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<font size="+1"><i>November 22, 2017<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://grist.org/article/antarctica-doomsday-glaciers-could-flood-coastal-cities/">Ice
Apocalypse</a></b> <br>
<b>Rapid collapse of Antarctic glaciers could flood coastal cities
by the end of this century.</b><b><br>
</b>By Eric Holthaus<br>
In a remote region of Antarctica known as Pine Island Bay, 2,500
miles from the tip of South America, two glaciers hold human
civilization hostage.<br>
Stretching across a frozen plain more than 150 miles long, these
glaciers, named Pine Island and Thwaites, have marched steadily for
millennia toward the Amundsen Sea, part of the vast Southern Ocean.
Further inland, the glaciers widen into a two-mile-thick reserve of
ice covering an area the size of Texas.<br>
There's no doubt this ice will melt as the world warms. The vital
question is when...<br>
Minute-by-minute, huge skyscraper-sized shards of ice cliffs would
crumble into the sea, as tall as the Statue of Liberty and as deep
underwater as the height of the Empire State Building. The result: a
global catastrophe the likes of which we've never seen...<br>
Instead of a three-foot increase in ocean levels by the end of the
century, six feet was more likely, according to DeConto and
Pollard's findings. But if carbon emissions continue to track on
something resembling a worst-case scenario, the full 11 feet of ice
locked in West Antarctica might be freed up, their study showed.<br>
Previous models suggested that it would take hundreds or thousands
of years for sea-level rise of that magnitude to occur...<br>
"It could happen faster or slower, I don't think we really know
yet," says Jeremy Bassis, a leading ice sheet scientist at the
University of Michigan. "But it's within the realm of possibility,
and that's kind of a scary thing."<br>
Still, some scientists aren't fully convinced the alarm is
warranted. Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice
Data Center in Colorado, says the new research by Wise and his
colleagues, which identified ice-cliff instabilities in Pine Island
Bay 11,000 years ago, is "tantalizing evidence." But he says that
research doesn't establish how quickly it happened... <br>
"If you vastly increase the research now, [the cost] would still be
trivial compared to the losses that might happen."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://grist.org/article/antarctica-doomsday-glaciers-could-flood-coastal-cities/">https://grist.org/article/antarctica-doomsday-glaciers-could-flood-coastal-cities/</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.the-cryosphere.net/11/1851/2017/tc-11-1851-2017.pdf">Sea-level
response to melting of Antarctic ice - The Cryosphere</a></b><br>
by F Pattyn<br>
Aug 8, 2017 - DeConto and Pollard (2016) over a similar period (but
with different forcing and ... mathematically confirming the earlier
findings by Weertman.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.the-cryosphere.net/11/1851/2017/tc-11-1851-2017.pdf">https://www.the-cryosphere.net/11/1851/2017/tc-11-1851-2017.pdf</a><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://blog.ucsusa.org/jamesine-rogers-gibson/climate-change-is-here-can-californias-infrastructure-handle-it">Climate
change is here. Can California's infrastructure handle it?</a></b><br>
<font size="-1">JAMESINE ROGERS GIBSON</font><br>
Climate-smart infrastructure is designed and built with future
climate projections in mind, rather than relying on historic data
that are no longer a good predictor of our climate future. It
bolsters the resilience of the Golden State's communities and
economy to the impacts of extreme weather and climate change instead
of leaving communities high and dry, overheated, or underwater....<br>
The Golden State is beginning to<span> </span><a
href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18938" target="_blank"
rel="noopener" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0,
122, 165); text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">integrate climate
change into its plans and investments</a><span> </span>and
recently released<span> </span><a
href="http://opr.ca.gov/planning/icarp/resilient-ca.html"
target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
color: rgb(0, 122, 165); text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">high-level
guidance for state agencies</a>. These and other efforts underway
at the state level must be accelerated and implemented in a
consistent and analytically rigorous, climate-smart manner...<br>
This is especially important in light of the billions of taxpayer
dollars the state is planning on spending on new long-lived
infrastructure projects. Many more billions will be spent on
maintenance and retrofitting of existing infrastructure over the
next few years. These projects must be able to function reliably and
safely despite<span> </span><a
href="http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/gw-smart-infrastructure-table-life-expectancy.pdf"
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 122, 165);
text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">worsening climate impacts
over the coming decades</a>. Otherwise, we risk building costly
systems that will fail well before their intended lifespans...<br>
The UCS white paper includes several recommendations on how to
overcome the barriers we identified. They focus on ways to improve
and accelerate the integration of our climate-smart principles into
public sector infrastructure decisions. For instance, they range
from increasing state and local government staff's technical
capacity and updating standards and codes to better incorporating
climate-related costs and criteria, as well as climate resilience
benefits, into project evaluations and funding decisions. Others
include better planning in advance for more climate-smart disaster
recovery efforts, ensuring better interjurisdictional coordination
at the local and state government levels, and addressing the funding
gap. Additional recommendations and specifics can be found in the
paper. All infrastructure solutions should help advance more
equitable outcomes, so equity is integrated throughout these
recommendations...<br>
California governments should grab hold of the opportunities before
them to spend limited resources in climate-smart ways that increase
our infrastructure's ability to provide California's communities and
businesses with the needed services to thrive now and in a changing
climate future.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://blog.ucsusa.org/jamesine-rogers-gibson/climate-change-is-here-can-californias-infrastructure-handle-it">http://blog.ucsusa.org/jamesine-rogers-gibson/climate-change-is-here-can-californias-infrastructure-handle-it</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="Melting%20polar%20ice%20poses%20a%20serious%20global%20risk">(book
review) The title of a new book says it all - "A Farewell to
Ice: A Report from the Arctic."</a></b><br>
Audio - Listen to the full interview <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-11-18/melting-polar-ice-poses-serious-global-risk">https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-11-18/melting-polar-ice-poses-serious-global-risk</a><br>
The book, by Peter Wadhams, head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group at
the University of Cambridge, is the result of nearly a half-century
of personal ice research, mostly in the Arctic. <br>
"The Arctic is changing from being a permanent ice cover to becoming
a seasonal one," Wadham explains, "and that will cause big changes
to ocean currents, to circulation of the atmosphere, to fisheries
and especially to the air temperature, which will warm up because
there isn't any ice cooling the surface anymore. That will have an
effect, for instance, on air currents over Greenland, which will
increase the melt rate of the Greenland ice sheet."..<br>
The rapid rise in atmospheric CO2 levels is the main reason for the
accelerating melt of sea ice, but the melting ice itself is causing
the release of another greenhouse gas, methane, that could be even
more damaging...<br>
"Methane gets released from shallow waters in the Arctic... That cap
is being removed as the permafrost melts, and the methane is being
released."..<br>
In the short-term, methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas than
carbon dioxide… <br>
Ice reflects about 80 percent of the radiation from the sun back
into space. Dark water and dark tundra reflect only 10 percent of
that radiation. ..<br>
The polar ice cap also acts as a kind of "global air-conditioning
system" that stabilizes temperatures - and that effect, too, is
being lost...<br>
While he paints a dire picture of Earth's future, Wadham also
proposes bold, and, he believes, realistic technological solutions.
Humanity must find geoengineering solutions, he insists, because "we
can't depend on people's virtues for the solution of abstaining from
emitting carbon dioxide."...<br>
Wadhams describes two technological solutions he believes could
work. One is called marine cloud brightening. In this scenario, a
drone ship with very tall masts injects a carefully calculated size
of tiny seawater droplets into the bottoms of clouds. This brightens
the clouds and increases albedo (that is, the reflective capability
of the clouds' surface), which could help hold back global
warming...<br>
"The [real technological] solution is to take carbon dioxide out of
the atmosphere." ...<br>
"CO2 removal is something that I think will work because it works
already, but it just costs too much," Wadhams concludes. "But it
will be made to be cheaper and when it's made to be cheaper, it can
save us. So, I think we can save ourselves."<br>
<font size="-1">This article is based on an interview that aired on
PRI's Living on Earth with Steve Curwood.</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-11-18/melting-polar-ice-poses-serious-global-risk">https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-11-18/melting-polar-ice-poses-serious-global-risk</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/11/21/how-to-spot-fake-news-the-basics/">How
to Spot Fake News. The Basics.</a></b><br>
Survival tips for the attack on democracy. Worth circulating.
International Federation of Library Associations: Critical thinking
is a key skill in media and information literacy, and the mission of
libraries is to educate and advocate its importance. Discussions
about fake news has led to a new focus on media literacy more
broadly, and the role […]<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/11/21/how-to-spot-fake-news-the-basics/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/11/21/how-to-spot-fake-news-the-basics/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ifla.org/publications/node/11174">https://www.ifla.org/publications/node/11174</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/10/19/the-future-of-truth-and-misinformation-online/">The
Future of Truth and Misinformation Online</a></b><br>
Experts are evenly split on whether the coming decade will see a
reduction in false and misleading narratives online. Those
forecasting improvement place their hopes in technological fixes and
in societal solutions. Others think the dark side of human nature is
aided more than stifled by technology.<br>
<b>Misinformation is not like a plumbing problem you fix. It is a
social condition, like crime, that you must constantly monitor and
adjust to.</b><br>
There are a lot of rich and unethical people, politicians, non-state
actors and state actors who are strongly incentivized to get fake
information out there to serve their selfish purposes.<br>
This is a wake-up call to the news industry, policy makers and
journalists to refine the system of news production.<br>
The future will attach credibility to the source of any information.
The more a given source is attributed to 'fake news,' the lower it
will sit in the credibility tree.<br>
We can't machine-learn our way out of this disaster, which is
actually a perfect storm of poor civics knowledge and poor
information literacy<br>
Information is only as reliable as the people who are receiving it.<font
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information environment will not improve: The problem is
human nature</a></b></li>
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title="Theme 2: The information environment will not improve
because technology will create new challenges that can’t or
won’t be countered effectively and at scale"
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information environment will not improve because technology
will create new challenges that can't or won't be countered
effectively and at scale</a></b></li>
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information environment will improve because technology will
help label, filter or ban misinformation and thus upgrade
the public's ability to judge the quality and veracity of
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information environment will improve, because people will
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/2/16588964/america-epistemic-crisis">America
is facing an epistemic crisis</a></b><b><br>
</b>What if Mueller proves his case and it doesn't matter?<br>
Updated by David <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:Roberts@drvoxdavid@vox.com">Roberts@drvoxdavid@vox.com</a>
Nov 2, 2017, 8:40am EDT<br>
The US is undergoing an epistemic breach<br>
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy having to do with how we
know things and what it means for something to be true or false,
accurate or inaccurate. (Episteme... is ancient Greek for
knowledge/science/understanding.)<br>
The US is experiencing a deep epistemic breach, a split not just in
what we value or want, but in who we trust, how we come to know
things, and what we believe we know - what we believe exists, is
true, has happened and is happening.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/2/16588964/america-epistemic-crisis">https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/2/16588964/america-epistemic-crisis</a><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/wWP-Sc8DYh4">(video)
Kerry Emanuel: 2017 Hurricanes a taste of Future</a></b><br>
Climate scientist Kerry Emanuel describes physics behind expected
increase in storm strength due to climate change. <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://news.mit.edu/2017/kerry-emanuel-hurricanes-are-taste-future-0921">http://news.mit.edu/2017/kerry-emanuel-hurricanes-are-taste-future-0921</a><br>
In a detailed talk about the history and the underlying physics of
hurricanes and tropical cyclones, MIT Professor Kerry Emanuel
yesterday explained why climate change will cause such storms to
become much stronger and reach peak intensity further north,
heightening their potential impacts on human lives in coming years.<br>
"Climate change, if unimpeded, will greatly increase the probability
of extreme events," such as the three record-breaking hurricanes of
recent weeks, he said.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/wWP-Sc8DYh4">https://youtu.be/wWP-Sc8DYh4</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.thenation.com/article/massachusetts-governor-charlie-baker-is-a-climate-criminal-and-im-willing-to-go-to-jail-to-say-so/">Massachusetts
Governor Charlie Baker Is a Climate Criminal - And I'm Willing
to Go to Jail to Say So</a></b><b><br>
</b>A big part of what makes nonviolent civil disobedience powerful
is the willingness of those engaging in it to suffer the
consequences.<br>
By Wen Stephenson<br>
"As his Nation colleague, I'm taking the liberty of sharing Wen's
bracing tonic for all climate hawks in this challenging moment -
about why going to jail matters"<br>
A big part of what has made nonviolent civil disobedience powerful,
historically, is the willingness of those engaging in the action to
suffer the consequences - indeed, the very willingness to suffer at
all, moved by conscience, for a principle or a principled cause.
When protesters accept a deal offered by state law enforcement to
take an easier way out of the situation - a way that not only spares
themselves the inconvenience and hardship of a few hours in jail but
also spares the state authorities the inconvenience and possible
negative publicity of handcuffing ministers and grandparents - we
fail to exercise our full power, the power of principled action.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.thenation.com/article/massachusetts-governor-charlie-baker-is-a-climate-criminal-and-im-willing-to-go-to-jail-to-say-so/">https://www.thenation.com/article/massachusetts-governor-charlie-baker-is-a-climate-criminal-and-im-willing-to-go-to-jail-to-say-so/</a></font><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/the_climate_crisis_it_s_capitalism_stupidhttp://www.joboneforhumanity.org/the_climate_crisis_it_s_capitalism_stupid"><br>
<b>THE CLIMATE CRISIS? IT'S CAPITALISM, STUPID! (NY Times)</b></a><br>
The real culprit of the climate crisis is not any particular form of
consumption, production or regulation but rather the very way in
which we globally produce, which is for profit rather than for
sustainability...<br>
So long as this order is in place, the crisis will continue and,
given its progressive nature, worsen. This is a hard fact to
confront. But averting our eyes from a seemingly intractable problem
does not make it any less a problem. It should be stated plainly:
It's capitalism that is at fault.<br>
As an increasing number of environmental groups are emphasizing,
it's systemic change or bust. From a political standpoint, something
interesting has occurred here: <b>Climate change has made
anticapitalist struggle, for the first time in history, a
non-class-based issue...</b><br>
The claim here is not that unintelligent people do not do
unintelligent things, but rather that the overwhelming
unintelligence involved in keeping the engines of production roaring
when they are making the planet increasingly uninhabitable cannot be
pinned on specific people. It is the system as a whole that is at
issue, and every time we pick out bumbling morons to lament or
fresh-faced geniuses to praise is a missed opportunity to see
plainly the necessity of structural change.<br>
But the burden of justification should not fall on the shoulders of
those putting forward an alternative. For anyone who has really
thought about the climate crisis, it is capitalism, and not its
transcendence, that is in need of justification. And don't be
surprised, or fooled, when its defenders point to the tireless work
of intelligent people...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/the_climate_crisis_it_s_capitalism_stupid">http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/the_climate_crisis_it_s_capitalism_stupid</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/opinion/climate-capitalism-crisis.html?_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/opinion/climate-capitalism-crisis.html?_r=0</a><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="www.imdb.com/title/tt6298780/">Sharknado
5: Global Swarming (TV Movie 2017) - IMDb</a></b><br>
Comedy · With much of America lying in ruins, the rest of the world
braces for a global sharknado, Fin and his family must travel around
the world to stop them.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6298780/">www.imdb.com/title/tt6298780/</a></font><br>
-<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAuIXCDd2Fw">(video)
Sharknado 5: Global Swarming Trailer #1 (2017) </a></b><br>
Movieclips Trailers ...Video for Sharknado 5: Global Swarming<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAuIXCDd2Fw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAuIXCDd2Fw</a><br>
Jul 27, 2017 - Uploaded by Movieclips Trailers<br>
Sharknado 5: Global Swarming Trailer #1 (2017): Check out the new
trailer starring Tara Reid, Dolph ...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZmjq7l5aP4&list=RDH1CsdePN14Y&index=3">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZmjq7l5aP4&list=RDH1CsdePN14Y&index=3</a><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/18/climate.change.women/">This
Day in Climate History November 22, 2009 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
November 22, 2009:<br>
CNN reports on the disproportionate toll climate change takes on
women.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/18/climate.change.women/">http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/18/climate.change.women/</a><br>
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