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<font size="+1"><i>May 14, 2018</i></font><br>
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[The first one named will be Alberto]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/05/early_season_gulf_storm_hurric.html">Early
season Gulf storm? Hurricane center says there's a medium chance</a></b><br>
By Leigh Morgan<br>
Hurricane season doesn't officially start until June 1, but there
could be something brewing in the Gulf already.<br>
The National Hurricane Center on Sunday said there's a chance - a
medium chance - a subtropical or tropical system could develop in
the southeastern Gulf in the next few days.<br>
Where could it go? Early indications are it could head toward the
northern Gulf Coast by Wednesday night.<br>
On Sunday the large area of disturbed weather stretched from western
Cuba across the southeastern Gulf into the Florida Peninsula.<br>
The hurricane center said the system is expected to move slowly
northward over the next few days, and it could acquire the features
of a tropical or subtropical storm as it does.<br>
The chances of a depression forming over the next five days were 40
percent, according to the hurricane center.<br>
Development or not, the system will bring rain to Florida and the
northeastern Gulf over the next few days...<br>
<font size="-1">more at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/05/early_season_gulf_storm_hurric.html">https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/05/early_season_gulf_storm_hurric.html</a></font><br>
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[Hurricane study]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/2018/05/12/human-caused-climate-change-is-supercharging-hurricanes/#.WvkSIogvwuV">Human-caused
climate change is "supercharging" hurricanes, raising the risk
of major damage</a></b><br>
By Tom Yulsman | May 12, 2018 <br>
The North Atlantic hurricane season last year was extraordinary for
a number reasons, but none more memorable than these:<br>
Irma, Maria and Harvey.<br>
These three hurricanes brought enormous devastation to portions of
the continental United States, the Caribbean islands, and other
parts of the tropical Atlantic. Harvey alone produced more than 100<span> </span><em>trillion</em><span> </span>kilograms
of rain, causing cataclysmic flooding along the Gulf Coast.<br>
Now, a <span></span><a
href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2018EF000825"
target="_blank" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;
color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">new study</a><span> </span>links Harvey's
devastation to climate change resulting from human activities.<br>
<span class="current-selection">As the summer of 2017 began</span><span
class="current-selection">, the amount of heat stored in the
world's oceans was<span> </span></span><span
class="current-selection">the<span> </span></span><span
class="current-selection">highest ever recorded. That was also</span><span
class="current-selection"> true </span><span
class="current-selection">within the Gulf<span> </span></span><span
class="current-selection">of Mexico, where Harvey prowled,
according to the study, appearing in the journal Earth's Future.</span><br>
<span class="current-selection">All that heat pumped Harvey up with
enormous amounts of moisture - making it one of the wettest storm
systems in United States history.<span> </span></span>The highest
rainfall amount recorded on land during Harvey totaled 48.20 inches
at a rain gauge on Clear Creek near Houston. That ranked as the
highest rainfall amount in a single storm for any place in the
continental United States,<span> </span><a
href="https://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/reviewing-hurricane-harveys-catastrophic-rain-and-flooding"
target="_blank" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;
color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">according to NOAA</a>.<br>
And by<span> </span><a
href="https://twitter.com/JeffLindner1/status/903412604902760448"
target="_blank" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;
color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">one estimate</a>, 1,300 square miles of
Harris County's 1,800 square miles was inundated with 1.5 feet of
water from Harvey.<br>
<font size="-1">More at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/2018/05/12/human-caused-climate-change-is-supercharging-hurricanes/#.WvkSIogvwuV">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/2018/05/12/human-caused-climate-change-is-supercharging-hurricanes/#.WvkSIogvwuV</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Only in America - rather, only in the US]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencealert.com/climate-change-denial-conservative-conspiracy-ideology-us">In
The Vast Majority of The World, Climate Denial Is Not Linked to
Conservatism</a></b><br>
Sorry, America.<br>
9 MAY 2018<br>
In the US, studies have repeatedly shown a link between political
conservatism and climate denial, but a new study has revealed that
this relationship may not exist in most other countries.<br>
Many of the prior studies that have found a link between
conspiratorial or conservative ideologies and the rejection of
anthropogenic climate change have been based in the US.<br>
The lack of international research on the topic was what ultimately
piqued the interest of some Australian scientists.<br>
Researchers from the University of Queensland set out to fill in the
gaps in our knowledge - in large part because of the 2016 US
elections.<br>
"I was intrigued why, of the 17 candidates who campaigned to be the
Republican nominee for the 2016 United States presidential campaign,
many were openly skeptical of climate science," said co-author
Professor Matthew Hornsey from UQ's School of Psychology and School
of Communication and Arts.<br>
"This mainstream rejection of climate science among a major
political party was not evident in other countries, which raised the
question: is the tendency for conservatives to be more climate
sceptical a global phenomenon, or something that's distinctively
American?"<br>
Examining the link between political conservatism and climate denial
on an international scale, the UQ researchers surveyed over 5,000
people across 25 countries.<br>
The study found that in around three quarters of the countries
surveyed, conservatives didn't show any more denial of climate
change than their political counterparts...<br>
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<b>If Hornsey's theory is correct, it would be more accurate to say
that the link between conservatism and climate denial appears
unique to countries with powerful fossil fuel industries.</b><br>
<font size="-1">More at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencealert.com/climate-change-denial-conservative-conspiracy-ideology-us">https://www.sciencealert.com/climate-change-denial-conservative-conspiracy-ideology-us</a></font><br>
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[Survey Says!]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.earth.com/news/jump-republicans-climate-change-real/">Survey:
Recent jump in Republicans who say climate change is real</a></b><br>
By: Kay Vandette on 05.12.2018<br>
A new survey reveals a recent jump in the number of Republicans who
agree that climate change is caused by an increase in carbon
emissions from human activities.<br>
Researchers from the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/">Yale Program on
Climate Change Communications</a> conducted the research, which
included survey responses from 1,067 registered voters.<br>
The goal of the project was to better understand how registered
voters from all parties view global warming and climate policies.<br>
The results were reported by U.S. News & World Report and showed
a sudden 9-point uptick in registered GOP voters who said they
believed climate change was fueled by emissions.<br>
There was a 14-point leap in the liberal and moderate Republican
voters who agreed with climate change studies, and there was even a
5-point rise among conservative Republican voters who feel more
must be done to mitigate climate change.<br>
This now means that over 59 percent of registered voters in the
United States believe climate change is driven by humans.<br>
For the Yale researchers, the switch in Republican voters was
surprising and the reason, according to U.S. News, is tribal
politics....<br>
<font size="-1">more at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.earth.com/news/jump-republicans-climate-change-real/">https://www.earth.com/news/jump-republicans-climate-change-real/</a></font><br>
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<br>
Money Matters [international politics]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.thenews.com.pk/magazine/money-matters/316269-water-and-climate-change">Water
and climate change</a></b><br>
May 14, 2018 By Zeeshan Haider<br>
Agriculture has been and will remain the mainstay of Pakistan's
economy. The agriculture sector showed negative growth in fiscal
year 2015-16 but fortunately has shown steady growth since then.
This year, agriculture posted a growth of 5.8 percent.<br>
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Building of big water reservoirs has become a highly explosive and
politicised issue in Pakistan. Because of the extremely polarised
political situation in the country, no government has taken any
serious initiatives to evolve a national consensus to get rid of
differences on controversial projects. A lot of hullaballoo is
created for political point-scoring, but no serious attempt is made
to address this issue.<br>
To top it all, we need to keep in mind that we are heavily dependent
for water on resources originating from India or from the Indian
occupied Kashmir under the Indus Water Treaty. With Narendra Modi's
threatening posture over water flows, it is time for the government
to stand up to this belligerence and use all bilateral and
multilateral as well as international forums to resolve this issue.<br>
The governments habitually have confined themselves to announcing
massive monetary packages to different sectors of the economy in the
hope of boosting their performance, and have mostly shied away from
addressing the long-running and major causes hampering their
progress...<br>
<font size="-1">More at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.thenews.com.pk/magazine/money-matters/316269-water-and-climate-change">https://www.thenews.com.pk/magazine/money-matters/316269-water-and-climate-change</a></font><br>
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<br>
[After Mother's Day]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/05/13/recognizing-the-mother-of-global-warming/">Recognizing
the Mother of Global Warming</a></b><br>
May 13, 2018<br>
Righting a Scientific Wrong<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018985/righting-scientific-wrong">A
symposium credits physicist Eunice Foote for her role in
discovering the principal cause of global warming</a></b><br>
By Jeff Mitchell - May 10, 2018<br>
By all rights, Eunice Newton Foote should be a household name.<br>
More than a century and a half ago, Foote was part of one of the
most important scientific discoveries of our time: revealing the
role of carbon dioxide in the earth's greenhouse effect.<br>
And yet relatively few people have heard of her.<br>
Foote was the first person to demonstrate that carbon dioxide is a
greenhouse gas, and also the first person to suggest that an
atmosphere containing high levels of carbon dioxide would lead to a
warmer earth.<br>
Her research findings, contained in the paper "Circumstances
affecting the heat of the sun's rays," were presented at the August
23, 1856, annual meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. Being female, however, Foote was not allowed
to read her own paper. Instead, Professor Joseph Henry of the
Smithsonian Institution spoke on her behalf....<br>
<font size="-1">more at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018985/righting-scientific-wrong">http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018985/righting-scientific-wrong</a></font><br>
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EUNICE FOOTE<br>
<a href="https://www.davidmorrow.net/eunice-foote/">"CIRCUMSTANCES
AFFECTING THE HEAT OF THE SUN'S RAYS" (1856)</a><br>
You can<span> </span><a
href="https://www.davidmorrow.net/s/foote_circumstances-affecting-heat-suns-rays_1856.pdf"
style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
text-decoration: none; padding-bottom: 0.05em; border-bottom: 1px
solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out,
color 0.15s ease-out; word-wrap: break-word;">download the full
paper as a PDF</a><span> </span>or<span> </span><a target="_blank"
href="https://archive.org/stream/mobot31753002152491#page/381/mode/2up"
style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
text-decoration: none; padding-bottom: 0.05em; border-bottom: 1px
solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out,
color 0.15s ease-out; word-wrap: break-word;">see it in the
original journal from the Internet Archive</a>. You can cite the
paper as:<br>
<a target="_blank"
href="https://www.davidmorrow.net/s/foote_circumstances-affecting-heat-suns-rays_1856.pdf"
style="background-color: transparent; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);
text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.05em;
border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out, color 0.15s ease-out;
border-top-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); border-right-color: rgba(0,
0, 0, 0.15); border-left-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); word-wrap:
break-word;">Eunice Foote, "Circumstances Affecting the Heat of
the Sun's Rays," <em style="word-wrap: break-word;">The American
Journal of Science and Arts</em> 22, no. 46 (November
1856): 383-384.</a><br>
You can read more about the significance of Foote's research in<span> </span><a
target="_blank"
href="http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2011/70092sorenson/ndx_sorenson.pdf"
style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
text-decoration: none; padding-bottom: 0.05em; border-bottom: 1px
solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out,
color 0.15s ease-out; word-wrap: break-word;">Raymond Sorenson's
2011 article on Foote's research</a> and<span> </span><a
target="_blank"
href="http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2018/70317sorenson/ndx_sorenson.pdf"
style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
text-decoration: none; padding-bottom: 0.05em; border-bottom: 1px
solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out,
color 0.15s ease-out; word-wrap: break-word;">his 2018 addendum to
it</a>, as well as in<span> </span><a target="_blank"
href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lady-scientist-helped-revolutionize-climate-science-didnt-get-credit-180961291/"
style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
text-decoration: none; padding-bottom: 0.05em; border-bottom: 1px
solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out,
color 0.15s ease-out; word-wrap: break-word;">Leila McNeill's 2016
article on Foote's discovery in<span> </span><em style="word-wrap:
break-word;">Smithsonian Magazine</em></a>.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.davidmorrow.net/eunice-foote/">https://www.davidmorrow.net/eunice-foote/</a><br>
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<br>
[CLIMATE ETHICS & POLICY]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.davidmorrow.net/climate-ethics-policy"><b>FAIRNESS
IN ALLOCATING THE GLOBAL EMISSIONS BUDGET</b></a><br>
Environmental Values (2017)<br>
DOI 10.3197/096327117X15046905490335<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.davidmorrow.net/s/morrow_2017_fair-allocation_extended-abstract.pdf">[Download
a one-page summary here]</a><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.davidmorrow.net/s/morrow_2017_fair-allocation_extended-abstract.pdf"><br>
</a>One central question of climate justice is how to fairly
allocate the global emissions budget. Some commentators hold that
the concept of fairness is hopelessly equivocal on this point.
Others claim that we need a complete theory of distributive justice
to answer the question. This paper argues to the contrary that,
given only weak assumptions about fairness, we can show that
fairness requires an allocation that is at least as prioritarian as
the equal per capita view. Since even the equal per capita view is
more prioritarian than is politically feasible, fairness is univocal
enough for all practical purposes.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.davidmorrow.net/climate-ethics-policy">https://www.davidmorrow.net/climate-ethics-policy</a><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/12/AR2007101200827_pf.html">This
Day in Climate History - May 14, 1989</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
May 14, 1989: In a Washington Post op-ed, Sen. Al Gore (D-TN) notes:<br>
<blockquote>"As a nation and a government, we must see that
America's future is inextricably tied to the fate of the globe. In
effect, the environment is becoming a matter of national security
-- an issue that directly and imminently menaces the interests of
the state or the welfare of the people.<br>
<br>
"To date, the national-security agenda has been dominated by
issues of military security, embedded in the context of global
struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union - a
struggle often waged through distant surrogates, but which has
always harbored the risk of direct confrontation and nuclear war.
Given the recent changes in Soviet behavior, there is growing
optimism that this long, dark period may be passing. This may in
turn open the international agenda for other urgent matters and
for the release of enormous resources, now committed to war,
toward other objectives. Many of us hope that the global
environment will be the new dominant concern...<br>
<br>
"When nations perceive that they are threatened at the strategic
level, they may be induced to think of drastic responses,
involving sharp discontinuities from everyday approaches to
policy. In military terms, this is the point when the United
States begins to think of invoking nuclear weapons. The global
environment crisis may demand responses that are comparatively
radical.<br>
<br>
"At present, despite some progress made toward limiting some
sources of the problem, such as CFCs, we have barely scratched the
surface. Even if all other elements of the problem are solved, a
major threat is still posed by emissions of carbon dioxide, the
exhaling breath of the industrial culture upon which our
civilization rests. The implications of the latest and best
studies on this matter are staggering. Essentially, they tell us
that with our current pattern of technology and production, we
face a choice between economic growth in the near term and massive
environmental disorder as the subsequent penalty."<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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