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<font size="+1"><i>December 15, 2017<br>
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[video 12 mins ]<br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io3FI-PLCXA">Expert
asks, can we control the climate crisis in time?</a></b><br>
Climate State<br>
Published on Dec 14, 2017<br>
<b>Stefan Rahmstorf </b>speaks at the 2017 Bonn climate conference,
explaining the basics of global climate change, and outlines our
current emissions pathway - asking if we can control the climate
crisis. The talk is titled Climate Action and Human Wellbeing at a
Crossroads: Historical Transformation or Backlash?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io3FI-PLCXA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io3FI-PLCXA</a><br>
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<br>
[WashingtonPost]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/12/12/federal-scientists-call-the-warming-of-the-arctic-unprecedented-over-the-last-1500-years/">Warming
of the Arctic is 'unprecedented over the last 1,500 years,'
scientists say</a></b><br>
The Trump administration's mixed views on climate change
notwithstanding, a group of federal scientists on Tuesday released a
stark report on the warming at the top of the planet, suggesting
that it is unparalleled in more than a millennium.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/12/12/federal-scientists-call-the-warming-of-the-arctic-unprecedented-over-the-last-1500-years/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/12/12/federal-scientists-call-the-warming-of-the-arctic-unprecedented-over-the-last-1500-years/</a></font><br>
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[NOAA]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card">Arctic Report Card</a></b><br>
Tracking recent environmental changes relative to historical records<br>
<b>2017 What's New?</b><br>
Arctic shows no sign of returning to reliably frozen region of
recent past decades<br>
Despite relatively cool summer temperatures, observations in 2017
continue to indicate that the Arctic environmental system has
reached a 'new normal', characterized by long-term losses in the
extent and thickness of the sea ice cover, the extent and duration
of the winter snow cover and the mass of ice in the Greenland Ice
Sheet and Arctic glaciers, and warming sea surface and permafrost
temperatures.<br>
<b>About the Arctic Report Card:</b><br>
Issued annually since 2006, the Arctic Report Card is a timely and
peer-reviewed source for clear, reliable and concise environmental
information on the current state of different components of the
Arctic environmental system relative to historical records.<br>
The Report Card is intended for a wide audience, including
scientists, teachers, students, decision-makers and the general
public interested in the Arctic environment and science.<br>
<b>Report Card Highlights:</b><br>
The average surface air temperature for the year ending September
2017 is the 2nd warmest since 1900; however, cooler spring and
summer temperatures contributed to a rebound in snow cover in the
Eurasian Arctic, slower summer sea ice loss, and below-average melt
extent for the Greenland ice sheet.<br>
The sea ice cover continues to be relatively young and thin with
older, thicker ice comprising only 21% of the ice cover in 2017
compared to 45% in 1985.<br>
In August 2017, sea surface temperatures in the Barents and Chukchi
seas were up to 4° C warmer than average, contributing to a delay in
the autumn freeze-up in these regions.<br>
Pronounced increases in ocean primary productivity, at the base of
the marine food web, were observed in the Barents and Eurasian
Arctic seas from 2003 to 2017.<br>
Arctic tundra is experiencing increased greenness and record
permafrost warming.<br>
Pervasive changes in the environment are influencing resource
management protocols, including those established for fisheries and
wildfires.<br>
The unprecedented rate and global reach of Arctic change
disproportionally affect the people of northern communities, further
pressing the need to prepare for and adapt to the new Arctic.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card">http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Inside Climate News]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14122017/military-climate-change-risk-cost-bases-overseas-congress-gao-report">U.S.
Military Not Doing Enough to Prepare Bases for Climate Change,
GAO Warns</a></b><br>
The Pentagon has been praised for starting to address global
warming, but a report for Congress finds the risks aren't tracked
well enough at facilities overseas...<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-18-206">The report</a>,
requested by a group of Senate Democrats and released on Wednesday,
found that the Pentagon had exempted dozens of bases or other key
sites from completing a department-wide climate vulnerability
assessment...<br>
Global warming is expected to bring more severe weather and higher
seas that will flood some bases, strain their water supplies,
inhibit training exercises with extreme heat and, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.acq.osd.mil/eie/Downloads/CCARprint_wForward_e.pdf">according
to the Pentagon</a>, worsen instability in parts of the globe. In
some cases, these effects have already arrived...<br>
The authors also found that only a third of the 45 military
installations they visited had incorporated climate change
adaptation into their planning.<br>
The GAO concluded with a series of recommendations, including that
the Pentagon should:<br>
require all military facilities to track costs associated with
climate change and extreme weather;<br>
incorporate adaptation into the development of installation-level
plans; and<br>
administer a climate vulnerability survey at all relevant sites.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14122017/military-climate-change-risk-cost-bases-overseas-congress-gao-report">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14122017/military-climate-change-risk-cost-bases-overseas-congress-gao-report</a></font><br>
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[GAO Report]<br>
<b>CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION:</b><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-18-206">DOD Needs to
Better Incorporate Adaptation into Planning and Collaboration at
Overseas Installations</a></b><br>
GAO-18-206: Published: Nov 13, 2017. Publicly Released: Dec 13,
2017.<br>
<b>What GAO Found</b><br>
The expected impacts of weather effects associated with climate
change pose operational and budgetary risks to overseas
infrastructure according to the Department of Defense (DOD), but DOD
does not consistently track the impacts' estimated costs.
Operational risks (including interruptions to training, testing, and
missions) and budgetary risks (including costs of repairing damages)
are linked to these impacts. However, installations inconsistently
track these costs because there is no requirement for such tracking.
Without a requirement to systematically track such costs, DOD will
not have the information it needs to integrate climate-related
impact resource considerations into future budgets.<br>
<b>Recommendation:</b> The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air
Force should work with the Office of the Secretary of Defense to
issue a requirement to their installations to systematically track
the costs associated with extreme weather events and climate change.
(Recommendation 1)<br>
Full report 83 pages: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/688323.pdf">https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/688323.pdf</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-18-206">https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-18-206</a></font><br>
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[ClimateState]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatestate.com/2017/12/14/how-greenlands-melt-raises-seas-what-will-be-left/">How
Greenland's Melt Raises Seas. What will be left?</a></b><br>
This video provides an outline on the accelerated ice loose from
Greenland, explains the mechanism causing the melt, and features the
new stunning visualization of Greenland without ice.<br>
Teaser image <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://pixabay.com/en/ice-sea-light-nature-greenland-463845">https://pixabay.com/en/ice-sea-light-nature-greenland-463845</a><br>
Konrad Steffen's full talk <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-0ynd1Vesk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-0ynd1Vesk</a><br>
How Greenland Would Look Without Its Ice Sheet, British Arctic
Survey <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hGSvgE7jGA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hGSvgE7jGA</a><br>
Little Algae creates Huge Melt Feedback on Greenland Ice by Peter
Sinclair / Greenman Studio <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8abc8yagJ1Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8abc8yagJ1Q</a><br>
NASA on Greenland's Thinning Ice (June 2017) <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKyo8uy42aU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKyo8uy42aU</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatestate.com/2017/12/14/how-greenlands-melt-raises-seas-what-will-be-left/">http://climatestate.com/2017/12/14/how-greenlands-melt-raises-seas-what-will-be-left/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Climate State video]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatestate.com/2017/12/14/can-india-and-the-world-survive-3c-temperature-rise/">Can
India and the World survive +3C temperature rise?</a></b><br>
A 2017 analysis by the Centre for Science and Environment has
indicated that India is warming at a much faster rate than thought
previously. The analysis looks at temperature trends in the country
- both annual and seasonal - from 1901 till recent years. And it
finds that the country has been getting warmer continuously,
consistently and rapidly. CSE researchers have plotted this rise in
temperature on an animated spiral for India.<br>
Original video published by Down to Earth under creative commons
unported 3.0 license. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfMo8k85fX4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfMo8k85fX4</a><br>
Centre for Science and Environment <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cseindia.org">http://www.cseindia.org</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatestate.com/2017/12/14/can-india-and-the-world-survive-3c-temperature-rise/">http://climatestate.com/2017/12/14/can-india-and-the-world-survive-3c-temperature-rise/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[fundraising]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.powder.com/stories/news/julian-carr-super-bowl-climate-change/">Pro
Skier Aims to Raise $5.5 million for Super Bowl Ad on Climate
Change</a></b><br>
Julian Carr must meet his goal by Dec. 22 to create the first-ever
Kickstarter-supported Super Bowl ad<br>
About half of all Americans don't believe global warming is caused
by human activities, despite the overwhelming consensus by climate
scientists who say this is true. Salt Lake City-based pro skier
Julian Carr is taking action to change this by attempting to raise
$5.5 million by December 22 to fund what will be the first ever
Kickstarter-supported Super Bowl ad. An ambassador of Protect Our
Winters, Carr hopes to bring important climate change data to the
largest audience in the United States.<br>
According to Nielsen, 70 percent of U.S. households watched the 2017
Super Bowl, which saw a total audience of 172 million viewers. So
far, Carr's campaign has raised $7,329 with nine days to go.
(Update: As of 12/13, funds have climbed to $13,400.)<br>
"I've been fortunate to go to a lot of the talks that climate
scientists give, and one common theme I keep hearing is that their
data and message never reach a mass audience," says Carr. "I think
that's a big reason why climate change is still a bi-partisan
topic."<br>
Carr hopes that by making a commercial with pop-culture relevance,
not only will the information get in front of a massive audience
during the Super Bowl on February 4, the media attention surrounding
successful Super Bowl ads will also help to spread awareness that
110 million tons of man-made pollution is dumped into the atmosphere
every 24 hours, causing our sea levels to rise and our coastlines to
shrink...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.powder.com/stories/news/julian-carr-super-bowl-climate-change/">https://www.powder.com/stories/news/julian-carr-super-bowl-climate-change/</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2010/12/15/foxleaks-fox-boss-ordered-staff-to-cast-doubt-o/174317">This
Day in Climate History December 15, 2010</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
December 15, 2010: Media Matters reports on a leaked memo that
reveals the Fox News Channel's unfairness and imbalance with regard
to climate science: <br>
<blockquote><b>FOXLEAKS: Fox boss ordered staff to cast doubt on
climate science<br>
</b>"In the midst of global climate change talks last December, a
top Fox News official sent an email questioning the 'veracity of
climate change data' and ordering the network's journalists to
'refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in
any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such
theories are based upon data that critics have called into
question.'<br>
<br>
"The directive, sent by Fox News Washington managing editor Bill
Sammon, was issued less than 15 minutes after Fox correspondent
Wendell Goler accurately reported on-air that the United Nations'
World Meteorological Organization announced that 2000-2009 was 'on
track to be the warmest [decade] on record.'<br>
<br>
"This latest revelation comes after Media Matters uncovered an
email sent by Sammon to Fox journalists at the peak of the health
care reform debate, ordering them to avoid using the term 'public
option' and instead use variations of 'government option.' That
email echoed advice from a prominent Republican pollster on how to
help turn public opinion against health care reform.<br>
<br>
"Sources familiar with the situation in Fox's Washington bureau
have expressed concern about Sammon using his position to 'slant'
Fox's supposedly neutral news coverage to the right."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2010/12/15/foxleaks-fox-boss-ordered-staff-to-cast-doubt-o/174317">http://mediamatters.org/blog/2010/12/15/foxleaks-fox-boss-ordered-staff-to-cast-doubt-o/174317</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/Kh0AmjHke1M">http://youtu.be/Kh0AmjHke1M</a> <br>
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