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<font size="+1"><i>June 30, 2017</i></font><br>
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U.S. could help the rich and hurt the poor</a></b>
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Researchers have long warned that unmitigated climate change could
cause severe financial hardship to the United States in coming
decades. But a new study published Thursday in the journal Science
details how global warming could disproportionately affect poor
areas of the country, contributing to widening economic inequality
among Americans.<br>
"The poor regions will get poorer and the richer regions will
benefit," said study co-author Solomon Hsiang, a professor of public
policy at the University of California at Berkeley. "What we're
seeing here is that climate change will have a very large impact on
the quality of life and economic opportunity in the coming decades
for ourselves and our children."<br>
A 300-page White House report last year described the health
problems associated with climate change as one of the gravest
threats to the nation. It detailed the potential of increased deaths
from extreme heat, longer allergy seasons and more polluted air and
water. Likewise, diseases transmitted by ticks and mosquitoes could
spread farther and faster, and more people would face the prospect
of near-constant floods.<br>
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<a class="nuEeue hzdq5d ME7ew" target="_blank"
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Study: Climate change will
especially hurt Texas, Southeast</a> <br>
...a recent study showing Texas and other states in the South will
bare the brunt of climate change as sea levels rise and hotter
temperatures lead to higher mortality rates...<br>
The story conflicts with many state and federal officials' views on
whether climate change has any real effect on the environment. U.S.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-San Antonio), who chairs the House Committee on
Science, Space and Technology, has said the Environmental Protection
Agency stifles science in favor of an "extreme climate agenda" and
has called to make the EPA "great again."<br>
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<b><font size="+1"><a class="nuEeue hzdq5d ME7ew" target="_blank"
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change signal in record June heat</a></font></b>
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The June heat waves that impacted much of the UK and Western Europe
were made more intense because of climate change say scientists.<br>
Forest fires in Portugal claimed scores of lives while emergency
heat plans were triggered in France, Switzerland and the
Netherlands.<br>
Britain experienced its warmest June day since the famous heat wave
of 1976.<br>
Human-related warming made record heat 10 times more likely in parts
of Europe the researchers say.<br>
During June, mean monthly temperatures about 3C above normal were
recorded across western parts of the continent. France experienced
its hottest June night ever on 21st when the average around the
country was 26.4C.<br>
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href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40449234">http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40449234</a></font><br>
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</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/task-force-report-puts-material-risks-of-climate-change-in-focus/article35493217/">Task
force report puts 'material risks' of climate change in focus</a></b></font><br>
<font size="-1">SHAWN MCCARTHY - GLOBAL ENERGY REPORTER</font><br>
Momentum is growing for energy companies and other corporations to
formally and clearly spell out the risks that climate change poses
to the value of their assets and their future profitability, even as
the Trump administration seeks to play down the threat.<br>
On Thursday, the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure
(TCFD), led by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg,
releases its final report that includes a series of recommendations
aimed at providing capital markets with clearer information on risks
and opportunities as the world transitions to a lower-carbon
economy.<br>
The TCFD report will be presented by Bank of England Governor Mark
Carney at next week's Group of 20 leaders summit in Hamburg,
Germany, and proposes a voluntary approach that would expand on the
existing requirements for companies to report "material risks" in
their securities filings<br>
Now, researchers with World Weather Attribution have carried out a
multi-method analysis to assess the role of warming connected to
human activities in these record temperatures..<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/task-force-report-puts-material-risks-of-climate-change-in-focus/article35493217/">https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/task-force-report-puts-material-risks-of-climate-change-in-focus/article35493217/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://wwa.climatecentral.org/">European
Heat Seeking climate change clues in sizzling heat</a></b><br>
Scientists have confirmed that human-caused climate change played an
important role in the excessively-high temperatures that gripped
much of Western Europe in June.<br>
The month of June was marked by extremely-high temperatures and
wildfires across Western Europe. In Portugal, a deadly forest fire
killed at least 64 people and injured more than 200. A major forest
fire in Spain forced more than 1,500 people from lodgings. In
France, Switzerland and the Netherlands heat wave plans were
triggered. England observed its hottest June day since the legendary
heat wave summer of 1976.<br>
Climate change made the intensity and frequency of such extreme heat
at least twice as likely in Belgium, at least four times as likely
in France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and central England and at
least 10 times as likely in Portugal and Spain, according to a new
analysis by scientists with World Weather Attribution (WWA) and
scientific partners in England, France and Switzerland. WWA is an
international coalition of scientists focused on assessing possible
climate change influences on extreme weather events. The team
analyzed the recent record June warmth in seven Western European
countries.<br>
Friederike Otto, senior researcher at Oxford University, said the
results are consistent with a warming planet in which summers are
getting hotter and heat waves are becoming more frequent, intense
and can come earlier or later in the summer season than before. <br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/29/merkel-vows-to-put-climate-change-at-centre-of-g20-talks">Merkel
to put climate change at centre of G20 talks after Trump's
Paris pullout</a></b></font><br>
German chancellor says Trump administration's decision to quit Paris
climate agreement means EU must show leadership on issue<br>
Tackling climate change will be one of the central tasks of the
upcoming Hamburg G20 summit of the world's largest economies, the
German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said on Thursday, following the US
withdrawal from the Paris climate pact.<br>
Merkel, who will host the gathering of global leaders in the
northern port city, said the climate change scepticism of the Trump
administration made it all the more important for the European Union
to show leadership.<br>
"Since the decision of the US to quit the Paris climate agreement,
we are more determined than ever to make it successful," she said.
"We must tackle this existential challenge, and we cannot wait until
every last person on earth has been convinced of the scientific
proof."<br>
When chairing the summit, Merkel said she would seek to guide talks
such that they furthered the goals of the Paris deal, but she
conceded that differences with the US meant discussions would not be
easy.<br>
"The differences are obvious and it would be dishonest to try to
cover that up. That I won't do," she said, adding that the forum,
which meets on 7 and 8 July, would also discuss common approaches to
trade, another area in which the Trump administration's
protectionist instincts are at odds with the European Union's.<br>
"Anybody who believes the problems of the world can be solved with
isolationism and protectionism is labouring under a huge error,"
Merkel said.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/29/merkel-vows-to-put-climate-change-at-centre-of-g20-talks">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/29/merkel-vows-to-put-climate-change-at-centre-of-g20-talks</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatesignals.org/headlines/events/larsen-c-ice-shelf-calving-and-retreat-2017">Larsen
C Ice Shelf Calving and Retreat 2017</a></b><br>
The poleward march in the break-up of ice-shelves along the
Antarctic Peninsula is consistent with the global direction of
climate change.<br>
After the current calving event is complete, the extant of Larsen C
will be the smallest on record and probably the smallest since the
last interglacial period 115,00 years ago.<br>
The Antarctic Peninsula exhibits an extraordinarily large range of
natural variation.<br>
The immediate mechanisms driving the current calving event are part
of the natural calving process along the Antarctic Peninsula.<br>
Some key questions about the conditions for this calving event
remain unanswered, hampered in part by the lack of direct
observations. [Holland interview and Jones et al]<br>
Air temperatures in the Antarctic Peninsula region have been warming
since the 1950s, and the very latest temperature readings reinforce
that trend.<br>
Ocean temperatures under the Larsen C ice shelf are largely unknown.<br>
The Larsen C shelf has experienced a stretch of thinning from 1994
to 2009 and then thickening thereafter.<br>
After completion of the current calving, the geometry of the
remaining ice-shelf is projected to be unstable and prone to
run-away collapse.<br>
Long-term trends driven by climate change, including changing winds
and warming atmospheric temperatures may have added to the
vulnerability of the ice sheet.<br>
In particular, climate change may be contributing to the potential
retreat and collapse of the Larsen C ice shelf through wind-driven
loss of snow cover, ponding of meltwater, and hydrofracturing.<br>
A collapse of the Larsen C ice shelf may release blocked glaciers,
contributing 1 centimeter to sea level rise.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatesignals.org/headlines/events/larsen-c-ice-shelf-calving-and-retreat-2017">http://www.climatesignals.org/headlines/events/larsen-c-ice-shelf-calving-and-retreat-2017</a></font><br>
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<font color="#666666"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/06/the-henchmen-in-trumps-climate-denial-army-are-well-trained-and-on-message/">The
Henchmen in Trump<font color="#666666">'</font>s Climate
Denial Army Are Well-Trained and On-Message</a></b></font><br>
Remember when Spicer said, "I have not had a conversation with him"?<br>
...Udall continued to press for more on Trump's official position.
"I asked you the official Trump administration position," he said.
"I know you stated your position, but what is the official
position?"<br>
Whether Trump believes climate change may be beside the point: His
cabinet officials represent <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09062017/five-shades-climate-denial-donald-trump-scott-pruitt-rex-tillerson-jobs-uncertainty-white-house">all
the shades of climate change denial</a>, and that may be enough. <br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/06/the-henchmen-in-trumps-climate-denial-army-are-well-trained-and-on-message/">http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/06/the-henchmen-in-trumps-climate-denial-army-are-well-trained-and-on-message/</a></font><br>
-more:<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09062017/five-shades-climate-denial-donald-trump-scott-pruitt-rex-tillerson-jobs-uncertainty-white-house">5
Shades of Climate Denial, All on Display in the Trump White
House</a></b><br>
From 'it's not real' to 'it's not urgent,' take a tour through the
many shades of climate change denial wielded by Donald Trump's
administration.<br>
BY MARIANNE LAVELLE<br>
Whether dismissing global warming as a hoax, questioning humanity's
role in it, exaggerating the unknowns, playing down the urgency of
action, or playing up the costs, President Donald Trump and his team
have served up every flavor of climate denial.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/sites/default/files/styles/colorbox_full/public/Shades-of-Climate-Denial-529px_0.png?itok=VComIOjU"><i>https://insideclimatenews.org/sites/default/files/styles/colorbox_full/public/Shades-of-Climate-Denial-529px_0.png?itok=VComIOjU</i></a><br>
Although the arguments varied - as if they were different shades or
stages of denial - they all served the same purpose: to create an
exaggerated sense of dispute in order to bolster a case against
decisive climate action. The latest gambit is to avoid the subject
entirely.<br>
<b>'It's Not Real'</b><br>
The deepest shade of denial - outright rejection of global warming -
is embodied by Trump's infamous 2012 tweet that called global
warming a Chinese plot to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
That same year, Sen. James Inhofe, the longtime climate denier and
Oklahoma Republican who has been a mentor to Pruitt, released his
climate change book, "The Greatest Hoax."...<br>
<b>'It's Not Our Fault,' and Other Lighter Shades</b><br>
Pruitt, the EPA administrator, has raised doubts about humanity's
role in global warming, contradicting not only many decades of
scientific research, but also his own EPA. So has Secretary of
Interior Ryan Zinke. Both agency heads have set a course to
eliminate climate policy and rules that restrict fossil fuel
development....<br>
<b>The Science Is Just Too Uncertain.</b><br>
"The increase in greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are
having an effect," Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said during his
confirmation hearing. "Our ability to predict that effect is very
limited.<br>
"The long-invoked scientific uncertainty argument exploded once
again into the public sphere when The New York Times' new
conservative columnist Bret Stephens launched his column with a
broad swipe at climate scientists and activists for "claiming total
certainty about the science."<br>
Stephens characterized the observed temperature increase so far as
"modest" (even though the IPCC called it "unprecedented in decades
to millennia"), and asserted that this warming was the only
indisputable fact in climate science (ignoring other observed
changes that don't rely on models, like ocean acidification,
movement of species, and the atmospheric carbon concentration.)...<br>
<b>Urgency, Shmurgency</b><br>
One key element of climate science overlooked - or ignored - by all
of the deniers, no matter their shade of denial, is the urgency of
taking action. The IPCC in its last assessment of the science used
the concept of a "carbon budget" to explain that there is a finite
amount of carbon dioxide emissions that can be added to the
atmosphere if civilization wants to limit the global temperature
rise to much less than 2 degrees Celsius and avoid the worst impacts
of climate change....<br>
<b>What About Jobs?</b><br>
..Trump cited a study sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to
make his case that the Paris treaty would cost the U.S. economy
billions. But the study's assumptions - or example, that there would
be no increase in renewable energy to replace coal - are extremely
pessimistic...<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09062017/five-shades-climate-denial-donald-trump-scott-pruitt-rex-tillerson-jobs-uncertainty-white-house">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09062017/five-shades-climate-denial-donald-trump-scott-pruitt-rex-tillerson-jobs-uncertainty-white-house</a></font><br>
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<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.envisionation.co.uk/index.php/nick-breeze/203-subsea-permafrost-on-east-siberian-arctic-shelf-now-in-accelerated-decline"><b>Interview
by Nick Breeze with Dr Natalia Shakhova and Dr Igor Semiletov</b><br>
A new scientific paper published in Nature Communication Journal</a>
demonstrates that the mechanisms of destabilisation of subsea
permafrost, contrary to previous claims, provide new insights into
increased emissions from the worlds largest deposits of methane,
that exists in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf (ESAS).<br>
The subsea permafrost has for thousands of years acted as a seal,
restricting the flow of gas through the water column to the
atmosphere. This paper clearly shows that permafrost degradation and
the occurrence of gas migration pathways are key factors in
controlling the emissions. <br>
<b>Dr. Shakhova</b>: The area of hotspots is determined by the
fraction of subsea permafrost that is disintegrated. The process of
permafrost degradation started thousands of years ago and it is now
a key driver triggering methane emissions from these long-preserved
deposits. <br>
Emissions that are occurring right now are the result of a combined
effect of natural and anthropogenic warming and they will be
accelerated until warming is turned to cooling. Even after it
happens, there is no mechanism to stop permafrost disintegration in
the ESAS besides shelf exposure above the sea level that would serve
to freeze the gas migration paths so that they integrate with the
permafrost. Before that, the amount of methane that is releasing
will increase while the supply lasts. <br>
As gas within the sedimentary basins of the ESAS have been
accumulating for a million years with no way to be released earlier,
the supply for currently occurring emissions is tremendous. Because
the shelf area is very shallow (mean depth is less than 50 metres),
a fraction of these emissions will reach the atmosphere. The problem
is that this fraction would be enough to alter the climate on our
planet drastically.... <br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.envisionation.co.uk/index.php/nick-breeze/203-subsea-permafrost-on-east-siberian-arctic-shelf-now-in-accelerated-decline">http://www.envisionation.co.uk/index.php/nick-breeze/203-subsea-permafrost-on-east-siberian-arctic-shelf-now-in-accelerated-decline</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/28/boaty-mcboatface-submarine-maiden-voyage">Boaty
McBoatface submarine records successful maiden voyage</a></b><br>
Robotic submersible probes depths of up to 4,000m near Antarctic
Peninsula to obtain unprecedented data on how mixing ocean waters
affect climate change<br>
A yellow submarine dubbed Boaty McBoatface has obtained
"unprecedented data" from its first voyage exploring one of the
deepest and coldest ocean regions on Earth, scientists have said.<br>
The robotic submersible was given the name originally chosen for a
new polar research ship by irreverent contestants in a public
competition. Embarrassed officials decided to ignore the popular
vote and instead named the vessel the RRS Sir David Attenborough in
honour of the veteran broadcaster. A storm of protest led to a
compromise that allowed the name to live on.<br>
The submarine plunged to depths as far as 4,000 metres to obtain
information about temperature, water flow speed and turbulence from
Orkney Passage, a region of the Southern Ocean about 500 miles from
the Antarctic Peninsula.<br>
The data will help scientists to understand the complex ways that
mixing ocean waters affect climate change.<br>
The research council was mobbed with more than 7,000 ideas for names
in the month-long competition period, among them RRS Onion Knight,
RRS I Like Big Boats and I Cannot Lie, and RRS Capt'n Birdseye Get
Off My Cod.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/28/boaty-mcboatface-submarine-maiden-voyage">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/28/boaty-mcboatface-submarine-maiden-voyage</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/30/opinion/unhealthy-air.html">This
Day in Climate History June 30, 2002</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<font size="+1">June 30, 2002: Republican-turned-Independent Senator
Jim Jeffords of Vermont calls out President George W. Bush in a
New York Times piece for his administration's reckless disregard
of climate science.<br>
</font><font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/30/opinion/unhealthy-air.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/30/opinion/unhealthy-air.html</a>
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