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<font size="+1"><i>February 23, 2018</i></font><br>
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[record]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.noaa.gov/news/january-was-5th-warmest-on-record-for-globe">January
was 5th warmest on record for the globe</a></b><br>
Arctic and Antarctic sea ice coverage remain at record, near-record
lows<br>
February 20, 2018<br>
Despite the cooling influence of La Nina this winter, the global
temperature ranked among the five warmest on record in January.
Earth's polar regions continued to experience record-low ice
conditions... <br>
The average global temperature in January 2018 was 1.28 degrees F
above the 20th-century average of 53.6 degrees, according to
scientists from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental
Information. This average temperature was the fifth highest for the
month of January in the NOAA's record, which dates back to 1880.
This was the 42nd consecutive January (since 1977) and the 397th
consecutive month (since January 1985) with temperatures above the
20th-century average. The last four years (2015-2018) saw the five
warmest Januarys on record...<br>
Significant Anomalies Map <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/January-2018-Global-Significant-Events-Map.png">http://www.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/January-2018-Global-Significant-Events-Map.png</a><br>
Other notable climate facts from around the world last month
included:<br>
<b>Near-record-low sea ice at the poles</b><br>
The average Arctic sea ice coverage in January was 9.4 percent below
the 1981-2010 average, the smallest for the month since records
began in 1979.<br>
Antarctic sea ice extent in January was 17.4 percent below average,
the second smallest January on record.<br>
<b>Warmer-than-average lands and oceans</b><br>
The globally averaged land-surface temperature was 2 degrees F above
the 20th-century average, ranking as the eighth warmest for the
month of January. <br>
The globally averaged sea-surface temperature was 1.01 degrees F
above average and tied with 1998 as the fifth warmest for January on
record. <br>
<b>Oceania and Europe led the continental warmth rankings</b><br>
Oceania has its warmest January on record; Europe, its second; South
America, its 14th; Africa, its 21st; North America, its 24th; and
Asia, its 26th (tied with 1997).<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.noaa.gov/news/january-was-5th-warmest-on-record-for-globe">http://www.noaa.gov/news/january-was-5th-warmest-on-record-for-globe</a></font><br>
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[setting records] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21022018/february-record-high-temperature-east-coast-arctic-climate-change-nws">East
Coast Shatters Temperature Records, Offering Preview to a
Warming World</a></b><br>
InsideClimate News - Sabrina Shankman<br>
It's been happening with greater frequency - and in line with what
scientists have said to expect as the world warms. "It used to be
said that 'scientists can't say anything about an individual event.'
That statement is patently false now," said Michael Wehner, a senior
staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley ..<br>
There are records - like Wednesday being the earliest 80-degree day
in Washington, D.C., history - and then there are the eye-popping
effects of those records, like seeing people wearing T-shirts on the
streets of Portland, Maine, in February.<br>
However you measure it, Feb. 20-21, 2018, were days for the books -
days when the records fell as quickly as the thermometer rose, days
that gave a glimpse into the wacky weather that the new era of
climate change brings.<br>
"What we have is a large-scale pattern that wouldn't be too uncommon
in the spring," said meteorologist Patrick Burke of the National
Weather Service. "But it's a little bit unusual to see it set up
this way in February - and set up with such persistence."<br>
Central Park hit 76-degrees F. Boston had back-to-back 70-degrees F
days. Towns in Virginia and Vermont were pushing 80-degrees F, with
some Vermont towns warning residents that rapid snowmelt from the
heat could cause a new round of flooding. In Pittsburgh, a high of
78-degrees F beat a record set in 1891 by a whopping 10 degrees...<br>
As temperature records were falling up and down the East Coast, the
Arctic continued on a hot streak, with the far-reaches of Alaska's
North Slope seeing temperatures 45-degrees F above normal...<br>
The same unusual weather system that's bringing warm temperatures is
also bringing record-high amounts of precipitation into the
atmosphere, dumping rain from Texas to the Great Lakes, Burke said.
This type of storm system might normally result in 2 or 3 inches of
rain. But the high-pressure ridge along the East Coast is ensuring
that the storm just sits there, making it more likely to bringing 5
or 7 inches, and even more in some places...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21022018/february-record-high-temperature-east-coast-arctic-climate-change-nws">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21022018/february-record-high-temperature-east-coast-arctic-climate-change-nws</a></font><br>
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[<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.desmogblog.com">DeSmog</a>]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/02/22/judge-trump-documents-keystone-xl-decision">Inside
the Trump Admin's Fight to Keep the Keystone XL Approval Process
Secret</a></b><br>
By Steve Horn • Thursday, February 22, 2018 - 19:19<br>
At a<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Order%20on%20Confidentiality%20Order%20Hearing.pdf"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">February 21 hearing</a>, a U.S. <span></span>District
Court judge ruled that the Trump administration must either fork
over documents showing how the<span> </span><span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">U.S.</span><span> </span>Department of
State reversed an earlier decision and ultimately came to approve
the<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/5857"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204); outline: 0px;">Keystone<span> </span><span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">XL</span><span> </span>pipeline</a>,
or else provide a substantial legal reason for continuing to
withhold them. The federal government has an<span> </span><a
href="https://apnews.com/2b64dbbfd05d4674972c64b8ec4cfd4d/Judge-orders-gov%27t-review-of-Keystone-pipeline-documents"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">order to deliver the goods</a>, one way or the other, by
March 21.<br>
DeSmog has reviewed the court evidence from the environmental groups
bringing the case, records which help illuminate their argument that
the government is, in fact, withholding such documents. The judge
will decide if those documents, legally, should be made public.<br>
The case, which<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/IEN%20v.%20State%20Department%20Complaint.pdf"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">began in March 2017</a>, pits the Indigenous Environmental
Network and the North Coast River Alliance against the State
Department,<span> </span><span class="caps" style="font-size:
0.9em;">U.S.</span><span> </span>Fish and Wildlife Service, the<span> </span><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">U.S.</span><span> </span>Department
of interior and<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/5420"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">TransCanada</a>, the owner of Keystone<span> </span><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">XL</span>. During his first
week in office,<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/donald-trump" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">Donald
Trump</a><span> </span>signed a <a
href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-memorandum-regarding-construction-keystone-xl-pipeline/"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">memorandum</a>calling for the State Department to perform
an expedited 60-day permit review of the pipeline. Two months later,
the State Department gave Keystone<span> </span><span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">XL</span><span> </span>the<span> </span><a
href="https://keystonepipeline-xl.state.gov/documents/organization/269323.pdf"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">permit it needed</a> to cross the U.S.-Canada border.<br>
Under the Obama administration, the Keystone<span> </span><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">XL</span><span> </span>pipeline,
which would carry oil from Alberta's<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/2632"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">tar sands</a>, underwent a years-long environmental review
process which culminated in President Barack Obama<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2015/11/06/victory-obama-rejects-scandal-ridden-keystone-xl-tar-sands-pipeline"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">nixing it in November 2015</a>. For the better part of the
past decade, the pipeline has served as a central mobilizing force
for the environmental movement.<br>
At the center of this case is a dispute over the administrative
records of federal agencies, which in other lawsuits are routinely
made public as part of the pre-trial process.<br>
Generally, releasing such documents gives a snapshot of the full
deliberative process behind federal agencies' decisions. DeSmog, in
fact,<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2015/04/20/emails-state-department-secretly-approved-expansion-enbridge-keystone-xl-clone"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">published a story on such documents</a><span> </span>in
2015 related to a different tar sands pipeline project, which
involved Enbridge's<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/12487"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Alberta Clipper</a> (also known as Line 67), part of a
broader pipeline system DeSmog calls the "<a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/17587"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Keystone<span> </span><span class="caps" style="font-size:
0.9em;">XL</span><span> </span>Clone</a>."<br>
In the TransCanada case, the State Department has argued for keeping
these pre-trial records sealed while the plaintiffs, the
environmental groups, have argued they should be made public.
These documents, which might include emails and memos, would offer
the plaintiffs and the general public an idea of how the Trump
administration decided to approve the Keystone<span> </span><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">XL</span>.<br>
The plaintiffs say that not all of those records have been
turned over...<br>
The State Department and TransCanada, for their part, have come to a
different legal conclusion, saying that the documents in question
are "deliberative" in nature and not part of any official
administrative process. They argue that the plaintiffs are
attempting to turn the administrative records into a Freedom of
Information Act request, positing that pre-decisional documents
should not be included among those disclosed in the case.<br>
"The bare fact that predecisional, deliberative materials were
generated during the decisionmaking processes, does not transform
those materials into documents that were before the decisionmaker in
any relevant sense and therefore part of the administrative record,
any more than documents reflecting a trial court's predecisional
deliberations, such as bench memos, other communications between
judges and their staff, and drafts of decisions, are part of the
trial record," wrote Department of Justice attorneys in a January 22
court filing.<br>
They also argued in that filing that the plaintiffs are on a
"fishing expedition" styled as a mission to "complete the record."
Ultimately, it will be for Judge Brian Morris to decide which
argument has more merit in the coming months. <br>
<b>'Smoke and Mirrors'</b><br>
At least one group believes the entire premise of the dispute
amounts to a cause for celebration. The climate advocacy
organization 350.org - which has long led the movement opposing
Keystone XL - says it believes this development is a sign the
pipeline may never be built. Along those lines, it showed excitement
over the judge's decision in a press release<br>
"The Trump administration's approval of the Keystone XL pipeline has
been nothing but smoke and mirrors," said 350.org Executive Director
May Boeve. "The truth is undeniable. Every shred of scientific
evidence shows this pipeline is a threat to our climate, and to the
lands, waters, and lives in its path."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/02/22/judge-trump-documents-keystone-xl-decision">https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/02/22/judge-trump-documents-keystone-xl-decision</a></font><br>
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<br>
[International]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/02/13/inter-american-climate-rights-colombia/">International
Court Ruling: a Safe Climate Is a Human Right</a></b><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">By Ucilia Wang
<br>
February 13, 2018</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">The
Inter-American Court of Human Rights has issued a landmark opinion
that equates environmental protection with human rights, a
conclusion that could force countries in Latin American and beyond
to tackle climate change more aggressively.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">The advisory</span><a
href="http://www.aida-americas.org/sites/default/files/oc23_corte_idh.pdf"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span> </span><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">opinion</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>represents
the first time the Inter-American Court has recognized a
fundamental right to a healthy environment, a concept that may
seem abstract but could impact interpretations of existing laws
and improve environmental protection.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">That concept
isn't new, but it hasn't been widely applied by courts. The
opinion comes at a time when</span><a
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/12/11/ireland-constitutional-right-climate-environment-fie/"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span> </span><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">a number of
climate lawsuits</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;
font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>have been filed around the world
to try to establish the same or similar legal principles and
pressure fossil fuel companies and governments to cut emissions.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">"We think this
decision will be used as a tool to strengthen ongoing litigation
on human rights and the impact of climate change nationally and
internationally," said Astrid Puentes, co-director of AIDA, an
advocacy group that filed</span><a
href="http://www.aida-americas.org/sites/default/files/observaciones_de_aida_a_opinion_consultiva_colombia_enero_2017.pdf"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;"><span> </span><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">an amicus curiae
brief</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight:
400;"><span> </span>in this case.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">The court was
created in 1979 to enforce the</span><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Convention_on_Human_Rights"
style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color:
rgb(30, 115, 190); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;
outline: 0px; outline-offset: -2px;"><span> </span><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">American
Convention on Human Rights</span></a><span style="box-sizing:
inherit; font-weight: 400;">, which has been ratified by most of
the countries in Central and South America. The court hears cases
brought by those governments or the Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights.</span><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/02/13/inter-american-climate-rights-colombia/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/02/13/inter-american-climate-rights-colombia/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Food footprint]<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2018/02/deconstructing-the-environmental-footprint-of-a-sandwich/">Deconstructing
the environmental footprint of a sandwich</a></b><br>
by Emma Bryce | Feb 2, 2018<br>
This post is also available in: Espanol<br>
If we did a sustainability makeover on one of our most ubiquitous
lunch items-the sandwich-we could stop several million tons of
greenhouse gas emissions from entering the atmosphere each year, a
new study has found.<br>
It may seem laughable that the unassuming sandwich is a climate
change culprit. But nowadays, when everything we produce and consume
is subject to scrutiny, the researchers-writing in Sustainable
Production and Consumption-argue that we've overlooked the
omnipresent sandwich for too long. In the United Kingdom alone, a
nation particularly devoted to this lunchtime staple, and where the
researchers carried out their study, Britons consume an estimated
11.5 billion a year.<br>
To estimate the environmental footprint of all that produce, the
researchers split British sandwiches into two groups: shop-bought,
and homemade. They considered 40 different sandwich recipes, and
carried out a lifecycle analysis to estimate the emissions impact of
each one. That took into account the resources used during
agricultural production of sandwich ingredients, in the packaging
materials, the transport to shops, storage, and disposal of leftover
packaging and food.<br>
The analysis revealed first of all that shop-bought sandwiches were
twice as impactful as sandwiches prepared at home. That's because
their production-including transport, processing, and storage-is far
more resource-intensive. Each shop sandwich also requires about 20%
more ingredients to produce, the researchers estimate, because of
food losses that occur along the supply chain.<br>
Of the 40 sandwich types, the meatiest ones were the worst
environmental offenders. Generally, shop sandwiches that
incorporated meat, cheese, and prawns each contribute the equivalent
of at least 1,200 grams of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. One
popular shop-bought variety containing bacon, sausage, and egg
accounted for 1,441 grams of CO2e (equivalent). By comparison, a
homemade ham-and-cheese sandwich produced just 843g CO2e, despite
the ham: clearly, assembling a sandwich at home can drastically save
on resources.<br>
These values may seem insignificant at the level of a single
sandwich. But if just one person consumes five shop-bought
sandwiches a week, each at 1,200g CO2e, over a year that would
generate the equivalent of 312 kilograms of CO2. That's the same
quantity that a car produces on a 12-hour drive. Roughly
extrapolated to the 11 billion sandwiches consumed every year in the
UK (half of which are shop-bought, and half homemade), that amounts
to 11.8 million metric tons of CO2 entering the atmosphere annually.<br>
The life cycle analysis highlighted several emissions hotspots where
sandwich production could go greener. For instance, reducing meat
contents by 10%, cheese by 20%, cutting 10% of food waste along the
supply chain, making packaging more eco-friendly, and composting
waste could slash sandwich-related emissions by 50%. That's several
million tons of CO2-just in the UK.<br>
A lot of this would inevitably be decided by consumer preferences:
buyers may not necessarily want a less meaty sandwich, for instance.
Therein lies the rub-but also the opportunity, because consumers can
be powerful vectors of change, the researchers argue.<br>
More realistic sell-by dates on sandwich boxes could limit food
waste by properly informing consumers, for example. Combining
nutritional data with details about a sandwich's environmental
ranking could also encourage consumers to make greener choices. <br>
And, now we know that the humble homemade sandwich is itself a
solution-easier on the wallet, and the environment.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2018/02/deconstructing-the-environmental-footprint-of-a-sandwich/">http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2018/02/deconstructing-the-environmental-footprint-of-a-sandwich/</a></font><br>
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Research article<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352550917300635">Understanding
the impact on climate change of convenience food: Carbon
footprint of sandwiches</a></b><br>
Author links open overlay panelNamyEspinoza-OriasAdisaAzapagic<br>
Show more<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2017.12.002Get">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2017.12.002Get</a>
rights and content<br>
Highlights<br>
•Carbon footprint of 40 commercial and home-made sandwiches
estimated.<br>
•The impact ranges from 739-1441g CO2 eq. per ready-made sandwich.<br>
•The carbon footprint of home-made sandwich varies from 399-843 g
CO2 eq.<br>
•The impact from the home-made is two times lower than for the
ready-made option.<br>
•Reductions of up to 50% are possible for ready-made sandwiches.<br>
Abstract<br>
Sandwiches are ubiquitous food items and yet little is known about
their environmental impacts. This paper focused on their impact on
climate change and estimated the carbon footprint of commercial and
home-made sandwiches. The study also explored how the information on
the carbon footprint could be combined with nutritional data to
assist consumers in making more informed food choices. In total, 40
different recipes were considered, focusing on most popular consumer
choices in the UK. The estimated impact from ready-made sandwiches
ranges from 739 g CO2 eq. for egg & cress to 1441 g CO2 eq. for
the bacon, sausage & egg option. The carbon footprint of the
most popular home-made sandwich (ham & cheese) varies from
399-843 g CO2 eq. per sandwich, depending on the recipe. The average
impact from the home-made option is around two times lower than the
impact from the ready-made equivalent with the same ingredients. The
greatest contributor to the carbon footprint of both types of
sandwich is the agricultural production of ingredients; for
ready-made sandwiches, the preparation and retail stages are also
significant. Various improvement options were considered through 22
scenarios, including changes in the cultivation of ingredients,
recipe changes, reduction of food waste, alternative packaging and
different waste management options. The findings suggest that
reductions in the carbon footprint of up to 50% are possible for
ready-made sandwiches. The greatest improvement opportunities lie in
reducing post-consumer waste; however, these are most difficult to
realise as they involve changing consumer behaviour.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352550917300635">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352550917300635</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Curricula: Visualizing Data]<br>
CrashCourse<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEWY6kkBdpo">Data
Visualization: Part 1: Crash Course Statistics #5</a></b><br>
Published on Feb 21, 2018<br>
Today we're going to start our two-part unit on data visualization.
Up to this point we've discussed raw data - which are just numbers -
but usually it's much more useful to represent this information with
charts and graphs. There are two types of data we encounter,
categorical and quantitative data, and they likewise require
different types of visualizations. Today we'll focus on bar charts,
pie charts, pictographs, and histograms and show you what they can
and cannot tell us about their underlying data as well as some of
the ways they can be misused to misinform. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEWY6kkBdpo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEWY6kkBdpo</a></font><br>
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<br>
[videos]<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mediamatters.org/mobile/video/2014/02/23/cnns-reliable-sources-questions-why-media-prese/198185">This
Day in Climate History February 23, 2014</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
• CNN's "Reliable Sources" analyzes climate confusion in the
mainstream media.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://mediamatters.org/mobile/video/2014/02/23/cnns-reliable-sources-questions-why-media-prese/198185">http://mediamatters.org/mobile/video/2014/02/23/cnns-reliable-sources-questions-why-media-prese/198185</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/cbjPQisjyfM">http://youtu.be/cbjPQisjyfM</a><br>
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