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<font size="+1"><i>August 5, 2017</i></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-could-get-you-bumped-from-a-future-flight/"><br>
Climate Change Could Get You Bumped from a Future Flight</a></b><br>
Major airports will see more frequent takeoff weight restrictions in
the coming decades due to increasingly common hot temperatures<br>
By Ethan Coffel, Radley Horton August 4, 2017<br>
Hot weather has forced dozens of commercial flights to be canceled
at airports in the Southwest this summer. This flight-disrupting
heat is a warning sign. Climate change is projected to have
far-reaching repercussions-including sea level rise inundating
cities and shifting weather patterns causing long-term declines in
agricultural yields. And there is evidence that it is beginning to
affect the takeoff performance of commercial aircraft, with
potential effects on airline costs.<br>
National and global transportation systems and the economic activity
they support have been optimized for the climate in which it all
developed: Machines are designed to operate in common temperature
ranges, logistical plans depend on historical weather patterns and
coastal land development is based on known flood zones. In the
aviation sector, airports and aircraft are designed for the weather
conditions experienced historically. Because the climate is
changing, even fundamental infrastructure elements like airports and
key economic sectors like air transportation may need to be
redesigned and reengineered.<br>
As scientists focused on the impacts of climate change and extreme
weather on human society and natural ecosystems around the world,
our research has quantified how extreme heat associated with our
warming climate may affect flights around the world. We've found
that major airports from New York to Dubai to Bangkok will see more
frequent takeoff weight restrictions in the coming decades due to
increasingly common hot temperatures.<br>
On most affected flights, the amount of cargo, passengers and fuel
that must be removed to allow for takeoff will usually be
small-between 0.5 percent and 4 percent of the total load. That
means fewer paying customers on airplanes, and less cargo on board.
When those restrictions add up across the global air transport
system, the costs can be significant.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-could-get-you-bumped-from-a-future-flight/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-could-get-you-bumped-from-a-future-flight/</a><br>
see also <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://theconversation.com/how-hot-weather-and-climate-change-affect-airline-flights-80795">https://theconversation.com/how-hot-weather-and-climate-change-affect-airline-flights-80795</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/climate-change-global-warming-environment-dadly-killed-forest-fires-heatwave-europe-a7877781.html"><br>
Every second we waste denying climate change exists is time we
steal from the next generation who will suffer the terrible
consequences</a><br>
</b>What is most devastating of all is that those with wealth and
power, who have such a disproportionate effect on the planet, will
pay little attention until it is their livelihood under threat from
extreme weather<br>
oyed. But it is not only the forests and the oceans, the wildlife
and the Arctic sea ice that is being wiped out – soon it will be the
people, too.<br>
The Lancet has today published a report that lays bare the
devastating impact climate change will have on populations across
Europe. Between 1981 and 2010, extreme weather events killed about
3,000 people a year.<br>
According to the research, this will increase 50 times to an
estimated 152,000 people who will die in weather-related disasters
every year between 2071 and 2100.<br>
There are people alive today who will witness these deaths. I could
be one of them – in 2071, I would be approaching my 86th birthday.
Climate change is not a far-off problem of the future. It is
happening right now – and if we do not take action, our lives, and
the lives of our children and grandchildren, will be put at risk.<br>
Every second we waste denying climate change exists and ignoring its
deadly impact is time we steal from the next generation, who will
suffer the terrible consequences.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/climate-change-global-warming-environment-dadly-killed-forest-fires-heatwave-europe-a7877781.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/climate-change-global-warming-environment-dadly-killed-forest-fires-heatwave-europe-a7877781.html</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/08/04/Schwarzenegger-launches-climate-change-project/9531501861395/">Schwarzenegger
launches climate change project</a><br>
</b>By Ed Adamczyk Aug. 4 (UPI) <br>
Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday
unveiled an environmental initiative to answer President Donald
Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate accords.<br>
Called the Digital Environmental Legislative Handbook, it is a
searchable database of environmental bills and laws designed to help
legislators create their own climate change laws.<br>
The initiative is a cooperative effort between the Schwarzenegger
Institute at the University of Southern California and the National
Caucus of Environmental Legislators.<br>
Although it's a California project, advocates said it can be used to
fight climate change nationwide.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/08/04/Schwarzenegger-launches-climate-change-project/9531501861395/">https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/08/04/Schwarzenegger-launches-climate-change-project/9531501861395/</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119068118.html">Recent
Climate Change Impacts on Mountain Glaciers</a></b><br>
Mauri Pelto<br>
ISBN: 978-1-119-06811-2<br>
January 2017<br>
Glaciers are considered a key and an iconic indicator of climate
change. The World Glacier Monitoring Service has noted that global
alpine balance has been negative for 35 consecutive years. This
highlights the dire future that alpine glaciers face.<br>
The goal of this volume is to tell the story, glacier by glacier, of
response to climate change from 1984-2015. Of the 165 glaciers
examined in 10 different alpine regions, 162 have retreated
significantly. It is evident that the changes are significant, not
happening at a "glacial" pace, and are profoundly affecting alpine
regions. There is a consistent result that reverberates from
mountain range to mountain range, which emphasizes that although
regional glacier and climate feedbacks differ, global changes are
driving the response. This book considers ten different glaciated
regions around the individual glaciers, and offers a different tune
to the same chorus of glacier volume loss in the face of climate
change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119068118.html">http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119068118.html</a><br>
see also: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://blogs.agu.org/fromaglaciersperspective/">http://blogs.agu.org/fromaglaciersperspective/</a><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.euronews.com/2017/08/04/how-climate-change-could-lead-to-more-grim-discoveries-among-europe-s-peaks"><br>
<b>How Climate Change Could Lead To More Grim Discoveries Among
Europe's Peaks</b></a><br>
Chris Harris<br>
Climate change means increasing numbers of missing people are
expected to be found among Europe's melting peaks, it's been
claimed.<br>
Global warming and its subsequent hotter-than-normal summers is
seeing glaciers recede, opening the door to more discoveries of
human remains, an expert has told Euronews.<br>
Two climbers alerted Swiss police last week after spotting a hand
and two shoes on the Hohlaub glacier.<br>
Rescuers later freed a mummified body that police say is likely to
be a German walker, born in 1943, who went missing on a hike in
August 1987.<br>
A week earlier the bodies of a Swiss couple were discovered, 75
years since they were last seen taking their cattle to high ground.<br>
It comes after the remains of a victim of an Air India crash more
than 50 years ago was discovered on Mount Blanc in the French Alps.<br>
Hubertus Fischer, a glaciologist at the University of Bern's
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, said the discoveries
had not been caused by one hot summer, but rather the long-term
global warming that has seen glaciers recede.<br>
..it is the continuously warmer summers related to anthropogenic
climate change, that lead to the net shrinking of the glaciers.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.euronews.com/2017/08/04/how-climate-change-could-lead-to-more-grim-discoveries-among-europe-s-peaks">http://www.euronews.com/2017/08/04/how-climate-change-could-lead-to-more-grim-discoveries-among-europe-s-peaks</a></font><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2017/08/02/inconvenient-sequel-follows-oscar-winning-inconvenient-truth/V4MTpEzb4Nh0GFf2DfzBjP/story.html"><br>
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<b>(movie review) 'Inconvenient Sequel' follows up on
Oscar-winning 'Inconvenient Truth'</b></a><br>
"Energy is a basic human need."<br>
So's survival, and the documentary makes plain that this is what's
at stake for tens of millions. The number of hurricanes is
increasing, as is their severity. The incidence of drought is
rising, as are crop shortages (as temperatures go up, moisture
evaporates from the soil more quickly). "Climate refugees" are
becoming increasingly common. With the shrinkage of polar ice caps,
rising sea levels are inevitable. We see Gore wade through some
oceanside flooding in Miami Beach. "Kind of hard to pump the ocean,"
he mutters.<br>
"Sequel" has a number of such memorable moments. The mayor of
Georgetown, Texas - a Republican, mind you - gives Gore a tour of
his small city near Austin; it now gets all its energy from
renewable sources. <br>
But even under the best of circumstances, climate change offers no
quick solutions. "This is a mission I have dedicated myself to,"
Gore says, a mission that remains "a constant struggle between hope
and despair."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2017/08/02/inconvenient-sequel-follows-oscar-winning-inconvenient-truth/V4MTpEzb4Nh0GFf2DfzBjP/story.html">http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2017/08/02/inconvenient-sequel-follows-oscar-winning-inconvenient-truth/V4MTpEzb4Nh0GFf2DfzBjP/story.html</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.thenation.com/article/the-missed-opportunities-of-an-inconvenient-sequel/">(movie
review) The Missed Opportunities of 'An Inconvenient Sequel'</a></b><br>
Al Gore's latest film draws climate change back into the political
limelight, but fails to draw connections between environmental and
economic justice.<br>
Kate Aronoff<br>
There's a compelling case to be made that taking on climate change
could transform the lives of people still reeling from the fallout
of the recession, and respond to both the ecological crisis and the
economic pain that drove many to vote for Trump. An Inconvenient
Sequel-Al Gore's latest documentary-never makes that case, opting
instead for at-length explanations of glacial ice melts and the
sausage-making behind international agreements. As both a film and a
political treatise, its biggest problem might be just how much the
story revolves around Gore and his outdated view of how politics
work...<br>
Gore goes to great pains to point out the obscenity of the climate
crisis. Fond of saying in recent press junkets that "every night on
the evening news is like a nature hike through the Book of
Revelations," he plays the role of dutiful tour guide through a
battery of disasters and sobering statistics.<br>
He's right about all this, of course: Extreme weather is killing
more people every year, and warming forecasts seem to grow more
bleak by the day. The simulations he presented us with 10 years ago
have come to life...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.thenation.com/article/the-missed-opportunities-of-an-inconvenient-sequel/">https://www.thenation.com/article/the-missed-opportunities-of-an-inconvenient-sequel/</a><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.edf.org/blog/2013/11/14/our-economists-cost-climate-change-100-years-now">This
Day in Climate History August 5, 2013</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
August 5, 2013: Environmental Defense Fund's Thomas Sterner explains
the concept of the "social cost of carbon":<br>
"One of the first things you do when faced with a new problem is to
try to judge how big or serious it is. The SCC is one way of
expressing this – as the estimated cost to society of each ton of
carbon emitted. This cost, in the abstract world of textbook
economics, would be the price that everyone paid when emitting a ton
of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The trouble, of course, is
that the world doesn’t work this way. Everyone doesn’t pay the SCC
price, or any price, when they, say, switch on a lamp or drive to
work.<br>
"There are two ways to bring reality into line with economic theory:
either a cap and trade system for carbon (and other greenhouse
gases) or a carbon tax. Both make the world pay for carbon
emissions, which will drive those emissions downward. But even
without those tools in place, it still makes sense for policymakers
to make large, long run decisions in a sustainable manner that
correctly takes into account the real costs of climate damage. That
is why a number of countries, and even some large companies, use a
SCC in the cost benefit analyses that inform public policy. In the
U.S., the official government value for the SCC is just over $40, in
today's dollars, per metric ton of carbon dioxide emitted."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.edf.org/blog/2013/11/14/our-economists-cost-climate-change-100-years-now">http://www.edf.org/blog/2013/11/14/our-economists-cost-climate-change-100-years-now</a><br>
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