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<font size="+1"><i>February 19, 2018</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.wired.com/story/to-stop-climate-change-educate-girls-and-give-them-birth-control/">To
Stop Climate Change, Educate Girls and Give them Birth Control</a></b><br>
Humanity is now facing an ever-increasing threat of unpredictable
and extreme weather, climate scientists warn.<br>
While global warming is creating more powerful storms and
record-breaking, drought-driven wildfires, it would be a mistake to
view these events as the "new normal," they say. The planet has not
reached a new climate stability, so the years ahead could be quite a
lot worse.<br>
"'New normal' implies that we reach some new sort of equilibrium and
that's where things stay, whereas what we're looking at is an
ever-shifting baseline," says Penn State professor and atmospheric
scientist Michael Mann.<br>
"If we continue to emit these warming greenhouse gases into the
atmosphere, then the heat waves will become more frequent and more
intense, [along with] droughts, wildfires and floods," he continues.
"We are seeing a taste of what's in store and there's no question in
my mind that, in the unprecedented extreme weather that we've seen
over the past year, we can see the fingerprint of human influence on
our climate."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.wired.com/story/to-stop-climate-change-educate-girls-and-give-them-birth-control/">https://www.wired.com/story/to-stop-climate-change-educate-girls-and-give-them-birth-control/</a></font><br>
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[images]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/photojournalist-joanna-pinneo-on-documenting-climate-change-and-the-lives-of-women/Content?oid=10247849">Photojournalist
Joanna Pinneo on documenting climate change and the lives of
women</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/photojournalist-joanna-pinneo-on-documenting-climate-change-and-the-lives-of-women/Content?oid=10247849">https://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/photojournalist-joanna-pinneo-on-documenting-climate-change-and-the-lives-of-women/Content?oid=10247849</a></font><br>
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[audio too]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-02-18/climate-change-will-accelerate-extreme-weather-events-coming-years">Climate
change will accelerate extreme weather events in the coming
years</a></b><br>
Humanity is now facing an ever-increasing threat of unpredictable
and extreme weather, climate scientists warn.<br>
While global warming is creating more powerful storms and
record-breaking, drought-driven wildfires, it would be a mistake to
view these events as the "new normal," they say. The planet has not
reached a new climate stability, so the years ahead could be quite a
lot worse.<br>
"'New normal' implies that we reach some new sort of equilibrium and
that's where things stay, whereas what we're looking at is an
ever-shifting baseline," says Penn State professor and atmospheric
scientist Michael Mann.<br>
"If we continue to emit these warming greenhouse gases into the
atmosphere, then the heat waves will become more frequent and more
intense, [along with] droughts, wildfires and floods," he continues.
"We are seeing a taste of what's in store and there's no question in
my mind that, in the unprecedented extreme weather that we've seen
over the past year, we can see the fingerprint of human influence on
our climate."<br>
Scientists have long predicted the type of events that occurred in
2017. A warming Earth and warming oceans would supply more energy to
intensify hurricanes and killer storms; more moisture in the
atmosphere would increase the amount of heavy rainfall leading to
Harvey- and Irma-like floods; and, while it seems paradoxical, as
the rainfall events become more intense, they would be fewer and
farther between, creating more widespread drought.<br>
"The impacts of climate change are no longer subtle," Mann says. "We
are seeing them play out now in the form of these unprecedented
events."...<br>
"So, there isn't a new normal," he concludes. "Things get
continually worse if we go down this highway. What we need to do is
to take the earliest exit ramp that we can in the form of decreasing
our emissions and transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable
energy."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-02-18/climate-change-will-accelerate-extreme-weather-events-coming-years">https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-02-18/climate-change-will-accelerate-extreme-weather-events-coming-years</a></font><br>
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[Weather talk for Stormchasers - convention videos]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBtR7ynKM9odz-PW_7uyzDw">Chasercon
2018 - Denver Colorado </a></b><br>
SevereStudios Streamed live on Feb 17, 2018<br>
SevereStudios provides severe weather information, news, videos,
radar, GPS tracking, and live streaming real-time video from the
field from storm chasers all over the world at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.severestudios.com">http://www.severestudios.com</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBtR7ynKM9odz-PW_7uyzDw">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBtR7ynKM9odz-PW_7uyzDw</a><br>
-<br>
[Saturday Afternoon at Chasercon 2018]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCoU9XTxjIw">Storm chaser
convention LIVE from Denver Colorado.</a></b> Brought to you by
AllisonHouse and SevereStudios<br>
Dr Greg Forbes - <b>Perspectives on the Evolution of Severe Weather
Forecasting and Evolution</b><br>
Dr Jason Persoff - <b>When Duct Tape Isn't Enough: Advanced First
Aid and Necessary Medical Chase Equipment</b><br>
David Mayhew - <b>Tips and Tricks on photographing the weather</b><br>
Doug Kiesling - <b>Rights & Clearances</b><font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCoU9XTxjIw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCoU9XTxjIw</a></font><br>
-<br>
["Global Warming Manifesting"]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/PCoU9XTxjIw?t=48m55s">Perspectives on the
Evolution of Severe Weather Forecasting and Evolution</a><br>
</b><i>Mentions Global Warming </i><i><br>
</i><i>CAPE = Convective Available Potential Energy</i><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/PCoU9XTxjIw?t=48m55s">https://youtu.be/PCoU9XTxjIw?t=48m55s</a></font><br>
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<b><br>
</b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/02/16/networks-spent-260-minutes-on-climate-change-in-2017-most-of-it-was-actually-about-trump/?utm_term=.58f8d70071db"><b>Networks
spent 260 minutes on 'climate change' in 2017. Most of it was
actually about Trump.</b></a><br>
Climate scientists agree global warming is playing a role in our
weather. It's making storms, droughts and floods more extreme. Amid
the chaos, the Trump administration itself issued a report last year
that said not only is climate change affecting our weather but also
there's no other explanation for climate change than we (humans) are
to blame...<br>
Despite all this, network news largely took a pass on covering
climate change in 2017, according to new analysis by the liberal
watchdog group Media Matters for America. Corporate news networks
aired six segments that mentioned the link between extreme weather
and climate change. PBS, which is nonprofit, aired nine segments
alone...<br>
To be clear, the 260-minute tally is the combined corporate network
coverage of climate change; the survey includes ABC, CBS, and NBC
evening news and Sunday morning programs, as well as "Fox News
Sunday," which airs on both the Fox network stations and Fox News
cable station...<br>
The Sunday shows themselves, which are traditionally about politics,
devoted 95 minutes to climate change, and 94 of those minutes were
about the Trump administration.<br>
Network news devoted vast majority of climate change segments to the
Trump administration in 2017..<br>
Of all the segments that discussed climate change, 87 percent were
focused on the Trump administration's actions or statements.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/02/16/networks-spent-260-minutes-on-climate-change-in-2017-most-of-it-was-actually-about-trump/?utm_term=.58f8d70071db">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/02/16/networks-spent-260-minutes-on-climate-change-in-2017-most-of-it-was-actually-about-trump/?utm_term=.58f8d70071db</a></font><br>
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<br>
[oh darn]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/02/14/leaked-u-n-climate-report-sees-very-high-risk-the-planet-will-warm-beyond-key-limit/?utm_term=.1bdd289ec370">Leaked
U.N. draft report sees 'very high risk' the planet will warm
beyond key limit</a></b><br>
A draft United Nations climate science report contains dire news
about the warming of the planet, suggesting it will likely cross the
key marker of 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, of
temperature rise in the 2040s, and that this will be exceedingly
difficult to avoid.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/02/14/leaked-u-n-climate-report-sees-very-high-risk-the-planet-will-warm-beyond-key-limit/?utm_term=.1bdd289ec370">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/02/14/leaked-u-n-climate-report-sees-very-high-risk-the-planet-will-warm-beyond-key-limit/?utm_term=.1bdd289ec370</a></font><br>
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[new ways to measure carbon in permafrost]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.insidescience.org/news/global-warmings-frozen-giant">Global
Warming's Frozen Giant</a></b><br>
Scientists are braving Arctic winters to study carbon frozen in
soil. They keep finding surprises -- all of them bad...<br>
The organic molecules that make up living things are full of carbon,
and when living things die, that carbon returns to the environment.<br>
In warm places, bacteria and fungi usually transform most of it into
carbon dioxide or methane, both greenhouse gases that contribute to
climate change. But when it's cold, dead things rot slowly.<br>
Permafrost regions in the Arctic and on mountaintops have been
burying dead things for tens of thousands of years, and researchers
estimate that their soils now hold twice as much carbon as Earth's
entire atmosphere. Most of this soil carbon remains perpetually
frozen. Each summer, the top layer thaws, allowing decomposers to
break down its stored carbon and release that carbon into the air...<br>
The ash-corrected measurements showed that the warmed plots had lost
a quarter of their carbon in just five years. The loss was primarily
from depths of 13-22 inches, well below the 4-inch limit of
Crowther's study. Schuur presented the findings in December at the
American Geophysical Union meeting in New Orleans.<br>
To the best of Schuur's knowledge, the ash correction method has
never before been used with permafrost soils. That could mean that
past experiments in other parts of the Arctic may have missed big
carbon losses.<br>
Extrapolating from ash-corrected measurements and global warming
projections, Schuur estimated that soils at his site in Alaska could
lose two-thirds of their carbon by the end of the century.
Previously, he had estimated that Arctic soils as a whole would lose
just 5 to 15 percent of their carbon stocks in the same time
frame...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.insidescience.org/news/global-warmings-frozen-giant">https://www.insidescience.org/news/global-warmings-frozen-giant</a></font><br>
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[Book Review]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-is-guilty-of-climate-crimes/5629490">Who
Is Guilty of Climate Crimes?</a></b><br>
These are the key perpetrators of the largest human rights violation
in history.<br>
By Dr. Margaret Klein Salamon<br>
Global Research, February 17, 2018<br>
A fascinating exposé of the climate crisis awaits you in Peter
Carter and <b>Elizabeth Woodworth's, "Unprecedented Crime: Climate
Science Denial and Game Changers for Survival."</b> It is a
comprehensive look at the climate crisis through a legal frame,
discussing the relevant national and international statutes and
lawsuits, with a focus on the perpetrators of the climate emergency
that confronts us all. <br>
Human rights are explored at length, including the critical concept
of "basic rights," the right to things necessary for human life-
fresh water, food, and non-toxic air, which must come before
non-basic rights. The author's quote the 1980 Presidential
Commission on World Hunger on basic rights: "Whether one speaks of
human rights or basic human needs, the right to food is the most
basic of all. Unless that right is first fulfilled, the protection
of other human rights becomes a mockery." With that frame, it
becomes obvious that the climate crisis is indeed an "unprecedented
crime," as it strips people from their access to the building blocks
of life, and it is happening on an almost incomprehensibly massive
scale.<br>
<b>State-Corporate Crime</b><br>
Not surprisingly, the authors' focus is primarily on the fossil fuel
corporations-who are engaged in an elaborate, multi-billion dollar
misinformation campaign - and on the governments who have subsidized
them and colluded with them through inaction. These are the key
perpetrators of the largest human rights violation in history.<br>
It was fascinating, and sickening, to learn more about how the
climate-denial machine actually works, such as the Heartland
Institute mailing a climate-denying DVD to 200,000 high school
science teachers. The description of the Koch brothers' activities
was particularly staggering:<br>
'The Kochs are a vertically integrated fossil fuel conglomerate, and
they have a vertical integrated influence-peddling apparatus to go
with it'… The Kochs are bigger than either of the Democratic or
Republican parties, manipulate both, and are determined to keep the
Senate Republican…A major focus of Koch money has been to ensure
that no legislation is passed to curb the burning of fossil fuels.<br>
Carter and Woodworth also cast their withering gaze on the media.
They convincingly argue the media is guilty of criminal negligence
for giving airtime to deniers and for failing to warn the public
about the true nature of the climate crisis and about the banks that
put billions of dollars into fossil fuel projects.<br>
<b>Are Ordinary Americans Guilty?</b><br>
Clearly, there is a lot of guilt to go around. The authors cast
some- though in my view probably not enough-blame onto the citizens
of rich countries, for their their complicity in the climate crisis.<br>
The authors speak of the "moral collapse" that most Americans and
other westerners experience regarding the climate crisis, and they
quote Clive Hamilton,<br>
"there are three kinds of actors in this process of subversion:
those who tell the lies, those who repeat the lies, and those who
allow themselves to be seduced by the lies."<br>
Most Westerners act as though the climate crisis was not happening,
and as if they have no responsibility to help prevent catastrophe.<br>
Americans tend to feel like victims rather than perpetrators. And
indeed, we are victimized by the corrupt and cruel system that is
deeply unequal and driving hard towards ecocide. But when we are
complicit in "business as usual," we are also perpetrators. My
grandmother was a Holocaust survivor, and she impressed upon me the
moral duty to confront evil. She felt so betrayed by the former
friends who would not stand up for her and who avoided her on the
street. One didn't have to be a Nazi to be guilty, but just to go
along with the genocide.<br>
As citizens, we must start taking personal responsibility for
preventing the full and horrific unfolding of the climate
emergency. Even though we did not directly cause the climate
crisis, we still have - it is still our job to fix it. More
specifically, we must force our government to treat the climate
crisis like the emergency it is.<br>
One of the most difficult things about climate crimes, is that they
are primarily crimes of omission. All we need to do to ensure the
deaths of billions of people is…. Nothing. Just continue with our
lives and our business as usual. In order to act in accordance with
our highest ideals, our morality, and our basic common sense, we
need to activate ourselves, and the world's governments- we need to
enter "emergency mode".<br>
<b>A Non-Criminal Response</b><br>
What would an adequate, non-criminal response to the climate crisis
would look like? Carter and Woodworth describe it. It starts with a
declaration of climate emergency, and that then leads to a program
which rapidly transitions our economy to zero emissions and
draws-down of excess C02 from the atmosphere. Their ideas are
largely compatible with The Climate Mobilization's Victory Plan.
that they cite.<br>
They include many fresh and exciting examples that The Climate
Mobilization should be incorporate into our next version. I will
just share a few items that were new and exciting to me: 1)
retrofitting fossil fuel cars as electric (indeed 30,000 already
have been- by amateurs!) 2) using small nuclear fission, the type of
reactors that power nuclear submarines, to provide industrial power
and heating, 3) covering skyscrapers- not just roofs- with solar
panels.<br>
I believe that it is my moral duty- and yours, and everyone's- to do
all we can to ensure that this emergency mobilization for rescuing
our climate gets started as soon as humanly possible. Thank you,
Peter Carter and Elizabeth Woodworth, for your important
contribution to this necessary effort.<br>
Margaret Klein Salamon, Phd <font size="-1">is co-founder and
director of Climate Mobilization. Klein earned her doctorate in
clinical psychology from Adelphi University and also holds a BA in
Social Anthropology from Harvard. Though she loved being a
therapist, Margaret felt called to apply her psychological and
anthropological knowledge to solving climate change. Follow her
and Climate Mobilization on Twitter: @ClimatePsych /
@MobilizeClimate<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-is-guilty-of-climate-crimes/5629490">https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-is-guilty-of-climate-crimes/5629490</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-global-warning/">This Day
in Climate History February 19, 2006</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
February 19, 2006: The CBS program "60 Minutes" reports on the
effects of human-caused climate change in the Arctic.<br>
Corell says all that water will push sea levels three feet higher
all around the world in 100 years.<br>
<blockquote>"You and I sit here, another foot. Your children,
another foot. Your grandchildren, another foot. And it won't take
long for sea level to inundate," says Corell.<br>
<br>
"Sea level will be inundating the low lands of virtually every
country of the world, ours included," Corell predicts.<br>
<br>
To find the sights and sounds of the arctic melting, there are few
places better than a fjord in Greenland, with a glacier just a
short distance away.<br>
<br>
Pelley stood on a huge block of ice that had split off from the
glacier and had dropped into the sea — a big iceberg.<br>
<br>
"This part of Greenland is melting faster than just about any
other. To get a sense of the enormity of what's happening,
consider this: The ice that is melting here is the equivalent of
all the ice in the Alps," Pelley explained, standing atop the
iceberg.<br>
<br>
That's more than 105 million acres of melted ice in 15 years. Just
four minutes after Pelley cleared off this berg, part of the ice
caved in...<br>
<br>
Even if we stopped using every car, truck, and power plant —
stopping all greenhouse gas emissions — Mayewski says the planet
would continue to warm anyway. "Would continue to warm for
another, about another degree," he says.<br>
<br>
That's enough to melt the Arctic — and if greenhouse gases
continue to increase, the temperature will rise even more. The ice
that's melting already is changing the weather by disrupting ocean
currents...<br>
<br>
The White House also declined 60 Minutes' request for an
interview. Corell, who first studied the issue for President
Reagan, believes the climate change facts are in, even if
President Bush does not.<br>
<br>
"When you look at the American government, which is saying
essentially, 'Wait a minute. We need to study this some more. We
can't flip our energy use overnight. It would hurt the economy.'
When you hear that, what do you think?" Pelley asked.<br>
<br>
"Well, what I do then is, I try to tell them exactly what we know
scientifically. The science is, I believe, unassailable," says
Corell. "I'm not arguing their policy, that's their business, how
they deal with policy. But my job is to say, scientifically,
shorten that time scale so that if you don't push out the effects
of climate change into the long, long distant future. Because even
under the best of circumstances, this natural system of a climate
will continue to warm the planet for literally hundreds of years,
no matter what we do."<br>
By Bill Owens<br>
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