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<font size="+1"><i>January 22, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[TheGuardian]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/21/lloyds-of-london-to-divest-from-coal-over-climate-change">Lloyd's
of London to divest from coal over climate change</a></b><br>
Firm follows other big UK and European insurers by excluding coal
companies from 1 April<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/21/lloyds-of-london-to-divest-from-coal-over-climate-change">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/21/lloyds-of-london-to-divest-from-coal-over-climate-change</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Union of Concerned Scientists]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2018/01/abandoning-science-advice-full-report.pdf">Abandoning
Science Advice</a></b><br>
One Year in, the Trump Administration Is Sidelining Science Advisory
Committees<br>
At several federal agencies, political appointees have
misrepresented scientific information, overruled the recommendations
of scientific experts, scrubbed scientific content from websites, <br>
and even forbidden some staff from describing their work as
"science-based" in budget documents. <br>
These actions are well documented, but less attention has been paid
to a related challenge: the state <br>
of science advice that the White House and federal agencies need on
an ongoing basis...<br>
The neglect of independent scientific advice seriously endangers the
nation. Such advice is crucial to the federal <br>
government's ability to make informed decisions on matters that have
enormous consequences for public health and safety. Policymakers
regularly turn to science to help them determine government
responses to complex challenges, from the outbreak of deadly
diseases to environmental and national security threats. <br>
The UCS investigation of federal advisory committees finds that the
Trump administration systematically sidelines <br>
science to an unprecedented extent by neglecting valuable input from
the nation's established network of federal science advisory
committees....<br>
In response to the documented indications of a science advisory
system in serious decline, the Union of Concerned Scientists makes
three recommendations for immediate action:<br>
<blockquote>Current and former science advisors should speak out <br>
when they discover that federal agencies and others <br>
in the government are sidelining important scientific <br>
work and findings. <br>
<br>
The Government Accountability Office should ascertain <br>
whether federal agencies are appropriately carrying <br>
out the Federal Advisory Committee Act, especially <br>
given EPA Administrator Pruitt's directive on advisory <br>
committee eligibility. <br>
<br>
Congress should hold hearings on the status of science <br>
advisory committees tthroughout the government to <br>
investigate whether they are serving the public interest <br>
by functioning as directed by law.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2018/01/abandoning-science-advice-full-report.pdf">https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2018/01/abandoning-science-advice-full-report.pdf</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Charlotte Business Journal]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2018/01/19/duke-energy-will-prepare-climate-risk-report.html">Duke
Energy will prepare climate-risk report demanded by shareholders</a></b><br>
Duke Energy Corp. will publish by March 30 its climate-risk
assessment that analyzes the impact the carbon-reduction goals in
the Paris Accords will have on its business.<br>
That bows to a shareholder proposal that narrowly missed winning
approval at Duke's 2017 shareholder meeting.<br>
Thomas DiNapoli, New York State Comptroller whose retirement funds
hold 1.76 million shares of Duke stock, filed the shareholder
proposal last year. It won approval from 46% of the shares voted at
the meeting despite a board recommendation that shareholders reject
it...<br>
The proposal referred to the goal of the Paris agreement, which
President Donald Trump has said the United States will withdraw
from, to work to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius in the
coming decades.<br>
It called on Duke to prepare a report assessing what meeting that
goal would mean for Duke's generation portfolio and capital spending
through 2040. The proposal says the report could include how Duke
could adjust its capital spending to get it in line with the "two
degree scenario" and the technological, regulatory and business
model innovations that could help it get there.<br>
Duke has not said publicly whether all of those issues will be
addressed in the report. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2018/01/19/duke-energy-will-prepare-climate-risk-report.html">https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2018/01/19/duke-energy-will-prepare-climate-risk-report.html</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Reuters]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climate-depression/concern-over-climate-change-linked-to-depression-anxiety-study-idUSKBN1F738X">CONCERN
OVER CLIMATE CHANGE LINKED TO DEPRESSION, ANXIETY: Study...</a></b><br>
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Depression and anxiety
afflict Americans who are concerned with the fate of the
environment, according to a study of the mental health effects of
climate change.<br>
Most hard-hit are women and people with low incomes who worry about
the planet's long-term health, said the study published this week in
the journal Global Environmental Change.<br>
Symptoms include restless nights, feelings of loneliness and
lethargy.<br>
"Climate change is a persistent global stressor," said Sabrina Helm,
lead author of the paper and professor of family and consumer
sciences at the University of Arizona.<br>
Risks to mental health from climate change are a "creeping
development," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.<br>
Due to climate change, scientists predict sea levels are on track to
surge as temperatures rise, posing threats such as deadly heat,
extreme weather and land swallowed by rising water.<br>
World leaders mobilized to curb man-made greenhouse gas emissions to
fight global warming in a 2015 agreement, although the United States
has since said it would withdraw from the landmark deal.<br>
Signs of depression do not appear in people concerned about climate
change's risks to humanity but do appear in people worried about its
impact on other species, plants and nature overall, the research
said.<br>
The study pulled from 342 online surveys of respondents whose views
broadly reflect the wider U.S. population, it said.<br>
Experts have looked at ways extreme weather such as hurricanes and
floods, whose intensity has increased due to climate change, can
cause mental health issues such as post-traumatic stress disorder,
it said.<br>
But little research has looked into anxiety arising from climate
change as an everyday concern, the study said.<br>
Reporting by Sebastien Malo @sebastienmalo, Editing by Ellen
Wulfhorst. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climate-depression/concern-over-climate-change-linked-to-depression-anxiety-study-idUSKBN1F738X">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climate-depression/concern-over-climate-change-linked-to-depression-anxiety-study-idUSKBN1F738X</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Haaretz]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-endless-drought-predicted-for-the-mediterranean-in-a-warmer-world-1.5747182">Endless
Drought Predicted for the Mediterranean in a Warmer World</a></b><br>
Dr. Yael Kiro of Columbia and her colleagues found evidence of
historic Dead Sea levels as high as 160 meters and low as 500 meters
below sea level...<br>
Kiro found massive, sudden precipitation of salt onto the Dead Sea
floor between 120,000 to 117,000 years ago and again, starting
around 10,000 years ago. She interprets this as a period of droughts
- bad droughts that were worse than anything we have known.<br>
These days the level of the Dead Sea is falling by more than a meter
a year, though not because of drought. It's falling so quickly
because the people living in its watershed - Israelis, Palestinians,
Jordanians and Syrians - are overexploiting the freshwater sources
feeding the lake, mainly the Jordan River and its tributaries.<br>
The modern contraction of the Dead Sea, therefore, is mostly
man-made. But in a warmer world, the east Mediterranean and Dead Sea
watershed region are expected to get drier.... <br>
Israel sits at the northern edge of the Saharan-Arabian desert belt.
While Israel's north is Mediterranean in weather - rainy in winter
and dry in summer - the south is a desert, with less than 20
centimeters of rain a year. That's bountiful compared with the
southern mountains by the Red Sea, the driest place on Earth: It has
zero humidity on the surface and gets rainfall short of half an inch
a year, says Stein. And that could be nothing compared with future
aridity.<br>
Israel gets rainfall chiefly from storms sweeping in from the west,
when cold air from Europe slams into the Mediterranean, extracting
water vapor from the sea. As global warming advances, these storms
are likely to become rarer, though when they do arrive, they might
be more intense. <br>
Drought in the Middle East is already intensifying because global
warming is causing cyclonic activity to move toward the North Pole
and away from the Mediterranean, Stein explains. In fact, as storms
move north, so are the temperate zones at the mid-latitudes, from
Spain to Turkey to Morocco, and the whole Saharan desert belt is
spreading north. Vast regions will get warmer and experience fewer
storms in winter. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-endless-drought-predicted-for-the-mediterranean-in-a-warmer-world-1.5747182">https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-endless-drought-predicted-for-the-mediterranean-in-a-warmer-world-1.5747182</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Worse?]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/will_the_weather_get_worse_in_2018_what_the_experts_say">WILL
THE WEATHER GET WORSE IN 2018? WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY...</a></b><br>
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ipcc.ch/">IPCC</a>, an
international body set up to assess the science of climate change,
we can continue to expect <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/">an
increase</a> in the average global temperature. That means we will
be experiencing warmer years in the future.<br>
But at the same time, we may see changes to the extremes, which
could become more frequent in the case of high temperature or heavy
rainfall, or less frequent in the case of extreme cold. This means
that the distribution, occurrence and expected averages of our
weather (for example, temperature and rain) throughout the year may
change, resulting in warmer years on average with more extreme hot
days, and fewer extreme cold days in the future...<br>
In terms of tropical cyclones, the effects of climate change on
these phenomena is an active area of research as the processes are
complex. For example, the Clausius-Clapeyron relationship which can
be related to the water vapour-carrying capacity of the atmosphere,
may have an impact on the strength and intensity of such storms.<br>
The relationship states that for every degree rise in temperature,
the water-holding capacity of the atmosphere increases by 7%, so in
a warming ocean, the air above the water has a much greater capacity
to hold water and thus store more rain that can feed more powerful
storms....<br>
But sinking cold air from the upper atmosphere may prevent storms
from rising in the first place. If this happens more frequently with
climate change then we can expect fewer such storms. That means in
the future there may be fewer tropical cyclones forming, but those
that do will be stronger and more intense.<br>
In a warming world, we can expect it to get wetter. The distribution
of the rainfall throughout the year could change as we experience
longer, drier spells, although when rain falls it may be in intense
bursts. Recent research by Newcastle University analysed the results
from finer scale GCMs climate projections and suggests we may expect
more intense summer rainfall in the UK in future. New climate
projections from GCMs are being prepared for the UK to help predict
what the future climate may look like...<br>
Governments need to recognise and absorb that extreme weather across
the globe is likely to become more common and start to adapt
accordingly, rather than treat it as shocking one-off events.
Otherwise we risk increasing loss of life and environmental damage
in the future.<br>
<font size="-1">Lindsay Beevers<br>
Professor/Chair Futures Forum, Heriot-Watt University <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/lindsay-beevers-435129">https://theconversation.com/profiles/lindsay-beevers-435129</a></font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/will_the_weather_get_worse_in_2018_what_the_experts_say">http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/will_the_weather_get_worse_in_2018_what_the_experts_say</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<b>[Video Classics for the Citizen Scientist]</b><br>
[PBS video]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJAs9Qr359o">Chaos Theory
PBS</a></b><br>
Chaos is order out of disorder, and order out of non-linearity. When
there is agreement within a system, the more complex a system, the
better a bottom up/emergent organizational structure handles the
diversity.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJAs9Qr359o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJAs9Qr359o</a><br>
-<br>
[The Royal Institution]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reeU09R4TIA">What We
Cannot Know - with Marcus du Sautoy</a></b><br>
Is it possible that we will one day know everything? Or are there
fields of research that will always lie beyond the bounds of human
comprehension? Marcus du Sautoy investigates.<br>
Is it possible that we will one day know everything? Or are there
fields of research that will always lie beyond the bounds of human
comprehension? Former Christmas Lecturer Marcus du Sautoy will lead
us on a thought-provoking expedition to the furthest reaches of
modern science.<br>
Marcus du Sautoy is a mathematician and popular science writer and
speaker. He delivered the 2006 CHRISTMAS LECTURES on mathematics,
titled THE NUM8ER MY5TERIES. He is currently the Charles Simonyi
Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the Oxford
University.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reeU09R4TIA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reeU09R4TIA</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[video report]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/sundance-film-festival-shines-spotlight-climate-change-180121133838110.html">Sundance
Film Festival shines spotlight on climate change</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/sundance-film-festival-shines-spotlight-climate-change-180121133838110.html">http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/sundance-film-festival-shines-spotlight-climate-change-180121133838110.html</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://youtu.be/5LpspwT0ZwA">This Day in Climate History
January 22,1970</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
In his State of the Union address, President Nixon declares:<br>
<blockquote>"The great question of the seventies is, shall we
surrender to our<br>
surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to
make<br>
reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land,
and<br>
to our water?<br>
<br>
"Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and<br>
beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people of<br>
this country. It is a cause of particular concern to young
Americans,<br>
because they more than we will reap the grim consequences of our<br>
failure to act on programs which are needed now if we are to
prevent<br>
disaster later.<br>
<br>
"Clean air, clean water, open spaces - these should once again be
the<br>
birthright of every American. If we act now, they can be.<br>
<br>
"We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and
neither<br>
is clean water. The price tag on pollution control is high.
Through<br>
our years of past carelessness we incurred a debt to nature, and
now<br>
that debt is being called...<br>
<br>
"The automobile is our worst polluter of the air. Adequate control<br>
requires further advances in engine design and fuel composition.
We<br>
shall intensify our research, set increasingly strict standards,
and<br>
strengthen enforcement procedures - and we shall do it now.<br>
<br>
"We can no longer afford to consider air and water common
property,<br>
free to be abused by anyone without regard to the consequences.<br>
Instead, we should begin now to treat them as scarce resources,
which<br>
we are no more free to contaminate than we are free to throw
garbage<br>
into our neighbor's yard."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/5LpspwT0ZwA">http://youtu.be/5LpspwT0ZwA</a><br>
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