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<i><font size="+1"><b>February 23, 2020</b></font></i><br>
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[more heat, faster evaporation]<br>
<b>Climate change is drying up the Colorado River</b><br>
Less snow means more evaporation in a critical water resource<br>
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As climate change disrupts historical patterns of rainfall and
temperature, the Colorado River has not been faring well, and it's
getting even increasingly unlikely that the river will reach the sea
again. A paper published this week in Science reports that the
river's flow has been declining by an alarming 9.3 percent for every
1C of warming--and that declining snow levels are the main culprit
for this dramatic decline.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/climate-change-is-drying-up-the-colorado-river/">https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/climate-change-is-drying-up-the-colorado-river/</a><br>
more at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-colorado-river-runs-dry-61427169/">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-colorado-river-runs-dry-61427169/</a><br>
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[Check your wallet too]<br>
<b>Inside Clean Energy: Tesla Gets Ever So Close to 400 Miles of
Range</b><br>
The increased range is a step toward bringing EVs--and their
contribution to combating climate change--into the mainstream.<br>
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Tesla already makes an electric car that has the longest battery
range in the industry--373 miles. Now the model has gotten an update
that will push that up to nearly 400 miles. <br>
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That's a lot, and it's a step toward electric vehicles that can ease
drivers' fears of running out of power on long trips without access
to a charging station. Overcoming those customer concerns can help
EVs break out of their niche status--EVs and plug-in hybrids
comprise only about 2 percent of the new cars and trucks sold in the
U.S.--and provide a realistic pathway to reducing vehicle emissions.<br>
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Friday that his company's Model S
sedan now has an estimated range of more than 390 miles, the result
of hardware and software improvements.<br>
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A list of the EVs with the longest ranges in the 2020 EPA Fuel
Economy Guide is pretty much a list of Tesla products. Tesla has the
top 14 spots, including variations on the Model S, Model X, Model Y
and Model 3.<br>
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It's important to note that most of these come with premium prices.
The Model S Long Range, for example, the 390-mile version, has a
base price of $74,490.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19022020/clean-energy-tesla-model-s-solar-gasoline">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19022020/clean-energy-tesla-model-s-solar-gasoline</a>?<br>
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[information warfare]<br>
<b>Don't @ Me: What Happened When Climate Skeptics Misused My Work</b><br>
A student who saw his climate research misrepresented in online
forums shares the experience, as well as lessons learned and
recommendations for how to counter efforts to distort climate
science...<br>
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<b>Lessons Learned</b><br>
I still feel guilty for not engaging those who misrepresented my
work on Twitter; maybe I was wrong to abdicate responsibility for
standing up for my science. Regardless, the experience taught me
valuable lessons that will inform my response--and that may be of
help to other scientists, early career or otherwise--when similar
episodes occur.<br>
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One lesson I learned is to anticipate how my science could
potentially be distorted and to address these points explicitly in
abstracts and in any public-facing components of my research. If I
could go back and rewrite the abstract of my group's paper, I would
include a sentence that points out why a feedback between surface
temperatures and downwelling longwave radiation does not preclude
the existence of the greenhouse effect.<br>
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Journal editors can act as a second line of defense, directing
authors to acknowledge and preemptively refute points in their
papers that could be misrepresented. Such refutations will
undoubtedly seem obvious to trained scientists, but they are still
important. By explicitly refuting potential distortions in our
publications, we acknowledge the presence of a controversy and help
to address it on our own platforms that lend professional
credibility to our statements. The clearer we are in our
publications, the more difficult it is for skeptics to muddy the
water, and the more difficult it becomes for politicians and
corporations to disingenuously question consensus climate science.<br>
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The unprecedented dissemination of information (and misinformation)
made possible by the Internet demands that scientists and their
institutions evolve to meet the public's growing appetite for
credible science while also acknowledging political implications of
their work. Still, these steps do not address the significant public
dialogue about science that now takes place on social media. The
unprecedented dissemination of information (and misinformation) made
possible by the Internet demands that scientists and their
institutions evolve to meet the public's growing appetite for
credible science while also acknowledging political implications of
their work.<br>
Social media training offered by universities and membership
organizations like AGU is important for preparing those who want to
use social media to communicate science to the general public. Even
though online ecosystems can feel alarmingly hostile to informed
debate, we must all do our part to ensure that our work is as
difficult as possible to misrepresent. By addressing head-on the
fact that our public-facing communications about research will be
scrutinized by those with political axes to grind against climate
science, we can reduce the bandwidth across which skeptics can
misrepresent science on Twitter and other platforms; ultimately,
this practice will diminish their credibility.<br>
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The political dimensions of climate change guarantee that climate
science will continue to be misrepresented by those with ideological
agendas. Climate scientists have a responsibility to untangle fact
from fiction and to communicate with society clearly about the
dangers of climate change. If we do not actively take on that role,
others will fill the vacuum that our silence creates...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://eos.org/opinions/dont-at-me-what-happened-when-climate-skeptics-misused-my-work">https://eos.org/opinions/dont-at-me-what-happened-when-climate-skeptics-misused-my-work</a><br>
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[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
February 23, 2007 </b></font><br>
Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) declares himself "a conservative and a
conservationist" in a Washington Post article:<br>
<blockquote>"For the past 20 years, I have seen the ever-so-gradual
effects of rising sea levels at our farm on the South Carolina
coast. I've had to watch once-thriving pine trees die in that
fragile zone between uplands and salt marshes. I know the climate
change debate isn't over, but I believe human activity is having a
measurable effect on the environment."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022201455.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022201455.html</a><br>
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