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<font size="+1"><i>November 1, 2018</i></font><br>
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[Washington Post]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/10/31/startling-new-research-finds-large-buildup-heat-oceans-suggesting-faster-rate-global-warming/?utm_term=.01260b836edb">Startling
new research finds large buildup of heat in the oceans,
suggesting a faster rate of global warming</a></b><br>
The findings mean the world might have less time to curb carbon
emissions.<br>
By Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis - October 31<br>
The world's oceans have been soaking up far more excess heat in
recent decades than scientists realized, suggesting that Earth could
be set to warm even faster than predicted in the years ahead,
according to new research published Wednesday.<br>
<br>
Over the past quarter-century, Earth's oceans have retained 60
percent more heat each year than scientists previously had thought,
said Laure Resplandy, a geoscientist at Princeton University who led
the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0651-8.epdf?referrer_access_token=RYx3AUxfUWwzaMITvAj64dRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PPM6F5Tw--xUcDaVyo5KYP7_G9gTDd9jkXQCGLmYVcdiHz9wkwN0E6N2nDZlq4WDQgItGi5ylVScf0yzGnaEVfvjiMb4AD29fhh3xQR3z_DrC_cMrTVL7ZhdR6IhWWEdbaBw61pmJWfJX3nlJ6qnYm0eEGF290YDw0L29Qu1D0Zo3ti9EtUV0eTqh8Y9w5-oUx2QwN2d9ZfvrbV8VI76Jac_wGy8vU0HDJC8kZsxCODUxL-v0-LWQnBluUpq-qsDVlR97PvCH2_49T4Kn9PB2Gdgll-H0rPRd4shhj-7MTDlLmwpBYbeAqiXYgUMtAbgJIiDU0aX0SEmb7hObxwGOA2X8T804_0Q-TufJtiPPeKQ%3D%3D&tracking_referrer=www.washingtonpost.com">startling
study published Wednesday in the journal Nature</a>. The
difference represents an enormous amount of additional energy,
originating from the sun and trapped by Earth's atmosphere -- the
yearly amount representing more than eight times the world's annual
energy consumption...<br>
- - -<br>
The warming found in the study is "more than twice the rates of
long-term warming estimates from the 1960s and '70s to the present,"
Durack said, adding that if these rates are validated by further
studies, "it means the rate of warming and the sensitivity of the
Earth's system to greenhouse gases is at the upper end." He said
that if scientists have underestimated the amount of heat taken up
by the oceans, "it will mean we need to go back to the drawing
board" on the aggressiveness of mitigation actions the world needs
to take promptly to limit future warming.<br>
<br>
Beyond the long-term implications of warmer oceans, Russell added
that in the short term, even small changes in ocean temperatures can
affect weather in specific places. For instance, scientists have
said warmer oceans off the coast of New England have contributed to
more-intense winter storms.<br>
<br>
"We're only just now discovering how important ocean warming is to
our daily lives, to our daily weather," she said.<br>
<font size="-1">more at -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/10/31/startling-new-research-finds-large-buildup-heat-oceans-suggesting-faster-rate-global-warming/?utm_term=.01260b836edb">https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/10/31/startling-new-research-finds-large-buildup-heat-oceans-suggesting-faster-rate-global-warming/?utm_term=.01260b836edb</a></font><br>
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[PBS Sinking Cities - Original Video Series - next 4 Wednesdays]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/peril-and-promise/films/sinking-cities/">Sinking
Cities [see the video previews]</a></b><br>
As the earth warms, sea levels rise and super-storms become more
frequent and intense, many of the world's major coastal cities may
soon be under water. This series explores how four global cities are
coming to grips with the real-time effects of rising seas and
extreme weather.<br>
WEDNESDAYS, OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 21 AT 10 P.M.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/peril-and-promise/films/sinking-cities/">http://www.pbs.org/wnet/peril-and-promise/films/sinking-cities/</a><br>
[My local PBS station - check your local station]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://kcts9.org/programs/sinking-cities-0/episodes/0101">Sinking
Cities: New York</a></b><br>
Season: 1 Eps: 1<br>
Discover how New York City - overwhelmed in 2012 by Superstorm Sandy
- has learned from that disaster, and must defend itself against
rising seas and the next big storm. With 520 miles of shoreline and
no coastal protection, engineers and urban planners are tackling the
problem with urgency and creative engineering.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://kcts9.org/programs/sinking-cities-0/episodes/0101">https://kcts9.org/programs/sinking-cities-0/episodes/0101</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatestate.com/2018/10/30/egypt-now-owns-largest-solar-power-plant-in-world/">Egypt
now owns largest Solar Power Plant in World!</a></b><br>
October 30, 2018<br>
Egypt is "entering the world of solar energy" after it inaugurated
the largest solar power plant in the world early this year. the
superpower plant was built in the city of Aswan, southern Egypt. It
began supplying the national grid last December.<br>
- - <br>
Worlds largest solar Park Egypt Benban Solar Park <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benban_Solar_Park">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benban_Solar_Park</a><br>
video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/uof9cB9-MOo">https://youtu.be/uof9cB9-MOo</a>
Egypt now owns largest Solar Power Plant in the World!<br>
- - <br>
The plant consists of 200,000 solar panels and 780 sun trackers
which allow the panels to move and face the sun throughout the day.
It generates up to 1.8 gigawatts of power, which is enough to
service 20,000 households.<br>
<br>
Abaza reiterated that this is the largest solar power plant in the
world, noting that his country is heading towards more investment in
this kind of power as part of its plans for sustainable development.
He also said that solar power energy is better than oil because it
is renewable, stressing that the "green economy" is a mechanism to
achieve sustainable development. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20181027-egypt-builds-largest-solar-power-plant-in-the-world/">https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20181027-egypt-builds-largest-solar-power-plant-in-the-world/</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatestate.com/2018/10/30/egypt-now-owns-largest-solar-power-plant-in-world/">http://climatestate.com/2018/10/30/egypt-now-owns-largest-solar-power-plant-in-world/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[now it is]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/is-breathing-new-smoking.htm">Is
Breathing the New Smoking?</a></b><br>
BY CARRIE TATRO JUL 6, 2018<br>
Do you know how many cigarettes you'd have to smoke to equal the
negative health effects of the contaminants around you? In major
cities around the globe, air pollution has become so bad that
breathing has literally become the new smoking in some urban areas.<br>
<br>
According to a Feb. 3, 2018 report by The Lancet Commission on
Public Health, in 2015, air pollution was responsible for an
estimated 9 million premature deaths worldwide from illnesses such
as stroke, heart disease, COPD and lung cancer. The Lancet study
found that in 2015 more than 150,000 deaths in the United States
could be attributed to air pollution.<br>
<b>- - - - Audio report <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://megaphone.link/HSW2022185538">https://megaphone.link/HSW2022185538</a></b><br>
The research revealed that air pollution in the United States and
Europe is equal in negative health effects to smoking 0.4 to 1.6
cigarettes per day. And in China, on bad days, the detrimental
health effects of air pollution is equal to the damage done by
smoking three packs -- or 60 cigarettes per day -- by every man,
woman and child.<br>
<br>
The "Shoot! I Smoke" app allows you to see in real-time just how
contaminated the air around you really is. And it allows you to look
at pollution all over the planet to see how many virtual cigarettes
your fellow citizens of the world are "smoking" against their will
just by stepping outside and breathing the air. For instance, on
July 4, 2018, the app indicated that if you were in Beijing, China,
you smoked 7.6 cigarettes. If you were in New Delhi, India you
smoked 6.9 cigarettes. And if you were in Los Angeles, you smoked
the equivalent of 2.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/is-breathing-new-smoking.htm">https://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/is-breathing-new-smoking.htm</a></font><br>
- - <br>
[Cough, cough]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://berkeleyearth.org/air-pollution-and-cigarette-equivalence/">Air
Pollution and Cigarette Equivalence</a></b><br>
by Richard A. Muller and Elizabeth A. Muller<br>
For many people, comparing air pollution to cigarette smoking is
more vivid and meaningful than is citing the numbers of yearly
deaths. When we published our scientific paper on air pollution in
China in August 20151, we were surprised by the attention we got for
a quick comparison we made comparing air pollution on a particularly
bad day in Beijing to smoking 1.5 cigarettes every hour.<br>
- - - <br>
<b>Conclusion</b><br>
Air Pollution kills more people worldwide each year than does AIDS,
malaria, diabetes or tuberculosis. For the United States and Europe,
air pollution is equivalent in detrimental health effects to smoking
0.4 to 1.6 cigarettes per day. In China the numbers are far worse;
on bad days the health effects of air pollution are comparable to
the harm done smoking three packs per day (60 cigarettes) by every
man, woman, and child. Air pollution is arguably the greatest
environmental catastrophe in the world today.<br>
<font size="-1">more at - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://berkeleyearth.org/air-pollution-and-cigarette-equivalence/">http://berkeleyearth.org/air-pollution-and-cigarette-equivalence/</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.wired.com/story/does-climate-change-mean-you-should-fly-less-yeah-maybe/">DOES
CLIMATE CHANGE MEAN YOU SHOULD FLY LESS? YEAH, MAYBE</a></b><br>
LEOR HACKEL, GREGG SPARKMAN<br>
- - -<br>
Flying less does reduce emissions. Crucially, though, social norms
provide a backdrop for policy change. When people forge an initial
commitment to a cause, like buying less meat, they often proceed to
political commitments, like contacting a senator. People don't like
to be hypocrites; they like harmony between their lifestyles and
their politics. Rather than undermining political action,
sustainable living prompts sustainable voting. A caveat: These
benefits emerge when conservation requires some sacrifice. Easy,
single-shot actions (like buying efficient lightbulbs) make us feel
like we have done our part and can disengage. More challenging,
ongoing actions (like changing our diets) propel us forward into
action. Just as sacrifice convinces others that climate action is
important, it convinces us of our own commitment; we start to see
ourselves as climate advocates. Eating less meat creates a gateway
to workplace advocacy--like encouraging digital meetings or lobbying
for solar panels--which opens a door to signing petitions or
protesting.<br>
<br>
If people act on climate change in their daily lives, they will
expect industry to do its part. People value reciprocity: We punish
free riders who don't do their part and reward those who chip
in--and businesses know it. They also pay attention to trends. For
example, after roughly a decade of decline in per capita meat
consumption, the CEO of Tyson Foods--the world's second-largest
producer of chicken, beef, and pork--announced that the company
would shift to more plant-based alternatives. Lyft recently
announced it would offset carbon emissions from its rides. Google,
Apple, Sony, T-Mobile, and others have committed to buying renewable
energy. Did these companies make changes solely out of the goodness
of their hearts? Of course not. Every company follows incentives--to
manage public relations, meet consumer demand, and stand out from
competitors. Where consumers go, industry incentives follow.<br>
<br>
Politicians run a similar calculus to decide if environmental
policies will get them re-elected. When we enact personal change out
of climate concern, we show that there is real support for laws
aimed at enacting societal change. Personal conservation might not
achieve our climate goals, but it can convince politicians to pass
laws that will.<br>
<br>
For instance, California just passed a law known as SB 100: By 2045,
the fifth-largest economy in the world will be powered by 100
percent renewable electricity. The bill was sponsored by state Sen.
Kevin De León, who has challenged Dianne Feinstein for her Senate
seat--a tough race in which any challenger needs good PR. If
Californians had no reputation for energy conservation and
environmental concern, would De León have taken a political risk
anyway and prioritized passing SB 100? Perhaps not. In anonymous
interviews, politicians who personally care about climate change
have expressed hesitation to sponsor laws when they perceive
insufficient constituent concern. Each individual's choices,
especially when amplified through social influence, help create a
social environment ripe for political change.<br>
<br>
There are plenty of things to do about climate change beyond voting.
Take a train or bus instead of a plane, even if inconvenient--in
fact, especially when inconvenient. Take a digital meeting instead
of an in-person one, even if you give up expensed travel. Go to a
protest, invest in noncarbon energy, buy solar panels, eat at
meatless restaurants, canvass for climate-conscious candidates. Do
whichever of these you can, as conspicuously as you can. With each
step, you communicate an emergency that needs all hands on deck.
Individual action--across supermarkets, skies, roads, homes,
workplaces, and ballot boxes--sounds an alarm that might just wake
us from our collective slumber and build a foundation for the
necessary political change.<br>
more at - <font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.wired.com/story/does-climate-change-mean-you-should-fly-less-yeah-maybe/">https://www.wired.com/story/does-climate-change-mean-you-should-fly-less-yeah-maybe/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[common sense explained]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/31/weather-disasters-climate-change-and-the-potential-for-conflict/">Weather
Disasters: Climate Change and the Potential for Conflict</a></b><br>
by ARSHAD KHAN - OCTOBER 31, 2018<br>
East Island was an uninhabited remote island in the Hawaiian chain,
but it was an important refuge for wildlife: Many of the endangered
Hawaiian monk seals numbering about 1400 raised their young on that
island; others like the green sea turtle and the albatross used it
as a shelter. Not any more because Hurricane Walaka washed away
most of the island a few days ago.<br>
<br>
It was not the only major Pacific storm last week for category 5
Typhoon Yutu devastated the Northern Marianas, a U.S. territory. It
was reputedly the worst U.S. storm since 1935. Perhaps
happenstance, but the rise in mean temperature due to global warming
also exacerbates storms.<br>
<br>
In September, Hurricane Florence hit North Carolina -- 51 people
died. The next month Hurricane Michael slammed the Florida
panhandle at 5 mph short of a category 5, a record for the area.
Following just a few days after the IPCC (October 8, 2018) report on
restricting global warming to 1.5 C, it seemed like nature's
affirmation. The residents of the area have not yet recovered from
the devastation. The same is true in Puerto Rico and the other
affected areas where over 3000 people reportedly have lost their
lives due to Hurricane Maria a year ago. It followed on the heels
of Irma tearing through several other Caribbean islands before
arriving in Florida. And Harvey flooded Houston causing a record
$125 billion in damage.<br>
<br>
Across the Atlantic, there have been heavy rains in Turkey where a
300 year-old bridge was washed away, and flooding in France, Wales
and Scotland. Hurricane Leslie targeted Portugal weakening
fortunately to a tropical storm before landfall, and last year
Hurricane Ophelia skirted past, its winds fanning wild fires in
Portugal and Spain before becoming the worst storm to hit Ireland in
50 years although not at hurricane force, having dissipated in the
colder northern waters.<br>
<br>
Then there are the insidious effects usually unearthed by
scientists. A warmer earth makes hungry insects hungrier i.e. those
voracious caterpillars will be munching even more. So predict
scientists in a study published in the August 31, 2018 issue of
Science and reported on elsewhere. Insects will be causing 10 to 25
percent more damage to wheat, maize and rice crops with a 2 degrees
C rise in mean temperature above preindustrial levels as per the
Paris agreement.<br>
<br>
Other threats to crops include water shortages. Countries relying
on rivers for irrigation are threatened when the head waters are
under the control of rivals. Nuclear armed India and Pakistan are a
case in point. The 1960 Indus Waters Treaty lays down a mechanism
for joint management, but Narendra Modi, India's current nationalist
Hindu prime minister aborted all engagement albeit temporarily.
India is building dams upstream which worries Pakistan, and in the
latest row Pakistan has banned all Indian TV channels -- Indian
movies and TV are popular in Pakistan.<br>
<br>
There are other regions with potential water conflicts. Ethiopia is
building a grand dam on the Nile for electricity generation. The
water used for electricity will continue to flow downstream but
irrigation water if any is bled off -- possible when there is a
colossal reservoir that will take 5 to 15 years to fill. Egypt's
life-blood is the Nile, and water flow can be seriously affected
depending on the fill rate.<br>
<br>
The Mekong river passes through China, Burma, Thailand, Laos,
Cambodia and Vietnam. It is entwined in the livelihood and culture
of the region, and upstream dams now threaten centuries-old
agricultural and fishing practices downstream.<br>
<br>
How can such problems be resolved? They are also not the only
ones. Parched or flooded farmlands, rising seas, and persistent
severe weather will cause large areas to become uninhabitable.
Should then the mandate of bodies like the IPCC be expanded to deal
with such consequences of climate change? It is a possibility
although government representatives are inherently biased. More
appropriate perhaps would be neutral international commissions
composed of experts. But how should affected people be settled? We
have a caravan of 1000 headed to the U.S. and causing much
discomfiture in the Trump administration. Imagine the numbers
multiplied by 100 or a 1000.<br>
<br>
All of which reminds us again that global warming is the most
important issue we face.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/31/weather-disasters-climate-change-and-the-potential-for-conflict/">https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/31/weather-disasters-climate-change-and-the-potential-for-conflict/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[academic]<br>
Climate Policy journal is pleased to share a new free-to-access
article:<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2018.1521332">Environmental
integrity of international carbon market mechanisms under the
Paris Agreement</a></b><br>
Lambert Schneider & Stephanie La Hoz Theuer<br>
Key policy insights: <br>
-Robust accounting is a key prerequisite for ensuring environmental
integrity. The diversity of nationally determined contributions is
an important challenge, in particular for avoiding double counting
and for ensuring that the accounting for international transfers is
representative for the mitigation efforts by Parties over time.<br>
-Unit quality can, in theory, be ensured through appropriate design
of carbon market mechanisms; in practice, existing mechanisms face
considerable challenges in ensuring unit quality. Unit quality could
be promoted through guidance under Paris Agreement Article 6, and
reporting and review under Article 13.<br>
-The ambition and scope of mitigation targets is key for the
incentive for transferring countries to ensure unit quality because
countries with ambitious and economy-wide targets would have to
compensate for any transfer of units that lack quality. Encouraging
countries to adopt ambitious and economy-wide NDC targets would
therefore facilitate achieving environmental integrity.<br>
-Restricting transfers in instances of high environmental integrity
risk - through eligibility criteria or limits - could complement
these approaches.<br>
We encourage you to share this announcement with your peers and
networks. Thank you!<br>
_____________<br>
Dr. Ryan Rafaty <br>
Social Media Editor, Climate Policy Journal <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.climatepolicy.com">www.climatepolicy.com</a> <br>
Follow us on Twitter: @Climate_Policy<br>
Read our blog: Climate Strategies <br>
<font size="-1">more at- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2018.1521332">https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2018.1521332</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://c-spanvideo.org/program/Envir">This Day in
Climate History - November 1, 1987</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
November 1, 1987: At a Democratic presidential candidates' forum on
the environment in Manchester, New Hampshire, Boston Globe
environmental reporter Dianne Dumanoski asks Massachusetts Gov.
Michael Dukakis and Sen. Al Gore about their plans to address acid
rain and climate change. Dukakis and Gore note that the US must show
global leadership on both issues. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://c-spanvideo.org/program/Envir">http://c-spanvideo.org/program/Envir</a> (19:55-26:44) <br>
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