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<font size="+1"><i>June 27, 2017</i></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Pension funds pressed to protect
portfolios from climate change</span></a></h2>
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Only one in 20 pension schemes in Europe has taken steps to combat
the risks of climate change, in spite of mounting warnings that
global warming poses a ...<br>
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text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">New study confirms the oceans are
warming rapidly - John Abraham<br>
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Although there's some uncertainty in the distribution among Earth's
ocean basins, there's no question that the ocean is heating rapidly<br>
The most important measurement of global warming is in the oceans.
In fact, "global warming" is really "ocean warming." If you are
going to measure the changing climate of the oceans, you need to
have many sensors spread out across the globe that take measurements
from the ocean surface to the very depths of the waters.
Importantly, you need to have measurements that span decades so a
long-term trend can be established. ..<br>
These difficulties are tackled by oceanographers, and a significant
advancement was presented in a <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-017-3751-5">paper
just published in the journal Climate Dynamics.</a> That paper,
which I was fortunate to be involved with, looked at three different
ocean temperature measurements made by three different groups. We
found that regardless of whose data was used or where the data was
gathered, the oceans are warming...<br>
In plain English, it will be important that we keep high-quality
temperature sensors positioned throughout the oceans so in the
future we will be able to predict where our climate is headed. We
say in science that a measurement not made is a measurement lost
forever. And there are no more important measurements than of
heating of the oceans.<br>
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href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jun/26/new-study-confirms-the-oceans-are-warming-rapidly">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jun/26/new-study-confirms-the-oceans-are-warming-rapidly</a></font><br>
- more:<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-017-3751-5">Consensuses
and discrepancies of basin-scale ocean heat content changes in
different ocean analyses</a></b><br>
<blockquote>Abstract<br>
Inconsistent global/basin ocean heat content (OHC) changes were
found in different ocean subsurface temperature analyses,
especially in recent studies related to the slowdown in global
surface temperature rise. This finding challenges the reliability
of the ocean subsurface temperature analyses and motivates a more
comprehensive inter-comparison between the analyses. Here we
compare the OHC changes in three ocean analyses (Ishii, EN4 and
IAP) to investigate the uncertainty in OHC in four major ocean
basins from decadal to multi-decadal scales. First, all products
show an increase of OHC since 1970 in each ocean basin revealing a
robust warming, although the warming rates are not identical. The
geographical patterns, the key modes and the vertical structure of
OHC changes are consistent among the three datasets, implying that
the main OHC variabilities can be robustly represented. However,
large discrepancies are found in the percentage of basinal ocean
heating related to the global ocean, with the largest differences
in the Pacific and Southern Ocean. Meanwhile, we find a large
discrepancy of ocean heat storage in different layers, especially
within 300–700 m in the Pacific and Southern Oceans. Furthermore,
the near surface analysis of Ishii and IAP are consistent with sea
surface temperature (SST) products, but EN4 is found to
underestimate the long-term trend. Compared with ocean heat
storage derived from the atmospheric budget equation, all products
show consistent seasonal cycles of OHC in the upper 1500 m
especially during 2008 to 2012. Overall, our analyses further the
understanding of the observed OHC variations, and we recommend a
careful quantification of errors in the ocean analyses.<font
size="-1" color="#666666"> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-017-3751-5">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-017-3751-5</a></font></blockquote>
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style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate
Change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Could
Bring Malaria Risk to Highlands</span></a></h2>
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WASHINGTON DC - Salem Solomon<br>
Ethiopia's highlands traditionally have a built-in protection for
the people who live there. The elevation and the cool temperatures
have meant that malaria, the deadly mosquito-borne illness, cannot
be transmitted.<br>
But climate change may be putting an end to that safeguard. A new
study led by a researcher at the University of Maine found that
since 1981, the elevation needed to protect people from malaria has
risen by 100 meters.<br>
For the first time, people living in Ethiopia's highlands could be
vulnerable to the disease.<br>
"What's happening is the conditions, at least in terms of
temperature, that are suitable for malaria are slowly creeping up at
higher elevations," said Bradfield Lyon at Maine's Climate Change
Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences. "The same thing
would be true in other highland locations throughout the tropics."<br>
"It's sort of eroding this natural buffer," he said.<br>
The two most common types of parasites that cause malaria in the
region require consistent temperatures above 18 degrees Celsius and
15 degrees Celsius respectively...<br>
"It does not mean that these people, therefore, are going to get
malaria. It just says that it is slowly enhancing the risk if we
leave all other factors alone," Lyon said. "I mean the hope is
through interventions and so forth that we can, in fact, eradicate
malaria in this and other regions of the tropics."<br>
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style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate
Change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Is
Making Cities Sick</span></a></h2>
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Urban Canadians are feeling the impact of climate change. Flooding
in Quebec this spring damaged nearly 1,900 homes in 126
municipalities, causing widespread psychological distress.<br>
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text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate
Change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Could
Threaten Up To 2 Billion Refugees By 2100</span></a></h2>
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(includes BBC video)<br>
Charles Geisler, a sociologist at Cornell University, spent much of
his career researching where poor people go when rich corporations
swoop in and buy the land out from under their feet.<br>
But his focus began to shift in 2005, after observing how storm
surges tainted farmland in Bangladesh with salt water. Later that
year, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, submerging communities
once believed to be safe behind levees and dikes. As floodwaters
inundated Vietnam's Mekong Delta last year, Geisler's new worldview
came into sharp relief.<br>
The rising sea, he surmised, is the one displacement force more
powerful than greed.<br>
Geisler began collating climate and demographic research, and came
to a dire conclusion: By the year 2100, rising sea levels could
force up to 2 billion people inland, creating a refugee crisis among
one-fifth of the world's population.<br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">New Zealand law student launches<span
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A New Zealand law student is taking the government to court in hopes
of forcing it to set more ambitious climate change targets.<br>
The case brought by Sarah Thomson, 26, began Monday in the High
Court in Wellington and is scheduled to last three days. It could be
several months before a judge releases a decision.<br>
Thomson is challenging the government over commitments that include
a pledge under the Paris climate accord to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions by 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.<br>
In court filings, Thomson argued that pledge and the process for
reaching it were "illogical, irrational, unreasonable and unlawful."<br>
She says the government needs to throw out the target and set a new
one.<br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">More killer hail coming unless we
curb<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">global warming</b></span></a></h2>
There is endless fascination with things that fall from the sky.
The very term meteorology comes from the Greek word meteoron,
referring to stuff high in the sky.</div>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Bigger hail might pummel the US
as<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change </b>gathers
more force</span></a></h2>
The hailstorm hit during rush hour, when lots of cars where on the
road, and ended up being Colorado's costliest catastrophe,
totaling $1.4 billion in damages.</div>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/large-hailstone-deluge-marks-midsummer-in-altai-breaking-car-windows-ruining-harvests/">(photos)
Large hailstone deluge marks midsummer in Altai, breaking car
windows, ruining harvests</a></b><br>
By The Siberian Times reporter22 June 2017<br>
Strong hail storms hit in several settlements in Altai region,
breaking car windows, damaging roofs of buildings and destroying
greenhouses. <br>
In some areas it wiped out future harvests. <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=163ULS9YRGw">(video)
Barrage of golf ball-sized hail pummels southeastern Siberia</a></b><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Fighting for freshwater amid
climate change | PBS NewsHour</span></a></h2>
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President Donald Trump has said he is withdrawing the U.S. from the
Paris climate accords, rejecting that wealthier nations, which have
the biggest carbon <br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPk9dZfDwR4">Climate
Change and Health: The Effects of Heat, 2015</a></b><br>
Center for Climate Change Communication (George Mason University)<br>
Published on Dec 23, 2015<br>
Dr. Mona Sarfaty, Director of Program on Climate and Health at the
Center for Climate Change Communication, speaks on the health
effects of climate change, specifically, the effects of heat,
pollen, and air pollution. 2015<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPk9dZfDwR4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPk9dZfDwR4</a><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797%2808%2900686-7/fulltext">Climate
Change and Extreme Heat Events</a></b><br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797%2808%2900686-7/fulltext">http://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797%2808%2900686-7/fulltext</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfBF0iPQRCo">Climate
Change and Human Health: Impacts and Pathways to Resilience</a></b><br>
Climate change induced impacts on human health are myriad; they
range from direct effects, such as heat related mortality during
extreme heat events, to indirect effects on infectious disease
transmission systems. Predicting the degree of impact climate change
will have on a specific health outcome becomes more difficult as the
pathways become more indirect. One such example is determining the
potential risk of dengue emergence in the U.S.-Mexico border region
where Ae. aegypti mosquito populations that transmit the virus are
well-established. A suitable natural environment is necessary but
not sufficient for virus transmission. Social, economic, and
behavioral factors can all enhance or reduce risk. While these
factors make predictions difficult, they also suggest a level of
control that we as a society have to reduce our risk of negative
health outcomes linked to a changing climate. Both top-down and
bottom-up actions must be taken now to mitigate current and future
health threats.<br>
Kacey Ernst is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and
Biostatistics in the College of Public Health at the University of
Arizona. She is also a Graduate Interdisciplinary Program affiliate
in Global Change, Entomology and Arid Lands.<br>
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Change, the Erosion of State Sovereignty, and World Order</a></b><br>
JUNE 26, 2017 9:04 AM <br>
Erosion of State SovereigntyThis is a blog series highlighting each
article in the Center for Climate and Security's recent report,
"Epicenters of Climate and Security: The New Geostrategic Landscape
of the Anthropocene."<br>
Climate Change, the Erosion of State Sovereignty, and World Order<br>
By Francesco Femia and Caitlin E. Werrell<br>
The formation and spread of the nation-state has occurred during a
relatively stable climatic period - an 11,000-year-plus epoch
referred to by geologists as the Holocene. The Holocene, thought to
be the longest warm and "stable" climatic period of the last 400,000
years, may have played a significant role in facilitating the
development of human civilization. The epoch encompasses the advent
of agriculture, the rise and fall of empires and monarchs, and the
birth and spread of the nation-state to all corners of the globe. In
short, all of modern civilization occurred within the Holocene. In
this context, the foundation for the current system of nation-states
rests in part on a common assumption that the baseline climatic and
natural-resource conditions present until today will generally
continue. The flaw in this assumption is that atmospheric
conditions, due to human activity, have shifted in an unprecedented
way since the mid-20th century, and are changing rapidly. This
phenomenon, coupled with massive demographic changes, has led some
to assert that that the Earth may have entered a new epoch called
the "Anthropocene." The rapid changes inherent in this epoch could
stress the very foundations of the modern nation-state system…<br>
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(RollingStone) In the wake of Trump pulling the U.S. out of the
Paris Agreement, how serious are your representatives about fighting
back?<br>
Perhaps no president in recent times has unified the country, and
the globe, as effectively as Donald Trump. In the hours following
his rejection of the Paris climate accord, pretty much everyone who
didn't actually work in a coal mine joined in the condemnation. Few
trollers were quite as adept as the new French president, who issued
a video urging climate scientists to emigrate from America, but the
honchos at Facebook and Google did their part, weighing in with
varied admixtures of shock, indignation and disappointment – in
fact, Forbes kept a running tally of billionaires expressing their
outrage, one of whom, Michael Bloomberg, pledged up to $15 million
to help make up for the money America had promised the planet's
poorest countries. Tesla's Elon Musk and the head of Disney quit the
president's council of CEO advisers, while a senior Vatican official
said exiting Paris was a "huge slap in the face for us."...<br>
Standing up to natural gas will be hard, because it's where the
fossil-fuel industry increasingly concentrates its investments.
(Exxon, to the surprise of some, opposed the Paris withdrawal –
that's because the company sees its gas business benefiting as
carbon cuts go into effect but methane is left unregulated.) And
it's easy for politicians to play rhetorical games here: If you just
talk about "carbon," then gas looks good. But physics, again, is
unimpressed by spin. It just adds up all the greenhouse gases in the
air, and then it does its thing. Our job is to make sure that truly
clean power comes next – we can't waste another few decades playing
around with gas.<br>
So now it's up to the rest of us to make sure this dark moment
produces real gain. If we let politicians simply "stand up for
science" or promise to someday reincarnate the Paris accord, then we
will never catch up with climate change. If instead the rage that
Trump has provoked catapults us into truly serious action – well,
that will be the best revenge. <br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4571&v=Wdt2UrqGq3c"> Facing
Climate Change: An Integrated Path to the Future</a><br>
Depth Psychology Alliance<br>
In this 90 minute webinar, Climate scientist, Jungian analyst, and
author, Dr. Jeffrey Kiehl, explores how a Jungian perspective on the
climate crisis can not only shed light on why we are so reluctant to
engage with the issue, but how we can use Jungian psychology to
break through these barriers and actively engage in creating a more
flourishing world.<br>
This presentation is based on Dr. Jeffrey Kiehl's new book,
Facing Climate Change: An Integrated Path to the Future (2016).<br>
It covers four dimensions of climate change:<br>
--a look at the affective reactions associated with the news of
climate change and the complexes connected to these affective
reactions;<br>
--an archetypal view of the climate change issue and how an
understanding of the power of archetypes can help us address this
issue;<br>
--a reflection on how we can relate to our world in a deeper
way, which allows us to see the sacredness in our everyday world;
and<br>
--the role of the religious function in providing us with a
deeper ground from which we can create a flourishing future for all
beings. Kiehl uses personal story and myth to relate these concepts.<br>
The lecture part of the event uses images and text to amplify
the four dimensions of dealing with climate change. After the
lecture, Kiehl engages participants in a conversation around Jungian
psychology and climate change.<br>
Key takeaways:<br>
• How to view our current climate process as a manifestation of
inner psychic processes<br>
• How to use phenomenological processes to experience the sacred
nature of the world<br>
• How a transpersonal dimension is essential to fully addressing
the climate crisis.<br>
About the presenter:<br>
Jeffrey Kiehl, PhD, MA is a Jungian analyst and a climate
scientist. He is a senior scientist at the National Center for
Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado and an adjunct professor
in the department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at UC Santa
Cruz. He is also a senior training analyst at the CG Jung Institute
of Colorado. He has published over 140 papers in peer-reviewed
journals and is the author of Facing Climate Change: An Integrated
Path to the Future. He has presented nationally and internationally
on Jungian psychology as it relates to pressing world issues. He
lives in Santa Cruz, California.<br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://skyhorsepublishing.com/titles/12459-9781510721753-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse">Book:
Horsemen of the Apocalypse</a></b><br>
The Men Who Are Destroying Life on Earth - And What It Means for Our
Children<br>
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Dick Russell, David Talbot<br>
(Publisher's description) "The science is overwhelming; the facts
are in. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate and the results
are everywhere to be seen. Yet, as time runs out, climate progress
is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of the
planet: energy moguls like the Koch brothers and Exxon Mobil CEO Rex
Tillerson. Powerful politicians like Senators Mitch McConnell and
Jim Inhofe, who receive massive contributions from the oil and coal
industries. Most of these men are too intelligent to truly believe
that climate change is not a growing crisis. And yet they have put
their profits and careers ahead of the health and welfare of the
world's population - and even their own children and grandchildren.
How do they explain themselves to their offspring, to the next
generations that must deal with the environmental havoc that these
men have wreaked? Horsemen of the Apocalypse takes a personal look
at this global crisis, literally bringing it home."<br>
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Climate History June 27, 2000</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore lays out his energy policy
at a campaign appearance in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.<br>
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