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<font size="+1"><i>July 7, 2018</i></font><br>
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[Wildfires out West]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://wildfiretoday.com/">Wildfire
Today</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wildfiretoday.com/">http://wildfiretoday.com/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.newsweek.com/wildfires-2018-map-more-60-fires-including-spring-creek-fire-burning-united-1012618">WILDFIRES
2018 MAP: MORE THAN 60 FIRES, INCLUDING THE SPRING CREEK FIRE,
BURNING IN THE UNITED STATES</a></b><br>
More than 60 large wildfires are burning throughout the United
States, particularly in the West. Fire officials in Colorado, Utah
and California are battling to control the fires as increasing heat
and severe droughts have made the blazes spread easily.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.newsweek.com/wildfires-2018-map-more-60-fires-including-spring-creek-fire-burning-united-1012618">http://www.newsweek.com/wildfires-2018-map-more-60-fires-including-spring-creek-fire-burning-united-1012618</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Fires-Burning-SoCal-San-Bernardino-Cajon-Pass-Sylmar-Alpine-487538891.html">List:
Several Fires Burning in Southern California as Temps Soar</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Fires-Burning-SoCal-San-Bernardino-Cajon-Pass-Sylmar-Alpine-487538891.html">https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Fires-Burning-SoCal-San-Bernardino-Cajon-Pass-Sylmar-Alpine-487538891.html</a></font><br>
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All-time record hot temps in California. Dozens of stations
reporting 115˚ and higher, several over 120˚. Record breaking heat a
classic signal of climate change on a warming planet. Science here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://t.co/PPbf2RwUgD">https://t.co/PPbf2RwUgD</a>
#CAwx #LAwx <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://t.co/tgQRunnAbF">https://t.co/tgQRunnAbF</a><br>
Tweet: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/ClimateSignals/status/1015376950158749696">https://twitter.com/ClimateSignals/status/1015376950158749696</a><br>
#CountyFire #PawneeFire #KlamathonFire #WestFire #CalFire
#ValleyFire #BoxFire #LionsFire<br>
Rising heat in California is drying the landscape, expanding the
fire season and priming explosive early season fires. California
wild fires and firefighting costs have exploded in parallel. <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://t.co/Em203jX96K">https://t.co/Em203jX96K</a><br>
Original Tweet: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/ClimateSignals/status/1015398902768390144">https://twitter.com/ClimateSignals/status/1015398902768390144</a><br>
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<br>
[Associated Press]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://apnews.com/2dc33645a7e140ffa63e9f5f3b8d2504">Pope
warns climate change turning Earth into desert, garbage</a></b><br>
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis urged governments on Friday to make
good on their commitments to curb global warming, warning that
climate change, continued unsustainable development and rampant
consumption threatens to turn the Earth into a vast pile of "rubble,
deserts and refuse."<br>
Francis made the appeal at a Vatican conference marking the third
anniversary of his landmark environmental encyclical "Praise Be."
The document, meant to spur action at the 2015 Paris climate
conference, called for a paradigm shift in humanity's relationship
with Mother Nature.<br>
In his remarks, Francis urged governments to honor their Paris
commitments and said institutions like the IMF and World Bank had
important roles to play in encouraging reforms promoting sustainable
development.<br>
"There is a real danger that we will leave future generations only
rubble, deserts and refuse," he warned.<br>
The Paris accord, reached by 195 countries, seeks to avoid some of
the worst effects of climate change by curbing global greenhouse gas
emissions via individual, nonbinding national plans. U.S. President
Donald Trump has said the U.S. will pull out of the accord
negotiated by his predecessor unless he can get a better deal.<br>
Friday's conference was the latest in a series of Vatican
initiatives meant to impress a sense of urgency about global warming
and the threat it poses in particular to the world's poorest and
most marginalized people.<br>
Recently, Francis invited oil executives and investors to the
Vatican for a closed-door conference where he urged them to find
alternatives to fossil fuels. He warned that climate change was a
challenge of "epochal proportions."<br>
And next year, Francis has called a three-week synod, or meeting of
bishops, specifically to address the church's response to the
ecological crisis in the Amazon, where deforestation threatens what
he has called the "lung" of the planet and the indigenous peoples
who live there.<br>
"It grieves us to see the lands of indigenous peoples expropriated
and their cultures trampled on by predatory schemes and by new forms
of colonialism, fueled by the culture of waste and consumerism,"
Francis said Friday.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://apnews.com/2dc33645a7e140ffa63e9f5f3b8d2504">https://apnews.com/2dc33645a7e140ffa63e9f5f3b8d2504</a>
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<br>
[OK, let's check our math]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/07/06/global-warming-double-what-models-predict-study/760748002/">Global
warming could be far worse than predicted, new study suggests</a></b><br>
Doyle Rice, USA TODAY July 6, 2018<br>
Collapsing polar ice caps, a green Sahara Desert, a 20-foot
sea-level rise. <br>
That's the potential future of Earth, a new study suggests, noting
that global warming could be twice as warm as current climate models
predict.<br>
The rate of warming is also remarkable: "The changes we see today
are much faster than anything encountered in Earth's history. In
terms of rate of change, we are in uncharted waters," said study
co-author Katrin Meissner of the University of New South Wales in
Australia. <br>
This could mean the landmark Paris Climate Agreement - which seeks
to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees
Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels - may not be enough to ward
off catastrophe.<br>
"Even with just 2 degrees of warming - and potentially just 1.5
degrees - significant impacts on the Earth system are profound,"
said study co-author Alan Mix, a scientist from Oregon State
University.<br>
"We can expect that sea-level rise could become unstoppable for
millennia, impacting much of the world's population, infrastructure
and economic activity," Mix said.<br>
In looking at Earth's past, scientists can predict what the future
will look like. In the study, the researchers looked back at natural
global warming periods over the past 3.5 million years and compared
them to current man-made warming.<br>
By combining a wide range of measurements from ice cores, sediment
layers, fossil records, dating using atomic isotopes and many other
established paleoclimate methods, the researchers pieced together
the impact of those climatic changes.<br>
Human-inflicted climate change is caused by the burning of fossil
fuels such as coal, oil and gas, which release heat-trapping
greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane into the the
atmosphere.<br>
Study lead author Hubertus Fischer of the University of Bern in
Switzerland and his team found that our current climate predictions
may underestimate long-term warming by as much as a factor of two. <br>
Meissner said that "climate models appear to be trustworthy for
small changes, such as for low-emission scenarios over short
periods, say over the next few decades out to 2100. But as the
change gets larger or more persistent ... it appears they
underestimate climate change."<br>
The research also revealed how large areas of the polar ice caps
could collapse and significant changes to ecosystems could see the
Sahara Desert become green and the edges of tropical forests turn
into fire-dominated savanna.<br>
However, Meissner said "we cannot comment on how far in the future
these changes will occur."<br>
Referring to the study findings, lead author Fischer said that
without serious reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, there is
"very little margin for error to meet the Paris targets."<br>
The study, which was conducted by dozens of researchers from 17
countries, was published last week in Nature Geoscience, a
peer-reviewed British journal.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/07/06/global-warming-double-what-models-predict-study/760748002/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/07/06/global-warming-double-what-models-predict-study/760748002/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Step one: control language]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/07/02/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-the-phrase-climate-change-from-a-cdc-website">The
mysterious disappearance of the phrase 'climate change' from a
CDC website</a></b><br>
Weeks before Trump's inauguration, the phrase "climate change"
vanished from a CDC website.<br>
By Chris Mooney<br>
Shortly after President Trump's election but before his formal
inauguration, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agency
focused on conducting research to improve workers' health watered
down a website on climate change's contributions to occupational
hazards, a new report has revealed.<br>
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's
"Occupational Safety and Health and Climate" page had its name
changed, so as to remove the phrase "climate change," sometime on or
after Nov. 14, 2016, according to a report by the Environmental Data
and Governance Initiative. The old name was "Climate Change and
Occupational Safety and Health." Multiple other removals of the
phrase "climate change" occurred at or around the same time...<br>
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Shortly before Trump's inauguration, the CDC also canceled a
conference on climate change and public health that had been planned
for early 2017. And as recently as last month, the agency showed a
hesitancy to talk plainly about climate change.<br>
In early May, the CDC released a report showing that Americans are
suffering from a major increase in vector-borne diseases carried by
organisms such as ticks, fleas, and mosquitoes. During the news
briefing, journalists asked about the role of human-caused global
warming in helping these diseases to be able to spread to new areas.<br>
"I can't comment on why there is increasing temperatures," said Lyle
Petersen, a scientist who heads the agency's Division of
Vector-Borne Diseases, in response. "That's the job of
meteorologists."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/07/02/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-the-phrase-climate-change-from-a-cdc-website">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/07/02/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-the-phrase-climate-change-from-a-cdc-website</a></font>/<br>
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<br>
[Underestimated by half]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://phys.org/news/2018-07-global-climate.html#nRlv">Global
warming may be twice what climate models predict</a></b><br>
July 5, 2018 by Alvin Stone, University of New South Wales<br>
A new study based on evidence from past warm periods suggests global
warming may be double what is forecast.<br>
Future global warming may eventually be twice as warm as projected
by climate models and sea levels may rise six metres or more even if
the world meets the 2C target, according to an international team of
researchers from 17 countries.<br>
The findings published last week in Nature Geoscience are based on
observational evidence from three warm periods over the past 3.5
million years when the world was 0.5C-2C warmer than the
pre-industrial temperatures of the 19th Century.<br>
The research also revealed how large areas of the polar ice caps
could collapse and significant changes to ecosystems could see the
Sahara Desert become green and the edges of tropical forests turn
into fire dominated savanna.<br>
"Observations of past warming periods suggest that a number of
amplifying mechanisms, which are poorly represented in climate
models, increase long-term warming beyond climate model
projections," said lead author, Prof Hubertus Fischer of the
University of Bern.<br>
"This suggests the carbon budget to avoid 2C of global warming may
be far smaller than estimated, leaving very little margin for error
to meet the Paris targets."<br>
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"Even with just 2C of warming - and potentially just 1.5C -
significant impacts on the Earth system are profound," said
co-author Prof Alan Mix of Oregon State University.<br>
"We can expect that sea-level rise could become unstoppable for
millennia, impacting much of the world's population, infrastructure
and economic activity."<br>
Yet these significant observed changes are generally underestimated
in climate model projections that focus on the near term. Compared
to these past observations, climate models appear to underestimate
long term warming and the amplification of warmth in Polar Regions.<br>
"Climate models appear to be trustworthy for small changes, such as
for low emission scenarios over short periods, say over the next few
decades out to 2100. But as the change gets larger or more
persistent, either because of higher emissions, for example a
business-as-usual-scenario, or because we are interested in the long
term response of a low emission scenario, it appears they
underestimate climate change," said co-author Prof Katrin Meissner,
Director of the University of New South Wales Climate Change
Research Centre.<br>
"This research is a powerful call to act. It tells us that if
today's leaders don't urgently address our emissions, global warming
will bring profound changes to our planet and way of life - not just
for this century but well beyond."<br>
<font size="-1">Read more at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2018-07-global-climate.html#jCp">https://phys.org/news/2018-07-global-climate.html#jCp</a></font><br>
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<br>
[only if we turn on the AC]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://mic.com/articles/190131/climate-change-is-making-our-planet-hotter-but-we-might-have-to-ditch-the-ac#.C8uMeCWo2">Climate
change is making our planet hotter - but we might have to ditch
the AC</a></b><br>
By Kelly Kasulis <br>
Americans love air conditioning - and to a serious fault. At least
three quarters of all homes in the U.S. have an air conditioner,
according to the Department of Energy, and Americans consumes more
energy for cooling alone than what the entire continent of Africa
uses for all purposes combined.<br>
That's not without serious consequence. The burden of a high
utilities bill aside, fossil fuel is ultimately being burned and
converted into the electricity that's chilling our homes this
summer. As a result, an estimated 117 million extra metric tons of
carbon dioxide is being pumped into the air solely because of U.S.
air conditioning...<br>
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In a simulation of a three-month summer period, air pollution
directly related to fossil fuel burning that powers air conditioning
accounts for about 1,000 deaths. Even worse, that figure only covers
the Eastern United States. And as climate change turns increasingly
turns up the heat, the problem could get worse as more Americans
compensate by further refrigerating themselves indoors.<br>
In other words, the U.S. has a vicious cycle on its hands.<br>
"We're trading problems," Jonathan Patz, one of the study's senior
authors and a professor of environmental studies at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison, said in a release. "Heat waves are increasing
and increasing in intensity. We will have more cooling demand
requiring more electricity. But if our nation continues to rely on
coal-fired power plants for some of our electricity, each time we
turn on the air conditioning we'll be fouling the air, causing more
sickness and even deaths."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://mic.com/articles/190131/climate-change-is-making-our-planet-hotter-but-we-might-have-to-ditch-the-ac#.C8uMeCWo2">https://mic.com/articles/190131/climate-change-is-making-our-planet-hotter-but-we-might-have-to-ditch-the-ac#.C8uMeCWo2</a></font><br>
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[PLOS Medicine study]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002599">Air-quality-related
health impacts from climate change and from adaptation of cooling
demand for buildings in the eastern United States: An
interdisciplinary modeling study</a><br>
<blockquote>Conclusions<br>
This study examines the contribution of future
air-pollution-related health damages that are caused by the power
sector through heat-driven air conditioning adaptation in
buildings. Results show that without intervention, approximately
5%-9% of exacerbated air-pollution-related mortality will be due
to increases in power sector emissions from heat-driven building
electricity demand. This analysis highlights the need for cleaner
energy sources, energy efficiency, and energy conservation to meet
our growing dependence on building cooling systems and
simultaneously mitigate climate change.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002599">http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002599</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Baltic Sea]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://phys.org/news/2018-07-oxygen-loss-coastal-baltic-sea.html">Oxygen
loss in the coastal Baltic Sea is 'unprecedentedly severe'</a></b><br>
The Baltic Sea is home to some of the world's largest dead zones,
areas of oxygen-starved waters where most marine animals can't
survive. But while parts of this sea have long suffered from low
oxygen levels, a new study by a team in Finland and Germany shows
that oxygen loss in coastal areas over the past century is
unprecedented in the last 1500 years. The research is published
today in the European Geosciences Union journal Biogeosciences.<br>
According to the researchers, human-induced pollution, from
fertilisers and sewage running off the countries surrounding the
Baltic into the sea, is the main driver of recent oxygen loss in the
region's coastal waters. The spread of low-oxygen areas can have
dire consequences for the environment and for local populations as
it can reduce fish yields and even lead to massive mortality of
marine animals.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2018-07-oxygen-loss-coastal-baltic-sea.html">https://phys.org/news/2018-07-oxygen-loss-coastal-baltic-sea.html</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://lithub.com/the-new-vanguard-of-climate-fiction/">THE
NEW VANGUARD OF CLIMATE FICTION </a></b><br>
CLI-FI: AN INTRODUCTORY READING LIST<br>
July 5, 2018 By Siobhan Adcock<br>
Climate change is not fiction, but some of today's most compelling
writing about it is. <br>
<br>
"Cli-fi" was coined by former journalist and English teacher Dan
Bloom in the mid-2000s for fiction that explores the consequences of
climate change, and the formerly-niche designation has taken on a
new popularity. To the surprise of exactly no one who has read a
newspaper in the past decade or so, cli-fi has emerged as a robust,
exciting movement in modern fiction.<br>
<br>
Amy Brady at the Chicago Review of Books runs a thoughtful and
wide-ranging monthly column, Burning Worlds, highlighting the best
in new climate change fiction. In Brady's recent interview with io9
founding editor and bestselling author Annalee Newitz, Newitz points
out, quite fairly, that within the next few decades all fiction is
poised to become climate change fiction. As Newitz says, "Any story
about the future that's at least a century out has to include a
dramatic picture of climate change." Cli-fi is not speculative
fiction any longer. Small wonder then, that bestselling authors from
Barbara Kingsolver (Flight Behavior) to David Mitchell (The Bone
Clocks) have picked up the thread.<br>
<br>
If you're aware of climate change in fiction as an emergent theme,
then you've probably also heard of some of the best-known novels
that capture climate change in bold strokes: Margaret Atwood's
Maddaddam trilogy including The Year of the Flood, Octavia Butler's
Parable novels including Parable of the Talents, the widely-praised
work of novelists Paolo Baciagalupi and Kim Stanley Robinson, and
the 1962 J.G. Ballard novel The Drowned World, quite possibly the
grandaddy of modern cli-fi-or at least its voluble great-uncle. <br>
The books below are part of the new vanguard of fiction taking
climate change seriously, addressing its impact on the stories we
tell now, and the stories we may tell about ourselves in the coming
decades.<br>
<blockquote>Claire Vaye Watkins, Gold Fame Citrus<br>
Watkins' mesmerizing vision of a West without water takes
dystopian near-future fiction one step further into evolutionary
science, with an embedded field guide to the fauna and flora that
have adapted to survive in an imaginative world where massive sand
dunes have swallowed the Rocky Mountains. But the heart of the
story is a woman's search for family and safe haven, and the near
impossibility of both in this radically changed climate.<br>
<br>
Benjamin Warner, Thirst<br>
A mysterious disaster has somehow burned away all the water, and
while waiting for news of what's next-and what's behind the
water's sudden disappearance-the residents of a suburban community
are driven to formerly unthinkable compromises in order to
survive. Tense and character-driven, this story is how Alfred
Hitchcock might have approached climate change. <br>
<br>
Annalee Newitz, Autonomous<br>
Climate change is the just-barely-audible engine driving the
technology, the economy, and the plot of Newitz's novel, a
page-turner that sweeps from a melted Arctic circle to a domed-in
Las Vegas. The novel's action tracks a woman's race against time
to beat the new Big Pharma to market with the antidote to the new
drug of choice, a productivity enhancer that could accelerate
humankind's self-destruction.<br>
<br>
James Bradley, Clade<br>
Like Richard Powers's masterful The Overstory, James Bradley's
Clade is a cross-generational novel that examines the impact of
time on our understanding of climate change. The natural world is
changing all around us, both rapidly and yet also at the
ungraspably slow pace of evolution itself. Bradley's family drama
is designed to show us that all of our human-scale problems are
playing out on a planet-sized stage . . . and the stage is
collapsing under our feet.<br>
<br>
C. Morgan Babst, The Floating World<br>
If Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones was the first great novel about
Hurricane Katrina, with its tense, heartbreaking depiction of a
pregnant teenager in the days before the storm, The Floating World
is the next, in its powerful rendering of the city in the days
after its devastation. In tracing the immediate aftereffects of
Katrina on one multiracial family, the Boisdores, Babst proves
anew that New Orleans is a city of indelible human stories-and,
since Hurricane Katrina, also a potent, city-sized symbol of how
climate change puts urban life at risk.<br>
<br>
Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God<br>
American master Louise Erdrich is certainly the best-known author
on this list, which is mostly otherwise full of first- or
second-time novelists, but her most recent novel is an
under-appreciated cli-fi page-turner. In a world in which seasons
have all but disappeared and natural evolution has begun to run in
reverse, a pregnant young woman finds herself on the run, finding
uncertain sanctuary on the reservation where her birth family
lives. It can't be a coincidence that so much fiction about
"Mother Earth" is also equally about motherhood, but in Erdrich's
hands the expected becomes wonderfully unexpected.<br>
<br>
Sam J. Miller, Blackfish City<br>
The last great human city on Earth is in the ice-free Arctic
Circle in Miller's novel, but like the great cities of today's
world, entrenched inequality guarantees privileges for only a few.
Enter a woman who may have the power to disrupt this stratified
society, and the drowned world seems bound for an even greater
change.<br>
<br>
Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death<br>
A vivid reminder that the people most impacted by climate change
are often the most vulnerable, with the least access to political
power, Okorafor's novel set in post-apocalypse Africa is a
gorgeous mix of politics and poetry, cli-fi and fantasy. The title
character, Onyesonwu, whose name means "Who Fears Death," comes
into her own powers in an annihilated world, while seeking to
solve the mystery of who, or what, is trying to destroy her.
George R.R. Martin, no slouch at detailed world-building himself,
optioned this novel for an HBO series. <br>
<br>
South Pole Station, Ashley Shelby<br>
Deeply funny and wonderfully nerdy, this debut novel by an
environmental journalist about climate scientists in the Antarctic
reinforces that there's no hope without science-and no more stark
reminder of our own humanity than a landscape so hostile to human
life, one that's nevertheless being irreversibly damaged by our
influence.<br>
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href="https://lithub.com/the-new-vanguard-of-climate-fiction/">https://lithub.com/the-new-vanguard-of-climate-fiction/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[First step]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q48BvprCFr0">I'm just one
person, what can I do?</a></b><br>
Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe<br>
Published on Feb 1, 2017<br>
Global Weirding is produced by KTTZ Texas Tech Public Media and
distributed by PBS Digital Studios. New episodes every other
Wednesday at 10 am central. Brought to you in part by: Bob and Linda
Herscher, Freese and Nichols, Inc, and the Texas Tech Climate
Science Center.<br>
Be sure to subscribe! <br>
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<br>
[Good Question]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2018/07/06/call-for-abstracts-how-can-global-change-research-inform-national-security-decision-making/">Call
for Abstracts: How Can Global Change Research Inform National
Security Decision-Making?</a></b><br>
by Caitlin Werrell and Francesco Femia<br>
The Fall 2018 American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting currently has
a call for abstracts for a session on climate and security. The
session will examine how global change research can support national
security decision-making. The AGU meeting will take place December
10-14th, 2018 in Washington, DC.<br>
How Can Global Change Research Inform National Security
Decision-Making?<br>
Description: <br>
<blockquote>Increasing attention is being paid to the potential
risks that global change poses to national security. These risks
may be direct- through impacts on national security assets, for
example- or indirect- through geopolitical impacts resulting from
changes in food, water, and energy availability; changes in
economic growth and development; increased risks to human health;
and changes in strategic environments. Global change research can
inform national security decision-making by advancing
understanding and prediction of global change. Progress is
constrained, however, by the under sampling of the environment,
gaps in our understanding of key processes, and limitations in
modeling of natural and human systems. This session welcomes
abstracts showcasing substantive contributions research makes to
national security issues as well as current outstanding science
needs. Potential topics include development of observations,
process studies, and Earth system prediction capabilities, as well
as research in important thematic areas, such as human health or
the food-energy-water nexus.<br>
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<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2018/07/06/call-for-abstracts-how-can-global-change-research-inform-national-security-decision-making/">https://climateandsecurity.org/2018/07/06/call-for-abstracts-how-can-global-change-research-inform-national-security-decision-making/</a></font><br>
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href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/koch-backed-ag-helps-hide-chemical-dangers-298973251858">This
Day in Climate History - July 7, 2014</a></b><b> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
MSNBC's Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow examine the dynamics of denial
in the US and overseas.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-latest-far-right-trend-298914883669#">http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-latest-far-right-trend-298914883669#</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-bbc-changes-their-line-on-climate-change-298925123932#">http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-bbc-changes-their-line-on-climate-change-298925123932#</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mediamatters.org/mobile/video/2014/07/07/on-msnbcs-all-in-eric-boehlert-says-the-media-s/200007">http://mediamatters.org/mobile/video/2014/07/07/on-msnbcs-all-in-eric-boehlert-says-the-media-s/200007</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-no-other-president-has-said-on-climate-298940483617">http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-no-other-president-has-said-on-climate-298940483617</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/koch-backed-ag-helps-hide-chemical-dangers-298973251858">http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/koch-backed-ag-helps-hide-chemical-dangers-298973251858</a><br>
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