<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<font size="+1"><i>March 10, 2018<br>
</i></font><br>
[Violence of the Storm]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/iqE8VWzSb0s">Recent
Storms Moved Giant Rocks Weighing Up to 620 tons: Part 1 of 4</a></b><br>
Paul Beckwith<br>
Video talk published Mar 7, 2018<br>
It turns out that "Storms of our Grandchildren" are already here
today. In fact these storms are already reconfiguring our
coastlines. If you live in a coastal city you are likely aware that
rising sea levels, large and intense storms with their associated
storm surges, combined with king tides and perhaps even land
subsidence are encroaching and damaging houses, streets, bridges,
high-rises; in fact all infrastructure is threatened. The energy in
recent storms is enormous, and has moved enormous boulders weighing
as much as 620 tons in Ireland...<br>
...entire rocky coastlines have already been reconfigured. Evidence
on coastlines in Ireland, France and Italy is discussed.<br>
Please support my work and videos with a donation on PayPal (no
account needed) at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://paulbeckwith.net">http://paulbeckwith.net</a><br>
Winter #storms on coast of #Ireland moved boulders at elevations up
to 29m (96ft) above high water, at inland distances up to 222m
(733ft); 18 rocks weighed >50 tons, 6 were >100 tons; largest
boulder moved by storms weighed an astonishing 620 tons.
#climatechange #climate #UK<br>
That's 620 metric tons which is equal to 683 #US tons (also known as
a short ton). Google "What weighs 1000 tons?" Medium sized fishing
trawler, 1000 cars, 7 adult blue whales,... #climate #climatechange
#weather #storms.<br>
video: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/iqE8VWzSb0s">https://youtu.be/iqE8VWzSb0s</a><br>
[Study publications]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/storm-waves-can-move-boulders-we-thought-only-tsunamis-had-the-power-to-shift">Storm
waves can move boulders we thought only tsunamis had the power
to shift</a></b> - Elsevier<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/storm-waves-can-move-boulders-we-thought-only-tsunamis-had-the-power-to-shift">https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/storm-waves-can-move-boulders-we-thought-only-tsunamis-had-the-power-to-shift</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825217302350">Extraordinary
boulder transport by storm ( winter 2013-2014), and criteria for
analysing coastal boulder deposits</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825217302350">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825217302350</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-16-00184.1">Boulder
Ridges and Washover Features in Galway Bay, Western Ireland</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-16-00184.1">http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-16-00184.1</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://books.google.com/books?id=tOkpBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA82&ots=hLAkrpSPHG">Tsunami:
The Underrated Hazard - Page 82 - Google Books Result</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://books.google.com/books?id=tOkpBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA82&ots=hLAkrpSPHG">https://books.google.com/books?id=tOkpBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA82&ots=hLAkrpSPHG</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[NOAA Warns]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07032018/sea-level-rise-data-global-warming-noaa-coastal-cities-united-states-climate-change">Sea
Level Rise Will Rapidly Worsen Coastal Flooding in Coming
Decades </a></b><br>
Coastal communities should expect much more frequent flooding in
coming decades as sea levels rise, according to a new federal
report. Many places that are dry now could flood every day by the
end of the century.<br>
The report, published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/publications/techrpt86_PaP_of_HTFlooding.pdf">projects
the impact of sea level rise on coastal flooding</a> along the
nation's shorelines and says it's already having an effect,
particularly on the East Coast. In the Southeast, the average number
of days with high-tide floods has more than doubled since 2000, to
three per year, while the number in the Northeast has increased by
about 75 percent, to six per year.<br>
"We're seeing an accelerated increase up and down most of the
Atlantic Seaboard," said William V. Sweet, an oceanographer at NOAA
and the lead author of the report. "That's not a good place to be,
because impacts are going to become chronic rather quickly."...<br>
Sweet said the NOAA report shows how vulnerable most places are to
rising seas. He found that minor coastal flooding generally occurs
when waters rise about 1.5 feet above normal, and damaging flooding
occurs with less than 3 feet of water.<br>
"It's kind of laid bare America's infrastructure," he said. "There's
really not that much freeboard separating our infrastructure from
sea levels."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07032018/sea-level-rise-data-global-warming-noaa-coastal-cities-united-states-climate-change">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07032018/sea-level-rise-data-global-warming-noaa-coastal-cities-united-states-climate-change</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[more storm]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/07/san-francisco-rising-sea-level-threat-climate-change?CMP=share_btn_link">Climate
change tightens grip on US west coast despite progressive
aspirations</a></b><br>
California, Washington and Oregon have led criticism of Trump's
climate policies, but change hasn't been easier closer to home<br>
Oliver Milman @olliemilman<br>
Wed 7 Mar 2018 <br>
California's exposure to climate change has been laid bare with
warnings that San Francisco faces a far worse threat from rising
seas than previously thought, while the agricultural heart of the
state will increasingly struggle to support crops such as peaches,
walnuts and apricots as temperatures climb.<br>
The findings, from two new scientific studies, come as California's
neighboring west coast states Oregon and Washington have both
faltered in their legislative attempts to address climate change and
deliver a rebuke to Donald Trump's dismissal of the issue.<br>
The problems faced by the progressive coastal bastions have been
sobering on two fronts: not only is the western flank of the US
experiencing the escalating consequences of climate change, but
widespread Democratic dominance at state level has failed to enact
ambitious policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.<br>
"The states are struggling to fill the gap for the federal
government on climate change," said Nives Dolsak, of the school of
marine and environmental affairs at the University of Washington.<br>
"In Washington, we are holding a very good policy hostage because
it's not perfect. Inclusion and equity concerns means we are losing
momentum and public support on climate change."<br>
The quibbling comes as climate change tightens its grip on the west
coast. San Francisco can lay claim to being one of the greenest
cities in the US, through its embrace of clean energy, mandated
recycling and banning of single-use plastic bags, yet it faces a
steep challenge to avoid the ravages of sea level rise.<br>
Researchers using satellite-based radar and GPS have discovered
large areas of land beside the San Francisco bay is sinking,
exacerbating the threat from sea level rise and storms. Places such
as San Francisco airport, Foster City and Treasure Island are
subsiding by as much as 10mm a year, doubling the area previously
considered at risk of flooding by the end of the century, according
to the Science Advances-published study....<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/07/san-francisco-rising-sea-level-threat-climate-change?CMP=share_btn_link">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/07/san-francisco-rising-sea-level-threat-climate-change?CMP=share_btn_link</a><br>
</font><br>
<br>
[WIRED SCIENCE]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.wired.com/story/market-climate-change/">APPARENTLY
WE CAN LET THE STOCK MARKET FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE</a></b><br>
ADAM ROGERS<br>
The International Energy Agency says Earth needs those trillions
invested in energy supply and efficiency by 2035 to keep global
warming below 2 degrees C...<br>
...whoa there, li'l Communist, because the people who run those
funds are bound by a fiduciary duty to act in the financial
interests of their clients. Which is to say, legally and
regulatorily, they can't not make money - at least, not on purpose.
And if you compare an asset portfolio optimized for "make all the
money" to one optimized for "make all the money except if it emits
carbon," guess which one wins? "So how can we move the majority of
investors to integrate environmental factors into their thinking?"
asks Soh Young In, an engineering doctoral student at the Global
Projects Center at Stanford. "That's the problem. They think that
environmental factors are a suboptimal decision." In <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://gpc.stanford.edu/publications/being-green-rewarded-market-empirical-investigation-decarbonization-risk-and-stock">a
new working paper</a>, In and her fellow researchers hope to
convince those skeptical investors otherwise...<br>
That swings us back around to In's research. To be clear, it's a
working paper, not peer reviewed - intended, as she says, to be the
beginning of a discussion and not the end. What her team brings to
bear is access to a database from a company called Trucost.
Established in 2000 to develop those quantitative metrics, Trucost
has been tracking carbon emissions since the middle of the last
decade - and not just a company's emissions at the end of its line,
but all up and down the value chain, from raw materials to
transportation to the places that cough out the widgets...<br>
The relatively short timeframe of the Trucost database, for example,
makes for a bit of a frowny face; her group hasn't yet gotten all
the data for 2016 to see if the trend continues. And the correlation
between carbon efficiency and governance and performance means you
have to ask what's actually driving that performance - governance,
revenues, or carbon? But something has to convince firms to get on
board a transnational movement. The journey of $53 trillion must
begin with a single step.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.wired.com/story/market-climate-change/">https://www.wired.com/story/market-climate-change/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Australia]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/09/landmark-case-challenges-land-clearing-based-on-climate-change-impact">Landmark
case challenges land clearing based on climate change impact</a></b><br>
Northern Territory government-approved land clearing likely to cause
up to 3 megatonnes of C02-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions<br>
A landmark court case in the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/northern-territory">Northern
Territory</a> is set to consider a challenge to a massive
land-clearing approval based on its impacts on climate change.<br>
The case, brought by the Environment Centre NT, is believed to be
the first of its kind in Australia, using the consideration of
greenhouse gas emissions from clearing as a lever to seek to have an
approval overturned.<br>
"I think it's groundbreaking," said Shar Molloy, director of ECNT.<br>
In November 2017, the Northern Territory government approved the
clearing of 20,432 hectares of land on the Maryfield station
property - an area more than three times the size of Manhattan...<br>
Glenn Walker from The Wilderness Society said the clearing is likely
to cause up to about 3 megatonnes of CO2-equivalent greenhouse gas
emissions. That figure is based on detailed scientific studies of
clearing on nearby properties, and is difficult to get a firm
estimate of.<br>
Queensland Labor reintroduces land-clearing laws to parliament..<br>
"On a territory scale, the emissions from this one station, and the
deforestation that could occur, is equal to 15 to 20% of the
Northern Territory's annual emissions," said Walker. "That's an
enormous dent in their emissions reduction efforts."<br>
Duggin said that while it is concerning that the NT government has
failed to put in place an emissions or climate change policy, that
does not mean the EPA can avoid considering greenhouse gas emissions
when assessing clearing proposals.<br>
"In this case, however, it is the responsibility of the EPA to make
its decisions according to the legislation that exists,
notwithstanding the absence of a climate change policy. Our client
will argue that hasn't occurred in this instance", said Duggin.<br>
Bruce Lindsay, a lawyer at Environment Justice Australia in
Melbourne said the case would be keenly watched by environmental
lawyers around the country, and there could be scope for similar
challenges elsewhere.<br>
"I think under our amended Climate Change Act 2017 in Victoria there
is scope for decision makers and policy makers to be required to
take account of climate change, although in rather hedged language,"
said Lindsay. "This has not yet been tested in a judicial
proceeding."<br>
Scorched country: the destruction of Australia's native landscape..<br>
Land clearing in Australia has been a significant contributor to the
country's greenhouse gas emissions...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/09/landmark-case-challenges-land-clearing-based-on-climate-change-impact">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/09/landmark-case-challenges-land-clearing-based-on-climate-change-impact</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Top 90 cities]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.c40.org/">C40 Cities
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ON CLIMATE CHANGE</a></b><br>
C40 is a network of the world's megacities committed to addressing
climate change. C40 supports cities to collaborate effectively,
share knowledge and drive meaningful, measurable and sustainable
action on climate change.<br>
Cities are where the future happens first. The C40 Cities Climate
Leadership Group connects more than 90 of the world's greatest
cities, representing over 650 million people and one quarter of the
global economy.<br>
Created and led by cities, C40 is focused on tackling climate change
and driving urban action that reduces greenhouse gas emissions and
climate risks, while increasing the health, wellbeing and economic
opportunities of urban citizens.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.c40.org/">http://www.c40.org/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Uh huh]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/09/nuclear-fusion-on-brink-of-being-realised-say-mit-scientists">Nuclear
fusion on brink of being realised, say MIT scientists</a></b><br>
Carbon-free fusion power... <br>
The dream of nuclear fusion is on the brink of being realised,
according to a major new US initiative that says it will put fusion
power on the grid within 15 years.<br>
The promise of fusion is huge: it represents a zero-carbon,
combustion-free source of energy. The problem is that until now
every fusion experiment has operated on an energy deficit, making it
useless as a form of electricity generation. Decades of
disappointment in the field has led to the joke that fusion is the
energy of the future - and always will be... <br>
The just-over-the-horizon timeframe normally cited is 30 years, but
the MIT team believe they can halve this by using new
superconducting materials to produce ultra-powerful magnets, one of
the main components of a fusion reactor.<br>
"If we succeed, the world's energy systems will be transformed.
We're extremely excited about this."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/09/nuclear-fusion-on-brink-of-being-realised-say-mit-scientists">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/09/nuclear-fusion-on-brink-of-being-realised-say-mit-scientists</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/up/51123230">This Day in
Climate History - March 10, 2013</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
March 10, 2013: MSNBC's Chris Hayes observes that Planet Earth's
temperature is at a height not seen in 4,000 years.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/up/51123230">http://video.msnbc.msn.com/up/51123230</a>
</font><br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><i>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
</i></font><font size="+1"><i><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://pairlist10.pair.net/pipermail/theclimate.vote/2017-October/date.html">Archive
of Daily Global Warming News</a> </i></font><i><br>
</i><span class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://pairlist10.pair.net/pipermail/theclimate.vote">https://pairlist10.pair.net/pipermail/theclimate.vote</a></span><font
size="+1"><i><font size="+1"><i><br>
</i></font></i></font><font size="+1"><i> <br>
</i></font><font size="+1"><i><font size="+1"><i>To receive daily
mailings - <a
href="mailto:subscribe@theClimate.Vote?subject=Click%20SEND%20to%20process%20your%20request">click
to Subscribe</a> </i></font>to news digest. </i></font>
<blockquote>
<blockquote><small> </small><small><b>** Privacy and Security: </b>
This is a text-only mailing that carries no images which may
originate from remote servers. </small><small> Text-only
messages provide greater privacy to the receiver and sender.
</small><small> </small><br>
<small> By regulation, the .VOTE top-level domain must be used
for democratic and election purposes and cannot be used for
commercial purposes. </small><br>
<small>To subscribe, email: <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:contact@theclimate.vote">contact@theclimate.vote</a>
with subject: subscribe, To Unsubscribe, subject:
unsubscribe</small><br>
<small> Also you</small><font size="-1"> may
subscribe/unsubscribe at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://pairlist10.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/theclimate.vote">https://pairlist10.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/theclimate.vote</a></font><small>
</small><br>
<small> </small><small>Links and headlines assembled and
curated by Richard Pauli</small><small> for <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://TheClimate.Vote">http://TheClimate.Vote</a>
delivering succinct information for citizens and responsible
governments of all levels.</small><small> L</small><small>ist
membership is confidential and records are scrupulously
restricted to this mailing list. <br>
</small></blockquote>
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>