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<font size="+1"><i>November 25, 2017<br>
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<b>(NY Times) </b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/opinion/censoring-climate-change.html">Censoring
Climate Change</a></b><br>
The Trump administration is making it harder to find government
information about climate change on the web. If you searched Google
for the words "climate change" a little over six months ago, one of
the first hits would have been the Environmental Protection Agency's
website.<br>
But that was before April 28, when the agency <a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/28/epa-website-removes-climate-science-site-from-public-view-after-two-decades/?utm_term=.25c5f80ae588">began
systematically dismantling</a> its climate change website, which
had survived Democratic and Republican administrations and was a <a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/i-worked-on-the-epas-climate-change-website-its-removal-is-a-declaration-of-war/2017/06/22/735f0858-5697-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f_story.html?utm_term=.baae3ef8f729">leading
source of information</a> on a global problem that the president,
as a candidate, labeled "a hoax."<br>
If you search those words today, a link to the E.P.A. site may not
appear until the second or third search results page, and sometimes
not even then, depending on your browser settings. The site has
fallen in Google's search results because its address, or URL, no
longer directs you to the climate change site or a related page. If
you click that link, you'll be <a
href="https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/signpost/cc.html">redirected
to a notice page</a> that says, "We are currently updating our
website to reflect E.P.A.'s priorities under the leadership" of
President Trump and Scott Pruitt, the agency's administrator. That
page, in turn, contains a link to an <a
href="https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/climatechange_.html">archived
version</a> of the E.P.A.'s website....<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/opinion/censoring-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/opinion/censoring-climate-change.html</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/a-growing-number-of-young-americans-are-leaving-desk-jobs-to-farm/2017/11/23/e3c018ae-c64e-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0_story.html">A
growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm</a></b><br>
Caitlin Dewey November 23 <br>
Liz Whitehurst dabbled in several careers before she ended up here,
crating fistfuls of fresh-cut arugula in the early-November chill.<br>
The hours were better at her nonprofit jobs. So were the benefits.
But two years ago, the 32-year-old Whitehurst - who graduated from a
liberal arts college and grew up in the Chicago suburbs - abandoned
Washington for this three-acre farm in Upper Marlboro, Md.<br>
She joined a growing movement of highly educated, ex-urban,
first-time farmers who are capitalizing on booming consumer demand
for local and sustainable foods and who, experts say, could have a
broad impact on the food system. <br>
For only the second time in the last century, the number of farmers
under 35 years old is increasing, according to the U.S. Department
of Agriculture's latest Census of Agriculture. Sixty-nine percent of
the surveyed young farmers had college degrees - significantly
higher than the general population.<br>
This new generation can't hope to replace the numbers that farming
is losing to age. But it is already contributing to the growth of
the local-food movement and could help preserve the place of midsize
farms in the rural landscape.<br>
"We're going to see a sea change in American agriculture as the next
generation gets on the land," said Kathleen Merrigan, the head of
the Food Institute at George Washington University and a deputy
secretary at the Department of Agriculture under President Barack
Obama. "The only question is whether they'll get on the land, given
the challenges."<br>
The number of farmers age 25 to 34 grew 2.2 percent between 2007 and
2012, according to the 2014 USDA census, a period when other groups
of farmers - save the oldest - shrunk by double digits. In some
states, such as California, Nebraska and South Dakota, the number of
beginning farmers has grown by 20 percent or more.<br>
A survey conducted by the National Young Farmers Coalition, an
advocacy group, with Merrigan's help shows that the majority of
young farmers did not grow up in agricultural families.<br>
They are also far more likely than the general farming population to
grow organically, limit pesticide and fertilizer use, diversify
their crops or animals, and be deeply involved in their local food
systems via community supported agriculture (CSA) programs and
farmers markets....<br>
"I get calls all the time from farmers - some of the largest farmers
in the country - asking me when the local and organic fads will be
over," said Eve Turow Paul, a consultant who advises farms and food
companies on millennial preferences. "It's my pleasure to tell them:
Look at this generation. Get on board or go out of business."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/a-growing-number-of-young-americans-are-leaving-desk-jobs-to-farm/2017/11/23/e3c018ae-c64e-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/a-growing-number-of-young-americans-are-leaving-desk-jobs-to-farm/2017/11/23/e3c018ae-c64e-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0_story.html</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://kuow.org/post/new-study-argues-more-precise-timing-fishing-seasons">(audio,
text) New Study Argues For More Precise Timing Of Fishing
Seasons</a></b><br>
By Deborah Wang <br>
People who catch fish for sport or for a living often eagerly await
the day when fishing season opens. But a new study from the
University of Washington argues the timing of fishing seasons needs
to be reevaluated, especially in light of climate change.<br>
For spawning salmon, timing is everything. The fish have a precise
internal clock. They have a better chance of surviving the gauntlet
of fishermen if they return either before fishing season starts or
after it ends.<br>
"So the very first fish are safe, we whack the fish in the middle of
the run and we don't bother to fish at the end because there are too
few fish to bother with," UW Fisheries Professor Thomas Quinn said.<br>
He's looking more closely at the timing of fishing season because he
said it can actually affect the diversity of the population.<br>
"We have essentially favored the very earliest and the latest fish
and tearing the heart out of the middle of the population which
might actually be the most productive part," Quinn said.<br>
And now that climate change is bringing about warmer water
temperatures, Quinn said timing matters more than ever to give fish
a better chance of survival. .<br>
He said scientists will need to do more research and share their
findings before they can make specific recommendations on how to
retime the seasons.<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320190461_Selection_on_the_timing_of_migration_and_breeding_A_neglected_aspect_of_fishing-induced_evolution_and_trait_change">Selection
on the timing of migration and breeding: A neglected aspect of
fishing-induced evolution and trait change</a></b><br>
Michael Tillotson, Thomas P Quinn<br>
<blockquote>Abstract<br>
Fishing can drive changes in important phenotypic traits through
plastic and evolutionary pathways. Size-selective harvest is a
primary driver of such trait change, has received much attention
in the literature and is now commonly considered in fisheries
management. The potential for selection on behavioural traits has
received less study, but mounting evidence suggests that
aggression, foraging behaviour and linked traits can also be
affected by fishing. An important phenomenon that has received
much less attention is selection on reproductive phenology (i.e.,
the timing of breeding). The potential for this type of "temporal
selection" is widespread because there is often substantial
variability in reproductive phenology within fish populations, and
fisheries management strategies or fishermen's behaviours can
cause fishing effort to vary greatly over time. For example,
seasonal closures may expose only early or late breeding
individuals to harvest as observed in a range of marine and
freshwater fisheries. Such selection may induce evolutionary
responses in phenological traits, but can also have demographic
impacts such as shortened breeding seasons and reduced phenotypic
diversity. These changes can in turn influence productivity,
reduce the efficacy of management, exacerbate ongoing
climate-driven changes in phenology and reduce resilience to
environmental change. In this essay, we describe how fisheries
management can cause temporal variability in harvest, and describe
the types of selection on temporal traits that can result. We then
summarize the likely biological consequences of temporally
selective fishing on populations and population complexes and
conclude by identifying areas for future research. <br>
</blockquote>
Selection on the timing of migration and breeding: A neglected
aspect of fishing-induced evolution and trait change. Available
from: <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320190461_Selection_on_the_timing_of_migration_and_breeding_A_neglected_aspect_of_fishing-induced_evolution_and_trait_change">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320190461_Selection_on_the_timing_of_migration_and_breeding_A_neglected_aspect_of_fishing-induced_evolution_and_trait_change</a></font>
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<div class=""><b>(book publisher release) </b>A new book<b> </b><b><a
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class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The
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<div class=""><b>BOOK DESCRIPTION:</b><br>
An enlightening global journey reveals the inextricable links
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One cannot turn on the news today without a report on an extreme
weather event or the latest update on Antarctica. But while our
politicians argue, the truth is that climate change is already
here. Nobody knows this better than Indigenous peoples who, having
developed an intimate relationship with ecosystems over
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climate change is not an abstract concept or policy issue, but the
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communities are actually islands of biological and cultural
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They are an "archipelago of hope" as we enter the Anthropocene,
for here lies humankind's best chance to remember our roots and
how to take care of the Earth. These communities are implementing
creative solutions to meet these modern challenges. Solutions that
are relevant to the rest of us. We meet the Skolt Sami of Finland,
the Nenets and Altai of Russia, the Sapara of Ecuador, the Karen
of Myanmar, and the Tla-o-qui-aht of Canada. Intimate portraits of
these men and women, youth and elders, emerge against the backdrop
of their traditional practices on land and water. Though there are
brutal realties?pollution, corruption, forced
assimilation-Raygorodetsky's prose resonates with the positive,
the adaptive, the spiritual-and hope.<br class="">
</div>
<u><b>REVIEWS: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://archipelagohope.com/kudos/">http://archipelagohope.com/kudos/</a></b></u><br>
<div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
"Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Indigenous
people around the world are the only ones with a track record of
living in relative balance with their surroundings for thousands
of years. There was never a more important time in human history
for their perspective and wisdom. The Archipelago of Hope is
extremely timely and informative as we confront the reality that
the growth imperative of the technologically-driven global
economy must be abandoned as we embrace the health of Mother
Nature as the source of our survival and health. - David Suzuki,
winner of the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for Science and the United
Nations Environmental Medal</span><br style="box-sizing:
border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon
Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon
Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">As this fine
book shows, indigenous communities and lands have been among the
places hardest hit by climate change-so it should come as no
surprise that around the world indigenous people have been in
the absolute forefront of a fight for a liveable planet. I take
real comfort from the fact that the oldest wisdom traditions on
the planet and the newest are on the same page, that scientists
and shamans are telling much the same story. Now it's time for
the rest of us to pay some attention. - Bill McKibben, author of
DEEP <b>ECONOMY</b></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;
color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon Ember",
Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);" class="">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon
Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">With a
storyteller's gift, Raygorodetsky recounts visits with
indigenous peoples from the Arctic to the Amazon, Southeast Asia
to Canada, noting that the people who have had the least impact
on the earth are suffering the most from human-accelerated
climate changes. Raygorodetsky hopes that we can learn from
their ways of living in sync with nature and forge more
intelligent and compassionate public policies. - Booklist</span><br
style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2;
widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon
Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Filled with
admiration for those at the center of his study, Raygorodetsky
delivers a valuable addition for all environmental collections
and readers interested in cultural studies and international
relations. - Library Journal (starred)</span><br
style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2;
widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon
Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">An encouraging
exploration of how ancestral wisdom and political savvy have led
to positive environmental policies. - Kirkus Reviews</span><br
style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2;
widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon
Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Few writers,
anywhere in the world, know and understand the complex
relationship indigenous people have with climate as well and
deeply as Gleb Raygorodetsky. I am so gratified, and they should
be as well, that he has finally put his knowledge and wisdom in
one concise and ever-so-readable document. - Mark Dowie, author
of CONSERVATION <b>REFUGEES</b></span><br style="box-sizing:
border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon
Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon
Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">There is no
better time then now for the world to learn from this important
work by Gleb Raygorodetsky as he respectfully allows the
Indigenous voices, those most impacted by climate change, to
shine through in his writing. - Sheila Watt Cloutier, Nobel
Peace Prize nominee, author of THE RIGHT TO BE COLD</span><br
style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2;
widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon
Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The Archipelago
of Hope is at once a clarion call for action and an
inspirational compendium of steps that indigenous peoples around
the world are taking to address the world's changing climate. We
have much to learn from the peoples whom Gleb Raygorodetsky has
met and his elegant, evocative writing will immerse the reader
in the places and experiences of those peoples. - Eleanor
Sterling, American Museum of Natural History</span><br
style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2;
widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon
Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">There could be
no more accurate or prescient way to see our climatic future
than through the eyes of Indigenous culture, people whose
survival depends directly on the intimacy with which they
interact with living systems. In Archipelago, longtime
inhabitants of earth give us their eyes and ears, and we, who
can be dumbfounded by an overwhelming onslaught of information,
find a precious wisdom that is bestowed to those who patiently
abide in the life of the world. - Paul Hawken, New York Times
bestselling author of "Blessed Unrest"</span><br
style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2;
widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon
Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b>Exciting and
hugely important.</b> Raygorodetsky listens to the voices of
those who are so often unheard and overlooked: the world's
indigenous peoples. These people are also in possession of deep
knowledge that will be needed for us to heal ourselves and the
planet. Archipelago of Hope will be an important resource in the
tumultuous years ahead. - Scott Wallace, NEW YORK TIMES
bestselling author of THE UNCONQUERED: In Search of the Amazon's
Last Uncontacted Tribe and NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC contributor</span><br
style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2;
widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon
Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">When Indigenous
Peoples meet one another for the first time it's as if we've
always known each other. Gleb's powerful and knowledgeable book
captures that essence and the intimate ties we have to our
Mother Earth. This book is like reading my own ancestry. We say
that 'all things are connected' and these stories show us how
related we all are. - Patricia Cochrane, Inupiat Eskimo,
Executive Director Alaska Native Science Commission</span><br
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font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2;
widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon
Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">This finite
blue-green planet creaks under growing pressure. Solutions must
come from within: we will all need to find ways of living with a
light touch on the planet, and yet at the same time, bring
well-being and contentment. This fine book develops a
much-needed narrative of hope. We should listen and learn. - Dr.
Jules Pretty, University of Essex</span><br style="box-sizing:
border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon
Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon
Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The Archipelago
of Hope shares important stories and sophisticated biocultural
strategies. I highly recommend this inspiring book, with warm,
loving photographs and many other resources, to lead us to a
better appreciation of the rich biocultural diversity of our
shared world, and a more inclusive and humble approach to
stewarding it through these times and into the future. - Dr.
Rajindra K. Puri, University of Kent</span></div>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.net/23484-2/">More harm than
good with climate geo-engineering</a></b><br>
November 24, 2017, by Tim Radford<br>
Geo-engineering might be possible – but so far it doesn't look
practical. Yet another study sees dangers in the technofix.<br>
LONDON, 24 November, 2017 – Geo-engineering – the untested technofix
that would permit the continued use of fossil fuels – could create
more problems than it could solve.<br>
By masking sunlight with injections of sulphate aerosols in the
stratosphere, nations could perhaps suppress some of the devastating
hurricanes and typhoons that in a rapidly warming world threaten
northern hemisphere cities. But they could also scorch the Sahel
region of Africa, to threaten millions of lives and livelihoods,
according to new research.<br>
Geo-engineering is sometimes played as humanity's
have-your-cake-and-eat-it option: humans have already unthinkingly
engineered climate change over the last 200 years by profligate
combustion of coal, oil and gas that releases ever-growing
concentrations of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere.<br>
Since ferocious volcanic eruptions have been known to cool the
global climate by pumping soot and sulphur dioxide into the upper
atmosphere, some reason that scientists and technologists could play
the same card, in a calculated fashion.<br>
"Our results confirm that regional solar geo-engineering is a highly
risky strategy which could simultaneously benefit one region to the
detriment of another," said Anthony Jones, a climate scientist at
the University of Exeter, UK, who led the study. <br>
"It is vital that policymakers take solar geo-engineering seriously
and act swiftly to install effective regulation."<br>
Since then, researchers the world over have repeatedly <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.net/reducing-sunlight-will-not-cool-earth/">looked
at the geo-engineering option</a>, and repeatedly conceded that
the ideal answer would be to stop burning fossil fuels. <font
size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.net/23484-2/">http://climatenewsnetwork.net/23484-2/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1113967_effect-of-trumps-attempts-to-end-u-s-climate-change-efforts-twitter-poll-results">Effect
of Trump's attempts to end U.S. climate-change efforts: Twitter
poll results</a></b><br>
John Voelcker Nov 24, 2017<br>
By now it's clear that the Trump Administration is doing everything
it can to end U.S. government efforts to address climate change.<br>
Climate-science deniers sit in powerful government positions,
language on climate change has been eradicated from websites, and
the U.S. is now the sole nation in the world that plans to withdraw
from the Paris Climate Treaty signed by President Obama in late
2016...<br>
If nothing else, the administration's efforts have provoked a
furious backlash by several powerful states, which jointly presented
their own platforms for adhering to the Paris reduction goals at a
recent climate conference in Germany-overshadowing the official U.S.
government delegation.<br>
That delegation...is the same one that was booed for its
presentation on the importance of continued to use of fossil fuels.<br>
We polled our Twitter followers on the long-term effects of these
remarkable and audacious efforts by the U.S. government to ignore
the accepted scientific consensus and fly in the face of global
carbon-reduction efforts.<br>
- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/GreenCarReports/status/930458598202859520">https://twitter.com/GreenCarReports/status/930458598202859520</a><br>
As it turned out, a major of poll respondents said the effects of
the administration's work to roll back climate efforts wouldn't be
germane to the overall global fight.<br>
About two-thirds felt those efforts wouldn't make a difference over
the long run, but the remainder expressed support for the notion
that they could cause long-term damage.<br>
A total of 66 percent felt the Trump team's efforts were either
"fighting the tide" (32 percent) or "irrelevant" (34 percent) over
the long term.<br>
But a quarter of participants (23 percent) felt the administrations
efforts would "boost climate change" and another 11 percent felt
they "may have some effect."..<br>
More importantly, it's been fully 10 years since the U.S. Supreme
Court said the EPA not only could but must address emissions of
carbon dioxide as a pollutant.<br>
Now, government watchdog agencies are starting to question the
efforts to ignore climate change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/GreenCarReports/status/930458598202859520">https://twitter.com/GreenCarReports/status/930458598202859520</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1113967_effect-of-trumps-attempts-to-end-u-s-climate-change-efforts-twitter-poll-results">https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1113967_effect-of-trumps-attempts-to-end-u-s-climate-change-efforts-twitter-poll-results</a></font><br>
<br>
<b><br>
</b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://reliefweb.int/report/world/combating-climate-change-combat-land-degradation-says-unccd-chief"><b>Combating
Climate Change? Combat Land Degradation, Says UNCCD Chief</b></a><br>
BONN, Germany, Nov 24 2017 (IPS) - Land restoration is not a
"glamorous subject even when you give all the numbers," admits
Monique Barbut, the Executive Secretary of United Nations Convention
to Combat Desertification UNCCD). But she also stresses that by
2050, the world population will reach 10 billion. To feed that extra
2.4 billion, current food production would need to be increased by
75 percent...<br>
According to Barbut, climate change's effects on land are becoming
more and more of a global problem, with major social and political
consequences. She mentions the recent droughts witnessed by France,
Canada and successive droughts in the US, and also points out the
recent exodus of people from drought and desertification in the
global south.<br>
"If you see all the migrants coming to Europe, 100 percent of them –
not 90 percent but 100 percent – are coming from drylands. There are
also migration and radicalism linked to land degradation and
desertification. For example, in the drylands of Africa, where
desertification is happening, we are seeing food riots and then we
are seeing Al Qaeda," she says, pointing to a study published by
UNCCD that explores these links.<br>
Citing another study by the British Government's Defence Ministry,
Barbut says that "by 2045, there will be 130 million people who
migrated because of desertification, and out of them, 60 million
will come from south of the Sahel and Africa."<br>
But all is not hopeless. Barbut shared her vision of a food-secure
future and a clear way to achieve that goal: "By 2050, we will need
millions of hectares of new lands to grow 75 percent extra food.
Today we are taking new land from forests and wetlands. At the same
time, on this planet, you have 2 billion hectares of degraded land.
Among this, 500 million are abandoned agricultural land. If we
restored 300 million of these 2 billion hectares of land, we can
ensure food security for all by 2050."<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2017/11/combating-climate-change-combat-land-degradation-says-unccd-chief/">http://www.ipsnews.net/2017/11/combating-climate-change-combat-land-degradation-says-unccd-chief/</a>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://reliefweb.int/report/world/combating-climate-change-combat-land-degradation-says-unccd-chief">https://reliefweb.int/report/world/combating-climate-change-combat-land-degradation-says-unccd-chief</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
Climate State<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/Pp5kK0Td-Vc">(video)
Ice Apocalypse - MULTIPLE METERS SEA LEVEL RISE</a></b><br>
Published on Nov 23, 2017<br>
Rapid collapse of Antarctic glaciers could flood coastal cities by
the end of this century. Based on an article written by Eric
Holthaus. Read the full story <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://grist.org/article/antarctica-doomsday-glaciers-could-flood-coastal-cities/">
Ice Apocalypse</a><font size="-1"> <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>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/Pp5kK0Td-Vc">https://youtu.be/Pp5kK0Td-Vc</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-11-meadows-shrubs-carbon.html">Meadows
beat out shrubs when it comes to storing carbon</a></b><br>
Different vegetation types, different storage<br>
Sorensen compared three types of vegetation that are typical of the
Norwegian mountains:<br>
Shrubs (willows)<br>
Heath (crowberry and heather)<br>
Meadow<br>
"I wanted to figure out how much carbon these three vegetation types
store and release. My hypothesis was that shrubs store more carbon
than heath and meadow vegetation because shrubs have more biomass,
and thus have higher rates of photosynthesis," she said.<br>
But it turned out to be the opposite: Shrubs, even though they are
tallest, actually store the least carbon.<br>
"It surprised me that meadows actually store a lot more carbon than
shrubs. The carbon in meadows is stored mostly below the ground,
next to the roots," she said<br>
The amount of carbon stored in heath vegetation is greater than in
shrub vegetation, but less than in meadows, she said.<br>
One unusual characteristic of heath vegetation is that it can
photosynthesize during the winter, under the snow, because it is
evergreen and typically grows in areas with little snow. That means
sunlight is able to reach these plants during the winter.<br>
Sorensen will also investigate why meadow vegetation stores much
more CO2 than shrub vegetation.<br>
"Our hypothesis is that it is related to what is happening
underground, such as how the roots grow. It may also be related to
mycorrhizae, which are fungi that grow in a symbiotic association
with plant roots and that can have an effect on carbon emissions.
Mycorrhizae are found in both shrubs and in heaths, but not so much
in meadow vegetation," Sorensen said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-11-meadows-shrubs-carbon.html">https://phys.org/news/2017-11-meadows-shrubs-carbon.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/how_greed_fear_and_our_own_biases_blind_us_to_the_realities_of_climate_change">HOW
GREED, FEAR AND OUR OWN BIASES BLIND US TO THE REALITIES OF
CLIMATE CHANGE...</a></b><br>
November 23, 2017<br>
By the time climate change is no longer a long-term threat, it will
be too late...<br>
The Climate Science Special Report that the Trump administration
released last Friday is straightforward and relentlessly sobering.
Scientists from 13 government agencies agree that the long-term
global warming trend is "unambiguous" and that human activity is
responsible. There is, they tell us, "no convincing alternative
explanation."<br>
Meanwhile, the president whose administration released the report
maintains that climate change is a hoax and he and his EPA
administrator, Scott Pruitt, resist efforts to address it.<br>
What's going on? How is this possible? Short-term economic
self-interest (i.e., greed) is the driver for the energy industry,
its supporters and their propaganda. But it's the psychological
factors, and the biology in which they're grounded, that sustain
denial. If we're going to mobilize Americans to address climate
change, we first have to understand what they're thinking and why,
and then help them change their minds....<br>
It's important, also, to continue to memorialize the selfless
efforts of neighbors helping neighbors during and after the storms
and fires, as well as the stories of distant Americans' generosity.
Seeing compassion in action will maximize activity in the parts of
our brains that encourage fellow feeling. As they see and feel how
satisfying it is to care for one another, even the most resistant
climate deniers may want to join the rest of us in caring for the
planet that sustains us all.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/how_greed_fear_and_our_own_biases_blind_us_to_the_realities_of_climate_change">http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/how_greed_fear_and_our_own_biases_blind_us_to_the_realities_of_climate_change</a></font><br>
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<br>
(video) Talks at Google<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/ay-m6EIxFzU">Zaria
Forman: "Stillness and Momentum: Communicating Climate Change
Through Art"</a></b><br>
Published on Nov 9, 2017<br>
Every day we are forced to reckon with the looming issue of climate
change, one that has become not simply an environmental issue, but a
profoundly personal one as well. I believe that art has the ability
to establish a personal connection to abstract concepts. Through my
large-scale drawings of icebergs I seek to convey the beauty of
these forgotten and rapidly changing landscapes while also imparting
the urgency of the climate crisis. My travels with NASA and my own
mother's love of polar regions has instilled in me a deep respect
for these monoliths of ancient ice that are melting at a rate much
faster than they are growing. Through my drawings and a devotion to
the positive rather than the negative, I hope to translate their
awe-inspiring beauty to those who cannot experience them firsthand,
so that they will be driven to protect them.<br>
Zaria Forman was born in South Natick, Massachusetts and currently
works and resides in Brooklyn, New York. She studied at the Studio
Art Centers International in Florence, Italy and received a BS in
Studio Arts at Skidmore College in New York. Her works have been in
publications such as Juxtapoz Magazine, National Geographic Proof
Blog, Huffington Post, and the Smithsonian Magazine. Zaria was
featured on CNN, the Wall Street Journal and interviewed by Lucy
Yang on ABC7 Eyewitness News. Zaria exhibited in Banksy's Dismaland,
delivered a TEDTalk at the Town Hall Theater in NYC that is featured
on TED.com, travelled aboard the National Geographic Explorer as the
artist-in-residence for four weeks in Antarctica, and flew over the
polar regions with NASA's Operation IceBridge. <font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/ay-m6EIxFzU">https://youtu.be/ay-m6EIxFzU</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/24/AR2006112401361_pf.html">This
Day in Climate History November 25, 2006 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
November 25, 2006: The Washington Post reports:<br>
"While the political debate over global warming continues, top<br>
executives at many of the nation's largest energy companies have<br>
accepted the scientific consensus about climate change and see
federal<br>
regulation to cut greenhouse gas emissions as inevitable.<br>
"The Democratic takeover of Congress makes it more likely that the<br>
federal government will attempt to regulate emissions. The companies<br>
have been hiring new lobbyists who they hope can help fashion a<br>
national approach that would avert a patchwork of state plans now in<br>
the works. They are also working to change some company practices in<br>
anticipation of the regulation."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/24/AR2006112401361_pf.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/24/AR2006112401361_pf.html</a><br>
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