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<font size="+1"><i>July 9, 2017<br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/07/08/at_the_g20_the_united_states_stood_alone_on_climate_change.html">When
it Comes to Climate Change, It's G19 vs the United States</a></b><i><br>
</i></font>Donald Trump was left isolated as as every other world
leader signed up to the final compromise agreement that declared the
Paris accord "irreversible." They also vowed that the deal would be
implemented "swiftly" and without exceptions.<br>
Global leaders didn't hide their anger at Trump's intractable
position. British Prime Minister Theresa May, for example, said she
was "dismayed at the U.S decision to pull out" of the Paris accord
and had personally urged Trump to reconsider. German Chancellor
Angela Merkel also was careful to highlight the points of
disagreement with the United States. "Wherever there is no consensus
that can be achieved, disagreement has to be made clear," Merkel
said at the end of the summit. "Unfortunately—and I deplore this—the
United States of America left the climate agreement."<br>
For some the global meeting marked yet another example of how the
United States is moving against the current when it comes to the
crucial issue—a decision that allies of the former administration
say could cost the U.S. economy dearly.<font size="+1"><br>
</font><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/07/08/at_the_g20_the_united_states_stood_alone_on_climate_change.html">http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/07/08/at_the_g20_the_united_states_stood_alone_on_climate_change.html</a><font
size="+1"><i><br>
</i>-more:<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/08/donald-trump-paris-climate-agreement-g20-summit-us-theresa-may">Trump
left in cold over Paris climate agreement at end of G20 summit</a></b><br>
</font>All other world leaders sign declaration that deal is
irreversible after US withdrawal sparks standoff in Hamburg<br>
Donald Trump was left isolated at the end of a fractious G20 summit
in Hamburg, Germany, after every other world leader signed up to a
declaration that the Paris climate agreement was irreversible
following an unprecedented standoff.<br>
After the publication of a final communique that saw the emergence
of a G19 grouping for the first time, Theresa May said she was
"dismayed at the US decision to pull out" of the accord and had
personally urged the president to reconsider.<font size="+1"><br>
</font><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/08/donald-trump-paris-climate-agreement-g20-summit-us-theresa-may">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/08/donald-trump-paris-climate-agreement-g20-summit-us-theresa-may</a><font
size="+1"><br>
-more:<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://time.com/4850421/g20-trump-paris-agreement-climate-change/">Why
Trump Pulling Out of the Paris Agreement Led to a Stronger
Global Climate Change Plan</a></b><br>
</font>But on Saturday, with the exception of Trump, the leaders of
the world's largest economies gathered at the G20 reaffirmed their
commitment to fostering clean energy development and implementing
the Paris Agreement on climate change. Instead of attracting other
laggards, Trump's decision freed the rest of the world to issue a
strong <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.g20.org/Content/DE/_Anlagen/G7_G20/2017-g20-climate-and-energy-en.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=4">Climate
and Energy Action Plan for Growth </a>Saturday that aims to
address global warming — and measures aimed at appeasing Trump were
mostly absent.<font size="+1"><br>
</font><font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://time.com/4850421/g20-trump-paris-agreement-climate-change/">http://time.com/4850421/g20-trump-paris-agreement-climate-change/</a></font><font
size="+1"><br>
</font><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.g20.org/Content/DE/_Anlagen/G7_G20/2017-g20-climate-and-energy-en.pdf">https://www.g20.org/Content/DE/_Anlagen/G7_G20/2017-g20-climate-and-energy-en.pdf</a><font
size="+1"><br>
<br>
<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-extreme-heat_us_595fb607e4b0615b9e9120ad">Trump's
EPA Warns Us To Wear Sunscreen While It Does Nothing About
Global Warming</a></b><br>
The agency says it's important to prepare for extreme heat.
Meanwhile, administrator Scott Pruitt doesn't believe carbon
dioxide is driving climate change.<br>
By Chris D'Angelo<br>
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency, which under
President Donald Trump removed its climate change website and is
set to launch a program to "critique" near-universally accepted
climate science, has some advice for protecting yourself against
extreme heat this summer. <br>
"It's summertime!" the agency wrote in a Friday post to Twitter.
"That means the days can get hot. Wear sunscreen and plan for the
heat." ...<br>
The post links to an EPA web page about preparing for and staying
safe in extreme heat - a page that has remained virtually
unchanged since the Obama administration...<br>
</font><font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-extreme-heat_us_595fb607e4b0615b9e9120ad">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-extreme-heat_us_595fb607e4b0615b9e9120ad</a></font><font
size="+1"><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.net/22633-2/">Climate change
may increase California's rain</a></b><br>
In a warmer world California's rain may be more ample than today.
But so far most climate scientists foresee more drought.<br>
By Tim Radford<br>
LONDON, 9 July, 2017 – If humans go on burning fossil fuels, then
California might, after all, remain the Golden State. It will get
warmer. But, against all predictions, it might also get wetter.<br>
A new study suggests that by the century's end, Californians could
see 12% more rain than they experienced in the last 20 years of
the 20th century.<br>
This is not the standard forecast. Almost all other climate models
have warned that California – still recovering from a calamitous
and sustained drought – could, like the whole of the US Southwest,
become both hotter and drier and far more at risk of wildfire.<i><br>
</i></font><font color="#000099"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.net/22633-2/">http://climatenewsnetwork.net/22633-2/</a></font><font
size="+1"><br>
more:<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms16055">El
Niño-like teleconnection increases California precipitation in
response to warming</a></b><br>
</font>
<blockquote><font size="+1">Abstract</font><br>
<font size="+1">Future California (CA) precipitation projections,
including those from the most recent Climate Model
Intercomparison Project (CMIP5), remain uncertain. This
uncertainty is related to several factors, including relatively
large internal climate variability, model shortcomings, and
because CA lies within a transition zone, where mid-latitude
regions are expected to become wetter and subtropical regions
drier. Here, we use a multitude of models to show CA may receive
more precipitation in the future under a business-as-usual
scenario. The boreal winter season-when most of the CA
precipitation increase occurs-is associated with robust changes
in the mean circulation reminiscent of an El Niño
teleconnection. Using idealized simulations with two different
models, we further show that warming of tropical Pacific sea
surface temperatures accounts for these changes. Models that
better simulate the observed El Niño-CA precipitation
teleconnection yield larger, and more consistent increases in CA
precipitation through the twenty-first century.</font><br>
<font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms16055">https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms16055</a></font><br>
</blockquote>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-power-explosion-20170708-story.html">Explosion,
major fire rocks DWP power station; 140,000 customers without
power</a></b><br>
An explosion Saturday at a Los Angeles Department of Water and
Power plant in the San Fernando Valley has caused a major fire and
knocked out electricity to 140,000 customers.<br>
The power outages hit businesses and residents in Northridge,
Winnetka, Reseda, Lake Balboa, Tarzana, North Hills, Granada
Hills, Chatsworth, West Hills, Canoga Park, and Woodland Hills,
according to the DWP. It's unclear when power would be restored.<br>
The loss of power comes at the peak of a heat wave that pushed
temperatures 100 degrees in many parts of the Valley.<br>
Firefighters were battling the blaze at 8900 Parthenia St. in
Northridge. Parthenia was closed in both directions between
Yolanda and Vanalden avenues, according to the fire department.<br>
</font><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-power-explosion-20170708-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-power-explosion-20170708-story.html</a><font
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-06/global-warming-might-be-speeding-up">Global
Warming Might Be Speeding Up</a></b><br>
Two climate scientists suggest they've come closer to resolving a
critical debate about how quickly human activity will heat up the
planet. The answer isn't good news.<br>
It's almost universally understood that the Earth will continue to
get warmer for the foreseeable future. The rate at which the
planet warms, however, won't remain the same, report Cristian
Proistosescu and Peter Huybers of Harvard University. They say
it's likely to speed up. <br>
Some parts of the planet heat up more slowly than others, they
explain. But as more time passes, regions once less affected by
global warming will get hotter. Thus the bulk of planetary warming
this century may actually be back-loaded onto its final decades.<br>
The analysis, published Wednesday in Science Advances, addresses
the gap between two long-battling camps struggling to understand
how quickly the world will warm. <br>
Climate change may have two speeds, depending where you are on
Earth<br>
</font><font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-06/global-warming-might-be-speeding-up">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-06/global-warming-might-be-speeding-up</a></font><font
size="+1"><br>
-more:<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1602821">Slow
climate mode reconciles historical and model-based estimates
of climate sensitivity</a></b><br>
</font>
<blockquote><font size="+1">Abstract</font><br>
<font size="+1">The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change Assessment Report widened the equilibrium climate
sensitivity (ECS) range from 2° to 4.5°C to an updated range of
1.5° to 4.5°C in order to account for the lack of consensus
between estimates based on models and historical observations.
The historical ECS estimates range from 1.5° to 3°C and are
derived assuming a linear radiative response to warming. A
Bayesian methodology applied to 24 models, however, documents
curvature in the radiative response to warming from an evolving
contribution of interannual to centennial modes of radiative
response. Centennial modes display stronger amplifying feedbacks
and ultimately contribute 28 to 68% (90% credible interval) of
equilibrium warming, yet they comprise only 1 to 7% of current
warming. Accounting for these unresolved centennial
contributions brings historical records into agreement with
model-derived ECS estimates.</font><br>
<font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1602821">http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1602821</a></font><br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://cleantechnica.com/2017/07/08/us-economy-damaged-severely-climate-change-study-finds/">US
Economy To Be Damaged Severely By Climate Change, Study Finds</a></b><br>
The United States of America will be facing severe economic damage
as the effects of anthropogenic climate change continue intensifying
over the coming decades. A new study published in the journal
Science predicts that unmitigated climate change will damage the
poorest-third of US counties to the tune of 20% of total income.<br>
It should be realized here, though, that the study predicts overall
losses — potential economic gains in more northerly parts of the US
will in no way make up for the losses in other parts of the country,
according to the study. Widening economic inequality and economic
restructuring are also predicted by the new study.<br>
So, to be extra clear on the implications of the new work here — the
near- and mid-term economic effects of anthropogenic climate change
on the US will be profoundly negative. This is even when some of the
most negative potential effects and feedback loops of climate change
aren't taken into consideration.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170629142958.htm">The
press release</a> provides more: "The pioneering study may settle
the debate over whether climate change will help or hurt the US
economy, being the first to use state-of-the-art statistical methods
and 116 climate projections developed by scientists around the world
to price the impacts of climate change the way the insurance
industry or an investor would, comparing risks and rewards.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://cleantechnica.com/2017/07/08/us-economy-damaged-severely-climate-change-study-finds/">https://cleantechnica.com/2017/07/08/us-economy-damaged-severely-climate-change-study-finds/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/2277298/President-George-Bush-Goodbye-from-the-worlds-biggest-polluter.html">This
Day in Climate History July 9, 2008</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<font size="+1">July 9, 2008: The UK Daily Telegraph reports that
prior to leaving the G8 Summit in Japan, President George W. Bush,
"who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to
tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words:
'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.' He then punched the
air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including
[British Prime Minister] Gordon Brown and [French President]
Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock."<br>
The White House apologised for what it called "sloppy work" and
said an official had simply lifted the characterisation from the
internet without reading it.<br>
Concluding the three-day event, leaders from the G8 and developing
countries proclaimed a "shared vision" on climate change. However,
they failed to bridge differences between rich and emerging
nations on curbing emissions. <br>
</font><font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/2277298/President-George-Bush-Goodbye-from-the-worlds-biggest-polluter.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/2277298/President-George-Bush-Goodbye-from-the-worlds-biggest-polluter.html</a><br>
</font><font color="#666666"><font color="#000000">The Prime
Minister described the Geneva talks as "make or break", adding:
"If we fail this month to secure a trade agreement, it will not
be easy to resume negotiations... We are at one minute to
midnight."</font><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/bush-to-g8-goodbye-from-the-worlds-biggest-polluter-863911.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/bush-to-g8-goodbye-from-the-worlds-biggest-polluter-863911.html</a></font><font
size="+1"><br>
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