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<font size="+1"><i>July 7, 2017</i></font><br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0FarCSgaZI">(51 min Video)
2017 Keeling Lecture Confronting Climate Change:</a><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0FarCSgaZI">Avoiding the
Unmanageable, Managing the Unavoidable</a></b><br>
Rosina Bierbaum, formerly of President Obama's Council of Advisors
on Science and Technology (PCAST) and an Adaptation Fellow at the
World Bank shows how climate change will affect all regions and
sectors of the economy, and disproportionately affect the poorest
people on the planet. Therefore, improving the resilience,
adaptation, and preparedness of communities must be a high priority,
equal to that of achieving deep greenhouse gas reductions,and rapid
development and deployment of innovative technologies, as well as
altered planning and management strategies, will be needed in the
coming decades to achieve a sustainable world. Recorded on
05/08/2017. Series: "Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science
Lecture Series" [7/2017] [Show ID: 32343] 51 mins. University of
California Television (UCTV)<br>
<i> </i><i>This is an excellent presentation;, very current and
important for anyone to see. -RP </i><br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0FarCSgaZI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0FarCSgaZI</a></font><br>
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Yale Program on Climate Change Communication<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-american-mind-may-2017/">Climate
Change in the American Mind: May 2017</a></b><br>
<b>Report Summary</b>:<br>
Our most recent nationally representative survey finds that: <br>
More than half of Americans (58%) believe climate change is mostly
human caused. That's the highest level measured since our surveys
began in 2008. By contrast, only 30% say it is due mostly to natural
changes in the environment, matching the lowest level measured in
our November 2016 survey.<br>
Four in ten Americans (39%) think the odds that global warming will
cause humans to become extinct are 50% or higher. Most Americans
(58%) think the odds of human extinction from global warming are
less than 50%.<br>
One in four Americans (24%) say providing a better life for our
children and grandchildren is the most important reason, for them,
to reduce global warming. More than one in ten Americans said
preventing the destruction of most life on the planet (16%) or
protecting God's creation (13%) was the most important reason.<br>
This report is based on findings from a nationally representative
survey - Climate Change in the American Mind - conducted by the Yale
Program on Climate Change Communication
(climatecommunication.yale.edu) and the George Mason University
Center for Climate Change Communication
(climatechangecommunication.org), Interview dates: May 18 - June 6,
2017. Interviews: 1,266 Adults (18+). Average margin of error +/- 3
percentage points at the 95% confidence level.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-american-mind-may-2017/">http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-american-mind-may-2017/</a></font><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Climate-Change-American-Mind-May-2017.pdf">Download
the Report</a> <br>
<font color="#000099"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-american-mind-may-2017/2/">Key
Findings</a></b></font><br>
- Seven in ten Americans (70%) think global warming is happening,
which nearly matches the highest level in our surveys (71%),
recorded in 2008. By contrast, only about one in eight Americans
(13%) think global warming is not happening.<br>
- Americans are also more certain global warming is happening - 46%
are "extremely" or "very" sure it is happening, its highest level
since 2008. By contrast, far fewer - 7% - are "extremely" or "very
sure" global warming is not happening.<br>
- Over half of Americans (58%) understand that global warming is
mostly human caused, the highest level since our surveys began in
November 2008. By contrast, three in ten (30%) say it is due mostly
to natural changes in the environment - the lowest level recorded
since 2008.<br>
- Only about one in eight Americans (13%) understand that nearly all
climate scientists (more than 90%) are convinced that human-caused
global warming is happening.<br>
- Over half of Americans (57%) say they are at least "somewhat
worried" about global warming. About one in six (17%) are "very
worried" about it.<br>
Six in ten Americans (59%) think global warming is affecting weather
in the United States, and half think weather is being affected "a
lot" (25%) or "some" (27%).<br>
- About one in three Americans (35%) think people in the U.S. are
being harmed by global warming "right now."<br>
- Most Americans think global warming is a relatively distant threat
- they are most likely to think that it will harm future generations
of people (71%), plant and animal species (71%), the Earth (70%),
people in developing countries (62%), or the world's poor (62%).
They are less likely to think it will harm people in the U.S. (58%),
their own grandchildren (56%) or children (50%), people in their
community (48%), their family (47%), themselves (43%), or members of
their extended family living outside the U.S. (41%).<br>
- Four in ten Americans (39%) think the odds that global warming
will cause humans to become extinct are 50% or higher. Most
Americans (58%) think the odds of human extinction from global
warming are less than 50%.<br>
- Four in ten Americans (40%) say they have personally experienced
the effects of global warming, six in ten (60%) say they have not.<br>
- Only one in three Americans (33%) discuss global warming with
family and friends "often" or "occasionally," while most say they
"rarely" or "never" discuss it (67%). Additionally, fewer than half
of Americans (43%) hear about global warming in the media at least
once a month, and only one in five (19%) hear people they know talk
about global warming at least once a month.<br>
- Six in ten Americans (63%) say the issue of global warming is
either "extremely" (10%), "very" (16%), or "somewhat" (38%)
important to them personally. Four in ten (37%) say it is either
"not too" (22%) or "not at all" (15%) important personally.<br>
- Half of Americans say they have thought "a lot" (18%) or "some"
(31%) about global warming. The other half say they have thought
about global warming just "a little" (33%) or "not at all" (17%).<br>
- By a large margin, Americans say that schools should teach
children about the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to
global warming (78% agree vs. 21% who disagree).<br>
- Four in ten Americans (42%) say their family and friends make at
least "a moderate amount of effort" to reduce global warming. A
similar number (45%) say it is at least "moderately important" to
their family and friends that they take action to reduce global
warming.<br>
- The most common reason why Americans want to reduce global warming
is to provide a better life for our children and grandchildren - a
reason selected by one in four Americans (24%). The next most common
reasons are preventing the destruction of most life on the planet
(16%) and protecting God's creation (13%).<br>
- Few Americans are optimistic that humans will reduce global
warming. Nearly half (48%) say humans could reduce global warming,
but it's unclear at this point whether we will do what is necessary,
and nearly one in four (24%) say we won't because people are
unwilling to change their behavior. - - Only 7% say humans can and
will successfully reduce global warming. <br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-american-mind-may-2017/2/">http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-american-mind-may-2017/2/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.refinery29.com/2017/07/161893/climate-change-air-travel-flights-delays">Climate
Change Is Real and It's Going To Make Air Travel Even Worse</a></b><br>
Rising temperatures and other environmental shifts are endangering
our health, our earth, and now, even our travel plans. The
Washington Post recently reported that extreme heat due to climate
change is likely to cause flight delays, cancellations, and those
now-ubiquitous (and awful) passenger removals.<br>
Last month, temperatures hit 120 degrees Fahrenheit in Phoenix, AZ
and caused American Airlines to cancel 57 flights in three days.
"High elevation and high temperature mean less molecules of air for
the plane to push off of," .... In short, hot days necessitate
increased weight restrictions which meant cutting back on fuel,
cargo, and/or passengers in order for the plane to get off the
ground. The Post adds that this is why particularly long flights are
often scheduled for overnight, when it's cooler.<br>
A 2015 study from Columbia University, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/WCAS-D-14-00026.1">"Climate
Change and the Impact of Extreme Temperatures on Aviation</a>,"
predicted that we'll see four times as many weight restrictions at
at-risk airports in the U.S. by 2050. (These "at-risk" airports
include those in particularly hot areas, as well as those with short
runways such as D.C.'s Reagan and NYC's LaGuardia).<br>
"We can say with high confidence," Horton added, "that the type of
heat events that lead to weight limits are going to increase in the
future." Meteorology professor Paul Williams agreed, telling the
Post that "in the future, we'll see more planes unable to take off."
So there you have it - and we recommend you start making your travel
plans accordingly.<br>
In case that wasn't bad enough, winds caused by climate change are
making the jet stream stronger, which will cause transatlantic
flights to take longer. So, once you've waited around for that
delayed flight for half a day, you can expect the trip itself to
drag on, too. Ugh. Time to amp up your travel-snack collection - and
seriously amp up our fight against climate change. Here's how.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.refinery29.com/2017/07/161893/climate-change-air-travel-flights-delays">http://www.refinery29.com/2017/07/161893/climate-change-air-travel-flights-delays</a></font><br>
-also:<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/WCAS-D-14-00026.1">Climate
Change and the Impact of Extreme Temperatures on Aviation</a></b><br>
<blockquote>Abstract<br>
Temperature and airport elevation significantly influence the
maximum allowable takeoff weight of an aircraft by changing the
surface air density and thus the lift produced at a given speed.
For a given runway length, airport elevation, and aircraft type,
there is a temperature threshold above which the airplane cannot
take off at its maximum weight and thus must be weight restricted.
The number of summer days necessitating weight restriction has
increased since 1980 along with the observed increase in surface
temperature. Climate change is projected to increase mean
temperatures at all airports and to significantly increase the
frequency and severity of extreme heat events at some. These
changes will negatively affect aircraft performance, leading to
increased weight restrictions, especially at airports with short
runways and little room to expand. For a Boeing 737-800 aircraft,
it was found that the number of weight-restriction days between
May and September will increase by 50%-200% at four major airports
in the United States by 2050-70 under the RCP8.5 emissions
scenario. These performance reductions may have a negative
economic effect on the airline industry. Increased weight
restrictions have previously been identified as potential impacts
of climate change, but this study is the first to quantify the
effect of higher temperatures on commercial aviation. Planning for
changes in extreme heat events will help the aviation industry to
reduce its vulnerability to this aspect of climate change. <font
size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/WCAS-D-14-00026.1">http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/WCAS-D-14-00026.1</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/07/06/Yahoo-News-aggregates-a-right-wing-fake-news-website/217155">Yahoo
News aggregates a right-wing fake news website</a></b><br>
ALEX KAPLAN<br>
Yahoo News aggregated a highly misleading article with fake news,
raising the question of how the company ended up treating a fake
news purveyor as a legitimate news source.<br>
On July 5, Yahoo News aggregated an article on its website from
Conservative Daily Post (CDP) headlined "<i><b>U.N. Chief Makes
Stunning Paris Agreement Admission: 'President Trump Was Right</b></i>.'"
The Yahoo News page <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://conservativedailypost.com/u-n-chief-makes-stunning-paris-agreement-admission-president-trump-was-right/">linked
to CDP for the full article,</a> which does not include a mention
of United Nations Secretary General António Guterres saying the
phrase quoted in the headline. In fact, it appears that Guterres has
never said "President Trump was right" at all; on the contrary, in
May he stated, "We believe it would be important for the US not to
leave the Paris agreement."<br>
The CDP article aggregated by Yahoo News also claimed that people
opposed to Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate
agreement "are going to go to any lengths to convince you, even lie
to you on CNN" because they "are losing a lot of money."
Additionally, the article pushed climate denial, falsely claiming
that the agreement "aims at guilt tripping and deceiving people into
believing that human CO2 is responsible for rising temperatures on
Earth" and that "there is a very strong case that the sun is mostly
responsible for rising CO2 levels, not human beings."...<br>
CDP is a serial fake news purveyor. During the 2016 presidential
campaign, it falsely claimed that the FBI was looking into "at least
6 members of Congress and several leaders from federal agencies that
partake in" a "pedophile ring, which they say was run directly with
the Clinton Foundation as a front," citing the
"alt-right"-affiliated and conspiracy-driven 4chan forum /pol/.
Later that month, the website falsely claimed that Trump would seek
to criminally charge those who burn the American flag...<br>
Yahoo News is a regular aggregator of other news sources, including
The Associated Press and Reuters, but it would be a highly alarming
and unfortunate editorial choice for Yahoo to aggregate fake news.
As other platforms such as Google and Facebook continue to struggle
in their fight against fake news, it is critical for major websites
like Yahoo to not drive traffic and give credibility to websites
that push fake news and misinformation.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/07/06/Yahoo-News-aggregates-a-right-wing-fake-news-website/217155">https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/07/06/Yahoo-News-aggregates-a-right-wing-fake-news-website/217155</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/democrat-tackles-climate-change-issues-defying-gop-leadership/">Democrat
Tackles Climate Change Issues, Defying GOP Leadership</a></b><br>
Congressperson Eddie Bernice Johnson plans to hold a series of round
tables on critical science issues, including ocean acidification and
environmental justice<br>
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson recently held an alternative hearing on
climate change for members of Congress and the public, defying the
leadership of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
Johnson, ranking member of the committee and a Democrat who
represents the 30th district of Texas, decided to hold what she
calls a "round table" on global warming because she feels that the
committee chair-Lamar Smith (R-Texas)-has not allowed real climate
experts to speak about their research at the hearings he has run.
Instead, she says, Smith gives climate change deniers a platform to
express their views.<br>
Johnson says this problem is not confined to global warming, and
that under Smith's leadership the committee does not focus enough on
science issues in general. So Johnson plans to host a series of
these round tables on issues such as ocean acidification,
environmental justice, artificial intelligence and more. Scientific
American asked Smith's staff for comments on the alternative
hearings and Johnson's remarks but did not receive a response by the
time of publication.<br>
Scientific American spoke with Johnson about her plans for the round
tables and what she hopes they will accomplish....<br>
Is this the beginning of a larger effort by some members to change
attitudes toward science in Congress?<br>
I cannot begin to guess why the attitude persists from this
leadership for us to go backwards. But what I can say is, I'm not
willing to cooperate with it. We might be hampered temporarily, but
we want the public to understand that we do not have our heads in
the sand. We're getting a lot of positive feedback from the general
public. People are very concerned about climate change, about
environmental safety, about the conditions of our water and air.
That concern continues to be expressed, and we feel an obligation to
be responsive. At the rate we're going, though, I don't know how
much we can do...<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/democrat-tackles-climate-change-issues-defying-gop-leadership/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/democrat-tackles-climate-change-issues-defying-gop-leadership/</a></font><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://youtu.be/AhJAF6nODCU"><br>
</a><font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://youtu.be/AhJAF6nODCU">This Day in Climate History
July 7, 2005 </a>- from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<font size="+1">July 7, 2005: Rick Piltz, who resigned from the US
Climate Change Science Program earlier in the year over the Bush
Administration's aggravated assault on climate science, appears on
Air America's "The Al Franken Show" to discuss the
administration's hostility to science. <br>
"Frederick Steven "Rick" Piltz was a former senior associate in
the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. In March 2005, he
resigned over political interference in the program's climate
change reports. In June 2005, the New York Times exposed the role
of Philip Cooney in editing government documents on climate change
to create scientific uncertainty. A former lobbyist with the
American Petroleum Institute, Cooney resigned and days later took
a job at Exxon Mobil.<br>
Piltz went on to found Climate Science Watch, a project to hold
public officials accountable for using climate science with
integrity in policy making. Climate Science Watch is a program of
the Government Accountability Project, a whistleblower protection
agency in Washington, D.C."</font><font size="+1"> <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_S._Piltz">(Wikipedia)</a><br>
</font><font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/AhJAF6nODCU">http://youtu.be/AhJAF6nODCU</a></font><font
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