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<font size="+1"><i>June 20, 2018</i></font><br>
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[check #MetsUnite]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2018/06/19/tv-meteorologists-unite-metsunite-for-climate-change-on-the-summer-solstice/#76ae5908255d">TV
Meteorologists Unite For Climate Change On The Summer Solstice</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2018/06/19/tv-meteorologists-unite-metsunite-for-climate-change-on-the-summer-solstice/#76ae5908255d">https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2018/06/19/tv-meteorologists-unite-metsunite-for-climate-change-on-the-summer-solstice/#76ae5908255d</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Everyone is heating up]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/merkel-climate-change-fact-laments-us-stance-55995584">Merkel
says climate change is a fact, laments US stance</a></b><br>
German Chancellor Angela Merkel took aim Tuesday at U.S. President
Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris accord, calling
the move "very regrettable" at a time when the overwhelming majority
of countries worldwide are trying to limit global warming.<br>
"We know climate change isn't a matter of faith," she told an
international climate meeting in Berlin. "It's a fact."<br>
Trump announced last year that the U.S. will pull out of the accord
negotiated by his predecessor unless he can "get a better deal."<br>
Merkel said Germany remains committed to the Paris climate accord
fighting global warming but acknowledged that the country still
needs to do more to curb emissions, particularly in the transport
sector, if it wants to meet its own goals.<br>
The long-time German leader urged the 178 countries that have
ratified the 2015 Paris accord to agree by the end of the year on a
rulebook for its implementation...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/merkel-climate-change-fact-laments-us-stance-55995584">https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/merkel-climate-change-fact-laments-us-stance-55995584</a></font><br>
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PUBLIC RELEASE: 19-JUN-2018<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://news.ku.edu/2018/06/18/new-model-gauging-ice-sheet-movement-may-improve-sea-level-rise-predictions">New
model for gauging ice sheet movement may improve sea-level-rise
predictions</a></b><br>
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS<br>
"Our paper says the parameter most used in ice sheet models is
incorrect -- the Weertman model -- developed in the 1950s based on a
theoretical framework that how fast ice moves at the bed is based on
friction and the amount of water at the bed. We're saying that
friction doesn't matter."<br>
Instead, the KU researchers found subglacial water pressure, the
water pressure between the bottom of the ice sheet and the hard bed
underneath, controls the speed of the ice flow...<br>
- - - -<br>
"We can calculate the friction at the bed of glaciers by
investigating spatial patterns of surface velocity. Surprisingly, we
found that the two are not at all correlated. Pressure is different
and much harder to measure...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://news.ku.edu/2018/06/18/new-model-gauging-ice-sheet-movement-may-improve-sea-level-rise-predictions">http://news.ku.edu/2018/06/18/new-model-gauging-ice-sheet-movement-may-improve-sea-level-rise-predictions</a><br>
</font>more at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2017/09/geologist-will-upgrade-monitoring-greeland-glacier-critical-sea-level-rise">https://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2017/09/geologist-will-upgrade-monitoring-greeland-glacier-critical-sea-level-rise</a><br>
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<br>
[litigation brings on many changes]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/06/19/colorado-climate-lawsuit-exxon-suncor/">Colorado
Lawsuit Says Oil Companies Conspired to Deceive Public on
Climate</a></b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/06/19/colorado-climate-lawsuit-exxon-suncor/"><br>
</a></b>By Ucilia Wang<br>
The three Colorado communities that filed a climate liability
lawsuit against ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy have added a conspiracy
allegation to the complaint, which describes attempts by the two
companies to deceive the public about the impact of fossil fuels on
the climate. <br>
The amendment came two months after the city and county of Boulder,
along with the County of San Miguel, first filed suit to seek a
yet-specified amount of money to compensate for the damage caused by
climate change. The communities are demanding the oil companies pay
for efforts to adapt to and minimize the impact of climate change,
which includes more severe wildfires, drought, floods, loss of
mountain snowpack and pest-infested forests. The communities contend
that Exxon and Suncor deliberately misled the public by failing to
disclose the climate impact of fossil fuels. According to the
lawsuit, both companies knew in the 1960s that they were selling
goods that are the major drivers of global warming and cause public
harm.<br>
The added conspiracy claim is meant to highlight company actions
that were already in the initial complaint, said Marco Simons, legal
counsel for EarthRights International, an advocacy group that is
providing legal support for the communities. If the new allegation
is found true in court, it can make each company liable for the
other's conduct, he said. <br>
"They both have a major presence in the state of Colorado, and they
have connections to each other with respect to their conduct in
Colorado," Simons said.<br>
Both companies have yet to file their response to the lawsuit.
Neither responded to a request for comment on the lawsuit. <br>
Colorado is a strong U.S. foothold for Suncor, a Canadian oil sands
company. It runs one refinery and 47 gas and diesel stations in the
state. Suncor says it supplies about 35 percent of the gasoline and
diesel in Colorado.<br>
Exxon and Suncor have a strong business relationship. Suncor
licenses the ExxonMobil brand for some of its retail stores in
Colorado. <br>
Suncor co-owns an oil sands company, Syncrude Canada, with investors
that include Imperial Oil, which is majority owned by Exxon. <br>
The lawsuit is one of 13 filed recently by American communities
seeking compensation from fossil fuel companies for climate impacts.
The most recent lawsuit came from Washington State's King County,
which includes Seattle. Other cities that have filed lawsuits
include San Francisco, Oakland and Santa Cruz ..<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/06/19/colorado-climate-lawsuit-exxon-suncor/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/06/19/colorado-climate-lawsuit-exxon-suncor/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Activism - Washington State Sierra Club]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://act.sierraclub.org/actions/National?actionId=AR0116024&id=7010Z000002Aw4PQAS">Say
NO to Coal Mines in Washington!</a></b><br>
Stop the coal mine!<br>
After more than 20 years of dormancy, the Pacific Coast Coal Company
is trying to resume open pit mining at the John Henry No. 1 Coal
Mine in Black Diamond, WA, putting our water and communities at
risk.<br>
The Pacific Coast Coal Company (PCCC) has applied for a wastewater
discharge permit under the Clean Water Act. If the permit is granted
by the Washington Department of Ecology, it would reopen coal-mining
operations and dump toxic contaminants into our waterways. The
Department of Ecology is accepting your public comments now!<br>
The John Henry coal mine would emit 250,000 tons of carbon pollution
each year, the equivalent of 51,000 cars. PCCC is also a known
polluter. The company has polluted local creeks and lakes with
phosphorus, copper, and other pollutants, illegally disposed of
waste, and failed to clean up waste at the mine. Reopening the mine
would discharge more toxic metals into Ginder Lake, Mud Lake Creek,
and Lake 12.<br>
Tell the Department of Ecology to protect our waterways and
communities from coal pollution by denying the discharge permit for
the John Henry coal mine.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://act.sierraclub.org/actions/National?actionId=AR0116024&id=7010Z000002Aw4PQAS">https://act.sierraclub.org/actions/National?actionId=AR0116024&id=7010Z000002Aw4PQAS</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Military thinking]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2018/06/19/climate-change-remains-a-consistent-theme-at-shangri-la-security-dialogue/">Climate
Change Remains a Consistent Theme at Shangri-La Security
Dialogue</a></b><br>
U.S._Japan_and_Australian_Trilateral_meeting_Shangri-La 2018<br>
By Steve Tebbe, Policy Associate<br>
When Florence Parly, the French Minister of the Armed Forces, called
to "disarm the climate" at this year's IISS Shangri-La Dialogue
(17th Asia Security Summit), it helped exemplify how seriously the
summit's panelists were taking the security risks of climate change.
The Dialogue continued the pattern of recent Shangri-La Dialogues
and other security conferences, with a range of leading defense
ministers and practitioners speaking on how the changing climate has
impacted their security.<br>
Asia-Pacific defense ministers, military and civilian staff gather
in Shangri-La every year to discuss the trends and threats in
Indo-Pacific regional security. News outlets have covered the
emphasis on ASEAN terrorism, the Korean Peninsula, and emphasized
the Indo-Pacific space across the Dialogue. However, climate
security was included in a number of speaker's talks this year,
including Minister Parly, Ron Mark, the Minister of Defence of New
Zealand, and Philip Barton, the Director-General for Consular and
Security at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the UK. In the
Sixth Special Session focusing on regional security cooperation,
Vice Admiral Herve de Bonnaventure, the Acting Director-General of
International Relations and Strategy at the French Ministry of the
Armed Forces noted that he believes climate directly changes
military operations:<br>
"Drought, floods, rising water level, coral reef erosions are not
just natural events. They are also military events because they
redraw maps, create new tension, displace population."<br>
Many other leaders mentioned climate change, remarking on the need
to cooperate on addressing this global challenge, or the need to
prioritize fisheries cooperation among Indo-Pacific nations. The
Ministers of Defense for Japan, Australia, Germany, and Indonesia
all referenced climate change throughout their Plenary Sessions. The
keynote speaker, Indian PM Narendra Modi, brought up climate change
in context of the International Solar Alliance, an international
coalition to expand solar energy in response to the Paris Agreement.
While it is promising that so many defense minsters discuss the
risks climate change poses, the commentary from the French and New
Zealand military officials, in particular, provided a clear example
on how climate change's impacts to military operations are
continually becoming more recognized worldwide.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2018/06/19/climate-change-remains-a-consistent-theme-at-shangri-la-security-dialogue/">https://climateandsecurity.org/2018/06/19/climate-change-remains-a-consistent-theme-at-shangri-la-security-dialogue/</a></font><br>
<br>
<b><br>
</b>[Scientist's travelog 4k video]<b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih5w7si5cQw">Methane in
the Permafrost: Embracing Uncertainty in the Arctic</a></b><br>
Matobo Ltd - Published on Feb 1, 2018<br>
A group of renowned permafrost scientists meet in Svlabard in
October 2017, at the culmination of the LowPerm research project.<br>
The project was launched in 2015, with the aim of understanding
nutrient transport within permafrost landscapes that may lead to
changes in greenhouse gas production and fertilisation of the Arctic
Ocean. The evidence from the project suggests feedbacks are having a
bigger impact than previously thought.<br>
At the same time, we're minded to embrace uncertainty - and accept
that the evidence comes together gradually like a game of chess.
Sometimes it's 1 step forward, followed by 2 steps back...<br>
Funding from the Royal Geographic Society and the Joint Programme
Initiative.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih5w7si5cQw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih5w7si5cQw</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Richard B. Alley video talk at Yale Nov. 2017] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE9Gqy8Yy9w">"Sea-Level
Rise: Inconvenient, or Unmanageable?" Richard B. Alley</a></b><br>
Yale University - Published on Nov 8, 2017<br>
The warming climate is causing sea level to rise at an accelerating
rate, and this is expected to continue, depending on human decisions
about our energy system. Economic analyses generally show that
efficient response to this challenge will be more favorable than
ignoring the science and continuing with business as usual. Those
analyses often assume that we will respond efficiently, and that the
rise will be slow, small and expected. Recent events raise major
questions about our efficiency, however, and scientific advances
suggest that rapid warming could cause larger and faster rise than
previously expected, with much higher costs. If so, then there is
greater value in slowing warming and in managing coasts for
resilience, and in advancing science rapidly to reduce the large
uncertainties.<br>
Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures at Yale<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE9Gqy8Yy9w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE9Gqy8Yy9w</a><br>
</font>succinct conclusion: <font size="-1"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/WE9Gqy8Yy9w?t=43m55s">https://youtu.be/WE9Gqy8Yy9w?t=43m55s</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[classic video from 2011]<br>
Jerry Mitrovica, Harvard University<br>
Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia<br>
Published on May 18, 2011<br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhdY-ZezK7w">The
Fingerprints of Sea Level Change</a></b><br>
This meeting was held March 31-April 2, 2011 at the AAAS Auditorium,
in Washington, D.C. and was organized by Rita Colwell, Christopher
Field, Jeffrey Shaman, and Susan Solomon<br>
Meeting Overview<br>
Climate science is addressing issues that require an increasingly
interdisciplinary perspective, posing new challenges to scientists
and to the organization and support of this science. Like other
interdisciplinary activities, recognition and support of
interdisciplinary climate science by the broader scientific
community-including university and government administrators,
journal editors and reviewers, and funding agencies-is advancing
slowly. Often it is easier to recognize ideas that would represent
major advances within a discipline, than ideas that would provide
major advances but cut across multiple disciplinary foundations.
This circumstance poses a challenge to interdisciplinary research
and may slow interdisciplinary scientific advances. Such issues are
of particular significance for studies of climate impacts, which
may, for example,represent linkages between physical and social
science, as well as feedbacks among physical, chemical and
biological systems.<br>
This Sackler Colloquium will provide a forum for addressing these
issues. Specifically: How are high-quality interdisciplinary
scientific ideas best recognized and nurtured in their nascent
phase? How can we improve this recognition process so as to better
support interdisciplinary climate science advances? The colloquium
will examine the history of successful, innovative interdisciplinary
scientific advances, drawing on experience not only in climate
science but also in other fields. The purpose of the colloquium is
to identify patterns in the evolutions of research in these areas.
Are there common characteristics and/or principles that allowed
critical efforts to succeed, thereby leading to significant
advances? Did they begin as small concepts or as big, break-out
ideas? How were these efforts nurtured, supported, or hindered? At
what career stages were the primary researchers? How might future,
novel interdisciplinary ideas in climate science be better
identified?<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhdY-ZezK7w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhdY-ZezK7w</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[TED political rant - tangential to global warming, by Lawrence
Lessig]<br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHTBQCpNm5o">How the Net
destroyed democracy</a></b><br>
Lawrence Lessig - video 27 mins<br>
TEDx Talks Published on Aug 10, 2017<br>
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership
at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty,
Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the
school's Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of
Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit
Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States
Supreme Court. Lessig serves on the Board of the AXA Research Fund,
and on the advisory boards of Creative Commons and the Sunlight
Foundation. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, and has
received numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation's
Freedom Award, Fastcase 50 Award and being named one of Scientific
American's Top 50 Visionaries. Lessig holds a BA in economics and a
BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in
philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale. Visit our website <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.tedxberlin.de">http://www.tedxberlin.de</a>
for more information<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHTBQCpNm5o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHTBQCpNm5o</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Drought India - Peter Sinclair]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/06/19/water-pressure-india-faces-worst-ever-crisis/">Water
Pressure: India Faces "Worst-ever" Crisis</a></b><br>
June 19, 2018<br>
Increasing pressure on water supplies in crowded, historically
hostile, nuclear armed region. What could go wrong?<br>
<blockquote>Nearly 163 million of India's population of 1.3 billion
lack access to clean water close to home, the most of any country,
according to a 2018 report by Britain-based charity WaterAid.<br>
</blockquote>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/world/asia/shimla-india-drought-water.html">New
York Times:</a> SHIMLA, India - The people of Shimla haven't
agreed on much lately. A drought in the Himalayan resort has had
residents blaming farmers, the tourism industry and one another for
depleting the strained water supplies<br>
- - - - -<br>
"There's global warming all over India, and Shimla is no exception,"
said Vineet Chawdhry, chief secretary of the state of Himachal
Pradesh, whose capital is Shimla.<br>
But the city's ancient pipe system also leaks five million liters of
water every day, Mr. Chawdhry said in an interview in his office. A
$105 million, World Bank-backed upgrade of the system, including a
pipeline drawing water from a nearby river, is scheduled to be
finished in 2023.<br>
The strain on the water supply increases greatly during the summer
tourist season, when Shimla's population essentially doubles. In the
summer months, Mr. Chawdhry said, the city typically needs 45
million liters a day. He said the current daily supply stood at 31
million liters, and at the height of the crisis in May it was as low
as 22 million.<br>
Shimla is not the only Indian city whose water supplies are under
increasing pressure. Last year was the country's fourth hottest
since record-keeping began in 1901, with rainfall down by nearly 6
percent from 2016, according to the Indian Ministry of Earth
Sciences.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/06/19/water-pressure-india-faces-worst-ever-crisis/">https://climatecrocks.com/2018/06/19/water-pressure-india-faces-worst-ever-crisis/</a><br>
More at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.wateraid.org/us/">https://www.wateraid.org/us/</a><br>
</font><br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2003-06-25/news/0306240367_1_climate-change-global-warming-carbon-dioxide-emissions">This
Day in Climate History - June 20, 2003</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
June 20, 2003: Boston Globe columnist Derrick Z. Jackson calls out
President George W. Bush for his suppression of science:<br>
"UNDAUNTED BY accusations of cooking the books for war, President
Bush deep-fried the data on global warming.<br>
"The New York Times reported yesterday that the White House took a
draft report on the state of the environment by the Environmental
Protection Agency and deleted critical portions on climate change.
The White House knocked out references to studies that directly
mentioned industrial pollution and vehicle exhaust as contributors
to global warming."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2003-06-25/news/0306240367_1_climate-change-global-warming-carbon-dioxide-emissions">http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2003-06-25/news/0306240367_1_climate-change-global-warming-carbon-dioxide-emissions</a>
</font><br>
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