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<font size="+1"><i>December 7, 2017<br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatestate.com/2017/12/06/rupert-murdochs-la-home-burning-down-in-record-wildfire/">Rupert
Murdoch's LA home Burning down in Record Wildfire</a></b><br>
The home of 21st Century Fox and Fox News Executive Chairman Rupert
Murdoch, located on a vineyard outside of Los Angeles, is "burning
down" in Southern California's wildfires, according to an NBC News
report on Wednesday.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thehill.com/homenews/media/363573-report-rupert-murdochs-la-home-burning-down-in-wildfire">http://thehill.com/homenews/media/363573-report-rupert-murdochs-la-home-burning-down-in-wildfire</a><br>
Bloomberg News reported earlier Wednesday that the area around
Murdoch's Moraga vineyard in Bel Air was ordered evacuated as
firefighters battled wind-whipped fires that continue to spread. <br>
The 86-year-old Australian-born media mogul lives in a
7,500-square-foot house on the estate with wife Jerry Hall. <br>
The Hill has reached out to 21st Century Fox for comment.<br>
Murdoch acquired the 13-acre property in 2013 for $28.8 million,
according to Forbes.<br>
California Increased Wildfire Risk <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals/california-increased-wildfire-risk">http://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals/california-increased-wildfire-risk</a><br>
Smoke and Fire in Southern California <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=91379">https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=91379</a><br>
Rupert Murdoch doesn't understand climate change basics, and that's
a problem <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/jul/14/rupert-murdoch-doesnt-understand-climate-basics">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/jul/14/rupert-murdoch-doesnt-understand-climate-basics</a></font><br>
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<br>
[MIT Technology Review] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609620/global-warmings-worst-case-projections-look-increasingly-likely/">Global
Warming's Worst-Case Projections Look Increasingly Likely</a></b><br>
A <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature24672">new
study</a> based on satellite observations finds that temperatures
could rise nearly 5 degrees C by the end of the century.<br>
Global warming's worst-case projections look increasingly likely,
according to a new study that tested the predictive power of climate
models against observations of how the atmosphere is actually
behaving. The paper, published on Wednesday in Nature, found that
global temperatures could rise nearly ...<br>
Global warming's worst-case projections look increasingly likely,
according to a new study that tested the predictive power of climate
models against observations of how the atmosphere is actually
behaving.<br>
The paper, published on Wednesday in Nature, found that global
temperatures could rise nearly 5 degrees C by the end of the century
under the the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's
steepest prediction for greenhouse-gas concentrations. That's 15
percent hotter than the previous estimate. The odds that
temperatures will increase more than 4 degrees by 2100 in this
so-called "business as usual" scenario increased from 62 percent to
93 percent, according to the new analysis.<br>
Climate models are sophisticated software simulations that assess
how the climate reacts to various influences. For this study, the
scientists collected more than a decade's worth of satellite
observations concerning the amount of sunlight reflected back into
space by things like clouds, snow, and ice; how much infrared
radiation is escaping from Earth; and the net balance between the
amount of energy entering and leaving the atmosphere. Then the
researchers compared that "top-of-atmosphere" data with the results
of earlier climate models to determine which ones most accurately
predicted what the satellites actually observed.<br>
The simulations that turned out to most closely match real-world
observations of how energy flows in and out of the climate system
were the ones that predicted the most warming this century. In
particular, the study found, the models projecting that clouds will
allow in more radiation over time, possibly because of decreased
coverage or reflectivity, "are the ones that simulate the recent
past the best," says Patrick Brown, a postdoctoral research
scientist at the Carnegie Institution and lead author of the study.
This cloud feedback phenomenon remains one of the greatest areas of
uncertainty in climate modeling.<br>
The UN's seminal IPCC report relies on an assortment of models from
various research institutions to estimate the broad ranges of
warming likely to occur under four main emissions scenarios. In
another key finding, the scientists found that the second-lowest
scenario would be more likely to result in the warming previously
predicted under the second-highest by 2100. In fact, the world will
have to cut another 800 gigatons of carbon dioxide emissions this
century for the earlier warming estimates to hold. (By way of
comparison, total greenhouse-gas emissions stood at about 49
gigatons last year.)<br>
Various politicians, fossil-fuel interest groups, and commentators
have seized on the uncertainty inherent in climate models as reasons
to doubt the dangers of climate change, or to argue against strong
policy and mitigation responses.<br>
"This study undermines that logic," Brown says. "There are problems
with climate models, but the ones that are most accurate are the
ones that produce the most warming in the future."<br>
<blockquote><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/egg1VqKEh5E">(video) Most accurate
climate models predict greatest warming</a></b><br>
The climate change simulations that best capture current planetary
conditions are also the ones that predict the most dire levels of
human-driven warming, according to a statistical study released in
the journal Nature Wednesday.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/egg1VqKEh5E">https://youtu.be/egg1VqKEh5E</a><br>
</blockquote>
In fact, the new paper is the latest in a growing series that
project larger impacts than previously predicted or conclude that
climate change is unfolding faster than once believed.<br>
The goal of the research was to evaluate how well various climate
models work, in hopes of "narrowing the range of model uncertainty
and to assess whether the upper or low end of the range is more
likely," Brown wrote in an accompanying blog post.<br>
Ken Caldeira, a climate researcher at Carnegie and coauthor of the
paper, says the growing body of real-world evidence for climate
change is helping to refine climate models while also guiding
scientists toward those that increasingly appear more reliable for
specific applications.<br>
But an emerging challenge is that the climate is changing faster
than the models are improving, as real-world events occur that the
models didn't predict. Notably, Arctic sea ice is melting more
rapidly than the models can explain, suggesting that the simulations
aren't fully capturing certain processes. <br>
"We're increasingly shifting from a mode of predicting what's going
to happen to a mode of trying to explain what happened," Caldeira
says.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609620/global-warmings-worst-case-projections-look-increasingly-likely/">https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609620/global-warmings-worst-case-projections-look-increasingly-likely/</a><br>
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<br>
[Union of Concerned Scientists (blog)]<b><br>
</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/astrid-caldas/supermoons-king-tides-and-global-warming">Supermoons,
King Tides, and Global Warming</a></b><br>
Tides are always higher at full and new moons — when the Moon,
Earth, and Sun are aligned — and it follows that the gravitational
pull is strongest when the masses are at their closest during a
supermoon. That's why we saw some unusually high tides, called <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.epa.gov/cre/king-tides-and-climate-change">king
tides</a>, across the country (and beyond) at the same time that
we experienced the supermoon.<br>
So, while we may not realize it when looking at the supersized moon,
it is causing a great deal of disruption to people's lives in the
form of tidal flooding, also called "<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/nuisance-flooding.html">nuisance
flooding.</a>" As stated in one of my colleague's earlier blogs,
this localized tidal flooding has been steadily increasing due to
sea level rise. And climate change is behind the sea level rise
rates being observed...<br>
So next time you look up at a supermoon (in January 2018), while
still marveling at the incredible phenomenon you are witnessing,
remember to also look down. It may just make you think about the
moon in a completely different way – and how as a nation, we need to
do more to reduce emissions and prepare for coastal flooding.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/astrid-caldas/supermoons-king-tides-and-global-warming">https://blog.ucsusa.org/astrid-caldas/supermoons-king-tides-and-global-warming</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Politics - Austin 350.org - a great speech by Derrick Crowe]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/vm2VWrvZBlM">(video)
(Rep. Lamar Smith is retiring) Derrick Crowe is running for the
seat. </a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/vm2VWrvZBlM">https://youtu.be/vm2VWrvZBlM</a>
32 mins <b><br>
</b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/vm2VWrvZBlM"><b>Derrick
Crowe "State of the Climate"</b></a><br>
"This is the best, purest, most calm and tremendously positive
speech I've heard."<br>
[partial transcript:]<br>
<blockquote> The issue that we're facing with here is that we are
headed towards a scenario that<br>
society cannot adapt to.<br>
When we say that you know we're gonna deal with climate change
through mitigation and preparation and not through prevention.
We are setting ourselves up for a planet in which we can't survive
as a society...<br>
...the milder scenario which has been sketched out in a recent
study just for our area shows that if we just have the
middle-of-the-road projections for the middle-of-the-road sea
level rise and we get the two-degree target - Austin Round Rock
will have to absorb more than 800,000 people who are fleeing from
the coasts who will have to move because their communities are no
longer viable.<br>
But the little footnote to that study is that only the people who
can stay and survive are the people that make over a hundred
thousand dollars a year. But the worry in this report is that the
poorer people won't be able to evacuate. <br>
Now I want you to think about what that means..<br>
We saw Hurricane Katrina already, we saw people packed into a
Superdome. That's what it looks like when poor people can't
evacuate from a climate disaster and they're talking about that on
every coast by mid-century. <br>
So the the real drawback that we're looking at here is that we
have a Congress and a president who don't care that they are
engaged in calling everything they don't like to hear fake news.<br>
And the problem with the concept of fake news is that it destroys
our ability to agree on objective fact. <br>
And the reason that the current political system wants to destroy
that agreement on a basic objective fact is that the truth has
claims on your actions. If what the scientists telling us now is
true, it demands urgent action and that urgent action will damage
some people's economic interests. <br>
But that is the game here when you call climate science a Chinese
hoax.<br>
They're trying to destroy the fact that we can even know about the
future. Well you know science is the closest thing we can have
for seeing the future. And the future that I see for my son goes
one of two ways, we either stay on the current course and by the
time he gets into kindergarten we blow the carbon budget. <br>
Possibly the kicker to this presentation is that when you take
these assumptions out that are in the IPCC projections that we
talked about - which essentially are either magic or time-travel
- we have between three and thirteen years before we blow the
carbon budget for 1.5 degrees Celsius. Which is almost no time at
all which is was true from the beginning of this year - meaning
the end of the Trump presidency to begin to bend that curve down.
So the political action that's implied in that - and excuse me for
being a tiny bit political - is people who believe in climate
science have to take Congress this cycle... <br>
I want you to leave here tonight with the strong sense that
there's no time left and that there's nobody else to do it but the
people in this room, the people you know, the people that are
younger than us essentially in this room...came along too late and
the folks that came before us didn't get it done in time.<br>
We have to own the moment here because there's no one else that's
gonna be capable of owning the moment ever again.<br>
If the runaway effects take hold - and the time is extraordinarily
short - in fact you know Henry here needs us to take action in
three to thirteen years - by the time he graduates high school.
We're gonna put the period on the end of the sentence that
describes how we reacted to this moment.<br>
As a dad I'm asking you to take your participation in this group
as seriously, as if you were here to save the world, because you
are here to save the world.<br>
And the good news is if you look at those charts and you project
them out over a ten thousand year time frame once we get past
twenty one hundred and twenty two hundred those lines go flat and
they stay where they are essentially forever<br>
So the risk is - what we lose, we lose forever, but the hope is
that what you save you will save forever. <br>
The world gets to be your monument for every generation that comes
after. <br>
So that's my set up for saying when they pass the coffee can in a
minute, contribute.. ...now politicians need to hear from you <br>
Your elected officials who are already in office, need to hear
from you and your neighbors need to hear from you. <br>
Because the worst thing that happens when a fire alarm goes off is
everybody looks around to see if anybody else is getting up. All
of us have probably been in a scenario where somebody pulled the
fire alarm and nobody moved. Well somebody's got to move and
you're moving now and I appreciate you doing that and I thank you
for your attention tonight..... "<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/vm2VWrvZBlM">https://youtu.be/vm2VWrvZBlM</a>
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<br>
<b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/12/05/sliver-of-light-in-a-dark-time/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/12/05/sliver-of-light-in-a-dark-time/</a></b><br>
Rep. Lamar Smith, one of congress' leading climate deniers, and
Chair of the purported "Science" committee in the US House, has
announced he is retiring. <br>
In the meantime, Derrick Crowe is running for the seat. He's well
versed on climate science, and how climate deniers have sought to
destroy our ability to perceive truth.<br>
He's warning us that our hopes of preserving what's left of a
livable planet hinge very much on what kind of Congress we elect in
2018. If you're pressed for time, try catch the last 4 minutes or
so.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/vm2VWrvZBlM">https://youtu.be/vm2VWrvZBlM</a>
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<br>
<b><a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr3671">Off
Fossil Fuels for a Better Future Act (H.R. 3671) - GovTrack.us</a></b><br>
<a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr3671">https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr3671</a><br>
The FIX NICS Act, a bill that might have prevented the Texas mass
shooting. ... What Congress has already done in response to sexual
assault allegations, and what they could still…. ... To justly
transition away from fossil fuel sources of energy to 100 percent
clean energy by 2035, and ...<br>
<a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr3671">https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr3671</a><br>
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<br>
Opinions<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ups-and-pfizers-dirty-little-secret/2017/12/05/54d7856a-d9e4-11e7-b859-fb0995360725_story.html?utm_term=.653c2f64fbaa">UPS
and Pfizer's dirty little secret</a></b><br>
By Sheldon Whitehouse and Elizabeth Warren December 5 at 2:26 PM<br>
The blandly named American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is
one of the most powerful groups you may have never heard of...<br>
...Now, with a White House occupant who has said climate change is a
hoax, ALEC's anti-climate campaign is in overdrive. And complicit in
that push are corporate supporters — such as Pfizer and UPS — who
have not woken up to how inconsistent ALEC is with their values...<br>
ALEC receives a large share of its funding from the fossil fuel
industry, notably the Koch brothers and ExxonMobil. The group has
pushed a number of bills to undermine efforts to cut carbon
emissions and combat the effects of climate change. Way back in
1998, ALEC <a
href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/images/e/e8/3C4-State_Responses_to_Kyoto_Climate_Change_Protocol_Exposed.pdf">drafted
a model resolution</a> that would have forbidden states from
regulating greenhouse gases in any way. In 2004, ALEC again <a
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060602025124/http:/www.alec.org/news/press-releases/press-releases-2004/january/sons-of-kyoto-legislation-states-react-to-the-myth-of-global-warming.html">urged</a>
states to reject efforts to limit carbon pollution, arguing that
global warming was a "myth" and that the carbon dioxide generated by
burning fossil fuels was actually "beneficial." During the Obama
administration, ALEC <a href="https://www.prwatch.org/NODE/10914">repeatedly
opposed</a> the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to limit
carbon emissions...<br>
While ALEC's 20-year anti-climate crusade perfectly corresponds to
the priorities of its fossil-fuel funders, it has driven off several
of its corporate supporters. Google left ALEC in 2014 because of
ALEC's position on climate change. Shell left in 2015 for the same
reason. They joined major American brands ranging from Coca-Cola to
Ford to CVS that have left ALEC in recent years because of its
extreme positions. Unfortunately, not all companies have recognized
this reality...<br>
...Pfizer and UPS fund a group engaged in a decades-long
anti-climate campaign..<br>
When corporate America backs an anti-climate agenda contrary to the
express policies of the corporations, consumers and investors — and
the world — will be watching.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ups-and-pfizers-dirty-little-secret/2017/12/05/54d7856a-d9e4-11e7-b859-fb0995360725_story.html?utm_term=.653c2f64fbaa">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ups-and-pfizers-dirty-little-secret/2017/12/05/54d7856a-d9e4-11e7-b859-fb0995360725_story.html?utm_term=.653c2f64fbaa</a></font><br>
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<br>
[LA Times]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://beta.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-climate-california-20171205-htmlstory.html">Climate
scientists see alarming new threat to California</a></b><br>
California could be hit with significantly more dangerous and more
frequent droughts in the near future as changes in weather patterns
triggered by global warming block rainfall from reaching the state,
according to new research led by scientists at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory...<br>
The <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01907-4">study,</a>
published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, provides
compelling evidence that it would. The model the scientists used
homed in on the link between the disappearance of sea ice in the
Arctic and the buildup of high ridges of atmospheric pressure over
the Pacific Ocean. Those ridges push winter storms away from the
state, causing drought.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://beta.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-climate-california-20171205-htmlstory.html">http://beta.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-climate-california-20171205-htmlstory.html</a></font><br>
-<br>
[Nature Communications]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01907-4">Future
loss of Arctic sea-ice cover could drive a substantial decrease
in California's rainfall</a></b><br>
We have confirmed that the short-term (decadal-scale) response to
Arctic sea-ice loss described in our study is consistent with the
response found in previous AOGCM studies that allow for ocean
dynamics and deep-ocean changes. The long-term centennial climate
response to sea-ice changes may, however, differ from the fast
response described here. While investigations with other climate
models are necessary to further confirm these findings, our results
strongly suggest that what happens in the Arctic does not stay in
the Arctic and provide a physically plausible pathway by which
high-latitude sea-ice forcing may mediate tropical climate, and
thereby influence California's rainfall.<br>
As a final remark, we note that the pronounced Arctic sea-ice loss
over the satellite era is likely human-induced, arising from
anthropogenic warming caused by greenhouse gas increases68. Our
study thus identifies yet another pathway by which human activities
could affect the occurrence of future droughts over
California—through human-induced Arctic sea-ice decline.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01907-4">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01907-4</a><br>
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<br>
[BRIEFER The Center for Climate and Security]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/sea-level-rise-_deterritorialized-states-and-migration_the-need-for-a-new-framework_briefer-39.pdf">Sea
Level Rise, Deterritorialized States and Migration: The Need for
a New Framework</a></b><br>
Excerpt: The definition of a state in modern international law has
four requirements: a permanent population, a government, the ability
to interact with other states, and most important for this context,
a defined territory. The prospect of rising seas making low-lying
island states uninhabitable, or completely submerged, puts the
territorial requirement in jeopardy. However, there are historical
examples of flexibility in state control of territory.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/sea-level-rise-_deterritorialized-states-and-migration_the-need-for-a-new-framework_briefer-39.pdf">https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/sea-level-rise-_deterritorialized-states-and-migration_the-need-for-a-new-framework_briefer-39.pdf</a></font><br>
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<br>
[ScienceDaily]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171204150732.htm">The
Patterns of climate change</a></b><br>
Summary:<br>
Researchers have developed a technique to monitor and predict how
plant species will respond to climate change. The experiment was
conducted in an area the size of two football pitches within the
Garraf National park south west of Barcelona. The landscape is
mostly a Mediterranean scrubland, featuring thickets of low rise
shrubs and herbs such as rosemary and thyme, and home to many
protected species.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171204150732.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171204150732.htm</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Harvard Crimson]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/11/30/climate-change-panel-debates/">Climate
Change Panel Talks 'Hope and Despair' </a></b><br>
Climate change researchers, professors, and journalists debated how
best to present the severity of climate change to the public
Wednesday evening at an event hosted by the Harvard University
Center for the Environment.<br>
The discussion, titled "Hope and Despair: Communicating an Uncertain
Future," was held in the Geological Lecture Hall. Elizabeth M.
Wolkovich, an assistant professor in the Department of Organismic
and Evolutionary Biology, moderated a discussion about how to best
motivate the public to take action on climate change.<br>
David Wallace-Wells, who is the deputy editor of the New York
Magazine and wrote the article "The Uninhabitable Earth" this year,
advocated the use of fear about the planet's future as a way to
inspire more people to become "climate agents."<br>
"I think that there is real value in scaring people," Wallace-Wells
said. "When I talk to colleagues it just seems so obvious to me that
when you think about the relatively well-off Western world, that
complacency about climate is just a much bigger problem than
fatalism about climate."<br>
Nancy Knowlton, chair for Marine Science at the Smithsonian
Institution, said she thinks it is more effective to be optimistic
about humanity's ability to stave off disaster.<br>
"I've had many, many students come up to me after talks about
optimism or the Earth Optimism Summit that we ran in Washington
saying 'you know, this was incredibly empowering, I now really want
to go out and work on solving this problem. I almost left the field
of conservation because I thought there was nothing I could do,'"
Knowlton said. "I do feel that it is absolutely essential to talk
about what's working, why it's working, in addition to providing
this very scary context."<br>
"It's not the number one political issue and until it becomes the
number one political issue, we're not in the position I think we
need to be if we want to change the scenarios," she said.<br>
Henry G. Scott '18, who attended the event and is writing a thesis
on how humans have historically impacted the environment, said that
he enjoyed the panel but was bothered by how few undergraduates
attended the event.<br>
"When I first sat down, I was kind of looking around and noticing
how few undergrads were present, which kind of built into my
preconceived idea that this isn't something that we're aware of or
we're concerned enough about as a student body," he said.<br>
Wolkovitch remained optimistic about Harvard's potential to make an
impact. "There's lots we can do, and Harvard is such an amazingly
large voice in the world still to this day that it has a lot of
opportunities," she said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/11/30/climate-change-panel-debates/">http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/11/30/climate-change-panel-debates/</a><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171204150732.htm">The
Patterns of climate change</a></b><br>
Date: December 4, 2017<br>
Source: Universitaet Tübingen<br>
Summary:<br>
Researchers have developed a technique to monitor and predict
how plant species will respond to climate change. The experiment was
conducted in an area the size of two football pitches within the
Garraf National park south west of Barcelona. The landscape is
mostly a Mediterranean scrubland, featuring thickets of low rise
shrubs and herbs such as rosemary and thyme, and home to many
protected species...<br>
In this particular experiment, the overall species diversity and
vegetative biomass did initially respond negatively, but from 8 to
16 years the overall amount of vegetation was increasing again. Here
the researchers showed that the initial decrease was due to a
disappearance of the wet adapted species, followed by a delayed
increase in the dry loving species. In addition, the novel ranking
technique showed, that the species that declined under decreased
rainfall, were different to those disappearing under increased
temperatures....<br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="The%20EPA%20formally%20declares%20that%20greenhouse%20gases%20threaten%20public%20health.,http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/bd4379a92ceceeac8525735900400c27/08d11a451131bca585257685005bf252%21OpenDocument">This
Day in Climate History December 7, 2009 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
December 7, 2009: <br>
The EPA formally declares that greenhouse gases threaten public
health.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/bd4379a92ceceeac8525735900400c27/08d11a451131bca585257685005bf252%21OpenDocument">http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/bd4379a92ceceeac8525735900400c27/08d11a451131bca585257685005bf252!OpenDocument</a><br>
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On MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," Melanie Sloan of Citizens for
Responsibility and Ethics in Washington discusses the ties between
the Bush administration and the fossil fuel industry, and the
right-wing effort to sabotage the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference
in Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
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href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rachel-maddow/34320497">http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rachel-maddow/34320497</a><br>
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