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<i><font size="+1"><b>June 2, 2020</b></font></i><br>
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[Top Story news from Climate Nexus]<br>
<b>TV Coverage Ignored Impacts Of Extreme Weather On Marginalized
Communities: </b>The big three broadcast channels failed to cover
the disproportionate impacts of extreme weather on low-income
communities or communities of color during their primetime coverage
of seven hurricanes and one tropical storm over three years, a Media
Matters for America analysis revealed. Evening news programs for
ABC, CBS, and NBC from 2017 through 2019 aired 669 segments on eight
storms, but never once discussed the disproportionate harm inflicted
upon marginalized communities, often compounded by discriminatory
practices in the distribution of federal aid...[more]<br>
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[from Govt Archive - 2016]<br>
<b>The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United
States: A Scientific Assessment<br>
</b>Climate change is a significant threat to the health of the
American people. This scientific assessment examines how climate
change is already affecting human health and the changes that may
occur in the future.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://health2016.globalchange.gov/">https://health2016.globalchange.gov/</a> and
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7930/J0R49NQX">http://dx.doi.org/10.7930/J0R49NQX</a><br>
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<br>
[Wildfire Today]<br>
<b>Wildfire potential expected to be above normal in many western
locations this summer</b><br>
July could be a very busy month for wildland firefighters in the
U.S.<br>
map
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wildfiretoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/month2_outlook.png">https://wildfiretoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/month2_outlook.png</a><br>
The National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook issued
today by the Predictive Services section at the National Interagency
Fire Center for June through September indicates that many areas in
the western United States will have above normal potential for
wildfires. In July the increased fire danger is expected to affect
significant portions of California, Washington, Oregon, Montana,
Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Arizona...<br>
- - -<br>
"June through early July is the peak of the fire season across the
Southwest. Expect for the normal fire activity across the region to
increase through the period with some areas experiencing Above
Normal significant large fire potential, especially across Arizona.
As the monsoon begins in mid-July, activity across the Southwest
will diminish. Activity across Alaska will also diminish as the
rainy season begins. California, central and northern portions of
the Great Basin, the Pacific Northwest, and the Northern Rockies
will begin to enter their peaks.<br>
<br>
"Above Normal significant large fire potential is expected in the
areas shown on the maps due primarily to increasing drought
conditions, early loss of mountain snowpack, anticipated lightning
activity, and overall hot and dry conditions that should persist
through August. As is typically the case, the peak season fire
activity across the northwestern portion of the country should
diminish by mid-September as the seasonal transition begins and
allows for wet fronts to bring precipitation to impacted areas."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wildfiretoday.com/2020/06/01/wildfire-potential-expected-to-be-above-normal-in-many-western-locations-this-summer/">https://wildfiretoday.com/2020/06/01/wildfire-potential-expected-to-be-above-normal-in-many-western-locations-this-summer/</a><br>
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<br>
[The Bar opening up - legal opinion]<br>
<b>May 2020: A Critical Period for Climate Change Litigation</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/may-2020-a-critical-period-for-climate-65829/">https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/may-2020-a-critical-period-for-climate-65829/</a><br>
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<br>
[look out below]<br>
<b>Rapid Antarctic Ice Melt in the Past Bodes Ill for the Future</b><br>
Geological evidence shows glaciers retreated by as much as 6 miles
in a year at the end of the last ice age<br>
By Chelsea Harvey, E&E News on May 29, 2020<br>
Antarctic glaciers may be capable of shrinking at much faster rates
than scientists previously imagined -- raising new concerns about
the future of the ice sheet.<br>
<br>
New evidence suggests that parts of the ice sheet retreated by as
much as 6 miles a year at the end of the last ice age, around 11,000
years ago. That's about 10 times as fast as the fastest-melting
glaciers are retreating today.<br>
<br>
It's an ominous reminder that previous warm periods have driven
monumental environmental changes -- and it's possible it could
happen again.<br>
<br>
"This is the first study that's showed definitively that rates [of
retreat] can be this rapid," said lead author Julian Dowdeswell,
director of the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of
Cambridge.<br>
<br>
The study, published yesterday in Science, used a robotic underwater
vehicle to investigate the seabed around the eastern Antarctic
Peninsula. The vehicle revealed a pattern of ridges on the ocean
floor, perfectly preserved for thousands of years.<br>
<br>
These kinds of ridges can form as a glacier loses ice and retreats
backward into the ice sheet.<br>
<br>
Researchers believe ocean tides are a key part of the process. When
the tide comes in, it rocks the glacier and ever-so-slightly lifts
the ice from the bottom of the ocean. When the tide goes back out,
the ice settles back into place.<br>
<br>
A stable glacier will lift up and set down again in the exact same
spot. But a glacier that's steadily losing ice will retreat
backward, just a bit, each time the tide comes in and out. The
result is a pattern of lines in the seafloor, marking how the ice
has moved backward over time.<br>
<br>
This explanation -- relying on ocean tides as a pace-setter -- is
commonly accepted in the research community, according to Martin
Jakobsson of Stockholm University, who published a comment on the
new research in Science this week.<br>
<br>
Assuming this is what was happening, the pattern suggests the ice in
this region was retreating by 40 to 50 meters each day. Over an
entire year, that would come to more than 10 kilometers, or at least
6 miles.<br>
<br>
The researchers believe the high rates of retreat probably would
have lasted no more than a few years before restabilizing.<br>
<br>
Still, compared with present-day estimates of glacier retreat, it's
an eyebrow-raising figure.<br>
<br>
By contrast, Pine Island Glacier -- one of the fastest-melting
glaciers in Antarctica today -- has retreated at a rate of just over
a kilometer per year for the past few decades.<br>
<br>
The new study doesn't prove exactly what processes were physically
driving the retreat 11,000 years ago. It demonstrates that extremely
rapid retreat is possible but doesn't explain what conditions are
necessary for this to happen.<br>
<br>
Dowdeswell said he believes the circumstances today might be similar
to what was going on at the end of the last ice age.<br>
<br>
Today, scientists believe that currents of warm ocean water are
helping to melt Antarctica's fastest-melting glaciers from the
bottom up. The warm water seeps beneath the ice shelves at the edges
of the glaciers, causing them to thin and destabilize.<br>
<br>
"The circumstances of ice shelf systems thinning were likely to be
similar 11,000 or 12,000 years ago," Dowdeswell said.<br>
<br>
But without a proven explanation for what was happening, the new
study "presents a challenge for the ice-modeling community,"
Jakobsson wrote.<br>
<br>
Scientists rely on models to help them predict how glaciers may
behave in the future, such as when and where ice melt may begin to
speed up and how much sea levels will rise in response.<br>
<br>
But ice models are notoriously difficult to build, in large part
because scientists still are scratching the surface of how ice
sheets physically respond to climate change.<br>
<br>
In recent years, multiple studies have begun to suggest that
previous projections about sea-level rise may have been too low --
that the world's ice sheets may melt at faster rates than previously
predicted.<br>
<br>
The new study would seem to add to these anxieties, Dowdeswell
noted. It suggests that former estimates "don't encompass the full
variability and full rapidity of the rates of retreat that can take
place," he said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.eenews.net">www.eenews.net</a> and
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rapid-antarctic-ice-melt-in-the-past-bodes-ill-for-the-future/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rapid-antarctic-ice-melt-in-the-past-bodes-ill-for-the-future/</a><br>
A billion-dollar program to protect cities from climate change is at
risk of failing because of the pandemic.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/climate/states-coronavirus-climate-projects.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/climate/states-coronavirus-climate-projects.html</a><br>
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<br>
[brief video comment on hurricanes]<br>
<b>Jennifer Francis PhD on Hurricanes that Stall</b><br>
Jun 1, 2020<br>
greenmanbucket<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhwoGTTANSU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhwoGTTANSU</a><br>
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<br>
<br>
[argument]<br>
<b>Florida judge rejects children's climate change lawsuit, citing
'political' issue</b><br>
Eight children wanted to argue the governor and other top leaders
have promoted pollution that imperils the future of the state.<br>
By Zachary T. Sampson<br>
A Tallahassee judge on Monday ordered the dismissal of a climate
change lawsuit brought by eight children who wanted to argue the
governor and other top state leaders have promoted pollution that
imperils their chances of living in Florida in the future.<br>
<br>
"I still believe in my heart of hearts that the people through their
elected representatives will eventually get this climate thing
right," said Leon County Circuit Judge Kevin Carroll. But he
rejected the case before it could go to trial because he said it
delved into matters better left for the Legislature. "We can't rely
on judges to be dictators of public policy because, at the end of
the day, a dictator in a black robe isn't any better than a dictator
in a suit or in a military uniform."<br>
<br>
The case, Reynolds v. State of Florida, was filed in 2018 when Sen.
Rick Scott was governor. Lawyers more recently added the current
administration, including Gov. Ron DeSantis and Agriculture
Commissioner Nikki Fried, to their complaint. State agencies filed
multiple motions to dismiss, which were heard Monday.<br>
<br>
The eight children, now between the ages of 12 and 22, contend that
officials are endangering their constitutional right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness by supporting industries built
on fossil fuel emissions, which scientists say worsen global
warming.<br>
<br>
Mitchell Chester, one of their lawyers, listed the state cabinet's
approval last year of a plan to convert part of the Big Bend Power
Station on Tampa Bay from coal to natural gas as an example of how
leaders continue to encourage pollution.<br>
<br>
"It helps create another source of greenhouse gases," he said,
describing how seas could rise and flood land, while spiking
temperatures could make it harder for people to live and grow food.<br>
<br>
He further argued that the state has a duty to protect the
atmosphere under the public trust doctrine, citing an ancient Roman
code that informed common law and declared the air is "common to all
mankind."<br>
<br>
"These children ... cannot protect themselves against the system,"
Chester said. "Where do they go, if not to you?"<br>
<br>
Lawyer Mitchell Chester, representing eight children suing the State
of Florida over climate change, speaks during a hearing conducted by
Zoom video conference on Monday. [Screenshot from Zoom]<br>
Lawyers for the state argued that the public trust doctrine in
Florida only applies to certain waterways and parts of the
shoreline, not the air, and that the assurances the children seek
are issues for voters and lawmakers.<br>
<br>
Karen Ann Brodeen, a lawyer in the Florida attorney general's
office, said even if the case went to trial and the children's
lawyers revealed the harm of man-made climate change through expert
testimony, "legislation is the role of the legislative branch, not
the judiciary."<br>
<br>
The hearing was conducted in a Zoom video conference because of the
coronavirus pandemic.<br>
<br>
Carroll, the judge, appeared in front of a seal and two flags, clad
in a robe, shirt and tie, stroking his chin as the debate stretched
for nearly three hours.<br>
<br>
His decision delivered a blow to one of several cases led by the
group Our Children's Trust. A federal effort, Juliana v. United
States, was rejected in an appeals court earlier this year.<br>
<br>
Carroll acknowledged that the case is likely to go to an appeal. He
told lawyers for the children they had made it "tempting" for him to
allow the case to continue.<br>
<br>
"I do wish you luck down the road," he said. "I hope you'll tell
your clients that this is one step in our civic process here."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2020/06/01/florida-judge-rejects-childrens-climate-change-lawsuit-citing-political-issue/">https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2020/06/01/florida-judge-rejects-childrens-climate-change-lawsuit-citing-political-issue/</a><br>
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<br>
[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
June 2, 2007 </b></font><br>
In the Democratic response to President George W. Bush's weekly
radio address, Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) criticizes Bush's reckless
approach to climate change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?198459-1/DemocraticRadioAddress228">http://www.c-span.org/video/?198459-1/DemocraticRadioAddress228</a><br>
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