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<font size="+1"><i>January 26, 2019</i></font><br>
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[ScienceDaily posting]<br>
<b>Climate change tipping point could be coming sooner than we think</b><br>
Vegetation may not be able to continue abating effects of emissions
from human activities<br>
Date: January 23, 2019<br>
Source: Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied
Science<br>
Summary:<br>
A new study confirms the urgency to tackle climate change. While
it's known that extreme weather events can affect the year-to-year
variability in carbon uptake, and some researchers have suggested
that there may be longer-term effects, this study is the first to
actually quantify the effects through the 21st century and
demonstrates that wetter-than-normal years do not compensate for
losses in carbon uptake during dryer-than-normal years, caused by
events such as droughts or heatwaves...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190123131700.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190123131700.htm</a><br>
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[Send this 21 minute video your Texas friends]<br>
<b>How Climate Change Will Mess With Texas - Hotpocalypse - Excerpt
- 1/25/19</b><br>
Hotpocalypse <br>
Published on Jan 25, 2019<br>
Texas native and climate scientist Josh Willis tells comedian Andy
Cobb about how climate change will mess with Texas.<br>
Droughts, floods, rising temperatures and sea levels will impact
Texas' economy, wildlife, and cause major property damage.<br>
The good news, is Texas has remarkable potential for wind and solar
projects, and could avoid some of the immediate damage by building a
sea wall.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfTtCIAQcnA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfTtCIAQcnA</a><br>
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[attribution is tenuous, and plausible]<br>
<b>Mount St Helens WARNING: Scientist reveals molten rock 'rising
FIVE metres a DAY'</b><br>
MOUNT St Helens could erupt again as scientists closely monitor a
lava dome rising at five metres a day, a bombshell documentary
revealed.<br>
By CALLUM HOARE<br>
PUBLISHED: 06:11, Fri, Jan 25, 2019<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1077163/mount-st-helens-volcano-warning-scientist-molten-rock-rising-spt">https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1077163/mount-st-helens-volcano-warning-scientist-molten-rock-rising-spt</a><br>
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<b>Mount St Helens Warning: Scientist reveals molten rock 'rising
Five meters a Day</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgo2XOBLmJQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgo2XOBLmJQ</a><br>
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[Keep the bug-out kit on the ready]<br>
<b>Climate Change Could Set Off Volcanoes</b><br>
Olivia Rosane - Apr. 12, 2018 <br>
We can add volcanic eruptions to the list of potential climate
change hazards.<br>
In a presentation at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly
held from April 8 to 13, University of Clermont Auvergne Ph.D.
student Gioachino Roberti explained research indicating that melting
glaciers could trigger eruptions, the Independent reported
Wednesday.<br>
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"Volcanoes are a pressurised system and if you remove pressure by
ice melting and landslide, you have a problem," Roberti told the
Independent.<br>
Roberti's presentation focused on a case study of Mount Meager in
British Columbia, Canada. The volcano saw the largest landslide in
Canadian history on its south side in 2010. By 2016, volcanic gases
formed ice caves in the glacier, the first time that had ever
happened on the mountain.<br>
<br>
The researchers used mathematical models to conclude that another
landslide could impact the magmatic plumbing of the mountain enough
to trigger an eruption.<br>
<br>
Roberti told the Independent that this is most likely an impact of
climate change.<br>
"We see a correlation between high temperature, ice melting and
landslides," Roberti said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change-volcanoes-2559369589.html">https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change-volcanoes-2559369589.html</a><br>
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[Opinion from Richard Brenne in 2015]<br>
<b>Mount St. Helens and climate change</b> (OPINION)<br>
Posted May 17, 2015<br>
- As a student of both Mount St. Helens and climate change, which
I've been writing about since 1988, I've noticed some similarities
between the two. When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, every
scientific paper that had ever been written about climate change to
that point could have fit on innkeeper Harry Truman's desk in his
Spirit Lake Lodge, although they'd be moistened by his many rum and
Coke glasses. Now the mass of every peer-reviewed, scientific paper
written about climate change could equal much of the lava dome that
is reconstructing Mount St. Helens.<br>
<br>
In both cases, scientists were or are simply trying to warn us of
very real dangers. We ignore them at our peril...<br>
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Physicist and glaciologist Toby Dittrich and I had a NASA grant to
teach climate change on-line at the university level. We recorded
each of the classes featuring many of the world's top climate
scientists in a TV studio. Dittrich also has a strong engineering
background and owns many patents, so he was more solution-oriented
while I was trying to communicate the actual magnitude of the
problem, something that is rarely done.<br>
<br>
So during one episode Dittrich kind of ambushed me with a quote from
President Harry Truman, where the leader famous for having a small
sign that read "The buck stops here" on his desk had said "A
pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an
optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." Then
Dittrich turned to me with a smile and said, "So which are you,
Richard?"<br>
<br>
I answered that, "There was another Harry Truman at Spirit Lake
Lodge who said 'The mud stops here,' but it didn't. I think it's
most important to be a realist."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/05/mount_st_helens_and_climate_ch.html">https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/05/mount_st_helens_and_climate_ch.html</a><br>
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[Real anxiety, search for peace]<br>
<b>The Unprecedented Surge in Fear About Climate Change</b><br>
More Americans than ever are worried about climate change, but
they're not willing to pay much to stop it.<br>
A surging number of Americans understand that climate change is
happening and believe that it could harm their family and the
country, according to a new poll from Yale and George Mason
University.<br>
<br>
But at the same time, Americans are not any more willing to pay
money to fight climate change than they were three years ago, says
another new poll, conducted by the Associated Press and the
University of Chicago.<br>
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These changes show up in both new polls. The AP survey found that
seven out of 10 of Americans understand climate change is happening.
Even more notable: A slim majority of Republicans--52
percent--understand that climate change is real. (The AP asked
questions about "climate change," while Yale polled about "global
warming." The difference in language didn't seem to change how
people replied.)<br>
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Now the country's president has vacillated on the reality of climate
change, calling it an "expensive hoax," then revising his view.
Climate change "is one of the most politically polarized issues in
Americans," Leiserowitz said. "So the fact that Trump is now a
hoaxer in chief and yet these numbers are going up is actually
really interesting."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/do-most-americans-believe-climate-change-polls-say-yes/580957/">https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/do-most-americans-believe-climate-change-polls-say-yes/580957/</a><br>
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[weather dot com]<br>
<b>Climate Change May Be Creating a Groundwater 'Time Bomb,'
Scientists Say</b><br>
Scientists say it takes much longer for groundwater systems to
respond to climate change.<br>
Some systems could take up to 100 years to show impacts from global
warming occurring now.<br>
<br>
Climate change may be creating a groundwater "time bomb" as the
world's underground water systems catch up to the impacts of global
warming.<br>
<br>
Researchers for a study published Monday in the journal Nature
Climate Change say more than half of the world's groundwater systems
-- the largest source of usable freshwater in the world -- could
take more than 100 years to completely respond to current
environmental changes from global warming.<br>
<br>
Groundwater is replenished primarily by rainfall through a process
known as recharge. Concurrently, water exits or discharges from
groundwater sources into lakes, streams and oceans to maintain an
overall balance...<br>
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With more than 2 billion people relying on groundwater as a source
of drinking and irrigation water, a delay in reaction to the systems
could become very problematic, especially in locations where people
rely almost entirely on groundwater for personal, industrial and
agricultural needs.<br>
<br>
"It is essential that the potential for these initially hidden
impacts is recognized when developing water management policies, or
climate change adaptation strategies for future generations,"...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://weather.com/science/environment/news/2019-01-23-ground-water-time-bomb-climate-change-global-warming">https://weather.com/science/environment/news/2019-01-23-ground-water-time-bomb-climate-change-global-warming</a><br>
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[video where will you be in the future]<br>
<b>Where to live in America, 2100 A.D.</b><br>
Popular Science<br>
Published on Mar 10, 2017<br>
Season after season, extreme weather bombards the continental United
States. Over the next 83 years, its cascading effects will force
U.S. residents inward, upward, and away from newly uninhabitable
areas. But don't worry: We've mapped out how these factors will
alter the country's landscape in 2100.<br>
Check out an interactive version of this map here: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://pops.ci/BaDiiB">http://pops.ci/BaDiiB</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/QAJm13t6IH8">https://youtu.be/QAJm13t6IH8</a><br>
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[follow the money]<br>
<b>Companies leading on climate change also outperform on stock
market, research shows</b><br>
Caitlin Morrison, The Independent<br>
Companies that perform well on a range of climate change measures
also outperform on the stock market, finds new research by CDP,
formerly known as Carbon Disclosure Project, which is picked up in
the Independent. CDP ranked around 6,800 companies on measures they
have taken across three categories: climate change, water security
and forests. Microsoft and Danone were among the top-scoring firms
for climate change. Dexter Galvin, global director at CDP, says that
the research "demonstrates that the leadership on environmental
issues…goes hand in hand with being a successful and profitable
business"...<br>
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Meanwhile, researchers found that the STOXX Global Climate Change
Leaders Index - which is based on the CDP A List - outperformed the
STOXX Global 1800, by 5.4 per cent per year from December 2011 to
July 2018.<br>
<br>
This "demonstrates that the leadership on environmental issues shown
by the A List goes hand in hand with being a successful and
profitable business", according to Dexter Galvin, global director at
CDP.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/climate-change-companies-stock-market-share-price-davos-wef-summit-research-a8740811.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/climate-change-companies-stock-market-share-price-davos-wef-summit-research-a8740811.html</a><br>
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[Down Under high heat - 42C = 107F]<br>
<b>Mass death of feral horses discovered in scorching, dry Central
Australian waterhole</b><br>
By Matt Garrick<br>
A mass feral horse death at the base of a dry waterhole in Central
Australia has been blamed on an extreme heatwave in the region.<br>
Around two dozen brumbies in various stages of decomposition have
been discovered strewn along a 100-metre stretch of a swimming spot
called Deep Hole, 20 kilometres from the remote community of Santa
Teresa.<br>
The region has hit a record 12-day run of temperatures above 42
degrees Celsius, and it is poised to hit 13 days in Alice Springs on
Wednesday.<br>
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In Alice Springs, around 80km from Santa Teresa, the town's airport
on Tuesday eclipsed the longest stretch of days above 42C since the
weather station opened in 1940...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-23/mass-brumby-death-discovered-in-remote-central-australia/10739178?pfmredir=sm">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-23/mass-brumby-death-discovered-in-remote-central-australia/10739178?pfmredir=sm</a><br>
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<b>Animals dying of thirst in central Australia may be culled as
2,500 camels shot in WA</b><br>
Central Land Council could carry out emergency cull of 120 horses,
goats and donkeys that are dying in heatwave<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/24/animals-dying-of-thirst-in-central-australia-may-be-culled-as-2500-camels-shot-in-wa">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/24/animals-dying-of-thirst-in-central-australia-may-be-culled-as-2500-camels-shot-in-wa</a><br>
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[Weather channel -Camels die of thirst]]<br>
<b>Australia's Heatwave Responsible for Deaths of Horses, Camels</b><br>
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Ranchers in the Goldfields region of Western Australia say thousands
of camels are flocking from the Gibson Desert in search of water,
ABC reported.<br>
"There have been three very good years in the desert and the camels
have been breeding up. At least one-third of the camels we're seeing
are young camels and they're in shocking condition," Tim Carmody
told ABC. "We've seen them on the lake where they've walked onto the
lake trying to find water and a group of 36 all got bogged in one
spot and we've had to euthanize them."<br>
Carmody said about 1,200 camels have been shot on his property since
the day after Christmas. Ranchers say another 1,300 camels have been
culled on other properties in the past month.<br>
Rancher Les Smith and his neighbors want the state government to
conduct an urgent cull.<br>
"They're multiplying every year, they're multiplying in the
thousands, millions," Smith told ABC. "The other day there were 200
camels at one windmill. I only took a couple of packets of bullets
out with me because I was fixing a windmill, and when I saw that mob
I shot 31."..<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://weather.com/news/news/2019-01-24-australia-extreme-heat-kills-horses-camels-0">https://weather.com/news/news/2019-01-24-australia-extreme-heat-kills-horses-camels-0</a><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>This Day in Climate History - January 26, 2015 -
from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
January 26, 2015 - The New York Times reports:<br>
<blockquote>"Alaska is not a sinking ship, but no one needed an
explanation of the gallows-humor remark, as a record-setting sea
of red ink has flooded the state budget amid a global collapse of
energy prices. Taxes paid by oilcompanies account for 90 percent
of the state’s operating budget, and those revenues have sunk with
stomach-churning suddenness and depth, echoing other oil-patch
states, like Texas, but with uniquely Alaskan scale and
implications.<br>
<br>
"The result, historians and economists say, is beyond the
experience of this state, or probably any other in modern times:
more than half of the tax base — predicated on crude oil selling
at around $110 a barrel — is simply gone in the whirlwind of $50
oil, as though it never existed. A spending plan of $6.1 billion
for 2015, passed by the Legislature last year, will fall $3.5
billion short, or more, if oil prices keep falling. Alaska
collects no state sales or income taxes to pick up the slack; a
savings fund from past oil earnings will help, but it cannot fully
fill the gap either."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/us/as-oil-falls-alaskas-new-chief-faces-a-novel-goal-frugality.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/us/as-oil-falls-alaskas-new-chief-faces-a-novel-goal-frugality.html</a><br>
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