<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<font size="+1"><i>September 10, 2017</i></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.weather.gov/"><br>
</a></b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.weather.gov/">National Weather Service </a></b>
<ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(197, 229,
245); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;">
<li class="hdr" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span
style="color: red;">NHC issuing advisories for the Atlantic on<span> </span><a
href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/#Irma" style="color: rgb(0,
51, 153); text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hurricane Irma</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a
href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/#Jose" style="color: rgb(0,
51, 153); text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hurricane Jose</a></span></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/news/AL112017_key_messages.png?044"
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Messages
regarding Hurricane Irma</a></li>
<li class="std" style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a
href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/audio/" style="color: rgb(0, 51,
153); text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Audio Podcasts</a><span> </span>regarding Irma
now available</li>
<li class="std" style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Local
information on Irma:<span> </span><a
href="http://www.weather.gov/key" style="color: rgb(0, 51,
153); text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Key West</a>,<span> </span><a
href="http://www.weather.gov/mfl" style="color: rgb(0, 51,
153); text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Miami</a>,<span> </span><a
href="http://www.weather.gov/tbw" style="color: rgb(0, 51,
153); text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Tampa</a>,<span> </span><a
href="http://www.weather.gov/mlb" style="color: rgb(0, 51,
153); text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Melbourne</a></li>
</ul>
<b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/#Irma">http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/#Irma</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://apps.fcc.gov">FCC Federal
Communications Commission Communications Status Report</a><br>
</b>The Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) learns
the status of each Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) through the
filings of 911 Service Providers in the Disaster Information
Reporting System (DIRS), through reporting done to the FCC's Public
Safety Support Center (PSSC), coordination with state 911
Administrators and, if necessary, individual PSAPs.<b><br>
</b>
<table class="tableWithBorder" style="max-width: 100%;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(102, 102, 102); width:
1075px; margin: 0px !important; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-family: Arimo, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial;
text-decoration-color: initial;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><b>Hurricane Irma Communications Status Report for Sept. 9</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Released Date: 09/09/2017</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Description: Hurricane Irma Communications Status Report
for Sept. 9</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="4"><b>Documents:</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="4">PDF :<span> </span><a
href="https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-346632A1.pdf"
target="blank" title="Document DOC-346632A1.pdf"
style="color: rgb(17, 91, 138); text-decoration: none;">DOC-346632A1.pdf</a> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="4">Text :<span> </span><a
href="https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-346632A1.txt"
target="blank" title="Document DOC-346632A1.txt"
style="color: rgb(17, 91, 138); text-decoration: none;">DOC-346632A1.txt</a> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://apps.fcc.gov">https://apps.fcc.gov</a> <b>
Search for "Communications Status Report" </b><br>
<br>
<b><br>
</b><b><a
href="https://theconversation.com/why-social-media-apps-should-be-in-your-disaster-kit-83743">Why
social media apps should be in your disaster kit</a></b><b><br>
</b>With floodwaters at four feet and rising, a family in Houston,
Texas abandoned their possessions and scrambled to their roof during
Hurricane Harvey to sit with their pets and await rescue. Unable to
reach first responders through 911 and with no one visible nearby,
they used their cellphones to send out a call for help through a
social media application called Nextdoor.<br>
Within an hour a neighbor arrived in an empty canoe large enough to
carry the family and their pets to safety. Thanks to a collaboration
with Nextdoor, we learned of this and hundreds of similar rescues
across Harvey's path.<br>
This story illustrates the power of systems like Nextdoor, an app
designed to make communication between neighbors easy. Survivors in
Houston have been using social media platforms such as Facebook,
Nextdoor and Twitter to connect to rescuers, organize food and
medical supplies, and find places for people to stay....<font
size="-1" color="#666666"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://theconversation.com/why-social-media-apps-should-be-in-your-disaster-kit-83743">https://theconversation.com/why-social-media-apps-should-be-in-your-disaster-kit-83743</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/miami-mayor-climate-change-hurricane-irma_us_59b417dee4b0b5e5310683ae">Miami
Mayor To Donald Trump: It's Time To Talk About Climate Change</a><br>
</b>Miami's Republican mayor says this year's record-breaking
hurricanes are likely a result of climate change, and is calling on
President Donald Trump ― who once dismissed global warming as a hoax
created "by and for the Chinese" ― to acknowledge the connection.<br>
Thousands of Miami residents are among more than 6.3 million
Floridians who have been ordered to evacuate as Hurricane Irma
charges toward the state ― potentially the largest evacuation in
U.S. history.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/miami-mayor-climate-change-hurricane-irma_us_59b417dee4b0b5e5310683ae">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/miami-mayor-climate-change-hurricane-irma_us_59b417dee4b0b5e5310683ae</a></font><b><br>
</b><b><br>
<br>
</b><b><a
href="http://www.npr.org/2017/09/09/549690224/how-climate-change-exacerbates-hurricanes">(audio
+ transcript) How Climate Change Exacerbates Hurricanes</a></b><br>
As Irma approaches the U.S. and Jose spins in the Atlantic, many are
wondering what hurricanes' connection to climate change might be.<br>
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:<br>
Hurricane Irma's had winds of 185 miles per hour for 37 hours
straight at one point. That's a record. Right behind Irma, of
course, is another hurricane, Jose - not as big but still very
dangerous, as Texas still dries out from its encounter last week
with the enormous Hurricane Harvey, which makes a lot of people
wonder, how unusual is this sequence of hurricanes? Is this our
future? And is this climate change at work? Here to talk about that
is NPR science correspondent Christopher Joyce. ..<br>
JOYCE: Very hard to predict. Natural things unrelated to climate
change cause hurricanes to happen. You know, we saw this with
Harvey. There was a high pressure system over the United States that
made it stall and rain more over Houston. That's not related to
climate change clearly. Some people think it is, but it's difficult
to say. But at the same time, the heat is the essence here. And
climate scientists are pretty sure that at least one thing is clear.
We're going to ratchet things up the hotter it gets. The ocean
absorbs that heat, and we'll get hurricanes that get ratcheted up a
little bit. Some get ratcheted up a lot. But the more we heat up the
oceans, the more we're going to get big, big storms.<br>
SIMON: Same time as we've had these hurricanes, of course, there
have been some huge wildfires that have been burning in the West. Do
scientists believe climate change is at work there, too?<br>
JOYCE: That's a tougher link. Again, so many things cause wildfires,
not least of which is a hundred years of suppressing wildfires. The
Forest Service, Smokey the Bear - has suppressed it, meaning a lot
of fuel has grown up, a lot of underbrush. So when it does burn, it
burns hotter and bigger. That said, again, heat makes a big
difference. It's been hotter than normal. When you have heat, you
suck more moisture out of the land. You suck more moisture out of
the vegetation. It's drier. Poof. You get maybe not more fires, but
you get big ones.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.npr.org/2017/09/09/549690224/how-climate-change-exacerbates-hurricanes">http://www.npr.org/2017/09/09/549690224/how-climate-change-exacerbates-hurricanes</a></font><br>
<br>
<a
href="https://qz.com/1073580/major-news-networks-are-failing-to-explain-that-hurricane-harvey-was-fueled-by-climate-change/"><br>
<b>Major news networks are failing to explain that Hurricane
Harvey was fueled by climate change</b></a><br>
Climate change is taking us to uncharted territory, fueling storms
that were previously unimaginable. Warm water, humid air and rising
seas conspired to make Harvey an uncommonly destructive storm.
Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann said
that climate change "worsened the impact of Hurricane Harvey." Kevin
Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research told The
Atlantic, "The human contribution can be up to 30% or so of the
total rainfall coming out of the storm."<br>
Despite the considerable evidence that human hands made Harvey more
severe, climate change received limited mention in the news
coverage. Some outlets - including The New York Times, The
Washington Post, NPR, The Atlantic, Politico, Vox, and
ThinkProgress - noted the human fingerprint on Harvey. TV news
programs on CNN, MSNBC, and PBS also discussed the climate link. But
the major broadcast networks paid scant attention to the role of
climate change in the worst rainstorm in US history.<br>
An analysis from Media Matters found that over the last two weeks
only one of the three major networks discussed climate change. While
CBS touched on the issue in interviews with experts on CBS This
Morning, CBS Evening News and CBS Morning News, ABC and NBC made no
mention of climate science.<br>
When someone gets hit by a bullet, people want to know who fired the
gun.<br>
"Imagine that after the 9/11 attacks, the conversation had been
limited to the tragedy in Lower Manhattan, the heroism of rescuers
and the high heels of the visiting first lady - without addressing
the risks of future terrorism," wrote Nicholas Kristof in The New
York Times. "That's how we have viewed Hurricane Harvey in Houston,
as a gripping human drama but without adequate discussion of how
climate change increases risks of such cataclysms.".<font size="-1"
color="#666666"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://qz.com/1073580/major-news-networks-are-failing-to-explain-that-hurricane-harvey-was-fueled-by-climate-change/">https://qz.com/1073580/major-news-networks-are-failing-to-explain-that-hurricane-harvey-was-fueled-by-climate-change/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.salon.com/2017/09/09/climate-change-and-capitalism-we-cant-confront-one-without-facing-the-other/"
moz-do-not-send="true">Climate change and capitalism: We can't
confront one without facing the other</a></b><br>
After Harvey and Irma we also have a moral duty to talk about the
economic system that has brought us to this point. That is, we can
no longer talk about climate change without talking about
capitalism, which has laid waste to our planet and now impedes
humanity's effort to deal with the climate crisis it engendered.<br>
This was of course the thesis of Naomi Klein's 2014 book, "This
Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate," in which the author
and activist posed climate change as a “battle between capitalism
and the planet." Klein convincingly argues that without radical
changes to our economic system, we will ultimately fail to confront
climate change in the radical way that is necessary in order to
preserve our planet for future generations. "We have not done the
things that are necessary to lower emissions," writes Klein,
"because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated
capitalism, the reigning ideology for the entire period we have been
struggling to find a way out of this crisis."<br>
<font color="#666666"><font size="-1"> </font></font><font size="-1"
color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.salon.com/2017/09/09/climate-change-and-capitalism-we-cant-confront-one-without-facing-the-other/">http://www.salon.com/2017/09/09/climate-change-and-capitalism-we-cant-confront-one-without-facing-the-other/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Library (NOAA)<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/">Global
Warming and Hurricanes An Overview of Current Research Results</a></b><br>
In this review, we address these questions in the context of
published research findings. We will first present the main
conclusions and then follow with some background discussion of the
research that leads to these conclusions....<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/">https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/</a>
</font><br>
<br>
<br>
<b><a
href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/09/will-irma-finally-change-the-way-we-talk-about-climate.html">Will
Irma Finally Change the Way We Talk About Climate?</a></b><br>
By David Wallace-Wells<br>
This month of extreme weather demolishes the old economic-cost
paradigm-or should, if we could let ourselves really see climate
change for what it is and what it does. Last week, Hurricane Harvey
- an "unprecedented" storm, it was said, a "thousand year flood" -
became the most expensive hurricane in American history, with damage
running as high as $200 billion. A week later, we are looking at an
even more unprecedentedly destructive storm, with Hurricane Irma now
predicted to move up the Florida peninsula, potentially laying waste
to Tampa and other cities along the state's west coast, as well as
Orlando and much of central Florida. Early estimates of potential
damage run as far north as Atlanta and as high as $1 trillion.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/09/will-irma-finally-change-the-way-we-talk-about-climate.html">http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/09/will-irma-finally-change-the-way-we-talk-about-climate.html</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<b><a
href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/349877-climate-skeptics-on-the-rise-in-trumps-epa">Trump
stacks administration with climate change skeptics</a></b><br>
President Trump has stacked his administration with officials who
doubt the scientific consensus behind man-made climate change,
underscoring a growing divide within the Republican party.<br>
Even as leading scientists, environmentalists and most Democrats
accept research that shows climate change accelerating - and as some
see it contributing to the two mammoth hurricanes that have
threatened the United States this year - some in Trump's
administration have openly raised doubts.<br>
Under George W. Bush, Schaeffer said, "you had that pressure from
[Vice President Dick] Cheney, which EPA had to buckle to." But, "the
agency was continuing to run the science, and try to invest in
voluntary programs - energy efficiency - even under Bush, and I
don't see that from this guy."<br>
Trump 's approach to climate change research has emboldened those
who have waged years-long campaigns against the scientific
consensus.<br>
"People who were fighting it for a long time, they saw in Trump, for
the first time in a long time, a real ally," said Sterling Burnett,
a researcher at the Heartland Institute, a think tank that questions
climate science.<br>
The group was an early backer of the "red team, blue team" exercise
Pruitt has pitched for climate science. Burnett said he hopes such a
review leads Trump to target other climate-related activities,
including the U.S.'s involvement in international climate treaties
and the federal finding that greenhouse gases harm public health and
need to be regulated.<br>
Trump, he said, focuses on "what he called 'Make America Great
Again:' building jobs, energy dominance ... and he recognizes you
can't do that if you're doing what Obama did on climate change."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/349877-climate-skeptics-on-the-rise-in-trumps-epa">http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/349877-climate-skeptics-on-the-rise-in-trumps-epa</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<b><a
href="http://earthtalk.org/global-warming-evolution-wildlife-shrinkage-rise/">Global
Warming Evolution: Wildlife Shrinkage on the Rise</a></b><br>
Roddy Scheer 08/25/2017<br>
<i>Dear EarthTalk: Could global warming really already be a factor
in the evolution of wildlife species? - Vince Dominick, Camden,
N.J.</i><br>
No doubt the quickly changing climate is already triggering various
evolutionary shifts in a wide range of species. And while we can't
be sure just how different wildlife species will adapt (or not),
scientists are already noticing some surprising changes as a result
of rising surface and ocean temperatures thanks to human-induced
global warming.<br>
...scientists from the University of British Columbia, found that
the body size of larger fish species decreases 20 to 30 percent for
every one-degree Celsius increase in water temperature, given their
gills' inability to keep up in our warmer and increasingly
oxygen-deprived seas. (The top 2,000 feet of the ocean water column
has warmed 0.3 degrees Fahrenheit since 1969, and the speed of the
warming is faster than ever.) The researchers add that smaller fish
are likely to have an advantage given that their body sizes are less
likely to outgrow their respiratory systems. The result could be a
profound shift in marine food webs with untold consequences for the
health of the ocean, not to mention the state of our dinner plates
(nearly a billion people around the world rely on fish as a primary
source of protein).<br>
And there's proof that global warming is shrinking wildlife species
on land, too. An October 2014 study by scientists at Durham
University in Britain found that chamois mountain goats in the
Italian Alps weigh 25 percent less than their same age counterparts
did 30 years ago. University of Maryland researchers found that six
out of seven species of U.S. salamanders studied have shrunk an
average of eight percent overall since the 1950s, with each
successive generation shrinking in average body size by one percent.
Another example comes from a National University of Singapore study
that found that ectotherms (toads, turtles, snakes) are also
shrinking around the world in response to hotter climatic
conditions.<br>
...we may actually be underestimating how much climate change is
affecting wildlife populations. The analysis of 130 studies on the
ecological consequences of climate change revealed that 47 percent
of land mammals and 23 percent of birds - more than 700 wildlife
species overall - have already been affected by global warming.<br>
CONTACTS: Fish study:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13831/abstract; goats: <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.dur.ac.uk/biosciences/about/news/?itemno=22559">www.dur.ac.uk/biosciences/about/news/?itemno=22559</a>;
salamanders: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.12550/abstract;
broad footprint: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13831/abstract">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13831/abstract</a>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://earthtalk.org/global-warming-evolution-wildlife-shrinkage-rise/">http://earthtalk.org/global-warming-evolution-wildlife-shrinkage-rise/</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13831/abstract">Sound
physiological knowledge and principles in modeling shrinking of
fishes under climate change</a></b><br>
Pauly & Cheung<br>
Abstract<br>
One of the main expected responses of marine fishes to ocean warming
is decrease in body size, as supported by evidence from empirical
data and theoretical modeling. The theoretical underpinning for fish
shrinking is that the oxygen supply to large fish size cannot be met
by their gills, whose surface area cannot keep up with the oxygen
demand by their three-dimensional bodies. However, Lefevre et al.
(Global Change Biology, 2017, 23, 3449-3459) argue against such
theory. Here, we re-assert, with the Gill-Oxygen Limitation Theory
(GOLT), that gills, which must retain the properties of open
surfaces because their growth, even while hyperallometric, cannot
keep up with the demand of growing three-dimensional bodies. Also,
we show that a wide range of biological features of fish and other
water-breathing organisms can be understood when gill area
limitation is used as an explanation. We also note that an
alternative to GOLT, offering a more parsimonious explanation for
these features of water-breathers has not been proposed. Available
empirical evidence corroborates predictions of decrease in body
sizes under ocean warming based on GOLT, with the magnitude of the
predicted change increases when using more species-specific
parameter values of metabolic scaling.<br>
"Lizards will be fine, birds will be fine," Huber said, noting that
life has thrived in hotter climates than even the most catastrophic
projections for anthropogenic global warming. This is one reason to
suspect that the collapse of civilisation might come long before we
reach a proper biological mass extinction. Life has endured
conditions that would be unthinkable for a highly networked global
society partitioned by political borders. Of course we're
understandably concerned about the fate of civilisation and Huber
says that, mass extinction or not, it's our tenuous reliance on an
ageing and inadequate infrastructure, perhaps, most ominously, on
power grids, coupled with the limits of human physiology that may
well bring down our world.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13831/abstract">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13831/abstract</a>.<br>
<br>
<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/09/this-is-how-your-world-could-end-climate-change-global-warming">(book
mention) This is how your world could end</a></b><br>
<font size="-1">..</font>.the book <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.amazon.com/Ends-World-Apocalypses-Understand-Extinctions/dp/0062364804/ref=sr_1_1">Ends
of the World, Peter Brannen </a> examines mass extinction events
and the catastrophic outcome of rising temperatures for all the
world's population<br>
... here's where it gets really scary.<br>
If humanity burns through all its fossil fuel reserves, there is the
potential to warm the planet by as much as 18C and raise sea levels
by hundreds of feet. This is a warming spike of an even greater
magnitude than that so far measured for the end-Permian mass
extinction. If the worst-case scenarios come to pass, today's
modestly menacing ocean-climate system will seem quaint. Even
warming to one-fourth of that amount would create a planet that
would have nothing to do with the one on which humans evolved or on
which civilisation has been built. The last time it was 4C warmer
there was no ice at either pole and sea level was 80 metres higher
than it is today.<font size="-1" color="#666666"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/09/this-is-how-your-world-could-end-climate-change-global-warming">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/09/this-is-how-your-world-could-end-climate-change-global-warming</a></font><br>
<b><br>
<br>
<a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-maher-hurricane-irma-donald-trump-climate-change-deniers_us_59b387abe4b0dfaafcf81e69">Bill
Maher: It's An 'Inconvenient Truth' That Climate Change Deniers'
Homes Are In Irma's Path</a></b><br>
"I'm not gloating." <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/_Z_mkjzRcAs">https://youtu.be/_Z_mkjzRcAs</a><br>
"Real Time" host Bill Maher has noted how Hurricane Irma looks
likely to destroy the vacation homes of several high-profile climate
change deniers. <br>
"The deniers all have beach houses in the way of the storm," Maher
said during the opening monologue of Friday night's show.
"[President Donald] Trump, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, the Koch
brothers all have houses that are gonna be wiped out, probably."<br>
"I'm not gloating. It's just an inconvenient truth," he added,
referencing former Vice President Al Gore's Oscar-winning
documentary on global warming.<br>
With Irma barreling toward the state, Maher also urged people in
Florida who were watching his show to "stop" and "get the fuck out
right now."<br>
"I'm seeing colors on the hurricane maps I've never seen before,"
Maher said, before interpreting them in his own way. "If you see
yellow like Trump's hair, take extra care. If you see orange like
his face, shelter in place. Red like his ties to Russia, just
evacuate now."<br>
Check out the full monologue YouTube <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/_Z_mkjzRcAs">https://youtu.be/_Z_mkjzRcAs</a>.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-maher-hurricane-irma-donald-trump-climate-change-deniers_us_59b387abe4b0dfaafcf81e69">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-maher-hurricane-irma-donald-trump-climate-change-deniers_us_59b387abe4b0dfaafcf81e69</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.astrobio.net/alien-life/climate-change-aliens/">CLIMATE
CHANGE FOR ALIENS </a></b> Sep 9, 2017<br>
To answer these questions, a team of researchers led by Adam Frank,
a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester,
devised a new classification scheme for the evolution of
civilizations based on the idea that it's not just how much energy
you use, but how you use it that matters.<br>
With this new scale, the researchers determined that in order to
survive long-term, a civilization must learn to "think like a
planet"–or risk the civilization's demise.<br>
"The Kardashev scale is concerned with extracting energy," Frank
says. "But what we've recognized with our classification scheme is
that you can't use energy without causing different kinds of waste.
That waste feedbacks on the state of planet."<br>
In a paper in the journal Anthropocene, the researchers discuss this
new classification system as a way of thinking about sustainability
on a planetary scale.<br>
"The discovery of seven new exoplanets orbiting the relatively close
star TRAPPIST-1 forces us to rethink life on Earth," says Marina
Alberti of the University of Washington, a co-author on the paper.
"It opens the possibility to broaden our understanding of planetary
system dynamics and lays the foundations to explore a path to
long-term sustainability."<br>
Earth's biosphere–the global layer where life exists–is unique in
that the presence of life has altered the planet's surrounding
atmosphere above and lithosphere below. The researchers note that
rapid urbanization–including deforestation, air pollution, and
increasing energy demand–has had damaging effects on the planet.
Currently most of the energy on Earth comes from fossil fuels, a
limited resource that puts pressure on the earth's ecosystems.<br>
<b>Class III: </b>Planets with a "thin" biosphere that might
sustain some biological activity, but this does not affect the
planet as a whole. There are no current examples of Class III
planets. However, Earth 2.5 billion years ago, before life created
the oxygen atmosphere, would have been a Class III world. If early
Mars hosted life when it had liquid water on its surface then it too
might have been a Class III world. Once life appears, new forms of
change, evolution, and innovation become possible.<br>
<b>Class IV:</b> Planets with a thick biosphere strongly affecting
the flow of energy and work through the rest of the planetary
systems. Planets co-evolve with their biospheres as life dominates
many of the processes happening between the surface and the upper
atmosphere. (Earth today)<br>
And what might a <b>Class V </b>planet look like?<br>
Frank lists several ways humans on Earth might form a
technological cooperative between biosphere and civilization,
including "greening" large desert land masses such as the Sahara by
finding ways to plant trees that will absorb carbon and release
oxygen; or creating genetically modified trees with photovoltaic
leaves that covert the sun's energy into electricity.<br>
"Civilization arose as part of a biosphere," Frank says. "A Type 2
civilization on the Kardashev scale that is super space-baring could
live without a biosphere. But a young civilization, like ours, has
to see itself as a part of the biosphere. We're not separate from
it, we're just the latest experiment the earth is running in the
evolution of life. If we're not careful, it will just move on
without us."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.astrobio.net/alien-life/climate-change-aliens/">https://www.astrobio.net/alien-life/climate-change-aliens/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="September%2010,%202015:,,The%20New%20York%20Times%20reports%20on%20severe%20wildfires%20in%20California.,,http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/us/fires-in-west-leave-residents-gasping-on-the-soot-left-behind.html">This
Day in Climate History September 10, 2015</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
September 10, 2015:<br>
The New York Times reports on severe wildfires in California.<br>
Fires in West Have Residents Gasping on the Soot Left Behind<br>
The dreadful conditions here - with temperatures soaring over 100
degrees, dry brush everywhere and a miasma of bad air - seem likely
to become more common throughout the Western States, where the fire
season is shaping up as a record one. This summer, residents of
Denver grappled with air pollution that had wafted down from
wildfires in Canada; throughout the West, a big blaze in one place
can be felt many miles away.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/us/fires-in-west-leave-residents-gasping-on-the-soot-left-behind.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/us/fires-in-west-leave-residents-gasping-on-the-soot-left-behind.html</a>
</font><br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><i>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
</i></font><font size="+1"><i> </i></font><font
size="+1"><i> You are encouraged to forward this email </i></font>
<blockquote>
<blockquote><small>. </small><small><b>** Privacy and Security: </b>
This is a text-only mailing that carries no images which may
originate from remote servers. </small><small> Text-only
messages provide greater privacy to the receiver and sender.
</small><small> </small><br>
<small> By regulation, the .VOTE top-level domain must be used
for democratic and election purposes and cannot be used for
commercial purposes. </small><br>
<small>To subscribe, email: <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:contact@theclimate.vote">contact@theclimate.vote</a>
with subject: subscribe, To Unsubscribe, subject:
unsubscribe</small><br>
<small> Also you</small><font size="-1"> may
subscribe/unsubscribe at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://pairlist10.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/theclimate.vote">https://pairlist10.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/theclimate.vote</a></font><small>
</small><br>
<small> </small><small>Links and headlines assembled and
curated by Richard Pauli</small><small> for <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://TheClimate.Vote">http://TheClimate.Vote</a>
delivering succinct information for citizens and responsible
governments of all levels.</small><small> L</small><small>ist
membership is confidential and records are scrupulously
restricted to this mailing list. </small></blockquote>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<table class="tableWithBorder" style="max-width: 100%;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(102, 102, 102); margin:
0px ! important; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
Arimo,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial;
text-decoration-color: initial;" height="37" width="35">
<tbody>
<tr>
</tr>
<tr>
</tr>
<tr>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><br>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<blockquote>
<blockquote><br>
<table class="tableWithBorder" height="37" width="35">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><br>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<small> </small></blockquote>
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>