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<font size="+1"><i>April 13, 2018</i></font><br>
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[Youth Activism]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://news.trust.org/item/20180411121123-7pbv6">'We are
not a force to be ignored': Young people take up climate
activism</a></b><br>
"When I think of climate change, I am driven by fear and anger"<br>
Half the world's population is now under 30 years old - and those
youth are becoming increasingly powerful political and social
advocates for action, including on climate change, according to a
2017 World Economic Forum study that questioned youths from 180
countries.<br>
Youth-led climate organisations are springing up around the globe.
Their desire for change stems from personal experience of and worry
about climate change, as well as a desire to hold their governments
to account for failing to act swiftly enough on the problem, their
members say.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://news.trust.org/item/20180411121123-7pbv6">http://news.trust.org/item/20180411121123-7pbv6</a>?</font><br>
- - - - -<br>
[Youth: big legal fight in little Eugene]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/s/20180412-Trial-Date-Set-in-Juliana-v-US-Press-Release.pdf"><b>JULIANA
V. UNITED STATES CLIMATE TRIAL SET FOR OCTOBER 29, 2018</b></a><br>
Eugene, Oregon -- During a public case management conference today,
U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Coffin set October 29, 2018 as the
trial date for Juliana v. United States, the constitutional climate
lawsuit brought by 21 young people and supported by Our Children's
Trust. The trial will be heard before U.S. District Court Judge Ann
Aiken in Eugene, Oregon. <br>
Julia Olson, executive director and chief legal counsel of Our
Children's Trust and co-lead counsel for youth plaintiffs said:<br>
"We have our trial date. In the coming months there will be
depositions of the parties, defendants' disclosure of their experts,
and expert depositions in late summer. We will build a full factual
record for trial so that the Court can make the best informed
decision in this crucial constitutional case."<br>
DOJ attorneys representing the Trump administration told Judge
Coffin that the trial date he set "won't work" for defendants. They
claimed they needed additional time to address expert witness
reports and find rebuttal experts for every one of plaintiffs'
experts, to which Judge Coffin asked:<br>
"Where am I missing something? Given your admissions in this case,
what is it about the science that you intend to contest with your
rebuttal witnesses?"<br>
The Court also made it clear that it is not going to make decisions
on summary judgment motions before the full record at trial, despite
defendants' intentions to move to summary judgment prior to October
29.<br>
Background info: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/us/federal-lawsuit">https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/us/federal-lawsuit</a><br>
Here's the FB post:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.facebook.com/youthvgov/photos/a.186886431354003.40508.186475038061809/1996636997045595/?type=3&theater">https://www.facebook.com/youthvgov/photos/a.186886431354003.40508.186475038061809/1996636997045595/?type=3&theater</a><br>
Here's twitter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/youthvgov/status/984514929649582080">https://twitter.com/youthvgov/status/984514929649582080</a><br>
here's the PDF announcement:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/s/20180412-Trial-Date-Set-in-Juliana-v-US-Press-Release.pdf">https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/s/20180412-Trial-Date-Set-in-Juliana-v-US-Press-Release.pdf</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[CO2 expresses influence 30 years hence]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/12/new-zealand-bans-all-new-offshore-oil-exploration-as-part-of-carbon-neutral-future?CMP=share_btn_link">New
Zealand bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of
'carbon-neutral future'</a></b><br>
Prime minister <br>
says move 'will essentially take effect in 30 or more years' time'<br>
The New Zealand government will grant no new offshore oil
exploration permits in a move that is being hailed by conservation
and environmental groups as a historic victory in the battle against
climate change.<br>
The ban will apply to new permits and won't affect the existing 22,
some of which have decades left on their exploration rights and
cover an area of 100,000 sq km.<br>
The prime minister, <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/jacinda-ardern">Jacinda
Ardern,</a> said her government "has a plan to transition towards
a carbon-neutral future, one that looks 30 years in advance".<br>
"Transitions have to start somewhere and unless we make decisions
today that will essentially take effect in 30 or more years' time,
we run the risk of acting too late and causing abrupt shocks to
communities and our country."<br>
- - - <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/jacindaardern/videos/10155186542372441/">See
the Facebook video post</a> - - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.facebook.com/jacindaardern/videos/10155186542372441/">https://www.facebook.com/jacindaardern/videos/10155186542372441/</a><br>
"Half the world's whale and dolphin species visit or live in New
Zealand waters, from the critically endangered Maui's dolphin to
giant blue whales," said the group's chief executive, Kevin Hague.<br>
"Today, these sensitive creatures are made safer from the threat of
oil spills and the sonic barrage of seismic testing. Keeping New
Zealand's oil and gas in the ground reduces everyone's risk, and
tells the world we're serious about reducing our contribution to
climate change."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/12/new-zealand-bans-all-new-offshore-oil-exploration-as-part-of-carbon-neutral-future?CMP=share_btn_link">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/12/new-zealand-bans-all-new-offshore-oil-exploration-as-part-of-carbon-neutral-future?CMP=share_btn_link</a></font><br>
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<br>
[text lines and video about Atlantic streams]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/11/critical-gulf-stream-current-weakest-for-1600-years-research-finds">Gulf
Stream current at its weakest in 1,600 years, studies show</a></b><br>
Warm current that has historically caused dramatic changes in
climate is experiencing an unprecedented slowdown and may be less
stable than thought - with potentially severe consequences<br>
- - - -<br>
The warm Atlantic current linked to severe and abrupt changes in the
climate in the past is now at its weakest in at least 1,600 years,
new research shows. The findings, based on multiple lines of
scientific evidence, throw into question previous predictions that a
catastrophic collapse of the Gulf Stream would take centuries to
occur.<br>
Such a collapse would see western Europe suffer far more extreme
winters, sea levels rise fast on the eastern seaboard of the US and
would disrupt vital tropical rains. The new research shows the
current is now 15% weaker than around 400AD, an exceptionally large
deviation, and that human-caused global warming is responsible for
at least a significant part of the weakening.<br>
The current, known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning
Circulation (Amoc), carries warm water northwards towards the north
pole. There it cools, becomes denser and sinks, and then flows back
southwards. But global warming hampers the cooling of the water,
while melting ice in the Arctic, particularly from Greenland, floods
the area with less dense freshwater, weakening the Amoc current.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/11/critical-gulf-stream-current-weakest-for-1600-years-research-finds">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/11/critical-gulf-stream-current-weakest-for-1600-years-research-finds</a></font><br>
- - - - -<br>
[YouTube video explains]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/7KJlrpvUXw8">Stronger
evidence for a weaker Atlantic overturning</a></b><br>
Potsdam Institute<br>
Published on Apr 11, 2018<br>
Levke Caesar and Stefan Rahmstorf from the Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research on their new paper.<br>
The Atlantic overturning - one of Earth's most important heat
transport systems, pumping warm water northwards and cold water
southwards - is weaker today than any time before in more than 1000
years. Sea surface temperature data analysis provides new evidence
that this major ocean circulation has slowed down by roughly 15
percent since the middle of the 20th century, according to a study
published in the highly renowned journal Nature by an international
team of scientists. Human-made climate change is a prime suspect for
these worrying observations.<br>
Article: Levke Caesar, Stefan Rahmstorf, Alexander Robinson, Georg
Feulner, Vincent Saba (2018): Observed fingerprint of a weakening
Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation. Nature [DOI:
10.1038/s41586-018-0006-5]<br>
Video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/7KJlrpvUXw8">https://youtu.be/7KJlrpvUXw8</a><br>
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[Text]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/stronger-evidence-for-a-weaker-atlantic-overturning">Stronger
evidence for a weaker Atlantic overturning</a></b><br>
04/11/2018. The Atlantic overturning - one of Earth's most important
heat transport systems, pumping warm water northwards and cold water
southwards - is weaker today than any time before in more than 1000
years. Sea surface temperature data analysis provides new evidence
that this major ocean circulation has slowed down by roughly 15
percent since the middle of the 20th century, according to a study
published in the highly renowned journal Nature by an international
team of scientists. Human-made climate change is a prime suspect for
these worrying observations.<br>
- - - -<br>
There have been long debates whether the Atlantic overturning could
collapse, being a tipping element in the Earth system. The present
study does not consider the future fate of this circulation, but
rather analyses how it has changed over the past hundred years.
Nevertheless, Robinson cautions: "If we do not rapidly stop global
warming, we must expect a further long-term slowdown of the Atlantic
overturning. We are only beginning to understand the consequences of
this unprecedented process - but they might be disruptive."<br>
Several studies have shown, for example, that a slowdown of the
Atlantic overturning exacerbates sea-level rise on the US coast for
cities like New York and Boston. Others show that the associated
change in Atlantic sea surface temperatures affects weather patterns
over Europe, such as the track of storms coming off the Atlantic.
Specifically, the European heat wave of summer 2015 has been linked
to the record cold in the northern Atlantic in that year - this
seemingly paradoxical effect occurs because a cold northern Atlantic
promotes an air pressure pattern that funnels warm air from the
south into Europe.<br>
- - - - <br>
The Atlantic overturning evolution over the past millennium deduced
from indirect evidence of subsurface temperatures almost exactly
matches that found previously by Rahmstorf and colleagues in 2015 -
which is quite remarkable, given that the new study is based on
ocean sediments, while the earlier study used a network of evidence
found on the land surface, such as ice core and tree ring data.<br>
"Several lines of evidence are coming together to a consistent
picture now, all pointing at the same weakening since the 1950s,"
says Rahmstorf: "The subpolar Atlantic cooling, the warming inshore
of the Gulf Stream, Thornalley's proxy data for subsurface Atlantic
temperatures, and earlier proxy data from deep sea corals showing
water mass changes in the Gulf of Maine."<br>
The Thornalley study also suggests that a part of the Atlantic
overturning - the deep flow of Labrador Sea Water - was affected 150
years ago by warming and ice melt at the end of the 'Little Ice
Age'. This illustrates the sensitivity of the overturning
circulation to warming and freshwater input - something that is
happening again now with human-caused warming and accelerating
Greenland melt. However, judging by the data of past subsurface
temperatures, this event 150 years ago was not associated with such
a profound overall reduction in the heat transport in the Atlantic
ocean as the warming from fossil fuel greenhouse gases that has
occurred mainly since 1950 - a global warming that is larger than
any time before in the history of human civilization.<br>
Article: Levke Caesar, Stefan Rahmstorf, Alexander Robinson, Georg
Feulner, Vincent Saba (2018): Observed fingerprint of a weakening
Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation. Nature [DOI:
10.1038/s41586-018-0006-5]<br>
<span><b>Weblink to the article:<span> </span></b></span><span><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0006-5"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); background-color:
transparent; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid
rgb(204, 204, 204);">http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0006-5</a></span><br>
<span></span><strong>Weblink to the short video on the study:</strong><span> </span><a
href="https://youtu.be/7KJlrpvUXw8" title="" target="_blank"
class="external-link" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;
border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">https://youtu.be/7KJlrpvUXw8</a><br>
<strong>Weblink to the blogpost of co-author Stefan Rahmstorf:</strong><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://scilogs.spektrum.de/klimalounge/staerkere-belege-fuer-ein-schwaecheres-golfstromsystem/"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); background-color:
transparent; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid
rgb(204, 204, 204);">
https://scilogs.spektrum.de/klimalounge/staerkere-belege-fuer-ein-schwaecheres-golfstromsystem/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Superb two year old classic video from National Geographic]<br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc_vtegGcNM">Climate
Denial - Arnold Schwarzenegger & Bill Nye</a></b><br>
GlobalClimateNews<br>
(re)Published on Apr 11, 2018<br>
Bill Nye is feeling down. He's visiting his therapist - Dr. Arnold
Schwarzenegger - wondering why he doesn't feel like himself lately.
He feels as if a horrible weight is on his shoulders. The therapist
listens sympathetically and diagnoses the cause. Bill is suffering
from grief... climate change grief.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc_vtegGcNM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc_vtegGcNM</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[and at an increasing rate]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/04/11/global-warming-causing-alaskan-glacier-melt-fastest-pace-400-years/506549002/">Global
warming is causing an Alaskan glacier to melt at the fastest
pace in 400 years</a></b><br>
Doyle Rice, USA TODAY<br>
One of the USA's tallest glaciers is melting at the fastest pace in
400 years, a new study reports.<br>
The <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2017JD027539">study</a>
said melting on Mount Hunter in Alaska's Denali National Park can be
linked mainly to rising summer temperatures in the region.<br>
"We have not seen snow melt like this in at least four centuries,"
said study lead author Dominic Winski, a glaciologist at Dartmouth
College.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/04/11/global-warming-causing-alaskan-glacier-melt-fastest-pace-400-years/506549002/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/04/11/global-warming-causing-alaskan-glacier-melt-fastest-pace-400-years/506549002/</a><br>
</font> - - - - - - -<br>
[Research Article] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2017JD027539">A
400‐year ice core melt layer record of summertime warming in the
Alaska Range</a></b><br>
Plain Language Summary<br>
<blockquote>Warming in mountainous areas affects glacier melt, water
resources, and fragile ecosystems, yet we know relatively little
about climate change in alpine areas, especially at high
latitudes. We use ice cores drilled on Mt. Hunter, in Denali
National Park, to develop a record of summer temperatures in
Alaska that extends 400 years into the past; farther than any
other mountain record in the North Pacific region. The ice core
record shows that 60 times more snowmelt occurs today than 150
years ago. This corresponds to roughly a 2 degree C increase in
summer temperature, which is faster than summertime warming in
Alaska near sea level. We suggest that warming of the tropical
Pacific Ocean has contributed to the rapid warming on Mt. Hunter
by enhancing high‐pressure systems over Alaska. Our ice core
record indicates that alpine regions surrounding the North Pacific
may continue to experience accelerated warming with climate
change, threatening the already imperiled glaciers in this area.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2017JD027539">https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2017JD027539</a></font><br>
<br>
[carnivores and climates]<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.climatehealers.org/meatocracy/meet-the-meatocracy">Meet
the Meatocracy</a></b><br>
<font color="#330033">If you are not at the table as an equal, then
you are on the menu!<br>
— Tony Gonzalez, American Indian Movement<br>
This is the story of the "Meatocracy" and our global campaign to
evolve beyond it. To follow this story, please begin by watching "<a
href="http://www.climatehealers.org/films" style="background:
transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; text-decoration: none;
overflow-wrap: break-word;">The Films THEY Don<font
color="#330033">'</font>t Want You To See</a>." Then click on
the links below to see:<br style="word-wrap: break-word;">
"<a href="http://www.climatehealers.org/meatocracy/who-are-they"
style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;
text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Who Are THEY?</a>"<br>
"<a
href="http://www.climatehealers.org/meatocracy/what-do-they-want"
style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;
text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">What Do THEY
Want?</a>"<br>
"<a href="http://what-can-we-do-about-it/" style="background:
transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; text-decoration: none;
overflow-wrap: break-word;">What Can WE Do About It?</a>"<br>
We trust you find it as intriguing and inspiring as we do!<br>
</font><br>
<br>
[coming UN Climate Change Conference end of April]<br>
RESOURCE / 11 APR, 2018 / <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://unfccc.int/">https://unfccc.int/</a><br>
<b><a href="https://unfccc.int/news/how-to-navigate-the-website">How
to Navigate the Website</a></b><br>
The UN Climate Change secretariat (UNFCCC) has enhanced its website
in order to improve the public access to information through modern
and user-friendly technology.<br>
Users can find all the information about the UNFCCC process and
meetings that was available on the old website through the new
website front-page <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://unfccc.int/">https://unfccc.int/</a>.<br>
Information about the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference (Bonn,
30 April-10 May) is prominently displayed on the front-page through
the "Process and meetings" tab in the top menu of the new website
and through the specific tabs for each of the bodies' session.<br>
Clicking on "Process and meetings" / "Conferences" / "Bonn Climate
Change Conference April 2018" you will find all the information
currently available about the upcoming conference, including the
agendas and documents for the different sessions (SBI 48/SBSTA
48/APA 1-5), as well as logistical details and information for the
press. More information will be made available closer to the
date....<br>
<font size="-1">more at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://unfccc.int/news/how-to-navigate-the-website">https://unfccc.int/news/how-to-navigate-the-website</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/apr/13/climate-change-a-hot-issue/">This
Day in Climate History - April 13, 2012</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
April 13, 2012: In the Spokane, Washington Spokesman-Review,
"Democracy Now" host Amy Goodman observes: <br>
<blockquote>"The Pentagon knows it. The world’s largest insurers
know it. Now, governments may be overthrown because of it. It is
climate change, and it is real. According to the U.S. National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, last month was the hottest
March on record for the United States since 1895, when records
were first kept, with average temperatures of 8.6 degrees above
average. More than 15,000 March high-temperature records were
broken nationally. Drought, wildfires, tornadoes and other extreme
weather events are already plaguing the country."<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/apr/13/climate-change-a-hot-issue/">http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/apr/13/climate-change-a-hot-issue/</a></font><br>
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