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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>March 9, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<i>[ Your nose knows already ClimateCentral reports ]</i><br>
<b>Allergy Season: Earlier, Longer, and Worse</b><br>
KEY CONCEPTS<br>
--- Plants are leafing and blooming earlier, and the overall growing
season is lasting longer across much of the U.S. <br>
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--- Analysis of temperature data for 203 U.S. cities shows the
freeze-free season lengthened by more than two weeks (15 days) on
average since 1970.<br>
<p>--- For millions of Americans that suffer from seasonal allergies
to pollen and mold, climate change is bringing an earlier, longer,
and overall worse allergy season.</p>
<p>--- Climate Central’s new report Seasonal Allergies: Pollen and
Mold details more of the weather and climate trends that are
worsening allergy season and the associated health risks.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/cxgxgstp8r5d/6HEq6ZLb0QpvXxScvaM7sc/411f03463f31a963499e7069c924902e/FINALSeasonal_allergies_pollen_and_mold_2023__EN_.pdf">https://assets.ctfassets.net/cxgxgstp8r5d/6HEq6ZLb0QpvXxScvaM7sc/411f03463f31a963499e7069c924902e/FINALSeasonal_allergies_pollen_and_mold_2023__EN_.pdf</a></p>
<b> Seasonal allergies: pollen and mold</b><br>
<blockquote>Millions of Americans suffer from seasonal allergies
each year, and climate change is making it<br>
worse.<br>
About one-quarter of adults (26%) and 19% of children in the U.S.
suffer from seasonal allergies,<br>
according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Seasonal allergies, such as “hay<br>
fever,” are allergic reactions caused by airborne plant pollen and
mold spores.<br>
A growing body of research shows that warming temperatures,
shifting seasonal patterns, and<br>
more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere—all linked to climate change
and greenhouse gas<br>
emissions—are affecting the length and intensity of allergy season
in the U.S.<br>
Allergies are more than just inconvenient—they are expensive to
manage and can have<br>
significant health implications, such as triggering or worsening
asthma. But there are ways to<br>
mitigate the impact of allergies in a changing climate.<br>
This research brief provides background information and summarizes
Climate Central’s relevant<br>
analyses on weather and climate trends that affect allergy season
locally. These resources can<br>
help explain and report on the growing health risks of outdoor
aeroallergens and their<br>
connection to climate change.<br>
Many plants reproduce by releasing small pollen grains. Small
pollen particles can be carried by<br>
wind, making them more easily inhaled.<br>
When and how pollen grains are dispersed depends on the plant
species and local conditions,<br>
among other factors.<br>
Many tree species release pollen in the spring. Grass pollen often
peaks during the summer,<br>
while weeds—such as ragweed—emit pollen into the fall. This is a
typical pattern of pollen<br>
release for much of the country—but in some regions, plants
release pollen in the winter, too.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/allergy-season-earlier-longer-and-worse-2023">https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/allergy-season-earlier-longer-and-worse-2023</a><br>
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<i>[ Bottom 10 ]</i><br>
<b>Revealed: the 10 worst places to live in US for air pollution</b><br>
A Guardian analysis using cutting-edge modelling developed by
researchers tracks deadly PM2.5 levels<br>
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10. Central areas in Birmingham, Alabama...<br>
9. A semi-circle of neighborhoods in central Atlanta...<br>
8. Semi-rural areas in central Pennsylvania...<br>
7. A swath of the St Louis Metro Area...<br>
6. A large portion of Houston...<br>
5. A central swath of Indianapolis, Indiana...<br>
4. North-west Indiana industrial zones...<br>
3. Chicago’s South and West Sides...<br>
2. South Los Angeles...<br>
1. Bakersfield, California, area...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/08/10-most-air-polluted-places-to-live-us">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/08/10-most-air-polluted-places-to-live-us</a><br>
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<i>[ Check your neighborhood ]</i><br>
<b>Do you live in an air pollution hotspot? Search our map</b><br>
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<i>[ NYTimes reports ]</i><br>
<b>Same Message, Bigger Audience: Sen. Whitehouse Flags Climate
Costs</b><br>
For more than a decade, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse gave daily
warnings about the mounting threat of climate change. Now he has a
powerful new perch.<br>
By Coral Davenport<br>
March 8, 2023<br>
WASHINGTON — Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island,
has given 287 speeches on the Senate floor raising alarms about
climate change, often delivered mainly to the C-SPAN cameras in a
nearly empty chamber.<br>
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But now Mr. Whitehouse has a much bigger megaphone for his zeal for
saving the planet, and one with real power: earlier this year, Mr.
Whitehouse became chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, which
shapes federal spending and revenue. He is using his new authority
to argue that a warming planet poses fiscal dangers, injecting
climate change into the partisan fight over federal spending, just
as economists warned that the nation is nearing a catastrophic
default on its debt.<br>
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At his first committee hearing as chairman on Feb. 15, he focused on
the risks of climate change to the federal budget and the global
economy. He gave each of his colleagues a 615-page binder detailing
the fiscal threats posed by droughts, storms, wildfires and rising
seas...<br>
“I can make the case for the danger of unchecked climate change
blowing the debt through the roof, in the same way that both the
mortgage meltdown and the pandemic together added $10 trillion to
the deficit,” he said in an interview.<br>
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“We have all these warnings,” Mr. Whitehouse said at the Feb. 15
hearing. “Warnings of crashes in coastal property values as rising
seas and more powerful storms hit the 30-year mortgage horizon.
Warnings of insurance collapse from more frequent, intense and
unpredictable wildfires. A dangerous interplay between the insurance
and mortgage markets hitting real estate markets across the country.
Inflation from decreased agricultural yields. Massive infrastructure
demand. Trouble in municipal bond markets.”<br>
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The new chairman is also pushing a solution that he believes could
draw support from at least a handful of Republicans, even if they
aren’t eager to support climate action. It’s essentially a tariff
added to imported goods like steel and cement based on the carbon
emissions created by their production. Analysts project that a
carbon tariff placed on imported steel and aluminum, just two of
many products that would be covered, could raise tens of billions of
dollars over a decade.<br>
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“It advantages American industry and pokes at China’s pollution,”
Mr. Whitehouse said. “And anything that is anti-China warms the
cockles of Republicans’ hearts.”...<br>
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Frank Maisano, a veteran Republican media strategist with the firm
Bracewell LLP, which lobbies for fossil fuel companies, said that
despite Mr. Whitehouse’s endless quest to fight climate change, he
has distinguished himself by being willing to work with Republicans.<br>
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“Sheldon is willing to go over that line and talk to people and find
practical solutions,” Mr. Maisano said. “It’s shone through already
in his work on carbon capture and nuclear. A lot of these climate
activists, and House progressives, would never be willing to do
that.”<br>
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Would that ever translate into enough Republican votes to pass a
carbon tariff?<br>
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Mr. Maisano paused.<br>
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“Perhaps,” he said. “There’s a middle ground there if you’re willing
to find it, and guys like Sheldon Whitehouse have been willing to
find it — even with his strong values on the environmental side.“<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/climate/sheldon-whitehouse-climate-senator.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/climate/sheldon-whitehouse-climate-senator.html</a>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Are we all
doomed? A climate scientist weighs in.</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Armchair Explorers</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Feb 26, 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Climate change questions answered.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Q1: Will climate change wipe out humanity?</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Anyone who claims this with any certainty is
not looking at the science. What does the science say? Climate
change is scary, but we're still well within the realm where our
efforts can prevent the worst outcomes. We need to transition to a
low-carbon future, the sooner the better.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <b>What Could THOUSANDS of Mysterious Whales
Tell Us About Our Weather?</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">PBS Terra</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">7,058 views Mar 7, 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">The Arctic is experiencing global warming much
faster than the rest of the world. A new study shows four times
faster, in fact! One of the effects of this accelerated warming is
the melting sea ice in the Arctic. And researchers off the
southeast coast of Greenland have started to notice some
surprising and alarming new guests. </font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">A variety of exotic marine life have begun to
move in, now able to live in the warmer waters. And while this may
serve as a boon to some of the inhabitants of the region and its
fishing economy, it also signals profound and likely permanent
ecosystem changes and points toward the kinds of tipping points we
may see if we continue emitting greenhouse gasses into the
atmosphere. Tune into this episode of Weathered to learn about
what some of the unexpected consequences might be from the warming
Arctic to our jetstream and our Weather. </font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Weathered is a show hosted by weather expert
Maiya May and produced by Balance Media that helps explain the
most common natural disasters, what causes them, how they’re
changing, and what we can do to prepare.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Watch the changes in that area ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Finland’s
temperatures 2-3 degrees warmer than usual in February</b><br>
February was milder than usual across Finland, according to the
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI).<br>
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<font face="Calibri">The biggest deviations from average
temperatures were measured in Ostrobothnia and Lapland, where the
mercury rose about three degrees Celsius above the normal average
for February.<br>
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Average temperatures during the month ranged from around the
freezing point in the Finnish Archipelago to about -9 degrees in
central and northern Lapland.<br>
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The lowest temperature measured last month was a bone-chilling
-33.4 degrees Celsius at the Lompolonvuoma observation station in
Kittilä, Finnish Lapland, on 22 February.<br>
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Finland’s average temperatures were also milder than usual last
month.<br>
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For example, January was the third-warmest on record in the
Ostrobothnian municipality of Kronoby.<br>
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Western areas also saw less snowfall in February than normal,
according to FMI<br>
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<p><i>[ do math the easiest way possible ]</i><br>
<b>Simpler Math Predicts How Close Ecosystems Are to Collapse</b><br>
By replacing thousands of equations with just one, ecology
modelers can more accurately assess how close fragile environments
are to a disastrous “tipping point.”<br>
"It’s like tilting a glass of water, explained György Barabas, a
theoretical ecologist at Linköping University in Sweden. “If we
push it a little bit, it will return,” he said. “But if we push it
too far, it will tip over.” Once the glass is toppled over, a
small push can’t return the glass to an upright position or refill
it with water."<br>
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Last August in Nature Ecology & Evolution, Gao and an
international team of colleagues showed how to squish thousands of
calculations into just one by collapsing all the interactions into
a single weighted average. That simplification reduces the
formidable complexity to just a handful of key drivers.<br>
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“With one equation, we know everything,” Gao said. “Before, you
have a feeling. Now you have a number.”...<br>
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Moreover, since the August publication, the researchers have
already figured out two ways to make the calculation more accurate
for heterogeneous ecosystems. They’re also incorporating other
types of interactions within an ecosystem, including predator-prey
relationships and a type of interaction called competitive
dynamics.<br>
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It took 10 years to develop this equation, Gao said, and it will
take many more for the equations to accurately predict outcomes
for real-world ecosystems — years that are precious because the
need for interventions seems pressing. But he isn’t disheartened,
perhaps because, as Barabas noted, even foundational models that
provide a proof of concept or a simple illustration of an idea can
be useful. “By making it easier to analyze certain types of models
… they can help even if they are not used to make explicit
predictions for real communities,” Barabas said.<br>
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Lenton agreed. “When you’re faced with complex systems, from a
position of relative ignorance, anything is good,” he said. “I’m
excited because I feel like we’re getting really toward the
practical point of actually being able to do better.”<br>
<br>
The team recently showed the model’s usefulness by applying it to
data from a seagrass restoration project in the mid-Atlantic that
dates back to 1999. The researchers determined the specific amount
of seagrass that needed restoration for the ecosystem to recover.
In the future, Gao plans to work with ecologists to run the model
on Lake George in New York, which Rensselaer often uses as a test
bed.<br>
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Gao’s hope is that someday the model can help inform decisions
about conservation and restoration efforts to prevent irreversible
damage. “Even when we know the system is declining,” he said, “we
still have time to do something.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/simpler-math-predicts-how-close-ecosystems-are-to-collapse-20230306/">https://www.quantamagazine.org/simpler-math-predicts-how-close-ecosystems-are-to-collapse-20230306/</a><br>
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the biggest eco-ogres ever to inhabit government.]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>March 9, 2017</b></i></font> <br>
March 9, 2017: In an appearance on CNBC, EPA Administrator Scott
Pruitt denies human-caused climate change. <br>
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href="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/09/epa-chief-scott-pruitt.html">http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/09/epa-chief-scott-pruitt.html</a>
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href="https://thinkprogress.org/epa-head-falsely-claims-carbon-emissions-arent-the-cause-of-global-warming-262bd9b0937e#.oaigkdwq0">https://thinkprogress.org/epa-head-falsely-claims-carbon-emissions-arent-the-cause-of-global-warming-262bd9b0937e#.oaigkdwq0</a>
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href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/us/politics/epa-scott-pruitt-global-warming.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/us/politics/epa-scott-pruitt-global-warming.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur</a>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri"> <b>E.P.A. Chief Doubts Consensus
View of Climate Change</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Scott Pruitt, the E.P.A. administrator, spoke
at an energy conference in Houston on Thursday. “The future
ain’t what it used to be at the E.P.A.,” he said.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">By Coral Davenport</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">March 9, 2017</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, the head of the
Environmental Protection Agency, said on Thursday that carbon
dioxide was not a primary contributor to global warming, a
statement at odds with the established scientific consensus on
climate change.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Asked his views on the role of carbon
dioxide, the heat-trapping gas produced by burning fossil fuels,
in increasing global warming, Mr. Pruitt said on CNBC’s “Squawk
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