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<font size="+1"><i>November 8, 2017<br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41904650">Paris
climate accord: Syria to sign up, isolating US</a></b><br>
The US is set to become isolated in its stance on the Paris climate
agreement, after Syria said it was preparing to join the deal.<br>
The Paris deal unites the world's nations in tackling climate
change.<br>
Meanwhile, French officials said US President Donald Trump had not
been invited to December's climate summit in Paris.<br>
More than 100 countries have been invited to the summit, which is
aimed at "building coalitions" with finance and business <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41904650">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41904650</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/11/07/with-or-without-trump-paris-agreement-drives-world-climate-response/">With
or Without Trump - Paris Agreement Drives World Climate Response</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/11/07/with-or-without-trump-paris-agreement-drives-world-climate-response/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/11/07/with-or-without-trump-paris-agreement-drives-world-climate-response/</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.vox.com/2017/11/7/16612498/climate-change-carbon-dioxide-co2-temperature-animation">This
hypnotizing animation shows the incredible trend of global
warming</a></b><br>
A cool - and frightening - illustration of rising temperatures and
CO2 levels.<br>
Kevin Pluck has a cool hobby: turning climate trend data into
stunning graphics.<br>
The Manchester, England-based software engineer's latest is an
animated "barrel graph" comparing atmospheric carbon dioxide
concentrations and temperature variations relative to the average
between 1951 and 1980, drawing on data from the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration and NASA:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/WEGwCPmELh8">(video)
CO2 concentration and global mean temperature 1958 - present</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/WEGwCPmELh8">https://youtu.be/WEGwCPmELh8</a><br>
There are other variations on rising temperature spirals, like the
funnel-shaped graph Hawkins's group produced.<br>
<font size="-1">See: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.vox.com/2017/11/7/16612498/climate-change-carbon-dioxide-co2-temperature-animation">https://www.vox.com/2017/11/7/16612498/climate-change-carbon-dioxide-co2-temperature-animation</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/11/07/climate-lawsuit-ireland-emissions-paris-agreement/"><br>
Climate Lawsuit in Ireland Aims to Enforce the Country's
Emissions Targets</a></b><br>
By Karen Savage<br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">In the wake of
Hurricane<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/storm-ophelia-irish-leader-urges-citizens-to-stay-indoors-during-national-emergency"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Ophelia</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">-the strongest
storm to hit Ireland in 50 years, which killed three people,
caused widespread flooding and power outages-a network of citizens
has filed suit against the Irish government for not adequately
combatting climate change.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">The suit was
filed by Friends of the Irish Environment (FiE), an all-volunteer<span> </span></span><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">network that works
on issues related to sustainable planning and environmental
justice, in October.<span> </span></span><span style="box-sizing:
inherit; font-weight: 400;">Inspired by climate cases in the
United States and the Netherlands, FiE alleges Ireland's</span><a
href="https://www.dccae.gov.ie/en-ie/climate-action/topics/mitigation-reducing-ireland%27s-greenhouse-gas-emissions/national-mitigation-plan/Pages/default.aspx"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span> </span><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">National
Mitigation Plan</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;
font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>doesn't live up to the promises
the country made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in its
commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement. FiE also alleges the
Plan violates the country's<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2015/act/46/enacted/en/html"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Climate Act</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">, the Irish
Constitution and human rights obligations.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">"The suit is
long overdue, " said John Sweeney, a climatology professor at
Maynooth University who has<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/john-sweeney"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">contributed</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>to
the work of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change....</span><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/11/07/climate-lawsuit-ireland-emissions-paris-agreement/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/11/07/climate-lawsuit-ireland-emissions-paris-agreement/</a></font><br>
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<b><br>
</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060065799">Clouds' warming
potential is frightening researchers</a></b><br>
But after three decades of research, how and where clouds move the
way they do and how that will change as the climate warms and as the
atmosphere becomes either more or less polluted remain among the
biggest unanswered questions. These are major concerns for
scientists who have spent their careers studying clouds.<br>
V. "Ram" Ramanathan, a professor of atmospheric and climate sciences
at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, is the
co-author of a recent study predicting that without more action,
there could be "catastrophic" and even "existential" results for
mankind and other living species by the end of the century.<br>
"We are now predicting in the study that there could be warming from
5 to 7 degrees," Ramanathan said in an interview. "You can't rule it
out. It is a 5 to 10 percent [chance] that it could happen. In such
an incident, we need to do something."...<br>
"I'm an inveterate optimist about our power to control the future,
but I am more frightened than I have ever been about this latest
analysis," said Zaelke. Ramanathan "is one of our true geniuses in
this. It doesn't always make him more popular, but he's always a
step or two ahead."<br>
Among the mechanisms named by the report that could trigger runaway
warming are the loss of solar-reflecting sea ice from the poles,
faster glacial melt caused by black carbon, and the release of
methane and CO2 from thawing permafrost.<br>
But experiments probing the behavior of clouds pushed Ramanathan to
be even more concerned. One showed that low-level cloud systems
including wispy stratocumulus clouds that shade much of the oceans
in the midsection of the planet appear to be moving from the warmest
part of the Earth toward the poles. "That is a big worry. It's
amplifying the heat, moving in the wrong direction," he said.<br>
A second experiment, where he used overhead satellite coverage and
Earth-based drones to fly through, over and under soot-laden clouds
in the Indian Ocean, suggested that one of the threats of what is
sometimes called the "Asian brown cloud" of pollutants is that
clouds laden with it absorb more heat that changes air movement or
turbulence. This cuts their size and Earth-shading capabilities. The
fact that aerosols, such as black carbon, can do that "is not in any
model," Ramanathan noted.....<br>
When it comes to showing cloud behavior, Yamaguchi compares current
computer models to cheap cameras with blurry resolution. If he can
put in more data about the different levels, "we can see things
better," he said. Yamaguchi's plan to do that has been approved for
more funding by program managers at NCAR, but the agency's future
budget remains an unknown as Congress ponders deep cuts proposed by
the Trump administration for climate-related projects. "We're in
limbo until there is a budget," said one of Yamaguchi's colleagues.<br>
Meanwhile, there is much more to learn to understand the
life-protecting power of clouds. Graham Feingold, another NOAA
researcher, explains there are two basic stories about how they
change the climate. The low-lying stratocumulus clouds reflect
incoming short waves, and their net effect is to cool the Earth.<br>
The Earth also reflects the heat it has in long waves, and cirrus
clouds, poised at a higher level, tend to reflect some of that heat
back to Earth, part of the so-called greenhouse gas effect that adds
to warming. Whether there is warming or cooling going on in a given
region at a given time can depend on the types, structures, size,
distribution and movement of its clouds....<br>
Feingold thinks that researchers still don't understand the physical
laws that govern cloud behavior well enough to propose
geoengineering approaches to government policymakers.<br>
"Scientists can't lobby. My role is to provide the best science," he
said. "If we can improve our representation of clouds in regional
and even in fine-scale models, then we can provide information to
the decisionmakers so they can decide on a go or no-go decision."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060065799">https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060065799</a></font><br>
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<b><a
href="http://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-prisoners-heat-stroke-air-conditioning-climate-change-texas.html">Will
Global Warming Make Air Conditioning a Legal Right?</a></b><br>
Across the country, prisoners or their families are suing states for
heat conditions they argue amount to cruel and unusual punishment...<br>
One of the more far-reaching cases was in Arizona: A 2014 settlement
in Parsons v. Ryan required prisons to keep temperature logs, along
with other measures. (Some logs recorded temperatures up to 119
degrees, and one prison allegedly falsified information on its
logs.)..<br>
"There's been quite a bit of variation in the remedies granted [by
courts] but very little disagreement on the underlying legal
principle, which is that heat can constitute cruel and unusual
punishment," says Gerrard.<br>
<font size="-2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-prisoners-heat-stroke-air-conditioning-climate-change-texas.html">http://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-prisoners-heat-stroke-air-conditioning-climate-change-texas.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHaLXUz87kc">(video
lecture 25 min) Jennifer Francis: Vanishing Arctic Ice and
Amplification</a></b><br>
While heat waves and more intense storms have been directly linked
to a warming Earth, new research is exploring possible impacts of an
Arctic that is warming at twice the pace of the rise in global
temperatures. Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University, discusses new
research and efforts to understand this controversial aspect of
climate change in Metcalf's Climate Change and the News webinar that
aired May 17, 2017.<br>
More from Jennifer Francis can be found at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://jenniferafrancis.com">http://jenniferafrancis.com</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHaLXUz87kc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHaLXUz87kc</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/news-events/events/2017-2/can-fossil-fuel-companies-be-held-liable-for-climate-change/">(video
of event) Can Fossil Fuel Companies Be Held Liable for Climate
Change?</a></b><br>
After 15 years of climate change litigation, the question of whether
anybody can be held legally liable for the adverse impacts of
climate change remains unanswered. However, the Trump
administration's effort to roll back climate regulation in the
United States; the devastation caused by Hurricanes Maria, Irma and
Harvey; developments in the science of climate change attribution;
and a handful of recent lawsuits filed by cities and counties in
California have put the question front and center. This panel
discussion will look at one particular set of defendants – companies
involved in the extraction, production and marketing of fossil
fuels. Panelists will summarize the current state of attribution
science, and present core legal arguments for and against liability.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/2QzWRVtP31A">https://youtu.be/2QzWRVtP31A</a>
video<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/news-events/events/2017-2/can-fossil-fuel-companies-be-held-liable-for-climate-change/">http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/news-events/events/2017-2/can-fossil-fuel-companies-be-held-liable-for-climate-change/</a></font><br>
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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>
November 3, 2017<br>
By Justin Welby New York Times<br>
As a global family of churches, the Anglican Communion has stood
alongside other faiths in prayerful solidarity and compassion with
victims and survivors of the recent extreme weather in many places
around the world.<br>
In Bangladesh and India, over 1,000 people died in an outsize
monsoon flood. In the Caribbean and the United States, a succession
of devastating hurricanes killed hundreds of people and cost
thousands more their homes and businesses. In Hong Kong and southern
China, over a dozen people were killed by a powerful typhoon...<br>
..Even in this best-case scenario, which depends on the global
community's sticking to the Paris climate change agreement, many of
the shops I visited and homes I passed during my years in the
country will be flooded. The rising waters are already changing ways
of life and pressuring people to leave their homes. In the coming
years, experts predict that millions of people in Lagos will be
forced to move...<br>
Providing a welcoming home for these migrants will challenge all of
us...<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>
The Anglican Communion is responding in many ways. Young Anglicans
from across Africa have united with ecumenical neighbors to study
local effects of climate change and work on developing local
solutions. In Cape Town, a diocesan environmental working group held
a Eucharist for creation on Table Mountain. In Canada, the national
indigenous Anglican bishop participated in an online prayer service
and led an interfaith walk to protect the Great Lakes.<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>
Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury and primate of the
Church of England, is the spiritual leader of the Anglican
Communion.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/opinion/faith-climate-change-justin-welby.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/opinion/faith-climate-change-justin-welby.html</a><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107817">This
Day in Climate History November 8, 1989</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
November 8, 1989: Margaret Thatcher delivers an address to the UN
General Assembly on global warming, noting that societies should
have economic growth "which does not plunder the planet today and
leave our children to deal with the consequences tomorrow."...<br>
<blockquote>More than anything, our environment is threatened by the
sheer numbers of people and the plants and animals which go with
them. When I was born the world's population was some 2 billion
people. My Michael Thatchergrandson will grow up in a world of
more than 6 billion people.<br>
Put in its bluntest form: the main threat to our environment is
more and more people, and their activities: The land they
cultivate ever more intensively; The forests they cut down and
burn; The mountain sides they lay bare; The fossil fuels they
burn; The rivers and the seas they pollute.<br>
The result is that change in future is likely to be more
fundamental and more widespread than anything we have known
hitherto. Change to the sea around us, change to the atmosphere
above, leading in turn to change in the world's climate, which
could alter the way we live in the most fundamental way of all.<br>
That prospect is a new factor in human affairs. It is comparable
in its implications to the discovery of how to split the atom.
Indeed, its results could be even more far-reaching. ...<br>
Mr President, the environmental challenge which confronts the
whole world demands an equivalent response from the whole world.
Every country will be affected and no one can opt out. <br>
We should work through this great organisation and its agencies to
secure world-wide agreements on ways to cope with the effects of
climate change, the thinning of the Ozone Layer, and the loss of
precious species.<br>
We need a realistic programme of action and an equally realistic
timetable.<br>
Each country has to contribute, and those countries who are
industrialised must contribute more to help those who are not.<br>
The work ahead will be long and exacting. We should embark on it
hopeful of success, not fearful of failure. <br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107817">http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107817</a></font><br>
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