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<font size="+1"><i>August 27, 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/08/26/harveys-assault-on-texas-is-just-getting-started-disastrous-inland-flooding-expected/">Harvey
unloading incredible rains over Southeast Texas; Flash flood
emergency in Houston</a></b><br>
Harvey, which made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in Southeast
Texas Friday night, weakened to a tropical storm Saturday. But the
flood threat was only just beginning. The storm stalled over
Southeast Texas and is forecast to remain there through the middle
of the week unloading tremendous rainfall.<br>
Through Saturday evening, 6 to 12 inches of rain had already fallen
over much of Southeast Texas with isolated pockets of up to 18-20
inches.<br>
Overnight Saturday, a deluge was unfolding over Houston as an
extremely intense band of rain pivoted through the area. A flash
flood emergency, the highest level flood alert, was issued for large
parts of the Houston area into the predawn hours. The National
Weather Service warned rainfall could come down at a rate of three
to four inches per hour. "This is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS
SITUATION. SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW!," the Weather Service said.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/08/26/harveys-assault-on-texas-is-just-getting-started-disastrous-inland-flooding-expected/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/08/26/harveys-assault-on-texas-is-just-getting-started-disastrous-inland-flooding-expected/</a><br>
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<b><a
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/08/26/what-you-need-to-know-in-2-minutes-kerry-emanuel-on-stronger-hurricanes/">What
You Need to Know in 2 Minutes: Kerry Emanuel on Stronger
Hurricanes</a></b><br>
by greenman3610<br>
2 minutes. This is the one worth watching and sharing for those
whose time is pressed.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/08/26/what-you-need-to-know-in-2-minutes-kerry-emanuel-on-stronger-hurricanes/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/08/26/what-you-need-to-know-in-2-minutes-kerry-emanuel-on-stronger-hurricanes/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://tamino.wordpress.com/2017/07/25/sea-level-rise-has-accelerated/">Tamino:
Sea level rise has accelerated</a></b><br>
By Tamino 25 July 2017<br>
(Open Mind) - There seems to be some interest in global sea level as
estimated by tide gauges. In particular, we have recently been
directed to a graph of the data from Church & White, which is
the most reputable of the available choices. Alas, the graph we were
directed to only shows their data up to the end of 1992. What, you
may wonder, happens after that?<br>
The data extend for another 21 years, to the end of 2013. see: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tamino.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/churchwhite.jpg">https://tamino.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/churchwhite.jpg</a><br>
Even without acceleration, the present rate is real trouble. Miami
is already spending about half a billion dollars to deal with the
flooding they're already getting from sea level rise. Another foot
will bring yet more damage, and threatens the economic viability of
somewhere in the neighborhood of a trillion dollars of prime real
estate development.<br>
We expect to see considerably more acceleration this century. This
is suggested by empirical models (such as those of Vermeer and
Rahmstorf), on "process models" (which emulate the physical
process), and on something we like to call "laws of physics." ...<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tamino.wordpress.com/2017/07/25/sea-level-rise-has-accelerated/">https://tamino.wordpress.com/2017/07/25/sea-level-rise-has-accelerated/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41037071">First
tanker crosses northern sea route without ice breaker</a></b><br>
By Matt McGrath BBC<br>
A commercial LNG tanker has sailed across the colder, northern route
from Europe to Asia without the protection of an ice-breaker for the
first time.<br>
The specially-built ship completed the crossing in just
six-and-a-half days setting a new record, according to the tanker's
Russian owners.<br>
The 300-metre-long Sovcomflot ship, the Christophe de Margerie, was
carrying gas from Norway to South Korea.<br>
Rising Arctic temperatures are boosting commercial shipping across
this route.<br>
The Christophe de Margerie is the world's first and, at present,
only ice-breaking LNG carrier.<br>
The ship, which features a lightweight steel reinforced hull, is the
largest commercial ship to receive Arc7 certification, which means
it is capable of travelling through ice up to 2.1m thick.<br>
On this trip it was able to keep up an average speed of 14 knots
despite sailing through ice that was over one metre thick in places.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41037071">http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41037071</a></font><br>
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<b><br>
</b><b> </b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-08-26/global-warming-plastic-waste-and-velociraptors">(audio)
Of global warming, plastic waste and velociraptors</a></b><br>
Living on Earth<br>
"That's a big problem," says Sophie Bushwick, senior editor for
Popular Science, "because that suggests that global warming is
really pushing up the temperatures."<br>
Bushwick says to think of El Niño and global warming like a ride on
an escalator. Global warming is the escalator taking you up. If you
jumped high in the air in a couple of places along the ride, that
would be like an El Niño, because you'd be momentarily higher, but
come right back down. Global warming is the thing that continues
taking you up and up.<br>
As predicted by decades of climate modeling, these warmer
temperatures have been affecting weather patterns around the world.
Canada has been reporting more flooding than normal; droughts are
becoming more frequent in Montana and the Dakotas; and large
wildfires are threatening many places in the world, including
British Columbia, California and southern Europe.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-08-26/global-warming-plastic-waste-and-velociraptors">https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-08-26/global-warming-plastic-waste-and-velociraptors</a></font><br>
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<b><a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25082017/climate-change-shocks-bolivia-rural-poor-migration-agriculture-quinoa">Climate
Change Is Making This Bolivian Village a Ghost Town</a></b><br>
Two years of drought and rising temperatures dried up the river and
quinoa fields, pushing a wave of migration to cities as people
searched for work.<br>
BY BEN WALKER, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS<br>
SANTIAGO K, Bolivia - Someone's nearly always lived in Santiago K.<br>
Cupped in the Bolivian highlands that border Chile, the small
village is littered by centuries of conquest and expansion: from the
pre-Incas, who ringed the surrounding hills with protective
fortresses, to the gold-hungry Spanish conquistadors drawn to the
region's mineral wealth.<br>
But after centuries of settlement, Santiago K has become a ghost
town. Drought, debt and climate change have squeezed roughly 80
percent of Santiago's residents from their homes in search of work
and a better life.<br>
In 2012, a staggering uptick in demand for quinoa-from the United
States especially-pushed Santiago's farmers to expand production.
Flush with bank credit, farmers purchased tractors and encroached on
land normally left to wild shrubs. The idea was to harvest more,
faster. And for a while, business was good. From 2000 to 2014, the
price of quinoa tripled.<br>
Then the rain stopped. For two seasons, from 2015 to 2016, as the El
Niño weather cycle combined with rising global temperatures, crops
shriveled. Production dropped to nothing. The river that jags
through Santiago slowed to a trickle, then dried to sand....<br>
The solution Calcina prefers is community-based tourism. Thousands
of tourists flock each year to nearby Uyuni, to see its expanse of
salt flats, some of the largest in the world. <br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25082017/climate-change-shocks-bolivia-rural-poor-migration-agriculture-quinoa">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25082017/climate-change-shocks-bolivia-rural-poor-migration-agriculture-quinoa</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.snopes.com/2017/08/25/doe-grants-climate-change/">Did
the Department of Energy ask a Scientist to Remove the Words
'Climate Change' from a Grant Proposal?</a></b><br>
A professor posted what she claims is an email from the DOE asking
her to remove the words "climate change" from her proposal.<br>
Jennifer Bowen, an Ecology professor.. ...posted an email that
appeared to be from the DOE asking her to remove the language so
that the grant proposal, which is to be funded through the DOE's
Joint Genome Institute, could be posted on the department's web
site.<br>
This story is developing and will be updated when more details can
be verified.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.snopes.com/2017/08/25/doe-grants-climate-change/">http://www.snopes.com/2017/08/25/doe-grants-climate-change/</a><br>
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<b><a
href="https://skepticalscience.com/harvard-scientists-exxon-challenge-tobacco-playbook.html">Harvard
scientists took Exxon's challenge; found it using the tobacco
playbook</a></b><br>
Posted on 23 August 2017 by dana1981<br>
Read all of these documents and make up your own mind.<br>
That was the challenge ExxonMobil issued when investigative
journalism by Inside Climate News revealed that while it was at the
forefront of climate science research in the 1970s and 1980s, Exxon
engaged in a campaign to misinform the public.<br>
Harvard scientists Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes decided to take
up Exxon's challenge, and have just published their results in the
journal Environmental Research Letters. They used a method known as
content analysisto analyze 187 public and internal Exxon documents.
The results are striking:<br>
<b>- In Exxon's peer-reviewed papers and internal communications,
about </b><b>80% of the documents <i>acknowledged</i> that
climate change is real and human-caused</b>.<br>
<b>- In Exxon's paid, editorial-style advertisements </b><b>("advertorials")
published in the New York Times, about</b><b> 80% <i>expressed
doubt</i></b><i> </i> <b>that climate change is real and
human-caused.</b><br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://skepticalscience.com/harvard-scientists-exxon-challenge-tobacco-playbook.html">https://skepticalscience.com/harvard-scientists-exxon-challenge-tobacco-playbook.html</a></font><br>
..<br>
<b><a
href="https://news.vice.com/story/exxon-spent-millions-denying-climate-change-knowing-all-along-it-was-real">Exxon
spent millions misleading the public on climate change, study
shows</a></b><br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://news.vice.com/story/exxon-spent-millions-denying-climate-change-knowing-all-along-it-was-real">https://news.vice.com/story/exxon-spent-millions-denying-climate-change-knowing-all-along-it-was-real</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/08/review-of-documents-suggests-exxon-mobil-misled-public-on-climate-change/">..<br>
Analysis of 187 documents concludes Exxon "misled the public" on
climate change</a></b><br>
"Read all of these documents and make up your own mind," ExxonMobil
said.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/08/review-of-documents-suggests-exxon-mobil-misled-public-on-climate-change/">https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/08/review-of-documents-suggests-exxon-mobil-misled-public-on-climate-change/</a></font><br>
..<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/23/16194366/exxon-mobil-knew-climate-change-misinformation-harvard-study">Inside
an investigation into Exxon Mobil's climate change
misinformation</a></b><br>
How Exxon sowed doubt about climate change, according to an author
of a new study<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/23/16194366/exxon-mobil-knew-climate-change-misinformation-harvard-study">https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/23/16194366/exxon-mobil-knew-climate-change-misinformation-harvard-study</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.fairobserver.com/region/europe/global-warming-arctic-climate-change-greenpeace-news-51431/">(music
video) Ludovico Einaudi - "Elegy for the Arctic"</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/2DLnhdnSUVs">https://youtu.be/2DLnhdnSUVs</a><br>
(opinion) <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/2DLnhdnSUVs">A beautiful piece of music </a>is
drawing attention to global warming.<br>
Climate change is something that affects the entire planet and all
its inhabitants, but nowhere is global warming happening faster and
more dramatically than in the Arctic. Snow and ice stored in its
vast glaciers are responsible for reflecting a large proportion of
sun's energy. Even a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius affects
the planet's ability to refract the incoming heat as ice and snow
melt, accelerating the overall speed of global warming.<br>
According to recent studies, even though warm spans have occurred in
the past and as far back as 1890, the Arctic is now warming twice as
fast as the rest of the planet. The North Pole has warmed by an
average of 1.3 degrees Celsius a decade since the late 1970s, and a
further warming of just under 2 degrees Celsius - or an equivalent
of 1,000 gigatons of carbon dioxide accumulated in the atmosphere -
will mean an ice-free Arctic during the summer.<br>
Greenpeace has been leading the campaign to protect the fragile
ecosystem from the effects of manmade climate change and threats
like oil drilling. To raise awareness of the dramatic loss of the
Arctic ice sheet and biodiversity, the charity teamed up with
Italian composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi, who performed his
magical Elegy for the Arctic amidst the crumbling Wahlenbergbreen
glacier in Svalbard, Norway.<br>
With 8 million signatures on the petition to create a marine
protected area that would encompass nearly 10% of the international
waters of the Arctic Ocean, Greenpeace's campaign faces opposition
from the governments of Norway, Iceland and Denmark that want it
left open to oil exploration and industrial fishing.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.fairobserver.com/region/europe/global-warming-arctic-climate-change-greenpeace-news-51431/">https://www.fairobserver.com/region/europe/global-warming-arctic-climate-change-greenpeace-news-51431/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/2DLnhdnSUVs">https://youtu.be/2DLnhdnSUVs</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/27/us/summit-of-sorts-on-global-warming.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm">This
Day in Climate History August 27, 1989</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
August 27, 1989: The New York Times reports:<br>
"Top Soviet and American scientists, environmentalists,
policymakers,<br>
industry leaders and artists today urged President Bush and
President<br>
Mikhail S. Gorbachev of the Soviet Union to form an 'environmental<br>
security alliance' to reverse what they fear could be a catastrophic<br>
warming of the planet.<br>
"The gathering urged that the superpowers promote energy-efficient<br>
technologies and phase out production and use of chlorofluorocarbons<br>
no later than the year 2000. The group said the countries should<br>
'substantially reduce' carbon dioxide emissions, reduce the loss of<br>
forests and promote tree planting worldwide. Participants asked that<br>
the two leaders appeal directly to their citizens to help.<br>
"The joint letter avoided specific goals to achieve a compromise<br>
between the Soviet and American participants and within the American<br>
contingent, even though some participants had wanted specific<br>
numerical and time goals on cutting emissions. But it represented
the<br>
most concerted Soviet-American action yet over fears that the
emission<br>
of industrial chemicals into the atmosphere is causing a worldwide<br>
warming trend, or 'greenhouse effect.'<br>
"'Soviet and U.S. scientists agreed that continued buildup of<br>
greenhouse gases at present rates will insure that global
temperatures<br>
rise before the middle of the next century above anything in human<br>
history,' an accompanying report stated. The report said disruptions<br>
in agriculture and rising sea levels would cause 'massive refugee<br>
problems.'"<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/27/us/summit-of-sorts-on-global-warming.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm">http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/27/us/summit-of-sorts-on-global-warming.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm</a></font><br>
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