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<font size="+1"><i>November 21, 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/nov/20/battered-by-extreme-weather-americans-are-more-worried-about-climate-change">Battered
by extreme weather, Americans are more worried about climate
change</a></b><br>
After months of intense hurricanes, heat waves, and droughts, a
survey finds a record number of Americans worried about climate
change...<br>
Americans are nevertheless growing increasingly concerned about
climate change. A record 22% are very worried about it (double the
number in the March 2015 survey), and 63% of Americans are at least
somewhat worried about climate change. That's probably because they
perceive direct climate impacts - 64% of survey participants think
that global warming is affecting the weather, and 33% said it's
having a big influence.<br>
Global warming is intensifying extreme weather<br>
Americans also connecting the dots to specific extreme weather
events. About 54% said that climate change worsened the extreme heat
waves, wildfires, and hurricanes that pummeled the country in 2017.
..<br>
Americans are pessimistic about the future climate<br>
The survey also found that Americans are very pessimistic about the
odds that we'll successfully tackle the threats posed by global
warming. While 78% realize that humans could potentially slow global
warming, only 5% of Americans believe we'll be successful in doing
so. A quarter of those surveyed think that we'll fail because people
are unwilling to change their behavior, and 48% said it's unclear at
this point whether we'll take the necessary action...<br>
It's a positive sign that Americans are increasingly connecting the
dots between climate change and extreme weather impacts. That
realization increases public concern and support for efforts to
solve the problem. Research has shown that support for climate
policies would be even stronger if more people were aware of the 97%
expert consensus on human-caused global warming.<br>
While Americans are becoming pessimistic about the prospect that
we'll successfully prevent dangerous climate change, these survey
results are a reason for optimism. It's only a matter of time before
the country's leaders catch up with the public understanding of the
climate change threat. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/nov/20/battered-by-extreme-weather-americans-are-more-worried-about-climate-change">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/nov/20/battered-by-extreme-weather-americans-are-more-worried-about-climate-change</a></font><br>
<b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/science/warming-to-make-thunderstorms-larger-and-more-frequent-2/">Warming
to make thunderstorms larger and more frequent</a><br>
</b>WASHINGTON (AP) SETH BORENSTEIN<br>
Summer thunderstorms in North America will likely be larger, wetter
and more frequent in a warmer world, dumping 80 percent more rain in
some areas and worsening flooding, a new study says.<br>
Future storms will also be wilder, soaking entire cities and huge
portions of states, according to a federally-funded study released
Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.<br>
The U.S. in recent years has experienced prolonged drenchings that
have doused Nashville in 2010, West Virginia and Louisiana in 2016
and Houston this year. The disasters cost about $20 billion a year
in damage.<br>
By the end of century if emissions aren't curbed, these gully
washers will be much worse because they will get bigger, said
Andreas Prein, a climate scientist at the National Center for
Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, who led the study...<br>
"You can really think about these storms as rivers that come from
the skies," Prein said. "The largest ones are several times the
Mississippi River discharge."<br>
Victor Gensini, a meteorology professor at the Northern Illinois
University who wasn't part of the team, praised the study as new and
exciting.<b><font size="-1"><br>
</font></b><font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/science/warming-to-make-thunderstorms-larger-and-more-frequent-2/">https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/science/warming-to-make-thunderstorms-larger-and-more-frequent-2/</a></font><b><br>
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</b><br>
<b><b><a
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171120111336.htm">Hydrological
implications of rapid global warming</a></b><br>
</b>Researchers studying a rapid global warming event, around 56
million years ago, have shown evidence of major changes in the
intensity of rainfall and flood events. The findings indicate some
of the likely implications should current trends of rising carbon
dioxide and global warming continue...<br>
land to this deep ocean location increased four-fold during the PETM
event. The team associate this with major changes in the patterns of
rainfall on land, with warming causing more extreme rainfall events,
with floods and the associated erosion and transport of sediments
into the oceans....<br>
"Now we have a direct link to the deep ocean, where some of the
material eroded from land finally ends up."...<br>
"From records of the PETM, like this one, it has become very clear
that global warming causes major changes in the patterns and
intensity of rainfall events. These changes are so large that we see
evidence of them in the geological record, as a many-fold increase
in the mass of sediments transported from land to the oceans. This
has the potential for profound impacts on shallow marine ecosystems,
and that is exactly what we see at the PETM."<br>
"We're now facing the potential for a warming of 2degreesC or more
in less than two centuries," said Dr Dunkley Jones, "this is more
than an order of magnitude faster than warming at the start of the
PETM. The geological record shows that when the planet warms this
much and this fast, there will be major changes in floods, erosion
and sediment transport."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171120111336.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171120111336.htm</a></font><b><br>
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<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/160zc_F8-ns">(video)
Climate, Sea Level, and Superstorms</a><br>
</b>transcript: "The boulders are interesting and fascinating just
because of their shear size. <br>
But these other deposits that are far more pervasive and widespread
throughout the Bahamas and we find those at elevations in the Turks
and Caicos up to 30 metres above sea level and then on north
Eleuthera <br>
There's the location where they're up to 43 meters above present day
sea level several tens of meters above sea level at the time these
deposits that are left behind in the Bahamas and Bermuda are are
indicative of much much stronger storms than anything we've seen in
the present day or in historical time. In the sense of hurricanes
as we define them today they may be a different animal at the end of
this century if we continue on a business-as-usual path we're
talking about eight to nine hundred parts per million levels of co2
which is about three and a half times the pre-industrial levels of
co2 we have to go back 35 to 40 million years in the past before you
reach carbon dioxide levels of three and a half times."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/160zc_F8-ns">https://youtu.be/160zc_F8-ns</a></font><b><br>
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<br>
</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wqad.com/2017/11/20/the-eric-factor-why-you-should-think-about-climate-change-again/">The
Eric Factor: Why you should think about climate change again</a></b><br>
When asked why there's still controversy surrounding climate change,
he said it's not complicated. "It's college and high school physics.
We're not talking about complex rocket science here. It comes down
to the fundamental law of conservation of energy. Because of the
energy of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, we're trapping more
energy as heat. If you put more heat into the earth system, it's
inevitable temperatures will rise."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wqad.com/2017/11/20/the-eric-factor-why-you-should-think-about-climate-change-again/">http://wqad.com/2017/11/20/the-eric-factor-why-you-should-think-about-climate-change-again/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://ethicsandclimate.org/2017/11/20/an-american-at-the-bonn-climate-change-negotiations/"><br>
An American at the Bonn Climate Change Negotiations.</a><br>
</b>Some of the great anger about the United States that I witnessed
in Bonn was somewhat muted by the presence of 16 US States and
numerous American cities and businesses who had been organized by
California governor Jerry Brown and former New York City mayor
Michael Bloomberg under the America's Pledge Campaign. This group
which accounted for almost half the US economy had a large presence
in Bonn including a large pavilion which showcased what many US
sub-national governments and private sector entities were doing to
reduce US GHG emissions. ...<br>
The last event I went to in Bonn. a UNEP representative discussed
the fact that even if every nation achieved GHG reductions at levels
they committed to, the world was headed toward over a 3 degree C
warming in this Century, a level of warming that is extremely
dangerous particularly for some parts of the world. He then exhorted
the audience to work tirelessly to get every national, state,
regional, and local government to set ambitious GHG reduction
targets. The situation is ominous he said, we need an "all hands on
deck going to zero carbon" approach to climate change.<b><br>
</b><font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://ethicsandclimate.org/2017/11/20/an-american-at-the-bonn-climate-change-negotiations/">https://ethicsandclimate.org/2017/11/20/an-american-at-the-bonn-climate-change-negotiations/</a></font><b><br>
</b> <br>
<br>
<b>The World Bank Presentation</b><br>
Richard Damania - Lead Economist, Water Global Practice, The World
Bank <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/zY51OYVZRcQ">(Watch
the Video)</a><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2017/10/17/uncharted-waters#2">Uncharted
Waters: The New Economics of Water Scarcity and Variability</a></b><br>
What are the effects of droughts and floods on firms, farms and
families? They are more significant and numerous than previously
known. New data reveals how increasingly erratic rainfall, poorly
managed water supplies, and deepening water deficits can devastate
lives, damage farms and forests, and impact businesses as well as
cities.<br>
A new World Bank report 'Uncharted Waters - The New Economics of
Water Scarcity and Variability' presents new numbers on how rainfall
shocks - be they dry shocks or wet shocks - coupled with water
scarcity are affecting generations. <br>
On October 25, the report's author Richard Damania shared key
findings at the report launch event, followed by a panel discussion
among civil society representatives, private sector and economists
on the solutions that can help avoid the 'parched path'.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2017/10/17/uncharted-waters#2">http://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2017/10/17/uncharted-waters#2</a><br>
-</font><b><br>
(Video) <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/zY51OYVZRcQ">Keynote Presentation -
Uncharted Waters Report Launch Event</a></b><br>
Richard Damania, Lead Economist of Water Global Practice, The World
Bank speaks at keynote event October 2017. What are the effects of
droughts and floods on firms, farms and families? They are more
significant and numerous than previously known. New data reveals how
increasingly erratic rainfall, poorly managed water supplies, and
deepening water deficits can devastate lives, damage farms and
forests, and impact businesses as well as cities<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/zY51OYVZRcQ">https://youtu.be/zY51OYVZRcQ</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/d-7iuL01DoY">https://youtu.be/d-7iuL01DoY</a></font><br>
-<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb74a35nyyg">Panel
Discussion & Closing Remarks </a><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb74a35nyyg">(Watch the
Video)</a></b> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb74a35nyyg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb74a35nyyg</a><br>
Panelists<br>
Betsy Otto - Global Director, Water Program, World Resources
Institute<br>
Derek Vollmer - Senior Director, Freshwater Science, Conservation
International<br>
Greg Koch - Senior Director, Global Water Stewardship, The
Coca-Cola Company<br>
Marianne Fay - Chief Economist, Sustainable Development, The World
Bank<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2017/10/17/uncharted-waters#2">http://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2017/10/17/uncharted-waters#2</a></font><br>
-<br>
Press Release - World Bank<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2017/10/24/misery-in-slow-motion-the-deep-and-long-lasting-effects-of-drought">Misery
in Slow Motion: The Deep and Long Lasting Effects of Drought</a></b><br>
New data highlights hidden impact of changing climate and erratic
rainfalls.<br>
WASHINGTON, October 24, 2017 - Repeated droughts around the world
have shockingly large and often hidden consequences, destroying
enough farm produce to feed 81 million people every day for a year,
damaging forests, and threating to trap generations of children in
poverty, according to a new report from the World Bank Group.<br>
Uncharted Waters: The New Economics of Water Scarcity and
Variability presents new evidence on how increasingly erratic
rainfall impacts farms, firms and families. It also shows that
although floods and storm surges pose major threats, droughts are
"misery in slow motion," with impacts deeper and longer lasting than
previously believed.<br>
"These impacts demonstrate why it is increasingly important that we
treat water like the valuable, exhaustible, and degradable resource
that it is," said Guangzhe Chen, Senior Director of the World Bank's
Water Global Practice. "We need to better understand the impacts of
water scarcity, which will become more severe due to growing
populations and a changing climate."<br>
The report found that impacts caused by drought can cascade into
unexpected areas.<br>
For families, the effects of drought can span generations. The
report finds that in rural Africa, women born during extreme
droughts bear the marks throughout their lives, growing up mentally
and physically stunted, undernourished and unwell because of crop
losses. New data shows that women born during droughts also have
less education, fewer earnings, bear more children and are more
likely to suffer from domestic violence. Their suffering is often
passed on to the next generation, with their children more likely to
be stunted and less healthy, perpetuating a vicious cycle of
poverty.<br>
On farms, repeated years of below-average rainfall not only destroys
crop yield -- it forces farmers to expand into nearby forests.
Since forests act as a climate stabilizer and help regulate water
supplies, deforestation decreases water supply and exacerbates
climate change.<br>
For firms, the report calculates the economic costs of droughts as
four times greater than that of floods. A single water outage in an
urban firm can reduce its revenue by more than 8%. And if that firm
is in the informal sector, as many are in the developing world,
sales decline by 35%, ruining livelihoods and stagnating urban
economic growth.<br>
Many of the regions most affected by drought overlap with areas that
are already facing large food deficits and are classified as
fragile, heightening the urgency of finding solutions.<br>
"If we don't take deepening water deficits and the bigger and more
frequent storms that climate change will bring seriously, we will
find water scarcity spreading to new regions of the world,
potentially exacerbating issues of violence, suffering, and
migration," said the report's author and World Bank's Water Global
Practice Lead Economist Richard Damania. "Current methods for
managing water are not up to the challenge. This sea-change will
require a portfolio of policies that acknowledge the economic
incentives involved in managing water from its source, to the tap,
and back to its source."<br>
The impacts of erratic rainfall ripple through farms, firms and
families, sometimes for generations. The report offers proposals for
how to tackle these challenges, calling for new policies, innovation
and collaborations. <br>
The report recommends constructing new water storage and management
infrastructure, paired with polices that control the demand for
water. Utilities responsible for water distribution in cities also
need to be properly regulated to incentivize better performance and
investment in network expansion, while also ensuring a fair market
return. The report also noted that when flood and droughts turn
into economic shocks, safety nets must be put in place to ensure
poor families can weather the storm. <br>
<font size="-1">PRESS RELEASE NO: 2018/058/WATER</font><br>
Contacts In Washington<br>
Isabel Hagbrink<br>
(202) 441-6250<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:Ihagbrink@worldbank.org">Ihagbrink@worldbank.org</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2017/10/24/misery-in-slow-motion-the-deep-and-long-lasting-effects-of-drought">http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2017/10/24/misery-in-slow-motion-the-deep-and-long-lasting-effects-of-drought</a></font><br>
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Full REPORT<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2017/10/24/uncharted-waters">Uncharted
Waters: The New Economics of Water Scarcity and Variability</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2017/10/24/uncharted-waters">http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2017/10/24/uncharted-waters</a><br>
-<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/infographic/2017/10/24/uncharted-waters-a-comic-book">Uncharted
Waters: A Comic Book</a></b><br>
Download <b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/301891508850653573/Uncharted-Waters-Comic-Book-low-res.pdf">the
Comic Book in High Resolution. </a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/infographic/2017/10/24/uncharted-waters-a-comic-book">http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/infographic/2017/10/24/uncharted-waters-a-comic-book</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://theaggie.org/2017/11/20/humor-what-this-years-dose-of-global-warming-will-bring-to-november/">Humor:
What this year's dose of global warming will bring to November</a></b><br>
Four different climates in a day: We seem to already be desensitized
to this very scary symptom of global warming. But the bigger problem
exists when the confusing weather forces students to start their day
in Uggs and 40 layers - and end it barefoot in class and
practically naked. Our classrooms are crowded as it is. All this
discarded gear and sweat will lead to increased humidity in the air,
which will probably just lead to more rain and will melt some ice
caps somewhere. So honestly, I think a way to avoid contributing to
this tragedy would be to go make some tea, put on your pajamas and
just stay home, where you can regulate the temperature to be
whatever you want it to be.<br>
Since nobody likes to change their lifestyle and global warming is
happening anyway, I think it's best to just take it in stride and
stay home and not touch anything and maybe all other major
countries and companies will follow our lead.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://theaggie.org/2017/11/20/humor-what-this-years-dose-of-global-warming-will-bring-to-november/">https://theaggie.org/2017/11/20/humor-what-this-years-dose-of-global-warming-will-bring-to-november/</a></font><br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rachel-maddow/45395747"><br>
</a><font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rachel-maddow/45395747">This
Day in Climate History November 21, 2011</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
November 21, 2011: MSNBC's Rachel Maddow interviews EPA
Administrator<br>
Lisa Jackson regarding the GOP's attacks on science.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rachel-maddow/45395747">http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rachel-maddow/45395747</a></font><br>
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