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PRI) Humanity has entered a global warming minefield, climate
scientists say</a></b><br>
<b>Living on Earth</b><br>
This year's deadly hurricanes, record-shattering firestorms and
severe drought are linked to global warming, and the prospect of
more unpleasant surprises seems likely, climate experts warn.<br>
"If we continue on the path that we're on," he says, "there's no
reason not to expect that we will see even more intense hurricanes
and more extreme weather events of the sort we're already starting
to see - unprecedented flooding events [and] unprecedented heat
waves, droughts and wildfire."<br>
Just in the last few years, Mann points out, researchers have
measured record global ocean temperatures, which have led to the
strongest hurricane in the Northern Hemisphere, Hurricane Patricia;
the strongest hurricane in the Southern Hemisphere, Hurricane
Winston; and the strongest storm ever recorded in the open Atlantic,
Hurricane Irma.<br>
"It's not a coincidence," Mann says. "As these ocean temperatures
continue to warm, we are going to see the strongest storms get
stronger."<br>
Mann takes issue with the widespread notion that "there's some
tipping point - that once we warm the planet enough, once we put
enough carbon into the atmosphere, we sort of go off this
metaphorical cliff."<br>
"In reality," he says, "it's much more subtle than that. There isn't
one tipping point. There isn't one cliff that we go off. It's more
like we're stepping out onto a minefield and we don't know exactly
where those mines are, but the farther we step out into the
minefield - the more we warm the planet - the more likely it is that
we do set off these mines, that we do encounter devastating tipping
point-like changes in the climate."<br>
The melting ice sheets in the West Antarctic and Greenland are good
examples of "mines" that could lead to other catastrophic
consequences...<br>
Still, flatlining emissions won't be sufficient. "As long as we're
flat, we're still loading the atmosphere with carbon. We've got to
bring those emissions down to zero," he maintains.<br>
For now, the world still has a "carbon budget," Mann says. Nations
can still afford to burn a certain amount of carbon and keep warming
below the dangerous 2 degrees Celsius/3.5 degrees Fahrenheit
threshold. "If that's the goal - and that seems to be the goal
that's been agreed upon by the nations of the world - we can still
do it. Our own studies show that there is a path forward."<br>
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href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/11/03/climate-weekly-get-set-un-climate-talks-bonn/">Climate
Weekly: Get set for the UN climate talks in Bonn</a></b><br>
Throughout the year, the global community has projected a sense of
calm determination in response to the US president's contempt.<br>
Unity has been a byword. But on Monday climate negotiators need to
get into rooms and fight out issues with the Paris deal they are
determined not to budge on.<br>
The Paris accord remains a shell. A deal with no rules or framework
for compliance. That means there is still a huge amount for
countries to fight over and just four weeks of major negotiations
left until they all need to be set at the end of 2018.<br>
This week our global reporting team dug into the fault lines.<br>
Poor nations said they need more money to be put on the table in
Bonn. But a leading African official told Mantoe Phakathi that
developing countries needed more than money, they need to experts to
use it. Because right now a lot of cash just bounces back in the
pockets of western consultants.<br>
From the US, observers say that despite the febrility of their
leader, state department negotiators are proceeding as if in a
parallel universe and in Bonn they will quietly push the positions
they've had for years. Sophie Yeo has the story.<br>
We may end up viewing this conference as the first Chinese-led
climate talks. Ever more assertive on the global stage and with
climate change elevated into leader Xi Jinping's major congress
speech last month, the world's biggest country looks like taking
charge. But with an already massive overseas carbon footprint and
plans to spend a trillion dollars growing it, who will keep China in
check? Li Jing reports from Beijing.<br>
Meanwhile, India has laid out its stall. Government sources sent
a warning to the rich world that they don't fulfil promises they
made to cut carbon and pay finance before 2020 it would undermine
the talks, Nitin Sethi reports.<br>
Fiji has tried to ease tensions with a new discussion format,
but India and China are adamant that they won't be increasing their
ambition until they see greater action from those responsible for
most of global warming, Li Jing and Megan Darby write.<br>
The EU remains an outspoken advocate on climate action and will
push others hard in these talks. But internally the bloc remains
riven by national interests. Arthur Neslen got the scoop this week
on a meeting between German auto lobbyists and EU officials that
resulted in a directive to water down proposed targets for electric
cars.<br>
The Australians are still trying their best to build one of the
biggest coal mines on earth. But, as Adam Morton wrote, the
Adani-owned project suffered a major setback on Friday when a state
premier came out against federal loans to the project. "Everybody is
aware of this mine," said one Bonn-bound negotiator.<br>
And finally, UN climate champion Hakima El Haite will not finish
her term in Bonn after she was named on a list of 'negligent'
officials by the Moroccan king.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/11/03/climate-weekly-get-set-un-climate-talks-bonn/">http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/11/03/climate-weekly-get-set-un-climate-talks-bonn/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/ng-interactive/2017/nov/03/three-degree-world-cities-drowned-global-warming">The
three-degree world: the cities that will be drowned by global
warming</a></b><br>
The UN is warning that we are now on course for 3C of global
warming. This will ultimately redraw the map of the world<br>
Until now, global efforts such as the Paris climate agreement have
tried to limit global warming to 2C above pre-industrial levels.
However, with latest projections pointing to an increase of 3.2C by
2100, these goals seem to be slipping out of reach.<br>
One of the biggest resulting threats to cities around the world is
sea-level rise, caused by the expansion of water at higher
temperatures and melting ice sheets on the north and south poles.<br>
Scientists at the non-profit organisation Climate Central estimate
that 275 million people worldwide live in areas that will eventually
be flooded at 3C of global warming.<br>
<em> Flood maps were created using <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://sealevel.climatecentral.org/uploads/research/Global-Mapping-Choices-Report.pdf">sea-level
rise estimates from Climate Central </a>and digital elevation
data. Population estimates refer to urban agglomerations which
comprise the built-up area of a city and the suburbs linked with
it. Maps include OpenStreetMap data.<br>
Temperature projections are based on <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3352">University
of Washington emissions modelling</a> and UN warming estimates.
Trajectories have been updated to match <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/monitoring/climate/surface-temperature">latest
temperatures as recorded</a> by the Met Office Hadley Centre.</em><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/ng-interactive/2017/nov/03/three-degree-world-cities-drowned-global-warming">https://www.theguardian.com/cities/ng-interactive/2017/nov/03/three-degree-world-cities-drowned-global-warming</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sixdegreesnews.org/archives/20349/when-the-cities-sink-whats-the-water-that-stinks">When
the cities sink, what's the water that stinks?</a></b><br>
Ranjan Panda <br>
WATER THAT INUNDATES OUR CITIES, WHEN THEY FLOOD DUE TO EXTREME
PRECIPITATION EVENTS OR OTHERWISE, IS A COMPLEX MIX OF POLLUTANTS
INCLUDING FAECAL SLUDGE, CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS AND MANY MORE
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES. WHILE IT IS ESSENTIAL TO WORK TOWARDS MAKING
OUR CITIES FLOOD RESILIENT, IT'S ALSO VITAL TO PLAN FOR BETTER
WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT. <br>
New norm: living with disasters<br>
For South Florida, the waste management infrastructure for which was
designed for a lower sea level, things have especially gone worse
post Irma as it was already predicted by experts. As the Washington
Post reported, "the only reason the naturally swampy terrain of
South Florida can sustain more than six million people today is
because its previous residents dredged and drained it. The
operations started in the late 1800s, and by the 1970s Floridians
had built an expansive network of canals, levees, and pumping
stations to keep water at bay. The system, which was designed to let
gravity drag groundwater downstream to the ocean, was based on 1930s
sea levels, as Frederick Bloetscher, a water-management expert,
pointed out during a 2014 US Senate hearing on Florida's changing
coastline. Fast forward nearly 90 years, and sea levels are higher".<br>
There is an urgent need for developing strong tools for each of our
cities to not only understand the risks from calamities but also
hazards from the waste spill related to them. Our city planners
need to equip themselves with such new tools so as to save their
cities from the short-term poop disasters that can often have long
term negative health impacts. Existing sanitation infrastructures
need to get improved and new ones integrated with the resilience
plans. The regulatory authorities such as Pollution Control Boards
do also have a greater need to develop their capacities to
understand spread and contents of pollutants during urban flood
disasters and handle them with support of the urban bodies.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.sixdegreesnews.org/archives/20349/when-the-cities-sink-whats-the-water-that-stinks">http://www.sixdegreesnews.org/archives/20349/when-the-cities-sink-whats-the-water-that-stinks</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-climate-swerve/">"The
Climate Swerve: Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival"</a></b><br>
A book by Robert Jay Lifton<br>
American psychologist and author Robert Jay Lifton, best known for
his pioneering investigations of the causes and psychological
impacts of warfare, political violence, and coercive thought reform
or brainwashing, has recently focused his attention on a newer
existential threat to humanity: climate change. His slim volume,
"The Climate Swerve: Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival," is a
personal meditation on public perceptions of climate change and
nuclear Armageddon.<br>
Written shortly after his 90th birthday, the book expands upon an
essay he published under the same title in 2014, and it reads more
like a memoir than a scientific text. Its main premise is that most
of humankind is now coming to accept the reality and dangers of
climate change, despite delaying tactics by the fossil fuel industry
and its supporters. Borrowing a term from Stephen Greenblatt's
Pulitzer Prize-winning exploration of atomic awareness and cultural
awakening, "The Swerve," Lifton applies it to an "evolving awareness
of our predicament," in which modern civilization threatens the
future of our species. Despite the menace posed by the "apocalyptic
twins" of climate and nukes, however, he also believes that the
current swerve in our climate awareness can lead to constructive
action, as a similar swerve did for nuclear arms control...<br>
Once we accept the harsh facts of climate change (or nuclear
apocalypse) and acknowledge the fear that comes with them, Lifton
reminds us to take a step further. We must unleash that primal fear,
he argues, so we can then use our intellect to channel it into a
more mature "anxiety of responsibility" that leads to concerted
action. He mentions the Paris Climate Conference of 2015 and the
climate action group 350.org as manifestations of such actions, but
more examples abound. The insurance industry is now planning for a
warmer, stormier future, the U.S. military considers climate change
to be a national security threat, and even ExxonMobil expects the
retreat of polar ice to facilitate its exploitation of fossil fuels
in the Arctic. Equally important is an energetic new cohort of young
people who consider climate change to be the great challenge of
their generation.<br>
Perhaps the best reason to read "The Climate Swerve" may be this
note of hope that Lifton weaves throughout the book. "Imagining
massive destruction and death," he writes, is "a prerequisite for
wisdom" and for maturing as a "talented species in deep trouble."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/opinion/faith-climate-change-justin-welby.html">Our
Moral Opportunity on Climate Change</a></b><br>
Climate change is the human thumb on the scale, pushing us toward
disaster. It is not a distant danger - it is already with us. As we
continue to burn fossil fuels, its effects will only grow...<br>
As people of faith, we don't just state our beliefs - we live them
out. One belief is that we find purpose and joy in loving our
neighbors. Another is that we are charged by our creator with taking
good care of his creation.<br>
The moral crisis of climate change is an opportunity to find purpose
and joy, and to respond to our creator's charge. Reducing the causes
of climate change is essential to the life of faith. It is a way to
love our neighbor and to steward the gift of creation.<br>
Indeed, even amid the hurricane-caused devastation and despair of
recent weeks, I have seen seeds of hope. Different expressions of
the Christian faith are freshly united around the need to care for
our common home. The Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox Churches just
came together with the World Council of Churches to celebrate a
monthlong Season of Creation. During this season, people all around
the globe prayed and acted to address climate change and to protect
the earth...<br>
However we choose to respond, a response is necessary.<br>
People of faith have a unique call to address the causes of climate
change. As we stand together in our support for the survivors of
extreme weather, let us act together in ways that will safeguard our
shared gift of creation - and the lives of those who will inherit it
from us.<br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/Caldeira%20downloads/PSAC,%201965,%20Restoring%20the%20Quality%20of%20Our%20Environment.pdf">This
Day in Climate History November 5, 1965</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
November 5, 1965: President Johnson's Science Advisory Committee
issues a report, "Restoring the Quality of Our Environment," that
cites the hazards of carbon pollution.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/nov/05/scientists-warned-the-president-about-global-warming-50-years-ago-today">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/nov/05/scientists-warned-the-president-about-global-warming-50-years-ago-today</a><br>
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