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<font size="+1"><i>November 1, 2017</i></font><br>
<b><br>
<a
href="http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2017/10/30/a-real-halloween-horror-story-the-five-scariest-aspects-of-climate-change/">A
real Halloween horror story: the five scariest aspects of
climate change</a></b><br>
Casey Ivanovich October 30, 2017<br>
Halloween has arrived, and it's time once again for goblins,
gremlins, and ghost stories.<br>
But there's another threat brewing that's much more frightening -
because it's real.<br>
An unrecognizable world is quickly creeping up on us as climate
change progresses - and the anticipated impacts are enough to rattle
anyone's skeleton.<br>
Here are five of the scariest aspects of climate change. Read on if
you dare:<br>
<b>Extreme weather is becoming more extreme</b><br>
A changing climate paves the way for extreme weather events to live
up to their name.<br>
In 2017 alone we saw fatal events worldwide, including:<br>
- A heat wave in India<br>
- The most severe drought in Somalian history<br>
- Devastating wildfires in northern California<br>
- An onslaught of record-breaking hurricanes in the Caribbean, U.S.,
and even Ireland<br>
- Weeks of heavy rainfall and flooding in Nepal, Bangladesh, and
India<br>
The fingerprints of climate change can be found on each of these
events.<br>
As global temperatures continue to rise, heat waves are expected to
become more intense, frequent, and longer lasting.<br>
Scientists also predict that rainfall patterns will continue to
shift, increasing regional risk for widespread drought and flooding.<br>
Drought conditions may also prompt wildfires to occur more
frequently and within a longer fire season. The wildfire season in
the western U.S. is already weeks longer than in previous years.<br>
Hurricanes are also influenced by climate change. Rising sea surface
temperatures, a moister atmosphere, and changing atmospheric
circulation patterns have the potential to increase hurricanes'
power and travel paths.<br>
Extreme weather intensification impacts human health and development
in many ways - extreme heat events directly generate health hazards
such as heat stroke, while drought and wildfires threaten crop and
ecosystem stability.<br>
The 2017 hurricane season has already demonstrated the shocking
consequences of intensified hurricanes and flooding, with Hurricanes
Harvey, Irma, and Maria killing more than 150 people and causing as
much as $300 billion in damages in the U.S. alone.<br>
<b>Tipping points loom in near future</b><br>
A particularly alarming facet of climate change is the threat of
irreversible changes to climate conditions, called "tipping
elements."<br>
These components of the climate system earn their title from a
possession of critical thresholds, or "tipping points," beyond which
a tiny change can dramatically alter the state of the system.<br>
Many tipping elements have been identified by scientists, and some
may have already passed their critical threshold. For example, a
vicious cycle of sea ice melt has already been triggered, leading
scientists to predict that Arctic summers will be ice-free before
mid-century.<br>
Imminent tipping points also exist for melting ice sheets,
particularly those of Greenland and West Antarctica, where full ice
sheet collapse could result in global sea level rise of up to 20
feet and 16 feet respectively.<br>
Coral reefs too are rapidly approaching a grave tipping point.
Essential relationships between algae and corals begin to break down
as ocean waters rise in temperature and acidity. Without stabilizing
these changes, the majority of global reef systems may collapse
before global temperatures reach a two-degree Celsuis warming
threshold.<br>
<b>Coastal communities battle sea level rise</b><br>
Sea level rise is one of the most visible impacts of climate change,
as increased coastal erosion physically erases continental borders.<br>
As the climate warms, ocean waters expand and ice sheets and
glaciers melt. Both factors contribute to a rising sea level at an
accelerating rate. Communities in Alaska and several Pacific Islands
are already fleeing rising seas - relocating as their villages are
engulfed and eroded.<br>
Rising sea levels also intensify damages from extreme weather events
such as hurricanes. A higher sea level allows storm surges to grow
in height and volume, exacerbating flooding and associated damages.<br>
As water levels continue to rise, more coastal communities will feel
the consequences. Many major cities are located on coastlines, with
almost 40 percent of U.S. citizens living in coastal cities.<br>
Protecting people from this creeping threat will be difficult and
costly - as we've already seen in the aftermath of coastal storms
such as Superstorm Sandy.<br>
<b>Humans are nearing uncharted climate territory</b><br>
A globally averaged two-degree Celsius (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit)
of warming over preindustrial levels is the most widely suggested
threshold we need to stay "well" below.<br>
The threshold was first proposed by William Nordhaus in the 1970's,
in part because of its historical significance - the human species
has never lived during a time in which global temperatures were
equivalent to two-degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.<br>
The unprecedented nature of this benchmark provided a foundation for
alarm that carried the two-degrees Celsius value into political and
scientific discussions for decades.<br>
In a changing climate, unprecedented events will become the norm.<br>
In some cases, they already have.<br>
As infectious diseases spread to previously untouched regions and an
Arctic ozone hole threatens to open, people are beginning to catch
the first glimpses of the new world we are creating - one that is in
many ways more hostile and dangerous than the one we leave behind.<br>
<b>Many American politicians deny the problem</b><br>
Perhaps the only thing more terrifying than the impacts of climate
change is the overwhelming denial of their existence by some
political leaders in the U.S.<br>
The Paris Agreement served as a major step forward in promoting
climate change mitigation policy on an international scale, with
almost every nation agreeing to tackle this looming threat.<br>
Then in June, President Trump announced his intent to withdraw from
the agreement. That means the United States will be one of only two
countries - out of almost 200 - failing to participate in the
accords.<br>
The same efforts towards dismantling U.S. climate progress can be
seen in recent national policy. Environmental Protection Agency
Administrator Scott Pruitt (who recently claimed that carbon dioxide
is not a major contributor to global warming) is perhaps the most
visible of an exhausting list of leaders within the current
Administration who deny climate science. The Administration is
trying to undermine or reverse policies addressing climate change,
including the Clean Power Plan, and information about climate change
is vanishing from official agency websites.<br>
The rest of the globe is striving to implement meaningful climate
policy, including China's unparalleled growth in renewable energy
support. Soon the U.S. will be left in the dust in the race for a
greener world.<br>
<b>Be afraid. Be very afraid. Then do something about it.</b><br>
We can't protect you from the monsters hiding under your bed. But
combating the ominous impacts of climate change is a much more
hopeful endeavor.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2017/10/30/a-real-halloween-horror-story-the-five-scariest-aspects-of-climate-change/">http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2017/10/30/a-real-halloween-horror-story-the-five-scariest-aspects-of-climate-change/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.fastcompany.com/3068250/the-100-things-we-need-to-do-to-reverse-global-warming">The
100 Things We Need To Do To Reverse Global Warming</a></b><br>
Paul Hawken's new book Drawdown claims to have made a definitive
list of the most effective global strategies for lowering our
emissions. Don't despair: they're all totally achievable.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.fastcompany.com/3068250/the-100-things-we-need-to-do-to-reverse-global-warming">https://www.fastcompany.com/3068250/the-100-things-we-need-to-do-to-reverse-global-warming</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatehotmap.org/global-warming-solutions/">Union
of Concerned Scientists Solutions to Global Warming</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatehotmap.org/global-warming-solutions/">http://www.climatehotmap.org/global-warming-solutions/</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/stopglobalwarming.php">-<br>
35 Easy Ways To Stop Global Warming</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/stopglobalwarming.php">https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/stopglobalwarming.php</a></font><br>
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<b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/10/how-well-have-climate-models-projected-global-warming/">How
well have climate models projected global warming?</a></b><br>
Scientists have been making projections of future global warming
using climate models of increasing complexity for the past four
decades.<br>
While some models projected less warming than we've experienced and
some projected more, all showed surface temperature increases
between 1970 and 2016 that were not too far off from what actually
occurred, particularly when differences in assumed future emissions
are taken into account.<br>
<b>Conclusion</b><br>
Climate models published since 1973 have generally been quite
skillful in projecting future warming. While some were too low and
some too high, they all show outcomes reasonably close to what has
actually occurred, especially when discrepancies between predicted
and actual CO2 concentrations and other climate forcings are taken
into account.<br>
Climate models since 1973 have shown 'close match' between projected
and observed warming. CLICK TO TWEET<br>
Models are far from perfect and will continue to be improved over
time. They also show a fairly large range of future warming that
cannot easily be narrowed using just the changes in climate that we
have observed.<br>
Nevertheless, the close match between projected and observed warming
since 1970 suggests that estimates of future warming may prove
similarly accurate.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/10/how-well-have-climate-models-projected-global-warming/">https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/10/how-well-have-climate-models-projected-global-warming/</a></font><br>
<i>Environmental scientist Dana Nuccitelli helpfully provided a list
of past model/observation comparisons, </i><i><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://skepticalscience.com/search.php?Search=Predictions_150">available
at SkepticalScience.</a></i><i> </i><i><br>
</i><i><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://skepticalscience.com/search.php?Search=Predictions_150">https://skepticalscience.com/search.php?Search=Predictions_150</a></i><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/health-impacts-global-warming-ruin-economy-fe3a2d560860/">The
health impacts of global warming could ruin the economy</a></b><br>
Climate inaction risks "irreversible and unacceptable cost to human
health," warns medical journal.<br>
Climate change is already seriously harming both public health and
labor productivity, warns a major new study published Monday in the
prestigious Lancet medical journal.<br>
"The delayed response to climate change … has jeopardised human life
and livelihoods," concludes the comprehensive Lancet Countdown, a
joint project of two dozen universities and intergovernmental
organizations around the world. Warming since 2000 alone has led to
"an estimated reduction of 5·3% in outdoor manual labour
productivity worldwide."<br>
The productivity loss from warming could exceed the "combined cost
of all other projected economic losses" from climate change, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.fight-entropy.com/2011/08/temperature-and-worker-output.html">explained
one expert </a> - and yet it has "never been included in economic
models of future warming."<br>
The new Lancet report - like many other analyses - makes clear
that it's not too late to avoid the worst health and labor impacts
from global warming. But a quarter-century of dawdling has left us
no more time to delay.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/health-impacts-global-warming-ruin-economy-fe3a2d560860/">https://thinkprogress.org/health-impacts-global-warming-ruin-economy-fe3a2d560860/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-climate-models-have-not-exaggerated-global-warming">FactCheck:Climate
models have not 'exaggerated' global warming</a></b><br>
A new study published in the Nature Geosciences journal this week by
largely UK-based climate scientists has led to claims in the media
that climate models are "wrong" and have significantly overestimated
the observed warming of the planet.<br>
Here Carbon Brief shows why such claims are a misrepresentation of
the paper's main results. In reality, the results obtained from the
type of model-observation comparisons performed in the paper depend
greatly on the dataset and model outputs used by the authors...<br>
...model air temperatures or blended model air/ocean temperatures -
and the time period examined. ..<br>
"I think some press reporting is misleading as our paper did not
assess climate impacts or climate model performance. Rather, our
paper confirms the need for much increased urgent action from around
the world if society stands a chance of limiting warming to 1.5C."<font
size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-climate-models-have-not-exaggerated-global-warming">https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-climate-models-have-not-exaggerated-global-warming</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/31/new-zealand-considers-creating-climate-change-refugee-visas">New
Zealand considers creating climate change refugee visas </a></b>
<br>
Minister says experimental humanitarian visa category could be
introduced for people displaced by rising seas<br>
"an experimental humanitarian visa category" could be implemented
for people from the Pacific who are displaced by rising seas
resulting from climate change.<br>
"It is a piece of work that we intend to do in partnership with the
Pacific islands," Shaw said.<br>
Shaw's announcement comes after the New Zealand immigration and
protection tribunal rejected two families from Tuvalu who applied to
become refugees in New Zealand due to the impact of climate change.<br>
The families argued rising sea levels, lack of access to clean and
sanitary drinking water and Tuvalu's high unemployment rate as
reasons for seeking asylum.<br>
The tribunal ruled they did not risk being persecuted by race,
religion, nationality or by membership of a political or religious
group under the 1951 refugee convention.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/31/new-zealand-considers-creating-climate-change-refugee-visas">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/31/new-zealand-considers-creating-climate-change-refugee-visas</a></font><br>
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<b><a
href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/china-us-operation-climate-change-50828783">China
says it still wants US cooperation on climate change</a></b><br>
A Chinese official said Tuesday that his country still wants to
cooperate with the U.S. on climate change and hopes an upcoming
meeting on the issue in Germany will produce a draft agreement on
implementing the Paris climate accord.<br>
China's Special Representative on Climate Change Xie Zhenhua told
reporters that China wants to boost joint efforts in clean energy,
carbon capture and research.<br>
"China is willing to step up cooperation with the United States in
climate change negotiations after the United States said it will
stay in the talks although it has withdrawn from the accord," Xie
said.<br>
After President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris accord
in June, China swiftly recommitted itself to the nonbinding
agreement.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/china-us-operation-climate-change-50828783">http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/china-us-operation-climate-change-50828783</a></font><br>
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<b><a
href="https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/paris-agreement-climate-change-usa-nicaragua-policy-environment/">Current
Climate Pledges Aren't Enough to Stop Severe Warming</a><br>
</b>Existing pledges under the Paris Agreement won't curb warming to
two degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, a new UN report
warns.<br>
In an audit of the global Paris Agreement released Tuesday, the UN
Environment Programme finds that if action to combat climate change
is limited to just current pledges, the Earth will get at least
three degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer by 2100
relative to preindustrial levels.<br>
"This is unacceptable. If we invest in the right technologies,
ensuring that the private sector is involved, we can still meet the
promise we made to our children to protect their future. But we have
to get on the case now."<br>
To give ourselves a two-out-of-three chance of avoiding two degrees
Celsius of warming by 2100, the new report says that 2030's total
emissions can't exceed 42 billion tons of CO2 equivalent. This
threshold represents about 80 percent of 2016's carbon emissions,
which totaled 52 billion tons of CO2 equivalent.<br>
Pledges made under the Paris Agreement fall well short of achieving
this goal. Even in a best-case scenario for existing pledges, global
emissions in 2030 will fall between 53 to 55.5 billion tons of CO2
equivalent in 2030. That amounts to an overshoot of 11 to 13.5
billion tons, or more than twice the United States' 2016 carbon
footprint.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/paris-agreement-climate-change-usa-nicaragua-policy-environment/">https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/paris-agreement-climate-change-usa-nicaragua-policy-environment/</a></font><b><br>
</b><br>
<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.net/prepare-for-a-world-3c-warmer-in-80-years/">Prepare
for a world 3 degrees C warmer in 80 years</a></b><br>
The UN expects a world 3 degrees C warmer by 2100, even if countries
cut their greenhouse gas emissions as they promised in 2015.<br>
By Alex Kirby<br>
LONDON, 31 October 2017 - Governments should accept that we shall
probably be living in a world 3 degrees C warmer than it is today by
the end of this century unless they urgently step up the speed at
which they cut greenhouse gases, a United Nations assessment says.<br>
As things stand, the UN says, even fully implementing the goals of
the Paris Agreement (concluded in 2015) will deliver only one third
of what is needed for the world to avoid the worst impacts of
climate change.<br>
It will make "a temperature increase of at least 3 degrees C by 2100
very likely" - meaning that governments need to deliver much
stronger pledges when they are revised in 2020.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.net/prepare-for-a-world-3c-warmer-in-80-years/">http://climatenewsnetwork.net/prepare-for-a-world-3c-warmer-in-80-years/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://localsteps.org/3degreemap.html">How Bad: Three
Degrees</a></b><br>
The Kalahari desert spreads across Botswana, engulfing the capital
in sand dunes, and driving millions of refugees out to surrounding
countries.<br>
A permanent El Nino grips the Pacific, causing weather chaos around
the world, and drought in the Amazon.<br>
The whole Amazonian ecosystem collapses in a conflagration of fire
and destruction - desert and savannah eventually take over where the
world's largest rainforest once stood.<br>
Huge amounts of carbon pour into the atmosphere, adding another
degree to global warming. Water runs short in Perth, Sydney and
other parts of Australia away from the far north and south.<br>
Hurricanes strike the tropics half a category stronger than today's,
with higher windspeeds and rainfall.<br>
Agriculture shifts into the far north - Norway's growing season
becomes like southern England is today. But with declines in the
tropics and sub-tropics due to heat and drought, the world tips into
net food deficit.<br>
The Indus river runs dry due to glacial retreat in the Himalayas,
forcing millions of refugees to flee Pakistan.<br>
Possible nuclear conflict with India over water supplies. <br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://youtu.be/6rdLu7wiZOE">Three
Degrees video description from National Geographic </a> <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://localsteps.org/3degreemap.html">http://localsteps.org/3degreemap.html</a></font><br>
-<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.amazon.com/Six-Degrees-Future-Hotter-Planet/dp/142620213X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1">(2009
book )Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet Hardcover - by
Mark Lynas (Author) </a></b><br>
Possibly the most graphic treatment of global warming that has yet
been published...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.amazon.com/Six-Degrees-Future-Hotter-Planet/dp/142620213X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1">https://www.amazon.com/Six-Degrees-Future-Hotter-Planet/dp/142620213X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://act.credoaction.com/call/clovis_calls">(activism)
Call now: Block Trump's racist, climate-denying nominee for USDA
chief scientist</a></b><br>
The Senate Agriculture Committee is expected to vote soon on the
nomination of racist, climate-denier Sam Clovis to serve as chief
scientist at the USDA. Make a call now to oppose his confirmation.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://act.credoaction.com/call/clovis_calls">https://act.credoaction.com/call/clovis_calls</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.inverse.com/article/37941-volcano-eruption-climate-change"><br>
Future Volcanic Eruptions Will Screw With Climate Change More
Than Before</a></b><br>
The Earth could cool, but not in the way it needs to.<br>
Climate change doesn't happen in a vacuum. Many factors contribute
to it, not the least of which is volcanic activity. And while you
probably think of a volcano in terms of the heat produced, the gas
and dust it emits actually affect climate change a lot more than you
might think.<br>
In a study published Tuesday in Nature Communications, scientists at
the National Center for Atmospheric Research report that major
volcanic eruptions could cause more disruption to the global climate
than they have in the past. By examining the conditions that
followed the eruption of the Indonesian volcano Mount Tambora in
1815, the Boulder, Colorado scientists predict what would happen if
this type of major eruption occurred in 2085.<br>
The potential alterations to the climate will not be in the Earth's
favor. While the scientists predict that the cooling that will
follow a future eruption of that scale would be even more extreme,
it will not offset the effects of a warming climate. Furthermore,
they predict that the eruption will disrupt the water cycle,
decreasing global precipitation...<br>
The reason the temperature change will so drawn out, they explain,
is because ocean temperature is becoming increasingly stratified -
that is, separated into layers based on temperature. As this
happens, the surface water in the ocean will be increasingly less
able to moderate the cooling effects of the eruption, causing a
longer and more severe cooling event. Because the cooling in
1815-1816 occurred at a time when ocean temperature was not as
stratified, it was absorbed to some degree by the water.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.inverse.com/article/37941-volcano-eruption-climate-change">https://www.inverse.com/article/37941-volcano-eruption-climate-change</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.c2g2.net/governance-for-a-ban-on-geoengineering/">Governance
for a Ban on Geoengineering</a></b><br>
Guest Post by Lili Fuhr, Department Head, Ecology & Sustainable
Development, Heinrich Boll Foundation / 26 October 2017<br>
All geoengineering approaches are by definition large-scale,
intentional, and high-risk. Some have well-known negative impacts,
threatening the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and
undermining fundamental human rights (for example Bio-Energy with
Carbon Capture and Storage). Others have great uncertainties when it
comes to their potential impacts, that will never be fully known
before actual deployment (mostly Solar Radiation Management).<br>
There is a very important principle in international and national
environmental law when it comes to dealing with uncertainties and
risks - the precautionary principle. Based on this principle, the
outdoor testing and deployment of SRM technologies, because of their
potential to weaken human rights, democracy, and international
peace, should be banned outright. This ban should be overseen by a
robust and accountable multilateral global governance mechanism.<br>
Other technologies that require great scrutiny are Carbon Dioxide
Removal (CDR) projects that threaten indigenous lands, food
security, and water availability. Such large-scale technological
schemes must be assessed diligently before setting up proper
regulations, to ensure that climate-change solutions do not
adversely affect sustainable development or human rights. Any
intentional large-scale deployment of transboundary nature (and with
potential transboundary risks and harms) needs to be assessed by an
agreed UN multilateral mechanism, taking into account the rights and
interests of all potentially impacted communities and future
generations. Most CDR schemes currently proposed would very likely
fail such a rigorous assessment...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.c2g2.net/governance-for-a-ban-on-geoengineering/">https://www.c2g2.net/governance-for-a-ban-on-geoengineering/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se4Ua3k07w8">(2 minute
Video) Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change - 2017
report</a></b><br>
Published on Oct 30, 2017<br>
The 2017 report of The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health
and Climate Change shows that climate change is already a critical
public health issue. Its findings outline the various ways climate
change is affecting the health of people across the planet today. <br>
While the delayed response to climate change over the past two
decades has jeopardised human life and livelihoods, the past 5 years
have seen an accelerated response, with momentum building across a
number of sectors.<br>
The direction of travel is set in tackling climate change, with
clear and unprecedented opportunities for public health.<br>
<font size="-1">video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se4Ua3k07w8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se4Ua3k07w8</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.lancetcountdown.org">(Text
report) TRACKING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN PUBLIC HEALTH AND
CLIMATE CHANGE</a></b><br>
THE 2017 REPORT OF THE LANCET COUNTDOWN <br>
The Lancet Countdown's 2017 report tracks 40 indicators across five
areas, arriving at three key conclusions:<br>
The human symptoms of climate change are unequivocal and potentially
irreversible`<br>
The delayed response to climate change over the past 25 years has
jeopardised human life and livelihoods.<br>
The past 5 years have seen an accelerated response, and in 2017
momentum is building across a number of sectors; the direction of
travel is set, with clear and unprecedented opportunities for public
health.<br>
See our indicators for a more thematic breakdown of the report: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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<b>Climate Change Impacts, Exposures and Vulnerability </b><br>
Climate change undermines the foundations of good health, affecting
populations around the world, today. ...<br>
<b>Adaptation Planning and Resilience for Health </b><br>
Numerous cost-effective solutions exist to adapt to climate change
and improve public health resilience.... <br>
<b>Mitigation Actions and Health Co-Benefits </b><br>
Responding to climate change yields immediate and tangible benefits
for human health, cleaning up polluted air, ensuring healthier
diets, and encouraging physical activity. ..<b><br>
</b><b>Finance and Economics </b><br>
Early signs of investment in renewable energy and coal-fired power
suggest the beginning of a broader transition maybe underway... <br>
<b>Public and Political Engagement </b><br>
Implementing the Paris Agreement depends on enhanced engagement from
the public and policymakers...<br>
<b>View the 2017 Report </b><br>
The Lancet Countdown's 2017 report is <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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The links between climate change and public health are increasingly
clear. <br>
The Lancet Countdown 2017 report monitors the health impacts of
climate change and the benefits resulting from the response to
climate change. <br>
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href="http://in.reuters.com/article/column-russell-coal/column-in-bizarre-twist-coal-may-become-a-scarce-commodity-russell-idINL4N1N23JKhttp://in.reuters.com/article/column-russell-coal/column-in-bizarre-twist-coal-may-become-a-scarce-commodity-russell-idINL4N1N23JK">Opinion
COLUMN-In bizarre twist, coal may become a scarce commodity:
Russell</a></b><br>
(The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist
for Reuters.)<br>
By Clyde Russell<br>
BARCELONA, Oct 27 (REUTERS) - The idea of coal as a scarce commodity
seems somewhat preposterous given it remains one of the most
abundant mineral resources on the planet, but the coming years may
see a deficit in seaborne markets for the polluting fuel...<br>
The issue for global coal markets is that despite the rhetoric of
countries trying to lower coal consumption, in reality this has been
increasing.<br>
China's thermal power generation rose 6.3 percent in the first nine
months of the year, one the reasons that the world's leading coal
importer was boosting its purchases from the seaborne market.<br>
The further problem is that meeting extra demand has become harder
for the traditional export powerhouses, Australia, Indonesia and
South Africa.<br>
"Coal is becoming scarce," Guillaume Perret, who runs a consultancy
bearing his name, told the Barcelona event.<br>
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href="http://in.reuters.com/article/column-russell-coal/column-in-bizarre-twist-coal-may-become-a-scarce-commodity-russell-idINL4N1N23JK">http://in.reuters.com/article/column-russell-coal/column-in-bizarre-twist-coal-may-become-a-scarce-commodity-russell-idINL4N1N23JK</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP-cRqCQRc8">(video
classic) Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms Video
Abstract</a></b><br>
Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions Published on Mar 21,
2016<br>
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We made a video discussing some of the main points in our "Ice Melt"
paper, which is about to be published in Atmos. Phys. Chem.<br>
The main point that I want to make concerns the threat of
irreparable harm, which I feel we have not communicated well enough
to people who most need to know, the public and policymakers. I'm
not sure how we can do that better, but I comment on it at the end
of this transcript. <br>
<a
href="http://csas.ei.columbia.edu/2016/03/22/ice-melt-sea-level-rise-and-superstorms-the-threat-of-irreparable-harm/">full
transcript </a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://csas.ei.columbia.edu/2016/03/22/ice-melt-sea-level-rise-and-superstorms-the-threat-of-irreparable-harm/">http://csas.ei.columbia.edu/2016/03/22/ice-melt-sea-level-rise-and-superstorms-the-threat-of-irreparable-harm/</a><br>
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href="http://youtu.be/xp-F9B7Z0Pc">This Day in Climate History
November 1, 2012</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
November 1, 2012: <br>
- At a campaign rally in Virginia, Republican presidential contender
Mitt Romney is interrupted by a protester who faults him for not
addressing climate change. The right-wing audience boos the
protester. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/SGxSnaC1qcU">http://youtu.be/SGxSnaC1qcU</a><br>
- On MSNBC, Chris Hayes discusses the irony, and the tragedy, of the
refusal of President Obama and Mitt Romney to discuss climate change
in the weeks preceding Superstorm Sandy.<br>
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