots for fishing have moved, or that there's a new disease
in the mix - when you have actually watched temperatures rise and
the ocean ecosystem transform - there is no question at all, except
over how you're going to deal with it...<br>
Instead, the Trump administration is doing its best to not confront
it at all. President Donald Trump announced he was pulling the
United States from the historic Paris climate accord, prompting the
questions over whether he believed in man-made climate change, a
question members of his cabinet answer in the negative without
hesitation.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.centralmaine.com/2017/06/19/our-view-on-climate-change-just-ask-a-lobsterman/">http://www.centralmaine.com/2017/06/19/our-view-on-climate-change-just-ask-a-lobsterman/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wired.co.uk/article/climate-symphony-data-sonification">Climate
change data is being transformed into beautiful, haunting
symphonies</a></b><br>
By ALEXANDRA SIMON-LEWIS<br>
Data sonification is being used to evoke the sounds of a climate in
crisis<br>
Sound has always acted as a warning for us, we have this ingrained
in our limbic system. This is a new way of expressing the climate
change issue."<br>
Data sonification is the process of transforming numerical data into
sound. Corresponding sounds are mapped onto specific data points and
as each section of a dataset evolves the technique can be used to
create a complex musical piece. It can mark change over time, rises
and falls in specific factors and trends within a certain field...<br>
Borromeo and her team at Climate Symphony, including co-director
Katharine Round and composer Jamie Perera, chart this data across
musical notation, working with meteorologists, conservationists,
sound artists and investigative journalists. Every bar of music in
Climate Symphony is equivalent to one year of scientific data - with
recordings amassing a total of 20 years from 1994 to 2014. These raw
data files are sonified by feeding them into a programme to sort
them into notes, or by turning the data into graphs which can then
be transposed onto a piano keyboard...<br>
As well as grappling with data from a dying planet, the project also
highlights a conflict. "Tragedy sounds really good," says Borromeo,
"And that's a conflict. I'm jarred by it and I hear it everyday.
It's the sound of flooding in the Maldives, or food shortages and
war in Syria, things that feel distant and very far away." .. <br>
Her message is simple: "Existence is resistance." <br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wired.co.uk/article/climate-symphony-data-sonification">http://www.wired.co.uk/article/climate-symphony-data-sonification</a></font><br>
- more at:<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.eastendfilmfestival.com/programme-archive/climate-symphony/">(Film
- London) Climate Symphony</a></b><br>
Recently presented as part of the Extinction Marathon at the
Serpentine Gallery, London, the Climate Symphony is a new project
directed by filmmaker Katherine Round and Leah Borromeo of
Disobedient Films, in collaboration with composer Jamie Perera. The
project takes takes climate data and sonifies it, asking the
question "does data have emotion?". What is the sound of a dying
planet? Climate Symphony turns datasets on climate change into
musical notes, timings and phrases. This raw material is transformed
into musical scores performed by the people, places and things
reflected in that data. Working at the intersection of technology,
data journalism and art, Climate Symphony is a fully scaleable
project with a vision to use sound as a journalistic tool, this is
social engagement through sound. This is what our planet sounds like
through its lungs.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.eastendfilmfestival.com/programme-archive/climate-symphony/">http://www.eastendfilmfestival.com/programme-archive/climate-symphony/</a></font><br>
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href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-dangers-of-climate-change-are-real-in-this-new-comic-anthology_us_594820bae4b0cddbb008ad9f"
id="MAA4DEgDUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
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style="font-weight: bold;">The Dangers Of<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Are Real In This New
Comic Anthology</span></a></h2>
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In the past decade or so, a subgenre of dystopian fiction has
emerged to confront our changing planet: climate fiction, or
"cli-fi." In stories like Jeff VanderMeer's "Southern Reach"
trilogy, or Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 and Claire Vaye
Watkins' Gold Fame Citrus, characters confront floods, droughts and
other environmental catastrophes.<br>
But, as a recent post on the Smithsonian blog points out, these
stories are swiftly becoming not just future possibilities, but
present realities.<br>
<b><font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/782452551/warmer-a-collection-of-poetry-comics-about-climate">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/782452551/warmer-a-collection-of-poetry-comics-about-climate</a></font></b><br>
In an interview with HuffPost, VanderMeer noted that, "the solutions
a fiction writer can provide, the speculation, is perhaps edging
toward offensive in a policy context ― because we have scientists
telling us what we need to do and they are the experts."<br>
A new cartoon anthology called Warmer addresses these issues and
more. Co-edited by artists Madeleine Witt and Andrew White, the
collection of works serves to provide support and hope to those who
are mourning the damage done to the earth.<br>
In an interview with HuffPost, White said, "As co-editors of Warmer,
Madeleine and I wanted to make a book to offer comfort for those
already fearful about climate change. So for the most part, Warmer
doesn't aim to convince anyone of anything. We imagined Warmer in
part as a book that will function to encourage and support
activists; to comfort those who, like ourselves, are wrestling with
the grief of climate change."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-dangers-of-climate-change-are-real-in-this-new-comic-anthology_us_594820bae4b0cddbb008ad9f">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-dangers-of-climate-change-are-real-in-this-new-comic-anthology_us_594820bae4b0cddbb008ad9f</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rachel-maddow/53740458">This
Day in Climate History June 20, 1979</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font>
<br>
</font>Solar heaters are installed on the roof of the White House by
President Carter. The panels would be yanked down by President
Reagan in August 1986.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/_88idk1VJGU">http://youtu.be/_88idk1VJGU</a> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rachel-maddow/53740458">http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rachel-maddow/53740458</a> <font size="+1"><br>
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