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<font size="+1"><i>August 2, 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/1/16074956/global-warming-visualization-117-years-191-countries">This
video shows the extraordinary trend of global warming in more
than 100 countries</a></b><br>
117 years of data in 35 seconds. - video of graphic<br>
This captivating video created by Antti Lipponen visualizes more
than 100 years of temperature change in 191 countries in just 35
seconds.<br>
Lipponen, a researcher at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, used
publicly available data from NASA to demonstrate the rising
temperatures across the world.<br>
This isn't the first time the story of global warming has been told
with the help of a mesmerizing graphic. Last year, Brad Plumer wrote
for Vox about a viral GIF created by climate scientist Ed Hawkins,
and David Roberts wrote about a set of clever climate GIFs inspired
by the one Hawkins made.<br>
Hawkins's 2016 GIF showed the rise in global temperature from 1850
to 2016 but didn't disaggregate by country like Lipponen's does.
Still, Plumer's description of it is useful for understanding what
Lipponen's video shows:<br>
Global warming isn't a smooth process, and there are fluctuations
from year to year due to internal variability (e.g., changes in the
sun's intensity, volcanic eruptions, or shifts in the amount of heat
stored in deeper layers of the ocean). But as we keep adding
greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and keep trapping extra heat on
Earth, that effect eventually dominates, pushing overall
temperatures higher and higher. The spiral moves outward.<br>
In Lipponen's graphic, the color and length of a bar represent the
same thing: the average temperature anomaly of each country each
year.<br>
By using anomaly data (instead of absolute temperature data),
Lipponen makes it easy to see how each country's temperature at any
given point differs from a baseline.<br>
But a broad trend is startlingly clear, and Lipponen inserts a
smaller graphic in the upper right-hand corner to show it: It's
getting hotter all around the world.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/1/16074956/global-warming-visualization-117-years-191-countries">https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/1/16074956/global-warming-visualization-117-years-191-countries</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2017/08/01/its-taken-time-but-electric-utilities-are-warming-up-to-climate-change/">It's
Taken Time, But Electric Utilities Are Warming Up To Climate
Change</a></b><br>
The Energy and Policy Institute has issued a report pointing out
that scientists first warned the electric power sector of the
greenhouse effect at the Edison Electric Institute's annual
convention in 1968. That's when Dr. Donald F. Hornig, a science
advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson, enlightened the gathering
that rising temperatures could lead to aberrant weather patterns,
melting ice caps and the erosion of crops that would lead to food
shortages.<br>
The aim of diverting capital to smart technologies, he adds, is to
increase the network's utilization factor from around 40 percent to
as much as 80 percent. Between 2010 and 2015, he says that the
business either deferred or avoided $664 million worth of utility
infrastructure.<br>
The utility sector may have been slow to accept the science behind
climate change. But market forces are now causing them to warm up to
the cause.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2017/08/01/its-taken-time-but-electric-utilities-are-warming-up-to-climate-change/">https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2017/08/01/its-taken-time-but-electric-utilities-are-warming-up-to-climate-change/</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/seas-rise-trees-die-climate-change-eyes-48961148">Climate
change before your eyes: Seas rise and trees die</a></b><br>
In the past 100 years, Kirwan said, 100,000 acres of forest in the
Chesapeake Bay has converted to marshland. Photographs show the rate
of coastal forest loss is four times greater now than it was during
the 1930s, he said.<br>
Seas off the East Coast have risen by 1.3 feet over the last 100
years, said Ben Horton, a Rutgers University professor and expert on
sea level rise. That is a faster pace than for the past 2,000 years
combined, he said.<br>
Some of the most dramatic anecdotal evidence of the acceleration in
ghost forest creation is along the Savannah River between Georgia
and South Carolina, Noe said.<br>
When his team first got there 10 years ago, "it looked like the
trees were under a little stress, but they were all alive," he said.
"But five years later, the vast majority of them were dead. That
happened right in front of our eyes, much faster than we expected."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/seas-rise-trees-die-climate-change-eyes-48961148">http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/seas-rise-trees-die-climate-change-eyes-48961148</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2017/aug/01/well-never-tackle-climate-change-if-academics-keep-the-focus-on-consensus">We'll
never tackle climate change if academics keep the focus on
consensus</a></b><br>
Warren Pearce <br>
In a democracy, we hope that science helps to inform the public
about its problems. In the case of climate change, believe it or
not, the evidence suggests this is going relatively well.<br>
Climate science is a vast, sprawling field of knowledge that has
achieved great success in occupying the public consciousness.
According to Yale University's Climate Change in the American Mind
project, six in ten Americans are worried about global warming,
seven in ten think global warming is happening and eight in ten
think humans have the ability to reduce global warming. These
figures have fluctuated very little since 2012, suggesting that the
US public is relatively well informed about the risk, reality and
policy potential of climate change, even in the face of
well-documented attacks by climate sceptics.<br>
Nonetheless, we are left with a puzzle: if so few Americans appear
to know the exact level of scientific consensus, why do so many of
them think climate change is real and worrisome? The simplest
explanation is that the public have already heard enough about the
scientific evidence to make up their mind, without being fed
increasingly esoteric information about levels of scientific
agreement. The real question is not whether the US public think
climate change is a problem (most of them do), but what should be
done about it. Here it is the crucial non-scientific issues around
climate change that should take centre stage. Instead, valuable
media and political attention has been expended on boosting the 97%
meme, crowding out deeper conversations about policy framing,
coalition building, public values and morality which do not lend
themselves to headline numbers.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2017/aug/01/well-never-tackle-climate-change-if-academics-keep-the-focus-on-consensus">https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2017/aug/01/well-never-tackle-climate-change-if-academics-keep-the-focus-on-consensus</a></font><br>
<b>Beyond Counting Climate Consensus</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17524032.2017.1333965">http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17524032.2017.1333965</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/08/heres-another-study-that-will-give-you-global-warming-nightmares/">Here's
(Another) Study That Will Give You Global Warming Nightmares</a></b><br>
Temperatures are rising fast.<br>
With each passing year, the odds get worse that climate change
mitigation efforts will be able to stave off catastrophic warming of
more than 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. A new study
published on July 31 in Nature Climate Change is the opposite of
reassuring when it comes to this math. Using statistical tools, the
authors found that there's a 5 percent chance Earth will warm 2
degrees or less by the end of this century and a 90 percent chance
that temperatures will increase from 2.0 to 4.9C if historical
trends continue unabated. The other 5 percent, well that's
worst-case scenario runaway global warming—the kind of thing that
keeps geoengineers up at night. <br>
What matters a lot more for future warming is actually carbon
intensity. According to the study, even though carbon intensity has
dropped in recent decades as countries increase energy efficiency
and enact carbon-reducing policies, it will need to drop much more
to see the kind of progress the global climate community is aiming
for with the Paris Agreement targets. <br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/08/heres-another-study-that-will-give-you-global-warming-nightmares/">http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/08/heres-another-study-that-will-give-you-global-warming-nightmares/</a>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jul/31/2017-is-so-far-the-second-hottest-year-on-record-thanks-to-global-warming"><font
size="+1">2017 is so far the second-hottest year on record
thanks to global warming</font></a></b><br>
2017 is behind only El Niño-amplified 2016.<br>
View of the cracked riverbed scorched by heat waves at the Nanchang
section of the Ganjiang river in Nanchang city, east China's Jiangxi
province.<br>
Dana Nuccitelli<br>
Monday 31 July 2017 06.00 EDT Last modified on Monday 31 July 2017
07.29 EDT<br>
With the first six months of 2017 in the books, average global
surface temperatures so far this year are 0.94C above the 1950–1980
average, according to NASA. That makes 2017 the second-hottest first
six calendar months on record, behind only 2016.<br>
That's remarkable because 2017 hasn't had the warming influence of
an El Niño event. El Niños bring warm ocean water to the surface,
temporarily causing average global surface temperatures to rise.
2016 – including the first six months of the year – was influenced
by one of the strongest El Niño events on record.<br>
Reality has debunked the 'warming stopped' myth<br>
For a long time one of the favorite climate denier myths involved
claiming that we hadn't seen any global surface warming since 1998.
That myth has fallen by the wayside since 2014, 2015, and 2016 each
broke the global surface temperature records previously set in 2010
and 2005 (which were also both hotter than 1998). Yet the myth
persisted for years because 1998 was anomalously hot due to the
monster El Niño event that year, which meant that global
temperatures weren't much hotter than 1998 until 2014 to today.<br>
Now the first six months of 2017 have been 0.3C hotter than 1998,
despite the former having no El Niño warming influence and the
latter being amplified by a monster El Niño. In 1998, there was also
more solar energy reaching Earth than there has been in 2017.<br>
Today's remarkably hot temperatures, caused by human carbon
pollution, are a sign of what's to come. If we don't get global
warming under control, the consequences will indeed be bad.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jul/31/2017-is-so-far-the-second-hottest-year-on-record-thanks-to-global-warming">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jul/31/2017-is-so-far-the-second-hottest-year-on-record-thanks-to-global-warming</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPzJyFTNlHQ">Surviving the
Bleakness of The News</a></b><br>
University of California Television (UCTV)<br>
Published on Aug 1, 2017<br>
(Visit: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.uctv.tv/">http://www.uctv.tv/</a>)
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Journalist Ari Shapiro shares his healthy approach to an onslaught
of bleak world news. Shapiro's passion for literature has inspired
him to find and report great stories in Washington, Europe and
elsewhere around the world in his remarkable rise from radio intern
to co-host of NPR's flagship news program, All Things Considered.
Shapiro is the featured speaker at the 2016 Dinner in the Library
event at the Geisel Library at UC San Diego. Series: "The Library
Channel" [Show ID: 32726]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPzJyFTNlHQ">Watch the
Entire Program Here:</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPzJyFTNlHQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPzJyFTNlHQ</a><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2006/08/03/6719/robertson-global-warming/">This
Day in Climate History August 2, 2006 </a>- from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
August 2, 2006: Republican televangelist Pat Robertson calls for
action on human-caused climate change, a position he would abandon
several years later.<br>
<b>Pat Robertson: I'm 'A Convert' On Global Warming, 'It Is Getting
Hotter'</b><br>
Yesterday on the 700 Club, evangelical Pat Robertson declared
himself "a convert" on global warming. Robertson said that he has
"not been one who believed in global warming in the past.” But now,
Robertson said, he believes "it is getting hotter and the ice caps
are melting and there is a build up of carbon dioxide in the air."
Robertson implored, "we really need to do something on fossil
fuels." Watch it:<br>
Robertson talked briefly about global warming again on today’s
edition of the 700 club. Alternet has the video.<br>
Today's transcript:<br>
<i>They are defending the society. But I tell you stay in doors
ladies and gentleman. Stay cool. Get fans or whatever. And the
poor, they need emergency fans and ice to cool down - the number
of people dead. I have not been one who believed in the global
warming. But I tell you, they are making a convert out of me as
these blistering summers. They have broken heat records in a
number of cities already this year and broken all-time records and
it is getting hotter and the ice caps are melting and there is a
build up of carbon dioxide in the air. We really need to address
the burning of fossil fuels. If we are contributing to the
destruction of the planet we need to do manage about it.</i><br>
<font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2006/08/03/6719/robertson-global-warming/">http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2006/08/03/6719/robertson-global-warming/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/zxT0Nug1XqY">http://youtu.be/zxT0Nug1XqY</a></font><br>
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