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<font size="+1"><i>January 28, 2018</i></font><br>
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[NPR]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/27/581297526/deja-vu-flooding-in-paris-as-officials-say-seine-will-crest-soon"><i>Dej</i><i>a</i><i>
Vu </i>Flooding In Paris As Officials Say Seine Will Crest
Soon</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/27/581297526/deja-vu-flooding-in-paris-as-officials-say-seine-will-crest-soon">https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/27/581297526/deja-vu-flooding-in-paris-as-officials-say-seine-will-crest-soon</a></font><br>
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<br>
[South Africa drought]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/_day_zero_looms_as_cape_town_scrambles_to_tackle_water_crisis">'DAY
ZERO' LOOMS AS CAPE TOWN SCRAMBLES TO TACKLE WATER CRISIS...</a></b><br>
With less than 80 days to go until "Day Zero," when chronic water
shortages may force Cape Town authorities to turn off the taps,
officials are scrambling to persuade the city's four million
residents to slash consumption and put emergency plans in place
should the supply be cut off.<br>
<b> Taps to be turned off on April 12 unless consumption drops</b><b><br>
</b><b> Rainwater tanks, buckets sold out as residents stockpile
water</b><br>
Africa's top tourist destination is in the throes of the worst
drought on record, and water levels in its six main supply dams have
plummeted to an average of 27.2 percent, from more than 90 percent
four years ago. With the winter rainy season still about four months
away, residents may find themselves lining up for a daily allocation
of 25 liters (6.6 gallons) each from April 12 unless water usage
declines sharply.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/_day_zero_looms_as_cape_town_scrambles_to_tackle_water_crisis">http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/_day_zero_looms_as_cape_town_scrambles_to_tackle_water_crisis</a></font><br>
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<b><br>
</b>[Independent]<b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-misunderstands-basic-facts-climate-change-piers-morgan-interview-a8181381.html#gallery">Donald
Trump appears to misunderstand basic facts of climate change in
Piers Morgan interview</a></b><br>
US President also expressed willingness to 'go back in' Paris
climate agreement, but only if US is given 'a good deal'<br>
"There is a cooling, and there's a heating. I mean, look, it used to
not be climate change, it used to be global warming. That wasn’t
working too well because it was getting too cold all over the
place". <br>
"The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now,
but now they're setting records. They're at a record level," Mr
Trump continued.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-misunderstands-basic-facts-climate-change-piers-morgan-interview-a8181381.html#gallery">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-misunderstands-basic-facts-climate-change-piers-morgan-interview-a8181381.html#gallery</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Buzzfeed News]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/zahrahirji/mercers-gop-climate-change-denial">Here's
How Much Money The Mercer Family Donated To Climate
Misinformation Groups In 2016</a></b><br>
The Mercer family, among President Trump's most powerful donors, in
2016 gave nearly $4 million to groups that challenge the scientific
consensus on man-made climate change, tax filings reveal.<br>
The Mercer family, the secretive GOP megadonors with ties to the
alt-right, in 2016 funded several groups that deny climate change is
a problem, tax filings obtained by BuzzFeed News reveal.<br>
The Mercer Family Foundation, funded by hedge fund billionaire
Robert Mercer and directed by his daughter Rebekah, gave $150,000 to
CO2 Coalition in 2016, making the foundation the top donor of this
small, Virginia-based nonprofit that promotes the benefits of
climate pollution.<br>
The Mercers also gave $125,000 to the Center for the Study of Carbon
Dioxide and Global Change, a group that questions the link between
rising greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and global warming.<br>
The Mercers have previously funded groups with some ties to climate
misinformation. But these two organizations are solely focused on
climate science - denying that fossil fuels drive global warming or
that climate change has potentially dire impacts....<br>
The Mercer family, among President Trump's most powerful donors, in
2016 gave nearly $4 million to groups that challenge the scientific
consensus on man-made climate change, tax filings reveal. -Zahra
Hirji<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/zahrahirji/mercers-gop-climate-change-denial">https://www.buzzfeed.com/zahrahirji/mercers-gop-climate-change-denial</a></font><br>
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<br>
[reconsiderations]<br>
<b><a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25012018/air-pollution-climate-research-weather-data-aerosol-particles-water-cycle-rainfall">Overlooked
Tiny Air Pollutants Can Have Major Climate Impact</a></b><br>
Study finds once-ignored small aerosol particles can be like
steroids for rain clouds, fueling more potent thunderstorms.<br>
Sabrina Shankman<br>
The study, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aan8461">published
in the journal Science</a>, found that in humid and unspoiled
areas like the Amazon or the ocean, the introduction of pollution
particles could interact with thunderstorm clouds and more than
double the rainfall from a storm.<br>
The study looked at the Amazonian city of Manaus, Brazil, an
industrial hub of 2 million people with a major port on one side and
more than 1,000 miles of rainforest on the other. As the city has
grown, so has an industrial plume of soot and smoke, giving
researchers an ideal test bed...<br>
Fan and her co-authors looked at what happens when thunderstorm
clouds-called deep convective clouds-are filled with the tiny
particles. They found that the small particles get lifted higher
into the clouds, and get transformed into cloud droplets. The large
surface area at the top of the clouds can become oversaturated with
condensation, which can more than double the amount of rain expected
when the pollution is not present. "It invigorates the storms very
dramatically," Fan said-by a factor of 2.5, the research showed...<br>
For years, researchers largely dismissed these smaller particles,
believing they were so tiny they could not significantly impact
cloud formation. They focused instead on larger aerosol particles,
like dust and biomass particles, which have a clearer influence on
climate. More recently, though, some scientists have suggested that
the smaller particles weren't so innocent after all...<br>
The effects aren't just local. The Amazon is like "the heating
engine of the globe," Fan said, driving the global water cycle and
climate. "When anything changes over the tropics it can trigger
changes globally."<br>
Fan said she's now interested in looking at other kinds of storms,
like the ones over the central United States, to see how those
systems can be affected by human activities and wildfires.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25012018/air-pollution-climate-research-weather-data-aerosol-particles-water-cycle-rainfall">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25012018/air-pollution-climate-research-weather-data-aerosol-particles-water-cycle-rainfall</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Vice News]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/wjpm7m/the-oceans-have-never-been-hotter-than-they-are-now">The
oceans have never been hotter than they are now</a></b><br>
"The ocean heat records are so impressive because they're absolutely
on a steady warming trend," Robert Anderson, a geochemist at
Columbia University, told VICE News. "People who point to pauses in
global warming haven't looked at the warming of the oceans."<br>
The new study, published Friday, analyzed data from the top 2,000
meters of ocean waters around the globe, concluding that ocean
waters topped record temps in 2017...<br>
- YouTube data visualization <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/75pSECm0eqo">Ocean 0-2000m averaged
temperature change from 1940 to 2017</a> baseline1981 2010 <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/75pSECm0eqo">https://youtu.be/75pSECm0eqo</a>
<br>
The results are remarkable: The oceans have absorbed over 90 percent
of the excess heat produced by anthropogenic global warming in the
last 50 years, according to the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change. That's a lot of heat, it turns out - the total
energy absorbed by the oceans in 2017 alone, the study's authors
found, was equivalent to almost 700 times the total electricity that
China generated in 2016...<br>
"It really is a massive amount of heat," Gregory Johnson, an
oceanographer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Lab in Seattle, told
VICE News. "It's about 350 terawatts, which is more than five times
the energy released by the type of atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima,
per second - continuously."...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/wjpm7m/the-oceans-have-never-been-hotter-than-they-are-now">https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/wjpm7m/the-oceans-have-never-been-hotter-than-they-are-now</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Global Temperature]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-climate-how-the-world-warmed-in-2017">State
of the climate: how the world warmed in 2017</a></b><br>
The climate data for 2017 is now in. In <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-climate-how-the-world-warmed-in-2017">this
article, Carbon Brief</a> explains why last year proved to be so
remarkable across the oceans, atmosphere, cryosphere and surface
temperature of the planet.<br>
A number of records for the Earth's climate were set in 2017:<br>
<blockquote> It was the warmest year on record for ocean heat
content, which increased markedly between 2016 and 2017.<br>
It was the second or third warmest year on record for surface
temperature – depending on the dataset used – and the warmest year
without the influence of an El Nino event.<br>
It saw record lows in sea ice extent and volume in the Arctic
both at the beginning and end of the year, though the minimum
extent reached in September was only the eighth lowest on record.<br>
It also saw record-low Antarctic sea ice for much of the year,
though scientists are still working to determine the role of human
activity in the region's sea ice changes.<br>
</blockquote>
In addition to surface measurements over the world's land and
oceans, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/interactive-satellites-used-monitor-climate-change">satellite
microwave sounding units </a>have been providing estimates of
global lower atmospheric temperatures since 1979. These
measurements, while subject to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/major-correction-to-satellite-data-shows-140-faster-warming-since-1998">some
large uncertainties,</a> also show 2017 as a near-record warm
year.<br>
These satellites measure the temperature of the lower troposphere
and capture average temperature changes around 5km above the
surface. This region tends to be influenced more strongly by El Nino
and La Nina events than the surface and satellite records show
correspondingly larger warming or cooling spikes during these
events.<br>
This is why, for example, 1998 shows up as one of the warmest years
in satellites, but not in surface records.<br>
<font size="-1">Carbon Brief - Zeke Hausfather<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-climate-how-the-world-warmed-in-2017">https://www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-climate-how-the-world-warmed-in-2017</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/">CarbonBrief</a>]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the-climate-papers-most-featured-in-the-media-in-2017">Analysis:
The climate papers most featured in the media in 2017</a></b><br>
2017's Top 10 climate papers for news and social media attention<br>
- graphic
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/altimetric-draft-4.jpg">https://www.carbonbrief.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/altimetric-draft-4.jpg</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the-climate-papers-most-featured-in-the-media-in-2017">https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the-climate-papers-most-featured-in-the-media-in-2017</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Video]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/01/26/science-denial-for-gop-its-not-a-bug-its-a-future/">Science
Denial: For GOP, It's not a Bug, it's a Future</a></b><br>
Yeah, some things are just true whether you like them or not.<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="Neil%20deGrasse%20Tyson%20scolds%20cherry%20picking%20climate%20science"><br>
Neil deGrasse Tyson scolds cherry picking climate science</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/y1MZ8U8C9c8">https://youtu.be/y1MZ8U8C9c8</a><br>
As the Republican Party spins deeper and deeper into an imaginary
swamp, worth reviewing why science is the absolute anti-thesis of
the Authoritarian idea that only what the "great leader" says is
true.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/01/26/science-denial-for-gop-its-not-a-bug-its-a-future/">https://climatecrocks.com/2018/01/26/science-denial-for-gop-its-not-a-bug-its-a-future/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Global Environmental Change]<br>
Volume 48, January 2018, <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378017305228">Differentiating
environmental concern in the context of psychological adaption
to climate change</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.11.012">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.11.012</a><br>
<b>Highlights</b><br>
Identifies factors linked to psychological adaptation to climate
change threats.<br>
Differentiates psychological impacts of egoistic, altruistic and
biospheric concerns.<br>
Biospheric environmental concern dominant in affecting
psychological adaptation.<br>
Ecological coping may decrease depressive symptoms and increase
pro-environmental behaviors.<br>
Public-policy messaging to be (re)directed at people with
egoistic concern.<br>
<br>
<b>Abstract</b><br>
<blockquote>Despite existing evidence for the threats of climate
change facing people living in the U.S., the psychological impacts
of this threat have been neglected in public and scientific
discourse, resulting in a notable lack in studies on individuals'
adaptation to climate change. Using social-cognitive theory, we
examine how three forms of environmental concern-egoistic (e.g.,
concern for oneself; one's health or life), social-altruistic
(e.g., concern for others; future generations or country), and
biospheric (e.g., concern for plants and animals;
nature)-influence concurrent ecological stress and ecological
coping strategies. Further, we examine how ecological stress and
coping are associated with both depressive symptoms and
pro-environmental behaviors. In an online survey of 342 U.S.
adults we found unique patterns of the three forms of
environmental concern. Only individuals higher in biospheric
environmental concern perceived ecological stress and engaged in
ecological coping. In contrast, individuals higher in
social-altruistic concern did not perceive ecological stress, but
did engage in ecological coping. Those higher in egoistic concern
neither perceived ecological stress, nor engaged in coping. In
addition, perceived ecological stress was positively associated
with depressive symptoms; ecological coping negatively predicted
depressive symptoms, while positively predicting pro-environmental
behaviors. In sum, with the exception of those high in biospheric
concern, study participants did not seem to perceive climate
change threats as having a profound effect on their own or their
family's life.<br>
<br>
Differentiating three forms of environmental concern provides a
nuanced view on their association with ecological stress and
coping, and in turn depressive symptoms and pro-environmental
behaviors. Results indicate that current public policy approaches
that often focus on the natural environment when depicting or
explaining the effects of climate change, may limit the
effectiveness of interventions to those people who already show
high concern for all living creatures, while failing to affect
those motivated by egoistic or altruistic concern, increasing the
risks associated with delaying climate change adaptation and the
potential for large-scale negative mental health effects in our
society.<br>
</blockquote>
Psychological coping strategies (e.g. search for relevant stressor
information or expression of anger) do not directly serve to
ameliorate the environmental problem itself, but the individual's
psychological state regarding climate change. In contrast, PEB aim
at reducing or solving an environmental problem, and thus as
described above, may be activated by perceived ecological stress and
psychological coping strategies. With psychological ecological
coping strategies individuals consciously address a problem which
may aid them in feeling less helpless or hopeless, at least in the
short term. Consequently, ecological coping likely decreases
depression and increases PEB, <i>(pro-environmental behaviors) </i>as
explained by Fritze et al. (2008): "When people have something to do
to solve a problem, they are better able to move from despair and
hopelessness to a sense of empowerment" (p. 6). Thus, we assume that
ecological coping will be negatively associated with depressive
symptoms and positively associated with pro-environmental behaviors.<br>
<br>
Few studies have provided empirical evidence on environmental or
climate change coping and adaptation on the individual level (see
Grothmann and Patt, 2005; Homburg and Stolberg, 2006; van Zomeren et
al., 2010 for some notable exceptions). The study by Homburg et al.
(2007) delivered important insights on the possible structure of
psychological adaptation processes by focusing on<b> eight
strategies people employ to cope with global environmental
problems: problem solving, expression of emotions, denial of
guilt, relativization, wishful thinking, self-protection, pleasure
and resignation</b> (Homburg and Stolberg, 2006). These perceived
pressures and psychological strategies associated with climate
change threats, in turn, may lead to physiological arousal that can
either facilitate depression or withdrawal from the problem of
climate change, or active engagement and focus to mitigate the
effects of climate change.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378017305228">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378017305228</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[video humor about news]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/vLcDJyfPKX0">Algorithm
News</a></b><br>
Humor cartoon by Mark Fiore <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/vLcDJyfPKX0">https://youtu.be/vLcDJyfPKX0</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/30/3453277/oil-spill-heard-round-the-world/">This
Day in Climate History January 28, 1969 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
<font size="+1">January 28, 1969: The notorious Santa Barbara,
California oil spill takes place.<br>
<b>"How A Massive Oil Spill In 1969 Changed Everything"</b><br>
</font>
<blockquote><font size="+1">...on the same stretch of coastline
where offshore oil drilling first took place at the turn of the
20th century — an oil spill forever changed the way we view the
environment. The Santa Barbara oil spill that began on the
morning of January 28, 1969 had many lasting impacts. In the
immediate aftermath, thousands of seabirds died, seals and
dolphins were poisoned, and kelp forests were devastated as oil
up to six inches thick coated 35 miles of coastline along the
idyllic, Mediterranean shores of Santa Barbara County. The oil
muted the sound of the waves on the beach and the smell of
petroleum was pervasive. The only larger oil spills to have
happened in the U.S. since are the 1989 Exxon Valdez crash and
the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.<br>
</font></blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/30/3453277/oil-spill-heard-round-the-world/">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/30/3453277/oil-spill-heard-round-the-world/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/jqd_VTADHzM">http://youtu.be/jqd_VTADHzM</a><font size="+1"><br>
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