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<font size="+1"><i>September 23, 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/09/22/one-of-the-most-bizarre-ideas-about-climate-change-just-got-more-support/?utm_term=.3fc73cdea4e5">One
of the most bizarre ideas about climate change just found more
evidence in its favor</a><br>
</b>...scientists have<span> </span><a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/01/26/global-warming-could-make-blizzards-worse/?utm_term=.135facfd8b41"
style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(25, 85, 165); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);
zoom: 1; font-size: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; line-height:
1.8em;">pointed out for a number of years</a> that warmer seas,
and a wetter atmosphere, can actually fuel more snowfall in massive
nor'easters affecting the U.S. East Coast.<br>
More controversial still is an idea called "<a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/23/the-arctic-is-behaving-so-bizarrely-and-these-scientists-think-they-know-why/"
style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(25, 85, 165); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);
zoom: 1; font-size: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; line-height:
1.8em;">Warm Arctic, Cold Continents</a>." This is the notion that
as the Arctic warms up faster than the middle latitudes, it may
sometimes cause a displacement of the region's still quite frigid
air to places that aren't so used to it. In other words, even as the
planet warms, masses of cold air could also become more mobile and
deliver quite a shock at times when outbreaks occur in more
southerly latitudes.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/09/22/one-of-the-most-bizarre-ideas-about-climate-change-just-got-more-support/?utm_term=.3fc73cdea4e5">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/09/22/one-of-the-most-bizarre-ideas-about-climate-change-just-got-more-support/?utm_term=.3fc73cdea4e5</a></font><b><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2017/09/is-there-really-still-a-chance-for-staying-below-1-5-c-global-warming/">
Is there really still a chance for staying below 1.5 degreesC
global warming?</a></b><br>
Filed under: Climate Science - stefan @ 22 September 2017<br>
There has been a bit of excitement and confusion this week about a
new paper in Nature Geoscience, claiming that we can still limit
global warming to below 1.5 degreesC above preindustrial
temperatures, whilst emitting another ~800 Gigatons of carbon
dioxide. That's much more than previously thought, so how come? And
while that sounds like very welcome good news, is it true? ...<br>
Does it all matter?<br>
We still live in a world on a path to 3 or 4 degreesC global
warming, waiting to finally turn the tide of rising emissions. At
this point, debating whether we have 0.2 degreesC more or less to go
until we reach 1.5 degreesC is an academic discussion at best, a
distraction at worst. The big issue is that we need to see falling
emissions globally very very soon if we even want to stay well below
2 degreesC. That was agreed as the weaker goal in Paris in a
consensus by 195 nations. It is high time that everyone backs this
up with actions, not just words...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2017/09/is-there-really-still-a-chance-for-staying-below-1-5-c-global-warming/">http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2017/09/is-there-really-still-a-chance-for-staying-below-1-5-c-global-warming/</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/21/climate-optimism-disaster-extreme-weather-catastrophe">Climate
optimism has been a disaster. We need a new language -
desperately</a></b><br>
Ellie Mae O'Hagan<br>
The extreme weather of the past months is a game-changer: surely now
the world is ready to talk about climate change as a
civilisation-collapsing catastrophe.<br>
It is also too massive. The truth is if we don't take action on
climate change now, the food shortages, mass migration and political
turmoil it will cause could see the collapse of civilisation in our
lifetimes. Which of us can live with that knowledge?<br>
It's not surprising, then, that some years ago climate activists
switched to a message of optimism. They listened to studies that
showed optimism was more galvanising than despair, and they began to
talk about hope, empowerment, and success stories. They waited for
some grand extreme weather event to make the final pieces fall into
place. Maybe the submerging of New Orleans would be it; maybe some
of the rich white people who were battered by Hurricane Sandy would
use their privilege to demand action. Maybe Harvey or Irma - or now
Maria - would cause us to snap out of our stupor. It hasn't
happened.<br>
Could the language of emergency work? It has never been tried with
as much meteorological evidence as we have now, and we've never had
a target as clear and unanimous as the one agreed in Paris. The one
thing I know is that the events of the last few months have changed
the game, and this is the moment to start debating a new way to talk
about climate change. It may be that if the time for a mass movement
is not now, there won't be one.<br>
Ellie Mae O'Hagan is an editor at openDemocracy, and a freelance
journalist<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/21/climate-optimism-disaster-extreme-weather-catastrophe">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/21/climate-optimism-disaster-extreme-weather-catastrophe</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-climate-change-brains-media-20170922-story.html">(opinion)
When will humans be horrified by climate change? When the media
give it the coverage it deserves</a></b><br>
Against all the forces that encourage confusion, indecision, and
delay, one institution bears the ultimate responsibility for
educating the public and sounding the alarm: the media. However,
reporting on climate remains lamentably uneven and incomplete.<br>
Every reputable news venue should be providing ongoing coverage of
climate science, its implications for our way of life, and a
thorough discussion of the pathways out of our predicament.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-climate-change-brains-media-20170922-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-climate-change-brains-media-20170922-story.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://cleantechnica.com/2017/09/21/mathematics-mass-extinction-climate-change-threshold-catastrophe/">Mathematics,
Mass Extinction, Climate Change, and The Threshold Of
Catastrophe</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://cleantechnica.com/2017/09/21/mathematics-mass-extinction-climate-change-threshold-catastrophe/">https://cleantechnica.com/2017/09/21/mathematics-mass-extinction-climate-change-threshold-catastrophe/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41347527">Hurricanes:
A perfect storm of chance and climate change?</a></b><br>
The succession of intense and deadly tropical cyclones that have
barrelled across the Atlantic in recent weeks have left many people
wondering if a threshold of some sort has been crossed. Is this
chain of hurricanes evidence of some significant new frontier in our
changing climate?<br>
The answer is mostly no, but with worrying undertones of yes.<br>
The first thing to note about this season is that it shows the power
of science and weather forecasting.<br>
Every year, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(Noaa) puts out a hurricane forecast for the season that runs from 1
June to 30 November for the north Atlantic, Caribbean and the Gulf
of Mexico.<br>
In August, Noaa updated its predictions, stating that there would be
14-19 named storms and of these, 5-9 would become hurricanes.<br>
To date, we've had seven cyclones that have gained category three
status or stronger. So this season is unusual but not unprecedented.
The bigger picture shows that between 1981 and 2010 the average was
six hurricanes per season.<br>
What has happened this year is that a number of natural variable
factors have come together and helped boost the number and power of
these cyclones. In the background, climate change has loaded the
dice.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41347527">http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41347527</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2017/09/paillard-youd-have-to-be-as-stupid-as-trump-to-deny-global-warming/">Paillard:
'You'd have to be as stupid as Trump to deny global warming'</a></b><br>
The Drinks Business<br>
Champagne producer Bruno Paillard has said that anyone in the wine
industry who denies the effects of global warming is "as stupid as
Donald Trump"<br>
Speaking to the drinks business during the launch of the 2002
vintage of his prestige cuvée Nec Plus Ultra (meaning the perfect
example of its kind), at Mark's Club in Mayfair, Paillard said:<br>
"Global warming is happening for sure and you'd have to be as stupid
as Donald Trump to say that it isn't. It's frightening for the next
generation as the weather is getting harder and harder to predict.<br>
"I'm making wine differently today than the way I was 30 years ago -
we used to always pick in October back then. But I like the variety
of the vintages - it would be very boring if we were making the same
wines every year."<br>
But while variety brings interest, it also brings challenges and
Paillard admitted that he wont be making Nec Plus Ultra from 2017 as
the Pinot Noir wasn't good enough.<br>
"This year began too warm and then we had the spring frosts so it
started with reduced hopes of around 25%, but frost has no effect on
quality, only quantity," he told db, comparing 2017 to 2003 due to
its similarly hot summer.<br>
Inconsistencies with the weather is also putting him off investing
in England.<br>
"I've been offered the chance to buy land in England to make English
sparkling wine but I'm not so sure about the climate - the big
problem is humidity and I wouldn't know how to answer that question
without chemicals," Paillard said.<br>
One of his most passionate plights is for a fixed resting time after
disgorgement to become mandatory in Champagne.<br>
"I was mocked and criticised by wineries about my insistence to put
disgorgement dates on my labels by people who think it doesn't mean
anything to customers, but it's very important to me.<br>
"Wine needs time to rest after disgorgement. I'd like to make it
mandatory in Champagne. Cellar workers describe disgorgement as 'an
operation', and in a sense it is, as the bottles are alive and full
of life," Paillard said.<br>
"You have to cut them open, remove the sediment and close them up
again - it's like an operation and you need time to rest after
surgery.<br>
"The older the wine the longer time it needs to rest after
disgorgement - bottles need six months, magnums 10, vintage wines
need a year and prestige cuvées three years. I really think this
would improve the overall quality of Champagne," he added...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2017/09/paillard-youd-have-to-be-as-stupid-as-trump-to-deny-global-warming/">https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2017/09/paillard-youd-have-to-be-as-stupid-as-trump-to-deny-global-warming/</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/learning-to-live-in-the-dark-reading-arendt-in-the-time-of-climate-change/#%21">Learning
to Live in the Dark: Reading Arendt in the Time of Climate
Change</a></b><br>
By Wen Stephenson<br>
With nothing to fall back on, no recognizable standards by which to
comprehend and judge, anything can happen, anything might be
justified, in the future. All bets are off. What comprehensible
motive could there be for poisoning the well from which one’s own
children must drink, much less the atmosphere itself? What kind of
mindset makes one’s own children and grandchildren, and everyone
else’s, indeed all future generations, superfluous?<br>
The terrifying threat of the totalitarian systems for present and
future generations, Arendt warns at the conclusion of Origins, “is
that today, with populations and homelessness everywhere on the
increase, masses of people are continuously rendered superfluous if
we continue to think of our world in utilitarian terms.” In other
words, she writes with trademark bluntness, in this starkest of
conclusions, “Totalitarian solutions may well survive the fall of
totalitarian regimes.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/learning-to-live-in-the-dark-reading-arendt-in-the-time-of-climate-change/">https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/learning-to-live-in-the-dark-reading-arendt-in-the-time-of-climate-change/</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/learning-to-live-in-the-dark-reading-arendt-in-the-time-of-climate-change/#%21">Writer
Wen Stephenson:</a> "So here's my first lengthy essay in two years
(since my cover feature on the pope and climate justice for The
Nation). I wrote it back in the spring, after mulling it for more
than a year, as the jumping-off point for a new book project. <br>
At 6500 words, it's not a quick read, bit if you find it of any
value, I hope you'll share it. This is the kind of piece that needs
all the help it can get finding its audience, and can all too easily
get buried in the media crush. <br>
Thanks as always."<br>
-Wen<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/learning-to-live-in-the-dark-reading-arendt-in-the-time-of-climate-change/#">https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/learning-to-live-in-the-dark-reading-arendt-in-the-time-of-climate-change/#</a>!<br>
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<b><br>
</b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2017/09/22/the-energy-202-climate-change-terms-altered-in-another-corner-of-epa-s-website/59c42c3b30fb0468cea81a77/?utm_term=.f03c28a8953f"><b>The
Energy 202: Climate change terms altered in another corner of
EPA's website</b></a><br>
<b>Numerous mentions of "climate change," "greenhouse gasses" and
other phrases related to global warming have been found to be
altered or deleted from another portion of the Environmental
Protection Agency's website,</b> according to a new environmental
watchdog report.<br>
At the beginning of President Trump's term, the <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.epa.gov/smartway">EPA's
SmartWay </a>program, designed to help businesses looking to
lower their impact on the environment find ways of doing so when
shipping goods, told visitors that <b>"many companies monitor their
carbon emissions and establish inventories or overall 'carbon
footprint' to help decision makers identify the best strategies
for reducing climate impacts."</b><br>
But by May, those descriptions had been replaced by more generalized
terms. Instead of tracking carbon emissions, firms could monitor <b>"fuel
consumption." </b>Instead of shrinking their carbon footprint,
companies could address their <b>"environmental footprint."</b>
Instead of reducing climate impacts, they were told they could <b>"improve
sustainability." <br>
</b> ....In one instance, the sentence <b>"The science is clear -
greenhouse gas emissions from all sources must decrease" </b>was
struck entirely from the website. <b><br>
</b>The changes were detailed in a <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://envirodatagov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/WM-CCR-18-EPA-Smartway-Program-170919.pdf">report
released Friday </a>by the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://envirodatagov.org/">Environmental Data and
Governance Initiative</a>, a group of nonprofits and academics who
among other activities have monitored changes to federal government
websites during the Trump administration.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2017/09/22/the-energy-202-climate-change-terms-altered-in-another-corner-of-epa-s-website/59c42c3b30fb0468cea81a77/?utm_term=.f03c28a8953f">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2017/09/22/the-energy-202-climate-change-terms-altered-in-another-corner-of-epa-s-website/59c42c3b30fb0468cea81a77/?utm_term=.f03c28a8953f</a><br>
.<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.epa.gov/smartway">EPA's
SmartWay program </a></b>helps companies advance supply chain
sustainability by measuring, benchmarking, and improve freight
transportation efficiency.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.epa.gov/smartway">https://www.epa.gov/smartway</a></font><br>
<b>.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://envirodatagov.org/">The
First 100 Days and Counting Part 2: Pursuing a Toxic Agenda</a></b><br>
An examination of how the Trump administration's actions increase
toxic burdens on vulnerable communities.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://100days.envirodatagov.org/pursuing-toxic-agenda/">PURSUING
A TOXIC AGENDA<br>
ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE IN THE EARLY TRUMP ADMINISTRATION</a><br>
"Pursuing a Toxic Agenda" is the second part of a multipart series
on the early days of the Trump administration. In this series, EDGI
authors systematically investigate historical precedents for Trump's
attack on the EPA, consequences for toxic regulation and
environmental justice, and changes to the public presentation of
climate change...<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://envirodatagov.org/">https://envirodatagov.org/</a></font><br>
.<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://100days.envirodatagov.org/epa-under-siege/">THE EPA
UNDER SIEGE (Part 1)</a></b><br>
The EPA Under Siege is the first part of a multipart series on the
early days of the Trump administration. In this series, EDGI authors
systematically investigate historical precedents for Trump's attack
on the EPA, consequences for toxic regulation and environmental
justice, the influence of the fossil fuel industry on the new
administration, changes to the public presentation of climate
change, and the new administration's hostility to scientific
research and evidence.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://100days.envirodatagov.org/epa-under-siege/">http://100days.envirodatagov.org/epa-under-siege/</a><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.theonion.com/article/new-climate-change-report-just-list-years-each-cou-57007">(The
Onion) New Climate Change Report Just List Of Years Each Country
Becomes Uninhabitable</a></b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.theonion.com/article/new-climate-change-report-just-list-years-each-cou-57007">
[Satire ?]</a></b><br>
GENEVA-Stating that the data published within its pages represented
the scientific consensus of top researchers around the world, the
U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its annual
report this week, which consists solely of an alphabetized list of
every country on earth and the years each of them will become
uninhabitable. "Albania, 2035; Algeria, 2027; American Samoa, 2024,"
read the two-page report, divided into two columns containing no
text other than the names of the more than 200 countries and
sovereign territories on the planet alongside the date by which that
location's inhabitants will no longer be able to survive the
conditions brought on by global warming. "Cameroon, 2029; Canada,
2049... Japan, 2041... United States of America, 2033." When reached
for comment, the committee expressed its hope that the report would
be used by governments around the globe to help them make
forward-thinking, evidence-based decisions about how and when to
euthanize their populations.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.theonion.com/article/new-climate-change-report-just-list-years-each-cou-57007">http://www.theonion.com/article/new-climate-change-report-just-list-years-each-cou-57007</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/qAqIKybNO38?t=29m45s">This Day in
Climate History September 23, 1976</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
September 23, 1976: President Gerald Ford and Democratic challenger
Jimmy Carter discuss energy policy in the first of three
presidential debates; both men express support for "cleaner" coal.<br>
(29:35--36:57) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/qAqIKybNO38?t=29m45s">https://youtu.be/qAqIKybNO38?t=29m45s</a><br>
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