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<font size="+1"><i>July 15, 2017</i></font><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.americansecurityproject.org/congress-climate-security/">Congress
Affirms Climate Change a Threat to Security - Asks for Military
to Prepare</a></b><br>
House Armed Services Committee<br>
In the House version of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act
(NDAA) (H.R. 2810), the committee accepted an amendment sponsored by
Congressman Langevin (RI) that stated that it was the sense of
Congress that climate change "is a direct threat to the national
security of the United States" and that military installations "must
be able to effectively prepare to mitigate climate damage."..<br>
The Amendment requires a report to Congress on vulnerabilities to
climate damage in military infrastructure and how climate change is
affecting missions like humanitarian assistance and disaster
response. The report would detail how much addressing climate change
is expected to cost the Department...<br>
The amendment was accepted by voice vote in committee. .. This vote
on the House floor was an important signal that Congress is ready to
support the military's actions in preparing for the effects of
climate change...<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.americansecurityproject.org/congress-climate-security/">https://www.americansecurityproject.org/congress-climate-security/</a></font><br>
<b>-more:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/07/14/extraordinary-bipartisan-showing-on-climate-and-security/">Extraordinary
Congressional Bipartisanship on Climate and Security</a></b><br>
At the highest level, the action demonstrates a growing bipartisan
political consensus in the United States that climate change is a
national security risk, and cannot be ignored. As climate
change-exacerbated impacts such as sea level rise, droughts and
wildfires are felt on the ground in Congressional districts across
the U.S. – including districts that house important military bases
and training ranges – it is becoming increasingly apparent that
climate change is no longer a theoretical, future problem. The risks
are present and real, and they have both practical and political
consequences...<br>
This seemingly obscure vote on July 13, 2017 may ultimately be a
marker in the historical sands, indicating a tipping point in
concern about the national security risks of a changing climate... <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/07/14/extraordinary-bipartisan-showing-on-climate-and-security/">https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/07/14/extraordinary-bipartisan-showing-on-climate-and-security/</a><br>
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(audio) To the Point - KCRW.org<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/to-the-point/do-we-need-to-be-scared-straight-on-climate-change/do-we-need-to-be-scared-straight-on-climate-change">Do
we need to be 'scared straight' on climate change?</a></b><br>
Maybe you're one of the two million people who read or shared the
recent New York Magazine cover story, which dares to imagine an
"uninhabitable Earth." Maybe you liked it. Maybe you found it
unhelpful or excessive. Guest host León Krauze asks, is it an
exercise in journalistic alarmism or necessary scientific awareness?<br>
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href="https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/to-the-point/do-we-need-to-be-scared-straight-on-climate-change/do-we-need-to-be-scared-straight-on-climate-change">https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/to-the-point/do-we-need-to-be-scared-straight-on-climate-change/do-we-need-to-be-scared-straight-on-climate-change</a><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans-annotated.html"><b>(NYMAG.com
followup) - The Uninhabitable Earth,<font size="+1"> Annotated
Edition</font></b></a><br>
The facts, research, and science behind the climate-change article
that explored our planet's worst-case scenarios.<br>
By David Wallace-Wells<br>
We published "The Uninhabitable Earth" on Sunday night, and the
response since has been extraordinary - both in volume (it is
already the most-read article in New York Magazine's history) and in
kind. Within hours, the article spawned a fleet of commentary across
newspapers, magazines, blogs, and Twitter, much of which came from
climate scientists and the journalists who cover them.<br>
Some of this conversation has been about the factual basis for
various claims that appear in the article. To address those
questions, and to give all readers more context for how the article
was reported and what further reading is available, we are
publishing here a version of the article filled with research
annotations. They include quotations from scientists I spoke with
throughout the reporting process; citations to scientific papers,
articles, and books I drew from; additional research provided by my
colleague Julia Mead; and context surrounding some of the more
contested claims. Since the article was published, we have made four
corrections and adjustments, which are noted in the annotations (as
well as at the end of the original version). They are all minor, and
none affects the central project of the story: to apply the best
science we have today to the median and high-end "business-as-usual"
warming projections produced by the U.N.'s "gold standard"
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans-annotated.html">http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans-annotated.html</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://qz.com/1029010/is-it-unethical-to-have-kids-in-the-era-of-climate-change-a-philosophy-professor-explains/">Is
it unethical to have kids in the era of climate change? A
philosophy professor explains</a></b><br>
Rivka Weinberg Professor of Philosophy, Scripps College<br>
But if the article's predictions are accurate, the global warming
apocalypse is at hand. We will suffer–a lot–then die, and then die
off. The looming environmental disaster will kill us in a variety of
ways: by suffocation in carbon-dioxide choked air; by prehistoric
plagues, currently trapped in icebergs, reemerging as the Arctic
melts; by starvation, as the arable land dries out; by poisoning
from lethal ocean gases released due to ocean life die-off, and by
simply cooking in the heat (we are meat, after all).<br>
This dark picture raises a key philosophical question: Is it morally
acceptable to create new people to suffer all this along with us?<br>
In <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.amazon.com/Risk-Lifetime-When-Procreation-Permissible/dp/0190243708/ref=sr_1_1">The
Risk of a Lifetime, my book</a> about the ethics that can guide
our decisions about procreation, I argue that when we have children,
we impose life's risks upon them. Therefore, we ought to consider
the nature of those risks in advance, in order to figure out whether
they are fair to impose...<br>
"Is life a worthwhile risk?" What makes Wallace-Wells' doomsday
scenario an unusual challenge to the morality of having children is
the ubiquity and scope of the risks it poses...<br>
So is it moral to bring a child into an environment about to be
destroyed by climate change? Well, if you want to have a baby, you'd
better fix the world, baby. And, apparently, a lot faster than we
thought.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://qz.com/1029010/is-it-unethical-to-have-kids-in-the-era-of-climate-change-a-philosophy-professor-explains/">https://qz.com/1029010/is-it-unethical-to-have-kids-in-the-era-of-climate-change-a-philosophy-professor-explains/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/man-who-coined-global-warming-on-worst-case-scenarios.html">The
Man Who Coined the Term 'Global Warming' on the Worst-Case
Scenario for Planet Earth</a></b><br>
<b>So what are the big things we should be worrying more about?</b><br>
I really think that ice melting and sea level are the big things.<br>
If we leave the CO2 in the air, it's probably going to melt the
Greenland ice sheet and probably Antarctica on a timescale of
probably a thousand years. Of course once you get that ice in the
ocean you're never going to get it back on the continent, so it's a
net loss forever, or for a really long time.<br>
<b>How fast do you think the melt will be?</b><br>
We don't know. It probably won't be catastrophic, it'll probably be
gradual, with maybe bursts of activity. But the big thing is that
sea level is going to go up several meters, and maybe as much as ten
meters. And that really eliminates a lot of stuff.<br>
In 1950s, when I was in graduate school, we got 15 percent of our
energy from renewables and nuclear, and 85 percent from fossil
fuels. Today it's the same. Both of them have been increasing at 3
percent a year.<br>
Renewables and nuclear are not changing in their percentage share.
And in order to stop the CO2 from rising we have to go to a
factor-of-ten reduction in fossil-fuel burning - at least a factor
of ten. And that means changing all the world's infrastructure.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/man-who-coined-global-warming-on-worst-case-scenarios.html">http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/man-who-coined-global-warming-on-worst-case-scenarios.html</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170712084947.htm">Global
warming could result in losses for the European wine industry</a></b><br>
Science Daily News July 12, 2017<br>
Slight increases in temperature in Mediterranean regions from global
warming could potentially result in labor, productivity and economic
losses for the European wine industry, an article in the journal
Temperature suggests.<br>
Researchers studied the effects of high temperatures on the labor
output and productivity of manual agricultural grape-picking workers
in the wine production industry in Cyprus, who often work in
conditions of up to 36 degrees Celsius.<br>
They found that higher temperatures in the working conditions during
the summer correlated with a significant labor loss of up to 27%,
due to the environmental heat causing increased perceived exertion
on worker's metabolic and cardiovascular systems and resulting in
reduced output....<br>
The authors warned that this research should not be considered an
exhaustive large scale study of the impact of global warming on
agriculture workers, and broader studies involving more workers and
different locations should be undertaken in order to full assess the
full impact.<br>
The study is the first of its kind in Europe assessing the impact of
workplace heat on European agriculture workers. The researchers used
an innovative approach to assess labor output and productivity of
seven workers called time-motion analysis which can analyse every
second spent by each worker during every work shift.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170712084947.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170712084947.htm</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/al-gores-quest-to-change-the-thinking-on-global-warming/">Al
Gore's quest to change the thinking on global warming</a></b><br>
CBS News<br>
Now a highly-visible advocate on the issue of climate change, former
Vice President Al Gore won't be giving that role up any time soon,
he tells Lee Cowan in an interview for CBS' "Sunday Morning," to be
broadcast July 16.<br>
"I could not lay this down or put it aside even if I wanted to, and
I don't want to," Gore tells Cowan. "We've still got to win this. So
those who feel despair should be of good cheer, as the Bible says.<br>
"Have faith, have hope, we are going to win this."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/al-gores-quest-to-change-the-thinking-on-global-warming/">http://www.cbsnews.com/news/al-gores-quest-to-change-the-thinking-on-global-warming/</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/huX1bmfdkyA">An
Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power (2017)- Official Trailer -
Paramount Pictures</a></b><br>
... the sequel to An Inconvenient Truth. In theatres July 28, 2017.
#BeInconvenient<br>
Climate Changes, Truth Does Not. <br>
A decade after AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH brought climate change into
the heart of popular culture, comes the riveting and rousing
follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy
revolution. Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight
traveling around the world training an army of climate champions and
influencing international climate policy. Cameras follow him behind
the scenes – in moments both private and public, funny and poignant
-- as he pursues the inspirational idea that while the stakes have
never been higher, the perils of climate change can be overcome with
human ingenuity and passion.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/huX1bmfdkyA">https://youtu.be/huX1bmfdkyA</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/7/14/15969034/game-of-thrones-theory-climate-change">Game
of Thrones is secretly all about climate change</a></b><br>
Game of Thrones is back. And from what we can tell from the show's
latest trailer, it seems like we might finally see the noble houses
of Westeros unite to face the growing threat of the White Walkers,
the north-of-the-Wall monsters that command a gigantic zombie army.<br>
The White Walkers are some of Thrones' creepiest monsters - but they
also help tell a really interesting metaphor about <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.vox.com/cards/global-warming/what-is-global-warming">climate
change</a>.<br>
For starters, the White Walkers are a threat to all humanity: Their
zombie minions are equally happy to rip apart people of all nations
and noble houses. Yet instead of uniting to combat the shared threat
to human existence, the houses in the show spend basically all their
time on their own petty disagreements and struggle for power. White
Walkers are generally ignored; some nobles deny their existence
outright.<br>
Swap climate change for White Walkers and "countries" for noble
houses, and it starts to sound a lot like the real world.<br>
Specifically, it sounds like the problem of international
coordination on climate change. No one country can prevent
catastrophic warming on its own: Every country that's a major
greenhouse gas emitter is part of the problem.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/7/14/15969034/game-of-thrones-theory-climate-change">https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/7/14/15969034/game-of-thrones-theory-climate-change</a><br>
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<b><font size="+1">Snopes </font><br>
</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.snopes.com/climatology-fraud-global-warming/">Peer-Reviewed
Study Proves All Recent Global Warming Fabricated by
Climatologists?</a></b><br>
A blog post, even if you like it and it is presented in downloadable
PDF form, is not a peer-reviewed study.<br>
<b>CLAIM</b><br>
A peer-reviewed study has found evidence that nearly all of global
warming has been fabricated by climate scientists<br>
<b>RATING</b> <font size="+1"> <b> (X) FALSE</b></font><br>
<b>ORIGIN</b><br>
On 9 July 2017, Breitbart News ran a story written by chart
enthusiast James Delingpole, which carried a characteristically
provocative and demonstrably false headline:<br>
'Nearly All' Recent Global Warming Is Fabricated, Study Finds<br>
In it, Delingpole alleges that a "peer-reviewed" study (first
"exclusively" highlighted by the Daily Caller), written by "two
scientists and a veteran statistician" found evidence that "much of
global warming has been fabricated by climate scientists":<br>
<blockquote>The peer-reviewed study by two scientists and a veteran
statistician looked at the global average temperature datasets
(GAST) which are used by climate alarmists to argue that recent
years have been "the hottest evah" and that the warming of the
last 120 years has been dramatic and unprecedented.<br>
What they found is that these readings are "totally inconsistent
with published and credible U.S. and other temperature data." That
is, the adjusted data used by alarmist organizations like NASA,
NOAA, and the UK Met Office differs so markedly from the original
raw data that it cannot be trusted.<br>
</blockquote>
<b>A Peer-Reviewed Study?</b><br>
Breitbart here lowers the bar for what passes as both
"peer-reviewed" and a "study". This report, published on a WordPress
blog run by co-author Joseph D'Aleo - a meteorologist who did not
complete a PhD, but who prominently advertises his honorary
doctorate on the document's cover page - is not published in a
scientific journal....<br>
Additionally, this study is not (as implied by some coverage) an
official publication of the Cato Institute, despite the fact that
co-author Craig Idso is an adjunct scientist there. "This study was
not published by the Cato Institute," a representative of the
libertarian think tank told us....<br>
Ultimately, the central argument of this study and its
representation by Breitbart and others is one based on a willful
misreading of data propelled by a study whose academic rigor has
been misrepresented. As such, we rank the claim that climate
scientists have created global warming entirely through corrections
to raw data as false. While these corrections to raw historical data
have shifted over time, the cumulative effect of all corrections
applied to the raw data has been to reduce apparent global warming
over the industrialized period, not the other way around.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.snopes.com/climatology-fraud-global-warming/">http://www.snopes.com/climatology-fraud-global-warming/</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/17/obituaries/roger-revelle-82-early-theorist-in-global-warming-and-geology.html">This
Day in Climate History July 15, 1991</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
July 15, 1991: Pioneering climate scientist Roger Revelle passes
away at 82<br>
Roger Revelle, an early predictor of global warming and a leader in
several fields of science, died Monday at the Medical Center of the
University of California at San Diego. He was 82 years old.<br>
Dr. Revelle distinguished himself as both a researcher and an
administrator. From 1951 to 1964 he headed the Scripps Institution
of Oceanography at La Jolla, now part of the University of
California at San Diego, and in that time Scripps, working with two
sister institutions on the East Coast, laid the foundations for a
revolutionary theory of the earth, now known as plate tectonics. An
Early Warning of Warming<br>
In the 1950's he became concerned about the increase of atmospheric
carbon dioxide from global use of fossil fuels. Air was being
sampled atop a Hawaiian volcano and the specimens were shipped to
Scripps for analysis. Dr. Revell's warning was one of the first that
a global warming might ensue. <br>
. Among his diverse scientific contributions was his innovative
work, with Sir Edward and Arthur E. Maxwell, on the upward flow of
heat through the ocean floors. Such heat flow on land is generated
by radioactivity in the rock, but samples from the ocean floor
showed little radioactivity, so negligible heat flow was expected.<br>
Dr. Revelle and his colleagues built a device that plunged into
ocean-floor sediment and made the critical measurements. These
showed far more heat than expected and helped demonstrate that hot
material was flowing under the oceans, a discovery that was the
prelude to the theory of plate tectonics. There is still no
agreement on the source of the flow.<br>
According to the theory, large plates of the earth's surface,
including continents and ocean floors, are spreading away from
ridges in mid-ocean and going down under arcs of volcanic islands
like the Aleutians or under volcanic coastlines like those of
western South America. <br>
Dr. Revelle helped organize the International Geophysical Year of
1957-58, which inaugurated the space age and was the most ambitious
program of global research up to that time. <br>
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href="http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/17/obituaries/roger-revelle-82-early-theorist-in-global-warming-and-geology.html">http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/17/obituaries/roger-revelle-82-early-theorist-in-global-warming-and-geology.html</a></font><br>
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