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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>July 7, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[Start preparing]<br>
<b>Another intense heat wave to roast Western U.S., southwest Canada</b><br>
Temperatures 20 degrees above normal could bring record-challenging
heat to the West once again<br>
Now, southwest Canada and much of the western United States are
bracing for another bout of exceptional heat amid a pattern that
could once again place records in jeopardy. Death Valley, Calif.,
might spike to 130 degrees.<br>
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Temperatures up to 25 degrees above average could dominate most of
the West this weekend into next week, with little relief in sight
for quite some time. Odds favor anomalously hot and dry conditions
to prevail into the fall.<br>
<br>
On Tuesday, weather models were hinting that a building ridge of
high pressure over the West, colloquially known as a summertime
“heat dome,” would become established over the Four Corners region
later in the week. By Saturday, it will be reinforced by a secondary
such system passing through west central Canada, the two systems’
synergy resulting in widespread unusual to record temperatures...<br>
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Drought, spurred in large part by the rising temperatures, is
playing a role too. The parched landscape and ceaselessly dry
conditions desiccating the West have made it easier for temperatures
to overachieve too. That in turn evaporates more moisture from the
environment, leading to a seemingly inescapable cycle.<br>
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It also portends a potentially devastating wildfire season ahead.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/07/06/california-west-heat-wave/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/07/06/california-west-heat-wave/</a><br>
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<p>[breaking records every month]<br>
<b>Analysts dissect historic Pacific Northwest ‘heat dome’</b><br>
Jul 6, 2021<br>
YaleClimateConnections<br>
Record-breaking consecutive 100-degree-plus days left the region
staggering: Experts explain the phenomenon and prospects for more
of the same in coming years.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkOlUZr1tNY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkOlUZr1tNY</a></p>
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[important philosophical discussion of climate change]<br>
<b>Martin Bunzl | Thinking While Walking</b><br>
July 6, 2021<br>
Nick Breeze<br>
Visit the main site at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://genn.cc">https://genn.cc</a><br>
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In this episode, I speak to the philosopher, Martin Bunzl, about his
new book, Thinking While Walking, Reflections on the Pacific Crest
Trail.<br>
<br>
As Martin traverses the 2650 mile trail from the Mexican-US border
to the US-Canada border, questions emerge around our own
relationship with what we call the natural world.<br>
<br>
If humanity has curated the landscape for thousands of years, both
for-profit and pleasure, what are the impasses and delusions that we
are to face in solving the huge ecological and climate problems that
currently block our road to the future?<br>
<br>
These ideas have been discussed before in terms of man versus nature
but Martin gives concrete examples of where our romantic view of
nature has already shaped the world around us.<br>
<br>
Thinking While Walking is a fascinating book that considers many of
the entrenched positions that many of us hold when we think or speak
about action on climate change.<br>
<br>
Thank you for listening to Shaping The Future. There are many more
episodes on the way, so please consider subscribing via our podcast
or Youtube channels. You can also support my work by backing it at
patreon.com/genncc.<br>
<blockquote>Timestamps:<br>
00:00 Intro by Nick Breeze<br>
01:21 Role of philosophy in responding to climate challenges.<br>
05:00 Tension between stemming energy and stemming population
among global poorest.<br>
07:00 Our relationship with nature. “We forget that human beings
started changing nature at least ten thousand years before the
Christian era.”<br>
11:20 Manmade versus nature-based solutions.<br>
13:50 We need to remove 8 billion tonnes of CO2 for every part per
million of carbon dioxide that we want to remove from the
atmosphere.<br>
16:15 Does the precautionary principle as a term oversimplify the
reality of the climate predicament or is it an apt term given
there are so many vulnerable people?<br>
20:30 Manmade interventions that create winners and losers.<br>
25:40: Genetical engineering for greenhouse gas removal that could
see 40% of our emissions removed by agriculture. Is the potential
risk too unpalatable?<br>
31:02 Are we saving the world or creating an idea of nature that
fits our anthropocentric interest?<br>
Visit the main site at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://genn.cc">https://genn.cc</a><br>
More on <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climateseries.com">https://climateseries.com</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4e2hdEp96w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4e2hdEp96w</a><br>
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[thanks DM - great article ]<br>
<b>Wildlife, air quality at risk as Great Salt Lake nears low</b><br>
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The lake’s levels are expected to hit a 170-year low this year. It
comes as the drought has the U.S. West bracing for a brutal wildfire
season and coping with already low reservoirs. Utah Gov. Spencer
Cox, a Republican, has begged people to cut back on lawn watering
and “pray for rain.”<br>
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For the Great Salt Lake, though, it is only the latest challenge.
People for years have been diverting water from rivers that flow
into the lake to water crops and supply homes. Because the lake is
shallow — about 35 feet (11 meters) at its deepest point — less
water quickly translates to receding shorelines.<br>
<br>
The water that remains stretches across a chunk of northern Utah,
with highways on one end and remote land on the other. A resort —
long since closed — once drew sunbathers who would float like corks
in the extra salty waters. Picnic tables once a quick stroll from
the shore are now a 10-minute walk away...<br>
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The waves have been replaced by dry, gravelly lakebed that’s grown
to 750 square miles (1,942 square kilometers). Winds can whip up
dust from the dry lakebed that is laced with naturally occurring
arsenic, said Kevin Perry, a University of Utah atmospheric
scientist.<br>
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It blows through a region that already has some of the dirtiest
wintertime air in the country because of seasonal geographic
conditions that trap pollution between the mountains...<br>
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Perry warns of what happened at California’s Owens Lake, which was
pumped dry to feed thirsty Los Angeles and created a dust bowl that
cost millions of dollars to tamp down. The Great Salt Lake is much
larger and closer to a populated area, Perry said.<br>
<br>
Luckily, much of the bed of Utah’s giant lake has a crust that makes
it tougher for dust to blow. Perry is researching how long the
protective crust will last and how dangerous the soil’s arsenic
might be to people...<br>
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But the falling lake levels have exposed a land bridge to the
island, allowing foxes and coyotes to come across and hunt for
rodents and other food. The activity frightens the shy birds
accustomed to a quiet place to raise their young, so they flee the
nests, leaving the eggs and baby birds to be eaten by gulls.<br>
<br>
Pelicans aren’t the only birds dependent on the lake. It’s a
stopover for many species to feed on their journey south.<br>
<br>
A study from Utah State University says that to maintain lake
levels, diverting water from rivers that flow into it would have to
decrease by 30%. But for the state with the nation’s fastest-growing
population, addressing the problem will require a major shift in how
water is allocated and perceptions of the lake, which has a strong
odor in some places caused treated wastewater and is home to
billions of brine flies.<br>
<br>
“There’s a lot of people who believe that every drop that goes into
the Great Salt Lake is wasted,” Perry said. “That’s the perspective
I’m trying to change. The lake has needs, too. And they’re not being
met.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://apnews.com/article/great-salt-lake-air-quality-lakes-wildlife-lifestyle-1adae582035c7f1b03f2a5cb57c0dda8">https://apnews.com/article/great-salt-lake-air-quality-lakes-wildlife-lifestyle-1adae582035c7f1b03f2a5cb57c0dda8</a><br>
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[see the video]<br>
<b>VIDEO: Drought could drop Great Salt Lake to historic low</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://apnews.com/article/videos-519688467650">https://apnews.com/article/videos-519688467650</a><br>
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[popular video commentary]<br>
<b>Global decarbonisation : Lies, damn lies, and statistics?</b><br>
Jul 4, 2021<br>
Just Have a Think<br>
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Decarbonisation is the only way out of our climate emergency. The
quicker we do it the less damage we will incur. But just about every
mainstream agency and organisation around the world is advising
policymakers not to move too quickly away from fossil fuels for fear
of disrupting economies and societies. The real world statistics
tell a very different story though, and now new research is
suggesting we should actually be far bolder in our move towards
renewable power.<br>
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Video Transcripts available at our website<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.justhaveathink.com">http://www.justhaveathink.com</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Lz1IACBf0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Lz1IACBf0</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.justhaveathink.com/decarbonisation-deception/">https://www.justhaveathink.com/decarbonisation-deception/</a><br>
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[video summary of climate news]<br>
<b>Does climate action (or inaction) have bipartisan support?</b><br>
Jul 5, 2021<br>
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[Read of the here and now]<br>
<b>Climate Change Disaster Isn’t a Future Threat — It’s Already Here</b><br>
BY CHRIS SALTMARSH<br>
From the historic heat wave tearing through the Pacific Northwest to
temperatures "too hot for humanity" in Pakistan, the consequences of
climate change are no longer a far-off threat — they're here right
now.<br>
ish Columbia, Canada, reaches so far into the north of our globe
that I once saw the northern lights close to its border with the
Yukon. Canada’s geography perhaps makes it all the more stark that
its recent heat wave has seen approximately three hundred excess
deaths amid temperature highs of 49.5°C (121.3°F).<br>
<br>
Many of the dead were elderly and living alone in unventilated
homes. Shocking moments like this, now a more than annual
occurrence, can jolt us into a renewed sense of urgency to do
something about climate change.<br>
<br>
Undoubtedly, Canada’s heat wave has garnered such attention in the
Global North because it is a major economy, predominantly
English-speaking, and largely white. We must not ignore the
realities of extreme heat in parts of the world even more vulnerable
to climate change’s impacts...<br>
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In the Middle East earlier in June, countries reaching highs of 50°C
(122°F) included Oman, Kuwait, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates.
We are on a trajectory where parts of the region will likely become
uninhabitable within our lifetimes, and even faster than expected.<br>
<br>
This planetary crisis of extreme weather is not in the distant or
even near future. It is already here, and it will only intensify
year after year. Overall, we are not on track to reverse this trend
— and we are not prepared to live safely with its consequences...<br>
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<b>The Green New Deal</b><br>
This context makes the recent surge in support among government,
corporations, and NGOs for decarbonization targets of “net-zero by
2050” look pathetic. These targets reliably grab a cheap green
headline, but, more seriously, they expose their proponents’ shared
ambivalence about the scale and pace of action needed. Supporting
net-zero 2050 is tacit admission that you’re happy to let the death
toll carry on rising while delaying the elimination of emissions by
three decades.<br>
<br>
In 2019, Labour for a Green New Deal campaigned for the UK Labour
Party to adopt a target of zero emissions by 2030. The debate around
that aim focused on feasibility and implications for the UK, but our
proposal to decarbonize within just one decade was led principally
by a commitment to global justice. The UK has a responsibility to
eliminate emissions faster because of its disproportionate historic
contributions: one report puts the UK’s fair share of emissions
reductions at 200 percent by 2030. That’s cutting our own to zero
while financing equivalent reductions internationally.<br>
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Are our emergency services well funded to respond to disasters? Do
we have robust health care systems prepared to expand capacity when
required? Do we have evacuation plans including safe conditions for
those displaced? Are there contingency plans for the distribution of
food during shortages? Have we invested in our buildings to
withstand storms or flooding and to cool during extreme heat? Do we
have a socialized insurance system capable of providing sufficient
cover for loss and damage to homes or businesses, regardless of
cost? Do we have employment rights fit for an era where work will be
made impossible by new conditions?<br>
<br>
In too many places, the answer to most or all of these questions is
a resounding no. Capitalism prohibits action to effectively
decarbonize for the same reasons it limits investment in measures to
live with the consequences of climate change: short-term profits are
more important than safety and justice.<br>
<br>
That’s why we cannot abide the false choice between mitigation and
adaptation. The same measures of transforming the economy by
expanding the public sector, increasing state capacity, mobilizing
investment, and promoting economic democracy give us the tools to
decarbonize and adapt at the same time, while meeting basic needs
for all.<br>
<br>
We should not accept from the ruling class a future where we live
with the extreme weather of climate change — but we must prepare to
do so. The Left and the climate movement should of course prioritize
leveraging the state to meet those needs through a Green New Deal,
but we cannot put all our eggs in the basket of political success.
We need to prepare for multiple possibilities, including that we do
not capture state power in the necessary timeframe, and the
inevitability that capitalist states will not step up to the mark at
the eleventh hour.<br>
<br>
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the beginnings of our
capacity to build networks of solidarity and mutual aid in our
communities in response to the state abdicating its social
responsibilities during a crisis. Such organizing must be made more
resilient and long-lasting, and always keep political transformation
at the core of its mission. It may well prove a more permanent
feature of our efforts if we are to defend ourselves from the
extreme effects of climate change, and of the cruelty of the rich.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/07/climate-change-extreme-heat-british-columbia-pakistan-madagascar-green-new-deal">https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/07/climate-change-extreme-heat-british-columbia-pakistan-madagascar-green-new-deal</a>
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[National Parks not immune]<br>
JULY 3, 2021<b><br>
</b><b>Climate Change Is Driving Jarring Changes at Yellowstone
National Park</b><br>
Temperatures are likely the warmest they’ve been in 800,000 years.<br>
ADAM POPESCU<br>
This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced
here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.<br>
<br>
In 1872, when Yellowstone was designated as the first national park
in the United States, Congress decreed that it be “reserved and
withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, and sale and … set apart as a
public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of
the people.” Yet today, Yellowstone—which stretches 3,472 square
miles across Montana, Wyoming and Idaho—is facing a threat that no
national park designation can protect against: rising temperatures.<br>
<br>
Since 1950, the iconic park has experienced a host of changes caused
by human-driven global warming, including decreased snowpack,
shorter winters and longer summers, and a growing risk of wildfires.
These changes, as well as projected changes as the planet continues
to warm this century, are laid out in a just-released climate
assessment that was years in the making. The report examines the
impacts of climate change not only in the park, but also in the
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem—an area 10 times the size of the park
itself.<br>
<br>
The climate assessment says that temperatures in the park are now as
high or higher as during any period in the last 20,000 years and are
very likely the warmest in the past 800,000 years. Since 1950,
Yellowstone has experienced an average temperature increase of 2.3
degrees Fahrenheit, with the most pronounced warming taking place at
elevations above 5,000 feet.<br>
<br>
The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. NASA Earth Observatory map by
Joshua Stevens, using data from the National Park Service and the US
Fish and Wildlife Service<br>
Today, the report says, Yellowstone’s spring thaw starts several
weeks sooner, and peak annual stream runoff is eight days earlier
than in 1950. The region’s agricultural growing season is nearly two
weeks longer than it was 70 years ago. Since 1950, snowfall has
declined in the Greater Yellowstone Area in January and March by 53
percent and 43 percent respectively, and snowfall in September has
virtually disappeared, dropping by 96 percent. Annual snowfall has
declined by nearly two feet since 1950.<br>
<br>
Because of steady warming, precipitation that once fell as snow now
increasingly comes as rain. Annual precipitation could increase by 9
to 15 percent by the end of the century, the assessment says. But
with snowpack decreasing and temperatures and evaporation
increasing, future conditions are expected to be drier, stressing
vegetation and increasing the risk of wildfires. Extreme weather is
already more common, and blazes like Yellowstone’s massive 1988
fires—which burned 800,000 acres—are a growing seasonal worry.<br>
<br>
The assessment’s future projections are even bleaker. If
heat-trapping emissions are not reduced, towns and cities in the
Greater Yellowstone Area—including Bozeman, Montana and Jackson,
Pinedale, and Cody, Wyoming—could experience 40 to 60 more days per
year when temperatures exceed 90 degrees F. And under current
greenhouse gas emissions scenarios, temperatures in the Greater
Yellowstone Area could increase by 5 to 10 degrees F by 2100,
causing upheaval in the ecosystem, including shifts in forest
composition.<br>
<br>
At the heart of the issues facing the Greater Yellowstone Area is
water, and the report warns that communities around the
park—including ranchers, farmers, businesses and homeowners— must
devise plans to deal with the growing prospect of drought, declining
snowpack and seasonal shifts in water availability.<br>
<br>
Some national parks in the American West may soon lose the natural
features they were named for.<br>
“Climate is going to challenge our economies and the health of all
people who live here,” said Cathy Whitlock, a Montana State
University paleoclimatologist and co-author of the report. She hopes
“to engage residents and political leaders about local consequences
and develop lists of habitats most at-risk and the specific
indicators of human health that need to be studied,” like the
connection between the increase in wildfires and respiratory
illness. Sounding the alarm isn’t new, but the authors of the
Yellowstone report hope their approach, and the body of evidence
presented, will convince those skeptical about climate change to
accept that it’s real and intensifying.<br>
<br>
The report describes a scenario that is now all too common across
the American West and in the region’s renowned national parks, from
Grand Canyon in Arizona, to Zion in Utah, to Olympic in Washington
state. Record warming and extreme drought mean there is not enough
fall and winter moisture, leading to steadily declining mountain
snowpack. Many iconic venues may soon lose the very features they
were named for. Most striking is Glacier National Park in Montana,
where, since the late 19th century, the number of the park’s
glaciers has declined from 150 to 26. The remaining glaciers are
expected to disappear this century.<br>
<br>
Swaths of Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado have suffered
massive die-offs of white pine and spruce as warming-related
bark-beetle infestations have killed an estimated 834 million trees
across the state. And in Yosemite National Park in California, the
rate of warming has doubled since 1950 to 3.4 degrees F per century.
Yosemite is experiencing 88 more frost-free days than it did in
1907. The park’s snowpack is dwindling. Its remnant glaciers are
fast disappearing. And wildfires are becoming more common. In 2018,
the park was closed for several weeks because of dense smoke from a
fire on its border. The National Park Service says that temperatures
could soar by 6.7 to 10.3 degrees F from 2000 to 2100, with profound
impacts on the Yosemite ecosystem.<br>
<br>
Yellowstone River. Snowpack in the Yellowstone area is melting
earlier, leading to a decline in summer streamflows. Jacob W.
Frank/National Park Service<br>
The Yellowstone assessment paints a detailed portrait of the past,
present and future impacts of climate-related changes.<br>
<br>
“This is one of the first ecosystem-scale climate assessments of its
kind,” said co-author Charles Drimal, water program coordinator for
the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. “It sets a benchmark for how the
climate has changed since the 1950s and what we are likely to
experience 40 to 60 years from now in terms of temperature,
precipitation, stream flow, growing season and snowpack.”
Researchers from the US Geological Survey, Montana State University
and the University of Wyoming were the lead scientists on the
report.<br>
<br>
The report’s study of snowpack and its link to water offer the
biggest takeaways for Westerners who might question how or why
they’re impacted. Rocky Mountain snowmelt provides between 60 to 80
percent of streamflow in the West, and hotter temperatures mean
reduced snowfall and less water for cities as far afield as Los
Angeles. For the millions of people living in cities across the
West, many of whom are reliant on runoff from the snowpack in the
Rocky Mountains, these trends jeopardize already insufficient
supplies. The dangers are starkly evident this summer, as years of
drought and soaring temperatures have left the West facing a
perilous wildfire season and water shortages, from Colorado to
California.<br>
<br>
“All that snow becomes water that goes into the three major
watersheds of the West—some of it goes as far as L.A.—and that comes
together in the southern edge of Yellowstone National Park,” said
Bryan Shuman, a report co-author and geologist at the University of
Wyoming. “Looking at projections going forward, that snowpack
disappears.”<br>
<br>
The Yellowstone, Snake and Green rivers all have headwaters in the
Greater Yellowstone Area, feeding major tributaries for the
Missouri, Columbia and Colorado rivers that are vital for
agriculture, recreation, energy production and homes. Regional
agriculture—potatoes, hay, alfalfa—and cattle ranching depend on
late-season irrigation, and less snow and more rain equals less
water in hot summer months.<br>
<br>
“If you add just a few degrees, you fundamentally alter things,”
says one geologist.<br>
Then there are the rapidly growing tourism and hospitality
industries that rely on Yellowstone’s world-class rivers and ski
areas for angling and black diamond runs. Fishing is now regularly
restricted because of high water temperatures that stress fish.<br>
<br>
“Even mineral and energy resource extraction need to be part of this
discussion,” said Whitlock, referring to Wyoming’s oil and gas
industry, heavily reliant on large amounts of water. Industry may be
the slowest to evolve, but it’s among the most at-risk, she said.<br>
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As the West experiences a growth surge, Cam Sholly, Yellowstone
National Park’s superintendent, writes in the report that “the
strength of local and regional economies” hangs in the balance if no
steps are taken to rein in global warming.<br>
<br>
Said Whitlock of Montana State, “When you think about the
temperature curve that looks like a hockey stick, my parents pretty
much lived on the flat part of the curve, I’m on the base, and my
grandkids are going to be on the steep part. Our trajectory depends
on what we do about greenhouse gases now. By 2040, 2050, we can
flatten the curve. But the business-as-usual trajectory, 10 to 11
degrees of warming in Yellowstone and much of the West—what we do in
the next decade is critical.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/07/warming-climate-change-yellowstone-national-park/">https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/07/warming-climate-change-yellowstone-national-park/</a><br>
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<p>[The news archive - looking back]</p>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
July 7, 2010</b></font><br>
<p>CNN reports on the exoneration of the climate scientists falsely
accused of fraud in late-2009.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>London, England (CNN) -- An independent report released
Wednesday into the leaked "Climategate" e-mails found no
evidence to question the "rigor and honesty" of scientists
involved.<br>
<br>
The scandal fueled skepticism about the case for global warming
just weeks before world leaders met to agree a global deal on
climate change at a United Nations conference in Copenhagen last
December.<br>
<br>
The seven-month review, led by Muir Russell, found scientists at
the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) did
not unduly influence reports detailing the scale of the threat
of global warming produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC).<br>
<br>
"We went through this very carefully and we concluded that these
behaviors did not damage our judgment of the integrity, the
honesty, the rigor with which they had operated as scientists,"
Russell said.<br>
<br>
The 160-page report did however find that the CRU scientists had
failed to display "the proper degree of openness" when it came
to dealing with public requests for information.<br>
<br>
"They had not shown sufficient openness in the way in which they
responded to requests for information about what they were
doing, about the data that they were processing, about the
stations that they were analyzing, so on," he said.</p>
<p>In November 2009, the integrity of the CRU and its research
were called into question after the publication of more than
1,000 emails, dating back to 1996, to and from scientists
employed there.<br>
<br>
Particular attention focused on one e-mail from the unit's head,
Professor Phil Jones, which referred to a "trick" being used on
data submitted to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in
1999.<br>
<br>
Jones wrote: "I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding
in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years ... to
hide the decline."...<br>
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