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<font size="+1"><i>May 6, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[Mindful comparisons in the New Yorker]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/hiroshima-kyoto-and-the-bombs-of-climate-change">Hiroshima,
Kyoto, and the Bombs of Climate Change</a></b><br>
By Bill McKibben - April 27, 2018<br>
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is filled with the texts of
treaties that have brought the number of warheads slowly, steadily
down; we could see that mushroom cloud and understand its danger in
our gut. With climate change, it's different. The explosion of a
billion pistons inside a billion cylinders every minute of every day
just doesn't induce the same tremble. True, Trump is alone among
world leaders in dismissing global warming, but most of his peers
might as well agree: they've done very little of what's required
even to begin addressing this issue. As a result, the explosions go
off constantly. Scientists estimate that, each day, our added
emissions trap the heat equivalent of four hundred thousand
Hiroshima-sized bombs, which is why the Arctic has half as much ice
as it did in the nineteen-eighties, why the great ocean currents
have begun to slow, why we see floods and storms and fires in such
sad proportion. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only atomic bombs we
ever dropped; climate bombs rain down daily, and the death toll
mounts unstoppably.<font size="-1"><br>
- - - - -<br>
</font>Between the power of an amoral industry willing to lie and
the particular tricks of human psychology that make us willing to
overlook our greatest threat, it's possible that as a species we'll
slide straight into a new, hotter, more desperate world without
quite recognizing it - without a Hiroshima moment at which, at the
very least, we finally acknowledge reality.<font size="-1"><br>
Bill McKibben,<br>
More at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/hiroshima-kyoto-and-the-bombs-of-climate-change">https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/hiroshima-kyoto-and-the-bombs-of-climate-change</a></font><br>
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[On the other hand]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://psmag.com/environment/extreme-weather-cant-shake-climate-change-beliefs">EXTREME
WEATHER CAN'T SHAKE CLIMATE-CHANGE BELIEFS</a></b><br>
New research finds attitudes toward climate-change mitigation are
only minimally and fleetingly affected by severe weather.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://psmag.com/environment/extreme-weather-cant-shake-climate-change-beliefs">https://psmag.com/environment/extreme-weather-cant-shake-climate-change-beliefs</a></font><br>
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[Research says]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378017309135">Extreme
weather exposure and support for climate change adaptation</a></b><br>
Highlights:<br>
Individuals experiencing extreme weather activity more likely to
support climate adaptation policy.<br>
Effect of extreme weather activity on opinion is modest and not
consistent across specific adaptation policies.<br>
Effect of extreme weather activity on opinion diminishes over time.<br>
"The data thus suggest that experiencing more severe weather may not
appreciably increase support for climate adaptation policies."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378017309135">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378017309135</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[lessons in polite discourse]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/05/05/for-katherine-hayhoe-trolls-are-just-part-of-the-job/">For
Katherine Hayhoe, Trolls are just Part of the Job</a></b><br>
May 5, 2018<br>
When I first profiled Katharine Hayhoe in 2012, having met her at a
conference at the University of Michigan. Readers here got her story
in an interview she told me later was still her favorite.<br>
At the time, it was 2 years before she became one of Time Magazine's
most influential 100. (subtle hint that you learn stuff and meet
people here first - because you support Dark Snow Project)<br>
In recent years, the messages from climate cranks haven't changed
much in substance or tone..<br>
Time:<br>
<blockquote>There's something fascinating about a smart person who
defies stereotype. That's what makes my friend Katharine Hayhoe -
a Texas Tech climatologist and an evangelical Christian - so
interesting.<br>
<br>
It's hard to be a good steward of the planet if you don't accept
the hard science behind what's harming it, and it can be just as
hard to take action to protect our world if you don't love it as
the rare gift it is. For many people, that implies a creator.
Katharine and her husband, evangelical pastor Andrew Farley, have
authored the defining book for the planet-loving believer, A
Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based
Decisions. I got to know Katharine as we worked on Showtime's
climate documentary Years of Living Dangerously. But we are all
getting to know and benefit from her work.<br>
</blockquote>
Below, watch Dr. Hayhoe deflect an attack by a posturing local pol
in Austin - even-tempered, cheerful, respectful, and surgical.<br>
A model for us all.<br>
YouTube video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swJTAAs0ZsU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swJTAAs0ZsU</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swJTAAs0ZsU">Katharine
Hayhoe Assailed by Angry Climate Denier in Austin</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/05/05/for-katherine-hayhoe-trolls-are-just-part-of-the-job/">https://climatecrocks.com/2018/05/05/for-katherine-hayhoe-trolls-are-just-part-of-the-job/</a></font><br>
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[Now for our classic Sunday Sermon:]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMJKkweZN6w">Climate
Change: Faith and Fact</a></b><br>
Moyers & Company - Published 2014<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://billmoyers.com/episode/climate-change-next-generation/">https://billmoyers.com/episode/climate-change-next-generation/</a><br>
Christian and climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe talks to Bill about
ending the gridlock between politics, science and faith<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMJKkweZN6w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMJKkweZN6w</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[remember pristine lakes?]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43990403">New
climate 'feedback loop' discovered in freshwater lakes</a></b><br>
By Matt McGrath - Environment correspondent<br>
Methane emissions from lakes in the northern hemisphere could almost
double over the next 50 years because of a novel "feedback loop" say
scientists.<br>
Climate change is boosting the proportion of cattail plants growing
in and around freshwater lakes they say.<br>
But when debris from these reed beds falls in the water it triggers
a major increase in the amount of methane produced.<br>
The gas is at least 25 times more warming than CO₂ in the
atmosphere.<br>
Freshwater lakes play an important but relatively unrecognised role
in the global carbon cycle, contributing around 16% of the Earth's
natural emissions of methane - compared to just 1% from all the
world's oceans.<br>
The gas is produced by microbes in the sediment at the bottom of
lakes who consume organic matter that falls into the water from
plants and trees that live close to the shore.<br>
The amount of methane generated according to this study, varies
considerably depending on what enters the lake.<br>
The research team carried out tests in the laboratory that compared
the impact of coniferous and deciduous trees with debris from
cattails (often known in the UK as bulrushes).<br>
- - - -<br>
"Methane production is currently underestimated in global climate
models," said Dr Sapna Sharma, an expert in climate change impacts
on lakes from York University, Toronto.<br>
"This study was able to elucidate a mechanism by which lakes may
produce even more methane that previously thought. Uncovering
another potential source of methane production from boreal lakes is
useful to further understanding global carbon cycles and ultimately
improve climate projections."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43990403">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43990403</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[The Guardian]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/04/california-burning-life-among-the-wildfires-climate-change">California
burning: life among the wildfires</a></b><br>
People used to roll their eyes at my gloomy talk of climate change.
Then the big blaze came.<br>
(more at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://nplusonemag.com/issue-31/essays/an-account-of-my-hut/">https://nplusonemag.com/issue-31/essays/an-account-of-my-hut/</a>)<br>
By Christina Nichol<br>
<blockquote>"We have to cut carbon emissions now," I said. "Here's
an article about what we can do to stay below a one-degree rise.
There are solutions. If you were to really internalise that we are
the first generation to see the effects of climate change and the
last generation to be able to do anything about it, would you
change your life?"<br>
Even while I spoke, I could hear myself sounding like a maniac. I
kept reminding myself that people don't respond well to threats,
to cajoling, to end-of-the-world scenarios. But I couldn't help
it. I was in a bad mood because it was so hot outside.<br>
<br>
"Yes, it's the right thing to do," my boyfriend finally said,
calmly. "But if it were really that bad, as bad as you say, don't
you think Google would be doing something about it?"<br>
On the fourth night of the fires, the humidity plummeted again,
and anxiety peaked. A dry wind was expected to blow almost as
strongly as on the night the fires started.<br>
<br>
I packed a suitcase full of clothes and looked around my room.
Should I pack the vase I bought in Turkey? How about the old
Soviet tourist books about Tbilisi? How was it possible to choose
between items of sentimental value? Better to leave it all.<br>
"At least we have the public pool across the street," my mom said.
We'd heard about <a
href="http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-sonoma-fire-20171012-htmlstory.html">the
couple who took refuge in their neighbour's pool</a> while their
own house burned. They stayed in the water for six hours, covering
their faces with wet shirts whenever they had to come up to
breathe. "How long does it take for a house to burn?" the woman
had wondered underwater.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1">A longer version of this story appeared under the
title <a
href="https://nplusonemag.com/issue-31/essays/an-account-of-my-hut/">An
Account of My Hut in the Spring issue of n+1 magazine</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/04/california-burning-life-among-the-wildfires-climate-change">https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/04/california-burning-life-among-the-wildfires-climate-change</a></font><br>
- - - - - <br>
[see the video of their account]<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-sonoma-fire-20171012-htmlstory.html">They
survived six hours in a pool as a wildfire burned their
neighborhood to the ground</a></b><br>
October 12, 2017<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-sonoma-fire-20171012-htmlstory.html">http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-sonoma-fire-20171012-htmlstory.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[bats are mammals]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43812484">Extreme
weather 'potentially catastrophic' for bats</a></b><br>
By Helen Briggs<br>
BBC News<br>
Extreme weather appears to be disrupting the life cycle of Europe's
bats.<br>
Scientists were alarmed to find that some bats in Portugal skipped
winter hibernation altogether this year while others gave birth
early.<br>
The findings add to growing fears that rising temperatures are
having unpredictable effects on bats, birds and other wildlife.<br>
Bats born early in the year may suffer due to lack of insect food.<br>
"It's a phenological mismatch," said Dr Hugo Rebelo of the
University of Porto, who is studying the impact of climate change on
several Mediterranean bat species.<br>
"What this means is that the bat birth is more or less synchronised
with the time of emergence of insects so that when bats give birth
there are plenty of resources to feed on and then to feed their own
pups.<br>
"With these chaotic weather patterns we are having now in winter and
spring we don't know if everything is being mixed up. "<br>
Underground roosts<br>
Rare bat species have been routinely monitored in Portugal at their
underground roosts since the 1980s.<br>
In order to survive the winter months, bats must hibernate as there
are not enough insects flying around in the winter to meet their
energy demands.<br>
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If the bats emerge from hibernation too early, they struggle to find
insect food for themselves and their young, particularly if there is
a period of spring rain.<br>
This can lead to malnutrition and "huge mortality events".<br>
"We are completely in the dark," said Dr Rebelo. "We don't know if
the loss of hibernation will be beneficial and bats will be
overweight and more fit to reproduce or on the other hand they are
having early births and they are not adapted to the spring rains."<br>
He said bat roosts have increased in temperature by as much as six
to eight degrees in past decades.<br>
- - - -<br>
Temperature changes may affect the hibernation of bats in several
ways, including the length and timing of hibernation, breeding
success of female bats, and the types of insects available for bats
to feed on.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43812484">http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43812484</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://grist.org/politics/is-obama-the-environmental-president/">This
Day in Climate History - May 6, 2013</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
May 6, 2013: In Grist, David Roberts reacts to Jon Chait's May 5 New
York magazine piece declaring President Obama "the environmental
president":<br>
<blockquote>"Is Obama a success on climate compared to what needs to
be done? Ha ha. No. Of course not. But then all world leaders fail
that test. Chait says 17 percent carbon reductions by 2020 is
greens’ 'holy grail,' but it’s more like a moldy grail. We now
know that much more is needed. For the U.S. to truly do its part,
to achieve carbon zero by 2040 or so, would require massive
systems change, an all-hands-on-deck wartime mobilization. Obama
is not delivering that, or anything close, nor could he." <br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://grist.org/politics/is-obama-the-environmental-president/">http://grist.org/politics/is-obama-the-environmental-president/</a><br>
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