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<font size="+1"><i>April 25, 2018</i></font><br>
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[Summers very hot, winters very cold] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180424112906.htm">Collapse
of the Atlantic Ocean heat transport might lead to hot European
summers</a></b><br>
Science Daily<br>
Severe winters combined with heat waves and droughts during summer
in Europe. Those were the consequences as the Atlantic Ocean heat
transport nearly collapsed 12,000 years ago. The same situation
might occur today, according to a new study published in Nature
Communications.<br>
Record-breaking cold ocean temperatures across the central North
Atlantic in recent years suggest that the northward oceanic heat
transport through the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
(AMOC) has reached a long-term minimum and might be the weakest for
at least 1,600 years. Most climate models project that the already
observed slowdown will continue under global warming scenarios
although a complete collapse appears unlikely -- at least based on
current models.<br>
However, the climate history tells that we do not need to wait for a
complete collapse to get a drastic climate response. A new study
published in Nature Communications investigates how the strong
cooling of the North Atlantic Ocean in response to a partial
collapse of the AMOC impacted the European climate around 12,000
years ago. The period, called the Younger Dryas (YD), is the latest
and one of the most extreme rapid cooling events that occurred
during a phase of rapid warming at the climate transition from the
late-glacial to our current warm climate, the Holocene... <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180424112906.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180424112906.htm</a></font><br>
- - -- <br>
[in Nature Communications]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04071-5">Warm
summers during the Younger Dryas cold reversal</a></b><br>
Our climate simulation provides robust physical evidence that
atmospheric blocking of cold westerly winds over Fennoscandia is a
key mechanism counteracting the cooling impact of an AMOC-slowdown
during summer. Despite the persistence of short warm summers, the YD
is dominated by a shift to a continental climate with extreme winter
to spring cooling and short growing seasons...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04071-5">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04071-5</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Not in my state]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/new-jersey-governor-signs-drill-ban-to-thwart-trump-plan/2018/04/20/f2e7d73a-44b2-11e8-b2dc-b0a403e4720a_story.html?utm_term=.dc56ca4677c9">New
Jersey governor signs drill ban to thwart Trump plan</a></b><br>
By Wayne Parry - April 20<br>
POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. - On the anniversary of the largest
marine oil spill in the petroleum industry, New Jersey Gov. Phil
Murphy signed a bill Friday prohibiting oil and natural gas drilling
in state waters, as well as preventing infrastructure like pipelines
that could support drilling in more distant federal waters.<br>
It is one of numerous coastal states using state-level laws to try
to thwart President Donald Trump's proposal to allow drilling in
federal waters more than 3 miles offshore along most of America's
coastline.<br>
The Democratic governor noted the anniversary of the 2010 Deepwater
Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, warning that a similar
catastrophe could happen anywhere.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/new-jersey-governor-signs-drill-ban-to-thwart-trump-plan/2018/04/20/f2e7d73a-44b2-11e8-b2dc-b0a403e4720a_story.html?utm_term=.dc56ca4677c9">https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/new-jersey-governor-signs-drill-ban-to-thwart-trump-plan/2018/04/20/f2e7d73a-44b2-11e8-b2dc-b0a403e4720a_story.html?utm_term=.dc56ca4677c9</a><br>
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<br>
[Nexus Hot News]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://mailchi.mp/climatenexus/weather-whiplash-to-intensify-in-ca-pruitt-gives-thumbs-up-to-biomass-more?e=95b355344d">Weather
Whiplash Set to Ramp Up in CA: </a></b><br>
Climate change will increase "weather whiplash" in California as the
state will increasingly swing between intense wet and dry periods,
according to new research. A study published Monday in the journal
Nature Climate Change predicts that while the long-term average
annual precipitation in the state won't vary greatly, California may
experience intense precipitation extremes in the future, as the
frequency of whiplash events is set to double in Southern California
by 2100. The study also finds that drastic events like the state's
megaflood of 1861-1862, which put much of the state underwater in a
43-day deluge, could become three times more likely as the planet
warms. (LA Times $, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Wired, KQED,
Earther, Mashable, CBS)<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://mailchi.mp/climatenexus/weather-whiplash-to-intensify-in-ca-pruitt-gives-thumbs-up-to-biomass-more?e=95b355344d">https://mailchi.mp/climatenexus/weather-whiplash-to-intensify-in-ca-pruitt-gives-thumbs-up-to-biomass-more?e=95b355344d</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Not that cold in Alaska]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/21/alaska-climate-change-winter-way-of-life?">What
happened to winter? Vanishing ice convulses Alaskans' way of
life</a></b><br>
Arctic Dispatches, part 1: The past winter was the warmest on record
in the Arctic, putting a lifestyle that has endured for millennia at
risk: 'The magnitude of change is utterly unprecedented'<br>
- - - -<br>
"There's no reason why this sort of warmth won't continue. Within
the lifetime of middle-aged adults, the Arctic has completely
changed," said Rick Thoman, a NOAA climate scientist based in
Fairbanks, Alaska. "The magnitude of change is utterly
unprecedented. For a lot of the people who live there, it's
completely shocking."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/21/alaska-climate-change-winter-way-of-life">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/21/alaska-climate-change-winter-way-of-life</a>?</font><br>
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<br>
[Wherever birds fly]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ehn.org/migratory-birds-are-moving-lyme-disease-to-new-places-and-peoples-2561494303.html">How
migratory birds are moving Lyme disease to new places and
peoples</a></b><br>
ehn.org<br>
A mass migration would deliver more ticks and likely more disease to
Canada in coming years, in the form of beautiful waves of song
sparrows and wrens, red-winged blackbirds, and warblers...<br>
- - - <br>
When Scott studied that report of 80,000 dogs and the tick-borne
diseases they harbored, published in 2011, he noticed something that
the study authors had not. The highest rates of infected dogs, he
saw, were not along coastlines or near cut up bits of forest that
are known to be hot-beds of Lyme disease.<br>
<br>
Rather, the line of highest infection closely followed invisible
aerial highways used by songbirds-the common yellowthroat,
golden-crowned sparrow, Swainson's thrush-on their annual north-
south migration. As Scott had long believed, birds were dispersing
ticks as they always had, but with a new and insidious kick; one
called Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease pathogen...<br>
- - - -<br>
Some birds arrived in Nova Scotia so infested with ticks that
researchers posited they had to have stopped along the Atlantic
flyway in the northeastern United States, where the ticks have been
rampant for decades. Some of the imported ticks came from as far
south as Brazil and dropped their cargo as far north as the Yukon.<br>
<font size="-1">This excerpt is from <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://islandpress.org/books/lyme">"Lyme" </a>by Mary
Beth Pfeiffer. </font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ehn.org/migratory-birds-are-moving-lyme-disease-to-new-places-and-peoples-2561494303.html">http://www.ehn.org/migratory-birds-are-moving-lyme-disease-to-new-places-and-peoples-2561494303.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
[genomic planning]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180424133553.htm">New
model could help build communities of climate change-defying
trees</a></b><br>
Researchers in Australia have developed a model to help build plant
communities that are more resilient to climate change.<br>
Their research, published in the journal eLife, could lead to
improved decisions around where seeds are sourced during
reforestation efforts, to ensure that newly planted trees are strong
enough to tolerate their future climate.<br>
"Many species are facing rapid changes in their environments due to
global warming and other human disturbances. Increased variation in
a species' genetic material, known as its genome, may allow a
species to better adapt to these changes," says first author Megan
Supple, who conducted this research while a postdoctoral researcher
at The Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra.<br>
"Those working on projects to restore native plant communities need
to decide what seeds to plant at a given reforestation site. Genomic
analyses can be used to identify source populations that are better
adapted to the current and predicted climates at these sites. By
selecting seeds with a high level of genomic diversity and
adaptations to climate, the restored community will be more
resilient to the changes they face in the future."..<br>
<font size="-2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180424133553.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180424133553.htm</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Viewing data]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.recode.net/2018/4/21/17263376/earthtime-satellite-time-lapse-photos-humans-planet-earth">Watch
how quickly humans are changing the planet in these animations
of NASA satellite images</a></b><br>
From rising sea levels to an increase in wildfires.<br>
By Shirin Ghaffary <br>
A new website, EarthTime, aims to shows how humans have dramatically
changed the planet - such as how glaciers are melting and where
refugees are migrating - through time-lapse satellite photos.<br>
The site's interactive maps use images taken by NASA satellites from
1984 to 2016, overlaid with over 300 geospatial data sets from the
World Bank, Berkeley Earth and WWF, among others.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.recode.net/2018/4/21/17263376/earthtime-satellite-time-lapse-photos-humans-planet-earth">https://www.recode.net/2018/4/21/17263376/earthtime-satellite-time-lapse-photos-humans-planet-earth</a></font><br>
[visualizing data]<br>
<b><a href="https://earthtime.org/#stories">UNLOCKING THE POWER OF
DATA</a></b><br>
EarthTime enables users to interact with visualizations of the
Earth's transformation over time. Combining huge data sets with
images captured by NASA satellites between 1984 and 2016, EarthTime
brings to life patterns of natural change and human impact.<br>
Users of EarthTime can view compelling animations accompanied by
fact-based narratives from international experts. Drawing upon
EarthTime's vast data library, the stories below are curated in
honor of Earth Day 2018. Explore these stories to learn more about
our collective impact on the planet.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://earthtime.org/#stories">https://earthtime.org/#stories</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Academic question for the future]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://medium.com/just-transitions/stevis-e147a9ec189a">(Re)claiming
Just Transition</a></b><br>
"We have recently entered a period of deep contestation over the
ownership and meaning of Just Transition. It is, therefore,
important to think about it systematically so that we can, at the
very least, differentiate initiatives that co-opt and dilute its
promise from initiatives that contribute to a global politics of
social and ecological emancipation."<br>
The Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces (ACW) research project is
pleased to share with you a new article by Collaborating Researcher,
Professor Dimitris Stevis of Colorado State University. <br>
<b>Who controls the meaning of the phrase "Just Transition"?</b><br>
Dr. Stevis argues that we have recently entered a period of deep
contestation over the ownership and meaning of Just Transition.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://medium.com/just-transitions/stevis-e147a9ec189a">https://medium.com/just-transitions/stevis-e147a9ec189a</a><br>
<blockquote>As any concept, whether democracy or sustainability,
becomes more prominent it becomes increasingly contested. This is
no mere disagreement over definitions. Rather it reflects
competition over investing terms with particular meanings.<br>
<br>
That is now the case with Just Transition, a concept that has been
around for several decades but has only recently become
globalized. It is important that we demand that green transitions
serve the common good because they are not inherently socially
just and, in fact, are frequently less just than other
transitions, such as gender or racial emancipation. Nor are they
necessarily ecologically just. Decarbonized industrial policy can
be as ecologically unjust as the current, carbon-based, industrial
policy by externalizing harms across space, time and ecosystems.<br>
<br>
It is, therefore, important to think about it systematically so
that we can, at the very least, differentiate initiatives that
co-opt and dilute its promise from initiatives that contribute to
a global politics of social and ecological emancipation.<br>
</blockquote>
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<br>
[future gasoline complexity]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/04/24/octane-surprising-reason-shale-oil-makes-poor-fuel-high-tech-cars-and-trucks">Low
Octane: The Surprising Reason Shale Oil Makes a Poor Fuel for
High-Tech Cars and Trucks</a></b><br>
By Sharon Kelly - Tuesday, April 24, 2018<br>
Shale oil, which the Energy Information Administration projects will
represent a rising proportion of American oil supplies in the coming
decades, has a surprising Achilles heel: its low octane levels,
which make it a poor fit for the high-efficiency car engines of the
future.<br>
For financially troubled shale drillers, that's bad news, since it
suggests demand for their oil could fall even if the price of a
higher-octane oil barrel rises.<br>
For the rest of the country, shale oil's quality issues raise
important questions about whether building infrastructure to support
decades of shale oil production is smart public policy, because a
shale oil boom could ironically spell higher prices at the gas pump
for American drivers. Or if shale oil makes regular but not premium
gas cheap, that could deter Americans from buying premium-fueled
cars despite better gas mileage, undermining plans to cut tailpipe
pollution by building better engines...<br>
<font size="-1">more at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/04/24/octane-surprising-reason-shale-oil-makes-poor-fuel-high-tech-cars-and-trucks">https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/04/24/octane-surprising-reason-shale-oil-makes-poor-fuel-high-tech-cars-and-trucks</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Video Lesson in Ice Melting - call it paleo-cryo-climatology]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71l9lzLsBRc">Meltwater
Pulse 2B</a></b><br>
YaleClimateConnections<br>
Published on Jun 1, 2014<br>
Independent videographer Peter Sinclair's 'This is Not Cool' video
explores recent headline-grabbing research on Antarctic glacial
melting, the first video produced under the name Yale Climate
Connections, formerly The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The
Media.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71l9lzLsBRc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71l9lzLsBRc</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rachel-maddow-will-us-energy-companies-disrupt-obamas-russia-policy/2014/04/24/8c13dab6-ca6a-11e3-95f7-7ecdde72d2ea_story.html?utm_term=.48fd49a26786">This
Day in Climate History - April 25, 2014 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
April 25, 2014: In the Washington Post, Rachel Maddow discusses
the fossil fuel industry's interests in Russia.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rachel-maddow-will-us-energy-companies-disrupt-obamas-russia-policy/2014/04/24/8c13dab6-ca6a-11e3-95f7-7ecdde72d2ea_story.html?utm_term=.48fd49a26786">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rachel-maddow-will-us-energy-companies-disrupt-obamas-russia-policy/2014/04/24/8c13dab6-ca6a-11e3-95f7-7ecdde72d2ea_story.html?utm_term=.48fd49a26786</a>
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